THE JEWISH
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main fcutuns of which are contained in the followini; sketcli, ijoes back only to the begiuuiug of the eiglitcenlh century: Nathan Adler
KN( VCl.ol'EDIA
Adibe, Jacob Adler, Dankmar
adelphia High School, University of Pennsylvania (B.A.. ISHIJ; M.A.. 188fi), and .Johns Hopkins Univer.sity (Ph.D., 1887), He was fellow iu .Semitic lan-
guages
at
Johns Hopkins Uuiversity,
188.)-87,
was
appointed instructor iu Seuutic languages, 1887, and I
Adli-r became a.ssistant curator in the department of Oriental antiqinties in the United States National Museum, in Washington, in 1887, and custodian of the section of historic religious
Lelzer; d. 1746
Simeon
d.
associate. 1892.
Marcus
l~i)-'>
d. 1758
ceremonials
He Nathan Adler
David
the Iliuld d. 1«00
Tet)ele
Srhltr=dr.
= Baer;
dr.
d. 1767
d. 17iK,
chief rahb! of London
HIrseh
Marcus;
d. 1S:»4
Worms I
I
Baron Solomon Benedict
dr.
Worms
= Nathan
Marcus,
Gabriel.
rahbl of ( Iberdorf, teacher of Berthold .uer-
chief rahhl of Eukland ; d. 18«0 I
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Marcus, Hermann, Elkan chief
ralilil
of tiriilsh rinpire J.
ADLER,
ABRAHAM JACOB
("Koppel"):
in 1.S1H died at Worms Isaac Adler.associate rabbi Ralil)i Samuel Adler. He in studicrother of
inl8.")().
lie
afterward went to Franl;forl-on-the-Maiii, where he became teaclierat the Huchliolz School, and to GrossKanizsa, Iliiiifrary, iu l^'.i',>, where he was engafred as tutor in a jirivate family.
Worms
He was
elected rabl)i of
but gave up his rabbinical career the same year, and, assisted by his wife, founded
ill
in
ls-12,
a Jirivate school for young girls. At the rabbinical confluences at Fraid<i'ort-on-tlic-Main, in is-l.'), he distinguished himself as a great Talmudical scholar and radical reformer, si<ling with Iloldheini, (Jcigir, and Einhorn. and wrote "Die 77 Sogcnaimten Habl)iiicr tmd die Uabbincsvi-rsammlung," I'Mannhciiu, IS-i'i, a ]inni|ildet which created some stir. Iu 1S48 he established a jiolitical paper, and became a contribuIu the revolutor to Nowack's " Kirchiiizcitung." tionary movement of 1.H48 Adler espoused the cause of political freedom with all the ardor and elo(|Ucucc He did noteonuuit any of his enthusiastic nature. overt act which cotdd be justly brought up airaiust him, but after tlic scatli'ring of the revolutionary forces bv the Prussian arms he was seized iu his study by genilarmcs, on the eve of the Day of Atonement, and hurried away to the Iron Towit at Mayeucc. There he languished for many monllis, his wife lying at the sanw! time at the point of death. At last he was uctjuitted bv a jury, and was released from his pri.son,
Thr
|iositiou of rabbi at thi^
New York Tem
El was first olfcrcd to him iu ls,>t, but poor licallh |ircvciitcd him accepting the call, whidi his brother Samuel entered upon three years
pie
Emaini
liis
Hroken in heallb by the trials llunugli wlii(h had pn.ssed, hedied iu the winterof is.'id. Among hiaworksure: "(ieschichte der .ludeii in Eraidvfurtam-Main," and " Ueform des .ludenlhuins," written with the aid of his friend Wagner of JIaunheim, lS4ti. later,
lie
Seniion by L. U^wysohn (of Worms) and anether l>y Iir. Steln (<>f Kninkfort-on-tht^-Maln). iu Archirti limu'Htii, lK"i)i. j^
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ABLER, CYRUS:
I.ilirariau of llio Smithfionidcrof the American .lewish Historical Sociely. He was l)orn at Van Uureu. Arkansas, Sept. 18, iHO;i, ami was educnted at the Phil-
snniun Instilulion
.
months
as spe-
commissioner for the World's Columbian
E.xhibitiou at Chicago, at which the Orientjd exhibits were obtained mainly tli'rough his efforts; he also participated in the organization of the United States Government exhibits at the expositions at Ciucinnati. 18H8. at Cliicago, 1^98, and at Atlanta, 189,5; of the last named he, together with Dr. I. M. Casanowicz, published an illustrated catalogue in the " Heport of the Uuili'd Slates National Museum for 1890" (pp.
cial I
in ls8f(.
Weill to the Orient for fifteen
with 46 plates). Adler may justly be regarded as the originator of the American Jewish Historical Society, which was the outcome of an ap94:S-102;i,
peal issued by him early in 1892. After acting as its secretary from that date he became its president iu 1898, Of the many learned societies of which he is member be has acted as vice-iiresidcnt of the Anthropological Society of Washington, as member of council of the Philosophical Society of Washington, and as trustee of the American Jewish Publication Societj- and of Gratz College. In 1899 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. He has played an important part in the organization of the international catalogue of scientific literatiu'c. and represented the United States at the conrercuce on this suliject held in London in 189S. Besides the catalogue of Biblical antiquities at the Atlanta Exposition and otiicr pa|iers iu the reports and proceedings of the United .States National Museum and in the journals of the learned societies of which he is a member, Adler has published, with Allan Kamsiiy, "Told iu the Colfec House "(New York, 1898), a series of folk-talcs collected in Constantinople; and has edited the "American Jewish Year Book" since 1899. BiHi.iooK.vi'ilv U.S. Monils, The Jftfsnf Pliilaikhihia Prior
(o ;m«, rhlladelphla, lS,s;): AppMon'g Cliclnpalin Il'fio in Amcriva. s.v.; FifUl Yenrs' H'ork ufthc Kiluratioual Sm-ii-tii of l')tihnlclphiay p. 62.
ADLER, DANKMAR:
If/io's
Hebrew
German- American
j
ar-
and engineer; born in Stadt-Lengsfeld.Sa.xeWeimar- Eisenach, July 8,1844; died iu Chicago, Ajiril 1."), 191)11. He was a sou of Kabbi Eicbman and Sara Eliel Adler. who emigrated to .Vmerica in 18.54. Educated at the pulilic schools of Detroit and the University of Miihigan, he settled in Chicago in 18(il, at the beginning of the Civil War, and almost iiiichitect
mediately enlisted iu the artillery. Adler was president of the Western As.sociat ion of Architects, secretary of the American Institute of Architects, and president of the Illinois State Board of Examiners of Architects. He designed many important ])ublic buildings in Chicago, sucliaslhcsynagogucsof the Sinai, Zion, Anslie .Maarabh, ami Isaiah congregations, Grace Methodist Episc(vpal and Unity churches, McVickcr's Theater, the Central Music Hall,. Vudiloriuiu. and .Stock Exchange. Among those that he designed anil planned in St. Louis ari' the Wain Wright. Union Trust. and St. Nicholas buildings; in New Orleans, the Union Station; iu Pueblo, Col., the Opera House. In New York he wasassociate ar Ailler was trustee of chilect of Carnegie Music Hall. the United Hebrew Charities iu Chicago, and waa J. Sto. its secretary from 1873 to 1877.
