Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945

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Ernst Cassirer was a German philosopher of Jewish origin. He was one of the major figures in the development of philosophical idealism in the first half of the 20th century. Influenced by Hermann Cohen and rooted in the Marburg tradition of Neo-Kantianism, Cassirer developed a philosophy of culture as a theory of symbols founded on a phenomenology of knowledge -- (Wikipedia)

Ugo Carusi was the United States immigration commissioner in World War II and then helped to resettle hundreds of thousands of European refugees during the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations and later on he was involved in aid to South Vietnamese refugees -- (New York Times, July 30, 1994)