Jaleesa Jones
Jaleesa Jones is an author at Religion News Service.
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102-year-old finally awarded Ph.D. she was denied under Nazis
By Jaleesa Jones — June 11, 2015
When Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport first submitted her doctoral thesis on diphtheria in 1938, she was barred from completing her oral defense under Hitler's Nuremberg Race Laws, which disenfranchised citizens with Jewish ancestry.
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