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Jewish Literary Anniversaries
S
a m u e l
, M
a u r i c e
.
25th anniversary of death.
Born in Macin, Romania, February 8, 1895; died in New York City,
May 4, 1972. Lecturer and author of many popular works on Jewish
life, anti-semitism, and Zionism.
S
c h a r f s t e i n
, Z
e v i
H . 25th anniversary of death.
Born in Dunyavetsy, Russia, March 15, 1884; died in New York
City, October 11, 1972. Educator and author of many textbooks in
Jewish and Hebrew language education.
S
c h l e s in g e r
, A
k iba
J
o s e p h
. 75th anniversary of death.
Born in Pressburg, Austro-Hungary in 1837; died in Eretz Israel,
April 29, 1922. Orthodox rabbi, polemicist, and leader of Religious Zi
onism.
S
c h l o s s
, E
z e k i e l
. 10th anniversary of death.
Born in Riga, Latvia, in 1912; died in New York City, March 30,
1987. Editor, illustrator. Edited
World Over
, children’s magazine pub
lished by the Board of Jewish Education of New York, 1942-1977.
S
c h o l em
, G
e r sh o m
. 100th anniversary of birth.
Born in Berlin, December 5, 1897; died in Jerusalem, February 21,
1982. Professor ofJewish mysticism and Kabbalah at the Hebrew Uni
versity (1933-1965), author of numerous works in German and He
brew, he is considered the founder of the academic study of this field.
S
h a l e v
, Y
i t z h a k
. 5th anniversary of death.
Born in Tiberias, Israel in 1911; died inJerusalem in 1992. Poet and
novelist.
S
h o fm a n
, G
e r s h o n
. 25th anniversary of death.
Born in Orsha, White Russia in 1880; died in Israel in 1972. Short
story writer and essayist.
S
h u n a m i
, S
h l o m o
. 100th anniversary o f birth.
Born in Munkacs, Hungary, October 4, 1897; died in Jerusalem in
1984. For many years on the staff of the Jewish National and Univer
sity Library inJerusalem, he used his vast erudition to compile
The Bib
liography ofJewish Bibliographies
, first published in 1935, and in a much
enlarged form again in 1965.
S
il v e rm a n
, M
o r r is
. 25th anniversary of death.
Born in Newburgh, New York, November 11, 1894; died in Hart-