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Chosen People Ministries And Its Place Wtihin The Larger Context Of Evangelical Missions To The Jews, Yaakov Ariel

Journal of Messianic Jewish Studies

the Life and Times of Leopold Cohn conference, Dec. 4-6, 2019

We would have probably not paid much attention to the early history of the Chosen People Ministries, and to Leopold Cohen, the founder of the mission, if it were not for the energy and resourcefulness of his son, Joseph Hoffman Cohn. It was Joseph Cohn, who turned his father’s successful neighborhood mission into one of the largest and most influential global enterprises in the history of Jewish evangelisation. Understanding the different roles of Leopold and Joseph Cohn and the contexts in which they operated is important to the understanding …

Chosen People Ministries And The Fog Of War, Alan M. Shore

Journal of Messianic Jewish Studies

The Life and Times of Leopold Cohn conference, Dec. 4-6, 2019

As the title of my paper indicates, this research seeks to explore the activities of the American Board of Missions to the Jews (ABMJ), as Chosen People Ministries was known during the years under examination, namely World War II and its aftermath, including the declaration of Jewish statehood. In order to bring coherency to this picture, I want to introduce my presentation by placing the priorities and activities of the ABMJ during this time in a number of contexts: the extent of the presence of the ABMJ in Europe …

The Chosen People, Memorial Issue For Leopold Cohn, Vol. Xliii, Feb. 1938

Journal of Messianic Jewish Studies

The Life and Times of Leopold Cohn conference, Dec. 4-6, 2019.

The following February, 1938 issue of The Chosen People is devoted to the legacy of Leopold Cohn, who left this life on December 19, 1937 after a brief illness. Although much has changed in the decades since he passed from the scene, one thing he would surely recognize is The Chosen People magazine, which has remained faithful to the vision of its founder.

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Journal of Messianic Jewish Studies

Articles collected from "The Life and times of Leopold Cohn" conference which took place on December 4-6, 2019.

2019 was a milestone year for Chosen People Ministries, for it marked the 125th anniversary of the founding of the mission by Leopold Cohn in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn in 1894.

This conference takes place in the context of a relatively newly aroused academic interest in the history of Jewish evangelism and missions to the Jews

The Eschatological Worldview Of Hungarian Jewish Ultra-Orthodoxy As Possible Background Of Influnce On Leopold Cohn, Motti Inbari

Journal of Messianic Jewish Studies

This paper explains the eschatological concepts that were held by Hungarian Jewish ultra-Orthodox rabbis in the late 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th century. Understanding this messianic worldview might offer an intellectual background to comprehend the Hungarian-born Leopold Cohn, founder of Chosen People Ministries, an evangelistic mission to the Jewish people. At the end of the paper I would argue that there is commonality between the ideology of Hungarian ultra-Orthodoxy and pre-millennial dispensationalism, the ideology Cohn adopted after his conversion. Thus, there might have been some intellectual continuity between the different phases of his life.

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Journal of Messianic Jewish Studies

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Jewish? Christian? Why Not Both? : Leopold Cohn And The Introduction Of Messianic Judaism To America, Mendi Keren

Journal of Messianic Jewish Studies

The Life and Times of Leopold Cohn conference, Dec. 4-6, 2019

Ever since the early days of Christianity, it was generally accepted that a person could be either a Jew or a Christian, but not both. This, how-ever, changed in the late nineteenth century. Eisik Leib Yosowitz was a young Orthodox Jew who studied at Hungary’s top yeshivas. In the early 1890s he came to America. Shortly thereafter he converted, was ordained as a minister, changed his name to Leopold Cohn, and became a missionary. Unlike traditional missionaries who persuaded Jews to convert to Christianity, he suggested another missionary approach. …