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1. MyJewishLearning.com - History & Community: The Nonsectarian Jewish University
tci.myjewishlearning.com/histo - [Cached]Published on: 2/10/2008 Last Visited: 2/10/2008
Its distinguished faculty included Nahum Glatzer and Alexander Altmann, two of the world's leading authorities on Jewish philosophy.
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Altmann had been a rabbi in Berlin and a lecturer in the city's Orthodox rabbinical seminary before he fled Germany in 1938.In the 1950s, when Glatzer and Altmann joined the Brandeis faculty, the university was less than 10 years old. -
2. MyJewishLearning.com - History & Community: The Nonsectarian Jewish University
hadassah.myjewishlearning.com/ - [Cached]Published on: 2/10/2008 Last Visited: 2/10/2008
Its distinguished faculty included Nahum Glatzer and Alexander Altmann, two of the world's leading authorities on Jewish philosophy.
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Altmann had been a rabbi in Berlin and a lecturer in the city's Orthodox rabbinical seminary before he fled Germany in 1938.In the 1950s, when Glatzer and Altmann joined the Brandeis faculty, the university was less than 10 years old. -
3. Altmann
www.littman.co.uk/cat/altmann. - [Cached]Published on: 5/24/2006 Last Visited: 5/20/2008
Alexander Altmann
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Alexander Altmann (1906-87) was born in Hungary and educated at the Rabbinical Seminary, Berlin, and at the University of Berlin.In 1938 he left Germany for Manchester, England, where he was appointed communal rabbi.While in Manchester he founded the Institute of Jewish Studies that later moved to University College, London.In 1959 he was appointed Professor of Jewish Philosophy at Brandeis University, Massachusetts, and Director of its Lown Institute of Advanced Judaic Studies.
A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, his numerous publications in English, Hebrew, and German range over such diverse fields as classical rabbinic literature, medieval Judaeo-Arabic philosophy, Jewish mysticism, eighteenth-century Enlightenment, and modern Jewish thought.
