biography
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| lived:
| (1683–1764)
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| biography:
| Scholar, born in Algiers or Italy. Educated in Jewish schools in Europe, he became a free citizen in New York (1715/16). The first Jew to earn a degree from Harvard College, he was granted an MA there in 1720 on the basis of his draft of a Hebrew grammar, the first to be published in America (1735). He became a Christian convert (1722) and afterwards taught Hebrew at Harvard (until 1760). |
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