Dr. Joseph Herman Herz, chief rabbi of England, will be awarded the Townsend Harris medal by the Associate Alumni of the City College of New York at the 53rd annual dinner to be held at the Commodore Hotel tonight. The prize goes each year to graduates who have made distinguished records in their respective fields.
Dr. Hertz, who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1872, came to the United States as a child and at nineteen graduated from City College with the class of 1891. He took his P.h.D. at Columbia and also studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. During the Boer War he officiated in a Jewish congregation in Johannesburg, Africa, and later was expelled from that country for entertaining pro-British sympa thies. On another count, that of having advocated granting full citizenship privilges to the Jews and Catholics in South Africa, he was exiled. For two years he held a chair in philosophy at Transvaal University College.
In 1913 he was elected as the successor to Dr. Herman Adler as chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire. In 1925 he was named a member of the Board of Governors of the University of Jerusalem. He has written a considerable number of books dealing with Jewish questions, and is affiliated with many philanthropic, social civic, religious and peace organizations all over the world.
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