Cyrus Adler Papers

Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition (1926 : Philadelphia, Pa.)

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World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

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The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair, was organized in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landing in America. The fairgrounds, open from May 1, 1893 until October 30, 1893, were designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and covered more than 630 acres in Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance. Daniel Burnham oversaw the construction of nearly 200 new buildings for the fair, most of which were designed in the Beaux-Arts style. 27 million peo...

Congregation Mikveh Israel (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Congregation Mikveh Israel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) traces its history to September 25, 1740 when the Province of Pennsylvania and Thomas Penn authorized a permanent burial ground for the entire Jewish community of Philadelphia. Jews in Philadelphia in the 1740s and 1750s organized themselves informally for services. In 1761 they acquired a Torah scroll and met in a private residence on Sterling Alley, then between Cherry and Race Streets and Third and Fourth Streets. The congregation moved ...

Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940

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Cyrus Adler graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1883. He later received the first American Ph.D. in Semitics from Johns Hopkins University. He taught Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins from 1884 to 1893. In 1877 he was appointed assistant curator of the section of Oriental antiquities in the United States National Museum, and had charge of an exhibit of biblical archaeology at the centennial exposition of the Ohio valley in 1888. He was a commissioner for the world's Columbian ex...

American Jewish Historical Society

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Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning

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As the first state-accredited Ph.D. program of its kind, Dropsie College is the world's founding institution of modern academic Jewish Studies. In the course of its nearly eighty years of existence, from 1907 through 1986, the College awarded more than 200 doctoral degrees and became a major training center for the country's Judaic scholars. It was the publisher of the Jewish Quarterly Review, the oldest continuously published English-language journal of Jewish Studies. From the desc...

Edelman, Samuel, 1885-

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Grayzel, Solomon, 1896-1980

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Jung, Moses, 1891-1960

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Federation of Jewish Agencies of Greater Philadelphia

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Rosenwald, Lessing J. Lessing Julius 1891-1979

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Collector, patron. From the description of Lessing J. Rosenwald interview, 1970 Aug. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80812816 Background: Rosenwald acquired photographs of each woodcut in 21 copies of the Strassburg 1496 Terence (Goff T-94), compared them, and documented the variants. His article analysing the production of Grüninger's Terence was never completed. Rosenwald sought the advice of Rudolf Hirsch, whose three pages of comments accompany the material. ...

Malter, Henry, 1864-1925

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Nathan, Edward I.

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Lederer, Ephraim

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Schulman, Samuel, 1864-1955

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Rubenstein, Frank Jay.

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Ginzburg, Simon, 1890-1944

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Greenstone, Julius H. (Julius Hillel), 1873-1955

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Jewish educator, writer, and bookseller of English and foreign books on 13th St., Phila. From the description of Bookseller's financial records, 1910-1927. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122468217 Rabbi Julious Hillel Greenstone was born in Mariampole, Lithuania in 1873. He graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary and City College of NY and later served as a lecturer at the Mikveh Israel Congregation in Philadelphia and as a teacher at Gratz College...

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 ...

Husik, Isaac, 1876-1939

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Finkel, Joshua, 1904-

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Skoss, Solomon Leon, 1884-1953

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Halper, B.

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Reich, Nathaniel Julius, 1882-1942

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Nathaniel Julius Reich was born in Sarvar, Hungary in 1882. He was the son of Rabbi Wilhelm Reich, who gave him his early rabbinical training. Reich received his Ph.D. in 1904 from the Lehranstaltfur Orientalische Sprachen in Vienna. specialization in Semitics, Paleography, Papyrology, Oriental history, and Egyptology. The focus of Reich's career became Egyptology, but he was perhaps best known as a linguist. Reich emigrated to the United States in 1921. He w...

Orlinsky, Harry Meyer, 1908-....

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Schechter, Abraham I.

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United synagogue of America

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Chomsky, William, 1896-1977

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William (Zeev) Chomsky was an American scholar of Hebrew. From 1924-1969, he faculty and later president at Gratz College. He also taught at Dropsie College (1955-1977). He was superintendent (principal) of the Mikveh Israel religious school. He is the father of linguist and activist Noam Chomsky....

Johns Hopkins University

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American Jewish Relief Committee for Sufferers from the War

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Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association of Philadelphia

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Wolf, Morris, 1883-1978

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American Jewish Committee

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Founded in 1906 to safeguard the rights of Jews and to alleviate the consequences of persecution or disaster affecting them at home or abroad. ...

Mann, Jacob, 1888-1940

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Sulzberger, Joseph

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Mendes, H. Pereira (Henry Pereira), 1852-1937

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Rabbi at Congregation Shearith Israel, 1877-1920. From the description of Papers, 1877-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155471166 Orthodox Sephardic rabbi and communal leader. From the description of Collection, 1877-1908 [microform]. (Brandeis University Library). WorldCat record id: 47961736 Rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel, New York City; Orthodox and Zionist leader; co-founder of Jewish Theological Seminary of America. From the d...

Cohen, Mortimer J. (Mortimer Joseph), 1894-1972

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Hoschander, Jacob, 1874-1933

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Biblical scholar, professor of Bible at Jewish Theological Seminary of America. From the description of Papers, 1938. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82401714 ...

Speiser, E. A. (Ephraim Avigdor), 1902-1965

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Tepe Gawra in northern Iraq was the site of excavations uncovering twenty-six levels of occupation spanning the years from about 5000 B.C. to 1500 B.C. This expedition was funded by the University Museum, A.S.O.R.- Baghdad, and Dropsie College in Philadelphia. Excavations took place from fall to spring, directed by E. A. Speiser (University of Pennsylvania, University Museum and A.S.O.R.- Baghdad) for the 1930-1931, 1931-1932, and 1936-1937 seasons, and by C. Bache (University Museum) for the 19...

Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923

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Mayer Sulzberger was born in Heidelsheim, Baden, Germany on June 22, 1843. His family emigrated to the United States in 1849, and settled in Philadelphia. Sulzberger attended the Central High School of Philadelphia and Crittenden's. College, and later apprenticed in the law office of Moses Aaron Dropsie, a prominent Philadelphia attorney. Sulzberger was a member of Congregation Mikveh Israel, Philadelphia's oldest and most prestigious Jewish congregation. Sul...

Rosenbach, A.S.W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952

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Gratz College (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Margolis, Max Léopold, 1866-1932

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Smithsonian Institution

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The Smithsonian Institution was established on August 10, 1846, is a group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government. The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson. Originally organized as the United States National Museum.James Smithson (1765-1829), a British scientist, left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusio...

Magnes, Judah Leon, 1877-1948

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American rabbi and communal leader. From the description of Papers, 1910-1918. (Brandeis University Library). WorldCat record id: 46611785 From the description of Correspondence and reports, 1909-1921 [microform]. (Brandeis University Library). WorldCat record id: 47747245 From the description of Correspondence and reports, 1912-1919 [microform]. (Brandeis University Library). WorldCat record id: 47734929 From the description of Correspondence and printed m...

Jung, Leo, 1892-1987

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Born in 1892 in Ungarisch Brod, Moravia (now Slovakia), Leo Jung was raised in Moravia and in London, where his father, Rabbi Meir Zvi Jung, led London's Federation of Synagogues. Leo Jung received his rabbinic ordination from Rabbi David Hoffman at the Berlin Hildesheimer Seminary and his Ph.D. from London University. In 1920 he arrived in America to become the rabbi of the Knesseth Israel Congregation in Cleveland, Ohio. Two years later, in 1922, he moved to New York City and began more than s...

Jewish Publication Society of America.

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School District of Philadelphia, Pa. Board of Public Education

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Jewish Theological Seminary of America

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Collecting area: Materials dealing with all aspects of Jewish life. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155524648 The Jewish Theological Seminary of America moved into its new campus at 3080 Broadway in the Morningside Heights section of New York City in 1930. The complex was designed by the architectural firm Gehron and Ross, with David Levy, Associate Architect. The construction of the buildings was funded by donations from Louis ...

Stone, Nathan J.

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Golomb, Elhanan H. (Elhanan Hirsh), 1887-

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Stern, Horace, 1878-1969

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Gordis, Robert, 1908-

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Linfield, H. S. (Harry Sebee), 1889-

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Rabinowitz, E. N. (Elias Nathan), 1884-

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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 ...

Revel, Bernard, 1885-1940

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University of Pennsylvania.

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In 1919 Edward Bushnell was appointed publicity agent for the University of Pennsylvania. His appointment began a long and expanding effort at public relations at the University. In 1954 the Department of Public Relations expanded its work to include two new units, Motion Picture Services and the Office of Radio and Television. These two offices operated until 1975 when they were phased out of a stream-lined department. From the description of University Film Collection, 1915-1989. (...

Reider, Joseph, 1884-1960

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Montgomery, James A. (James Alan), 1866-1949

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Zeitlin, Solomon, 1886-1976

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Solomon Zeitlin, (1886-1976), noted historian and post-biblical scholar at Dropsie University, renowned for his analysis of the Dead Sea scrolls and his work at the archaeological site of Masada. From the description of Papers, 1928-1976. (Yeshiva University). WorldCat record id: 86164830 ...

Philadelphia Jewish Education Council.

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Zarchin, Michael M. (Michael Moses), 1893-

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Michael Zarchin was born in the Ukraine, in 1893, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1915. In 1917, he graduated from high school in San Francisco, and he received an M.S. from the University of California at Berkeley, in 1922, and received a Ph. D. from Dropsie College, in 1931. Zarchin served as the Executive Director of San Francisco's Jewish Education Society (1927-1928) and of Oakland's Jewish Educational Institute (1933-1935). He was also a professor of economics at San Francisco's City College ...

Levy, Abraham J. (Abraham Juda), 1896-1949

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