Cyrus Adler
Jewish American historian, scholar, religious leader
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Cyrus Adler's Degrees
- PhD Semitic Languages Johns Hopkins University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Cyrus Adler was an American educator, Jewish religious leader and scholar. Early years Adler was born to merchant and planter Samuel Adler and Sarah Sulzberger in Van Buren, Arkansas on September 13, 1863, but in the next year his parents removed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and soon he attended the public schools there, and in 1879 he entered the University of Pennsylvania, where graduated in 1883. He afterwards pursued Oriental studies in Johns Hopkins University, was appointed university scholar there in 1884, and was fellow in Semitic languages from 1885 to 1887, when he gained the first American PhD in Semitics from the University, where appointed instructor in Semitic languages and promoted to be associate professor in 1890. He taught Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins from 1884 to 1893.
Cyrus Adler's Published Works
Published Works
- With firmness in the right (5)
- American Intercession on Behalf of Jews in the Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, 1840-1938 (1945) (4)
- Abraham Lincoln, the Tribute of the Synagogue (1928) (2)
- Descriptive catalogue of a collection of objects of Jewish ceremonial deposited in the U. S. National Museum by Hadji Ephraim Benguiat (2)
- The First Pastoral Tour to the Jewish Communities of the British Overseas Dominions (1927) (2)
- The Jewish Welfare Board - Twenty Years Old (1938) (1)
- Felix M. Warburg in Memoriam (1937) (1)
- Documents on an Official Attitude (1945) (0)
- THE INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE.--SECOND CONFERENCE. II. (0)
- The Cotton Grotto, an Ancient Quarry in Jerusalem, with a Note on the Stones Used for the Altar (1896) (0)
- International Catalogue of Scientific Literature (0)
- Hichens "Holy Land" (1911) (0)
- A New Hebrew Press (0)
- On a Hebrew Manuscript of the Year 1300 (1884) (0)
- Petrie's "Arts and Crafts of Ancient Egypt" (1911) (0)
- THE INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE. (1897) (0)
- The Teaching of a Foreign Literature in Connection with the Seminary System: Discussion (0)
- International Catalogue of Scientific Literature (1902) (0)
- Fine art portfolio : illustrating some of the exhibits of the H. Ephraim Benguiat Fine Art Museum Collection and the historical Damascus Palace (0)
- Jewish History in Arabian Historians (1889) (0)
- The shofar.its use and origin (0)
- Some Newly-Discovered Temanite and Nabatean Inscriptions (1886) (0)
- "The Voice of America on Kishineff" - Additions and Corrections (0)
- Memorandum on the Western Wall : submitted to the Special Commission of the League of Nations on behalf of the Rabbinate, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, the Jewish Community of Palestine (Knesseth Israel) and the Central Agudath Israel of Palestine (0)
- "Professor Peters' Notes" (1887) (0)
- East and West (0)
- The relation of Richard Rush to the Smithsonian institution (0)
- In Memoriam: Jacob Hoschander (1934) (0)
- Two Persepolitan casts in the U. S. National Museum (0)
- Wininger's Jewish National Biography (1929) (0)
- A Biographical Sketch of Louis Marshall (1931) (0)
- Museum collections to illustrate religious history and ceremonials (0)
- Felix M. Warburg (1923) (0)
- Pollak's "Michael Heilprin and His Sons" (1913) (0)
- Graves' "History of Education" (1913) (0)
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