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A g u i l a r , G r a c e .
150th anniversary of death.
Bom in London, England, June 2 ,1816 ; died in Frankfurt amMain,
September 16, 1847. English author of popular novels of Jewish and
non-Jewish themes as well as religious works
A l b e c k , H a n o k h .
25th anniversary of death.
Bom in 1890; died in Jerusalem in 1972. Taught Talmud and rab
binic litrature at the Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums
at Berlin, and from 1936 until 1956 at the Hebrew University. Author
of numerous scholarly works in German and Hebrew.
A
l p e r s o n
, M
o r d e c a i
. 50th anniversary of death.
Bom near Kamenetz-Podolsk, Russia, in 1860; died in Buenos
Aires, Argentina, July 24, 1947. In Argentina since 1891, he was a co
founder of the colonyMauricio whose history he published in Yiddish.
He also wrote essays in Yiddish about other aspects of Argentinian
Jewish life.
A
l tm a n n
, A
l e x a n d e r
. 10th anniversary of death.
Bom in Kassa, Czech Republic, April 16, 1906; died in Boston,
Mass., June 6, 1987. Professor, rabbi. Scholar of wide-ranging inter
ests, especially medieval Jewish philosophy, theology, and philsophy of
religion. Professor at Brandeis Universiy, 1959-1976.
A
m er ica n
J
ew ish
A
r c h iv e s
. 50th anniversary of founding.
Established at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 1947 by Ja
cob R. Marcus, it collects material on all aspects of American Jewish
life. It also published a semi-annual journal by the same title, in which
some of its researchs are published.
A n o k h i ( A r o n s o n ) , Z a lm a n I s a a c .
50th anniversary
of
death.
Bom in Liadi, Russia, in 1878; died in Tel-Aviv, October 14, 1947.
A writer who first published in Hebrew, he later concentrated on Yid
dish, where he made his mark, particularly with Hasidic stories.
A
r o n so n
, J
o s e ph
H.
10th anniversary of death.
Bom in Kaunas, Lithuania, July 1, 1891; died in Monsey, N.Y., Au
gust 8,1987 . Rabbi. Author of commentaries on the Jerusalem Talmud.
A
y a l t i
, H
anan
J .
( C
h o n e l
K
l e n b o r t
). 5th anniversary of
death.
Bom in Soposkien, Russia, 1911; died in New York City, January
21, 1992. Author of novels and short stories in Yiddish and English.