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Portrait of Nelson Glueck Bernard Safran (New York 1924–1995 New Brunswick, Canada)Oil on board, 1963Cincinnati Skirball Museum    Time Magazine CoverDecember 13, 1963Vol. 82 No. 24    Nelson Glueck (1900–1971), president of Hebrew Union College for thirty-four years, was best known for his work in biblical archeology. Many artifacts that were found under his direction [...]

Nelson Glueck Joseph Margulies (Vienna, Austria 1896–1984 New York) Oil on canvas, 1957 Cincinnati Skirball Museum    Nelson Glueck (1900–1971) was born to a struggling Lithuanian immigrant Jewish family in Cincinnati. He was ordained a rabbi at Hebrew Union College in 1923. Supported by HUC, he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Jena, Germany [...]

David Philipson Jacob H. Perskie (Russia 1865–1941 New Jersey) Oil on canvas, ca. 1938 Cincinnati Skirball Museum   The son of German Jewish immigrants, David Philipson (1862–1949), American Reform rabbi, orator, and author, was born in Wabash, Indiana. During his early childhood the family moved to Columbus, Ohio. In March of 1875 Rabbi Isaac M. [...]

Professor Louis Rothenberg (1845–1915) Artist unknown Oil on canvas, ca. 1913  Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of Jo Anne Travis    Professor Rothenberg was born at Arholzen, Hanover, Germany in 1845 and came to Cincinnati in 1869. Soon after, he was appointed German instructor at the Fifteenth District School. He taught there until 1883, when he [...]

Adolph Oko Sir Jacob Epstein (New York 1880–1959 London) Bronze, 1923 Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of the W. Gunther Plaut Family    Adolph S. Oko (1883–1944), librarian, scholar, and philanthropist, was born near Kharkov, Russia. Educated in Germany, Oko came to the United States in 1902. After working in the Astor Library in New York [...]