Harry Austryn Wolfson
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Harry Austryn Wolfson (November 2 1887–September 19, 1974) was a scholar, philosopher, historian, and the first chairman of a Judaic Studies Department in the United States. He was a professor at Harvard University for approximately half a century, and was a student and friend both of George Santayana and George Foot Moore. He wrote works such as a translation and commentary on Hasdai Crescas' Ohr Hashem, the philosophy of the church fathers, the repercussions of the Kalaam on Judaism, a work on Spinoza, and an analysis of Philo. In his youth he studied at the Slabodka Yeshiva under Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein.