Mr. Nahum Sokolov, President of the Zionist World Organisation and the Jewish Agency for Palestine, had the honorary degree of Doctor of Hebrew Letters conferred upon him by the Jewish Institute of Religion at a special convocation yesterday afternoon.
In conferring the degree, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, President of the Institute, said: Nahum Sokolov, master of Jewish learning, classic figure in the tradition of Jewish letters, one of a small company, including Ben Yehuda, Achad Ha’am and Bialik, who have helped to shape the living Hebrew tongue upon the anvil of Jewish national hopes, revered and cherished throughout the Jewish world as pioneer in many and varied intellectual, literary and spiritual enterprises-the Jewish Institute of Religion is honoured to confer upon you the degree of the intellectual achievements and the literary mastery of a great son of our people. The Jewish Institute of Religion asks you to accept this degree in token of its reverence for your creative learning, in gratitude for your lifetime of Jewish service.
Judge Julian W. Mack, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Institute of Religion, presided, In introducing Mr. Sokolov he spoke of the distinguished place which Nahum Sokolov had won for himself for half a century in the field of Jewish learning and for more than a generation in the cause of Zionism.
Judge Mack spoke warmly of his admiration for Mr. Sokolov as President of the Jewish Agency for Palestine and as the leader of the Zionist movement. He has greatly served in two realms, he said, the realm of learning and the realm of achievement, and he has been distinguished in both.
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