American Jewish Committee, 1947-1957

1947-1949, 1950-1954, 1957. Correspondence with Haber and Marshall regarding the "Conclusions and Recommendations of the Conference on Higher Education for Jews." Konvitz suggests that the Conference communicate to the Executive Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who Konvitz is certain would want to cooperate with the American Jewish Committee on a program to eliminate discrimination in higher education. Correspondence with S. Andhil Fineberg regarding the American Jewish Committee's promotion of Konvitz's article on church-state relations. Correspondence with Nathan Schachner regarding the possibility of Doctor Konvitz writing some articles for magazines of national circulation. Schachner explains that the American Jewish Committee is interested in placing articles in national magazines which were written by prominent Jews and that disassociate the public's perceived relationship between Jews and Communists and between liberals and Communists. Schachner suggests that Konvitz could explain 1) that the American Jewish labor movement, especially in the garment industry, has been non-Communist and liberal in tendencies and 2) liberal thought is opposed to the totalitarianism of Communism (February 24, 1948).