Cyrus Adler correspondence, 1921 Feb 3 and 14.
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Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem, 1881-1983
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Mordecai M. Kaplan was a rabbi, essayist and Professor of Homiletics, later Philosophies of Religion, and Dean of the Teachers Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Kaplan (1881-1983) was founder of the Reconstructionist movement in Judaism. ...
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...
Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Teachers Institute
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The Teachers Institute was the teacher training department of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Courses for teachers of Jewish subjects were first offered at the Seminary in 1904, but the Teachers Institute was formally opened in 1909 with funding provided by Jacob Schiff and Louis Marshall. Mordecai Kaplan was principal, 1909-1931, and dean, 1931-1946. Samuel Dinin was the registrar. The Teachers Institute offered both graduate and undergraduate degrees in the field of Jewish educat...
