Jacob Klein (philosopher)

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Jacob Klein, "known affectionately as Jasha, was Heidegger's star graduate student in philosophy (before Heidegger went weird) and one of the world's preeminent interpreters of Plato and the Platonic tradition. He later served as dean at my undergraduate school after fleeing the Nazis, one of many Jewish scholars who were no longer safe in Europe. Simon Kaplan, a respected Jewish scholar in Russia, fled the Communists in similar fashion and later joined the faculty at St. John's as well" (Burk 2004).