Emanuel Synagogue (Hartford, Conn.)

Hans Kohn was born in Prague on September 15, 1891. He was active in Jewish student organizations in Prague, and it was during this period that he came to know Martin Buber. He was a professor at Smith College in Northampton, at City College in New York, and the Center for Advanced Studies at Wesleyan. The author of numerous books and publications, including one of the first Buber biographies, he wrote extensively on the topics of nationalism, pan-Slavism, German thought, and the Jewish religion. He died in 1971.

Alexander Altmann, a distinguished rabbi and scholar, was born in Hungary in 1906 and studied in Berlin. He was ordained and served as a rabbi during the 1930s in Berlin, where he was a leading figure in the Jewish resistance to Nazism. In 1938, he fled Germany with his family and moved to England, where he founded the Institute of Jewish Studies. In 1959, he took a position at Brandeis University, teaching and serving as the director of the Lown Institute of Advanced Judaic Studies. He died in 1987.

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