the object of the mob's resentment. He was immediately surrounded, severely assaulted, and was about to be rushed bodily out of the hall, when Dr. Edward Morwitz organized his friends upon the platform, made one grand united effort at rescue, and succeeded in tearing him away from the clutches of the angry mob. That man, that hero in the conflict for truth and justice, was Michael Heilprin. The most notable debate was between rabbi Morris Jacob Raphall, who endorsed slavery, and rabbi David Einhorn who opposed it. In 1861, Raphall published his views that slavery in a treatise called "The Bible View of Slavery". He wrote, "I am no friend to slavery in the abstract, and still less friendly to the practical working of slavery, But I stand here as a teacher in Israel; not to place before you my own feelings and opinions, but to propound to you the word of G-d, the Bible view of slavery." Heilprin, concerned that Raphall's position would be seen as the official policy of American Judaism, vigorously refuted his arguments, and argued that slavery—as practiced in the South—was immoral and not endorsed by Judaism. Personal life and death Heilprin had two sons, Louis and Angelo Heilprin. He died in 1888. See also Heilprin References References 1823 births 1888 deaths People from Piotrków Trybunalski People from Piotrków Governorate 19th-century Polish scholars Congress Poland emigrants to the United States American people of Polish-Jewish descent 19th-century American people 19th-century Jewish biblical scholars American biblical scholars American lexicographers Jewish American writers Forty-Eighters American abolitionists Polish biblical scholars 19th-century lexicographers