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Emanuel Bronner

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164: 33: 578:"The Moral ABC I & II" by Dr. Emmanuel Bronner. Page 23: "Rabbi Hillel taught Jesus to unite the whole human race in our Eternal Father's great, All-One-God-Faith." Page 36: "A Human being must teach friend & Enemy the Moral ABC uniting all mankind free or that being is not yet human! Rabbi Jesus' full truth No. 1." Page 39: "To stay free: Small minds discuss people. Average minds discuss events. Great minds teach Rabbi Hillel's Moral ABC." 258:, where his soap-making operation grew into a small factory. At his death in 1997, it produced more than a million bottles of soap and other products per year, but was still not mechanized. The firm has been the subject of many published articles and has supported many charitable causes. 195:
by hand in his home. The product labels are crowded with statements of Bronner's philosophy, which he called "All-One-God-Faith" and the "Moral ABC", both of which he included on the label of every soap bottle he produced. Many of Bronner's references came from
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as "Rabbi Jesus." The labels became famous for their idiosyncratic style, including hyphens to join long strings of words and the liberal use of
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After escaping from Elgin, Bronner hitch-hiked to Los Angeles, California. Over time Bronner started a family and eventually settled in
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2 million bottles are packed by hand ... Four to five people, not working fast, pack them with no machines
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Graphic Design Referenced: A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present
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Lubinski, Christina; Menniken, Marvin (October 25, 2013). Wadhwani, R. Daniel (ed.).
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After Bronner's death, his family has continued to run the business. His grandson
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saying, "You were right. —Your loving father." His parents were murdered in
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in 1929, dropping "Heil" from his name because of its association with
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Bronner's 1936 naturalization certificate making him a U.S. citizen
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A picture of a blind man wearing dark glasses and a white lab coat grinning while holding a bottle of soap while lit from below. Steam, presumably dry ice, billows from below, giving the photograph a science-fiction feel.
Heilbronn
German Empire
Escondido, California
Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps
Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps
Heilbronn
United States
Nazism
Jewish
Nazi Party
censored
postcard
the Holocaust
Bronner's 1936 naturalization certificate making him a U.S. citizen
Portrait from the naturalization certificate
castile soap
Jewish
Christian
Shema
Beatitudes
Rudyard Kipling
Thomas Paine
Hillel the Elder
Jesus Christ
exclamation marks
University of Chicago
Elgin Mental Health Center
Elgin, Illinois
shock treatments

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