biography
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| lived:
| (1855–1940)
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| biography:
| Rabbi and educator, born in Pren, Lithuania. In 1906 he went to the USA and earned an MA from New York University and a PhD from Dropsie College (Philadelphia). He became the head of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Yeshiva in New York (1915), and helped found Yeshiva College (1928), the first Jewish liberal arts institution. He was influential in the modern Orthodox movement. |
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