THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

12

SOCIETY

(Continued from pair in

ilton NI. Alexander is
spending a few days in Cincinnati.

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NIr. I I. I Iimelhoch spent several
(lays in New York last week.
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Rabbi Louis Itnrnstein of St. Jo-
seph spent a day in the city last
week.

Krolik has re-
NIrs. Henry
turned from an extended eastern
trip.

Mr. Elias Frank and Nliss Hed-
wig Frank spent the week-end in
Cleveland.

arymont has re-
Mrs. Fred
turned from a visit with her sisters
in Cincinnati.

Miss Hattie Groneman will give
two recitals at the Art Museum in
June, Miss Jeanette Starikoff being
one of the participants.

Mr. and NIrs. Ira D. Jacobs of
252 :\ Wintry Boulevard will be at
home to their friends Wednesday

afternoon and evening, June 7th, in
honor of the confirmation of their
son, Marvin.

The ladies comprising the l'ioard
of Directors of the Woman's Aux-
iliary of Temple Beth El, gave a
luncheon at the Phoenix Country
Club on . Thursday, the honor
guests being Mrs. Isaac Goldberg,
newly elected president, and NIrs,
Viola Wolf, the retiring president.

NI iss Jeanette Starikoff, for
seven years a pupil of Miss [attic
Groneman, pianiste, has had a re-
markable honor bestowed upon her
recently. In the contest held at the
home of NIrs. Chase of Boston
Boulevard for membership to the
"Tuesday Musical," Miss Starikoff
was one of the two winners in the
piano department, and being only
seventeen years of age, her wonder-
ful technique and brilliant interpre-
tation were especially commented
upon. Her program consisted of a
"Beethoven Sonata" and the "Juliet
Waltz," by Gunoud Raff. Miss
Starikoff is of Russian parentage.
She was born in Paris, France, and
her entire musical training has been
under Miss Groneman.

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JUDAH MONIS, AMERICA'S
FIRST JEWISH PRO-
FESSOR

dition. I lis baptism was made a
great public ceremony in College
Mall. The Puritan divines were al-
ways interested in the conversion
He Was Obliged to Profess Con- of the Jew.
After teaching for twenty years
version to Christianity Before
the
college authorities undertook the
Taking His Chair
publication
of his Hebrew grammar,
In his valuable series of "Jews
Who Helped to Make America," for which purpose a set of Hebrew
now being published in a large num- type was sent out from England to
ber of daily newspapers, Dr. Madi- the Colony and in 1735 the first -
son C. Peters tells an interesting Hebrew grammar in America was
published. The first Jewish publi-
story of the first Jew who occupied
a professor's chair at Harvard Uni- cation issued by the New England
press was the discourse delivered at
versity. Dr. Peters writes:
The Puritans had no use for the his baptism and then this Hebrew
Jew—unless he became a convert. grammar. Nlonis filled the chair of
The best known of the early set- Hebrew at Harvard for forty-two
tlers was. Judah Nlonis, the first in- years. He died in 1764, 81 years
structor in Hebrew in Harvard., He of age.
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