Agus Irving Abraham ( Agushevich Yitzhak ) Professor Emeritus at Yeshiva University .
| Agus Irving Abraham | |
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| English Agus Irving A. | |
| Birth name | Agushevich Yitzhak |
| Date of Birth | February 20, 1910 |
| Place of Birth | Swisloch |
| Date of death | July 18, 1984 ( 74) |
| Place of death | New York |
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Biography
Born in a large family of rabbi and shokhet Yehuda-Leib Agushevich and Beyla Bereznitskaya (from the notorious Katsenelenbogen family). He received a traditional Jewish religious education at the Tahkemoni yeshiva in Bialystok . In the mid-1920s the Agushevich family emigrated to Eretz Yisrael . In 1926-27 he studied at the Hebrew University . Soon (1927), the father of the family was offered the position of rabbi of the synagogue on the East Side and the family finally settled in the United States . He graduated from New York University in 1932, and in 1937 received his doctorate from Dropsey College. He taught Jewish history at Yeshiva University from 1944 to the flesh until his retirement in 1977. In 1939–45, head of the Baron Hirsch Society in Memphis ; 1945-47 - Yeshivas in Long Island ; 1947-49 - Torah and Talmud Institute named after Harry Fishel (Ariel Institute) in Jerusalem ; 1949-51 - Ekib Academy in Philadelphia . Publisher of the Jewish Quarterly Review.
Artwork
- Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg (1947);
- Responsa of the Tosaphists (1954);
- Dibrei Yemei Yisrael, 2 vols. (1957-1967);
- Urban Civilization in Pre-Crusade Europe (1965);
- The Heroic Age of Franco-German Jewry (1969)
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Links
- Agus, Irving Abraham - article from the Russian Jewish Encyclopedia
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