Funeral services were held here today for Professor Nissan Touroff, noted educator and psychologist, who died here earlier this week at the age of 75. His remains will be sent to Israel for burial.
Dr. Touroff, born in Russia where he served as a principal and superintendent of Russian Jewish schools during the Czarist regime, helped establish a Jewish public school system in Palestine in 1908 and set up a teachers seminary in Tel Aviv. He came to the United States in 1920 and helped found the Hebrew Teachers College of Boston. Later he became a professor at the Jewish Institute of Religion and served as its dean for seven years. He had written several books on psychology. He also served as professor of education and psychology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem just before the Second World War.
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