William M. Kramer
American rabbi (1920-2004)
William Mordecai Kramer (March 29, 1920 – June 8, 2004) was an American rabbi, university professor and art collector. He served as the rabbi of Temple Beth Emet in Burbank, California from 1965 to 1996. He was an associate professor of religious studies at the California State University, Northridge for two decades, where he established the Jewish Studies program.
Early life
William Mordecai Kramer was born in 1920 in Cleveland, Ohio.
He graduated from Case Western Reserve University. He went on to receive two more degrees in Jewish theology from Jewish Institute of Religion and was ordained as a rabbi in 1944. He returned to Case Western, where he earned a master's degree in Education and Social Work. He later earned a doctorate from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles, California and a law degree from the University of West Los Angeles.
Rabbinates
His first rabbinate was in St. Louis, Missouri at the age of twenty-two.
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