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    Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning or Dropsie University was a Jewish institution of higher learning in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was...
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  • William Chomsky (category Dropsie College faculty)
    teacher-training institution Gratz College, becoming faculty president in 1932. In 1955, he also began teaching courses at Dropsie College, with which he was affiliated...
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    Benzion Netanyahu (category Dropsie College alumni)
    States during World War II. At the same time, he pursued his PhD at Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning in Philadelphia (now the Center for...
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  • Samuel Noah Kramer (category Dropsie College alumni)
    Sumerian language. After high school, he attended Temple University, before Dropsie University and the University of Pennsylvania, all in Philadelphia. Among...
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  • Seminary (1857–1970) – Baptist seminary in Upland (Delaware County) Dropsie College (1907–1986) – graduate school of Jewish studies; merged with the University...
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    Theodor Gaster (category Dropsie College faculty)
    religion and director of ancient Near Eastern studies at Dropsie College, by then renamed Dropsie University. Upon his retirement from Barnard, he was once...
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    devoted to advanced research: Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning and the Annenberg Research Institute. Dropsie College was the first accredited...
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    Bernard Revel (category Dropsie College alumni)
    not his calling. In 1911, he earned a doctorate of philosophy from Dropsie College, the first graduate of that school; his thesis was entitled "The Karaite...
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    The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate learning. Addresses: The Honorable Herbert H. Lehman, Professor Abraham Fraenkel. Philadelphia: Dropsie College...
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  • continued his studies under Max Margolis and earned his Ph.D. from Dropsie College in Philadelphia in 1924. From 1924 to 1926, Speiser was a Harrison...
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