The famous Orientalist, Isidore Scheftelovitch, Professor of India studies at the University of Cologne, who was expelled by the Nazis because he was a Jew, has been invited to occupy a post at Oxford University.
For twenty years, Professor Scheftelovitch was a teacher of religion and Rabbi of the Jewish Community in Cologne.
He was born in Anhalt, Germany, in May, 1875, and was educated in the Universities of Berlin and Koenigsberg. He was ordained Rabbi after studying at the Berlin Seminary for Rabbis and also studied at London University and at Oxford University. In 1909 he came to Cologne as Rabbi and has remained there until the Nazis drove him out. Professor Scheftelovitch is the author of more than a dozen learned works on early India and has also written books on Jewish subjects.
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