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Congratulations from The Bank inYourIJfe The N^tional^i^ MIRVIS AND FOX, Inc. TEXTILES SAUL E. FOX — STANLEY A. MIRVIS 237-243 Whitehall St., S.W. JAckson 3-7811-2-3 ATLANTA 3, GEORGIA WALKER DIE, TOOL AND ENGINEERING CO. NEXT TO ATLANTA TRADE CENTER 4600 Fulton Industrial Blvd., S.W Dl 4-1222 P. O. 10678 - Station A Atlanta, Georgia 30310 bleman, a friend of his former employer in St. Petersburg. Finally, in 1869, he arrived in New York, taught Religious School at Temple Emanuel, wrote a book on Jewish his tory, and translated Longfel low’s Excelsior into Hebrew. Still only thirty-one years old when he came to Atlanta five years later, Rabbi Ger- soni appears to have furthered the progress of the congrega tion here': A report published in The Ame r ican Israelite the year after his arrival declares that affairs are “in a very pros perous condition" and that fi nances “have increased twenty- five percent since last term...” “But what is best”, it adds, “is that all the members are so united in their feelings and actions for the cause of Juda ism as they have never been before. . . A great deal of this harmony is due to the wise and considerate rule of our Presi dent and to the abilities and kocial qualities of Rev. H. Ger- soni. . .” The article also announced that “Work on the premises of our synagogue lot will begin in a week or two and the corner stone will be laid in the mid dle of next month”. Actually there had been some efforts made toward the erection of a building as early as 1871, but the financial panic of ’73 and changes in the con gregation’s leadership un doubtedly accounted for the delay in setting out on the pro ject itself. Finally the congre gation purchased.a lot on the corner of Forsyth and Garnett Streets, and in an elaborate ceremony on May 24, 1875, of ficially began the construction of its first synagogue. The building was Moorish in de sign, took two years to com plete, cost $30,000, and was paid for in full two days after its dedication. That ceremony took place on August 1, 1877, and the rabbi who conducted it was the writ er’s great-grandfather. Dr. Ed ward Benjamin Morris Browne, fourth spiritual lead er of the Temple. Born in Kas- chau, Hungary in 1844, he was already an acclaimed Talmud ist when he came to America hardly more than twenty years later, to pursue his studies further. Dr. Browne went first to Cincinnati where he lived in the home of Reform Judaism’s great leader, Dr. Isaac Mayer Wise, trained for the Reform rabbinate under the tutelage of Dr. Wise, and earned a de gree in medicine from the Uni versity of Cincinnati. In 186! he became rabbi of the con gregation in Montgomery, Ala but remained only one year before transferring to Temp Emanu-El of Milwaukee, Wi While there he earned his dr 12 The Southern Israelii