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Born September 13, 1863 • Van Buren • Arkansas
Died April 7, 1940 (aged 76) • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Founder United Synagogue of America
Subjects Of Study Judaism
Solomon Schechter
American rabbi and scholar
Israel Abrahams
British scholar
James McKeen Cattell
James McKeen Cattell
American psychologist
Wayne C. Booth
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Norman Jay Colman
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John Spencer Bassett
John Spencer Bassett
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Seymour Siegel
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Marc Bloch
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Lucien Paul Victor Febvre
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Felix Klein
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Robert Eitner
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Lockyer
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Sir James Gray
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Graziadio Isaia Ascoli
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George Plimpton
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Lawrence H. Summers
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Benjamin Mays
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