Professor Salo Wittmayer Baron ז״ל has been described as “the greatest Jewish historian of the 20th century.” He was born in 1895 in the city of Tarnow, then in Austrian Galicia, and was educated in both his secular and Jewish studies in Vienna starting in 1914. He earned three doctorates from the University of Vienna, in philosophy (1917), political science (1922), and law (1923), and also received rabbinic ordination from the Israelitisch-Theologische Lehranstalt in Vienna. Professor Baron taught generations of students at Columbia University from 1930 until his retirement in 1963, where he held the first chair of Jewish History in the United States. Among his hundreds of scholarly articles and reviews, and dozens of books as author or editor, Professor Baron’s magnum opus was his eighteen-volume *A Social and Religious History of the Jews*. He passed away in 1989.

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