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Gamaliel Gamaliel
Gamaliel . 1 In the Bible, Manassite chief. 2 In the New Testament, president of the Sanhedrin at Jerusalem; teacher of St. Paul. He was also known as Gamaliel I, or Gamaliel the Elder. Grandson and disciple of the famous scholar Hillel, he advocated leniency toward Christians. 3 Grandson of... Read more
Mordecai Menahem Kaplan Mordecai Menahem Kaplan
Mordecai Menahem Kaplan , 1881-1983, American rabbi, educator, and philosopher, b. Lithuania, grad. College of the City of New York, 1900, M.A. Columbia Univ., 1902. He came to the United States when he was eight years old. In 1909 he became principal and in 1931 dean of the Teachers Institute of... Read more
David Einhorn David Einhorn
David Einhorn , 1809-79, Jewish theological writer and leader of the Reform movement in Judaism in the United States. Born in Bavaria, he studied philosophy at Munich and was influenced by the ideas of Friedrich Schelling. After a stormy career as rabbi of several Reform congregations in central... Read more
Kaufmann Kohler Kaufmann Kohler
Kaufmann Kohler , 1843-1926, American rabbi, scholar, and leader in Reform Judaism, b. Bavaria. He emigrated to the United States in 1869 and served with congregations in Detroit and Chicago before becoming (1879) rabbi of Temple Beth-El in New York City. From 1903 to 1921 he was president of the... Read more
Judaizers Judaizers
JUDAIZERS A diverse group of heretics in Novgorod (c. 1470–1515), sometimes referred to as the Novgorod-Moscow heretics. The Judaizing "heresy" arose in Novgorod in the years 1470 and 1471, after a Kievan Jew named Zechariah (Skhary) proselytized the priest Alexei, who in turn enticed the... Read more
Judaism Judaism
Judaism A monotheistic world religion with origins in the prophetic activities of the Jews in relation to the God Yahweh. It is important to distinguish early biblical Judaism, before the fall of the Temple in 70CE, and later Judaism which was focused on the synagogue. Judaism was organized around... Read more
Italians Italians
Italians LOCATION:Italy POPULATION:57 million LANGUAGE:Italian; French; Slovene; German; Fruilian RELIGION:Roman Catholicsim; small amounts of Protestantism, Judaism, and Greek Orthodoxy 1 • INTRODUCTION The twenty regions that make up Italy were united into a single ... Read more
Paddy Chayefsky Paddy Chayefsky
Chayefsky, Paddy (1923–1981), born in New York City, after graduation from City College and army service in World War II became a writer of television dramas and a producer of films and legitimate plays. His works include Marty (1953, TV; 1955, film), a direct, sympathetic treatment of the... Read more
Solomon Schechter Solomon Schechter
Solomon Schechter , 1847-1915, Jewish scholar. Born in Romania, he was educated in Vienna and at the Univ. of Berlin. He went to England in 1882 and in 1890 he was made lecturer in Talmud at Cambridge; he became professor of Hebrew at University College, London, in 1899. In 1887 he published his... Read more

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