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Judah Leon Magnes

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American rabbi (1877-1948)

United StatesLived 1877 to 1948 · aged 71
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Judah Leon Magnes was a prominent Reform rabbi in both the United States of America and Mandatory Palestine.

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Coverage in The New York Times of Rabbi Magnes' speech to the Federation of American Zionists at Cooper Union inviting Jews to settle in Palestine, May 19, 1912.[17]Coverage in The New York Times of Rabbi Magnes' speech to the Federation of American Zionists at Cooper Union inviting Jews to settle in Palestine, May 19, 1912.[17]Magnes and his family in the 1930sMagnes and his family in the 1930sMartin Buber (left) and Judah Leon Magnes testifying before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry in Jerusalem (1946)Martin Buber (left) and Judah Leon Magnes testifying before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry in Jerusalem (1946)

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1947honorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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About this person

Judah Leon Magnes was a prominent Reform rabbi in both the United States of America and Mandatory Palestine. He is best remembered as a leader in the pacifist movement of the World War I period, his advocacy of a binational Jewish-Arab state in Palestine, and as one of the most widely recognized voices of 20th century American Reform Judaism. Magnes served as the only chancellor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1925-1935), and later as its first president (1935-1948).

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United States
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Lived 1877 to 1948 · aged 71
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