Announcement has just been made that Professor Salo Baron of the Department of History of the Jewish Institute of Religion, has been invited by the Board of Trustees of Columbia University to become Professor of Jewish History, Literature and Institutions, which chair has been made possible through the recent gift to Columbia University by Mrs. Nathan J. Miller, in memory of her husband, Nathan J. Miller. This Chair constitutes a part of the Graduate Faculty of Philosophy and is primarily designed to foster research and interest in Jewish studies among the thousands of Jewish graduates and undergraduate students of that University.
Professor Baron was called to America in 1925 to serve as head of the Department of Jewish History at the Jewish Institute of Religion, where he has taught during these years. Two years ago he was invited by the Rabbinical Seminary of Breslau to accept its chair in Jewish History, made famous by the occupancy of the greatest of modern Jewish historians, Professor Graetz.
Professor Baron holds the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Political Science and Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Vienna and the rabbinical degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary of Vienna. From 1919 to 1925, Dr. Baron served as Professor of History at the Vienna Paedagogium, then under the leadership of the late Chief Rabbi of Austria, Professor H. P. Chajes.
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