Pinkhos Churgin

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Pinkhos Churgin

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Why Is Pinkhos Churgin Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Pinkhos Churgin was an Israeli scholar who was the first President of Bar-Ilan University. Biography Churgin was born in Pohost, Belorussia, a shtetl near Pinsk. In 1907 he and his parents immigrated to Palestine, and settled in Jerusalem. In 1910 he went to study at the Volozhin Yeshiva. Churgin returned to Palestine in 1912. In 1915 he went to the United States and taught Hebrew. He studied as an undergraduate at Clark College, and then at Yale University, earning a Ph.D. in the field of Semitics, as a student of the famous researcher Charles C. Torrey. His dissertation, "Targum Jonathan to the Prophets", was published by Yale in 1927 and has since become a classic. It was twice reprinted in the 1980s.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Pinkhos Churgin?

Pinkhos Churgin is affiliated with the following schools:

• Yale University
• Clark University
• Yeshiva University