The Review had often praised black, female and Jewish professors.
His appointment was the first for a Jewish professor of Theology at any Catholic university.
Weiss was the first Jewish full professor at Yale.
In 1938, he refused to accept a university post formerly held by a Jewish professor and was kicked out of the fascist party.
Stern was the first Jewish full professor at a German university.
He was eventually allowed to take them, after all the Jewish professors had been removed from the university.
The horrors of prejudice became a common thread that could bind these exiled Jewish professors with their black students and colleagues.
These Jewish professors brought their proper German teaching style with them to America.
His defense of a Jewish professor led to his internment in a psychiatric hospital.