Records, 1902-1972. 1940-1972 (bulk).

Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955

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Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (born Mary Jane McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council for Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal, and resided as president or leader for myriad African American women's organizations including the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration'...

Glueck, Nelson, 1900-1972

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Rabbi, archaeologist, and president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and director of the American Schools of Oriental Research; d. 1972. From the description of Papers, 1918-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960621 Nelson Glueck served as Director of the American Schools of Oriental Research from 1936-1940. From the description of Expedition to Palestine; as related in the American Schools of Oriental Research Newsletter, 1939-1940. (Unk...

Warburg, Frieda Schiff, 1876-1958

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Frieda Schiff Warburg was born on February 3, 1876, in New York City, New York. A member of New York City's German Jewish elite, her father was a preeminent Jewish communal leader and head of the banking firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and her maternal grandfather was a founder of the banking firm. She had an opulent private education, although her formal education ended after she graduated from the Brearley School. Warburg was a philanthropist and patron of the arts. She was active in the Young Women...

Sulzberger, Arthur Hays, 1891-1968

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Arthur Hays Sulzberger (September 12, 1891 – December 11, 1968) was the publisher of The New York Times from 1935 to 1961. He was born in New York City and graduated from Columbia College in 1913; he married Iphigene Bertha Ochs in 1917. In 1918 he began working at the Times, and became publisher when his father-in-law, Adolph Ochs, the previous Times publisher, died in 1935. Sulzberger broadened the Times’ use of background reporting, pictures, and feature articles, and expanded its sections. ...

Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987

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Bayard Rustin (b. March 17, 1912, West Chester, Pennsylvania–d. August 24, 1987, Manhattan, New York) was an African-American Quaker who was concerned with nonviolence, socialism, civil rights, race relations, and international relations. He was connected with the Fellowship of Reconciliation, American Friends Service Committee, War Resisters League, Congress of Racial Equality, and Committee for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience against Military Segregation. He was imprisoned during World War II fo...

Baerwald, Paul, 1871-1961

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Chairman of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1932-1961. From the description of Paul Baerwald papers, 1925-1961. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 298686799 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Paul Baerwald was born in 1871 in Frankfurt, Germany. His father, Hermann Baerwald, was director of the Philanthropin, a Jewish high school in Frankfurt, for 31 years. Baerwald left Germany at nineteen to join the investment firm Speyer &amp...

Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem, 1881-1983

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Mordecai M. Kaplan was a rabbi, essayist and Professor of Homiletics, later Philosophies of Religion, and Dean of the Teachers Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Kaplan (1881-1983) was founder of the Reconstructionist movement in Judaism. ...

Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940

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Cyrus Adler graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1883. He later received the first American Ph.D. in Semitics from Johns Hopkins University. He taught Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins from 1884 to 1893. In 1877 he was appointed assistant curator of the section of Oriental antiquities in the United States National Museum, and had charge of an exhibit of biblical archaeology at the centennial exposition of the Ohio valley in 1888. He was a commissioner for the world's Columbian ex...

Lehman, Herbert H. (Herbert Henry), 1878-1963

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Herbert Henry Lehman (March 28, 1878 – December 5, 1963) was an American investment banker and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he notably served from 1933 until 1942 as the 45th Governor of New York and as U.S. Senator from New York between 1949 and 1957. Born in Manhattan, he attended The Sachs School and Sachs Collegiate Institute before earning a B.A. from Williams College. After graduating, Lehman worked in textile manufacturing, eventually becoming vice-president and treasu...

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965

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Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), a poet, critic, editor, and playwright, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He received a B. A. in 1909 and an M. A. in 1910 from Harvard, where he also pursued a doctoral degree in philosophy. In 1915, he married Vivienne (Vivien) Haigh-Wood. He completed his dissertation in 1916 while living in England and submitted it to Harvard, but was unable to defend it. He was literary editor of the avant-garde magazine The Egoist. In the Spring 1917, he publishe...

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

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Architect, designer; Illinois, Wisconsin and Arizona. From the description of Frank Lloyd Wright textile design studies, [ca. 1955]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86122971 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an American Architect internationally recognized for his distinctive Prairie Style houses, innovative building design, Taliesin school and fellowships, and philosophy of "organic architecture." From the guide to the Frank Lloyd Wright Miscel...

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942

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Born in Minden, Germany, on July 8, 1858, the anthropologist Franz Boas was the son of the merchant Meier Boas and his wife, Sophie Meyer. Raised in the radical and tradition of German Judaism, Franz's youth was steeped in politically liberal beliefs and a largely secular outlook that he carried with him from university through his emigration to the United States. At the universities of Heidelberg and Bonn, Boas studied physics and geography before completin...

Marshall, Louis, 1856-1929

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American Jewish communal leader, lawyer. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1900-1929]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122516821 Lawyer, civic and communal leader, civil rights advocate, labor union meditator, and philanthropist, of New York, N.Y. From the description of Papers, 1891-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70925069 Prominent Jewish-American lawyer and philanthropist. From the description of Correspondence, 1916-1929 [microform...

Damanda, Carlotta.

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Revson, Charles, 1906-1975

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Akhilananda, Swami

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La Farge, John, 1880-1963

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La Farge was a Jesuit priest. From the description of Papers of John La Farge [manuscript], 1938-1939. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647836098 Jesuit priest and author of works on race relations and religion; son of American artist John La Farge (1835-1910). From the description of John La Farge papers, 1899-1952. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58780451 ...

Lieberman, Saul, 1898-1983

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Professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. From the description of Correspondence to Chaim Potok, 1967-1980. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 725258816 Talmudic scholar. Lieberman was professor of Palestinian Literature and Institutions, dean, and rector of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. From the description of Papers, 1932-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78813415 ...

Gillman, Neil

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Rosten, Leo, 1908-1997

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Jewish-American novelist and humorist. From the description of Collection, 1937-[ongoing] (Brandeis University Library). WorldCat record id: 32440261 Author, movie script writer. From the description of Reminiscences of Leo Calvin Rosten : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122451403 American author; deputy director, United States Office of War Information, 1942-1943; consultant to the United States War...

Ginsberg, Harold Louis

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Professor and scholar at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. From the description of Correspondence to Chaim Potok, 1967-1969. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 698373049 ...

Schwartz, Delmore, 1913-1966

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Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966), writer, editor, and teacher. In 1937, shortly after graduating from New York University, Schwartz published an acclaimed short story, "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" in the first issue of Partisan Review. In addition to his writing, he served as poetry editor of the Partisan Review and later the New Republic. Schwartz wrote poetry, short stories and essays, criticism, and plays throughout his life but he never established himself as the writer that early praise s...

Scholem, Gershom, 1897-1982

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Born as Gerhard Scholem to a secular Jewish family in Berlin in 1897, Scholem was a close associate of Walter Benjamin and through his scholarly efforts and publications arguably the most important figure in spreading awareness of Jewish mysticism and the Kabbala to audiences beyond Orthodox Jewish circles. In 1923, he emigrated to Palestine, whereupon he changed his name to Gershon Scholem. In Palestine and later Israel he was a librarian and professor at Hebrew University, but remained involve...

Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963

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American author and critic. From the description of Typed letter signed : Westport, Ct., to Stark Young, 1937 Apr. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874884 Van Wyck Brooks was an author and educator, known for his study of, and influence on, American culture. After graduating from Harvard, he sought a literary career in New York and London, writing chiefly for magazines. While teaching at Stanford he developed his first books of criticism, leading up to his first signifi...

Goodman, Percival

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Architect. From the description of Reminiscences of Percival Goodman : oral history, 1989. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309744406 From the description of Oral history interview with Percival Goodman, 1979. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 495528112 Percival Goodman, 1904-1989, "architect, interior designer, planner, teacher, author and critic, and artist and illustrator, began a sev...

Bavli, Hillel, 1893-1961

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Constable, W. G. (William George), 1887-1976

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W.G. Constable (1887-1976) was an art historian and curator from Cambridge, Mass. From the description of Oral history interview with W.G. Constable, 1972 July -1973 June [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 276394203 Art historian, curator; Cambridge, Mass. Died 1976. From the description of Oral history interview with W.G. Constable, 1972 July -1973 June. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122291584 Art historian, curator; Boston, Massachusett...

Murray, John Courtney

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Ginzberg, Eli, 1911-2002

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Eli Ginzberg (1911-2002) was a faculty member at Columbia University. He was the director of the Conservation of Human Resources Project at Columbia University. A project initiated by Dwight D. Eisenhower during his presidency. From 1946 to 1982, Ginzberg served as a consultant several U.S. government agencies including Department of the Army, Department of State, Department of Labor, Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, and the General Accounting Office. From the descripti...

Marshall, James, 1892-

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Lehman, Irving G. (Irving George), 1900-1983

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Irving Lehman (1900-1983) was an American Jewish painter, sculptor, engraver, and designer. Born in Kiev in Russia, Lehman studied at Cooper Union and the National Academy of Art and spent much of his working life in New York City. Part of the Abstract Expressionist school, he worked in oil and watercolor as a painter and in metal and steel as a sculptor; his works have been shown in galleries in England, France, Italy, Israel and Japan, and were included in an international traveling exhibition...

Geffen, Joel S.

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Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969

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Painter, photographer; Roosevelt, N.J. From the description of Ben Shahn interview, 1964 Apr. 14 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82606033 Artist Ben Shahn was a Russian Jewish immigrant to New York. He apprenticed with a lithographer, studied at several New York colleges, and toured Europe, acquiring the skills to express his artistic ability. He is chiefly remembered as a muralist, painter, photographer, and printmaker, visually chronicling America during ...

Davis, Moshe, 1926-

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Wilson, Edmund

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Edmund Wilson was an American novelist, poet, essayist, and literary critic. From the description of Edmund Wilson collection of papers, 1922-1978. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122596904 From the guide to the Edmund Wilson collection of papers, 1922-1978, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) American author and critic. From the description of Typewritten letters signed...

Schecter, S. 1847-1915.

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Sperber, Alexander, 1897-....

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Halkin, Abraham S., 1903-

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Buber, Martin, 1878-1965

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Buber was a German-Jewish religious philosopher, biblical translator and interpreter, and master of German prose style. Miriam and Naëmah Beer-Hofmann were daughters of the Austrian dramatist and poet Richard Beer-Hofmann and Pauline Lissey. From the description of Letters to Miriam and Naëmah Beer-Hofmann, 1961-1965. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 78544052 Buber was a Jewish philosopher, who taught in Frankfurt, 1924-1933, and Jerusalem, 1938-1951. ...

Warren, Earl, 1891-1974

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Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. From the description of Earl Warren papers, 1864-1974 (bulk 1953-1974). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982564 Biographical Note 1891, May 19 Born, Los Angeles, Calif. 1912 B.A., University of California, Berkeley, Calif. ...

Sarnoff, David

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Ethel Lippman was born on Oct. 12, 1892 and was a friend of David Sarnoff's youth. Her parents supposedly objected to their marriage because they viewed Sarnoff as just a wireless clerk with no prospects. Instead, she married Martin Lippman, a New York lawyer. Lippman's and Sarnoff's sons attended Andover together. Ethel Lippman corresponded with Sarnoff until his final illness. She died on Sept. 17, 1987. From the description of Correspondence between David Sarnoff and Ethel Lippman...

Schocken Institute for Jewish Research

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Guggenheim, Daniel, 1856-1930

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Bialik, Ḥayyim Naḥman 1873-1934

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Rothschild, Edmond, baron de, 1845-1934

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Jewish Museum

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Institute for Religious and Social Studies.

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Jewish Theological Seminary of America. American Jewish History Center

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Organized by Jewish Theological Seminary of America to promote writing of regional and local history. From the description of Records, 1948-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80654303 ...

Kayser, Stephen S., 1900-

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University of Judaism

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Biography/History Saida Gerrard: b. April 9, 1923, Toronto, Canada. d. May 4, 2005, Los Angeles, California. Saida Gerrard was a performer, choreographer, student and teacher of modern dance. She grew up in Toronto, Canada in a family of Russian Jewish immigrants. Her parents were amateur musicians who exposed her to music and dance at an early age. As a child, she studied music and dance at the Hambourg Conservatory of Music in T...

Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970

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Russell was an English logician and philosopher. Marsh edited Russell's Logic and knowledge: essays 1901-1950 and wrote about Russell. From the guide to the Letters to Robert C. (Robert Charles) Marsh, 1950-1959., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Russell, British philosopher and mathematician and the 3rd Earl Russell. From the description of [Letter, 19]44 Dec. 8, Trinity College, Cambridge [to] Dear Sir / Bertrand Russell. (Smith C...

Cahn, Edmond Nathaniel, 1906-1964

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.Edmond Cahn was the author of numerous publications including The Sense of Injustice (1949), The Moral Decision (1955), and The Edmond Cahn Reader (1966). Cahn was born January 17, 1906, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He received a bachelor of arts degree in 1925 and a doctor of jurisprudence degree in 1927 from Tulane University. He also received a doctor of laws degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1962. After his admission to the Louisiana bar in 1927 and the New York bar in...

Scharfstein, Ẓevi, 1884-1972

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Sorokin, Pitirim Aleksandrovich, 1889-1968

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Harvard University Dept. of Sociology professor, served as the chairman of the Eastern Sociological Conference Committee on Local Arrangements. From the description of Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1931-1934. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 243847369 Ashley Montagu, born Israel Ehrenberg on June 28, 1905, was a British-American anthropologist, specializing in the areas of race and gender issues, as well as a prolific speake...

Kanof, Abram, 1903-1999

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Former Chairman, Jewish Museum, New York, N.Y.; and author. From the description of Papers, 1979-1989 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 48633469 From the description of Papers, 1858-1991, n.d. (bulk 1928-1991). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 28534430 ...

Finkelstein, Louis, 1895-1991

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Chancellor, Jewish Theological Seminary of America. From the description of Correspondence to Chaim Potok, 1955-1981. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 700038813 ...

Albright, William Foxwell, 1891-1971

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Orientalist, Professor of Semitic Languages, Johns Hopkins University, 1929-1958. From the description of Papers, 1916-1972 (inclusive). (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat record id: 181964363 William Foxwell Albright was an Orientalist, archaeologist, and linguist. He received his Ph.D. from John Hopkins in 1916 and then took a professorship there in 1927, and was the W. W. Spence Professor of Semitic Languages, 1930-1958. Albright was the ...

Locke, Alain, 1885-1954

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Alain LeRoy Locke was an African-American professor of philosophy at Howard University. From the description of Alain LeRoy Locke photograph, and funeral orations brochure, 1952-1954. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 48822627 African American teacher, philosopher, author, and critic. From the description of Papers, 1841-1983 (bulk 1898-1954). (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 70939715 ...

Kelman, Wolfe

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Executive vice president, Rabbincial Assembly. From the description of Correspondence to Chaim Potok, 1964-1975. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 704652875 ...

Samuel, Maurice, 1895-1972

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Maurice Samuel was an important writer, lecturer and journalist who made many contributions to Jewish studies and Zionism. From the description of Collection, 1915-1936 (Brandeis University Library). WorldCat record id: 272997735 ...

Schapiro, Meyer, 1904-1996

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Educator, art critic, and professor of fine arts at Columbia University, 1928-1965, University Professor, 1965-1973, Prof. Schapiro (Columbia Univ BA, 1924; MA 1926, Ph.D., 1929) died in 1996. From the description of Meyer Schapiro Correspondence with Whittaker Chambers and James Thomas Farrell, 1923-1991. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 467178770 d. March 3, 1996. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged ...

Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972

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Astronomer (galaxies, photometry, spectroscopy) and administrator. Astronomer, Mount Wilson Observatory, 1914-1921; director, Harvard Observatory, 1921-1952; on the astronomy faculty at Harvard from 1952. From the description of Papers [microform], 1910-1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80523781 Harlow Shapley (1885-1972) was an astronomer. Shapley served as director of the Harvard College Observatory and was a professor at Harvard University, eventually he became the Pai...

Conference on Science, Philosophy, and Religion.

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Sarna, Nahum M.

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Biblical scholar who was part of the Jewish Publication Society translation committee for Ketubim and Torah commentary. Husband of Helen Sarna and friend of Potok. From the description of Correspondence to Chaim Potok, 1958-1999. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 711645297 ...

Grayzel, Solomon, 1896-1980

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Bentwich, Norman, 1883-1971

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Norman de Mattos Bentwich (1883-1971) Son of Herbert Bentwich. Educated St. Paul’s School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Called to the Bar, 1908. Served Ministry of Justice, Cairo, 1912-1915; Major, Camel transport, 1916-1918; Attorney-General, Government of Palestine, 1920-1931; Professor of International Relations, Jerusalem University, 1932-1951; Director of High Commission for Refugees from Germany, 1933-1935; Chairman National Peace Council, 1944-1946; Chairman Uni...

Fosdick, Harry Emerson, 1878-1969

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Rufus Ivory Cole served as the the director and physician-in-charge (1909-1937) of the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, the first hospital in the United States devoted primarily to the investigation of disease. Cole's medical research centered on problems relating to immunity to diseases of the respiratory system, particularly pneumonia From the guide to the Rufus Ivory Cole papers, ca. 1900-1966, 1900-1966, (American Philosophical Society) Ordaine...

MacIver, Robert M. (Robert Morrison), 1882-1970

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Sociologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Robert Morrison MacIver : oral history, 1962. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309736032 Lieber Professor of Political Philosophy and Sociology at Columbia University. MacIver was author of numerous works on sociology, political power, and juvenile delinquency. After he retired from Columbia in 1950, he served on the City of New York Juvenile Delinquency Evaluatio...

Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973

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Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973), poet, was born in York, England, on February 21, 1907. He attended Christ Church, Oxford, from 1925-1928, then served as a schoolmaster in various institutions in England and Scotland from 1930 to 1935, including The Downs School in Colwell. In 1935 Auden married Erika Mann, a writer and the daughter of Thomas Mann, so that she could gain British Citizenship and escape Nazi Germany. Although the two never lived together, they remained married until Mann's death in ...

Cleveland, Harlan.

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Government executive. From the description of Reminiscences of Harlan Cleveland : oral history, 1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513128 Harland Cleveland's career includes leadership positions in government, education, business, and volunteer organizations; United Nations Rehabilitiation administrator in the late 1940s; Director of the China Aid Program of the Economic Cooperation Administration; Washington-based supervisor of the M...

Chan, Wing-tsit

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Arzt, Max

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Vice-chancellor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. From the description of Correspondence to Chaim Potok, 1967. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 695044014 ...

Dimitrovsky, Haim Z., 1920-

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Kahn, Ely Jacques, 1884-1972

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Architect. Kahn owned the company Kahn & Jacobson. From the description of Photographs, [ca. 1920-1930] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155486582 ...

Lasswell, Harold D. (Harold Dwight), 1902-1978

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Harold Dwight Lasswell was a political theorist, author, and professor of law and political science. Lasswell received a Ph.D from the University of Chicago in 1926. From 1939-1946 Lasswell served as director of War Communications Research at the Library of Congress, and from 1946-1970 he taught law and political science at Yale University. In his later career Lasswell became increasingly interested in policy sciences and the Policy Sciences Center in New York City. From the descript...

Adam, Thomas R. (Thomas Ritchie), 1900-1990

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List, Albert A.

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Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978

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American anthropologist. From the description of Letter 1968 June 12. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 38156541 Anthropologist. From the description of Collection re Margaret Mead, 1978-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131863 Anthropologist, author, and educator. From the description of Margaret Mead papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996 (bulk 1911-1978). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068917 M...

Bryson, Lyman

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Educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Lyman Lloyd Bryson : oral history, 1951. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86131513 Radio and television broadcaster, author, and educator. Full name: Lyman Lloyd Bryson. From the description of Lyman Bryson papers, 1893-1978 (bulk 1917-1959). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980008 Biographical Note ...

Greenberg, Simon, 1901-

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President, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, Calif. From the description of Correspondence to Chaim Potok, 1954-1985. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 700037967 ...

Rabi, I. I. 1898-

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Gordis, Robert, 1908-

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Abbell, Maxwell.

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Baron, Salo W. (Salo Wittmayer), 1895-1989

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Biography Salo Wittmayer Baron was instrumental in establishing Jewish Studies as an academic discipline in the United States. An extraordinarily prolific historian, Baron also played an exceptional role in American Jewish organizational life. Baron was born in 1895 in Tarnow, now in Poland but then part of Austrian Galicia. His parents, Elias Baron and Minna Wittmayer Baron, were orthodox Jews, and Elias Baron was a banker and Jewish communi...

Ferré, Nels F. S. (Nels Frederick Solomon), 1908-1971

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Congregational clergyman, professor at Andover Newton Theological School, Vanderbilt University, Parson College, and College of Wooster. From the description of Papers, 1940-1968. (Andover Newton Theological School). WorldCat record id: 39218447 ...

Tillich, Paul, 1886-1965

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Faust, Clarence H. (Clarence Henry), 1901-1975

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Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001085.0x000173 German author. From the description of Land of good will : typewritten article signed, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609625 From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : Bad Tölz, to Herr Fischer, his publisher, 1909 Aug. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270607913 From the description...

Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000815.0x000080 Aldous Huxley was a British novelist, short-story writer, playwright, screenwriter, literary and social critic, and poet. From the description of Aldous Huxley collection of papers, 1915-1973 bulk (1915-1963). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517267 From the guide to the Aldous Huxley collection of papers, 19...

Littauer, Lucius Nathan, 1859-1944

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Lucius Nathan Littauer (January 20, 1859 – March 2, 1944) was an American politician, businessman, and college football coach. He served in the United States House of Representatives from New York for five terms between 1897 and 1907. In 1936, his donation of $2 million helped found Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration, which later was renamed the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Born in Gloversville, New York, Littauer moved with his parents to New York City in 1865. Afte...

Roth, Cecil, 1899-1970

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British historian. From the description of History of the Jews in England : Oxford, 1962-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82463340 From the description of History of the Jews in England : Oxford, 1962-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702146866 Epithet: Reader in Jewish Studies at Oxford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x000065 ...

Marx, Alexander, 1878-1953

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Librarian and Professor of Jewish History at Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA). From the description of Papers, 1880-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78786011 Librarian, Jewish Theological Seminary. From the description of Correspondence, 1923 Dec. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270723550 ...

Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971

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Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Reinhold Niebuhr and his wife, Ursula Niebuhr. From the description of Letters, 1935-1982, n.d., to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155873776 Theologian, philosopher, and author. From the description of Papers of Reinhold Niebuhr, 1907-1994 (bulk 1930-1990). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71063622 Theologian. From the description of Reminiscences of Reinhold Niebuhr...

Schmelzer, Menahem, 1934-

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Strauss, Lewis L

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Secretary to Herbert Hoover, 1917-1919; chairman, United States Atomic Energy Commission, 1953-1958; secretary of commerce, 1958-1959. From the description of Lewis L. Strauss miscellaneous papers, 1918-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868921 Government executive, financier. From the description of Reminiscences of Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss : oral history, 1973. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86158380 Executive...

Nikhilānanda, Swāmi

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Feingold, Jessica, 1910-

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Lipchitz, Jacques, 1891-1973

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Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973) was a Cubist sculptor. From the description of Jacques Lipchitz letter to Sidney Shainwald, 1953 Aug. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477647 From the description of Jacques Lipchitz letter, 1953 Aug. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 613316804 Lithuanian born sculptor who worked in France and the United States. From the description of Letters to Ladislas Segy, ca. 1961-1962. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id...

Rifkind, Simon H. (Simon Hirsch), 1901-

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Lawyer. Rifkind was an alumnus of City College, Class of 1922. From the description of Memorabilia, [ca. 1947-1975] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155503633 ...

Jewish Theological Seminary of America. General Files.

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The Jewish Theological Seminary was founded in New York in 1886 then reorganized in 1902 under the leadership of Solomon Schechter. Considered the fountainhead of the Conservative Movement in Judaism, the Seminary consists of a rabbinical school and graduate and undergraduate programs in Jewish studies. During the first half of the century it also included a Jewish teachers training institute. The Seminary's heads have been: Sabato Morais (1886-1897), Solomon Schechter (1902-1915), Cyrus Adler (...

Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 1907-1972

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Abraham Joshua Heschel was an internationally known scholar, author, activist, and theologian. He was born in Warsaw, Poland into a distinguished family of rabbis. Heschel studied philosophy in Berlin, Germany and was deported from Frankfurt to Warsaw where he escaped to London just before the Nazi invasion. After a brief time in London, he immigrated to the United States, first teaching at the Hebrew Union College and then at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America where he taught as Profess...

Ginzberg, Louis, 1873-1953

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Talmud and Midrash scholar, professor at Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA). From the description of Papers, 1891-1964, 1910-1953 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122484481 ...