Adler, Selig, 1909-1984

The Adler family lived in Bavaria during the nineteenth century; some family members immigrated to the United States before 1900. Among them was the salesman Josef Gabriel Adler, born May 9, 1873 in Kitzingen, Germany. From 1893 on he lived in Baltimore, Maryland, and on February 19, 1907 he married May Rubenstein; he died in 1925. They had one son, Selig Adler, who became a professor of history at the University of Buffalo. Other family members included an elder Josef Gabriel Adler (1802-1873), who was a rabbi in Aschaffenburg and Immanuel Adler (1840-1911), rabbi in Kitzingen.

From the guide to the Adler Family Collection, 1867-1980, bulk 1889-1911, (Leo Baeck Institute)

Selig Adler was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1909. Except for graduate work, his entire collegiate career from student to professor was spent in Buffalo. A summa cum laude graduate of the University of Buffalo in 1931, he received the masters and doctorate degrees from the University of Illinois in 1932 and 1934 respectively. He was appointed to the history faculty of the University of Buffalo in 1938, he became a Full Professor in 1952 and in 1958 he was named Samuel Paul Capen Professor of American History and held the honor until his retirement in 1980. This accomplished historian, teacher, and scholar authored numerous scholarly publications and served the university not only in the classroom through his teaching and research but also by participating in numerous committees and appointed leadership positions. Among his published works are: The Isolationist Impulse: it's Twentieth-Century reaction (1957) and The uncertain giant, 1921-1941: American foreign policy between the wars (1965). Professor Adler was also the co-author with Thomas E. Connolly of: From Ararat to suburbia: the history of the Jewish community of Buffalo (1960). In 1975 he was named a State University of New York "Distinguished Service Professor". In 1980 Adler became the archivist of the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo and thus the archivist for the Buffalo Jewish community. He died in Buffalo N.Y. on November 8, 1984.

From the description of Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo. Selig Adler papers, 1932-1988. (SUNY at Buffalo). WorldCat record id: 137341116

Historian and professor at State University of New York at Buffalo; d. 1984.

From the description of Papers, 1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70952679

Historian and faculty member at SUNY-Buffalo.

From the description of Selig Adler letters, 1972 and 1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 693956157

Born in Baltimore in 1909, Adler was a historian and a faculty member at the State University of New York in Buffalo. Adler died in 1984.

From the guide to the Selig Adler Papers., 1921-1961., 1952-1960., (The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives)