1. Louis Ginzberg was a Russian-born American rabbi and Talmudic scholar of Lithuanian-Jewish descent, contributing editor to numerous articles of The Jewish Encyclopedia, and leading figure in the Conservative movement of Judaism during the early 20th century.
Louis Ginzberg received a traditional Jewish education, and later studied in German universities.
Louis Ginzberg began teaching the Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America from its reorganization in 1902 until his death in 1953.
Ginzberg was highly praised by his colleagues; JTS leader Louis Finkelstein described him as a "living symbol of love for Torah".
Louis Ginzberg's knowledge made him the expert to defend Judaism both in national and international affairs.
In 1913, Louis Marshall requested that Ginzberg refute the Beilis blood libel charge in Kyiv.
Louis Ginzberg foresaw problems for the Jews remaining in Europe due to their being perceived as those who caused Germany to lose the war.
Louis Ginzberg was the author of a number of scholarly Jewish works, including a commentary on the Jerusalem Talmud and his six-volume The Legends of the Jews, which combined hundreds of legends and parables from a lifetime of midrash research.
Louis Ginzberg write Geonica, an account of the Babylonian Geonim containing lengthy extracts from their responsa, as discovered in the form of fragments in the Cairo Genizah.
Louis Ginzberg continued this work in the similar collection entitled Ginze Schechter.
Louis Ginzberg wrote 406 articles and several monograph-length entries for the Jewish Encyclopedia, some later collected in his Legend and Lore.
Louis Ginzberg was founder and president of the American Academy of Jewish Research.
Many of his halakhic responsa are collected in The Responsa of Professor Louis Ginzberg, edited by David Golinkin.
Louis Ginzberg had a long term platonic relationship with Henrietta Szold, who was his editor at the Jewish Publication Society.
Louis Ginzberg was in love with him, but was 13 years older than him.
Louis Ginzberg visited Berlin in 1908 and became engaged to Adele Katzenstein while he was there.
Son Eli Louis Ginzberg was a professor of economics at Columbia University.