Papers, 1879-[ca. 1977], 1885-1940 (bulk).

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Papers, 1879-[ca. 1977], 1885-1940 (bulk).

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Correspondence, 1885-1940, concerning Jewish Theological Seminary of America, United Synagogue of America, American Jewish Historical Society, and other topics; manuscript and printed speeches and articles, 1904-1941; diaries of trips to Near East, 1891, Paris Peace Conference, 1919, and Europe and Palestine, 1929, and general diary, 1939; Jewish Theological Seminary Board of Directors minutes, 1937-1937; correspondence, programs, clippings, and other material concerning deaths of Israel Friedlaender and Bernard Cantor, and memorial meetings for them, 1920-1921; correspondence, lists, and addresses regarding testimonial for Adler, 1932; parts of Adler's memoirs; and miscellaneous other material. Also includes articles about Adler, and materials concerning memorial meetings, 1939-1954; some correspondence of Racie F. Adler, 1939-1952; photocopies and transcripts of Adler's letters; and correspondence concerning project to publish Adler's letters, ca. 1963-ca. 1977. Correspondents include Joseph B. Abrahams, Samuel M. Cohen, Israel Davidson, Richard Gottheil, Louis Finkelstein, Paul Haupt, Louis Marshall, Alexander Marx, Solomon Schechter, and others.

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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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...

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...

American Jewish Historical Society

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Cantor, B. Gerald, 1916-1996

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Abrahams, Joseph

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Adler, Racie F.

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Davidson, Israel, 1870–1939

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Professor of Medieval Hebrew Literature and registrar at Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA). From the description of Papers, 1887-1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122484472 Professor of Hebrew Literature. Davidson was an alumnus of City College, Class of 1895. From the description of Memorabilia, [ca. 1920]-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155502422 ...

Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Board of Directors.

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Haupt, Paul, 1858-1926

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Paul Haupt was a noted philologist and a professor of Semitic languages at The Johns Hopkins University. He was born at Gorlitz, Germany, Nov. 25, 1858 and received the Ph. D. from the University of Leipzig in 1878. Haupt was appointed professor of Semitic languages at Hopkins in 1883, a position he held for forty-three years. At Hopkins, he also served as director of the Oriental seminary. Haupt was recognized as a leading Assyriologist and did extensive research in the...

Gottheil, Richard J. H. (Richard James Horatio), 1862-1936

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Orientalist, Zionist, Professor of Semitics at Columbia University. Richard was the son of Gustav Gottheil. From the description of Papers, 1786-1934. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81886313 ...

United synagogue of America

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Paris Peace Conference 1919-1920

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Marshall, Louis, 1856-1929

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American Jewish communal leader, lawyer. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1900-1929]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122516821 Lawyer, civic and communal leader, civil rights advocate, labor union meditator, and philanthropist, of New York, N.Y. From the description of Papers, 1891-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70925069 Prominent Jewish-American lawyer and philanthropist. From the description of Correspondence, 1916-1929 [microform...

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 ...

Friedlaender, Israe͏̈l, 1876-1920

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Semiticist, professor of Bible at Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA). From the description of Papers, 1888-1977, 1903-1920 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86160689 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cohen, Samuel Meir, b. 1886

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Conservative rabbi; executive director of United Synagogue of America. From the description of Papers, 1927-1943. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83235294 ...