Professor Saul Lieberman, Rector of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, was elected president of the American Academy for Jewish Research at the annual meeting of this body of eminent Jewish scholars.
Prof. Lieberman holds the chairs both of Distinguished Service Research Professor of Talmud, and of Louis Ginzberg Professor of Palestinian Institutions at the Seminary. He succeeds Dr. Salo W. Baron, professor emeritus of History at Columbia University as head of the Academy. The Academy was founded in 1928 with the aim of encouraging original research in Jewish scholarship. Its members come from universities and institutions of learning in all parts of the country.
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