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AMRAM (d. 875)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 894 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AMRAM (d. 875)  , a famous See also:gaon or See also:head of the Jewish See also:Academy of Sura (See also:Persia) in the 9th See also:century . He was author of many " Responsa," but his See also:chief See also:work was liturgical . He was the first to arrange a See also:complete See also:liturgy for the See also:synagogue, and his See also:Prayer-See also:Book (Siddur See also:Rab `See also:Amram) was the See also:foundation of most of the extant See also:rites in use among the See also:Jews . The Siddur was published in See also:Warsaw in two parts (1865) .

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