biography
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Friedlaender, Israel
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pronunciation:
[freedlander]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1876–1920)
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| biography:
| Scholar, born in Kovel, Ukraine. He went to New York in 1930 to teach biblical literature and exegesis at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. A specialist on the relation between Islam and Judaism, he was murdered in the Ukraine while serving as commissioner for the Joint Distribution Commission of America. |
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