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Few U.S. presidents have garnered as much attention as Abraham Lincoln. The details of his political and personal life have been scrutinized by scholars and historians, and devoured by a fascinated public. This guide offers a list of Abraham Lincoln biographies found in the Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library (SSHEL) School (S-) Collection.

Additional juvenile materials on Abraham Lincoln can be located by entering “Lincoln, Abraham” into a subject search in the Library Catalog. While this list covers only those works found in the S-Collection, juvenile materials on Abraham Lincoln can also be found in the Illinois History and Lincoln Collections, the Center for Children’s Books, and the University Laboratory High School Library.

A related guide, Bibliography of Abraham Lincoln Resources, contains a list of fiction and non-fiction resour

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Jewish Life in Germany: Past & Present

The New Core Exhibition of the Jewish Museum Berlin

With funding provided by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a resolution by the German Bundestag.

With the support of the Friends of the Jewish Museum Berlin and the Friends of the Jewish Museum Berlin in the U.S.

Jewish Museum Berlin Foundation

Leadership

Hetty Berg (Director from 1 April 2020) 
Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. mult. Peter Schäfer (Director until June 2019) 
Martin Michaelis (Managing Director) 
Durmus Bülent (Organizational Director)

Head Curator

Cilly Kugelmann

Project Director

Dr. Michael Dorrmann

Project Manager

Henriette Kolb

Team of Curators

Inka Bertz, Julia Carls, Dr. Yaniv Feller, Monika Flores, Michal S. Friedlander, Miriam Goldmann, Dr. Christoph Kreutzmüller, Maren Krüger, Dr. Tamar Lewinsky, Martina Lüdicke, Dr. Haim Mahlev, Leonore Maier, Theresa Polley (exhibition assistant), Aubrey Pomerance, Dr. Lucia Raspe, Li

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Abraham Kaplan

American philosopher

For the Hebrew writer, see Abraham Kohen Kaplan.

Abraham Kaplan (June 11, 1918 – June 19, 1993) was an American philosopher, known best for being the first philosopher to systematically examine the behavioral sciences in his book The Conduct of Inquiry (1964).^{[citation needed]} His thinking was influenced bygd pragmatistsCharles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey.^{[1][failed verification]}

Biography

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Kaplan's parents were namn J. and Chava (Lerner) Kaplan. Abraham's father was a rabbi. He was raised in Odesa, Ukraine. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1930, after immigrating to the country in 1923. In 1937, he graduated in chemistry from the College of St. Thomas. He received a Ph.D. in philosophy 1942 from the University of California, Los Angeles. He was assistant professor at New York University from 1940 to 1945. He then returned to the UCLA Department of Philoso