The Technical University of West Berlin’s Anti-Semitism Research Center is to be headed by Prof. Herbert Strauss of the City University of New York. Strauss, an expert on German-Jewish History, is expected to take up his new post sometime this summer, according to an announcement by the university.
Bom in Wuerzburg (Bavoria) in 1918, Strauss later became an assistant to Leo Boeck, one of German Jewry’s spiritual leaders during the Nazi period. During World War II he escaped to Switzerland and earned his Ph.D. in 1946 at the University of Bern. Strauss then came to the United States and taught at Columbia University and the New School of Social Research before moving to City College in 1960. Since 1964 he has served as the executive director of the American Federation of Jews from Central Europe.
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