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81AARON SELIG BEN MOSES OF ZOLKIEW — (d. 1643), kabbalist. His father, Moses Hillel, was president of the Jewish community in Brest Litovsk; his brother Samuel was a parnas ( delegate ) in the Council of the Four Lands. Aaron wrote a compendium of the Zohar entitled Ammudei Sheva… …
82ADLER, SELIG — (1909–1984), U.S. historian. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Adler graduated from the University of Buffalo in 1931. He was appointed to the history faculty of the University of Buffalo in 1938 and subsequently named Samuel Paul Capen Professor of… …
83AUERBACH, ABRAHAM BEN SELIG AVI'EZRI — (1763–1845), Alsatian rabbi. Auerbach, a nephew of david sinzheim , was born in Bouxwiller. He was in charge of the affairs of the Strasbourg community, subsequently serving as rabbi of Forbach (Alsace), Neuwied, Coblenz, and Bonn. During the… …
84BENGIS, SELIG REUBEN — (1864–1953), Lithuanian rabbi. Bengis studied in Volozhin under Naphtali Ẓevi Judah Berlin and Ḥayyim Soloveichik . In 1894 he was appointed rabbi of Bodki and, in 1912, of Kalvarija, Lithuania. At the outbreak of World War I he went to Smolensk …
85BRODETSKY, SELIG — (1888–1954), mathematician and Zionist leader. Brodetsky, who was born in Olviopol, Ukraine, was brought to London by his family in 1893. He received his early education at the Jewish Free School in London, at the same time attending a talmud… …
86HECHT, SELIG — (1892–1947), U.S. biophysicist. Hecht was born in Glogau, Austria, and was taken to the United States as a child. He carried out extensive research in physical chemistry and physiology, both in the United States and elsewhere. He taught… …
87KHARASCH, MORRIS SELIG — (1895–1957), organic chemist. Kharasch was born in Kremenets, Ukraine, and educated in the U.S. He was professor at the University of Maryland (1922–28) and at the University of Chicago from 1930; he was also a consultant to the U.S. Department… …
88PERLMAN, SELIG — (1888–1959), U.S. labor economist. Born in Bialystok, Poland, Perlman immigrated to the United States in 1908. After a brief period in New York, he became interested in the work of the bund . While studying at the University of Wisconsin, he… …
89SCHACHNOWITZ, SELIG — (1874–1952), Orthodox journalist and writer. Of Lithuanian origin, Schachnowitz served as cantor of the Swiss Jewish rural community of Endingen between 1901 and 1908. In 1908 he began his work as editor of the Israelit, Germany s leading modern… …
90SCHWARTZ, PHINEHAS (Pinḥas) SELIG HA-KOHEN — (Sigmund; 1877–1944), Hungarian scholar. He was born in Felsővisó and died in the Holocaust. His most important work is Shem ha Gedolim me Ereẓ Hagar (3 vols., 1913, 1915), a series of biographies of Hungarian rabbis and a bibliographical list of …
