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The historian Salo Wittmayer Baron was born in Austrian Galicia in 1895. Although pursuing an academic career, he was ordained a rabbi from the Jewish Theological Seminary in Vienna in 1920, while studying philosophy, political science and law at the University of Vienna and earning three doctorates from 1917 to 1923. Baron started teaching at a Jewish teachers’ college, “Jüdisches Pädagogium” in Vienna in 1926, but soon after, he followed a call from Rabbis Stephen Wise to New York. In 1929, Baron started teaching Jewish history and literature at Columbia University, which marked the beginning of the academic field of Jewish Studies in American universities. Baron taught at Columbia until his retirement in 1963. He died in New York in 1989.

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Salo Wittmayer Baron, Leo Baeck Institute, F 1898.