Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Samuel Holdheim

German Rabbi and Author, Leader in early Reform Movement in Judaism

"It is only the attainment of the higher level of inner religious life which justifies an abandonment of our religious forms, that on a lower level are both a duty and a necessity."

"The Talmud was right in its day and I am right in mine."