Max Schloessinger (September 4, 1877 – May 9, 1944) was a German Jewish scholar who worked in America, Germany, the Netherlands, and Mandatory Palestine.
[2] In 1904, Schloessinger resigned as office editor of The Jewish Encyclopedia to join Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, as its Professor of Biblical Exegesis and Librarian.
[3] He, Max Margolis, and Henry Malter all resigned from the College in 1907 due to their support for Zionism.
Active in the Dutch Zionist movement, he served as director of the Jewish National Fund.
[8] In 1910, Schloessinger married Dr. Miriam C. Schaar, chief of the Bureau of School Hygiene in Cincinnati.