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Box 12

 Container

Contains 37 Results:

F, 1956-1966

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents Routine correspondence wit Justice Thomas E. Fairchild, State of Wisconsin Supreme Court, including Konvitz's discussion of Rabbi Gilbert's paper at a 1963 Church-State Conference (October 16-November 4, 1963). Correspondence with George H. Fowler, member of the New York State Commission Against Discrimination (January 9, 1959). Correspondence with Doctor L.M. Fruchtbaum, member of the National Executive Committee of Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonization. Correspondence with...
Dates: 1956-1966

First Amendment Freedoms, 1963-1968

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 25

Doctor Louis Finkelstein (Jewish Theological Seminary), 1951-1964

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents 1951-1953, 1955-1957, 1961- 1964. Correspondence with Doctor Louis Finkelstein, Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Finkelstein asked Konvitz to attend a preliminary meeting with Professor Mordecai Kaplan, Professor Erich Fromm, and himself to discuss a plan for the investigation of ethics in the Jewish tradition as it applies to modern life (April 11, 1957). Konvitz spoke on "The Solution to Practical and Moral Problems Through the Use of Reason: In Advancement of...
Dates: 1951-1964

Finkelstein, Doctor Louis [Jewish Theological Seminary], 1966-1978

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents

1966-1969, 1971-1972, 1978. The faculty of the Seminary unanimously voted, and the Board of Directors unanimously approved, to award Konvitz the Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the Seminary at its June 4, 1972 Commencement Exercises (March 23, 1972). Letter from Konvitz to Finkelstein expressing Konvitz's concern about the future of Dropsie College (November 14, 1966). Other correspondence with Finkelstein regarding routine publication, scholarly and personal matters.

Dates: 1966-1978

Ford Foundation, 1952-1959

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents 1952-1953, 1955, 1957, 1959. Doctor Konvitz participated in a meeting of scholars knowledgeable about Liberia, which was convened for September 19, 1957, by the Ford Foundation. The purpose of the meeting was to explore the possibility of expanding American knowledge ad academic resources relating to Liberia. Confidential reports and memorandum regarding the need for an interdisciplinary social and economic study of Liberia are included (August 9, 1957). Correspondence with Doctor Rose...
Dates: 1952-1959

Foreign Requests and Correspondence, 1954-1965

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents 1954, 1956-1959, 1961, 1963-1965. Correspondence from Professor L.C. Green, Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Law at University of Singapore, offering Konvitz a one-year appointment as a visiting professor (February 8, 1965). Correspondence with Doctor Chiam Raphael, British Treasury Chambers, and with Doctor S. Clement Leslie, Treasury Chambers, regarding Konvitz's efforts to have Leslie invited to Cornell University as a lecturer (October 2,...
Dates: 1954-1965

Forman, Judge Philip, 1947-1979

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents

1947-1948, 1950, 1953, 1957, 1959-1961, 1965-1970, 1972-1974, 1977-1979. Correspondence with Judge Philip Forman, United States Court of Appeals, regarding personal matters. Forman provides detailed accounts of his activities, work and health. Konvitz's letters also contain similar information.

Dates: 1947-1979