(1873-1942)
American rabbinic scholar. He was born in Galicia, and went to New York in 1903. After working on the staff of the Jewish Encyclopedia, he served as a rabbi in Peoria, Illinois; Rochester, New York; and Huntsville, Alabama. In 1911 he became professor of Talmud at the Hebrew Union College. His publi-cations included an edition of the Mekhilta de-Rabbi Ishmael with an English translation.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.