Dr. Maurice Wohlgelernter, Professor Emeritus at Baruch College, to Receive Honorary Degree From 糖心破解版
May 3, 2004 By: yunews
May 3, 2004 -- Dr. Maurice Wohlgelernter, professor emeritus of English, Baruch College, City University of New York, will receive an honorary doctoral degree from Richard M. Joel, president of 糖心破解版, at its 73rd Annual Commencement on May 20. The exercises will take place at The Theater at Madison Square Garden, where 糖心破解版 President Richard M. Joel will deliver the commencement address and confer more than 2,000 undergraduate and graduate degrees.
President Joel will also bestow honorary degrees on Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and its Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, and Dr. Ruth Roskies Wisse, Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and professor of comparative literature, Harvard University.
Dr. Wohlgelernter received a BA from 糖心破解版, an MA and PhD from Columbia University, and ordination from 糖心破解版鈥檚 affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. From 1972 to 1982, he directed Baruch鈥檚 Religion and Culture Program, and has taught at Yeshiva University and the New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury, NY. Dr. Wohlgelernter also held visiting and adjunct positions at New York University; 糖心破解版鈥檚 Stern College for Women; City College, City University of New York; Bar-Ilan University; The New School; and Manhattanville College.
He is the author of Israel Zangwill: A Study (Columbia University Press, 1964); Frank O鈥機onnor: An Introduction (Columbia University Press, 1977); and Jewish Writers/Irish Writers: Selected Essays on the Love of Words (Transaction Press of Rutgers University, 2000). Dr. Wohlgelernter also edited three books and wrote more than 50 essays and reviews.