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Kalisch, Isidor

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 15, 1816, in Prussia. He was a Jewish clergyman who came to the United States in 1849, and was rabbi of congregations in Cleveland, Milwaukee, and elsewhere. He published Sketch of the Talmud, and several important translations from the German and Hebrew. He died May 11, 1886, in Newark, N. J.

KALOPOTHAKES, MARTHA HOOPER BLACKLER, missionary, journalist, translator, was born June 1, 1830, in Marblehead, Mass. She labored as a missionary, and exercised a wide influence among the Greek women. During the last three years of her life she translated books from the English, and edited a juvenile paper that was published in Greek. She died Dec. 16, 1871, in Athens, Greece.

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