ROSENBLATT, SAMUEL

ROSENBLATT, SAMUEL (1902–1983), U.S. rabbi and scholar. Rosenblatt, son of the famous ḥazzan Josef (Yossele) rosenblatt , was born in Bratislava and was taken to the United States in 1912. He was a cum laude graduate of City College (1921) and received a rabbinical degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary (1925); he studied in Jerusalem on a fellowship from the American Schools of Oriental Research; and received a Ph.D. from Columbia (1927). In 1926 he served as a rabbi in Trenton and then from 1927 onward Rabbi Rosenblatt served Congregation Beth Tefiloh in Baltimore, Maryland. He headed the Baltimore Board of Rabbis (1952); mizrachi (1938–42); and the American Jewish Congress (1942–47). He lectured at Columbia University from 1926 to 1928 and then was associated with Johns Hopkins University from 1930, Rosenblatt taught Jewish literature until 1947, and thereafter Oriental languages. His writings include: High Ways to Perfection of Abraham Maimonides (2 vols., 1927–38); Interpretation of the Bible in the Mishnah (1935); a translation of Saadiah Gaon's Book of Beliefs and Opinions (1948); and Yossele Rosenblatt (1954), as well as volumes of sermons and occasional writings. His memoirs appeared as "The Days of My Years," published in weekly installments in Baltimore Jewish Times, 1974 onward, and he was also the author of a weekly column in Baltimore News-American (1960), and a contributor to Jewish Quarterly Review.