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Jastrow, Marcus
(yäs´tr, js´) (KEY) , 18291903, American rabbi and Talmudic scholar, b. Poland. He was a rabbi (186692) in Philadelphia, editor of the Talmud material of The Jewish Encyclopedia, and author of Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (1903).