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    Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning or Dropsie University, at 2321–2335 N Broad St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was America's first degree-granting...
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  • Dropsie Avenue is a 1995 graphic novel by American cartoonist Will Eisner. After A Contract with God (1978) and A Life Force (1988), it is the third volume...
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  • William Chomsky (category Dropsie College faculty)
    faculty president in 1932. In 1955, he also began teaching courses at Dropsie College, to which he was affiliated until 1977. He was the father of Noam...
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    Benzion Netanyahu (category Dropsie College alumni)
    United States during World War II. At the same time, he pursued his PhD at Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning in Philadelphia (now the Center...
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    Esther in the Light of History". The Jewish Quarterly Review. 9 (1/2). Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, Oxford University: 1–41. doi:10...
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    Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, while father Benzion Netanyahu taught at Dropsie College. Benjamin attended and graduated from Cheltenham High School and...
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  • Theological Seminary (1857–1970) – Baptist seminary in Upland (Delaware County) Dropsie College (1907–1986) – graduate school of Jewish studies; merged with the...
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  • He continued his studies under Max Margolis and earned his Ph.D. from Dropsie College in Philadelphia in 1924. From 1924 to 1926, Speiser was a Harrison...
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    devoted to advanced research: Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning and the Annenberg Research Institute. Dropsie College was the first accredited...
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    citing Solomon Zeitlin, The Jews. Race, Nation, or Religion? (Philadelphia: Dropsie College Press, 1936). Whiteford, Linda M.; Trotter II, Robert T. (2008)...
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    Theodor Gaster (category Dropsie College faculty)
    religion and director of ancient Near Eastern studies at Dropsie College, by then renamed Dropsie University. Upon his retirement from Barnard, he was once...
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  • Samuel Noah Kramer (category Dropsie College alumni)
    Sumerian language. After high school, he attended Temple University, before Dropsie University and the University of Pennsylvania, all in Philadelphia. Among...
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    Solomon Zeitlin, The Jews. Race, Nation, or Religion? ( Philadelphia: Dropsie College Press, 1936). Pluralism Project, Harvard University (2015). Judaism...
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    Solomon Zeitlin, The Jews. Race, Nation, or Religion? ( Philadelphia: Dropsie College Press, 1936). Kuroda, Toshio and Jacqueline I. Stone, translator...
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    Hoschander, Jacob (1923). The Book of Esther in the Light of History. Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning. Retrieved 27 February 2021. David...
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    " Solomon Zeitlin, The Jews. Race, Nation, or Religion? (Philadelphia: Dropsie College Press, 1936). Cited in, Edelheit and Edelheit, History of Zionism:...
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    Yeruham the Karaite on the Book of Psalms, Chapters 42-72 (in Hebrew). Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning. Bassor, Yaphet ben Heli (1846)...
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    Kiron, Arthur (2000). The Professionalization of Wisdom: The Legacy of Dropsie College and Its Library, in Michael Ryan and Dennis Hyde, eds., The Penn...
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    — claimed that Turkish people "are not troubled with the Stone, Gout, Dropsie, or Scurvey" and "their skins are exceedingly cleer and white". Despite...
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  • Sarna emigrated to the United States in 1951, and received his Ph.D. from Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning in 1955. He studied at various...
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    degree from the University of Berlin in 1923 and in 1926 his Doctorate from Dropsie College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served in the British army in...
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  • the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the Hebrew Union College, Dropsie College and the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Originally,...
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    scholarship". Jewish Quarterly Review. Monograph series (3). Philadelphia: Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning. Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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    The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate learning. Addresses: The Honorable Herbert H. Lehman, Professor Abraham Fraenkel. Philadelphia: Dropsie College...
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    Falling-sickness, Palsey, Convulsion, Shrinking of the Sinews, Gout, Dropsie, Frensie, Cough, Cold, Shortness of Breath, Agues of all sorts, Sore Eyes...
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    communities, particularly Jews, including The Building, A Life Force, Dropsie Avenue and To the Heart of the Storm. He continued producing new books...
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  • Harry Orlinsky (category Dropsie College alumni)
    Meek’s mentorship, Orlinsky went on to earn his PhD at Philadelphia’s Dropsie College for his work on the translation of the Septuagint, the Jewish Greek...
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  • literature. In 1949, he received the Doctor of Philosophy degree from Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning in Philadelphia. In addition, he...
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  • Abraham A. Neuman (category Dropsie College faculty)
    Institute at the Seminary in 1912, and in 1913 he joined the faculty of Dropsie College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He became an associate professor...
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  • Moses Aaron Dropsie. The largest sum ever made available for the promotion of Semitic investigation is that bequeathed in 1905 by Moses A. Dropsie of Philadelphia...
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