1929–1940), and the United Synagogue of America. Adler served a variety of organizations by holding various offices. For example, he was on the board of trustees at the American Jewish Publication Society and Gratz College, served as vice-president of the Anthropological Society of Washington, and as member of council of the Philosophical Society of Washington. Adler was a bachelor much of his life, marrying Racie Friedenwald of Baltimore in 1905, when he was 42. They had one child, a daughter Sarah. From 1911 until 1916, Adler was Parnas (president) of Congregation Mikveh Israel of Philadelphia. He died in Philadelphia, and his papers are held by the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Works Adler was an editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia and in collaboration with Allen Ramsay wrote Tales Told in a Coffee House (1898). He was part of the committee that translated the Jewish Publication Society version of the Hebrew Bible published in 1917. At the end of World War I, he participated in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. He was also a contributor to the New International Encyclopedia. His many scholarly writings include articles on comparative religion, Assyriology, and Semitic philology. He edited the American Jewish Year Book from 1899 to 1905 and the Jewish Quarterly Review from 1910 to 1940. He was besides contributions to the Journal of the American Oriental Society, the Proceedings of the American Philological Association, the Andover Review, Hebraica, Johns Hopkins University Circular and numerous reviews. References Citations Sources Schwartz, Shuly Rubin. The Emergence of Jewish Scholarship in America: The Publication of the Jewish Encyclopedia. Monographs of the Hebrew Union College, Number 13. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1991. Further reading Adler, Cyrus. I Have Considered the Days. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1941. Neuman, Abraham A. Cyrus Adler: A Biographical Sketch. New York: The American Jewish Committee, 1942. External links Cyrus Adler Lectures on His Presidentially-Mandated Tour of The Levant Shapell Manuscript Foundation Articles written by Cyrus Adler on the Berman Jewish Policy Archive @ NYU Wagner The Jewish Theological Seminary, New York archival entry on Adler's papers. Guide to the papers of Cyrus Adler at the American Jewish Historical Society, New York, New York. Fact Monster Entry for Cyrus Adler. 1863 births 1940 deaths People from Van Buren, Arkansas 19th-century American people University of Pennsylvania alumni University of Pennsylvania faculty Johns Hopkins University alumni