Person

Leiter, Shmuel

1931–2006

born in New York on 19 Tamuz 691 [July 4, 1931]; son of Mordekhai Sheraga and Baila Berakhah; studied at Yeshivat R. Ḥayim Berlin and then at Brooklyn College where he received a BA in English literature in 712 [1952]. In 700 [1940] he began his studies in Rabbinical literature and Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. In 715 [1954 or 1955] he attended the Hebrew University in Jerusalem where he obtained a Master’s degree in 716 [1956], and then taught at a religious high school in Beer Sheva until 718 [1957 or 1958]. He returned to the United States in 1958 and became a lecturer in rabbinical literature and modern Hebrew literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He also was visiting professor at New York University and at Brandeis University. In the summer of 1973 he settled in Israel where he died on 8 Av 766 [August 2, 2006]