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KALISCH (1816-1886)  , Jewish divine, was born at Krotoschin in Prussia on the 15th of November 1816, and was educated at Berlin, Breslau and Prague . In 1848 he came to London, but passed on in 1849 to America, where he ministered as rabbi inCleveland,Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Detroit and Newark, New Jersey . At Newark from 1875 he gave himself entirely to literary work, and exercised a strong.influence as leader of the radical and reforming Jewish party . Among his works are Wegweisen far rationelle Forschungen in den biblischen Schriften (1853); and translations of Nathan der Weise (1869); Sepher Jezirah (1877); and Munz's History of Philosophy among the Jews (1881) . He also wrote a good deal of German and Hebrew verse .