Biography Category
(s ´´l v ´ch k) (KEY) , 1903–93, Jewish Talmudist and philosopher. Born into a rabbinic family in Poland, he was educated according to his grandf...
(äl´b rt f n s nt´´-dyör´dy ) (KEY) , 1893–1986, American biochemist, b. Hungary, M.D. Univ. of Budapest, 1917; Ph.D. Cambridge, 1927. After t...
(z ld) (KEY) , 1860–1945, American Zionist leader, editor, and translator, b. Baltimore. After graduating from high school in 1877 she taught (1878...
(sä´d ä, äl-f y ´m ) (KEY) , 882–942, Jewish scholar, b. Egypt. He was known as Saadia Gaon. He was the head of the great Jewish Academy at Sur...
(shn ´d rm n) (KEY) , 1884–1972, American labor leader, b. Poland. She emigrated to the United States in 1890. After working as a lining stitcher i...
1624–89, English physician, called “the English Hippocrates.” He studied at Oxford and Montpellier, and practiced in London. His conceptions of ...