Rabbi Dr. Irving R. Greenberg to deliver 27th Annual Wallenberg Tribute Lecture
Rabbi Dr. Irving R. Greenberg has been named lecturer and honoree for the 27th annual Wallenberg Tribute Lecture, sponsored by The Institute for Jewish-Christian Understanding of Muhlenberg College and The Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley.Wednesday, March 30, 2011 11:45 AM
The lecture, titled “Where Was God? What Did God Do? Further Reflections on the Holocaust,” will be held on Sunday, April 3, at 3:30 p.m., in Miller Forum, Moyer Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Greenberg, is a rabbi, scholar, author and philosopher, as well as Chair of the U.S .Holocaust Memorial Council. In 1953, Greenberg was ordained at Yeshiva Beis Yosef. He earned a PhD. from Harvard University and served as the rabbi of the Riverdale Jewish Center, an associate professor of history at Yeshiva University, and as a founder, chairman, and professor in the department of Jewish studies of the City College of the City University of New York. He has also served as the President of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership.
The annual lecture is named for Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Budapest Jews from the Nazis during the last year of WWII. Each year since 1984, Muhlenberg College and the IJCU have paid tribute to his courageous moral action on behalf of others with a public presentation by a significant scholar or public figure. Since the Institute’s inception in 1989, the event has included the honoring each year of one or more local individuals who are recognized for their courageous moral action on behalf of others.
