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American lewish Archives<br />
Devoted to the preservation and study of American Jewish historical records<br />
DIRECTOR: JACOB RADER MARCUS, PH.D.<br />
Adolph S. Ochs ProfCSsor of American Jewish History<br />
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: STANLEY F. CHYET, PH.D.<br />
Assistant Profcssor of American Jewish History<br />
Published by THE AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES, CINCINNATI, OHIO 45220<br />
on the Cincinnati campus of the HEBREW UNION COLLEGE<br />
- JEWISH INSTITUTE<br />
OF RELIGION<br />
VOL. XVI NOVEMBER, 1964 NO. 2<br />
In This Issue<br />
Five Gates - Casual Notes for an<br />
Autobiography JACOB SONDERLING 107<br />
For the rabbi of Hamburg's Israelitischer Tempe1 Verein, "a new life<br />
opened" in 1923, when he left Germany to settle in the United States. Dr.<br />
Sonderling discusses his American experience in this memoir, which includes<br />
reflections on Jewish life in New York, Chicago, and Providence, and Dr.<br />
Sonderling's encounters with Stephen S. Wise, Shmarya Levin, Louis<br />
Ginzberg, and Kaufmam Kohler.<br />
American Synagogues : The Lessons of the<br />
Names ABRAHAM CRONBACH I 24<br />
"Proclamations of ideals constitute, by and large, the essence of the names<br />
borne by our congregations," concludes Professor Cronbach in this essay on<br />
the onomasticon of the American synagogal scene.<br />
The Drachrnans of Arizona FLOYD S. FIERMAN I 35<br />
Polish-born Philip and Samuel Drachman settled during the 1860's in the<br />
"backward stretch of land" that was to become the State of Arizona. Together<br />
with friends and associates like Michael and Joseph Goldwater and Isaac<br />
Goldberg, these pioneering brothers helped shape the development of<br />
Arizona - but, as Dr. Fierman points out, "failed at the task of educating<br />
their children to keep the Jewish 'tree of life' alive."<br />
A Cry for Help
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