Solomon Schechter: a Jewish scholar in Victorian England (1882–1902)

Abstract

joined forces to convene a pair of conferences. One confer ence, at the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, focused on the American chapter of Schechter's life (1902-15), framed in large part by his stewardship of the Jewish Theological Seminary and his role in the emergence of Conservative Judaism and in American Jewish life generally. The other conference met at the Old Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, built on the site of the Church of All Saints in the Jewry (the pre-expulsion