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	*[http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0802511.html Fact Monster Entry] for Cyrus Adler.		*[http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0802511.html Fact Monster Entry] for Cyrus Adler.

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'''Cyrus Adler''' (September 13, 1863 – April 7, 1940) was a [[United States of America|U.S.]] educator, [[Jewish]] religious leader and scholar.

Adler was born in [[Van Buren, Arkansas|Van Buren]], [[Arkansas]], a graduate of [[University of Pennsylvania]] in 1883 and gained a Ph.D. from [[Johns Hopkins University]] in 1887, where taught [[Semitic languages]] from 1884 to 1893. He was employed by the [[Smithsonian Institution]] for a number of years, with a focus on archaeology and Semitics, serving as the Librarian from 1892-1905. He was a founder of the [[Jewish Welfare Board]], and an editor of the ''[[Jewish Encyclopedia]]'', and part of the committee that translated the [[Jewish Publication Society]] version of the [[Hebrew Bible]] published in 1917. At the end of World War I, he participarted in the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919|Paris Peace Conference]] in 1919.

His many scholarly writings include articles on comparative religion, [[Assyriology]], and Semitic [[philology]].

He was president of the [[Center for Advanced Judaic Studies|Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning]] 1908 to 1940 and Chancellor of the [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]]. He was also a contributor to the ''[[New International Encyclopedia]]''. In addition, he was a founding member of the [[Oriental Club of Philadelphia]].

Adler was a bachelor much of his life, marrying Racie Friedenwald of Baltimore in 1905, when he was 42. They had one child, a daughter Sarah.

He died in [[Philadelphia]], and his papers are held by the [[Center for Advanced Judaic Studies]] at the University of Pennsylvania.

==References==
*Adler, Cyrus. ''I Have Considered the Days''. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1941.

*Neuman, Abraham A. C''yrus Adler: A Biographical Sketch.'' New York: The American Jewish Committee, 1942.

*{{JewishEncyclopedia|article=Adler, Cyrus|author=Joseph Jacobs|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=811&letter=A&search=Cyrus%20Adler}}

==External links==
*[http://www.jtsa.edu/library/archives/jtsarchives/adler_cyrus.html The Jewish Theological Seminary, New York] archival entry on Adler's papers.
*[http://www.cjh.org/academic/findingaids/AJHS/nhprc/CyrusAdlerf.html Center for Jewish History] Guide to the papers of Cyrus Adler (and biography).
*[http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0802511.html Fact Monster Entry] for Cyrus Adler.

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