Professor Alexander Marx, librarian and Jacob ?. Schiff Professor of History at the Jewish Theological Seminary was the guest of honor tonight at a celebration marking his 70th birthday. The celebration, which was attended by more than 250 of his colleagues, student and friends, was held at the Seminary.
Prof. Marx has been a member of the Seminary’s faculty since 1903 when he came to this country from Germany at the invitation of Dr. Solomon Schechter, then president of the Seminary, when he became Seminary librarian; the library collection consisted of 5,000 volumes and three manuscripts. Under his direction, it has developed into what is today recognized as the world’s foremost Jewish library, with a collection of almost 145,000 book and 8,000 manuscripts.
Letters of congratulation to Prof. Marx form scholars all over the world were Read at the celebration. In his tribute to Prof. Marx, Dr. Louis Finkelstein, president of the Seminary, said that he breadth of his learning has not only inspired the hundreds of young men who have been his students at the Seminary’s Rabbinical School, but has had a profound influence on the course of Jewish scholarship in this country and abroad.
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