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Professor Ginzberg wrote 406 articles and several monograph-length entries for the Jewish Encyclopedia ( Levy 2002 ), some later collected in his Legend and Lore.

He was an important halakhic authority of the Conservative movement in North America ; for a period of ten years ( 1917 – 1927 ), he was virtually The halakhic authority of this movement.

He was also founder and president of the American Academy of Jewish Research.