Word: rabbi
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...support and co-operation of some of the most intelligent people in the metropolis. It is now some years since Professor Adler started on the career in which he is now proving himself so excellent a thinker and so valuable a man. Himself, the son of a learned rabbi, Professor Adler, as a very young man became strongly affected with atheistic tendencies and undertook after a course of very serious and extensive studies to spread his doctrines through lecturing. Professor Adler has gathered about him a large congregation of eminently intelligent people in New York City. Whereas...
Among the workers at the library is Mr. Cohn, a learned rabbi, who, in collaboration with Prof. Toy, is engaged in a complete translation of the Talmud and on a dictionary of the Talmud. The work will require several years, and if completed under the auspices of the university will doubtless bring great credit...