Papers, 1913-1968.

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Papers, 1913-1968.

Speeches, articles, correspondence, reports, and essays concerning such subjects as the Society for Jewish Renaissance, United Synagogue of America, Solomon Schechter, and the Conservative and Zionist movements; genealogy of Kussy family; minutes of convention and executive council of United Synagogue of America, 1913-1917; and memoirs.

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Schechter, Solomon, 1847-1915

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Solomon Schechter was born in Focşani, Moldavia. In 1890 he was appointed to the faculty at Cambridge University, serving as a lecturer in Talmudics and reader in Rabbinics. His greatest academic fame came from his excavation in 1896 of the papers of the Cairo Geniza, an extraordinary collection of over 100,000 pages of rare Hebrew religious manuscripts and medieval Jewish texts that were preserved at an Egyptian synagogue. The find revolutionized the study of Medieval Judaism. Schechter serv...

Kohn, Jacob, 1881-1968

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Conservative rabbi, scholar, educator. Kohn was professor of theology and dean of the graduate school of University of Judaism, Los Angeles. From the description of Papers, 1913-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122613954 ...

University of Judaism (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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United synagogue of America

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Society for Jewish Renaissance.

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