Jewish Agency, 1963-1970

1963-1968, 1970. Correspondence with Isadore Hamlin, Executive Director of the Jewish Agency - American Section, about the Agency's annual grants to the Hebrew Culture Foundation, of which Doctor Konvitz was chairman. Correspondence with Rose L. Halprin, Chairman of the Jewish Agency - American Section regarding an article by Professor W.T. Mallison Junior on "Jewish peoplehood, nationality, entity, etcetera." Halprin asks Konvitz for his advice on a rejoiner to Mallison's article, and on long-range strategy to challenge the position expressed by Mallison and the Council for Judaism (October 21, 1964). Konvitz agrees with Halprin and favorably responds to her suggestion that a scholarly document on this question be written. Konvitz recommends Professors Louis Henkin and Michael N. Cardozo to prepare the legal aspects of the paper and Professor Ben Halpern and Oscar Janowsky to prepare the paper's historical arguments (October 26, 1964). Copies of letters that Halprin wrote to Phillips Talbot, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, about statements by the American Council for Judaism, taken from a reply by Talbot to a letter from the Council on the subject of "the juridicial basis of Jewish peoplehood" (May 15 and June 29, 1964). A few other Agency materials including an "Agreement for the Reconstruction of the Jewish Agency for Israel" (February 23, 1970).