Buy this book on-line Katsh, Abraham I : HEBREW IN AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION (AND AN ANALYSIS OF HEBREW INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN LIFE)
8vo. 182 pages. Katsh's own copy, with his bookplate and signature. SUBJECT (S) : Hebrew literature - study and teaching; Hebrew language - study and teaching; Literature, comparative - English and Hebrew; Literature, comparative - Hebrew and English; Jews - civilization; Universities and colleges - United States. Katsh (1908-1998) was born in Poland and emigrated to the U. S. In 1925. In 1933, he began teaching at New York University, and over the following three decades taught Hebrew education, culture, language and literature there. In 1957 He founded the National Association of Professors of Hebrew in American Universities, and was elected president of Dropsie College in 1967, where he served until 1976. His scholarship won him many awards and fellowships, including the Jewish Teachers Association of New York's Avodah Award, the Rabbi Kaniel Prize of the Municipality of Haifa, and the first Charles Kramer Research Fellow of the Institute for Jewish Policy Planning and Research of the Synagogue Council of America. Katsh is well known for his studies of Hebrew manuscripts and fragments from Russia and Eastern Europe, his translations, and his essays on Jewish studies in the United States. (EJ) . Good condition. (Katsh-2-2) Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Katsh, Abraham I : HEBREW IN AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION (AND AN ANALYSIS OF HEBREW INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN LIFE) . Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres anciens, livres rares, used books, antiquarian books and livres illustrées. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |