Isaac Rabinowitz papers

Professor of Near Eastern Studies. Isaac Rabinowitz joined the Cornell faculty in 1957 and retired as Professor of Biblical and Hebrew Studies in 1975. He served as chairman of the Department of Semitic Languages and Literatures, now the Department of Near Eastern Studies, when it was re-established in 1966. Among his major scholarly contributions was the first translation and critical evaluation in modern language of a 15th century Hebrew treatise on the art of Classical rhetoric and its use in interpreting the Hebrew Bible. He was born in Brooklyn, graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1932. He directed B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations at the University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brooklyn College and served as executive director of the East New York Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Associations in Brooklyn from 1946 to 1955. He came to Cornell from Wayne State University in Detroit where he directed the Program of Hebrew Studies. Isaac Rabinowtiz died on September 11, 1988.