Max Margolis

Max Leopold Margolis (* October 15, 1866 in Merkinė ( Meretz / Merech ), Vilnius district, † April 2, 1932 ) was an American philologist.

The son of Rabbi Isaac Margolis attended primary school of his native city and was trained by his father. Beginning in 1885, he attended the Leibniz Gymnasium in Berlin and from the autumn of 1889 the Columbia University in New York City, where he and Semitics Professor Richard Gottheil, Professor Harry Thurston Peck in Latin ( 1856-1914 ) and philosophy with Professors Nicholas Murray Butler James McKeen Cattell studied. In 1890, he earned his master and in the following year his Ph.D. Then he learned Semitic languages ​​and was secretary of Felix Adler.

From 1892 to 1897 he was at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati teacher and later assistant professor of Hebrew and Biblical exegesis. In 1897 he was Assistant Professor of Semitic Languages ​​in the University of California, 1898 ao Professor and from 1902 he was acting director of the Semitic department. In California, he married Evelyn Kate Aronson (1878-1959), with whom he had three children. In 1905 he was appointed back to the Hebrew Union College as a professor of biblical exegesis, but where he got into Zionist issues in a conflict with the president. 1907/ 08 he visited European libraries.

The Jewish Publication Society of America had decided to publish a new translation of the Hebrew Bible in English and Max was in Philadelphia 1908-1917 Editor -in- Chief. After that, he was appointed Professor of Biblical Philology at Dropsie College of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. He studied the Book of Joshua in Greek.

Publications

  • The Columbia College MS. of Megillah; New York, 1892
  • Hebrew accidence; 1893
  • Notes on Semitic Grammar Part 1-3; In: Hebraica ( " American Journal of Semitic Languages ​​and Literatures " ), 1894, 1896, 1902
  • The Theology of the Old Prayer Book; In: Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis 1897
  • The Theological Aspect of Reformed Judaism; Baltimore, 1904.
  • The Hebrew Scriptures in the Making
  • The Story of Bible Translations

Documents

  • University teachers ( Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati )
  • University teachers ( University of California )
  • Old Testament
  • Semitist
  • Americans
  • Born in 1866
  • Died in 1932
  • Man
  • Person ( Merkinė )
Vilnius County Richard James Horatio Gottheil Felix Adler (professor) Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Integrated Authority File
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