Samuel Atlas

Samuel Atlas

Funding was difficult to secure. In one case, a scholar's family paid for the fellowship. Samuel Atlas, an expert in medieval rabbinics, was living in England while his wife was living in Canada. She approached the Academy and offered to deposit $2,000 with the Academy if they could sponsor her husband and bring him over from England. The Academy leadership agreed. She deposited a total of $2,400 designed to sustain him for the next two years. Eventually, Atlas joined the faculty at Hebrew Union College.