Papers, 1911-1944.

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Papers, 1911-1944.

Papers trace the career and interests of Oko including personal and official correspondence, articles, and essays. Subjects and correspondents include Baruch Spinoza, Chinese Jewry, the Menorah Association, Hebrew Union College, Martin Buber, Jacob Epstein, Harry A. Wolfson, Nathan Isaacs, Henry Hurwitz, and Stephen S. Wise.

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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...

Menorah Association (New York, N.Y.)

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Epstein, J. N. (Jacob Nahum), 1878-1952

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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...

Oko, Adolph S. (Adolph Sigmund), 1883-1944

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Correspondence to Lewis and Sophia Mumford from Adolph S. Oko and his wife, Dorothy Oko. From the description of Letters, 1940-1946, to Lewis and Sophia Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155874033 Librarian of Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio. From the description of Adolph Oko-Gebhardt correspondence, [ca. 1905]-1941. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 472459711 Librarian, scholar, a...

Hebrew Union College

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First Reform rabbinic school in the United States, founded in 1875 in Cincinnati, Ohio, by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise; 1950 merged with Jewish Institute of Religion (founded in 1922 in New York, N.Y.) to become Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. From the description of Records, 1875-1948 (bulk 1920-1947). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960622 ...

Isaacs, Nathan, 1886-1941

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Professor of law. A.B. (Univ. of Cincinnati) 1907, A.M. 1908, Ph.D. 1910, LL.B. (Cincinnati Law School) 1910, S.J.D. (Harvard Univ.) 1920. Professor of Law, 1912-1918, Assistant Dean, 1916-1918, Cincinnati Law School; Ezra Ripley Thayer Teaching Fellow, 1919-1920, Harvard University; Professor of Law, 1920-1923, University of Pittsburgh; Lecturer on Business Law, 1923-1924, Professor of Business Law, 1924-1941. Member of the Faculty of the Graduate School of Public Administration, 1936-1941, Har...

Spinoza, Benedictus ˜deœ 1632-1677

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Hurwitz, Henry, 1886-1961

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Chancellor and founder of the Intercollegiate Menorah Association. From the description of Menorah Association Memorial Collection, 1911-1963 [microform]. (Brandeis University Library). WorldCat record id: 47758426 ...

Buber, Martin, 1878-1965

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Buber was a German-Jewish religious philosopher, biblical translator and interpreter, and master of German prose style. Miriam and Naëmah Beer-Hofmann were daughters of the Austrian dramatist and poet Richard Beer-Hofmann and Pauline Lissey. From the description of Letters to Miriam and Naëmah Beer-Hofmann, 1961-1965. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 78544052 Buber was a Jewish philosopher, who taught in Frankfurt, 1924-1933, and Jerusalem, 1938-1951. ...