Abraham Aaron Neuman (September 23, 1890 – November 20, 1970) was an American rabbi, historian, and college president.
He became a history instructor at the Teachers' Institute at the Seminary in 1912, and in 1913 he joined the faculty of Dropsie College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
His two-volume book The Jews in Spain: Their Social, Political and Cultural Life During the Middle Ages, published in 1942, was a pioneer work that attempted for the first time to reconstruct the social life of Spanish Jews based on the rabbinic responsa and then-recently published archival material.
[2] Neuman became president of Dropsie College following Cyrus Adler's death in 1940.
Under him, the College expanded its curriculum and added departments in Middle Eastern studies, education, and philosophy.
He served as a member of the Pennsylvania Constitution Commemoration Committee in 1937 to 1938, an honorary fellow of the Philadelphia Art Alliance and the Oriental Club, and a member of the American Historical Society, the American Oriental Society, the Rabbinical Assembly, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Philmont Country Club, and the Round Table Club of Philadelphia.
[6] Neuman died at the Albert Einstein Medical Center on November 20, 1970.