Alexander Kohut

Alexander Kohut (born April 22, 1842, Felegyhaza, Hung.—died May 25, 1894, New York, N.Y., U.S.) was a Hungarian-born American rabbi and scholar who wrote a monumental Talmudic lexicon and helped found the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. In 1865 Kohut assumed his first rabbinical pulpit, the beginning of a lifelong career as a rabbi. Excelling in Hungarian language and literature, he was appointed in 1867 to be superintendent of that nation’s schools, the first Jew...