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Psyhologist, Supporter of Yiddish,
Dr. A. A. Roback, Succumbs in East
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
14—Friday, June 11, 1965
He taught at the University of
• CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (JTA)—Dr.
A. A. Roback, noted Jewish psychol- Pittsburgh, Northeastern Univer-
ogist, who wrote many books and sity, Clark University, the Massa-
hundreds of articles on psychology chusetts Institute of Technology
and Jewish questions and who
taught at many leading American
universities, died here Monday at
his home. He was 75.
A strong supporter of Yiddish,
he personally developed a 10,000-
volume Yiddish library for Har-
vard University, at which he taught
for several years. In 1929, he intro-
duced the first academic course in
Yiddish literature in the United
States at the Massachusetts Uni-
versity Extension. He wrote on Yid-
dish topics and literature in both
English and Yiddish.
and other schools. In addition to
membership in many psychology
and philosophy groups, he was a
member of the board of governors
of the Jewish Academy of Arts and
Sciences, a member of the aca-
demic council of YIVO and of other
groups interested in Jewish liter-
ature.
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