Professor Salo W. Baron will deliver the Max L. Margolis memorial lecture Sunday evening at Dropsie College on “The European Enlightenment and the Jews,” during graduation exercises of the Hebrew High School, a constituent of the Associated Talmud Torahs.
Dr. Baron is professor of Jewish history and literature at Columbia University. Judge W. M. Lewis, president of the Associated Talmud Torahs, will preside at the exercises. Professor Isaac Husik of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, chairman of the committee on the Hebrew High School, will award the diplomas to the thirty-three graduates from the regular department and the forty-five graduates from the extension department of the Hebrew High School. Other participants in the program will be Rabbi B. L. Levinthal, chairman of the committee on education, and Ben Rosen, director of the Associated Talmud Torahs.
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