Hyman Gerson Enelow (October 26, 1877 – February 6, 1934) was a Russian-born Americanrabbi of the New YorkCongregation Emanu-El.
Enelow was born on October 26, 1877, inKaunas,Russia, the son of merchant Leopold Enelow and Matilda Marver.[1]
Enelow moved toLiepāja with his family when he was an infant. In 1893, he immigrated to America with his family and settled inChicago, Illinois. He intended to study at theUniversity of Heidelberg, but en route he changed his mind and went to America. Under the influence ofEmil G. Hirsch andJoseph Stolz, he went to theUniversity of Chicago prior to going toHebrew Union College in 1895. He received a B.A. from theUniversity of Cincinnati in 1897 and was an English fellow there from 1897 to 1898. He was ordained a rabbi at Hebrew Union College in 1898, and received a D.D. there in 1900 and an honorary D.H.L. in 1925.[2]
Enelow was rabbi ofTemple Israel inPaducah, Kentucky, from 1898 to 1901,Temple Adath Israel inLouisville, Kentucky, from 1901 to 1912, andTemple Emanu-El inNew York City, New York, from 1912 to 1934. He was vice-president of theCentral Conference of American Rabbis from 1925 to 1927 and its president from 1927 to 1929. He helped establish chairs forJewish Studies inHarvard University (with the aid of his friendLucius Littauer) and inColumbia University (with the aid of Mrs.Nathan Miller). He wrote a number of books on Jewish religion, and had a private library of over 20,000 he willed to theJewish Theological Seminary when he died.[3]
DuringWorld War I, Enelow went to France as overseas commander and general field secretary of theNational Jewish Welfare Board. He was also a member of the Army Education Corps during that time. He served on a number of committees of theUnion of American Hebrew Congregations and the Central Conference of American Rabbis.[4]
He died at sea of heart failure, on February 6, 1934, while on a cruise to the Mediterranean. He was never married.[5] He was buried inRosehill Cemetery in Chicago.[6]
In the year prior to Enelow's death, he published a rabbinic work written in about the later end of the 4th-century CE, entitledMishnat Rabbi Eli'ezer (akaThe Thirty-two Hermeneutical Principles), a work heretofore preserved in manuscript form, and cited by the author of theMidrash HaGadol.[7][8] The work is replete with English annotations.
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