Correspondence to Chaim Potok, 1980.

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Correspondence to Chaim Potok, 1980.

Request from editor Ira Eisenstein for Potok to review an article.

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University of Pennsylvania Library

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Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation

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[This Finding Aid is still a work in progress. There is no finished Historical Note for this collection] From the guide to the Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, records, undated, 1920, 1928, 1930-1931, 1934-1936, 1938, 1940-1983, (American Jewish Historical Society) ...

Eisenstein, Ira, 1906-2001

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Rabbi Ira Eisenstein (November 26, 1906 – June 28, 2001) was an American rabbi who founded Reconstructionist Judaism, along with Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, his teacher and, later, father-in-law through his marriage to Judith Kaplan, over a period of time spanning from the late 1920s to the 1940s. Reconstructionist Judaism formally became a distinct denomination within Judaism with the foundation of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1968, where he was the founding president....