Background
Lazaroff, Allan was born on September 19, 1937 in St. Louis. Son of Abraham and Rose (Sigal) Lazaroff.
(BIBAGO, ABRAHAM BEN SHEM TOV (15th century), Spanish scho...)
BIBAGO, ABRAHAM BEN SHEM TOV (15th century), Spanish scholar, religious philosopher, commentator on Aristotelian works, and preacher. His name is also spelled Bivach. Bibago was born in the province of Aragon. He first resided in Huesca, where, in his youth, he completed a commentary on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, and where there is reference to his having a wife and children (1446). Bibago seems to have been forced out of his community; in his own words, "for they suspected me for my studying the books of the Greeks ... and I was wandering and alone, away from my land and the place of my desire, exiled among the nations." Bibago presumably outgrew or overcame his reputation as a radical. In 1465 he participated in the conversion of a Maranno in Huesca. He later settled in Saragossa, where he was head of the yeshivah (c. 1470), and preached publicly on Sabbaths and festivals. He engaged in numerous disputations with Christian scholars at the court of Juan II, king of Aragon, on the Trinity and other Christian tenets, and for this reason kept abreast of Christian theology and scholastic philosophy. He died before the Inquisition's trial and execution in 1489 of the participants in the Huesca conversion years before, including Bibago's brother Isaac, a physician.
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Lazaroff, Allan was born on September 19, 1937 in St. Louis. Son of Abraham and Rose (Sigal) Lazaroff.
AB with honors, Harvard University, 1959. Rabbi, MHL, Jewish Theological Seminary, 1964. Master of Arts in Philosophy, Columbia University, 1967.
Doctor of Philosophy in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University, 1973.
Assistant rabbi for holidays and summers Congregation Kehillath Israel, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1967-1972. Chaplain Thomas Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, 1973-1974. Rabbi Congregation Bnai Moshe, Brighton, Massachusetts, 1975-1984, Congregation Mikveh Israel, Philadelphia, 1989-1990, Kew Gardens Anshe Sholom Jewish Center, Kew Gardens, New York, since 1991.
Lecturer Jewish philosophy Hebrew College, Brookline, 1969-1970. Assistant professor religion Temple University, Philadelphia, 1971-1974. Associate professor Boston University, 1974-1982.
Research fellow Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University, 1982-1983, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1970-1971, 79-80. Senior research fellow Center for Dewey Studies, 1983-1984. Research associate, teacher philosophy and Near Eastern studies departments University Toronto, 1984-1989.
Teacher New School for Social Research, 1992-1993. Adjunct associate professor philosophy Hunter College, since 1994. Lecturer in field.
(BIBAGO, ABRAHAM BEN SHEM TOV (15th century), Spanish scho...)
Board directors Southwest Queens Interfaith Council, since 1991, Brookline-Brighton-Newton Jewish Community Center, 1976-1984. Member rabbinic board Queens Community Council, 1991-1992. Board directors, member executive committee National Museum American Jewish History, Philadelphia, 1989-1990.
Member board overseers Gratz College, Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, 1989-1990. Member Union for Traditional Judaism, Rabbinical Assembly, New York Board Rabbis, Association for Jewish Studies, American Academy Religion, World Uion of Jewish Studies.
Married Elona Meiselman, August 22, 1961. Children: Tovah Rochelle, Michael Samuel.