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Salo Wittmayer Baron

Austrian-born American historian
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Born:
May 26, 1895, Tarnow, Austria [now in Poland]
Died:
Nov. 25, 1989, New York, N.Y., U.S. (aged 94)

Salo Wittmayer Baron (born May 26, 1895, Tarnow, Austria [now in Poland]—died Nov. 25, 1989, New York, N.Y., U.S.) was an Austrian-born American historian who spent much of his life compiling the multivolume magnum opus A Social and Religious History of the Jews (1937), originally published in three volumes but later revised and expanded into 18 volumes. Baron, who was ordained a rabbi at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Vienna (1920), earned three doctorate degrees from the University of Vienna: in philosophy (1917), political science (1922), and law (1923). He learned 20 languages and was able to lecture extemporaneously in ...(100 of 166 words)

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