Jewish Scholar Died While Attempting to Save His Manuscript

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

Efforts to save the manuscript of his book caused the deaths of Dr. Aaron Ember, his wife, their 8 year old son and their maid when the Ember home burned down last Monday morning.

The manuscript was by Dr. Ember, who was professor of Egyptology at the John Hopkins University. It proved. according to Dr. Paul Haupt, professor of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins, that the Egyptian language was a Semitic language, and was the only book that ever had been written by anybody to prove this. Dr. Ember had been working on the book for ten years. He planned to publish it next year. Some part of the manuscript was saved, but just how much will not be known until a complete examination has been made.

When the fire broke out, it is said. Mrs. Ember told her husband to get the manuscript while she went for the boy. Neither supposed the blaze was placing the lives of the occupants of the house in peril and Dr. Ember did as his wife suggested.

“Dr. Ember had done an unique work among scholars,” Dr. Haupt said. “Although others had suspected that the Egyptian language was Semitic, none had proved it until Dr. Ember took up the work. If the manuscript of the book which Dr. Ember planned to publish next year has been lost, it will be impossible to replace it.”

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Two brothers were reunited for the ### time in sixty years on Tuesday where Twice Milstein, sixty-two, was taken to ######## to be admitted to the United States under the Roumanian quota. He was greeted by his brother. Hyman, who changed his name to Berger when he came here forty years ago.