Institute for Religious and Social Studies, 1947-1950

Personal correspondence from Oscar I. Janowsky, Chairman of the Provisional Academic Council of the Jewish Museum, asking Doctor Konvitz to join the Council, which is sponsored by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (October 31, 1949). Correspondence with Doctor Louis Finkelstein, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary and President of the Institute for Religious and Social Studies, about Finkelstein's criticisms of Konvitz's paper, "Judaism and the Democratic Ideal," which Konvitz prepared for the volume, Judaism and the Jews (February 17, 1947). Correspondence with Professor R.M. MacIver, Department of Sociology at Columbia University, relative to Konvitz's lecture at the Institute on "The Cost of Discrimination to the United States: The Domestic Scene, Law" on December 9, 1947. Also personal correspondence with Finkelstein.