a commission which made a study of state-aided colleges in Maryland, the Board of the Prisoners Aid Association and the Maryland Commission for the Higher Education of Negroes. He served on the board of the Associated Jewish Charities and was for a time its director. He was a secretary of the central Conference of American Rabbis and later served as president (1916-1918). He was a founder of the Jewish Welfare Board, a member of the Board of Jewish Education, the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, and the Board of Governors of the Hebrew Union College (1917-1943). He served for several years as chancellor of the Jewish Chautauqua Society. He contributed a number of articles to the Jewish Encyclopedia, and translated Esther for the Jewish Publication Society of America. In addition to numerous articles in periodicals, Rosenau also wrote several books Selected works Books Hebraisms in the Authorized Version of the Bible (1901) Jewish Ceremonial Institutions and Customs (1903, 1925) Jewish Biblical Commentators (1904) The Seder Haggada (1905) Jewish Education (1912) Book of Consolation (1914) The Rabbi in Action (1937) Personal life Rosenau was married twice. He married his first wife, Mabel Hellman, in 1893. They had two children, William H. and Marguerite (Mrs. Carl K. Kiefer). Mabel Rosenau died in 1923. Rosenau married Myra Krause in 1925. Rabbi William Rosenau died in December 1943. References External links Goldman, Yosef. Hebrew Printing in America, 1735-1926, A History and Annotated Bibliography (YGBooks 2006). . 1865 births 1943 deaths Anti-Zionist Reform rabbis People from Wolsztyn American people of German-Jewish descent People from the Province of Posen Religious leaders from Baltimore American Reform rabbis Hebrew Union College alumni Johns Hopkins University alumni Johns Hopkins University faculty German emigrants to the United States