News Release (March 6, 1968)

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RELEASE NEw CoLLEGE SARASOTA, FLORIDA 33578 1 -133 -3/6/68 813 / 355-7131 Pef.: Furman C. Arthur FOP F .F.LEASE: SUNDAY, 10, 1968 SARASOTA--A leadinnscholar at the FebreH Union ColleP,e in Cincinnati l.Jill o;ive the 1968 Ben n. "P..udolnh Lecture on the }Jel.J campus Thursday at 8 n.m. Dr. Ellis Pivkin, t-1ho holds an endm red nrofessorshin in JeHish history at the HebreH Union and JeHish lnstitute :of lvill talk on "JeHs, Judaisl'l, and the of lUstory." The talk will be held in Hamilton Center on the colleP,e' s East Campus and is open l.Yithout charge to the public. NeH College, Rudolph established a series of lectures by scholars in the area of Judaism. Such scholars visit the area for several days, a public lecture at the several informal l.Jith students, and another talk to the Jewish community at Sabbath Eve services at Temple Emanu-El. Dr. Pivkin has been a member of the faculty of Hebl"etv Union for 19 years tvhere he noH holds a chair in the history department endm-1ed by newspaperman Adolnh S. Ochs. JTe also has been a Member of the faculty of r.ratz College and of Dropsie for Hebrew and Learnino:. Graduated tvith honors from Johns Eopkins University in 1941, Dr. Rivkin returned to take his doctorate there and also received a more

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NE1.J COLLEC-E 2 from Baltimore Hebrew A prolific Dr. "Pivkin has published one book another in preparation, and he has Hritten numerous articles on Je\vish history. He is the author of a number of sections of encyclopaedias with various phases of JeHish history. As an historian, he is a member of the American Historical Society, Historical Society of tsrael, Economic History Association and the Medieval Academy of America. He also is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 30 -