(Jewish Daily Bullstin)
The Western Reserve University of Cleveland will confer the Degree of Doctor of Letters on Dr. Abba Hillel Silver at its forthcoming commencement exercises, June 14.
This is the first time that a Jew has been given this distinction by the university.
Doctor Silver who graduated from the Hebrew Union College in 1915 and received his doctorate there in 1925, has been rabbi of the temple, Cleveland, for the past eleven years. He frequently lectured before the students of Western Reserve University. He had been actively identified with the cultural and civic life of Cleveland. Last year the Macmillan Company published his book, “Messianic Speculation in Israel.” The second volume of this work is now in preparation.
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