Solomon Schechter [SEP] educated at
genizah" fragments presented to the University of Cambridge are known as the Taylor-Schechter Collection. He was joint editor with Schechter of "The Wisdom of Ben Sira", 1899. He published separately "Cairo Genizah Palimpsests", 1900.
He became a Professor of Hebrew at University College London in 1899 and remained until 1902 when he moved to the United States and was replaced by Israel Abrahams.
American Jewish community.
In 1902, traditional Jews reacting against the progress of the American Reform Judaism movement, which
schools. While traditional Haredi and Hasidic yeshivas are only for boys, with girls attending Beis Yaakov schools, they do not encourage their students to plan for college education and professional careers. On the other hand, Modern Orthodox day schools are usually coeducational and stress the secular component of the curriculum, precisely because many parents wish to have their children educated at a high enough level to be admitted to the finest colleges and universities in order to train for a profession.
The Solomon Schechter Day Schools in the United States and Canada