Scope and Contents 1957-1958, 1960-1962. Detailed correspondence with David S. Blanchard, Deputy Director of the International Labor Office, Washington Branch, in regard to the possibility of the International Labour Organization assisting in the establishment of an Institute or Department of Labor Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Professor Konvitz explains that he was commissioned by the University to attempt to devise a plan for the establishment of a labor studies department or institute...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with various people including Jack Barbash, Dean Catherwood, and Jacob Seidenberg relative to the study of the use of the injunction in labor disputes by courts in certain areas of New York state. The project included a quantitative study of the court records of New York and Kings Counties with the purpose of uncovering all the labor injunctions which were litigated from 1935 to June 1950. Also, the project included a study of the impact of the injunctions on collective...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Joseph Dye, Industrial and Labor Relations research assistant, relative to the study of labor injunction cases in Niagara and Erie Counties. Konvitz also wrote letters to several labor attorneys in these counties introducing Dye and asking them to grant Dye an interview in order to ascertain their views as to the efficiency of the Little Norris-La Guardia Act in New York State. Konvitz explained that Dye's study was being conducted independently of the United States...

Scope and Contents Personal correspondence from Oscar I. Janowsky, Chairman of the Provisional Academic Council of the Jewish Museum, asking Doctor Konvitz to join the Council, which is sponsored by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (October 31, 1949). Correspondence with Doctor Louis Finkelstein, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary and President of the Institute for Religious and Social Studies, about Finkelstein's criticisms of Konvitz's paper, "Judaism and the Democratic Ideal," which...

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1947-1952, 1962-1963, 1965, 1967, 1969-1973, 1975- 1976. Correspondence with members of the Board of trustees of the Institute; and other persons regarding the Institute's financial affairs.

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1950, 1952, 1960, 1962-1971. Correspondence with various people regarding the activities and financial affairs of the Institute. Correspondence with Professor Charles Morris, University of Florida and President of the Institute, relative to its future. It was decided to merge the Institute with the Minnesota Center for Philosophy (December 1, 1966). Related correspondence and materials.

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The Institute was legally dissolved on February 22, 1973 and its assets were turned over to the Philosophy of Science Association, East Lansing, Michigan, in June 1976. Correspondence and financial documents regarding the affairs and dissolution of the Institute.

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1947, 1950-1955, 1957, 1959-1961. Correspondence and financial documents relative to the financial affairs of the Institute.

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Routine correspondence from the Ad Hoc Committee for Intellectual Freedom. Konvitz is a sponsor of the Committee.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with publishers, journals, law schools, and sponsors of conferences inviting Doctor Konvitz to make submissions. Letter from Lewis Mumford, thanking Konvitz for his "perceptive and penetrating" review in the December 19, 1970 Saturday Review of Mumford's book, The Myth and the Machine: The Pentagon of Power (December 21, 1970). Correspondence with Paul Kurtz, Editor of The Humanist. Konvitz responded to a request by Kurtz to answer three questions regarding campus turmoil,...