Piece of history
To the editor:
With all due respect to Sara Paretsky and to one of my favorite Kansas University professors, her father, David Paretsky, former head of KU’s microbiology department, I believe that Solomon Lefschetz was most likely KU’s first Jewish professor. Lefschetz was a renowned mathematician, who left KU in 1924 to go to Princeton, where he has been recognized as Princeton’s first Jewish professor.
Joel Green,
Seattle