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Born in Landau/Pfalz in 1860, Caesar Seligmann was a liberal rabbi, first in Hamburg (1889-1902) and then in Frankfurt/M., where he was Rabbi of the Hauptgemeinde from 1902 to 1939. A leading figure of German liberal Jewry, he was the president of the "Vereinigung fuer das liberale Judentum in Deutschland" (Union of Liberal Rabbis in Germany) from 1912 to 1937; and he co-edited the liberal prayer book of the Frankfurt’s main Jewish congregation in 1929. Rabbi Caesar Seligmann emigrated to England in 1939 and died in London in 1950.

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Caesar Seligmann (photograph), Leo Baeck Institute, F 3125.