Dr. A. L. Sachar. Director of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation at the University of Illinois, has been named National Director of all eight Hillel Foundations by the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation Commission.
Dr. Sachar will continue as Director of the Illinois Hillel Foundation in addition to serving as National Director.
Born in New York in 1899, Dr. Sachar was educated at Washington and Harvard Universities, and spent three years of graduate research at the University of Cambridge, England. He taught modern European and English history at the University of Illinois for several years before becoming Director of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation at that institution. He is the author of the popular “History of the Jews”.
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