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Harry Austryn Wolfson (November 2, 1887 – September 19, 1974) was an American scholar, philosopher, and historian at Harvard University, and the first chairman of a Judaic Studies Center in the United States. He is known for his seminal work on the Jewish philosopher Philo, but he also authored an astonishing variety of other works on Crescas, Maimonides, Averroes, Spinoza, the Kalam, the Church Fathers, and the foundations of Western religion. He collapsed the artificial barriers that isolated the study of Christian philosophy from Islamic philosophy and from Jewish philosophy (Twersky 1975). Being the first Judaica scholar to progress through an entire career at a top-tier university (Mendes-Flohr 1998), in Wolfson is also represented the fulfillment of the goals of the 19th-century Wissenschaft des Judentums movement.

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Harry Austryn Wolfson

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Harry Austryn Wolfson (November 2, 1887 – September 19, 1974) was an American scholar, philosopher, and historian at Harvard University, and the first...

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Wolfson

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Jersey Harry Austryn Wolfson, (1887–1974), professor of literature and philosophy at Harvard Ilia Volfson (born 1981), Russian politician Isaac Wolfson, (1897–1991)...

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Creatio ex nihilo

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pre-existent matter alongside God. But other major scholars such as Harry Austryn Wolfson see that interpretation of Philo's ideas differently and argue that...

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Or Adonai

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God directly. A partial translation of Crescas was produced by Harry Austryn Wolfson of Harvard University in 1929. In the early medieval era there had...

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Isadore Twersky

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and Philosophy at Harvard University, a chair previously held by Harry Austryn Wolfson. Twersky was an internationally recognized authority on Rabbinic...

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Gemara

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translation "Mevo ha-Talmud", Samuel ha-Nagid "Talmudic Method", Harry Austryn Wolfson The Essential Talmud: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition, Adin Steinsaltz...

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September 1974

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Major League Baseball catcher and manager, died of a heart attack. Harry Austryn Wolfson, 86, Russian Empire-born American scholar, philosopher and historian...

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The Jewish Encyclopedia

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W. (1965). "A Bibliographical Essay". In Lieberman, S. (ed.). Harry Austryn Wolfson Jubilee Volume. Jerusalem: American Academy for Jewish Research...

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Jacob Neusner

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West Hartford. He then attended Harvard University, where he met Harry Austryn Wolfson and first encountered Jewish religious texts. After graduating from...

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Leo Strauss

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Chicago P, 1963. [1965] "On the Plan of the Guide of the Perplexed" . Harry Austryn Wolfson Jubilee. Volume (Jerusalem: American Academy for Jewish Research)...

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Modern Jewish historiography

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Zacuto: Historiographer". American Academy for Jewish Research. Harry Austryn Wolfson Jubilee Volume on the Occasion of His Seventy-Fifth Birthday, ed...

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Jewish studies

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focusing on Judaic studies are available in various departments. See Harry Austryn Wolfson for history. HUC-JIR's Pines School of Graduate Studies features...

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George David Birkhoff

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abuses in his native China. Feuer, Lewis (1976). "Recollections of Harry Austryn Wolfson" (PDF). American Jewish Archives. 28 (1): 25–50. Mac Lane, Saunders...

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Jewish Book Council

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Foundations of Religious Philosophy in Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Harry Austryn Wolfson. Among the past notable literary winners are Deborah Lipstadt, Etgar...

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Fred Sommers

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professor in 1966. From 1965 until his retirement, he held the Harry Austryn Wolfson Chair of Philosophy; from 1993 until his death he was Professor...

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Wissenschaft des Judentums

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departments at American universities such as Brandeis and Harvard (e.g., Harry Austryn Wolfson). The Wissenschaft movement drew criticism from traditional elements...

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Hasdai Crescas

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University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-973004-9. Retrieved 31 May 2015. p. 194 Harry Austryn Wolfson, Crescas' Critique of Aristotle. Cambridge, Harvard University Press...

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Jay Harris

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1990), Welsh professional boxer Jay M. Harris, American scholar and Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard University. Jay T. Harris...

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List of Harvard University people

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Wilson (1931–2012) Professor 1961–87 Professor of public policy Harry Austryn Wolfson (1887–1974) PhD; professor Philosopher Richard Wilson (1926–2018)...

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National Book Award for Nonfiction

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Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-Tung's Thought Maoism Finalist Harry Austryn Wolfson Studies in the History of Philosophy and Religion, Vol. 1 Finalist...

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Samuel Belkin

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in 1919. He emigrated to the United States in 1929, studied with Harry Austryn Wolfson at Harvard and received his doctorate (concerned with the writings...

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Jewish Kalam

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by earlier Karaite Jews but not by the Geonim or later Karaites. Harry Austryn Wolfson, in his study on the Jewish Kalam, considers it doubtful whether...

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Astryna

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cemetery were exhumed during the recent construction of a gas pipe. Harry Austryn Wolfson (1887-1974), historian and professor at Harvard University. "Численность...

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Ralph Marcus

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to his studies at Columbia, Marcus also worked and studied with Harry Austryn Wolfson at Harvard from 1925–1927, one of the premier scholars of Hellenic...

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