Funeral services will be held here tomorrow for Dr. Hyman Grinstein, professor emeritus at Yeshiva University which he served for 40 years. He died today of leukemia at Mt. Sinai Hospital. He was 82 years old. Grinstein was an author and historian and had been director of the university’s Teachers Institute for Men and university archivist before retiring in 1976.
After relinquishing his post as Teachers Institute director, he continued to serve as professor of American Jewish history through 1970 at Yeshiva College and at the university’s Bemard Revel Graduate School.
Born in Dallas, he received his early education there and in Israel. He received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D degrees from Columbia University.
As an author and historian, Grinstein’s best known works were “The Rise of the Jewish Community Of New York” (Jewish Publication Society of America) and “A Short History of the Jews in the United States,” published in 1980 by Soncino Press Ltd., London. The book contains unique 19th century illustrations, woodcuts and drawings which were part of his private collection. It represents more than 40 years of private research by the author into an area previously overlooked and unwritten about by historians.
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