Shortly after the infamous Kristallnacht , Rosenthal left Germany in December 1938 and went to Sweden , where he was invited through the offices of the Swedish historian of religions H.S. Nyberg ( 1889 – 1974 ) . From there he went to England , where he arrived in April 1939 , and eventually came to the United States in 1940 , having received an invitation to join the faculty of the Hebrew Union College ( HUC ) in Cincinnati , Ohio . He became a US citizen in 1943 and during the war worked on translations from Arabic for the Office of Strategic Services in Washington , D.C. Following the war , he returned to academia , first at HUC and then in 1948 moved to the University of Pennsylvania . In 1956 , he was appointed the Louis M. Rabinowitz Professor of Semitic Languages at Yale . He became a Sterling Professor in 1967 and emeritus in 1985
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Franz Rosenthal