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Abram L. Sachar
 Abram L. Sachar |
Abram Leon Sachar was an American historian and university president. Born in New York City, he moved with his immigrant family moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1906, and (after a year at Harvard) he earned his B.A. and M.A. at Washington University.
He went to England to do his research on the Victorian House of Lords and gained his Ph.D. at Cambridge University in 1923. He then taught history at the University of Illinois from 1923 to 1948. He also was one of the organizers of the B’nai Brith Hillel Foundation and helped establish Hillel Houses for Jewish students on the campuses of many American universities.
When the American Jewish community decided to start a Jewish-sponsored, nonsectarian university, he was chosen as the first president of Brandeis University, and during his tenure from 1948 to 1968 he effectively built it from the ground-up into a first-class, internationally recognized teaching and research institution, by exercising his unusual combination of abilities as an educator, visionary, and fundraiser.
He published a number of books, including A History of the Jews, (1929; 5th edn 1965), and The Course of Our Times (1972).
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