Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Rosenzweig Arnold, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages, died suddenly yesterday as a result of heart failure. Funeral services will be conducted by Dean Sperry and Professor W. W. Fenn in Appleton Chapel tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock...
...Seminary in 1895. The following year he was granted a degree of Ph.D. by Columbia University and became Curator of the Department of Antiquities of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He taught at the Andover Theological Seminary, and from 1908 to 1922 was Andover Professor of the Hebrew Language and Literature at Harvard. From 1922 to his death he held the Hancock professorship, which is one of the oldest in the University. He is best known for his book on "The Meaning of Ephor", and at the time of his death, was working on a treatise of some...
President Lowell has been named by the "American Hebrew" as one of the three Christians to be honored for their promotion of better understanding between Christians and Jews in America in 1929. President Butler of Columbia and John D. Rockefeller Jr. are the other two. Presidents Lowell and Butler are honored because it was at their invitation and under the aegis of Harvard and Columbia that seminars on Protestant-Catholic-Jewish relations are held during the year...
...rights to at least a share in the modern Canaan. But under the rule of the British mandate both Jew and Arab were irked. Growing bad feeling culminated in August with the Arab anti-Jewish riots in Palestine. Last week Dr. Judah Leon Magnes, Chancellor of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, sought to pour more oil on the subsiding waters of Palestine. Said he: ''Palestine can never be a Jewish national home. It will always be an international home for Jews, Christians and Arabs alike." Added Dr. Magnes: Jews must renounce the idea of political domination, should...
...began to make money. Until then his antics had always got him into trouble. His father made a good living running the ladies bargain store in Circleville, Ohio. Young Lewis went over to Chillicothe in the street car every night to play in the high school band. Of Hebrew descent, he joined the Episcopal church to sing in the choir next to a girl he liked. He was discharged from Henry Goldsmith's music store in Columbus because whenever he tried out a clarinet for a customer people thought he had gone crazy. He kept running away from store...