Family Card - Person Sheet
NameKaspar Caspar Prof. Levias 
Birth13 Jan 1861, Zagarė, Šiauliai uyezd. Lithuania
Death19 Feb 1934
Spouses
Notes for Kaspar Caspar Prof. Levias
{geni:about_me} Married Irene Schwarz on September 12, 1901 in Vienna (Num. [https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-2579...MMGD-2MB:n2130060865 '''710''']). Kaspar Levias's address was given as "WienII, Hotel Continental."
[K]Caspar Levias was born in Russia and emigrated early to the U.S. He earned a degree at Columbia College in New York in 1893 in Iranian, and received a special award upon graduation (see ''NY Times'' article in "Media").
Levias became Superintendent of the Plaut Memorial Hebrew Free School, Prince & Spruce Streets, Newark, NJ., organized in 1888 by the Hebrew Educational Society. Per ''The Blackwell Dictionary of Judaica'' "Professor Caspar Levias (1860-1934) was an American orientalist and lexicographer, of Lithuanian origin. He was an instructor in Semitic languages at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, OH (1895-1905) and then Superintendent of the Plaut MemorialHebrew Free School in Newark, New Jersey (1910-20). His writings include ''A Grammar of the Aramaic Idiom Contained in the Babylonian Talmud''."
In 1912 the Central Conference of American Rabbis voted him a subvention of $100 to "for the publication of his Hebrew Dictionary" (''Yearbook of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Vol. XXII, Baltimore, Md., April 12-17, 1912''; GoogleBooks).
A Jewish Publication Society Of America publication says in its Preface:
'''Levias, Caspar'''. Instructor at Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, O. ''Born February 13, 1860, at Szagarren, Russia. Son of Jacob Levias and Mary Kahan''. Educated privately, and at Columbia University, New York (B. A., 1893;M. A., 1894); pursued postgraduate courses at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Married Irene Schwarz. Fellow in Oriental Languages, Columbia University, 1893-1894; fellow in Semitic Languages, Johns Hopkins University, 1894-1896. Author: ''A Grammar of the Aramaic Idiom contained in the Babylonian Talmud'', 1900. Has written articles in the American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, American Journal of Philology, American Journal ofTheology, Hebrew Union College Journal, Kadimah, and other periodicals. Address: Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, O.
See: http://books.google.com/books?id=CbQyAAAAMAAJ&...&sitesec=reviews
[K]Caspar Levias was born in Russia and emigrated early to the U.S. He earned a degree at Columbia College in New York in 1893 in Iranian, and received a special award upon graduation (see ''NY Times'' article in "Media").
Levias became Superintendent of the Plaut Memorial Hebrew Free School, Prince & Spruce Streets, Newark, NJ., organized in 1888 by the Hebrew Educational Society. Per ''The Blackwell Dictionary of Judaica'' "Professor Caspar Levias (1860-1934) was an American orientalist and lexicographer, of Lithuanian origin. He was an instructor in Semitic languages at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, OH (1895-1905) and then Superintendent of the Plaut MemorialHebrew Free School in Newark, New Jersey (1910-20). His writings include ''A Grammar of the Aramaic Idiom Contained in the Babylonian Talmud''."
In 1912 the Central Conference of American Rabbis voted him a subvention of $100 to "for the publication of his Hebrew Dictionary" (''Yearbook of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Vol. XXII, Baltimore, Md., April 12-17, 1912''; GoogleBooks).
A Jewish Publication Society Of America publication says in its Preface:
'''Levias, Caspar'''. Instructor at Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, O. ''Born February 13, 1860, at Szagarren, Russia. Son of Jacob Levias and Mary Kahan''. Educated privately, and at Columbia University, New York (B. A., 1893;M. A., 1894); pursued postgraduate courses at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Married Irene Schwarz. Fellow in Oriental Languages, Columbia University, 1893-1894; fellow in Semitic Languages, Johns Hopkins University, 1894-1896. Author: ''A Grammar of the Aramaic Idiom contained in the Babylonian Talmud'', 1900. Has written articles in the American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, American Journal of Philology, American Journal ofTheology, Hebrew Union College Journal, Kadimah, and other periodicals. Address: Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, O.
See: http://books.google.com/books?id=CbQyAAAAMAAJ&...&sitesec=reviews