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Magnes, Judah Leon (sh) and busk(4) (iou)


Magnes, Judah Leon (sh)




born July 5, 1877, San Francisco, Calif., U.S.
died Oct. 27, 1948, New York, N.Y.

U.S.-born Israeli educator and religious leader.

Ordained as a rabbi in 1900, he earned a doctorate at the University of Heidelberg in 1902. Serving as rabbi for three congregations in New York, he moved from Reform to Orthodox Judaism and became a Zionist. He drifted away from Zionism during World War I, preferring relief efforts for Jews in Palestine over political activism. After the war he became the principal founder and first president (1935-48) of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, working to advance Arab-Jewish reconciliation and advocating a binational Arab-Jewish state.


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busk verb3. M17.
[French busquer seek, hunt for, from Italian buscare or Spanish buscar, from Germanic.]
verb intrans. Nautical. Cruise about, tack. Now rare or obsolete. M17.
verb intrans. Look for, seek after. rare. M18.
verb intrans. Play Music, or otherwise entertain, for money in public places. Formerly also, peddle goods. Chiefly as busking verbal noun. M19.
verb trans. & intrans. Improvise. slang. M20.
D. Adams He had no idea what he was going to find. He would just have to busk it.
busker noun2 an itinerant musician or actor, esp. one performing in the street M19.