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LITERARY DIRECTORATE


EDITORIAL BOARD

CYRUS ADLER, Ph.D.

(Departments of Post-Biblical Antiquities; the Jews of American.)

President of the American Jewish Historical Society; Librarian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.


GOTTHARD DEUTSCH, Ph.D.

(Department of History from 1492 to 1901.)

Professor of Jewish History, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio; Editor of "Deborah."


LOUIS GINZBERG, Ph.D.

(Department of Rabbinical Literature.)

New York; Author of "Die Haggada bei den Kirchenvätern."


RICHARD GOTTHEIL, Ph.D.

(Departments of History from Ezra to 1492; History of Post-Talmudic Literature.)

Professor of Semitic Languages, Columbia University, New York; Chief of the Oriental Department, New York Public Library; President of the Federation of American Zionists.


JOSEPH JACOBS, B.A.

(Departments of the Jews of England and Anthropology; Revising Editor.)

Formerly President of the Jewish Historical Society of England; Author of "Jews of Angevin England," etc.


MARCUS JASTROW, Ph.D.

(Department of the Talmud)

Rabbit Emeritus of the Congregation Rodef Shalom, Philadelphia, Pa.; Author of "Dictionary of the Talmud."


MORRIS JASTROW, Jr., Ph.D.

(Department of the Bible.)

Professor of Semitic Languages and Librarian in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.: Author of "Religion of the Babylonians and Assyrians," etc.


KAUFMANN KOHLER, Ph.D.

(Departments of Theology and Philosophy)

Rabbit of Temple Beth-El, New York; President of the Board of Jewish Ministers, New York.


FREDERICK DE SOLA MENDES, Ph.D.

(Chief of the Bureau of Translation; Revising Editor.)

Rabbi of the West End Synagogue, New York; Vice-President of Board of Jewish Ministers, New York.


ISIDORE SINGER, Ph.D.

Managing Editor.

(Department of Modern Biography from 1750 to 1901.)


CRAWFORD HOWELL TOY, D.D., LL.D.

(Departments of Hebrew Philology and Hellenistic Literature.)

Professor of Hebrew in Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; Author of "The Religion of Israel," "Judaism and Christianity," etc.


I. K. FUNK, D.D., LL.D.

(Chairman of the Board.)

Editor-in-Chief of the Standard Dictionary of the English Language, etc.


FRANK H. VIZETELLY.

(Secretary of the Board.)

Associate Editor of "The Columbian Encyclopedia," and on the Standard Dictionary Editorial Staff, etc.


AMERICAN BOARD OF CONSULTING EDITORS


BERNARD DRACHMAN, Ph.D,

Rabbi of the Congregation Zichron Ephraim, Dean of the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York.


B. FELSENTHAL, Ph.D.,

Rabbi Emeritus of Zion Congregation, Chicago; Author of "A Practical Grammar of the Hebrew Language."


GUSTAV GOTTHEIL, Ph.D

Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Emanu-El, New York.


EMIL G. HIRSCH, Ph.D., LL.D.,

Rabbi of Chicago Sinai Congregation, Chicago, Ill.; Professor of Rabbinical Literature and Philosophy, University of Chicago; Editor of the "Reform Advocate."


HENRY HYVERNAT, D.D.,

Head of the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Literatures, Catholic University of America, Washington D. C.


J. FREDERIC McCURDY Ph.D., LL.D.,

Professor of Oriental Languages, University College, Toronto, Canada; Author of "History, Prophecy, and the Monuments."


H. PEREIRA MENDES, M.D.

Rabbi of the Shearith Israel Congregation (Spanish and Portuguese), New York; President of the Advisory Board of Ministers of the Jewish Theological Seminary.


MOSES MIELZINER, Ph.D., D.D.,

Professor of Talmudic Literature, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio; Author of "Introduction to the Talmud."


GEORGE F. MOORE, M.A., D.D.,

Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature and President of Andover Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass.; Author of a Commentary on the Book of Judges, etc.


DAVID PHILIPSON, D.D.,

Rabbi of the Congregation Bene Israel; Professor of Homiletics, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio; President of Hebrew Sabbath School Union of America.


IRA MAURICE PRICE, B.D., Ph.D.,

Professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, Ill.; Author of "The Monuments and the Old Testament," etc.