Shapiro, Leon.

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Dates:
Birth 1917

Biographical notes:

Historian, author, Professor of Russian and Soviet Jewish History at Rutgers University, who helped arrange the escape of Jews from Europe during World War II and was active in several organizations concerned with the emigration of Soviet and Eastern European Jews to Palestine.

From the description of Leon Shapiro papers, 1939-1984. (University of Massachusetts Amherst). WorldCat record id: 52102162

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Subjects:

  • Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Jews, Soviet
  • Occupational training for Jews
  • Undertakers and undertaking

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Places:

  • Soviet Union (as recorded)
  • Europe, Eastern (as recorded)
  • Israel (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts--Newton (as recorded)
  • Palestine (as recorded)
  • Romania (as recorded)