Salo Wittmayer Baron

Salo Wittmayer Baron (born May 26, 1895, Tarnow, Austria [now in Poland]—died Nov. 25, 1989, New York, N.Y., U.S.) was an Austrian-born American historian who spent much of his life compiling the multivolume magnum opus A Social and Religious History of the Jews (1937), originally published in three volumes but later revised and expanded into 18 volumes. Baron, who was ordained a rabbi at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Vienna (1920), earned three doctorate degrees...