Kallen, Horace M. - Personal., 1929-1948

Correspondence with Professor Horace M. Kallen. An exchange of letters on the reaction of the Christian world to the Palestine situation (February 9, 1948). Kallen comments on Konvitz's letter to Lessing Rosenwald. Kallen believes that Rosenwald's motivation is that of the crowd - purely emotional. Kallen asks Konvitz to join him on the executive board of the Institute on Church and State and to prepare a pamphlet for it (February 6, 1948). Copy of a letter from Kallen to Billikopf; Kallen explains in detail how he came to the idea of cultural pluralism while he was an undergraduate at Harvard University (December 30, 1947). Kallen comments on the final sessions of the Presidential Commission on higher education, on which he is a member (November 6, 1947). Other correspondence in which Kallen discusses such topics as the New School, democracy for communication in school systems, cultural pluralism, the American Association for Jewish Education, Palestine, and the behavior and attitude of the Christian world to Jews. Correspondence regarding publication and personal matters. A The Jewish Tribune article by Kallen on "The Ways of Job: The 'Chosen People' Under the Christian Government of God with Man, Still Remain Outlaws from the Fellowship of Mankind" (August 2, 1929). Also, a July 4, 1929 Forward review of Kallen's book Frontiers of Hope - Outlook for Palestine Jewry - Old Settlements and New.