November 2

Harry Austryn Wolfson, the historian of philosophy who became the first professor to hold a chair dedicated to Jewish studies at an American university, was born in the Russian Empire.

Leo Baeck, the Berlin rabbi and theologian who led German Jewry through the Nazi years and later chaired the World Union for Progressive Judaism, died in London.

George Boole, the self-taught English mathematician whose algebra of logic later became a mathematical foundation of digital computing, was born in Lincoln.