Samuel Belkin
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Rabbi Samuel Belkin (1911-1976) is best known as the second University President of Yeshiva University. He was born in Swislocz, Poland and studied in the yeshivas of Slonim and Mir. He went to the United States in 1929 and received his doctorate (concerned with the writings of Philo) at Brown University in 1935, one of the first awarded for Judaic studies in academia. He then joined the faculty of Yeshiva College, New York, and was appointed dean of its Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) in 1940. In 1943, Belkin became president of the college and the seminary and under his guidance the institution expanded to become Yeshiva University in 1945. As a scholar he published many works on Jewish law and Hellenistic literature.
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- Samuel Belkin (1911-1976), educator, www.bh.org.il
- Samuel Belkin's Application to RIETS, yucommentator.com
| Rabbis at Yeshiva University |
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| Chancellor: Norman Lamm
Dean: Zevulun Charlop Roshei Yeshiva: Elchanan Adler • Eliyahu Ben-Chaim • J. David Bleich • Yitzchok Cohen • Meir Goldwicht • David Hirsch • Dovid Horowitz • Aharon Kahn • Aharon Lichtenstein • Yaakov Neuburger • Hershel Reichman • Michael Rosensweig • Yonason Sacks • Hershel Schachter • Eli Baruch Shulman • Baruch Simon • Zvi Sobolofsky • Moshe Tendler • Mayer Twersky • Jeremy Wieder • Mordechai Willig • Gershon Yankelewitz Former Roshei Yeshiva: Nisson Alpert • Yosef Leib Arnest • Samuel Belkin • Ahron Dovid Burack • Solomon Drillman • Michael Katz • Shlomo Nosson Kotler • Dovid Lifshitz • Shlomo Polachek • Moshe Ahron Poleyeff • Elazar Meir Preil • Bernard Revel • Shimon Shkop • Ahron Soloveichik • Joseph B. Soloveitchik • Moshe Soloveichik • Ephraim M. Steinberg • Shalom Elchanan Yaffe • Mendel Zaks |
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