Kohut, George Alexander (1874–1933)

Hungarian-born US rabbi and educator. He was active in a wide range of Jewish educational projects including schools and camps. Though always in frail health, he was a generous and energetic bibliophile, bibliographer, and patron of Jewish scholarship. Kohut was born in Stuhlweissenberg, Hungary. He was the son of Alexander Kohut, whom he accompanied to the USA in 1885. He founded the Alexander Kohut Memorial Foundation to Foster Jewish Learning in 1915.