History of the Jews in America: From the Period of the Discovery of the New World to the Present TimeWiernik, Peter
History
History of the Jews in America: From the Period of the Discovery of the New World to the Present Time
Wiernik, Peter
Jews -- America -- History; Jews -- United States -- History
Much other valuable work was done in the cause of Jewish education
in the last ten years. The Jewish Theological Seminary, which was
reorganized in 1902, when the presidency was assumed by the famous
Roumanian Jewish scholar, Solomon Schechter, now has on its faculty
as professors: President and Professor of Jewish Theology, Solomon
Schechter; Biblical Literature and Exegesis, Israel Friedlaender;
Talmud, Louis Ginzberg; History, Alexander Marx; Homiletics, Mordecai
M. Kaplan; Instructor in the Talmud, Joshua A. Joffe; Instructor in
Hebrew and Rabbinics, Israel Davidson; English Literature and Rhetoric,
Joseph Jacobs. There is also now a Teachers’ Institute connected with
the Seminary, of which Prof. Mordecai M. Kaplan is the principal.
The Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati, which is maintained by the
Union of American Hebrew Congregations, has also been considerably
strengthened in the last few years. Its faculty consists of the
following professors: Homiletics, Theology and Hellenistic Literature
(President), Kaufman Kohler; Jewish History and Literature, Gotthard
Deutsch; Ethics and Pedagogy, Louis Grossman; Jewish Philosophy, David
Neumark; Biblical Exegesis (Associate), Moses Buttenwieser; Biblical
Literature, Henry Englander; Instructor in Bible and Semitic Languages,
Julian Morgenstern.
The youngest of the Jewish higher institutions of learning in the
United States is The Dropsie College of Hebrew and Cognate Learning of
Philadelphia, which was incorporated in 1907. Moses Aaron Dropsie (b.
in Philadelphia, 1821; d. there 1905), an attorney and street railway
owner of Dutch descent, bequeathed the bulk of his fortune, amounting
to nearly one million dollars, to the foundation of that college, which
was opened in 1909. The faculty consists of: President, Cyrus Adler;
Max L. Margolis, in charge of the Biblical Department; Henry Malter,
in charge of the Rabbinical Department; Jacob Hoschander, Instructor
Department of Cognate Languages; Hon. Mayer Sulzberger, Resident
Lecturer in Jewish Jurisprudence and Institutes of Government.
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