American Jewish Committee - Alfred L. Bernheim, John Slawson, 1946-1953

1946-1951, 1953. Correspondence with Alfred L. Bernheim regarding Subcommittee on the Jewish University report. Doctor Konvitz expresses his dissatisfaction with the initial report and disagrees with H.L. Lurie. Konvitz believes that Jews can cooperate in establishing a secular Jewish university (January 19, 1948). Copy of H.L. Lurie's letter (January 8, 1948). Final draft of the Statement of the "Subcommittee on Jewish Universities of the Conference on Higher Education." Konvitz, William Haber, Elliot C. Cohen, Sidney Hook, and Horace M. Kallen were members of the Subcommittee. Correspondence regarding appointment of a director of a project to combat discrimination in higher education. Letter to Messieurs William Haber and James Marshall regarding the memorandum on "The Jewish University" (December 18, 1946). Konvitz comments at length on the question of establishing such a University. With Slawson, Konvitz unsuccessfully tries to secure funds from the American Jewish Committee to finance a pictorial project by photographer Roman Vishniac of Hitler's victims still in concentration camps in Europe. Konvitz comments that the American Jewish Community owes it to world Jewry to preserve an historical record in photographs of the situation in Europe and of the impact of Nazism (December 3, 1946). Correspondence with Slawson regarding publication and several drafts of Civil Rights Committee interim reports.