biography
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| lived:
| (1842–94)
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| biography:
| Rabbi and scholar, born in Félegyháza, Hungary. Called to New York as rabbi of Congregation Ahavath Chesed (1885), he soon launched a series of sermons against Reform Judaism. He helped found and taught at the conservative Jewish Theological Seminary of America. A respected scholar, he worked for years on the modernizing of an 11th-c rabbinical dictionary. |
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