Dates

• Existence: 1897-1983
• Existence: 1897 - 1983

Biographical Note

Samuel Rezneck was born in Poland in 1897. After attending grammar and high school in Fall River, Massachusetts he received an A. B. degree from Harvard College in 1919 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1926. From 1921 to 1923 he was Instructor in History at Ohio State University and a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University and Radcliffe College from 1923 to 1925. He was Professor of History and Political Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 1925 until his retirement in 1962 as Professor Emeritus. Professor Rezneck was the author of over 50 articles and books including Education for a Technological Society; a sesquicentennial History of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1968), Business depressions and financial panics, essays in American business and economic history (1968), Profiles out of the past of Troy, New York, since 1789 (1970), Unrecognized patriots: the Jews in the American revolution (1975), and The saga of an American Jewish family since the Revolution: a history of the family of Jonas Phillips (1980). He died in 1983 in Washington, DC.

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