Physical Location:
Related Materials:
For materials on the
Faculty Forum, Public Lectures (1962-1964), please see the Graduate School (Box 15);
Physical Location:
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For materials on the
Public Lectures (1962-) under the Earl Warren Institute of Ethics and Human Relations, please see Box 15;
Physical Location:
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For materials on the
Library Lecture Series (1964-), please see the University Institute (Box 15).
Physical Location:
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For materials on the
Public Lecture Series (1976-), please see the Department of Continuing Education (Box 18).
Scope and Content Note
Includes a program from the Annual series, "Six Public Lectures" and news clippings of various
lectures.
Biography/Organization History
Historical Note:
Under the School of Education, many distinguished professors and visiting scholars would
teach at the University and give public lectures. The visiting scholars who lectured included Martin Buber,
Simon Halkin, Naftali Tur-Sinai, Paul Chertoff, Abraham Menes, Shlomo Noble, Shalom Spiegel, Ernst Simon,
Leo Strauss, Zvi Scarfstein (The Role of the Heder in Jewish Life, Past and Present, in Yiddish;
Life and Culture in Present Day Palestine, in Hebrew),
Elias Bickerman, and Mordecai M. Kaplan (The Future of the American Jew). They were organized
by the Lecture Series Committee, whose chairmen include Cyrus Levinthal, J. J. Lieberman, Jacob Kohn,
Harold Easton, Charles Brown, Dore Schary, Nathan Saltzman, Charles Zibbell, David Winston (Enduring Values in Judaism), Abraham
Heschel (Judaism and
the Moral Problem), Judah Goldin (The Role of Midrash in Jewish Thought) and Joseph Schulman. The lectures were hosted by
Congregation Sinai, Sinai Fellowship, Temple B'nai Israel of Pasadena, Southwest B'nai Zion Temple Center, Israela, the Valley
Jewish
Community Center, Temple Beth El of Hollywood, and more. This program moved to the Earl Warren Institute of Ethics and Human
Relations
around 1962 and later to the Department of Continuing Education.