Kohut, Alexander (1842-1894)

US rabbi and scholar. Called to New York as rabbi of Congregation Ahavath Chesed in 1885, he soon launched a series of sermons against Reform Judaism. He helped found and taught at the conservative Jewish Theological Seminary of America. A respected scholar, he worked for years on the modernizing of an 11th-century rabbinical dictionary. Kohut was born in Félegyháza, Hungary.