Alexander Marx

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Alexander Marx
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1 photograph : black-and-white
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Historian and bibliographer Alexander Marx seated at a desk and perusing a bound Hebrew manuscript at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
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Marx, Alexander, 1878-1953
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Jewish Theological Seminary of America; Portraits, Men; College teachers; Historians; Librarians
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Leo Hoffmann Family Collection, AR 4705
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The historian and librarian Alexander Marx (1878–1953) was born in Elberfeld, Germany. He grew up in Königsberg, East Prussia (Kaliningrad, Russia) and studied in Berlin at the university and at the Rabbiner-Seminar. He married Hannah Hoffmann, the daughter of Rabbi David Hoffmann, Rector of the seminary. Upon the invitation of Solomon Schechter, Marx taught history at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York and worked there as its librarian.

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Alexander Marx, Leo Baeck Institute, F 87973.

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