Dr. Nelson Glueck, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Language at the Rebrew Union College in Cincinnati and Instructor in the Bible at the University of Cincinnati, has been appointed to-day by the Trustees of the American School for Social Research in New York as Director of the American School for Oriental Research in Jerusalem.
Dr. Glueck is the first Jew to be appointed to this post, and is believed to be also the youngest man to have been appointed to it.
Dr. Julian Morgenstorn, President of Hebrew Union College, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the American School for Social Research, declared:
It is most gratifying that a member of our Faculty, particularly one of our younger and most promising members, has been added to the list of distinguished Directors who have held this post in the past, such as Professor James A. Montgomery of the University of Pennsylvania, Professor C. C. Porry of Yale, and Professor William F. Allbright of Johns Hopkins University.
The call to Dr. Glueck is regarded as a tribute to his work in Palestine as a research fellow in archeology in 1927-1928.
The American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem is supported by 100 American Universities, and is one of the principal centres of archeological work in the Holy Land.
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