Records, 1958-1966 ; 1958-1959 (bulk).

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...

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...

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 ...

Conference on the Moral Implications of the Rabbinate New York, (N.Y.), 1962.

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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 ...

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...

Klein, Isaac

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Rabbi, Temple Emanu-El (Buffalo, N.Y.) From the description of Correspondence to Chaim Potok, 1967-1969. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 704393853 Rabbi Isaac Klein was born in the Carpathian Mountain area of the Austro-Hungarian Empire on September 8, 1905. He received his initial education in the Cheders of his native land. He emigrated with his family to the United States in 1921. Determined to further his education, he enrolled in the Isaac Elch...

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...

Gordis, Robert, 1908-

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Bokser, Ben Zion, 1907-1984

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Siegel, Seymour

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Professor of Theology and Ethics at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. From the description of Correspondence to Chaim Potok, 1964-1981. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 712176978 Seymour Siegel was born September 12, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois. He was educated at University of Chicago, received his M.H.L. in 1951 and D.H.L. in 1958 from Jewish Theological Seminary, New York City where he was a professor of Jewish Ethics and Theology. He was ...

Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Herbert H. Lehman Institute of Talmudic Ethics.

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The Herbert H. Lehman Institute of Talmudic Ethics was founded in 1956 and opened in 1958 at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. The aim of the Lehman Institute was to train Conservative rabbis and rabbinical students in the relevance of Talmudic traditions and other fields of Jewish learning to everyday moral and ethical decision-making. Particular emphasis was laid on the study of human rights. The Lehman Institute was named after Governor Lehman, a Seminary board member, on his eight...

Gans, Herbert J.

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Herbert Gans is a sociologist, urban planner, and critic who has written or edited 14 books and hundreds of articles, and who taught in Columbia University's department of sociology for three decades. Gans was born in 1927 in Cologne, Germany, to middle-class Jewish parents. The family fled Germany in 1939, arriving first in England and then in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood. Gans became a U.S. citizen in 1945 and subsequently spent 14 months in the Army. Returning in 1946 to the U...