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Born March 29, 1819 • Czechoslovakia
Died March 26, 1900 (aged 80) • Cincinnati • Ohio
Founder Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion
Kaufmann Kohler
German-American rabbi and theologian
Wise, Stephen Samuel
Stephen Samuel Wise
American Zionist leader
Sally J. Priesand
American rabbi
Samuel Hirsch
American religious philosopher and rabbi
Charles Sumner Greene
American architect
Clark Howell
American journalist
Thaddeus Fairbanks
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Vitaly Komar
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Thomas Goddard
American cabinetmaker
Walter Knott
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Maria Jolas
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William F. Friedman
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Martie Maguire
American musician
John Money
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June Allyson
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Russell Louis Schweickart
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Ira Louvin
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Jim Bunning
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Mary Coyle Chase
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