Gustav N. Hausmann

Rabbi Gustav N. Hausmann (1860-1948), born in Poland, was a Reform movement rabbi in the United States. After graduating from the yeshivah in Przemyśl, he came to Chicago and graduated from the University of Chicago. In1896, he was introduced as the "Boy Orator of Jerusalem" at Republican party rallies in Chicago where he spoke in Yiddish in promotion of the Republican party platform. In 1897 he began serving Temple Emanuel in Grand Rapids, Michigan. From there, he went on to serve as chaplain of the University of Michigan, Harvard, Brown and Columbia. In New York City in 1922, he helped to found the Community Synagogue in the Lower East Side.