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JEWISH BOOK ANNUAL
he contributed volumes on Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Exekiel, Psalms
and Job. As a student o f the traditional responsa literature, he
prepared an anthology in English translation,
A Treasury o f Respon
sa
(1963), and a book about this literature,
Responsa Literature
(1973). For the committed Reform Jew he authored several col
lections o f responsa, such as
Reform Responsa
(1963, 1973),
Current
Reform Responsa
(1969),
Modern Reform Responsa
(1971),
Contempo
rary Reform Responsa
(1974),
Reform Responsa fo r Our Time
(1977),
and
New Reform Responsa
(1980).
A
b r a h a m
H.
F
r i e d l a n d
.
100th anniversary o f birth. Born in Hordok,
Lithuania, July 1, 1892, died in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1939. In the
United States since 1907, he eventually became director o f the
Bureau o f Jewish Education in Cleveland, promoting vigorously
Jewish and Hebrew education, writing jointly with Emanuel
Gamoran
Gilenu, the Playway to Hebrew
(1934) for the religious
schools o f the Reform movement. He also published collections
o f poems and stories, featuring American Jewish life.
W
il h e lm
G
e s e n i u s
.
150th anniversary o f death. Born in Nordhausen,
Germany, in 1786, died in Halle, Germany, October 23, 1842.
A Christian Hebraist, who taught at the University o f Halle, he
authored Hebrew dictionaries and grammars that passed through
many editions in their original German as well as in English trans
lation, such as
A Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament
Scriptures
(1853, 1979),
A Hebrew and English Lexicon o f the Old Tes
tament
(1836, 1854, 1883), and
Hebrew Grammar
(1839, 1845, 1846,
1852, 1880, 1910). He is considered among the first to have ini
tiated comparative studies between Hebrew and other Semitic lan
guages.
M
ic h a e l
G
o l d
.
25th anniversary o f death. Born in New York in 1893,
died near San Francisco, California, May 14, 1967. An enthusiastic
member o f the Communist Party throughout his life, he edited
the magazine,
New Masses,
for many years. He also wrote stories
reflecting his political views. He is best-known for his autobio
graphical novel,
Jews Without Money
(1930, 1946, 1965), in which
he described the hardships o f the immigrant community on the
Lower East Side o f New York.
J
u d a h
L
e ib
G
o r d o n
.
100th anniversary o f death. Born in Vilna, Lith
uania, in 1830, died in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), Russia,
September 16, 1892. An enthusiastic partisan o f the Haskalah,
the movement for enlightenment among the Russian Jews, he was
for many years a harsh critic o f the traditionalists. Best known
among his poems is one describing the travail o f a Jewish woman
whose divorce is denied by the rabbi because o f a missing letter
in the spelling o f her husband’s name. After the pogroms o f the