Home News Tribune - April 08, 1981
Professor Morroe Berger, expert on jazz, Near East
Princeton – Morroe Berger, 63, a Princeton University sociology professor, an authority on the contemporary Near East, and a jazz scholar, died in his sleep yesterday of a heart attack. The New York City-born sociologist was a prolific writer and frequent lecturer on the Near East, on popular culture in the United States, and on the sociological analysis of political power. In 1975, he and jazz saxophonist Benny Carter made a concert and lecture tour of the Middle East under the sponsorship of the U.S. State Department.
Mr. Berger's recently completed book about Benny Carter, written in collaboration with his son, Edward, Mr. Berger, and with James Patrick of the State University of New York, will be published this summer. Berger's other works include "Racial Equality and the Law." "The New Metropolis in the Arab World;" "Islam in Egypt Today;" and "Real and Imagined Worlds: Social Science and the Novel."
A 1942 graduate of the City College of New York, Mr. Berger earned his master's and doctoral degrees at Columbia University. During World War II, he served in the infantry, air corps, and military intelligence as an enlisted man and an officer. Mr. Berger joined the Princeton faculty in 1952 after several years as a research specialist with community agencies. Over the years, he has held visiting professorships at the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia, Harvard, and the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. Under the auspices of Princeton's Program in Near Eastern Studies, he spent three academic years in Egypt doing research, most recently in 1964-65.
Mr. Berger is survived by his wife, the former Paula Wainer; three sons, and a brother and sister. Funeral Services will be tomorrow at 1 p.m. in the Kimble Funeral Home, 1 Hamilton Ave., Princeton. Burial will be in Beth Israel Cemetery, Woodbridge.
Professor Morroe Berger, expert on jazz, Near East
Princeton – Morroe Berger, 63, a Princeton University sociology professor, an authority on the contemporary Near East, and a jazz scholar, died in his sleep yesterday of a heart attack. The New York City-born sociologist was a prolific writer and frequent lecturer on the Near East, on popular culture in the United States, and on the sociological analysis of political power. In 1975, he and jazz saxophonist Benny Carter made a concert and lecture tour of the Middle East under the sponsorship of the U.S. State Department.
Mr. Berger's recently completed book about Benny Carter, written in collaboration with his son, Edward, Mr. Berger, and with James Patrick of the State University of New York, will be published this summer. Berger's other works include "Racial Equality and the Law." "The New Metropolis in the Arab World;" "Islam in Egypt Today;" and "Real and Imagined Worlds: Social Science and the Novel."
A 1942 graduate of the City College of New York, Mr. Berger earned his master's and doctoral degrees at Columbia University. During World War II, he served in the infantry, air corps, and military intelligence as an enlisted man and an officer. Mr. Berger joined the Princeton faculty in 1952 after several years as a research specialist with community agencies. Over the years, he has held visiting professorships at the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia, Harvard, and the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. Under the auspices of Princeton's Program in Near Eastern Studies, he spent three academic years in Egypt doing research, most recently in 1964-65.
Mr. Berger is survived by his wife, the former Paula Wainer; three sons, and a brother and sister. Funeral Services will be tomorrow at 1 p.m. in the Kimble Funeral Home, 1 Hamilton Ave., Princeton. Burial will be in Beth Israel Cemetery, Woodbridge.
Home News Tribune - April 08, 1981
Professor Morroe Berger, expert on jazz, Near East
Princeton – Morroe Berger, 63, a Princeton University sociology professor, an authority on the contemporary Near East, and a jazz scholar, died in his sleep yesterday of a heart attack. The New York City-born sociologist was a prolific writer and frequent lecturer on the Near East, on popular culture in the United States, and on the sociological analysis of political power. In 1975, he and jazz saxophonist Benny Carter made a concert and lecture tour of the Middle East under the sponsorship of the U.S. State Department.
Mr. Berger's recently completed book about Benny Carter, written in collaboration with his son, Edward, Mr. Berger, and with James Patrick of the State University of New York, will be published this summer. Berger's other works include "Racial Equality and the Law." "The New Metropolis in the Arab World;" "Islam in Egypt Today;" and "Real and Imagined Worlds: Social Science and the Novel."
A 1942 graduate of the City College of New York, Mr. Berger earned his master's and doctoral degrees at Columbia University. During World War II, he served in the infantry, air corps, and military intelligence as an enlisted man and an officer. Mr. Berger joined the Princeton faculty in 1952 after several years as a research specialist with community agencies. Over the years, he has held visiting professorships at the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia, Harvard, and the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. Under the auspices of Princeton's Program in Near Eastern Studies, he spent three academic years in Egypt doing research, most recently in 1964-65.
Mr. Berger is survived by his wife, the former Paula Wainer; three sons, and a brother and sister. Funeral Services will be tomorrow at 1 p.m. in the Kimble Funeral Home, 1 Hamilton Ave., Princeton. Burial will be in Beth Israel Cemetery, Woodbridge.
Professor Morroe Berger, expert on jazz, Near East
Princeton – Morroe Berger, 63, a Princeton University sociology professor, an authority on the contemporary Near East, and a jazz scholar, died in his sleep yesterday of a heart attack. The New York City-born sociologist was a prolific writer and frequent lecturer on the Near East, on popular culture in the United States, and on the sociological analysis of political power. In 1975, he and jazz saxophonist Benny Carter made a concert and lecture tour of the Middle East under the sponsorship of the U.S. State Department.
Mr. Berger's recently completed book about Benny Carter, written in collaboration with his son, Edward, Mr. Berger, and with James Patrick of the State University of New York, will be published this summer. Berger's other works include "Racial Equality and the Law." "The New Metropolis in the Arab World;" "Islam in Egypt Today;" and "Real and Imagined Worlds: Social Science and the Novel."
A 1942 graduate of the City College of New York, Mr. Berger earned his master's and doctoral degrees at Columbia University. During World War II, he served in the infantry, air corps, and military intelligence as an enlisted man and an officer. Mr. Berger joined the Princeton faculty in 1952 after several years as a research specialist with community agencies. Over the years, he has held visiting professorships at the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia, Harvard, and the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. Under the auspices of Princeton's Program in Near Eastern Studies, he spent three academic years in Egypt doing research, most recently in 1964-65.
Mr. Berger is survived by his wife, the former Paula Wainer; three sons, and a brother and sister. Funeral Services will be tomorrow at 1 p.m. in the Kimble Funeral Home, 1 Hamilton Ave., Princeton. Burial will be in Beth Israel Cemetery, Woodbridge.
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