J, 1946-1959

1946-1955, 1957, 1959. Correspondence with R. Jespersen regarding public schools or high schools teaching non-sectarian religion (February 4, 1947). Correspondence with Jacob Pat, Executive Secretary of the Jewish Labor Committee. Pat writes (in Hebrew) his recollections of Konvitz's grandfather (August 1959). Personal correspondence with Leonard B. Job, President of Ithaca College (May 4, 1955). Correspondence with Doctor Charles S. Johnson, President of Fisk University, relative to academic matters (1950-1955). Personal letters to George M. Johnson, member of the Federal Civil Rights Commission and Dean of Howard University Law School (January 20, 1947 and June 9, 1959). Correspondence from the Jewish Statistical Bureau. Includes a confidential report of official conferences in Washington on the "Present Status of Federal Census of Religious Groups - Census of Jews" (January 30, 1948). Also a copy of a statement by S. Ralph Lazrus, Chairman of the Jewish Statistical Bureau, regarding the affairs of the Bureau (September 4, 1947). Correspondence with Professor Howard Mumford Jones, Harvard University, about each other's scholarly works. Brief outlines of a book on the American Constitution and a book on the Bill of Rights that Konvitz proposed writing for the Home University Library. Jones presented Professor Konvitz's outlines to the Oxford University Press (May 22, 1947). Other personal correspondence.