Introduction

Biography

Gottheil at­tend­ed the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ber­lin and the Ber­lin rab­bin­i­cal col­lege, and served as as­sist­ant min­is­ter at the Ber­lin­er Re­form­ge­mein­de while a stu­dent.

From 1860–73, he served as a rab­bi in Man­ches­ter, Eng­land, where he preached against sla­ve­ry.

He emi­grat­ed to New York in 1873, as worked as as­sist­ant to Rab­bi Sa­mu­el Ad­ler of Tem­ple Em­man­u-El; he be­came the rab­bi in 1874, serv­ing un­til 1899.

Gottheil found­ed the Em­man­u-el Sis­ter­hood of Per­son­al Ser­vice, the Em­man­u-El Prep­a­ra­to­ry School, the As­so­cia­tion of East­ern Rab­bis, was vice-pre­si­dent of the Fed­er­a­tion of Am­er­ican Jew­ish Zi­on­ists, and a gov­er­nor of He­brew Un­ion Col­lege.

Columbia Uni­ver­si­ty found­ed the Gus­tav Got­theil lec­ture­ship in Se­mi­tic lang­uag­es in his hon­or.

Works

• Hymns and An­thems Adapt­ed for Jew­ish Wor­ship (New York: G. P. Put­nam, 1887)
• Music to Hymns and An­thems for Jew­ish Wor­ship, 1887
• Sarah
• Sun and Shield (New York: 1896)