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ESTABLISHMENT OF THE JAY BERKOWITZ PROFESSORSHIP IN JEWISH HISTORY
 
 
 
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ESTABLISHMENT OF THE JAY BERKOWITZ PROFESSORSHIP IN
JEWISH HISTORY

WHEREAS, Nancy Berkeley Bynum, an alumna of the Law School, and her husband, Frank K. Bynum, Jr., an alumnus of the College, have made a generous gift to the University for the establishment of a chair in Jewish History; and

WHEREAS, Ms. Bynum's grandfather, Jay Berkowitz, born in New York in 1901 to emigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, took great pride in being an American and in the history and traditions of this country, while at the same time was aware of Jewish traditions and his Jewish heritage; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Berkowitz died in 1993, the year that his granddaughter took her law degree from the University;

RESOLVED, the Board of Visitors establishes the Jay Berkowitz Professorship in Jewish History, to be held in the Department of History, and thanks Nancy Berkeley Bynum and Frank K. Bynum, Jr. for their generosity which has made this chair possible.