William Chomsky

Born Ze'ev Chomsky in the Russian Empire, he settled in the United States in 1913 and spent decades, from 1924 to 1969, building Hebrew-language scholarship at Gratz College, a Jewish teacher-training institution, where he rose to faculty president. He later taught at Dropsie College as well, training generations of Hebrew teachers and shaping American Jewish education. He was the father of the linguist Noam Chomsky.