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Box 21

 Container

Contains 34 Results:

Kallen, 1967

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with persons whom Konvitz solicited each year for contributions to the Horace Kallen Chair Fund. From the Fund, Kallen was paid his salary by the New School for Social Research from 1952 until his death in 1974. Correspondence with Alfred J. Marrow regarding Kallen's retirement from the New School (April 13, 1967)

Dates: 1967

Kallen Lecture, 1972-1974

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Copies of Konvitz's remark about Kallen, and book reviews by Konvitz on works by Kallen. Articles by Kallen and newspaper clippings about him. A list of the pictures of people on the walls of Kallen's study.

Dates: 1972-1974

Kallen Festschrift - Correspondence A-H, 1945-1952

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

1945-[1947], 1952. Correspondence with various contributors to Freedom and Experience and others regarding the preparation and essays for the festschrift. Also correspondence with various people regarding contributions to the Kallen chair and Kallen's 65th birthday celebration fund.

Dates: 1945-1952

Kallen Festschrift - Correspondence I-P, 1947

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Routine correspondence with contributing authors to Freedom and Experience regarding the book's preparation. Correspondence with various people regarding contributions to Kallen's 65th birthday celebration fund.

Dates: 1947

Kallen Festschrift - Correspondence Q-Z, 1946-1947

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

1946-[1947]. Routine correspondence with contributing authors to Freedom and Experience regarding the book's preparation. Correspondence with various people regarding contributions to Kallen's 65th birthday celebration fund. Copy of a letter from Horace Kallen to Earle F. Waldridge, Reference Assistant at New York University Square Library, in which Kallen lists his publications (May 22, 1946).

Dates: 1946-1947

Kallen - Honors and Benefits, 1951-1965

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with contributors to the Horace Kallen Salary Fund and related materials. Correspondence between Konvitz and Donald C. Ottis regarding Ottis' plan for writing an anthology of Kallen's selected writings. Doctor Konvitz suggests that Ottis limit the anthology to Kallen's thoughts on cultural pluralism because he believes that in perspective of intellectual history Kallen's contribution to this subject will be judged to have been his most important contribution (May 3, 1962).

Dates: 1951-1965

Kaplan, Mordecai M., 1949-1953

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents

Mordecai Kaplan, Chairman of the Jewish Reconstruction Foundation, Incorporated. Correspondence regarding the Reconstructionist. Konvitz served on its Editorial Board

Dates: 1949-1953

Karp, Abraham J. (Rabbi), 1957-1980

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to a publication about Doctor Konvitz's grandfather; need for a study of underlying principles of Jewish law; Konvitz's appointment to the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton during his sabbatical from Cornell University; literary matters, speaking engagements, substantial amount of personal and routine correspondence.

Dates: 1957-1980

Karp, Abraham J. (Rabbi), 1957-1980

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to a publication about Doctor Konvitz's grandfather; need for a study of underlying principles of Jewish law; Konvitz's appointment to the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton during his sabbatical from Cornell University; literary matters, speaking engagements, substantial amount of personal and routine correspondence.

Dates: 1957-1980

Katsh, Abraham I. (President Dropsie University), 1946-1980

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents

Correspondence regarding Konvitz receiving honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Rutgers University; includes reports and speeches of Katsh during his presidency; Konvitz delivered Commencement Address at Dropsie and received honorary degree; very substantial amount of personal correspondence.

Dates: 1946-1980