A BIOGRAPHY OF NELSON GLUECK has been published by his nephew:

Signing Features Book on Biblical Archeologist

By Val Van Meter
The Winchester Star

Are you willing to get up at 5:30 a.m. for the next five years?

That was the question Lawrence Kutler asked Rabbi Jonathan Brown as Brown began his quest to write the biography of his uncle, Nelson Glueck.

And the answer is his recently published book whose title bears his uncle’s name.

Glueck, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, lived an extraordinary life in tumultuous times, according to Alfred Gottschalk, chancellor emeritus of the Hebrew Union College, in Cincinnati, where Glueck studied and became president.

Glueck spent the first 18 years of his working life as an archaeologist in Israel, Brown noted, where he dressed like an Arab.

His next 24 years were spent heading Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and writing about the archeology of his younger days.

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Coincidentally, Glueck was mentor to America's first female rabbi, who is just now retiring:

Although [Rabbi Sally] Priesand could not find a female role model, she was mentored by a male rabbi, Nelson Glueck, who was also the president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIC).

"He very much wanted to ordain a woman. He fulfilled one of his life's goals by ordaining me," she said.