Rabbi Steven S. Schwarzschild has been appointed to a new Chair of Judaic Studies at Washington University here, it was announced today by Chancellor Thomas H. Eliot. The appointment is effective July 1.
The chair was made possible, on a five-year trial basis, through gifts to the university raised by the St. Louis chapter of the American Jewish committee, which directed an effort to raise $75, 000 to endow the chair. The University has purchased a $21, 000 Hebraic library for use by Rabbi Schwarzschild. He will teach Jewish thought and philosophy from the Middle Ages to the present.
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