As president of Columbia University in the 1930s, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947) sought to build friendly relations with Nazi Germany. In December 1933, Butler invited the Nazi German ambassador to the United States, Hans Luther, to speak on campus. Butler also hosted a reception for the ambassador....
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After completing traditional yeshiva studies and earning a law degree in Vilna, Noah Golinkin (1914-2003) emigrated from his native Poland to the United States in 1938. He earned a master’s degree in American history at Clark University before enrolling as a rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological...
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Dr. Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972) was a professor of history who served as president of the University of North Carolina from 1930 until 1949. During the 1930s, he became active in the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars. The committee arranged American college faculty positions...
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