Dr. Abraham A. Neuman, Past President of Dropsie College, Dies at 80

Funeral services were held today for Dr. Abraham A. Neuman, a leading Jewish historian and past president of Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (now Dropsie University) who died here Friday at the age of 80. Austrian born, Dr. Neuman was brought to the United States at the age of eight and was educated at Columbia University in New York and at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America where he was ordained as a rabbi in 1912. He taught history at the Seminary and went to Dropsie College in 1913 where he organized the history department and later, departments of Jewish philosophy and Hebrew literature. In 1941 he succeeded Dr. Cyrus Adler as president, an office he held until 1966. Dr. Neuman was author of “The Jews in Spain: Their Social, Political and Cultural Life During the Middle Ages,” in two volumes. At the time of his death he was working on a third volume, “The Jews in Spain in the 16th Century.”