Stephen Samuel Wise (1874–1949) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American Reform rabbi and Zionist leader. Wise was born in Budapest in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the son and grandson of rabbis. His grandfather, Joseph Hirsch Weisz, was Chief Rabbi of a small town near Budapest. His father, Aaron Wise, earned a Ph.D. and ordination in Europe, and emigrated to the United States to serve as rabbi of Congregation Baith Israel Anshei Emes in Brooklyn, New York. Wise’s maternal grandfather, Móric Farkasházi Fischer, created the Herend Porcelain Company. When Wise’s father Aaron Wise sought to unionize the company, Moric gave the family one-way tickets to New York.
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An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens, his life.
—Stephen Samuel Wise
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