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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.
The institution's first president was Jonathan Dickinson in 1747, [6] and its 20th and current is Christopher Eisgruber, who was elected in 2013. [7] [a] All of Princeton's presidents have been male besides Shirley Tilghman; [9] all have been white. [10]
Eisgruber is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: ... Christopher L. Eisgruber (born 1961), American legal scholar and university president
Speaker Wendy Besmann is the author of the book, "a Separate Circle: Jewish Life in Knoxville, Tennessee." She lives along Melton Hill Lake. American Roots talk May 16 to focus on Jewish ...
The Center for Cultural Judaism provides grants through the Posen Project for the study of secular Jewish history and cultures. These grants are intended to cultivate and support the interdisciplinary study of secular Jewish history and cultures within already well-established university programs and departments of Jewish studies, history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and other related ...
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 ...
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 ...