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Appointment of Seymour Siegel as Executive Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council

November 09, 1982

The President today announced his intention to appoint Seymour Siegel to be Executive Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. This is a new position. He is currently serving as professor of ethics and theology at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, N.Y. He has been professor of humanities and medicine at the Medical College of Pennsylvania since 1980. He was chairman of the department of philosophies of Judaism, the Jewish Theological Seminary, in 1960-1980; the

Ralph Simon Professor of .Ethics and Theology. the Jewish Theological Seminary, in 1970-1980; senior research fellow, the Kennedy Institute of Bioethics, Georgetown University, in 1976-1977; and dean of the Herbert H. Lehman Institute of Ethics, the Jewish Theological Seminary, in 1960-1969.

He graduated from the University of Chicago (B.A., 1958) and the Jewish Theological Seminary (M.A.; Ph.D., 1968). He resides in New York City. He was born September 12, 1927.

Ronald Reagan, Appointment of Seymour Siegel as Executive Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/245332

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