Pinkhos Churgin | |
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 Pinkhos Churgin | |
| Born | 1894 Pohost, Belorussia |
| Died | 1957 |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Other names | פנחס חורגין |
| Known for | First President of Bar-Ilan University |
Pinkhos Churgin (Hebrew: פנחס חורגין; 1894–1957) was an Israeli scholar who was the first President of Bar-Ilan University.
Churgin was born in Pohost, Belorussia, a shtetl near Pinsk. [1] [2] In 1907 he and his parents immigrated to Palestine, and settled in Jerusalem. [1] In 1910 he went to study at the Volozhin Yeshiva. [1] Churgin returned to Palestine in 1912. [1] In 1915 he went to the United States and taught Hebrew. [1] He studied as an undergraduate at Clark College, and then at Yale University, earning a Ph.D. in the field of Semitics, as a student of the famous researcher Charles C. Torrey. His dissertation, "Targum Jonathan to the Prophets", was published by Yale in 1927 and has since become a classic. It was twice reprinted in the 1980s. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
He was instrumental in the development of Yeshiva University in New York City. [1] In 1920 he began teaching at their Teachers' Institute. [1] [8] He was appointed dean of the Institute in 1924. [1] [4] [9] [10] In 1949 Churgin was named president of the Mizrachi Organization of America. [1] He moved to Israel in 1955 to serve as the first President of Bar-Ilan University. [1] [4] [11] [12] He was succeeded as president in 1957 by Joseph H. Lookstein. [13]
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