The Senate of Trinity College, third oldest university in the British Isles, announced today the creation of a chair in Hebrew, and its occupant, Dr. Jacob Weingreen, became the first Jew to hold a permanent professorship in Ireland.
Trinity College, the only teaching unit of Dublin University, was established in 1591 and ranks with Oxford and Cambridge in academic standing. Although Hebrew has been on its curriculum for several centuries, there has been no chair in this subject hitherto.
Dr. Weingreen is an orthodox Jew who formerly taught in a local Talmud Torah (Jewish religious primary school). He is widely traveled and took part in archaeological excavations in Samaria, Palestine, in conjunction with the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and with universities in England and the United States.
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