{{Short description|Psychologist (1890–1965)}} '''Abraham Aaron Roback''' (June 19, 1890 – June 7, 1965) was a Jewish American psychologist and promoter of Yiddish.<ref name="Shook2005">{{cite book|author=John R. Shook|title=Dictionary Of Modern American Philosophers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DsKvAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA2057|year=2005|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-84714-470-6|pages=2057–8}}</ref>
==Biography== Roback was born in Goniondz, Russian Empire (now Poland). He was the youngest of four children to Isaac Roback and Leba Rahver. The family emigrated to Montreal in 1892, where he attended public schools. He graduated from McGill University in 1912, having studied philosophy with J.W.A. Hickson and experimental psychology with William Dunlop Tait. He studied for a Ph.D. under Hugo Münsterberg at Harvard University,<ref name="Shook2005"/> where he later taught for several years. He also taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Northeastern University, Clark University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<ref name=JTA>[https://www.jta.org/1965/06/08/archive/dr-a-a-roback-noted-psychologist-and-strong-supporter-of-yiddish-dead Dr. A. A. Roback, Noted Psychologist and Strong Supporter of Yiddish. Dead], ''JTA'', 8 June 1965.</ref>
Roback built a 10,000 volume Yiddish library for Harvard, and introduced the first US academic course in Yiddish literature in 1929 for the Massachusetts University Extension. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on June 7, 1965.<ref name=JTA/>
==Works== * ''Jewish Influence in Modern Thought'' (1929)
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==External links== {{wiktionary|ethnophaulism}} *{{Internet Archive author |sname=Abraham Aaron Roback |birth=1890 |death=1965}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20150404022003/http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou01944 Abraham Aaron Roback papers] (MS Am 2518) at Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA *[http://www.yivoarchives.org/?p=collections/controlcard&id=32962 Abraham Aaron Roback papers] (RG 596) at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, NY *[https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn230 Abraham Aaron Roback collection] at the Canadian Jewish Archives
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