Isidore Singer

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Not to be confused with Isadore Singer, the American mathematician.

Isidore Singer (1859, Hranice (Přerov District), Moravia, Austria – 1939, New York City) was an editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia and founder of the American League for the Rights of Man.

Biography

He was born in 1859 in Hranice (Přerov District), Moravia. Singer studied at the Universities of Vienna and Berlin, receiving his Ph.D. in 1884.^[1] He became literary secretary to the French ambassador in Vienna. From 1887, he worked in Paris in the press bureau of the French foreign office and was active in the campaign on behalf of Alfred Dreyfus.

Singer moved to New York City in 1895 where he raised the money for the Jewish Encyclopedia he had envisioned and subsequently edited the twelve-volume work (1901–1906) himself.

References

↑ Isidore Singer biodata

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 71517982 LCCN: n85153305 ISNI: 0000 0001 2028 2461 BNF: cb127769063

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Name	Singer, Isidore
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Short description	American encyclopediast
Date of birth	1859
Place of birth
Date of death	1939
Place of death

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