Kallen, Horace, 1965-1969

1966 - 1965-1969. Correspondence with Horace M. Kallen. Kallen comments in depth about aspects of his daily activities, concerns, attitudes, and ideas. The issues he discusses include: American involvement in the Vietnam War; alternatives to being drafted; black protests nationally and at Cornell; American domestic and international politics, the international policies and actions of the Soviet Union; Israel and the Arab countries; religious freedom and separation of church and state in the United States and Israel; the inclusion of questions on religion in the United States Census (October 14, 1967); the tensions and problems in the Middle East; the role of unions of city employees (February 17, 1968); philosophical concepts including peace and liberty; the role of the United States Supreme Court in making history (January 3, 1966); parenting (September 10, 1967); interpretation differences between Jewish and Christian perspectives regarding labor (November 10, 1966); the personalities and works of persons including Leo Jung, Bertrand Russell, Sidney Hook (September 25, 1967), Martin Luther King (April 7, 1967), Grenville Clark (February 20, 1966), and Rubin Gotesky; the politics and activities of organizations including the American Association for Jewish Education, the American Jewish Congress, Long Island University, the New School for Social Research, the Jewish Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Community Relations Advisory Council and the American Friends of Religious Freedom in Israel; his own papers, manuscripts, and lectures; his own classes; criticisms of Konvitz's work; comments on "Judaism." Also correspondence between Doctor Konvitz and contributors to the Horace Kallen Fund at the New School; Kallen's salary came from the Fund. Personal correspondence from Professor Rubin Gotesky to Konvitz with references to Kallen. Personal correspondence between Konvitz and Kallen.