Professor Benjamin Mazar, president and rector of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 1952 through 1961, received the honorary degree of Doctor of Hebrew Letters from The Jewish Theological Seminary of America at a special meeting of the faculties of the institution held last night.
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