Ticktin, Max D.

found: Northwestern University Archives finding aid, Papers of the Clergy Consultation Service(Ticktin, Max D.)

found: LC database, July 7, 2016(hdg.: Ticktin, Max D.; usage in participant or performer note: Max D. Ticktin; associated resource in English)

found: Washington post WWW site, viewed July 7, 2016(Rabbi Max Ticktin; Max D. Ticktin, a professor of Yiddish and Hebrew literature at George Washington University before retiring in 2014, died July 3 [2016] at his home in Washington; he was 94; before joining the GWU faculty in the late 1970s, Rabbi Ticktin was for six years the associate national director of Hillel, the on-campus student foundation for Jewish life; earlier, he had been Hillel director at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Chicago; At GWU, Rabbi Ticktin taught courses in Hebrew language and contemporary Israeli literature; Max David Ticktin was born in Philadelphia on June 30, 1922; in 1947, he was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York; In the 1970s, Rabbi Ticktin was a leader in a small group of American Jews called Breira, or "choice," that supported greater understanding between Israel and the Palestinians and the removal of new Jewish settlements being built in the West Bank)