Introduction

Biography

Marcus was the son of Ab­ra­ham Jas­trow and Yet­ta (Hen­ri­et­ta) Rolle, and hus­band of Ber­tha J. Wolf­sohn.

After re­ceiv­ing rab­bi­ni­cal or­di­na­tion, PhD, and a Doc­tor­ate of Let­ters, he be­came rab­bi of the then Or­tho­dox Con­gre­ga­tion Rodeph Sha­lom in Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia, in 1866.

Works

In 1886, he be­gan pub­lish­ing his mag­num op­us, A Dic­tion­ary of the Tar­gu­mim, Tal­mud Babli, Tal­mud Ye­ru­shal­mi and Mid­rash­ic Li­te­ra­ture, in pamph­let form. It was fin­al­ly comp­let­ed and pub­lished in two-vol­ume form in 1903, and is a po­pu­lar re­source for stu­dents of the Ta­lmud.

Jastrow was al­so re­spon­si­ble for most Tal­mud-re­lat­ed ar­ti­cles in the Jew­ish En­cy­clo­pe­dia.