Max Margolis

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Max Leopold Margolis (born at Meretz (present-day Merkinė), district (guberniya) of Wilna, Russia (now Vilnius, Lithuania), October 15, 1866–1932) was a Lithuanian-born American philologist. Son of Isaac Margolis; educated at the elementary school of his native town, the Leibniz gymnasium, Berlin, and Columbia University, New York city (Ph.D. 1891). In 1891 he was appointed to a fellowship in Semitic languages at Columbia University, and from 1892 to 1897 he was instructor, and later assistant professor, of Hebrew language and Biblical exegesis at the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati. In 1897 he became assistant professor of Semitic languages in the University of California; in 1898, associate professor; and from 1902 the head of the Semitic department. When Dropsie College was formed in 1909, Margolis was chosen as Professor of Biblical Philology, remaining at Dropsie College until his death in 1932.

Margolis was named editor-in-chief of the Jewish Publication Society's translation of the Bible into English, the finished product being published in 1917. He served as president of the Society of Biblical Literature as editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature (1914–1921). He was also editor of the Journal of the American Oriental Society.

Works (selected)

• "The Columbia College MS. of Megilla", New York, 1892
• "Notes on Semitic Grammar", parts i.-iii., in "Hebraica" ("American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures"), 1894, 1896, 1902
• "The Theology of the Old Prayer-Book", in "Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis", 1897
• "The Theological Aspect of Reformed Judaism", Baltimore, 1904
• A History of the Jewish People, Philadelphia, 1927. (with Alexander Marx)

References

• This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia article "Max Margolis" by Cyrus Adler, Frederick T. Haneman, a publication now in the public domain.
• Max Leopold Margolis: Scholar and Teacher. 1952. Philadelphia: Alumni Association, Dropsie College.

External links

• ARC MS6 - Max Leopold Margolis Collection at www.library.upenn.edu

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Name	Margolis, Max
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Date of birth	1866
Place of birth	Vilnius
Date of death	1932
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