Box 16

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1966, 1968-1971, 1973-1979. Includes financial statements of the Foundation, a copy of the Foundation's certificate of incorporate, and other Foundation correspondence and material

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1966-1968, 1971-1972, 1977-1978. Correspondence with administrators. Konvitz was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters at the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, America's Seminary of Reform Judaism, on June 5, 1966.

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Correspondence with Rabbi Bernard Heller, President of Yeshiva Rabbi Joseph Konvitz, and director of the Jewish Cultural Property Division, under the American Military Government. Konvitz comments on the "home rule" proposal by Judge Hofstadter (January 19, 1951). Other correspondence relating to the Yeshiva Rabbi Joseph Konvitz and personal matters. Also a copy of the "Certificate of Incorporate of the Bernard Heller Foundation, Incorporated."

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Correspondence with Rabbi Bernard Heller, President of Yeshiva Rabbi Joseph Konvitz, and director of the Jewish Cultural Property Division, under the American Military Government. Konvitz comments on the "home rule" proposal by Judge Hofstadter (January 19, 1951). Other correspondence relating to the Yeshiva Rabbi Joseph Konvitz and personal matters. Also a copy of the "Certificate of Incorporate of the Bernard Heller Foundation, Incorporated."

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Detailed correspondence with Professor Will Herberg, Drew University, on issues relating to Jewish ethics and history, theology, and Israel. Also detailed correspondence about lectures, articles, and personal matters.

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1957-1964, 1968, 1972. Konvitz asked Herberg to consider coming to Cornell for the academic year 1959-1960 as a visiting professor, and lecturing in Professor Konvitz's American Ideals course while Konvitz is on sabbatical (January 30, 1958). Konvitz mentions that he is planning a course or seminar for the spring semester of 1960-1961 that will focus mainly on the relations between labor and religion (November 7, 1960). Other personal correspondence.

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1963-1964, 1967-1968, 1974-1975, 1977-1978. Correspondence with Professor Herbert Hill, Industrial Relations Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and former National Labor Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, relative to Konvitz's comments on Hill's manuscripts and the arrangements for visits by Hill to lecture to Konvitz's and other professors' classes in the Industrial and Labor Relations and Law Schools.

Scope and Contents 1967-1976, 1978-1979. Correspondence with Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, President of the American Jewish Congress. Konvitz agrees to participate in a dialogue on Jewishness and the creative process as part of the April 1976 Bicentennial National Biennial Convention of the American Jewish Congress. Konvitz was a member of the Governing Council of the American Jewish Congress (April 2, 1974). Konvitz nominated Hertzberg to become a member of the Cornell Board of Trustees (February 20, 1974). Copy of...

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Personal correspondence with Max J. Herzberg, Principal of Weequahic High School, Newark, New Jersey, and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English, regarding routine publication matters relating to an essay on "American Legal Writings" that Doctor Konvitz wrote for a volume Herzberg was editing on American literature. Also routine personal correspondence.