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Millgram, Abraham Ezra, 1901-1998 (Personal Name)

Preferred form: Millgram, Abraham Ezra, 1901-1998
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  • Millgram, Abraham E. (Abraham Ezra), 1901-1998

Concepts that distinguish Judaism, 1985: CIP t.p. (Abraham Ezra Millgram)

LC data base, 7-31-85 (hdg.: Millgram, Abraham Ezra, 1901- )

His Jerusalem curiosities, 1990: CIP t.p. (Abraham E. Millgram)

MyJewishLearning.com website, March 11, 2015 (Rabbi Abraham Ezra Millgram (1900-1998) served as a congregational rabbi, a Hillel director, and from 1945 to 1961, Educational Director of the Commission on Jewish Education of the United Synagogue of America. During several decades of active retirement in Jerusalem, he published a number of books, including Jerusalem Curiosities (Jewish Publication Society) and A Short History of Jerusalem (Jason Aronson)) http://www.myjewishlearning.com/ix_author.php?aid=46114

New York times, February 3, 1998, viewed online March 11, 2015 (MILLGRAM-Rabbi Abraham Ezra. We record with sorrow the passing of our beloved colleague, age 96. Ordained in 1927, he served congregations in Wilmington, DE., and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and then as Hillel Director at the University of Minnesota. In 1945, Rabbi Millgram became Educational Director of United Synagogue, a position from which he retired in 1961 and made aliyah to Israel. He is the author of ''Jewish Worship,'' ''An Anthology of Medieval Hebrew Literature'' and ''Sabbath, The Day of Delight''.) http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/03/classified/paid-notice-deaths-millgram-rabbi-abraham-ezra.html

Conservative Judaism in America, 1988: pages 188-190 (Millgram, Abraham Ezra (1901- ). Rabbi, educator. Born February 1, 1901, in Russia; immigrated to United States in 1913; B.S. from City College of New York, 1924; ordained at the Seminary in 1927; Ph.D. from Dropsie College, 1944; first served as rabbi at Temple Beth Shalom, Wilmington, Delaware (1927-30); next served as rabbi at Beth Israel, Philadelphia (1930-40); there, he edited the Beth Israel hymnal (1937); Hillel Foundation of the University of Minnesota (1940-45); greatest contribution to Conservatism was as an educator; first educational director of the United Synagogue's Commission on Jewish Education (1945-61); retired in 1961; following retirement taught as assistant professor at the Teachers Institute (1960-63) and was vice-president of the National Council for Jewish Education; organized and was president of the League for Labor Zionism, chaired the Philadelphia-New York Region of the Poalei Zion (1946-47), chaired the Histadrut Campaign in the Twin Cities (1941-45) and settled in Jerusalem in 1963; Jewish Worship (1971), his most important work)

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