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Jewish Refugees Receive Guggenheim Fellowship for Study in Sciences, Arts

May 6, 1946
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Seven Jews who came to the United States as refugees from Nazi terror have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships for work in various fields of science and the arts, the National Refugee Service announced today.

The seven are: Dr. Franz Leopold Neuman, chief analyst in the Office of Central European Affairs in the State Department and a member of the faculty of Columbia University; Dr. Hams Rosenberg, assistant professor of History at Brooklyn College; Dr. Henry R. Immerwahr, former sergeant in the U.S. Army; Dr. Walter B. Schiffer, of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University; Dr. Wolf Leslau, professor of Semitic languages at the Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes, New York; Dr. Emannel Wintarnitz, of the staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Dr. Edward E. Lowinsky, assistant professor of music at Black Mountain College.

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