Plaut, W. Gunther, 1912-2012

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Name (Hebrew)
פלאוט, זאב משה, 1912-2012
Name (Latin)
Plaut, W. Gunther, 1912-2012
Name (Cyrilic)
Плаут, В. Гюнтер, 1912-2012
Other forms of name
Plaʼuṭ, Zeʼev Mosheh, 1912-2012
Plaut, W. Gunther, 1912-
Plaut, Wolfgang Gunther, 1912-
Plaut, Wolf Guenter, 1912-2012
פלאוט, גונטר
Date of birth
1912-11-01
Date of death
2012-02-08
Place of birth
Germany
Place of death
Toronto (Ont.)
Field of activity
Reform Judaism
Occupation
Rabbis
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 61555244
Wikidata: Q216199
Library of congress: n 79069794
Sources of Information
  • His Mount Zion, 1856-1956, 1957.
  • New York times WWW site, Feb. 13, 2012(in obituary published Feb. 11: W. Gunther Plaut; b. Wolf Guenter Plaut, Nov. 1, 1912, Münster, Germany; d. Wednesday [Feb. 8, 2012], Toronto, aged 99; rabbi whose vast, scholarly, and ardently contemporary edition of the Torah has helped define Reform Judaism in late-20th-century North America)
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Wikipedia description:

Wolf Gunther Plaut (November 1, 1912 – February 8, 2012) was an American Reform rabbi and author of a Torah commentary who was based in Canada. Plaut was the rabbi of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto for several decades and from 1978 was its senior scholar.

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