Abstract
George Szabad, who died on 30 March 2002 at his home in Haverford, Pennsylvania, at the age of 85 , was one of the most committed and effective of the supporters both of the American Association of Polish–Jewish Studies and of our yearbook. Born on 21 February 1917 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, of a Polish Jewish family which had been evacuated to central Russia during the war, he was raised in Warsaw. He was related to the prominent Jewish activist in Vilna, Tsemakh Shabad (Szabad), who was elected to the Polish senate in 1928, and he often referred...