A Treatise On Syriac Grammar - Primary Source Edition
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A TREATISE ON SYRIAC GRAMMAR
RICHARD J. H. GOTTHEIL
(Published in 1914, this is an essay on the prominent Jewi...)
Published in 1914, this is an essay on the prominent Jewish movement. Includes the colonization of Palestine, Zionistic theory, the Jewish Congress and more.
A Selection From the Syriac Julian Romance: Issue 7 Of Semitic Study Series
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Richard James Horatio Gottheil was an American Semitic scholar, Zionist, and founding father of Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity.
Background
Gottheil was born on October 13, 1862 in Manchester, England, the third son and fourth of five children of Rabbi Gustav Gottheil and Rosalie (Wollman) Gottheil. The family moved to the United States in 1873 when the elder Gottheil accepted a call to Temple Emanu-El in New York City.
Education
Young Richard attended the Columbia Grammar School and Columbia College, from which he was graduated in 1881. He continued his studies abroad at the universities of Berlin, Tübingen, and Leipzig, earning his Ph. D. summa cum laude at the last-named institution in 1886. He subsequently received honorary degrees from Columbia (1929) and the Jewish Institute of Religion (1932).
Career
In the fall of 1886 Gottheil was appointed lecturer in the Syriac language and literature at Columbia College. A year later he became professor of rabbinical literature, a chair established especially for him through the efforts of his father and the congregation of Emanu-El. He continued his language teaching, however, and in 1892 his designation was changed to professor of rabbinical literature and Semitic languages, a post that he occupied until his death. The roster of his students includes many of the eminent orientalists of the time, among them Christians, Moslems, and Jews. Their works are recorded in the twenty-eight volumes of the Columbia University Oriental Series (1901-1928). Gottheil had wide literary and Jewish communal interests. In 1896 he was appointed chief of the Oriental Division of the New York Public Library, remaining in this position until his death. In collaboration with Prof. John D. Prince of Columbia he edited the series of Contributions to Oriental History and Philology (1908-1927). He wrote extensively on Arabic culture, on Persian literature, and on Turkey, Armenia, Ethiopia, and other lands. He was a strong champion of the Allied cause during World War I, being made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1919. In 1921 he served as exchange professor at the University of Strasbourg. He was a contributor to the Jewish Encyclopedia and wrote extensively on Jewish biography, his works including The Belmont-Belmonte Family: A Record of 400 Years (1917) and a life of his father (1936). He was one of the founders and leaders of the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City. His works on the Genizah (some of them written in collaboration with Prof. William H. Worrell) were monumental in scope. He was a leader of the American Jewish Historical Society and was known as the founder of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, which established the Gottheil Medal in his honor as an annual award. Gottheil was one of the pioneers of American Zionism. He attended the Basel Zionist Congress in 1897 and subsequent meetings and was a founder and first president of the Federation of American Zionists, occupying this position from 1898 to 1904. His history of the movement - Zionism (1914) - is regarded as a classic. He visited Palestine several times, having charge from 1909 to 1910 of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem. He was a close friend of Justice Louis D. Brandeis and, with him and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise (one of Gottheil's pupils), shared in the events leading up to the issuance of the Balfour Declaration in 1917. Gottheil's friendship with French and British diplomats played an important part in creating a favorable opinion towards Zionism in governmental circles. The Gottheil home was a veritable salon where leaders in the academic world, in the Zionist movement, and in the Jewish and non-Jewish community foregathered, particularly on Sabbath afternoons. He died at his home in New York City on May 22, 1936, from complications arising out of erysipelas and was buried at Salem Fields Cemetery, New York.
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Membership
President of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis (1903); president of the Federation of American Zionists (1898-1904); president of the American Oriental Society (1933-1934)
Connections
His wife, the former Emma R. Leon, was also a distinguished leader of the Zionist movement. Gottheil had no children.