Sol Liptzin

Solomon Liptzin or Sol Liptzin (Yiddish: סאָל ליפּצין; July 27, 1901 – November 15, 1995) was a scholar, writer, and educator in Yiddish and German literature.

Life Liptzin was born in Sataniv, Russian Empire, and moved to New York at the age of nine. He graduated from City College of New York and did postgraduate work at the University of Berlin. He earned a master's degree and Ph.D. at Columbia University. His doctoral advisor was Robert Herndon Fife.

His stay in Berlin interested him in the romantic movement in 19th-century German literature.

Starting in 1923, Liptzin taught at City College. he served as the chairman of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies. He convinced college officials that Yiddish is a Germanic language laced with Hebrew and Russian, and that it should be taught as such in college. He was a visiting professor at Yeshiva University from 1929 to 1940.

In 1962, he moved to Israel, where he taught at Haifa University (1962–1963) and the Technion (1962–1966), where he founded the humanities program.

He was a founder of Bar-Ilan University (1955) He died on 15 November 1995 in Jerusalem.