biography
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| (1863–1940)
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| biography:
| Educator, born in Van Buren, Arkansas, USA. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania and was named librarian of the Smithsonian Institution in 1892. He became president of the new Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, Philadelphia (1908) and president of the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York (1924). Editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review (1910–40), he was a founder (1929) and later president of the American Jewish Committee. |
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