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The historian Jehudah Reinharz was born in Haifa in 1944. He received his high-school education in Essen, Germany, before immigrating to the U.S. in 1961, studying at Columbia University, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Harvard University, and Brandeis University, where he served as President from 1994 to 2009.

The historian Steven Aschheim was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1942. He studied at University of Witwatersrand, the London School of Economics, and University of Wisconsin, Madison, before emigrating to Israel and teaching at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

The historian George Lachmann Mosse was born in Berlin in 1918, grandson of the highly influential publisher and philanthropist Rudolf Mosse (1843 –1920). He received his high-school education in Berlin and from 1928 onwards at “Schule Schloss Salem”, before moving to England via Switzerland. Mosse immigrated to the U.S., where he studied at Harvard and other universities, before teaching at the University of Iowa and then the the University of Wisconsin–Madison, from 1955 until his death in 1999.

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Jehuda Reinharz, Steven Aschheim, and George Mosse (l-r) : Conference on German Jews at Clark University in Worcester, MA, Leo Baeck Institute, F 80961.