Background
Mr. Marcus was born on March 5, 1896, in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, United States. He was a son of Aaron and Jennie (Rader) Marcus.
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Ninety-one letters, ethical wills, bar mitzvah speeches, and other personal records are presented in chronological order following an interpretive essay on the ethical aspirations of American Jewry.
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Mr. Marcus was born on March 5, 1896, in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, United States. He was a son of Aaron and Jennie (Rader) Marcus.
Jacob Marcus became interested in Reform Judaism at the age of 15. At that time, he travelled to Hebrew Union College (HUC), in Cincinnati, Ohio, to begin his rabbinical training. After a two-year interim during World War I, when he served in the American military, Marcus returned to graduate studies in Cincinnati. Mr. Marcus received a Doctor of Philosophy in 1925, while in Berlin. He briefly studied at Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1926.
Mr. Marcus was a professor of Jewish history at Hebrew Union College beginning in 1920. He was ordained a rabbi in the same year. In the late 1940s he taught one of the first courses in American Jewish history; he gained a reputation as an expert in the field. Instrumental in creating a comprehensive collection of Jewish American historical documents, pictures, and genealogies of Jewish life, Mr. Marcus was founder and director of the American Jewish Archives from 1947 until his death.
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1990Born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, United States into a traditional Jewish family and raised in Homestead, Pennsylvania, Mr. Marcus became interested in Reform Judaism at the age of 15.
Jacob Rader Marcus married Antoinette Brody. The couple had one daughter, Merle Judith.