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AMERICA'S FIRST HEBREW TEACHER
CELEBRATES EDUCATION
Judah Monis, North America's first instructor of
Hebrew, taught students at Harvard
College from 1722 to 1760.
Monis' Hebrew course was based
on his own handwritten Hebrew
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The Jewish Theological Seminary,
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grammar manual that he submitted
established in New York in 1887,
was created as an offering of a modern
to the Harvard Corporation in 1720.
but traditional alternative to Reform Judaism.
His career, in turn, teaches today's
The seminary languished in its early years
students about the challenges of
until 1902, when Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schechter
maintaining a Jewish life in early America.
was brought over from Cambridge University in
England to head the school; ever since, Conservative
Judaism has been a major force on the American-Jewish
HOLOCAUST AUTHOR, EDUCATOR,
LECTURER AND SURVIVOR
scene. Schechter was a scholar of vast erudition
More than any other person, Elie Wiesel is responsible for the
and a passionately committed religious Jew.
widespread knowledge of the Holocaust among both Jews
and non-Jews. His book, Night, a re-creation of Wiesel's own
Holocaust experiences, is the first account many people have
read concerning the Nazi death camps. In addition to making
the Holocaust widely known, Wiesel played a significant role
in publicizing the oppression of Soviet Jewry in the 1960s.
In 1986, Wiesel was awarded the Nobel prize for peace.
One of Judaism's
Most Brilliant Minds
Although he has a reputation for being a poor student,
Albert Einstein has become known as one of the
greatest geniuses to ever have lived. Einstein studied
mainly mathematics and science, although Judaism was
FIRST JEWISH SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
Louis Brandeis, passionate Zionist and namesake of the
Brandeis-Bardin Institute and Brandeis University, was
the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme
Court. The Brandeis-Bardin Institute is one
of many Jewish institutions named after
Judge Brandeis, the most famous being the
aforementioned Massachusetts-based
Brandeis University, a nondenominational
university run under Jewish auspices.
also a subject of focus both at home
and at school. Einstein was a
scientist, mathematician, lecturer
and Nobel prize winner. Born in
Germany, Einstein made his first
visit to the United States in 1921
to raise funds for the planned
Hebrew University of Jerusalem.