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Christopher Ludwig Eisgruber (born September 24, 1961) [1] [2] is an American academic and legal scholar who is serving as the 20th President of Princeton University, where he is also the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values.
Building on his ordination as a maggid by Shlomo Carlebach, [14] Buxbaum established a program to train women and men as maggidim (plural of maggid). [15] [16] Graduates include Shoshana Litman, described as Canada's first ordained female Jewish storyteller, [17] and Tamir Zaltsman, who states that he is the first ordained Russian-speaking maggid. [18]
Miriam Weiner [1] (/ ˈ w iː n ər /) [2] is an American genealogist, author, and lecturer who specializes in the research of Jewish roots in Poland and the former Soviet Union. [3] [4] Weiner is considered to be one of the pioneers of contemporary Jewish genealogy through her work to open up archives [5] [6] and is described as a trail-blazing, highly respected guide and leading authority on ...
The notion that Hitler had Jewish roots has persisted for decades despite having been dispelled by top German historians. Hitler’s background is in a rural region of northwestern Austria called ...
Eisgruber is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: ... Christopher L. Eisgruber (born 1961), American legal scholar and university president
Miriam Weiner in the Kiev Historical Archives in Ukraine points to boxes of historic documents dating back several hundred years, Aug 1991. Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova was the first work of its kind, as it collected details on archival documents from Ukraine and Moldova that had previously been deemed inaccessible or fundamentally lost.
The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery. Many ...
The Scottish Jewish Archives Centre (SJAC) is the largest repository of items relating to Jewish migration to Scotland and life in Scotland. [1] It aims to document and illustrate the religious, organisational, social, economic, political, cultural and family life of Jews in Scotland from the 18th century to the present-day in order to heighten awareness - and to stimulate study of - the ...