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The son of a Holocaust survivor who fled antisemitic pogroms in Eastern Europe, Bacow, 70, took over as the Ivy League university’s 29th president on July 1, 2018, after previously heading Tufts...
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Lawrence Bacow, who began his new position as the Harvard...
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Bacow was born on August 24, 1951, in Detroit, Michigan, to Jewish parents. His mother emigrated from Europe at age 19 after World War II and was the only member of her family to survive Auschwitz. His father was brought to the United States from Belarus as a child to escape pogroms.
Son of a Holocaust survivor and refugee, Lawrence Bacow sees his new position as way to disseminate the 'enduring values of colleges as enablers of the American dream'.
Bacow grew up in Pontiac, Michigan, the son of Jewish immigrants intimately familiar with the horrors of the Holocaust, and like his father, a lawyer, became an Eagle Scout.
The son of a Holocaust survivor who fled antisemitic pogroms in Eastern Europe, Bacow, 70, took over as the Ivy League university’s 29th president on July 1, 2018, after previously heading Tufts...
Mr Bacow is the third Jewish Harvard president of the last four, will take over from Drew Gilpin Faust, the first woman to hold the position, in June. The academic is the son of a Holocaust...
Lawrence Bacow, who began his new position as the Harvard president on July 1, and his wife, Adele Fleet Bacow, plan to spend some of the High Holidays at religious services at the Ivy League...
