Boaz Cohen
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Boaz Cohen | |
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| Personal life | |
| Born | February 26, 1899 |
| Died | December 11, 1968 (aged 69) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Judaism |
Boaz Cohen (1899–1968) was a leading American scholar of Talmud, a legal decisor (posek), and a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
Biography
[edit]Cohen was born and educated in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He was ordained as a rabbi at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) in 1924. Following his ordination, he was appointed Assistant Librarian of JTS. In 1925, he was appointed an instructor of Talmud, and went on to serve on the JTS faculty for four decades. In 1927, he received his Ph.D. from Columbia University.[1] During his career he published extensively on the Talmud and Jewish law, while also authoring many comparative studies between Jewish law and other legal systems. Many of those studies were published in a collection titled Jewish and Roman Law (New York, 1966).
Cohen also served as chair of the Committee on Jewish Law of the Rabbinical Assembly, and he issued thousands of legal rulings.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Boaz Cohen (1899-1968)," by Elias J. Bickerman and Edward M. Gershfield, Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, Vol. 37, (1969), pp. xxix
- ^ "Boaz Cohen (1899-1968)," by Elias J. Bickerman and Edward M. Gershfield, Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, Vol. 37, (1969), pp. xxxi
External links
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Works by or about Boaz Cohen at Wikisource
- 1899 births
- 1968 deaths
- American Conservative rabbis
- Jewish Theological Seminary of America semikhah recipients
- Jewish Theological Seminary of America faculty
- Jewish American historians
- Talmudists
- American religion academics
- People from Bridgeport, Connecticut
- Columbia University alumni
- 20th-century American rabbis