American Academy for Jewish Research, records undated, 1928-2001 (bulk 1940s-1990s)

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American Academy for Jewish Research, records undated, 1928-2001 (bulk 1940s-1990s)

Consists of correspondence from the formative years of the American Academy for Jewish Research from 1930 to 1936, fellows files and correspondence, ledgers and notebooks of membership dues and fellowship grants, minutes of the various committee meetings, , and photographs. Correspondents include Salo Baron, Isaac E. Barzilay, Robert Chazan, Louis Finkelstein, Louis Ginsberg, David Weiss-Halivni, Arthur Hyman, Saul Lieberman, Alexander Marx, Harry Orlinsky, and Harry Austrin Wolfson. Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research

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Ginsberg, Louis, 1895-1976

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Poet, Professor of English at Rutgers University. Ginsberg (Columbia University M.A., 1924) was the father of poet Allen Ginsberg. From the guide to the Louis Ginsberg Papers, [ca. 1920]-1976., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Louis Ginsberg (1896-1976) was a poet, English teacher, and socialist. His writings appeared in the New York Times and the New York Herald as well as in several poetry anthologies, including Modern American an...

Hyman, Arthur, 1921-....

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Lieberman, Saul, 1898-1983

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Professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. From the description of Correspondence to Chaim Potok, 1967-1980. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 725258816 Talmudic scholar. Lieberman was professor of Palestinian Literature and Institutions, dean, and rector of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. From the description of Papers, 1932-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78813415 ...

Marx, Alexander, 1878-1953

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Librarian and Professor of Jewish History at Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA). From the description of Papers, 1880-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78786011 Librarian, Jewish Theological Seminary. From the description of Correspondence, 1923 Dec. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270723550 ...

Wolfson, Harry Austryn, 1887-1974

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Wolfson graduated from Harvard in 1912 and taught Hebrew literature and philosophy at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Harry Austryn Wolfson, 1915-1958 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973224 Wolfson earned his AB in three years. He graduated from Harvard in 1911 as a member of the Class of 1912. He earned his Harvard Ph.D. in 1915. He compiled this scrapbook while an undergraduate student at Harvard and added a few loose documents later. He...

Baron, Salo W. (Salo Wittmayer), 1895-1989

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Biography Salo Wittmayer Baron was instrumental in establishing Jewish Studies as an academic discipline in the United States. An extraordinarily prolific historian, Baron also played an exceptional role in American Jewish organizational life. Baron was born in 1895 in Tarnow, now in Poland but then part of Austrian Galicia. His parents, Elias Baron and Minna Wittmayer Baron, were orthodox Jews, and Elias Baron was a banker and Jewish communi...

Orlinsky, Harry Meyer, 1908-....

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Weiss-Halivni, David

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Barzilay, Isaac Eisenstein, 1915-2006

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American Academy for Jewish Research

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The American Academy for Jewish Research (AAJR) was organized in the autumn of 1919 and was formally established on June 15, 1920. The Academy represents the oldest organization of Judaic scholars in North America. The AAJR began as a small group of progressive European-born and trained scholars that came together in North America. Its mission statement is "to foster and promote the cause of Jewish learning and research." At its first meeting in 1919, the Academy established its obj...

Finkelstein, Louis, 1895-1991

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Chancellor, Jewish Theological Seminary of America. From the description of Correspondence to Chaim Potok, 1955-1981. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 700038813 ...

Chazan, Robert

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Association for Jewish studies

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