Cyrus Adler

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Cyrus Adler (1863 – 1940) was a U.S. educator, Jewish religious leader and scholar.

Adler was born in Arkansas, a graduate of University of Pennsylvania and gained a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He was a founder of the Jewish Welfare Board, and an editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia and the Jewish Publication Society of America Version of the Hebrew Bible.

He was president of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning and Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He was also a contributor to the New International Encyclopedia.

His papers are held by the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

[edit] References

• Biography by A. A. Neuman (1942)
• This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.

[edit] External links

• The Jewish Theological Seminary, New York archival entry on Adler's papers.
• Center for Jewish History Guide to the papers of Cyrus Adler (and biography).
• Fact Monster Entry for Cyrus Adler.