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Scope and Contents 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...

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Correspondence with Professor Horace M. Kallen, including discussion of the fight for civil liberties (May 23, 1950), the Council for Judaism (March 21, 1952), Jewish living (August 5, 1951), and the New Leader (March 4, 1950). Correspondence regarding reviews and publication and personal matters including details of their work and daily and profound concerns, ideas, and activities.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Professor Horace M. Kallen. Professor Konvitz comments on Cornell, its library, and academic administration (October 11, 1962). Kallen discusses Jewish education (January 31, 1962), his suggestion to the Civil War Centennial Commission regarding a celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation. Doctor Konvitz mentions that George Sabine and Henry Myers were his two closest friends in Ithaca (January 3, 1961). Konvitz mentions that for the first time he has permitted his...

Scope and Contents [1963- ] 1963-1965. Correspondence with Professor Horace M. Kallen. Kallen comments on apartheid in the United States. Kallen comments on the personality and work of Sidney Hook (May 6, 1963). Correspondence between Kallen and Konvitz which discusses issues related to their daily activities, thoughts, attitudes, and concerns, including such topics as T.S. Eliot's relation with Jews, education as an "inalienable right", the New School, the American Association for Jewish Education, the...

Scope and Contents 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...

Scope and Contents 1968 [1969-1971]. Correspondence between Professor Konvitz and Kallen. Kallen discusses all aspects of his daily life, beliefs, concerns, attitudes, and ideas. The topics Kallen discusses include: Zionism (March 21, 1971); the domestic and international problems facing Israel; the conflicts and tensions in the Middle East; the political situation in China; Vietnam and American involvement in the Vietnam War; the Near East; the distinction between American democratism and Soviet Communism;...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Professor Horace M. Kallen. Kallen discusses in depth all aspects of his daily life, thoughts, emotions, and ideas. The topics Kallen discusses include: black activism and academic freedom (November 4 and 23, 1973); desegregation and the generation gap (December 23, 1973); the Arab-Israeli conflict (December 6, 1972) and the Middle East; world events and American international and domestic policies; Kissinger; Nixon; Jewish education; the Jewish Teachers Seminary (June...

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Correspondence with publishers, Kallen, Alfred J. Marrow, and Professor Rubin Gotesky regarding matters relating to the publication of Kallen's books. Also, a copy of a letter from Kallen to Paul Kurtz and Edwin H. Wilson of The Humanist explaining his reasons for not signing the Humanist Manifesto II.