William Chomsky

William ( Zev ) Chomsky ( born January 15, 1896 in Kupel, Russian Empire, now Ukraine, † July 19, 1977 in Philadelphia ) was an American Hebraist.

Chomsky left Russia in 1913 to escape recruitment by the Imperial Russian Army. He first worked in sweatshops and then as a teacher at the Jewish elementary schools in Baltimore, while he studied at Johns Hopkins University. With his wife Elsie Simonofsky he moved to Philadelphia, and they both taught at the religious school of Mikveh Israel Congregation.

In 1924 he was admitted to the Faculty of Gratz College, which he was president from 1932 to 1955. Until 1969 he remained at that college for Jewish studies. From 1955 he also worked until his retirement in 1977 at Dropsie College, the Center for Jewish and Semitic Studies (now the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, CAJS ) of the University of Pennsylvania.

Chomsky was considered a specialist in Hebrew grammar. As his ideal text he once called the Talmud, the " parallel stories, long discursive footnotes and main text comments and the comment text ," he estimated (Jay Parini ).

He is the father of David and Eli Noam Chomsky. His granddaughter is the Latin American scientist Aviva Chomsky.

Works

  • How to teach Hebrew in the elementary grades; New York, The United Synagogue Commission on Jewish Education, XIV 295 S 22 cm., 1946.
  • David Kimhi 's Hebrew Grammar: ( Mikhlol ); Bloch Pub Co, New York, Bloch for Dropsie College, XXXIV 427 S 23 cm, 1952 ( Paperback 2001 edition: ISBN 978-0-8197-0719-2 )
  • Hebrew: The Eternal Language; Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1964, c1957, Edition: June 1975 ISBN 978-0-8276-0077-5
  • Hebraist
  • Linguist
  • University teachers (Philadelphia )
  • Author
  • Americans
  • Russian
  • Born 1896
  • Died in 1977
  • Man
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