biography
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Jastrow, Marcus (Mordechai)
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pronunciation:
[jastroh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1829–1903)
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| biography:
| Rabbi and scholar, born in Posen, Poland. Educated in Germany, he was active in the Polish revolutionary cause, for which he was imprisoned and then exiled by the Russians. He went to the USA (1866) as rabbi of the Rodeph Shalom congregation in Philadelphia. In support of Conservative Judaism, he helped found (1867) and then taught at Maimonides College. A productive scholar, his greatest accomplishment was his enormous dictionary of Jewish literature (1886–1903). |
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