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Baron, Salo Wittmayer was born on May 26, 1895 in Tarnow, Galicia. Came to United States, 1926. Son of Elias and Minna (Wittmayer) Baron. His father was a banker and communal leader.
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Baron, Salo Wittmayer was born on May 26, 1895 in Tarnow, Galicia. Came to United States, 1926. Son of Elias and Minna (Wittmayer) Baron. His father was a banker and communal leader.
He had both a traditional and secular education and received doctorates from the University of Vienna in philosophy (1917), political science (1922), and law (1923).
In 1920 Salo Baron was ordained as a rabbi at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Vienna. He taught history at the Jewish Teachers College in Vienna until 1926, when he moved to New York.
He was on the staff of the Jewish Institute of Religion until 1930 when he was appointed professor of Jewish literature and institutions at Columbia University.
He was the first member of an American history faculty to teach Jewish studies, created the Center of Israel and Jewish Studies in 1950, and made a unique contribution to Jewish social studies. He retired from the professorship in 1963 but remained director of the Center until 1968. On his retirement Columbia University created a new chair in Jewish history, named in his honor.
Throughout his long life, Baron played an active role in numerous organizations in the American Jewish community, and was president of the American Academy for Jewish Research, the American Jewish Historical Society, and the Conference on Jewish Social Studies.
He appeared at the Eichmann trial in 1961 as the first witness for the prosecution, describing the significance of the annihilation of European Jewry against the background of the contemporary history of the Jewish people prior to the Holocaust.
Baron was a prolific writer and editor, and his bibliography contains 500 items. Although he was first and foremost a historian of the modern era, he undertook a number of comprehensive works, which brought out his immensely wideranging knowledge and erudition.
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Baron’s conception of Jewish history was comprehensive, examining not only the external forces but also the inner life of the Jews. He sought to understand the creative elements within Jewry, for example the Jewish community and its organization, within a broader historical context from which Jews derive forces and to which they also contribute. He was scathingly critical of an earlier school of historiography which he termed “the lachrymose conception” according to which “they beat us and they beat us some more.” This, he was convinced, was a distortion, as was the earlier his¬torians’ concentration on outstanding individuals, notably the scholars, and their ignorance of the ordinary men of all kinds who combined to constitute Jewish society down the ages.
Quotations:
• Vote for the man who promises least; he will be the least disappointing.
• I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
• An elder statesman is someone old enough to know his own mind and keep quiet about it.
Trustee Jewish Institute Religion, 1937-1955. President academy council Hebrew University, 1940-1950. Board governors University Tel-Aviv, from 1968, University Haifa, from 1971.
Fellow American Academy Jewish Research (president 1940-1943, 58-63, 67, 69-79, honorary president from 1980), American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Jewish History Society (president 1953-1955), American History Association, Society Biblical Literature.
Married Jeannette G. Meisel, June 12, 1934. Children: Shoshana Baron Tancer, Tobey Baron Gitelle.