Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Inc: records (microfilm) 1943-1950
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Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975
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Hannah Arendt was born in Linden in 1906. At the age of three her family moved to Königsberg. Arendt was raised in a politically progressive, secular family. She studied at the University of Marburg and obtained her doctorate in philosophy writing on Love and Saint Augustine at the University of Heidelberg in 1929. Hannah Arendt encountered increasing anti-Jewish discrimination in 1930s Nazi Germany. In 1933 Arendt was arrested and briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo for performing illegal rese...
Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc.
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Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Inc. was founded in New York by the Commission on European Jewish Cultural Reconstruction in 1947. The Commission was created in 1944 by the Conference on Jewish Relations, later known as the Conference on Jewish Social Studies. The historian Salo W Baron (1895-1989) was key player in all these organisations. He was also a close friend of the political theorist, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), whom he made executive director of the organisation - she is the...
Baron, Salo W. (Salo Wittmayer), 1895-1989
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Biography Salo Wittmayer Baron was instrumental in establishing Jewish Studies as an academic discipline in the United States. An extraordinarily prolific historian, Baron also played an exceptional role in American Jewish organizational life. Baron was born in 1895 in Tarnow, now in Poland but then part of Austrian Galicia. His parents, Elias Baron and Minna Wittmayer Baron, were orthodox Jews, and Elias Baron was a banker and Jewish communi...
