J - General Correspondence, 1950-1981

1950, 1954, 1957, 1960-1971, 1974-1981. Personal correspondence from Abner I. Jaffe, assistant Superintendent of the New York City Board of Education, on the Yeshiva of Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York (March 3, 1960). Correspondence with United States Senator Jacob Javits. Javits asks Konvitz to become an honorary committee member for a tribute to persons who have contributed most to American and world Jewry. Javits was the honorary chairman and the tribute was sponsored by the Jewish Braille Institute of America (October 22, 1974). Other routine correspondence with Javits. Correspondence from Jacob Sheinkman, President of the Jewish Labor Committee. Sheinkman, Chairman of the Eighty-Fifth Birthday Tribute to George Meany, asks Konvitz to become a member of the Sponsoring Committee of a project involving the writing of a publication interpreting Meany's role in the cause of human rights (May 4, 1979). Correspondence with Doctor H.J. Linfield, Executive Secretary of the Jewish Statistical Bureau. Confidential memorandums of the Bureau to the National Council for Statistics on Jews regarding the United States Census Bureau's proposal that it periodically compile socio-economic statistics on American religious groups. Konvitz comments that he is opposed to a question on religion in the United States Census, opposed to a question on religion in the United States Census, whether voluntary or mandatory, because he believes that such a question violates the religious clause of the First Amendment (June 10, 1966). Personal correspondence with Professor Howard Mumford Jones, Department of English at Harvard University (1965-1966, 1979). Other personal correspondence.