Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Abba A. Solomon

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Abba A. Solomon is a researcher of the history of American Jews and Zionism. He is the author of the book The Speech, and Its Context: Jacob Blaustein’s Speech “The Meaning of Palestine Partition to American Jews,” Given to the Baltimore Chapter, American Jewish Committee, February 15, 1948, and the collection of essays, The Miasma of Unity: Jews and Israel.

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