Jacob B. Agus Quotes (Images)

Jacob B. Agus was born in Svislach, Belarus. He was an American liberal Conservative rabbi and theologian who played a key role in the Conservative Rabbinical Assembly. He earned a BA degree from Yeshiva College in 1933. In 1940, he received his PhD degree in Jewish Thought from Harvard University and married Miriam Shore the same year. He wrote several books include: The vision and the way, High priest of rebirth, Jewish identity in an age of ideologies, The Jewish quest, and The Essential Agus.