Willner, Wolfe
rabbi, educator, was born July 28, 1863, in Strasburg, Germany. At the age of eleven he emigrated to America. He first lived in Newburg, N. Y., then in New Haven, Conn., where he entered Yale in 1881, graduating in the academic course in 1885 with the degree of A. B.; and in 1887 with the degree of A. M. He was then called to the ministry of the congregation Ohed Shalon of Houston, Texas; and now is an eminent rabbi and teacher of Baltimore, Md. He has written poetry from his youth, but his latter years have been devoted to translating from the Hebrew and German. His articles on religious and Hebrew literary subjects constantly appear in current literature; and his poems can be found in Poets of America and other standard works.