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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
Solomon Schechter
American rabbi and scholar
Israel Abrahams
British scholar
James McKeen Cattell
James McKeen Cattell
American psychologist
Wayne C. Booth
American literary critic
Norman Jay Colman
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John Spencer Bassett
John Spencer Bassett
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Seymour Siegel
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Marc Bloch
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Lucien Paul Victor Febvre
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Felix Klein
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Robert Eitner
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Lockyer
Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer
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Sir James Gray
British zoologist
Graziadio Isaia Ascoli
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Helen Archibald Clarke
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Gardner Cowles, Jr.
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Theodore Bikel
Austrian-born actor. singer, and political activist
Robert Adam Gottlieb
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Lawrence H. Summers
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Mildred Helen McAfee
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