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91BET(H)-SHITTAH — (modern Bet ha Shittah; Heb. בֵּית הַשִׁטָּה), biblical locality mentioned in the description of the Midianites flight after their defeat by Gideon (Judg. 7:22). Some scholars locate it at the small village of Shataʾ (site of a prison), east of… …
92CHANOVER, HYMAN — (1920–1998), U.S. Conservative rabbi, educator, and author. Born in Poland, Chanover was brought to the U.S. as an infant. He was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1945 and earned his Ed.D. at New York University in 1971, where he… …
93FELSENTHAL, BERNHARD — (1822–1908), U.S. Reform rabbi. Felsenthal was born in Munchweile, Germany. He intended to enter the Bavarian civil service, but seeing no prospect of being admitted, he attended a teachers seminary at kaiserslautern and taught in Jewish schools… …
94FEUER, LEON ISRAEL — (1903–1984), U.S. Reform rabbi, orator, and Zionist leader. Feuer was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, and ordained at Hebrew Union College in 1927. He received his B.A. from the University of Cincinnati in 1925, an honorary D.D. from HUC JIR in… …
95HARRISON, LEON — (1866–1928), U.S. rabbi. Born in Liverpool England, Harrison immigrated to the United States with his parents and studied in public schools, the City College of New York, and Columbia University. He then attended the Congregation Emanu El… …
96INQUISITION — INQUISITION, special permanent tribunal of the medieval Catholic Church, established to investigate and combat heresy. The Early Institution Although the Inquisition was established by Pope gregory ix , it owed its name to the procedure… …
97ISRAEL, EDWARD LEOPOLD — (1896–1941), U.S. Reform rabbi. Israel was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and educated at Harvard University and the University of Cincinnati (B.A., 1917). He was ordained at Hebrew Union College in 1919 and was awarded an honorary LL.D. by Washington …
98ISSERMAN, FERDINAND M. — ISSERMAN, FERDINAND M. (1898–1972), U.S. Reform rabbi. Isserman was born in Antwerp, Belgium, and immigrated to the United States in 1906. He served in the United States Army during World War I, volunteering for the infantry despite his exemption …
99KORN, BERTRAM WALLACE — (1918–1979), U.S. Reform rabbi, author, and historian. Korn, who was born in Philadelphia, was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell, earning his degree at the University of Cincinnati in 1939. He was ordained at Hebrew Union… …
100LELOW — (Pol. Lelów), village (formerly a town) in Kielce province, S.E. central Poland. Several dozen Jewish families were living in Lelow in 1547, but in 1564 only six families remained; each paid the king one red guilder residence tax and a certain… …
