Louis Finkelstein
American rabbi and scholar
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Louis Finkelstein's Degrees
- Bachelors Hebrew Literature City College of New York
- Bachelors Hebrew Literature Jewish Theological Seminary of America
- Masters Hebrew Literature Jewish Theological Seminary of America
- Doctorate Hebrew Literature Jewish Theological Seminary of America
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Louis Finkelstein was a Talmud scholar, an expert in Jewish law, and a leader of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Conservative Judaism. Biography Louis Finkelstein was born into a rabbinic family in Cincinnati on June 14, 1895. He moved with his parents to Brooklyn, New York as a youngster and graduated from the City College of New York in 1915. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1918 and was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America the following year. He joined the JTS faculty in 1920 as an instructor in Talmud and went on to serve as an associate professor and professor of theology. He later became provost, president, chancellor and chancellor emeritus.
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