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Born September 13, 1863 • Van Buren • Arkansas
Died April 7, 1940 (aged 76) • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Founder United Synagogue of America
Subjects Of Study Judaism
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Solomon Schechter
American rabbi and scholar
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Israel Abrahams
British scholar
Bari Weiss speaks while gesturing with her hands during an interview, seated across from an out-of-focus person in the foreground.
Bari Weiss
American journalist
James McKeen Cattell
James McKeen Cattell
American psychologist
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Wayne C. Booth
American literary critic
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Norman Jay Colman
United States official
John Spencer Bassett
John Spencer Bassett
American historian
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Seymour Siegel
American theologian
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow
German pathologist and statesman
The elevation of Marc Bloch to the Pantheon
Marc Bloch
French historian
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Lucien Paul Victor Febvre
French historian
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Felix Klein
German mathematician
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Robert Eitner
German musicologist
Lockyer
Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer
British astronomer
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Sir James Gray
British zoologist
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Graziadio Isaia Ascoli
Italian linguist
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Harvey Kurtzman
American cartoonist
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Robert Adam Gottlieb
American editor
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Theodore Bikel
Austrian-born actor. singer, and political activist
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Clark Howell
American journalist