Box 15

Letter from Doctor Konvitz to Dean David A. Thomas, School of Business and Public Affairs at Cornell, on the possibility of a grant to the Hebrew Culture Foundation from the Merrill Trust.

1963 [1965] 1966. Letter from Professor Stuart M. Brown, Junior, Dean of Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, relative to the teaching of modern Hebrew language and literature at Cornell (October 7, 1965). Correspondence with Doctor James A. Perkins, President of Cornell. Konvitz informs Perkins of the Foundation's decision to support a position in modern Hebrew language and literature (October 26, 1965).

[1962- ] 1962. Correspondence with Louis E. Levinthal, former Chairman of the Hebrew Culture Foundation; and other correspondence relating to routine Foundation matters

Memorandums and minutes of Board of Directors meetings for each year between 1963 and 1979 and correspondence on the activities and finances of the Foundation.

1976-1979. Includes minutes of Board of Directors meetings, financial information, and copies of the report, "The Hebrew Culture Foundation 1955-1978," by Abraham P. Gannes (November 1977)

[1962- ] 1962-1963. Correspondence with Doctor Emanuel Neuman, President of the Tarbuth Foundation, Incorporated

[1962- ] 1962-1965. Correspondence with Judah J. Shapiro, Secretary of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. In a letter from Shapiro, written on the behalf of Doctor Nahum Goldmann of the World Zionist Movement, Shapiro informs Konvitz that Goldmann wants Konvitz to serve on a United States and Canada committee and to attend the committee meetings in Geneva between August 23 and August 26, 1965, at the expense of the World Zionist Organization (May 14, 1965).