8 research outputs found

    The structure of lasting peace; an inquiry into the motives of war and peace,

    No full text
    Reprinted from the Dial.Mode of access: Internet

    Why religion

    No full text
    Mode of access: Internet.1

    Horace Meyer Kallen 1922-1952

    No full text
    The papers relate to Kallen's interests in the fields of education, philosophy, Zionism, Jewish affairs, consumerism, co-operative movement, political activism. Correspondence with over 1000 organizations including American Jewish Congress, World Jewish Congress, American Association for Jewish Education, Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, Julian W. Mack School, Menorah Association, New School for Social Research, President's Commission on Higher Education. About 4,000 individual correspondents including Max Ascoli, Roger Baldwin, Salo W. Baron, Jacob Billikopf, Louis D. Brandeis, Israel S. Chipkin, John Dewey, Felix Frankfurter, Philip R. Goldstein, Sidney Hook, Alvin Johnson, Julian W. Mack, Jerome Nathanson, Edmond de Rothschild, George Santayana, Hans Simon, Louis Sturz, Stephen S. Wise.with folder list, English, 152 pp., typed; alphabetic index of correspondents, subjects and organizations, English, 200 pp., typed.Philosopher, writer, educator. Co-founder of the New School for Social Research, New York, in 1919 and dean of its Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, 1944-1946. An early advocate of consumer rights and environmental controls. Active in liberal, educational and Jewish groups. Served on government committees: Presidential Commission on Higher Education, New York City Commission on Inter-group Relations. Born in Bernstadt, Germany. Came to the U.S. in 1887

    Some problems of philosophy; a beginning of an introduction to philosophy,

    No full text
    Incomplete at the author's death. Dr. H. M. Kallen has largely prepared the book for the press. cf. Prefatory note, signed Henry James, jr.Includes bibliographical references and index.Mode of access: Internet

    Some problems of philosophy; a beginning of an introduction to philosophy.

    No full text
    "First edition May 1911. Reprinted ... June 1940."Mode of access: Internet.Incomplete at the author's death. Dr. H. M. Kallen has largely prepared the book for the press. cf. Preparatory note, signed Henry James, jr

    Creative intelligence; essays in the pragmatic attitude,

    No full text
    The need for a recovery of philosophy / J. Dewey.--Reformation of logic / A.W. Moore.--Intelligence and mathematics / H.C. Brown.--Scientific method and individual thinker / G.H. Mead.--Consciousness and psychology / B.H. Bode.--The phases of the economic interest / H.W. Stuart.--The moral life and the construction of values and standards / J.H. Tufts.--Values and existence in philosophy, art and religion / H.M. Kallen.Mode of access: Internet

    Philip Lown papers, 1913-1975. [bulk 1944-1974]

    No full text
    This collection contains Lown’s autobiographical and biographical memoirs, writings, speeches, notes, personal correspondence, honors, photographs, and news clippings.Published citations should take the following form: Identification of item, date (if known); Philip W. Lowan, Papers; P-162; box number; folder number; American Jewish Historical Society, Boston, MA and New York, NY.This collection is located at the American Jewish Historical Society located in Boston. For information on accessing collections at AJHS Boston please visit their website at: http://www.ajhsboston.org/index.htm.Philip W. Lown was a businessman, philanthropist, and leading figure in the Jewish Community. In 1926, he became a joint owner of the Pilgrim Shoe Company in Auburn, Maine, and later president of Penobscot Shoe Company and Lown Shoes Inc. Starting in 1937 and up to his death, Lown worked philanthropically within the Jewish community, most notably in Jewish education. He served on such boards as the American Association for Jewish Education, the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundations, and the World Council on Jewish Education. He also founded the Lown School of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and the Graduate Center for Contemporary Jewish Studies at Brandeis University.far031

    Solis-Cohen family papers, 1808-1990.

    No full text
    Correspondence, diaries, acount books, pamphlets, and other personal and professional materials pertaining to Jacob da Silva Solis and his descendents.Contains the research notes and correspondence for genealogical studies of the Cardozo, Etting, Menken, Nathan, Nones, Peixotto, and Solis families. Includes a list of Jewish officers and men who served in the Revolutionary War, from the state of New Jersey. Contains also a letter to a member of the Solis family written by Joseph H. Hertz in 1893.Contains personal correspondence and two unsigned typescripts on Christianity and Jewish suffering and on socialism; also a memorial tribute by William M. Bunn.The collection consists of the following material: 1) a calendar, for the years 1807-1852, of the major Jewish holidays, as well as a chart indicating the hour Sabbath begins; 2) a letter of solicitation, authorizing Solis to collect funds for Cong. Bene Israel, Cincinnati (1829); 3) two letters from Manis Jacobs (1828 & 1829), president of Shaare Chesed Congregation (Gates of Mercy) of New Orleans, to Solis, informing him of various congregational occurrences; 4) a letter to Charity Hays Solis from Shaare Chesed Congregation, expressing their condolences on the death of Jacob Solis (1930); and 5) a signature of Solis, detached from a letter.Primarily material relating to the School of the Parents' Education Association in Jerusalem and the American Committee working on behalf of the School; includes correspondence with Deborah Kallen, founder and principal of the School, published material relating to the work of the School and the financial records, reports and minute-books, etc. of the American Committee. In addition there is correspondence with Sophie Udin concerning the Hebrew University Library and mniscellaneous letters to and from Henrietta Szold, Stephen S. Wise, John Haynes Holmes, Julian Mack, and Horace Kallen.Primarily correspondence with national Jewish institutions in the United States and Palestine, including the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Zionist Organization of America, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and material relating to German refugees during the Hitler period and even in Palestine.Death certificate, for city of Philadelphia, signed by J. Solis-Cohen.Gift of Ann Solis-Cohen Rosenthal and Charles Rosenthal,Gift, in part, of Solomon Solis-Cohen, 1900.Jacob da Silva Solis-Cohen, surgeon, pioneer in laryngology.Gift of Eleanor and Morris Soble.far031
    corecore