2 Scholars Honored at Seminary Exercises; Adler Eulogized

Tributes to Dr. Cyrus Adler, late president of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and awarding of honorary degrees to two noted Jewish scholars marked commencement exercises this afternoon at the Seminary. Twenty four students received degrees at the exercise.

Memorial addresses on Dr. Adler were delivered by Prof. Louis Ginzberg, Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Talmud, and Sol M.Stroock, chairman of the Seminary board of directors. Discussing Dr. Adler’s contribution to Jewish learning, Prof. Ginzburg said to give an adequate picture of it would be ” tantamount to a history of higher Jewish education in America of the last five decades.” Analyzing Dr. Adler’s relations to the community, Stroock said he was “at once a leader and worker in the ranks” in almost every field of human endeavor.

The honorary degree of Doctor of Hebrew Letters was conferred by Dr. Louis Finkelstein, president of the Seminary, in absentia upon Prof. Jacob Nahum Epstein of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, in recognition of his contributions to Jewish scholarship. Rabbi Israel H. Levinthal, of the Seminary Faculty and the Brooklyn Jewish Center, was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity in recognition of his important contributions to Jewish learning and his role in strengthening “religion generally in this land.”