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Religion

Arkansas-born Jewish leader Cyrus Adler dies at Philadelphia April 7 at age 76, having headed the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning since its founding in 1908; French biblical scholar Alfred Firmin Loisy dies at Ceffonds June 1 at age 83, having founded the Modernist movement within the Roman Catholic Church.

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