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Blau, Joseph Leon (blou) 1909–86, American Jewish scholar and educator, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., grad. Columbia (A.B., 1931; M.A., 1933; Ph.D., 1945). He taught at Columbia from 1944, becoming professor of religion (1962–77). Like his teacher Salo Wittmayer Baron Baron, Salo Wittmayer (sä`lō vĭt`mīər bärôn`), 1895–1989, Jewish historian and educator, b. Galicia.
..... Click the link for more information. , he stressed the effect of cross-cultural influences on Judaism's development in number of books, among them The Story of Jewish Philosophy (1962), The Jews of the United States, 1790–1840 (ed. with S. W. Baron, 1963), and Judaism in America (1976). His Christian Interpretation of the Cabala in the Renaissance (1944) examined this process at work in the opposite direction. Also a student of John Dewey Dewey, John, 1859–1952, American philosopher and educator, b. Burlington, Vt., grad. Univ. of Vermont, 1879, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1884. He taught at the universities of Minnesota (1888–89), Michigan (1884–88, 1889–94), and Chicago
..... Click the link for more information. , Blau published a number of studies in American philosophy, including Men and Movements in American Philosophy (1952).