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( m´r m, sh sh´nä) (KEY) or Amram Gaon (gä´ n) (KEY) , d. c.875, Hebrew scholar, head of the Jewish academy at Sura in Persia. He is chiefly known as the author of the Seder Rab Amram, a compilation of the order of prayers for the whole year and the litu |