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The second President of JTS (1902 to 1915) and founder and President of the United Synagogue of America. Under his leadership the Seminary obtained a distinguished faculty, and a dynamic momentum. His greatest academic fame came from his study of the Cairo genizah, an extraordinary archive of ancient Jewish texts that were preserved in an Egyptian synagogue. The find revolutionized the study of Medieval Judaism. See the following web site for more info:
http://learn.jtsa.edu/topics/reading/bookexc/gillman_conservativej/chap3/part7.shtml