Establishment of an 18-member Committee on Research and Publications to handle the scholarly and academic aspects of the celebration in 1954 of the 300th anniversary of Jewish settlement in America was announced today by Ralph E. Samuel, chairman of the American Jewish Tercentenary Committee. Prominent historians have accepted membership on the research committee, which is headed by Dr. Salo W. Baron, noted historian.
Dr. Baron said his committee now has under consideration a number of projects, among them a 10-volume documentary history of the Jews in the United States, “which will not only serve to provide essential scholarly background for the anniversary celebration, but will also constitute substantial contributions to American and Jewish history and be of great assistance to students and scholars for years to come in the general field of historical studies.” A series of monographs in American Jewish history, as well as some publications of a more popular nature, are also contemplated.
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