SCHECHTER, ABRAHAM ISRAEL
- SCHECHTER, ABRAHAM ISRAEL
- SCHECHTER, ABRAHAM ISRAEL (1894–1936), rabbi and scholar.
Schechter, who was born in Vizhnitsa, Bukovina, worked as a librarian in
Switzerland, and then emigrated to the U.S. in 1922. From 1924 he taught
at the Hebrew Theological College, Chicago, and later served as rabbi in
Houston, Texas, and Providence, Rhode Island.
Among his published works are Palaestina, seine Geschichte und
Kultur (1905, which had to be withdrawn after a court order for
plagiarism); Studies in Jewish Liturgy, on the Ḥibbur
Berakhot by Menahem b. Solomon (1930) which drew criticism from I.
Davidson (JQR, 21, 1930–31), 241–79; Schechter's
rejoinder, in: JQR, 22 (1931–32), 147–52); and
Lectures on Jewish Liturgy (1933). Schechter's collection of
Hebraica and Judaica was given to Texas University Library.
His wife EVA wrote Symbols and Ceremonies of the
Jewish Home (1930).
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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