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'''Max Seligsohn''' ([[April 13]], [[1865]], [[Russia]] – ) was a [[Russia]]nRussian-[[United States|American]] [[Orientalist]].

Having received his [[rabbi]]nical training at [[Slutsk]], government (''[[guberniya]]'') of [[Minsk]], he went in [[1888]] to [[New York]], where he studied modern languages till [[1894]], in which year he went to [[Paris]] to study [[Oriental languages]], especially [[Semitology|Semitics]] ("''[[élève diplômé]]''" of the ''[[Ecole des Langues Orientales]]'', [[1897]], and of the ''[[Ecole des Hautes Etudes]]'', 1900). In 1898 he was sent by the [[Alliance Israélite Universelle]] to [[Ethiopia|Abyssinia]] to inquire into the conditions of the [[Falasha]]s; but, certain difficulties arising, he was able to proceed no farther than [[Cairo]], where he taught for eighteen months. Returning to Paris, he was invited in 1902 to go to New York to become a member of the staff of office editors of The [[Jewish Encyclopedia]].