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 Biography: Sol Gittleman was born in Hoboken, NJ, the son of immigrant parents. He was educated in the New Jersey public school system, received his B.A. from Drew University, the M.A. from Columbia University (Comparative Literature), and the Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (Comparative Literature) in 1961. In 1962 he became an Assistant Professor of German at Mount Holyoke College and in 1964 came to Tufts University as an Assistant Professor, of German. In 1966 he was appointed Associate Professor and has been Professor of German at Tufts University since 1971. He was Chairman of the Department of German and Russian from 1966 to 1981. In 1981 he was appointed Provost and Academic Vice President, and from 1985 to 2002 he served as Senior Vice President and Provost. In 1992, Provost Gittleman was also named the Alice and Nathan Gantcher Professor of Judaic Studies. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Hebrew College in 1993, and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Stonehill College in 1996. In 2003 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from his alma mater, Drew University. In August, 2002 he stepped down as Provost after serving for twenty-one years in that position. Gittleman was named the Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor, one of three current university professors at Tufts. He is the author of books on German Literature, East European Jewish Literature and the American immigrant experience. His most recent book is The Entrepreneurial University: Tufts, 1976-2002. He continues to teach his courses on German Civilization and the rise of Nazism, the migration of East European Jewish literature to America and American baseball history. From 1975 to 1986 Professor Gittleman taught summer seminars sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities entitled "The Road to Hitler", in which he examined the cultural forces in Germany, starting at the turn of the century, which brought Nazism to power. Professor Gittleman has received two Fulbright awards, the Harbison Prize of the Danforth Foundation for Outstanding Teaching, and a citation as Professor of the Year from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. |
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Programs: Religions Of Abraham - War In The Name Of God: As we enter the 21st century, three faiths that have been tied together for 2000 years and share a patriarch as their founder are locked in a struggle on the very site in the Middle East where they began. Judaism, Christianity and Islam view Abraham as the founder of their faiths but what is it in the monotheistic religions that causes so much conflict? |
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