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...these Reform congregations have been trained at Hebrew Union College, which Dr. Wise started in Cincinnati in 1875. Last week, on the Tudor Gothic campus of Hebrew Union, 1,000 leaders of Reform Judaism met to celebrate the inauguration of the college's fourth president, Rabbi Nelson Glueck, 47. Handsome, dark-eyed Nelson Glueck (rhymes with click) became a rabbi at 23, but he is better known as one of the world's foremost archeologists. He spent ten of the last 15 years in Palestine, where he discovered and mapped 1,000 biblical cities in the Trans-Jordan...
...author of the second offering, a musical comedy on the atom bomb, is Sheldon Glueck, professor of Criminal Law and Criminalology at the Law School. Glueck sired the book and lyrics, while William Hughes, student of international law at the University of Chicago, fathered the music...
Long an expert on the problems of the war crimes trial, Glueck has written two books on the subject, defending the legal right and the value of holding such trials. In his statement yesterday, he said that many lawyers had considered the whole proceedings as hypocritical and the judgment a foregone conclusion, but that the outcome, in its careful discrimination between the defendants, showed that honest consideration had been given to them...
Professor Glueck was the advisor to Justice Robert H. Jackson when he met the representatives of England, France, and Russia at the four-power war crimes conference in London in June 1945. At that time Professor Glueck's book, "War Criminals: Their Prosecution and Punishment," was one of the few authoritative works on the subject and, according to Justice Jackson, was of considerable help to the conference...
...most recent book, "The Nuremberg Trial and Aggressive War," he took issue with those who claimed that the trial was based on ex post facto laws and was not legitimate. Professor Glueck argued that international law is to be compared to common law, which exists without written statue, and that, therefore, there is ample precedent on which to base the indictment of the German war leaders...