Moshe Lazar (July 4, 1928 – December 13, 2012, was a professor of comparative literature and drama at the

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(and the founder of the school's comparative literature department). Prior to his arrival at USC in 1977, he served as the Dean of the School of Visual and Performing Arts (of which he was also the founder) at the

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. Lazar wrote more than 40 books over the course of his academic career and also translated numerous

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, Spanish, and Italian plays into

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for performance on the

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i stage. Lazar received his M.A. in 1951 from

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and his Ph.D. from the Sorbonne in 1957. He also received an honorary doctorate from the

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(now the American Jewish University) in 1990 and an Orden del Mérito Civil from the consul general of

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in 1993, and was awarded the Raubenheimer Outstanding Senior Faculty Award by USC in 2003.

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