Person

Misrahi, Jean

1910–1970

Jean Misrahi memorial volume, 1977: page v (Jean Misrahi, 1910-1970) page ix-xi (Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1933; instructor in Romance languages at Brooklyn College from 1933 to 1938, professor at Fordham University from 1938 to 1968 and served as chair of the Department of Romance Languages for over ten years, professor at Brown University from 1968 to 1970; appointed a member of the Columbia University Faculty Seminar on Medieval Studies in 1952, and recieved the Palmes Académiques from the French government in 1966; suffered a heart attack and a stroke in 1968 and another fatal stroke)