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Isidore Singer (1859–1939) was an editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia
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Isidore Singer (1859–1939) was an editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia
Jewish Encyclopedia

The Jewish Encyclopedia was an encyclopedia originally published between 1901 and 1906 by Funk and Wagnalls. It contained over 15,000 articles in 12 volumes on the history and then-current state of Judaism and the Jews as of 1901....
 and founder of the American League for the Rights of Man.

Singer was born in Hranice
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 (now in the Czech Republic
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) and became literary secretary to the French
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 ambassador in Vienna
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, Austria
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. From 1887, he worked in Paris
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 in the press bureau of the French foreign office and was active in the campaign on behalf of Alfred Dreyfus
Alfred Dreyfus

Alfred Dreyfus was a France artillery officer of Jewish people background whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most tense political dramas in modern French history and European history....
.

Singer moved to New York
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 in 1895 where he raised the money for the Jewish Encyclopedia he had envisioned and subsequently edited the twelve-volume work (1901–1906) himself.