Starr, Joshua

Starr, Joshua
(1907-49)
   American historian and communal worker. He was born in New York. He was secretary of the Commission for European Jewish Cultural Reconstruction in 1947-9. He published studies of Byzantine and post-Byzantine Jewish history.

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