Adler, Cyrus. Catalogue of a Hebrew Library. Being the Collection...of Joshua I. Cohen, M.D. of Baltimore

Cyrus Adler (1863-1940), who would go on to become a pillar of the American Jewish community, was at this time a Fellow of the Johns Hopkins University. See EJ, Vol. cols.272-4. A rare and important catalogue Cyrus Adler (1863-1940) was the first person to receive a Ph.D. in Semitics from an American University (Johns Hopkins). He became an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins in 1890, and in 1892, a librarian at the Smithsonian Institute. He was president of the Jewish Theological Seminary from 1915 until his death. Extremely active in Jewish communal affairs, Adler also served as President of Dropsie College and Editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review (JQR). In 1906, he was one of the founders of the American Jewish Committee. In 1888, he co-founded the Jewish Publication Society of America and served as President of the American Jewish Historical Society from its inception in 1892 for the next 20 years. He edited the first seven volumes of the American Jewish Yearbook. See C. Adler, I Have Considered the Days (1941); EJ, Vol. II, cols. 272-274. One notes that the Jewish ceremonial objects on display came from the collections of David Sulzberger (Cyrus Adler's brother-in-law) and Mayer Sulzberger (Adler's uncle and cousin).