biography
pronunciation:
[magnes]
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| lived:
| (1877–1948)
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| biography:
| Rabbi and educator, born in San Francisco, California, USA. He studied at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati and became a Reform rabbi and an ardent Zionist. In 1906–10 he was rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in New York, after which he tried to create a Jewish community structure in New York, known as a Kehilla (1910–22), with the goal of co-ordinating Jewish religious cultural and other activities. In 1923 he moved to Jerusalem and became the first chancellor of the Hebrew University (1925–35). He supported the idea of an Arab–Jewish state, often criticized Zionist policies, and opposed the 1947 partition of Palestine. |
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