Prophet in a Time of Priests

“This warts-and-all biography recounts the strange-but-true story of one of America’s most colorful, accomplished, and eccentric religious leaders, Edward Benjamin Morris (“Alphabet”) Browne.” – Jonathan D. Sarna, Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University, and author of American Judaism: A History “Readers will quickly discover that by examining Browne they will supplement their knowledge of numerous vitally important topics relating to the history of American Jewry. The story of Rabbi “Alphabet” Browne is as instructive as it is enthralling.” – Gary Phillip Zola, Executive Director of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives and Professor of the American Jewish Experience at Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, Ohio “The narrative is meticulously documented, but lovingly related by Janice Rothschild Blumberg who remembers her great grandfather from her childhood. Browne is honestly depicted as a prophetic figure who held strong and controversial opinions in a generation of rabbis who were committed to compromise.” – Rabbi Harold S. White, Senior Advisor and Founder, The Program for Jewish Civilizatiom, The School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.