Dr. Salo W. Baron, Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University, was elected president of the American Jewish Historical Society at the 51st annual meeting of the Society which took place here yesterday at the Boston Public Library. He succeeds Lee M. Friedman.
The meeting was devoted to the reading of a series of scholarly papers on American Jewish history, including several en Jews in Massachusetts history. In connection with the meeting, the Boston Public Library has prepared an exhibit of early American Hebraic and Judaic a. Another exhibition of early American Jewish portraits and silver was opened at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
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