Milton R. Konvitz Liberian project. Files.

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Milton R. Konvitz Liberian project. Files.

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Cornell University Library

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New York State school of industrial and labor relations

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Konvitz, Milton R. (Milton Ridvas), 1908-2003

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Philip W. Lown (1890-1976) Philip W. Lown was born in Lithuania in 1890, which was then occupied by Russia, on the seventh day of Hanukah. When he was eleven, he attended a rabbinical school in Vilna. At the age of fourteen or fifteen he participated in the Russian Revolution in Lithuania in which he protested the czar and risked the brutality of the Cossacks in 1905. After the Revolution was crushed, he needed to escape the social unrest and poor living conditions so he...