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Rubenstein, Richard L

LC control no.n 50025998
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Personal name headingRubenstein, Richard L.
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Birth date1924-01-08
Death date2021-05-16
Place of birthNew York (N.Y.)
Place of deathBridgeport (Conn.)
Field of activityJudaism Education, Higher
AffiliationHarvard University Florida State University University of Bridgeport
Profession or occupationTheologians Rabbis College presidents
Found inHis After Auschwitz, 1966.
His The age of triage, c1982: CIP t.p. (Richard L. Rubenstein) CIP data sheet (b. 1/8/24)
Washington post WWW site, viewed June 16, 2021 (in obituary dated June 8, 2021: Richard L. Rubenstein, a Jewish theologian who stared into the abyss of the Holocaust and rejected the idea of an omnipotent, beneficent god, a stark break from traditional Judaism that placed him among the most significant religious thinkers of his time, died May 16 in Bridgeport, Conn. He was 97. Richard Lowell Rubenstein was born in New York City on Jan. 8, 1924. Dr. Rubenstein received a bachelor's degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1946 and was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York in 1952. He completed graduate studies in theology at Harvard University, where he received a master's degree in 1955 and a PhD in 1960. Dr. Rubenstein taught for most of his career at Florida State University. From 1995 to 1999, he was president of the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut)
Associated languageeng