Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Isadore Twersky '51, associate professor of Hebrew and Jewish History, has been named the Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, he will fill the chair vacant for seven years, which was previously held by his former teacher, Harry A. Wolfson...
...Msgr. George L. Gingras of the Roman Catholic archdiocese in the capital, and Rabbi Richard G. Hirsch of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. University of Chicago Divinity School Instructor Jay Wilcoxen arrived home to find that his wife had taken it upon herself to get him a plane reservation. Eight other Chicago faculty members caught the first plane south; two came from Yale's divinity school and at least one from Harvard's. In nearby Roxbury, the Rev. James J. Reeb, whose work was largely with impoverished Negroes, decided that...
...issue contains two scholarly tracts, two reviews, many poems, and three undefinable articles. These last are particularly interesting. In passing, however, let me note that some of the poetry is very good, especially the translations by Robert Adler from the Hebrew works of Abraham Shlonsky. I can't speak for their accuracy; but Mr. Adler has constructed poetic lines of terse and powerful English...
...sick and the aged. When the camp was liberated, he persuaded the surviving prisoners not to take their vengeance on Nazi officials turned over to them by the Russians. Until his death, at 83, Baeck lived in London, although for five years he commuted to Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College to lecture on Jewish history. The future of Judaism, Baeck believed, lay in the U.S.-the only country in history that has allowed 5,000,000 Jews to live in freedom...
...former Army chaplain in Korea, Wine studied philosophy at the University of Michigan, graduated from Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College in 1956. Two years ago, he urged a group of Detroit Jews who were doubtful of their faith to start their own congregation; last July, after the expiration of his contract at Temple Beth-El in Windsor, Ont., Wine moved across the river to serve as their rabbi. Since then, Birmingham Temple has grown from eight families to more than 140, most of them young couples...