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Michael Feldberg

Michael Feldberg is Director of Research for the American Jewish Historical Society. He holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Rochester and an A.B. from Cornell University. He is the author or editor of several books in the fields of history and criminal justice.

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Sylvia Hassenfeld

One of the most important American Jewish communal leaders and philanthropists of the twentieth century, Sylvia Hassenfeld led the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) through the humanitarian crisis of the Soviet Union’s collapse and the massive airlift of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.