GERSHON
KHURGIN (CHURGIN) (December 3, 1903-April 11, 1978)
He was the younger brother of
Pinkhes Khurgin, born in Pahost (Pohosti), Minsk district, Byelorussia. He studied in religious elementary school,
yeshiva, and with private tutors. In
1923 he moved to the United States, studied philosophy at Columbia University,
later graduating with a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Over the years 1930-1939, he was director of
a Talmud Torah in Baltimore; he later settled in New York, where he worked as
professor of Hebrew literature and philosophy at Yeshiva University. He published articles in the field of Jewish
philosophy, education, literature, and history, as well as reviews of both
sacred and secular books in: Tsukunft
(Future), Unzer horizont (Our
horizon), Di idishe shtime (The
Jewish voice), Der mizrakhi-veg (The
Mizrachi way), Hadoar (The mail), Had hazman (Echo of the times), Haemuna (The faith), Talpiyot (Fortresses), Sura (Sura), Hatekufa (The epoch), Sefer
hashana leyehude amerika (Annual for the Jews of America), and Bitsaron (Fortress)—all in New York; and
Moznaim (Scales) in Tel Aviv; among
others. He served as co-editor of Bitsaron from 1939 to 1955. In book form: Zeramim bafilosofya haḥadasha (Currents in the new philosophy) (Tel
Aviv, 1959), 240 pp. He died in New
York.
Source:
Who’s Who in World Jewry (New York,
1955), p. 127.
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