Memorial services will be held at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America this week for Mordecai Margolioth, professor of Midrash and Gaonic literature at the Seminary, who died in Jerusalem Sunday at the age of 58. Prof. Margolioth was well known as a scholar in the field of Talmud and rabbinics and was the author of 19 books.
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