Louis L. Kaplan papers, 1854-1994 and undated.

Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016

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Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania. He was 15 years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. His mother and younger sister perished, his two older sisters survived. Elie and his father were later transported to Buchenwald, where his father died shortly before the camp was liberated in April 1945. After the war, Elie Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist. He wrote his memoir La Nuit or Night. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter appointed El...

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...

Beth Am Congregation (Baltimore, Md.)

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Wise, Stephen Samuel, 1874-1949

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Stephen Samuel Wise was born in Budapest, Hungary, and came to the United States the following year. He graduated with honors from Columbia University and in 1893 he was ordained in Austria "The People's Rabbi," as Wise would later be known, developed his deep concern for the less fortunate at an early age. Wise fought for housing projects, the abolition of child labor, the improvement of working conditions, securing rights for female workers and equal rights for African Americans. He founded th...

Kaplan, Louis L. (Louis Lionel), 1902-2001

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U.S. educator; b. in Slonim, Lithuania (now Belarus) in 1902; d. Jan. 2001; graduated with B.A. from Columbia University in 1922; received doctorate from Dropsie College in 1927. From the description of Louis L. Kaplan papers, 1854-1994 and undated. (Jewish Historical Society of Maryland Library). WorldCat record id: 434890987 President of Baltimore Hebrew College. From the description of Oral history interview, 1974. (Maryland Historical Society). WorldCat recor...

University of Maryland (System)

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University of Maryland System (1988-1997)

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Baltimore Hebrew College (Md.)

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Margolis, Max Léopold, 1866-1932

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