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Rabbi Herman Schaalman, The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education

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Julius Rosenwald Memorial Award for outstanding service to local Jewry was presented to Rabbi Herman Schaalman by the Federation in September of 1999. Rabbi Schaalman was the 37th recipient of the award. 

In 1935 Herman Schaalman was invited by the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion to continue his studies with them instead of continuing in Germany. He became one of 11 scholars the College - Institute saved from the Nazis. He was ordained a rabbi in 1941 from the College - Institute.