In memoriam: Saul Viener, 1921-2006.(founder of Southern Jewish Historical Society)(In memoriam)

From: American Jewish History | Date: March 1, 2007| Author: Goldstein, Eric L. | Copyright information

On February 21, 1954, a distinguished group of scholars and laypeople gathered at Dropsie College in downtown Philadelphia for the fifty-second annual meeting of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS). As luminaries such as Salo W. Baron and Jacob Rader Marcus sat listening, a young speaker named Saul Viener delivered a paper on "The Political Career of Isidor Straus," distilled from a Master's thesis he completed seven years earlier at the University of West Virginia. (1) F...

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