Funeral services for Dr. Aaron Steinberg, an eminent Jewish historian and scholar who for many years was director of the cultural department of the World Jewish Congress, were held today. He died Sunday at the age of 84 after a long illness.
WJC president Nahum Goldmann said that with Dr. Steinberg’s death “the World Jewish Congress and the Jewish people have lost one of their most interesting cultural and spiritual leaders. He combined an immense knowledge of world affairs and history with a deep familiarity with the Jewish past and present.” Dr. Steinberg was the WJC’s representative at UNESCO from 1945-67.
Born in Dvinsk, Russia, Dr. Steinberg received degrees in law and philosophy at the University of Heidelberg. After being interned in Germany during World War I he returned to Petrograd now Leningrad. He emigrated to England in 1934. With his older-brother, the late Isaac N. Steinberg, he translated numerous books. He was author of several books dealing with Dostoievsky and co-author of the three-volume “History of the Jewish People,” published in 1936-38.
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