Cyrus Adler Papers undated, 1883-1937

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Cyrus Adler Papers undated, 1883-1937

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Born in Arkansas and raised in Pennsylvania, CyrusAdler was a prominent Jewish scholar, educator, and leader. A nephew of thePhiladelphian Sulzbergers (Mayer and David), Adler developed an interest inlibraries, Semitics, and Assyriology, earning a Ph.D from Johns Hopkins. In1888, Adler began work at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.circa, andeventually became the President of Dropsie College in Philadelphia. Adler wasactive in Jewish affairs and history, in the American Jewish HistoricalSociety, the Jewish Theological Seminary, the United Synagogue, the AmericanJewish Committee, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, , the National Jewish Welfare Board, and heparticipated in the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. The collection represents asmall portion of Adler's papers with materials concerning Jewish activism,Conservative Judaism, and Jewish scholarship and history in America. Thecollection contains correspondence, galleys and page proofs, manuscripts andpublished articles, clippings, notes, speeches, and ephemera. TheJewish Encyclopedia

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