Box 16

Scope and Contents 1965-1969, 1971, 1973-1975, 1977-1989. Correspondence with Professor Sidney Hook, Department of Philosophy at New York University. Konvitz and Hook discuss scholarly and social issues in detail. This correspondence includes discussions regarding secular humanism (November 9, 1980); discrimination against hiring Jewish professors by prestigious American colleges and universities (March 12, 1979); student activism on American campuses; black activism at Cornell (January 19, 1969); the trial...

Scope and Contents [1960- ] 1960-1964. Correspondence with Hook on legal issues and publications. Konvitz and Hook discuss legal issues including expatriation cases, jurisprudence, constitutional liberties, preferred and strategic freedoms, Supreme Court justices, Congressional power to override Court rulings, and the statute of limitation on the charge of conspiring to organize a Communist party. Correspondence includes scholarly discussions of Konvitz's monograph, Aspects of Liberty (February 18, 1962) and...

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Scholarly and detailed correspondence with Professor Sidney Hook relating to segregation, discrimination, and principles of civil liberties (December 10, 1957; February 29, 1948; and March 19, 1948); the "United States Bill of Rights" (November 22, 1957); and the Executive Committee of the American Committee for Cultural Freedom (April 27, 1954). Correspondence on social and scholarly topics, including the publication of Professor Horace Kallen's Festschrift; and on personal matters.

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1950, 1958, 1962-1965

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1947, 1949. Personal correspondence with Doctor Bryn J. Hovde, President of the New School for Social Research.

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Literary correspondence with the editors of the Hudson Review

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1967, 1969. Correspondence with Professor Irving Howe, City University of New York, relative to Howe's project to write a book on the development of secular Jewish life in the United States between 1880 and World War II - The Jewish Experience 1890-1950. Also correspondence from Howe regarding routine activities and work of the Jewish Labor Committee (July 22, 1969) and the Young People's Socialist League.

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1947-1949, 1951, 1953. Correspondence with Henry Hurwitz, editor of the Menorah Journal. Includes detailed correspondence about Doctor Konvitz's reviews for the Journal. Copy of a letter from Hurwitz to the editor of Commentary in response to a critical letter to Commentary by Konvitz, commenting on Hurwitz's article, "Towards a Noble Community," in The Menorah Journal of Autumn 1948 (September 14, 1949). Also personal correspondence.

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Letter from Rabbi Ario S. Hyams, the Jewish Community Center, Teaneck, New Jersey. Hyams responds to Konvitz's Commentary article, "A Plea for Religious Freedom in Israel" (October 1, 1949)

Scope and Contents 1961, 1963, 1966, 1968, 1971-1981. Correspondence with Edwin Young, Secretary-Treasurer of the Industrial Relations Research Association, on Konvitz's nomination for election to the Executive Board (May 23, 1955). Correspondence with G. Israel, Secretary-General of the Alliance Israelite Universelle, on the AIU's (?) history and its relations to its counterparts in Germany, England, and the United States (June 27, 1974). Personal correspondence with George S. Ives, Chairman of the National...