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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Solomon Schechter
Born: December 7, 1847
Died: November 19, 1915 (aged 67)
Bio: Solomon Schechter was a Moldavian-born American rabbi, academic scholar and educator, most famous for his roles as founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and architect of American Conservative Judaism.
Known for:
- Aspects of Rabbinic Theology
- Documents of Jewish sectaries (1910)
- Seminary addresses & other papers (1915)