Jewish Theological Seminary of America

The Jewish Theological Seminary of America ( JTS ) is a rabbi educational institution founded in New York City by Alexander Kohut and Sabato Morais in 1886 in the tradition of Conservative Judaism, and as such, the first of its kind in the U.S..

Today it is the academic and spiritual center of Conservative Judaism in the United States and - according to its own claim - all over the world. Model was the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau, the first academic training site for a rabbi in Germany.

The Jewish Theological Seminary has five training centers, one of the largest libraries in the world in the field of Jewish Studies and a Jewish museum. 2008 there studied approximately 3,000 students. Chancellor Arnold is iron.

President

Patrons

  • Abby Cohen ( b. 1952 )
  • Isaac Guggenheim (1854-1922)
  • Leonard Lewisohn (1847-1942)
  • Henry Pereira Mendes (1852-1937), co-founder

Lecturers

  • Israel Davidson (* 1870)
  • Israel Friedlaender (1876-1920), Associate Professor of Biblical Literature and Exegesis
  • Louis Ginzberg (1873-1953)
  • Robert Gordis (1908-1992)
  • Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972), professor of Jewish ethics and mysticism
  • Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881-1983)
  • Alexander Kohut (1842-1894), professor of Talmud and co-founder
  • Saul Lieberman (1898-1983)
  • David G. Roskies (* 1948)
  • Jacob Taubes (1923-1987)

Known graduates

Library Solomon Schechter
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