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- Series I: Temple B'rith Kodesh BOX 1: Congregational meetings and committees BOX 2: Correspondence and papers Rabbis and Cantors Temple Museum and Library General BOX 2: Congregational meetings and committees Committees BOX 3: Correspondence and paper General Temple membership, conversion, and weddings Endowments, Memorials, Gifts, and other Financial Papers BOX 4: Correspondence and Papers BOX 5: Anniversaries and other special Temple events Temple B'rith Kodesh Anniversary Celebrations Philip S. Bernstein Anniversary and other celebrations Benjamin Goldstein, Executive Secretary: Testimonials and Memorials Dinners and Testimonials for Other Temple Officers Dedications BOX 6: Anniversaries and other special Temple events BOX 7: Holidays and annual services Hanukkah Annual Youth Service College Homecoming Services Annual Scout Service Brotherhood Week (and Rochester Interfaith services and material ) Purim services, 1965-1969. Music Services BOX 8: Holidays and annual services Jewish Music Services BOX 8: Other services Dialogue by the Rabbis [between PSB and Herbert Bronstein, unless otherwise indicated] Culture in the Courtyard Forum Weekends and Program People to People Services Other Services, Programs, and Events BOX 9: Religious education Religious School B'nai Mitzvah Services BOX 10: Religious education B'nai Mitzvah Services Confirmation Services BOX 11: Religious education Confirmation Services High School Graduation Services BOX 12: Religious education High School Graduation Services Adult Education and Seniors Programs Clergy Institutes BOX 13 BOX 14: Clubs Temple Club Young Couples Club Correspondence, programs of special events, and other materials BOX 15 New Temple in Brighton Temple bulletins and news releases Miscellaneous Series II: Sermons BOX 1 BOX 2 BOX 3 BOX 4 BOX 5 BOX 6 BOX 7 BOX 8 BOX 9 BOX 10 BOX 11 BOX 12 BOX 13 BOX 14 BOX 15 BOX 16 BOX 17 BOX 18 BOX 19 BOX 20 BOX 21 BOX 22 Series III: Funeral Memorial Services BOX 1 BOX 2 Series IV: CANRA BOX 1 BOX 2 Series V: Advisor on Jewish Affairs BOX 1 BOX 2 BOX 3 BOX 4 BOX 5 Series VI: CCAR BOX 1 BOX 2 Series VII: AZCPA/AIPAC BOX 1: Chronological Files, 1954-1961 BOX 2: Chronological Files, 1961-1974 BOX 2 BOX 3: Anti-Zionism BOX 4: General correspondence BOX 5 BOX 6 BOX 7 BOX 8 BOX 9. Research material, Jewish Sources BOX 10. Research material Series VIII: Local BOX 1: Housing and race relations BOX 2 BOX 3 BOX 4 Series IX: Addresses BOX 1 BOX 2 BOX 3 BOX 4 BOX 5 BOX 6 BOX 7 BOX 8 BOX 9 Series X: Publications BOX 1 BOX 2 BOX 3 BOX 4 BOX 5 BOX 6 BOX 7 BOX 8 Series XI: Correspondence BOX 1 BOX 2 BOX 3 BOX 4 BOX 5 BOX 6 The following list includes other persons of interest who also appear in the correspondence, as well as individuals named above whose correspondence has been scattered in other folders; the numbers given are box and folder: Alphabetic groups BOX 6 (continued) BOX 7 BOX 8 Other BOX 8 (continued) BOX 9 Series XII: Personal Miscellanea BOX 1 BOX 2 BOX 3 Series XIII: Subject Files Subject files Periodicals Holidays Miscellaneous Series XIV: Oversized Materials
Philip S. Bernstein papers
Creator: Bernstein, Philip S. (Philip Sydney), 1901-
Call Number: D.269
Dates: circa 1901-1985
Physical Description: 124 linear feet
Language(s): Materials are in English
Repository: Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Table of Contents:
Biographical/Historical Note
Scope and Content
Arrangement
Subject(s)
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Access
Use
Citation
Content List
Series I: Temple B'rith Kodesh
BOX 1: Congregational meetings and committees
BOX 2: Correspondence and papers
Rabbis and Cantors
Temple Museum and Library
General
BOX 2: Congregational meetings and committees
Committees
BOX 3: Correspondence and paper
General
Temple membership, conversion, and weddings
Endowments, Memorials, Gifts, and other Financial Papers
BOX 4: Correspondence and Papers
BOX 5: Anniversaries and other special Temple events
Temple B'rith Kodesh Anniversary Celebrations
Philip S. Bernstein Anniversary and other celebrations
Benjamin Goldstein, Executive Secretary: Testimonials and Memorials
Dinners and Testimonials for Other Temple Officers
Dedications
BOX 6: Anniversaries and other special Temple events
BOX 7: Holidays and annual services
Hanukkah
Annual Youth Service
College Homecoming Services
Annual Scout Service
Brotherhood Week (and Rochester Interfaith services and material)
Purim services, 1965-1969.
Music Services
BOX 8: Holidays and annual services
Jewish Music Services
BOX 8: Other services
Dialogue by the Rabbis [between PSB and Herbert Bronstein, unless otherwise indicated]
Culture in the Courtyard
Forum Weekends and Program
People to People Services
Other Services, Programs, and Events
BOX 9: Religious education
Religious School
B'nai Mitzvah Services
BOX 10: Religious education
B'nai Mitzvah Services
Confirmation Services
BOX 11: Religious education
Confirmation Services
High School Graduation Services
BOX 12: Religious education
High School Graduation Services
Adult Education and Seniors Programs
Clergy Institutes
BOX 13
BOX 14: Clubs
Temple Club
Young Couples Club
Correspondence, programs of special events, and other materials
BOX 15
New Temple in Brighton
Temple bulletins and news releases
Miscellaneous
Series II: Sermons
BOX 1
BOX 2
BOX 3
BOX 4
BOX 5
BOX 6
BOX 7
BOX 8
BOX 9
BOX 10
BOX 11
BOX 12
BOX 13
BOX 14
BOX 15
BOX 16
BOX 17
BOX 18
BOX 19
BOX 20
BOX 21
BOX 22
Series III: Funeral Memorial Services
BOX 1
BOX 2
Series IV: CANRA
BOX 1
BOX 2
Series V: Advisor on Jewish Affairs
BOX 1
BOX 2
BOX 3
BOX 4
BOX 5
Series VI: CCAR
BOX 1
BOX 2
Series VII: AZCPA/AIPAC
BOX 1: Chronological Files, 1954-1961
BOX 2: Chronological Files, 1961-1974
BOX 2
BOX 3: Anti-Zionism
BOX 4: General correspondence
BOX 5
BOX 6
BOX 7
BOX 8
BOX 9. Research material, Jewish Sources
BOX 10. Research material
Series VIII: Local
BOX 1: Housing and race relations
BOX 2
BOX 3
BOX 4
Series IX: Addresses
BOX 1
BOX 2
BOX 3
BOX 4
BOX 5
BOX 6
BOX 7
BOX 8
BOX 9
Series X: Publications
BOX 1
BOX 2
BOX 3
BOX 4
BOX 5
BOX 6
BOX 7
BOX 8
Series XI: Correspondence
BOX 1
BOX 2
BOX 3
BOX 4
BOX 5
BOX 6
The following list includes other persons of interest who also appear in the correspondence, as well as individuals named above whose correspondence has been scattered in other folders; the numbers given are box and folder:
Alphabetic groups
BOX 6 (continued)
BOX 7
BOX 8
Other
BOX 8 (continued)
BOX 9
Series XII: Personal Miscellanea
BOX 1
BOX 2
BOX 3
Series XIII: Subject Files
Subject files
Periodicals
Holidays
Miscellaneous
Series XIV: Oversized Materials
Collection Overview
Title: Philip S. Bernstein papers
Creator: Bernstein, Philip S. (Philip Sydney), 1901-
Call Number: D.269
Dates: circa 1901-1985
Physical Description: 124 linear feet
Language(s): Materials are in English
Repository: Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Biographical/Historical Note
The following essay was written by Walter F. Nickeson and Laura Graham (1995–2000), and offers biographical information about Rabbi Bernstein and his life's work.
Rabbi Philip Bernstein needs no introduction to a Rochester audience. He has been here too long.[1]
Philip S. Bernstein was the son of Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe who came to the United States in the late nineteenth century. His mother, Sara Steinberg, came from Seraye in Lithuania. At the age of ten her family sent her alone to America. She came to live with her brother Sam in Rochester, New York, and never saw her immediate family again.[2] Bernstein's father, Abraham, born in 1875 in Kalvary, Lithuania, immigrated with his family to New York City. There he learned the tailoring trade. Eventually he arrived in Rochester where he met and married Sara Steinberg. Philip S. Bernstein, the first of their three sons, was born there on June 29, 1901. In 1903, the Bernstein family moved back to New York City for about eight years, then returned to Rochester to stay. For the next fifty years, Philip Bernstein lived "within the area of one square mile" in the city.[3]
A precocious student, Bernstein was placed in advanced classes at East High School in Rochester. He left in 1917 without being graduated. Despite his youth and his family's lack of money, he was determined to go to college—even running away to his aunt in New York for a short time to make his point. In the fall of that year he was finally allowed to enter Syracuse University. His schooling there was interrupted by his father's illness, and in 1919, he returned to Rochester to run the family tailoring business for a short time. It was never very prosperous, and Bernstein decided to leave the world of business. As he saw it, his future lay either with the law or in the rabbinate.
Bernstein had, from an early age, been active in the Jewish community. In this he was alone in his family: his brothers both pursued successful secular careers. (However, his cousin Milton Steinberg, son of his mother's sister, with whom he grew up, was also to become a well-known rabbi.) Bernstein's interest in Zionism found expression in 1914 when he was an usher at the 17th National Convention of the Federation of American Zionists in Rochester.[4] The following year, as a delegate to the Young Judean Zionist Convention in Boston, he met future Supreme Court Justice and active Zionist Louis D. Brandeis. Later, as a student at Syracuse University, he taught Sunday School at Temple Society of Concord, a Reform congregation. These kinds of activities seem to have convinced him to formalize his service to his community by becoming a rabbi.
After being graduated from SU in 1921, Bernstein entered the Jewish Institute of Religion (JIR) in New York City. The Institute had been recently founded by the famous Reform rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and Bernstein, attracted by Wise's powerful personality and the Institute's pro-Zionist stance (in contrast to what he saw as the anti-Zionism of the Hebrew Union College), was a member of its first class, graduating in 1926. His master's thesis was on Jeremiah, after whom his first son was named. In later years he expressed regret that his education did not give him a deep background in the Hebrew language.
In June 1925 he married Sophie Rubin, the niece of Syracuse rabbi Benjamin Friedman, with whom Bernstein had become friends while attending the University. Sophie Rubin does not have a large place in her husband's papers. She is revealed indirectly as a woman of strong character, willing to meet the traditional social obligations of a rabbi's wife, but also capable of substantive work of her own in the Temple in which her husband was rabbi. She aided him organizationally, especially in the activities of the Sisterhood of Temple B'rith Kodesh, which was sometimes as much an educational and political organization as it was religious and social. She accompanied her husband on most of his trips throughout their lives, and together they were indefatigable travelers. Shortly after their wedding they took the first of what would become a typical Bernstein working vacation. They spent the 1925 fall term at Cambridge University, England, where they met and became friends with Chaim Weizmann, the future first president of Israel. At the end of the term, they left England and visited Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Poland, Vienna, Venice, Rome, Naples, Egypt, and Palestine, where Bernstein completed his studies in the first classes at Hebrew University.[5] Forty years later they went on a trip around the world in the opposite direction, traveling to Los Angeles and thence to Hawaii, southeast Asia, India, Africa, Israel, and Greece. In many of these cities and countries, they inquired after the history and lives of Jewish communities: "Wherever we go, like Joseph, we seek our brethren. And we find them."[6]
While in Palestine, an apparently chance meeting with some touring residents of Rochester led Bernstein to apply for the position of assistant rabbi at Temple B'rith Kodesh. In August 1926 he was hired and when Rabbi Horace J. Wolf died in February of the next year, Bernstein became the sole rabbi. He remained at the head of the temple for 46 years until his retirement in June 1973. This long tenure was divided in two by an almost five-year absence from the congregation during World War II. The first period, from 1927 to 1942, was marked by his social activism in Rochester, extensive traveling abroad (especially to Europe, where he observed with alarm the increasingly dangerous situation of the Jewish community), and his move from pacifism to acceptance of war as the only means to stop Hitler. In the second period, from 1947 to 1973, Israel replaced Europe as the focus of his international concerns, while at home, he worried about the survival of Judaism in the affluent and superficially tolerant culture of the United States.
Bernstein's career as rabbi began at the close of the era of Old World Jewry and embodied the coming of age of New World Jewry.[7] The child of recent Eastern European immigrants, he came into a mature temple founded in 1848 at the beginning of the "German Period."[8] Bernstein integrated the liberal concerns of the German Reform movement with the new demands of the immigrants for a traditional Jewish religious experience.
Temple B'rith Kodesh was in 1926 the largest synagogue in Rochester, with a membership of about 400, and its only Reform temple. As a Reform synagogue it was liberal in its theology and practice[9] and active in social affairs. Rabbi Wolf had been the chair of the Social Justice Commission of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR)—the main body of Reform Judaism—from 1916 to 1924, and was described by Jacob R. Marens in 1954 as a disciple of well-known Protestant Social Gospel leader Walter Rauschenbush.[10] Bernstein continued its tradition of social activism and liberal thought. Theologically, he was, in his early years, squarely in the modernist camp.[11] Henri Bergson was a major influence, and Bernstein's mentors while he was a student at JIR included John Haynes Holmes, founder of the non-denominational Community Church, and Felix Adler, founder of the Ethical Culture movement. While at JIR he also took classes at Columbia University from John Dewey. In a 1926 address, given before he was hired by B'rith Kodesh, Bernstein admitted to not having "a definite belief in God" [12] (and in a 1960 sermon said of himself, "I was a teen-age atheist"). Although he was by no means a materialist, the core of his belief at that time lay in the realm of ethics; in 1948 he would still say that the aim of Reform Judaism "was to recapture the spirit, the teachings, the way of life enunciated by the Hebrew prophets."[13] This belief drew him into deep involvement in social concerns and a willingness to stir things up. "The building of a better social order means radicalism of one kind or another," he told a local PTA in 1933. "You can't find or abolish what is evil without offending vested interests, and that means trouble."[14] Locally, he worked for fair housing in Rochester, on its Housing Commission and as a private citizen (yet also using the pulpit as a forum). He often addressed the City Club on issues of economics and justice. He arbitrated several labor disputes.
What Bernstein added to B'rith Kodesh was a renewed emphasis on Jewish tradition—on ritual, ceremony, and symbolism, an effort to "re-Judaize Reform Judaism."[15] The Reform movement in the early part of the twentieth century had "little Judaism, [and] less Jewish observance (piety)," said Bernstein in the 1950s:[16] there was "not very much to distinguish the religious life of the temple from that of the First Unitarian Church."[17] He found himself "repelled" by the first Reform service he attended at the Gibbs St. Settlement House in Rochester.[18] Most of B'rith Kodesh's members in 1927 were Jews of German origin who prided themselves on a humanist thinking and practice in their temple that often transcended cultural and ethnic differences. But Jews immigrating from Eastern Europe, including Bernstein's parents, had been dramatically increasing in numbers since the end of the nineteenth century,[19] and had brought with them an interest in and desire for a more traditional, distinctively Jewish religious setting. The two groups were hostile and showed little cooperation.
However, the influence of the newcomers on the American Jewish community was decisive. In Rochester, B'rith Kodesh began to offer Hebrew lessons to students during Bernstein's first decade as rabbi. Bar mitzvahs were introduced during that same period. "Sentimental Protestant music" was replaced by music informed by "Jewish religious sources."[20] And in 1941, the Temple discontinued Sunday morning services to return to traditional Friday evening services. Despite the renewed attention to tradition, Bernstein emphatically denied he was a Conservative. He was striving to institute a "liberalism steeped in Jewish tradition." He defined the difference between the Reform and conservative branches of Judaism as being that of choice: The Reform wing chose to adopt the traditional ritual practices, whereas the conservatives saw themselves as being bound by them.[21] This approach could be seen as simple pragmatism: Writing to one of his congregation in 1951, Bernstein accepted a compliment on a Friday evening service, noting, "We try to make [our historic traditions] appealing and meaningful and win our people to them not through compulsion but through their desirability and usefulness."[22] Looking back in 1967, Bernstein could claim that the genius of Reform Judaism lay in its adaptation of its historic core to the times: "[It was] a way of being a Jew, a way of seeking the essence of faith, relevant to the needs of one's time and place. It represented a readiness to change, to adapt, to acculturate."[23] He also noted that the Temple had, under his leadership, become more traditional. That this balance between keeping the old and introducing the new could not please everyone is revealed in some notes received as B'rith Kodesh was looking for Bernstein's successor in 1972–1973. "Give us back our Reform Service," said one congregant, and another wrote, "The kind of Rabbi I would want is a reformed [sic] Rabbi."[24]
The location of Jewishness in practice, or the structure of the religious life—rather than in a creed, or in theological abstractions—found full expression in Bernstein's tremendously popular essay, "What the Jews Believe." Originally published in Life magazine September 11, 1950, it received an enthusiastic response from Jewish and non-Jewish readers, and Bernstein later expanded it into book form. The interest of non-Jews seemed especially important to him. An intrinsic part of having a Jewish identity was explaining and relating it to the adherents of other creeds and cultures. Yet "What the Jews Believe" was in large part addressed to Bernstein's own community. He was to say later, "As the years passed it was clear that it was even more important to get Jews to respect Judaism than to get Christians to respect it."[25]
During the first part of Bernstein's rabbinate, the Jewish community's great foe on the outside was a relatively straightforward anti-Semitism. Europe was home of the Oberammergau Passion Play and, of course, Hitler; and even after the War, pogroms and racial hatred continued. Americans were subject to the rantings of Father Coughlin and the reflexive anti-Semitism of the uneducated. However, the challenge of this kind of prejudice was gradually replaced by the end of the 1950s by the threat of assimilation. On the positive side, Jews had made great strides in finding acceptance in society, and Bernstein was glad to note that his students in his confirmation classes were reporting having had no experiences of anti-Semitism.[26] Economically, American Jews shared in the post-war prosperity of the United States; B'rith Kodesh moved in 1962 from the inner city to Brighton, one of Rochester's wealthy suburbs, where most of its burgeoning population lived. This increase in numbers and in wealth was not an unambiguously good thing. "In Rochester one can't join the country club unless he's a member of a synagogue; in this place the synagogue is the country club," Bernstein lamented .[27] Furthermore, the cost of this growth seemed to be the loss of a distinctive, vibrant Jewish identity. Bernstein complained in 1969, "In my youth intermarriage was rare, assimilation was remote. On one day earlier this month I had five requests for conversion and intermarriage."[28]
Bernstein saw an active Jewish identity as the basis for participation with other creeds and movements in a ministry of social reform; his ecumenism had deep roots. In the early 1930s he, along with Rochester Unitarian minister David Rhys Williams, were the foremost religious leaders in progressive reform in Rochester. They sometimes parted ways, such as over Williams's strenuous attacks on the Catholic Church, one of which he delivered from Bernstein's pulpit during Thanksgiving. But the friendship survived and thrived on argument and disagreement, and together Williams and Bernstein made a significant contribution to settlement houses, missions, educational institutions, and political life in Rochester. Nationally, Bernstein campaigned on behalf of and also with the socialist Norman Thomas during the Depression.
Bernstein saw himself as an advocate of woman's emancipation and Negro American rights in the 1930s and 1940s. Primarily a liberal paternalist, even on that basis he was nonetheless often several strides ahead of Rochester public opinion. In the early 1930s, he and David Rhys Williams both invited Margaret Sanger to speak from their pulpits. They publicly defended her and the birth control movement against charges of obscenity, a stance which cost Bernstein some important Temple members. As a Reform Jew in the 1930s, Bernstein advocated the emancipation of women from traditional restrictions on their autonomy and development, and was impressed by the achievements in that area in the young Soviet Union. In 1960 he boasted that one of Reform Judaism's unique contributions had been the achievement of equality by women, pointing to the establishment of Confirmation for girls as well as for boys, and the permitting of women in the pulpit.[29] However, he was relatively silent on the issues of feminism in the 1960s and 1970s.
Much stronger was Bernstein's outspokenness on civil rights. From 1936 to 1940 Bernstein was Chair of the Rochester City Planning and Housing Council. From that position he argued for integrated neighborhoods and the construction of affordable, integrated residences for low-income families. He was also active in the Rochester City Club, and was its president from 1932 through 1933. He often pressed his causes in addresses to the Club. A sense of humor accompanied his moral earnestness. He wrote to David de Sola Pool in 1946:
"This seems to be 'TESTIMONIAL DINNER TO BERNSTEIN MONTH.' … On Wednesday there is to be a Chamber of Commerce interfaith brotherhood luncheon in my honor at which I plan to tell them that brotherhood has no meaning unless Negroes are permitted to live everywhere in Rochester. I think that will end 'TESTIMONIAL DINNER TO BERNSTEIN MONTH.'"[30]
In that same year, in a more serious vein, he forecast: "The fate of the Negroes in the United States for the next generation will be determined in these coming months."[31] He continued to speak out on civil rights, with increased vigor, for many years. When he received the 1958 Rochester Rotary Club award, for example, he charged that the construction of the low-cost Hanover Houses project "in the worst slum area of town" amounted to a "surrender to bigotry" on the part of the city.[32] But one can perhaps hear a note of resignation or withdrawal in his 1966 claim that "as the Jews emancipated themselves from [the ghetto north of the railroad tracks, where most Jews lived in the first part of the century] and other ghettoes, the Negroes can and will [also emancipate themselves]."[33] By then Bernstein was seeking solutions more often in the management skills of social and political elites, whom he hoped to morally awaken, than in grassroots organizing. Not surprisingly, he was also distinctly uncomfortable with black nationalism. Still, in his public addresses and private correspondence, especially in relation to the local Rochester organization FIGHT, Bernstein maintained that black anger had its roots in palpable inequalities whose reform could not help but upset the economic and political arrangement of things by whites. He put it bluntly in the spring of the turbulent year 1968: "The first [of ten commandments for Black-White relations] is the acceptance of White guilt for the problem that confronts us."[34]
Bernstein's removal from his congregation in Rochester during the war was to fill two prominent national positions—both, ironically, serving in a supportive role to the U.S. armed forces. For almost two decades after his enthusiastic enlistment in the army in 1918, PSB had been a staunch pacifist, speaking out frequently and fervently against the evils of war and the economic and social conditions that he saw contributed to war. From 1936 to 1938 he was chairman of CCAR's Committee on International Peace, and had lectured President Roosevelt on the evils of arms buildup. However, the unrelenting growth of anti-Judaism in Europe, especially in nazi Germany, forced him to reluctantly give up his pacifism,[35] although he never became a hawk. When World War II came to the U.S., Bernstein responded.
The first position was Executive Director of the Committee on Army and Navy Religious Activities (CANRA) of the National Jewish Welfare Board, a role Bernstein filled from December 1942 to February 1946. Soon after the U.S. entered the war Bernstein volunteered his services as an overseas chaplain. Although he was formally rejected in that capacity, he nevertheless became, as Executive Director of CANRA, chaplain to the chaplains—overseer of the Jewish chaplains in the U.S. armed forces. This role is documented by the Papers, although much may be missing. They reveal the lengths to which PSB went to help ensure that the Jewish enlisted men and their chaplains received appropriate material and spiritual support—letters from home, supplies for the holidays, kosher food, torahs and prayer books, places and time for worship, guidance about following Jewish practice under wartime conditions, gossip about their peers, and humor. Out of that work came Rabbis at War, explaining the work of CANRA, published in 1971 by the American Jewish Historical Society. His travels in the Pacific theater in 1944 made a lasting impression on him; he was especially fond of telling the story of the Hanukkah service on a shattered Saipan where the tropical heat melted the candles as fast as they burned.[36]
The second position came almost immediately on the heels of the first. Bernstein had barely returned home when he was asked to succeed Judge Simon Rifkind as Advisor on Jewish Affairs to the U.S. Army Commander in Germany (later expanded to include Austria). His was the longest tenure of all the advisors, serving Generals Joseph T. McNarney and Lucius D. Clay in Germany, and Mark Clark in Austria, from May 1946 to August 1947. As Bernstein was to recall in 1962: "The displaced persons were at the lowest ebb of their morale. They were among the people who had brought about their misfortunes and were facing the coldest winter in Germany's recorded history."[37] Many Germans, and other Europeans, were unrepentantly hostile toward Jews. In July 1946 a bloody pogrom in Kielce, Poland, sparked an exodus of Jews toward the haven of the U.S. Occupied Zone in Germany. This section of the papers covers Bernstein's successful efforts to open the borders of the American zone after the Kielce attack, and to keep them open through the winter and into the next year, and his concern over the maintenance of adequate food and housing standards for the DPs. While their ration at first was 2200 calories, as against 2000 for other DPs, this was reduced to 2000 in March 1947. He took special pride in his role in reversing history. The Weisbaden Temple rededication in December 1946 was the first since the Nazis came to power. His son Stephen became Bar Mitzvah in Frankfurt in January 1947, the first in Germany for seven years. Bernstein noted, "Since liberation there was not a single Jewish boy in this once great city of Frankfurt who reached the age of thirteen."[38] Perhaps his greatest achievement, in his own estimation, was gaining recognition by the U.S. Army of the Central Committee for Liberated Jews. The Committee, he crowed, "in effect re-established an official Jewish community in an area from which Hitler claimed he had forever abolished them."[39] Less successful, however, were his efforts to convince the U.S. Congress to open the doors wider to Jewish DP immigration. This section of the papers also includes correspondence and reports on Bernstein's efforts to get DPs to Palestine, and related to that, on his meetings with President Harry Truman and English Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin.
Bernstein's other two major roles did not take him away from his congregation. The first of these was his presidency of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), the chief organization of Reform Judaism in America, from July 1950 to June 1952. Bernstein initiated major changes of lasting importance to that organization, including the establishment of its own periodical, CCAR Journal. He was most proud of his leading a seminar of American rabbis to Israel in 1951 to see first hand how Israeli Jewish life compared with American Jewish life.
Finally, the last major national position held by PSB was Chair of the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs (AZCPA), founded early in 1954. Not surprisingly, Bernstein's Zionism underwent some changes through the years. It does not seem to have meant to him the end of the Diaspora and the ingathering of the Jews. Bernstein himself seems to have seriously considered emigrating to Palestine only twice: first while he was attending Hebrew University in 1926, and later after the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. Before and immediately after the war, Zionism for Bernstein was the expression of the hope for a port in the storm: a refuge to which the Jews of Europe could flee from mounting persecution. Thus Zionism was not a theological issue, but "an answer to anti-Semitism."[40] This view guided his efforts as Advisor on Jewish Affairs to get Jews admitted to Palestine, where most of them wanted to go. After the birth of Israel, Bernstein's Zionism seems to have become the expression of the safeguarding of the young country from the hostility of its Arab neighbors. Israel was now indeed a Jewish homeland, a place where Jews could develop their own culture free from the oppression that had haunted them in Europe. Nonetheless, Jews could also remain loyal citizens of any hospitable country in the world. In 1951 he claimed, "There will be two great Jewries in the world,—Israeli and American."[41]
Bernstein became the second chairman of AZCPA in 1954, succeeding fellow Rochesterian Louis Lipsky. The Committee's purpose was to promote an American foreign policy favorable to Israel's interests by lobbying government officials, and by countering what it considered Arab propaganda in the media and elsewhere. Bernstein's position was that of a western cultural paternalist, and the main line of argument of the Committee with government officials and the public was that Israel was a lone western democracy, tamer of the Palestinian wasteland, surrounded by backward, hopelessly despotic Arab governments.[42] As such, it was the United States' most promising ally in the Cold War competition with the Soviet Union for hegemony in the Middle East. Bernstein and AZCPA president I.L. Kenen were unsympathetic to a hearing on the Palestinian side of the Israeli-Arab conflict.
In 1959, the Committee changed its name to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), to reflect, according to public explanation, non-Jewish support for U.S. foreign policy favorable to Israel. Perhaps "Zionist" seemed a historical anachronism once the state of Israel had been established. But the name change might also have been a result of the fairly continuous problems the Committee had concerning its status with Senator Fulbright and other non-Zionist Jewish organizations, who claimed that the Committee should be formally registered as a foreign agent of the Israeli government rather than as a domestic lobby.
Ironically, though, Bernstein would probably consider today's AIPAC as something of a repudiation of what he and Kenen had worked to make it in its first few decades. In Bernstein's day, AIPAC was allied with liberal Jewish and non-Jewish organizations, at least ostensibly supportive of democratic principles, while the AIPAC of today has sought out right-wing support, and especially the dollars and political power of the kind of Christian right-wing organizations that Bernstein abhorred.
All along, however, AIPAC has remained a low-profile organization. The position of chairman in most organizations such as AIPAC is usually that of a public relations figure, while the executive director is responsible for policy and organization. Chairmen are usually chosen for their status in a particular community, and their talents in interpreting the organization's work to the public. Bernstein, however, worked in equal partnership with Kenen in building the Committee and forming its policy. And, ironically, the strength of this section of the papers comes from the fact that Bernstein could not be in Washington, D.C., where the lobby was located, all the time, and so, instead, he and Kenen corresponded, sometimes twice a day. Their heavy, substantive correspondence survived.
In 1968, Bernstein retired from his position as Chairman of AIPAC, and in 1973 he retired as rabbi at Temple B'rith Kodesh. His review of Judd L. Teller's Strangers and Natives sums up his experience of the development of American Jewry in the 47 years from 1921 to 1968 (the same span as Bernstein's leadership at the Temple): "The swift evolution from ghetto to suburbia, from poverty to affluence, from the laboring masses to the middle classes, from anti-Semitism to a-Semitism, from segregation to acceptance, from inbreeding to intermarriage."[43] In the 1970s he began to suffer from Parkinson's Disease, and he died on December 3, 1985, at the age of 84. Before his death an endowed chair was established in his name in the Department of Religious and Classical Studies at the University of Rochester.
Bernstein is probably best described as one of those figures who, while not very readily or widely known, worked with and knew, sometimes very well, everyone who was.[47] Perhaps precisely because of his non-celebrity status among leading Jewish figures and the wide and in-depth work that he did, his papers form a rich source for just about every issue one can think of concerning American Jewish identity.
[1] "… said the Chairlady in presenting me to a women's club," quipped PSB. [Subject files, Jewish wit and humor] It seems to me that beginning this essay with a joke would have pleased PSB, who recorded a humor-filled vinyl record to explain Why Jews laugh.
[2] This story is recounted in numerous places, e.g. "The meaning of America," sermon, 31 May 1953.
[3] Address on the dedication of the PSB Chair at the University of Rochester, 16 December 1974.
[4] According to Thomas Philip Liebschutz, in his M.A. thesis on Bernstein, "The impact of these men [Zionists such as Louis Lipsky, Nathan Straus, and Stephen S. Wise] and these meetings upon the gifted and impressionable Bernstein was momentous. They made him into a lifelong Zionist; they gave him a feeling of Jewish dignity and self-respect; they moved him in the direction of Hebraic culture and the Hebrew language" (p. 37). Much of Liebschutz's information came from a 1964 interview with Bernstein.
[5] Years later PSB would write: "Cambridge was a beautiful experience, but Jerusalem changed my life. In a real sense it saved me for the rabbinate, giving me a sense of sacred responsbility to the history and destiny of our people. I developed a love for the Hebrew language and culture which enriched my entire life." Temple B'rith Kodesh Bulletin, 6 Feb 1970. (Subj.: Glueck, Nelson.)
[6] Letter to TBK for Temple bulletin, 14 December 1966. (Personal misc.: travel)
[7] Jacob Rader Marcus, in The Jew in the American World: A Source Book (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996), calls the years 1925–1960 the "Emerging American Period" and notes that the immigration restrictions of the early 1920s "had the effect of spurring the diverse Jewish ethnic groups here to begin blending ... there was, very definitely, a Jewish melting pot. Out of diversity came forth unity" (p. 393).
[8] Marcus' term.
[9] The organ and pews were introduced in the 1860s, and according to the Jewish Ledger of 5 December 1928, TBK was the first congregation in the country to conduct services in English. Edward J. Wile, "History of Temple B'rith Kodesh," Jewish Ledger (v. 9, no. 13):2.
[10] I don't know where this is from.
[11] In 1933 he wrote that he was a rabbi "of the liberal variety, which means that in addition to the modernization of my ideas, I wear Michaels Sterns clothes, Hannan shoes, Manhattan shirts and sport a snappy, collegiate haircut. A generous-minded person might mistake me on the street for an enterprising insurance agent." On Jewish destiny, Publications.
[12] This sermon, "The Minister," was published in the JIR's yearbook, The Annual, a copy of which may be found in the Personal Miscellanea section of the Papers. Ten years later he wrote in The Christian Century, "I do not believe in absolute religious truth." Pubs., box 1.
[13] "What's ahead for Reform Jews?" sermon, 26 Nov 1948.
[14] Addresses box
[15] "My last Friday evening sermon on Gibbs Street," 11 May 1962.
[16] I don't know where this is from; similar phrasing in his 11 May 1962 sermon.
[17] ?Summer letter, 1960?
[18] "Gibbs Street—meaning and memories," sermon, 23 April 1965.
[19] Bernstein said in his 15 January 1965 sermon on Fiddler on the Roof, "Perhaps three quarters of the members of this congregation are descended from Anatevka, from the shtetlah of Eastern Europe."
[20] Sermon, 23 April 1965.
[21] Despite this claim, PSB could also write (in 1954, thanking the Rochester Civic Music Association for moving the Artists' Series concerts away from Friday nights, which conflicted with the Sabbath service), "By ancient religious precept these [Sabbath services] are not subject to change, but must be observed on the Sabbath Eve." Local, NYBR Council, 15 Sept. 1954.
[22] Family worship and consecration of children, January 1951. (TBK 6?)
[23] "Presentation of Cantor David Unterman," 21 May 1967 (2:18). In this light it is amusing to see how the unexpected news that Bernard Chernik, scheduled to speak at TBK in February 1955, was Orthodox, came as "a complete shock to everyone here." Accommodating Mr. Chernik's dietary and Sabbath observances "caused a re-arrangement of many plans that were made." These comments were made in PSB's absence by his secretary, who claimed, "I have been placed in a very awkward position due to this negligence [i.e., the failure of the Speakers' Bureau to inform the Temple beforehand]." (3:13)
[24] Search for Successor Folder (2:23). While this last respondent would seem to be criticizing the Temple's move away from Liberal Judaism, the letter continued that the kind of Rabbi wanted is "One as near as you can get like [sic] Rabbi Bernstein."
[25] "My Last Friday Evening Sermon on Gibbs Street," 11 May 1962.
[26] Contrast this to his 1936 statement: "High-school students seem preoccupied with problems of anti-Semitism, and are quite worried about their future." "Jews have the jitters," pubs box 1.
[27] "Time and estrangement," pubs. Box 3, June 1958.
[28] 1969 speech to CCAR
[29] "Reform Judaism confronts Orthodoxy and Conservatism," 28 October 1960. In the same sermon Bernstein also said: "I know of what the preparations for the Passover in a traditional home meant to Jewish women. Certainly it was an effort, but it gave them the deepest kind of spiritual joy." One wonders how Bernstein knew of the women's balance between the effort and the joy.
[30] Correspondence, 1946.
[31] Sermon, 1 February 1946.
[32] Acceptance speech, 6 May 1958.
[33] Sermon, 14 September 1966.
[34] Sermon, 19 April 1968.
[35] In his "Apologia pro aetate mea," CCAR Journal (April, 1969):12, Bernstein stated, "At a midnight rump session of the Conference [i.e., CCAR] in Charlevoix, Michigan, in June, 1938, I made my public confession of sin. I renounced my pacifism and committed myself to the war against Nazi Germany." However, in the 20 July 1949 Christian Century, as part of a series on "How My Mind Has Changed in the Last Decade," he wrote, "My last pacifist speech was delivered at Williamstown on September 1, 1939." This speech is not extent.
[36] e.g., in "Out of this world—a report from the Pacific," radio broadcast by PSB, 25 February 1945.
[37] Address to AIPAC, 1 April 1962.
[38] AJA box.
[39] Press release, September 1946.
[40] "Reform Judaism," column in Jewish Daily Bulletin, 23 June 1935. [Publications]
[41] CCAR box?
[42] Typical of this attitude is this selection from a 1951 sermon describing the "colonization" of Palestine by Jews: "To the rank and file of the Arab people they brought nothing but benefits. The country was poor, the political system had been corrupt and rotten and the health conditions were abonimable [sic]. Every Arab suffered from some major illness and most of the Arab children died in infancy. Into this backward situation, the Jews introduced modern health and hygiene, public education, scientific agriculture, and modern industry. As a result, the Arabs near the Jewish settlements developed the highest standard of living to be found among any Arab people in the world." (Sermons, 1951)
[43] Publications box, 1968.
[44] In a letter to the editor a Rochester reader, quoting Pope Paul, wrote, "Rabbi Bernstein has long been himself a blessing 'Urbi et Orbi.'" Dec.? 1974
[45] Letter to Samuel Karff, in 1976, in CCAR box, on ideas for a book.
[46] CANRA section, letter.
[47] When helping plan a festschrift for his 30th anniversary in 1964, Bernstein compiled a list of possible contributors that included Ben Gurion, Abba Eban, Golda Meir, Norman Cousins, Hubert Humphrey, Jacob Javitz, Lawrence Spivak, Max Lerner, and J. Robert Oppenheimer. In his 1966 summer letter to the congregation he claimed "to have had contacts with every American president since 1928."
[48] In his 1951 address "A Day in the Life of a Rabbi," he wrote, "I never use an old sermon." But in the paragraph preceding that statement he said, "Most of these addresses ... are fit for publication as they appear [amended to: are written]. As a matter of fact, a number of them have actually been published in magazines as articles." He also told this joke on himself: "My son was asked whether his father ever preached the same sermon twice. 'Yes,' he replied, 'but he yells loud in different places.'" Subjects, Jewish wit and humor.
[49] Publications, Box 1.
Scope and Content
Temple B'rith Kodesh (TBK):
Here is gathered material related to Bernstein's official role and duties as Rabbi at TBK, insofar as it is distinct from other material (correspondence, in particular, presents the problem of distinguishing personal from private in an all-consuming vocation). Other material possibly construed as "official" may be found in, for example, the "Personal Miscellanea" section.
The major categories of this section are given below along with the kinds of material typically found therein. While the primary content of the folders is generally correspondence, a variety of other material may be present. Within each category or subsection, the arrangement is usually chronological.
Congregational meetings and committees. Documents from, and relating to, the work of ad hoc and established groups within TBK conducting the temple's affairs. Folders for the annual meetings often include programs, agendas, invitations, correspondence, budget reports, addresses by PSB and others, lists of members, press releases and other announcements, newspaper clippings, and research material.
Correspondence and papers. Primarily correspondence, chiefly from or to PSB, on TBK matters. Since the bulk of PSB's correspondence is found in its own section, the material collected here is more directly related to the doings of TBK or its members. Also included are other papers relating to the temple, such as on conversion and financial matters.
Anniversaries and other special Temple events. These folders include programs and invitations having to do with celebrations of or at TBK.
Holidays and annual services. These folders typically include programs, invitations, Temple bulletins, press releases, correspondence, memos to and lists of participants, and other material from the regular holiday and other services. Many folders include material from previous (or even future!) years' services. The services are given here in the order in which they appear in the annual cycle, starting with the High Holy Days in the fall of the year, although not all the services are part of the cycle or even Jewish (e.g., Jewish Music services, or Thanksgiving). Services associated with religious education are in the next section.
Religious education. Material relating to the education of all ages at TBK, from youngest to oldest. Papers from services relating to education, such B'nai Mitzvah or confirmation, are included here rather than with the preceding section. Folders for services may contain programs for the service, Temple bulletins, sermons and manuscript notes by PSB or others, lists of students, schedules of the services (particularly for the Mitzvahs), photographs of the class, exam questions and other class material, correspondence and memoranda, and research material.
Clubs. Programs, calendars, correspondence, and research material pertaining to some of the social groups within TBK. Much of what is gathered under the heading "Temple Club" is correspondence regarding possible speakers at Temple events, along with material from speakers' bureaus.
New Temple in Brighton. Material (correspondence, drawings, research material, and more) from the congregation's decision in the late 1950s to move from Gibbs Street through the move to the new building in Brighton in 1962, with some later material on landscaping. A separate section on the Temple's Ark, designed by Luise Kaish, consists chiefly of correspondence with the artist and the new temple's architect, Pietro Belluschi.
Temple bulletins. Incomplete runs of bulletins.
Sermons:
In his unpublished autobiography Bernstein wrote, "For forty-seven years I preached an average of perhaps seventy-five to a hundred sermons a year. Somewhere in the Temple files there must be manuscripts and notes on perhaps three to four thousand sermons." This collection numbers substantially fewer than Bernstein's figure, which in any case must be viewed with some suspicion: For most of his career Bernstein took a long summer vacation, and when he had an assistant rabbi after the War, he did not preach every Friday. These boxes gather nearly all the extant sermons, preached at B'rith Kodesh or elsewhere, and associated drafts, manuscript notes, and research material. The arrangement is chronological where dates are given or can be determined. Some sermons may be found in the section on TBK with material on special services.
Although this section attempts to gather all Bernstein's sermons, such an attempt cannot be considered definitive, primarily because of the problem of venue. In many cases it is impossible to distinguish which manuscripts may be sermons, and which may articles intended for publication, or addresses to be spoken before a secular audience. One example of this problem appears in a manuscript entitled "Religion in Russia," in which PSB refers to himself as "the writer," but pencilled at the top is: "Preached Sunday a.m. Temple B'rith Kodesh"! Some manuscripts have an added handwritten title and statement of authorship ("by Rabbi Philip Bernstein"), and sometimes a request to return to PSB's home address; these features suggest that perhaps they had been, or were intended to have been, sent to an editor for consideration for publication. Some manuscripts from the 1950s include both a Friday and a Sunday date--indicating, perhaps, that the same address was delivered as a Friday evening sermon to TBK and also as one of PSB's regular Sunday evening radio addresses to the larger Rochester area.
A second problem arises in the arrangement of the list. The order is chronological, using, in most cases, the date appearing on the manuscript. However, some of the early manuscripts lack dates, and attempting to assign them can be quite difficult. If undated sermons contain clues which point to a probable single calendar year as the date of composition, the sermon has been placed under that year in this register. This method is only reliable, of course, when PSB was preaching on, or happened to mention, dateable events. The dating of manuscripts by examining accompanying research material, such as newspaper clippings, is not reliable, as PSB often added later material to folders. Dates on a manuscript have been accepted as the date of composition unless evidence to the contrary is clear. An example is the sermon, "Korea--What Meaning--What Hope?" on the manuscript of which is typed "December 14th" by the title, but on page 8 the text reads, "This is the 7th of December." Sermons whose composition could not be determined to within a single calendar year are in a group at the end of this section arranged by possible ranges of years.
There are not a few manuscripts whose appearance and style or tone suggest another author; however, in the absence of clear evidence to the contrary, they have been presumed to be PSB's.
Some folders contain only associated material, such as announcements and research material, without a manuscript, which could not be located.
Unless otherwise noted, all sermons, insofar as can be determined, were preached at Temple B'rith Kodesh.
Funeral and Memorial services:
Primarily funeral and memorial services for members of the Temple; arranged alphabetically.
CANRA: (Executive Director of the Committee on Army and Navy Religious Activities)
Correspondence, reports; typescript drafts of Rabbis at War, and miscellaneous material.
Advisor on Jewish Affairs:
Reports, memos, official documents, addresses and publications, correspondence, and research material, arranged chronologically. Included in the material from Bernstein's official term of service (May 1946-August 1947) are accounts of his meetings with Pope Pius XII, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, and President Harry S. Truman, as well as a photograph of General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking to Bernstein and General Joseph T. McNarney. There is also some material--publications, reports, etc.--produced by DPs themselves. Material from before and after his term, beginning in the late 1930s and continuing after his service ended to 1973, focuses on the aftermath of the Holocaust, U.S. immigration policy, the rise of anti-Semitism in Germany, and the future of Zionism after the establishment of the state of Israel. Also included are two student papers on Bernstein's role as Advisor. At the end of this section are several fairly complete manuscript drafts from the 1970s by Bernstein's advisor Abraham S. Hyman of what was eventually published in 1993 as The Undefeated (Jerusalem: Gefen).
Central Conference of American Rabbis:
Bernstein was a long time member of CCAR. He was chairman of its Committee on International Peace from 1936 to 1938, and its president from 1950 to 1952.
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (originally American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs):
This section of the papers contains the following: minutes of executive committee meetings; materials from larger, annual policy meetings of members; confidential accounts of meetings between Bernstein, Kenen and State Department and other government officials; material relating to the formation of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations and its annual policy meetings; material relating to AIPAC's conflicts with the American Council for Judaism and Elmer Berger and with the Arab Organization of Students; general correspondence files; and a fairly complete run of AIPAC publications.
Organizations:
Material relating to Bernstein's participation in various conferences and symposia, and memberships on boards, committees, and commissions, not directly related to any of his official positions or his Temple duties. Material relating to conferences, etc. at which Bernstein was not an active participant (a speaker or moderator, for example) will be found elsewhere.
Local (Rochester and New York State):
Material dealing with local issues: housing, politics, the arts, personalities (such as Senator Kenneth B. Keating, school superintendent James Spinning, theologian Conrad H. Moehlmann, etc.), civic and religious organizations and committees, Bernstein's work in arbitration, etc.
Addresses:
Addresses (as opposed to sermons, although, as noted above, the distinction is not always clear in Bernstein's case) and associated research material. Freda Gold, writing in the 29 March 1954 issue of the Tulsa Daily World , described Bernstein as "a lecturer who delivers four or five addresses a week in addition to his sermons at Temple B'rith Kodesh in Rochester." The address which occasioned her article--delivered to the Hadassah regional convention banquet--has not survived. If her figure on Bernstein's addresses is correct, the majority of them also have not survived. The arrangement is chronological where dates are given or can be determined. As with the sermons, some addresses may be represented only by announcements or other material. Some manuscripts may never have been used; his planned radio address for 9 July 1938 was cancelled by NBC, perhaps the most notorious case of censorship faced by PSB.
Publications:
All extant publications and manuscripts of articles intended for publication, including letters to newspapers and magazines, and other printed appearances (brochures, offprints, etc.), associated research material, and related correspondence. Again, the arrangement is chronological, except that material related to the Life article and subsequent book What the Jews Believe, including much correspondence, forms a large block at the end of this section. Bernstein's sound recordings are also grouped at the end of this section. Material relating to his book Rabbis at War will be found in the section on Executive Director of CANRA. His unpublished manuscript autobiography I Never Regretted Being a Rabbi is in the Personal Miscellanea section.
Correspondence:
Typescript and handwritten letters, and telegrams, postcards, airmail, cards, etc. The folders include correspondence to and from PSB, as well as correspondence or copies of correspondence by other persons or organizations. The folders also include miscellaneous material such as notes, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, programs from events, etc. Much correspondence can also be found in other sections of the Papers.
The correspondence folders were received from PSB in three groupings: correspondence with individuals or with clearly defined small groups of individuals; correspondence (chiefly from the 1960s to PSB's retirement, roughly sorted by decade) with multiple correspondents, grouped together by surname; and miscellaneous--folders containing no clearly discernible primary recipient or subject. Dates are earliest and latest within each folder where they can be determined.
Personal Miscellanea:
Biographical and autobiographical material, including his unpublished manuscript autobiography I Never Regretted Being a Rabbi (not altogether reliable for factual matters), published interviews with and miscellaneous articles about Bernstein, photographs, awards, honors, and citations, legal documents (tax returns, passports, etc.), the disposition of his papers and the establishment of the Bernstein Chair at the University of Rochester, travel mementos, ticket stubs, receipts, and other material associated with Bernstein which does not fit any other category.
General subject files:
These boxes gather material not readily assignable to the other categories, as well as miscellaneous material Bernstein collected, possibly to be used in preparing sermons or publications. While some of the material is clearly identified by subject, other material only has a general indication of the time it was collected or a date of possible use (e.g., "Holidays 1966"), and much material has no indication whatsoever as to Bernstein's intentions. The material in these boxes includes newspaper clippings, journals, brochures, reports, tracts, typescript and manuscript notes, and other miscellaneous material. Each folder has been assigned a subject heading established by the Library of Congress, supplemented by descriptive terms where necessary for clarification or expansion, and dated by decade unless a more precise date is available or appropriate.
Oversized Materials:
Arrangement
The Philip S. Bernstein Papers maintain their original arrangement as compiled by the author.
The papers of Philip S. Bernstein have been arranged in chronological and topical order. Fully one third of the material comes from his career as rabbi at Temple B'rith Kodesh, and includes various kinds of Temple papers and correspondence, as well as his sermons and memorial addresses. This material is listed first in the register. It is followed by material from his various public offices--Director of CANRA, Advisor on Jewish Affairs, President of CCAR, and President of AIPAC. Then comes material dealing with local issues, affairs of Rochester, Monroe County, and New York State. Another large section includes his addresses and publications. Correspondence and personal miscellanea round out the specific material. Finally, the last part of this register lists the "research material" PSB collected--miscellaneous documentation and notes for sermons and articles.
One of the stickiest problems in arranging the papers is that of venue. In some cases it is impossible to determine unequivocally whether a manuscript may be a sermon, an article intended for publication, or an address to be spoken before a secular audience. The listing of these documents is at times more a matter of judgment than of certainty. Some manuscripts seem to belong to more than one category. Although he claimed he never gave the same sermon twice, he undoubtedly used the same text more than once. A typical example is a manuscript entitled "Religion in Russia," in which PSB refers to himself as "the writer," but penciled at the top is: "Preached Sunday a.m. Temple B'rith Kodesh"! Some sermon manuscripts from the 1950s include both a Friday and a Sunday date--indicating, perhaps, that the same address was delivered as a Friday evening sermon to TBK and also as one of PSB's regular Sunday evening radio addresses to the larger Rochester area. A third example of PSB's recycling of material may be found on some sermon manuscripts, which have an added handwritten title and statement of authorship ("by Rabbi Philip Bernstein"), and sometimes a request to return to PSB's home address--features suggesting that perhaps they had been, or were intended to have been, sent to an editor for consideration for publication. Finally, some of his published articles appeared with varying degrees of changes in more than one publication.
More detailed notes on the arrangement or other problems of material with each section may be found at the beginning of those sections.
NOTE: In the text of this register, the term research material (usually used for folders containing services and sermons) designates several or all of the following items, in varying quantity: magazine and newspaper clippings, issues of periodicals and pamphlets, and manuscript and typscript notes.
Subject(s):
Sermons
Correspondence
Manuscripts
Bernstein, Philip S. (Philip Sydney), 1901-
Temple B'rith Kodesh (Rochester, N.Y.)
Rabbis
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Content List
Creator: Bernstein, Philip S. (Philip Sydney), 1901-
Call Number: D.269
Dates: circa 1901-1985
Physical Description: 124 linear feet
Language(s): Materials are in English
Repository: Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Table of Contents:
Biographical/Historical Note
Scope and Content
Arrangement
Subject(s)
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Access
Use
Citation
Content List
Series I: Temple B'rith Kodesh
BOX 1: Congregational meetings and committees
BOX 2: Correspondence and papers
Rabbis and Cantors
Temple Museum and Library
General
BOX 2: Congregational meetings and committees
Committees
BOX 3: Correspondence and paper
General
Temple membership, conversion, and weddings
Endowments, Memorials, Gifts, and other Financial Papers
BOX 4: Correspondence and Papers
BOX 5: Anniversaries and other special Temple events
Temple B'rith Kodesh Anniversary Celebrations
Philip S. Bernstein Anniversary and other celebrations
Benjamin Goldstein, Executive Secretary: Testimonials and Memorials
Dinners and Testimonials for Other Temple Officers
Dedications
BOX 6: Anniversaries and other special Temple events
BOX 7: Holidays and annual services
Hanukkah
Annual Youth Service
College Homecoming Services
Annual Scout Service
Brotherhood Week (and Rochester Interfaith services and material)
Purim services, 1965-1969.
Music Services
BOX 8: Holidays and annual services
Jewish Music Services
BOX 8: Other services
Dialogue by the Rabbis [between PSB and Herbert Bronstein, unless otherwise indicated]
Culture in the Courtyard
Forum Weekends and Program
People to People Services
Other Services, Programs, and Events
BOX 9: Religious education
Religious School
B'nai Mitzvah Services
BOX 10: Religious education
B'nai Mitzvah Services
Confirmation Services
BOX 11: Religious education
Confirmation Services
High School Graduation Services
BOX 12: Religious education
High School Graduation Services
Adult Education and Seniors Programs
Clergy Institutes
BOX 13
BOX 14: Clubs
Temple Club
Young Couples Club
Correspondence, programs of special events, and other materials
BOX 15
New Temple in Brighton
Temple bulletins and news releases
Miscellaneous
Series II: Sermons
BOX 1
BOX 2
BOX 3
BOX 4
BOX 5
BOX 6
BOX 7
BOX 8
BOX 9
BOX 10
BOX 11
BOX 12
BOX 13
BOX 14
BOX 15
BOX 16
BOX 17
BOX 18
BOX 19
BOX 20
BOX 21
BOX 22
Series III: Funeral Memorial Services
BOX 1
BOX 2
Series IV: CANRA
BOX 1
BOX 2
Series V: Advisor on Jewish Affairs
BOX 1
BOX 2
BOX 3
BOX 4
BOX 5
Series VI: CCAR
BOX 1
BOX 2
Series VII: AZCPA/AIPAC
BOX 1: Chronological Files, 1954-1961
BOX 2: Chronological Files, 1961-1974
BOX 2
BOX 3: Anti-Zionism
BOX 4: General correspondence
BOX 5
BOX 6
BOX 7
BOX 8
BOX 9. Research material, Jewish Sources
BOX 10. Research material
Series VIII: Local
BOX 1: Housing and race relations
BOX 2
BOX 3
BOX 4
Series IX: Addresses
BOX 1
BOX 2
BOX 3
BOX 4
BOX 5
BOX 6
BOX 7
BOX 8
BOX 9
Series X: Publications
BOX 1
BOX 2
BOX 3
BOX 4
BOX 5
BOX 6
BOX 7
BOX 8
Series XI: Correspondence
BOX 1
BOX 2
BOX 3
BOX 4
BOX 5
BOX 6
The following list includes other persons of interest who also appear in the correspondence, as well as individuals named above whose correspondence has been scattered in other folders; the numbers given are box and folder:
Alphabetic groups
BOX 6 (continued)
BOX 7
BOX 8
Other
BOX 8 (continued)
BOX 9
Series XII: Personal Miscellanea
BOX 1
BOX 2
BOX 3
Series XIII: Subject Files
Subject files
Periodicals
Holidays
Miscellaneous
Series XIV: Oversized Materials
Collection Overview
Title: Philip S. Bernstein papers
Creator: Bernstein, Philip S. (Philip Sydney), 1901-
Call Number: D.269
Dates: circa 1901-1985
Physical Description: 124 linear feet
Language(s): Materials are in English
Repository: Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Biographical/Historical Note
The following essay was written by Walter F. Nickeson and Laura Graham (1995–2000), and offers biographical information about Rabbi Bernstein and his life's work.
Rabbi Philip Bernstein needs no introduction to a Rochester audience. He has been here too long.[1]
Philip S. Bernstein was the son of Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe who came to the United States in the late nineteenth century. His mother, Sara Steinberg, came from Seraye in Lithuania. At the age of ten her family sent her alone to America. She came to live with her brother Sam in Rochester, New York, and never saw her immediate family again.[2] Bernstein's father, Abraham, born in 1875 in Kalvary, Lithuania, immigrated with his family to New York City. There he learned the tailoring trade. Eventually he arrived in Rochester where he met and married Sara Steinberg. Philip S. Bernstein, the first of their three sons, was born there on June 29, 1901. In 1903, the Bernstein family moved back to New York City for about eight years, then returned to Rochester to stay. For the next fifty years, Philip Bernstein lived "within the area of one square mile" in the city.[3]
A precocious student, Bernstein was placed in advanced classes at East High School in Rochester. He left in 1917 without being graduated. Despite his youth and his family's lack of money, he was determined to go to college—even running away to his aunt in New York for a short time to make his point. In the fall of that year he was finally allowed to enter Syracuse University. His schooling there was interrupted by his father's illness, and in 1919, he returned to Rochester to run the family tailoring business for a short time. It was never very prosperous, and Bernstein decided to leave the world of business. As he saw it, his future lay either with the law or in the rabbinate.
Bernstein had, from an early age, been active in the Jewish community. In this he was alone in his family: his brothers both pursued successful secular careers. (However, his cousin Milton Steinberg, son of his mother's sister, with whom he grew up, was also to become a well-known rabbi.) Bernstein's interest in Zionism found expression in 1914 when he was an usher at the 17th National Convention of the Federation of American Zionists in Rochester.[4] The following year, as a delegate to the Young Judean Zionist Convention in Boston, he met future Supreme Court Justice and active Zionist Louis D. Brandeis. Later, as a student at Syracuse University, he taught Sunday School at Temple Society of Concord, a Reform congregation. These kinds of activities seem to have convinced him to formalize his service to his community by becoming a rabbi.
After being graduated from SU in 1921, Bernstein entered the Jewish Institute of Religion (JIR) in New York City. The Institute had been recently founded by the famous Reform rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and Bernstein, attracted by Wise's powerful personality and the Institute's pro-Zionist stance (in contrast to what he saw as the anti-Zionism of the Hebrew Union College), was a member of its first class, graduating in 1926. His master's thesis was on Jeremiah, after whom his first son was named. In later years he expressed regret that his education did not give him a deep background in the Hebrew language.
In June 1925 he married Sophie Rubin, the niece of Syracuse rabbi Benjamin Friedman, with whom Bernstein had become friends while attending the University. Sophie Rubin does not have a large place in her husband's papers. She is revealed indirectly as a woman of strong character, willing to meet the traditional social obligations of a rabbi's wife, but also capable of substantive work of her own in the Temple in which her husband was rabbi. She aided him organizationally, especially in the activities of the Sisterhood of Temple B'rith Kodesh, which was sometimes as much an educational and political organization as it was religious and social. She accompanied her husband on most of his trips throughout their lives, and together they were indefatigable travelers. Shortly after their wedding they took the first of what would become a typical Bernstein working vacation. They spent the 1925 fall term at Cambridge University, England, where they met and became friends with Chaim Weizmann, the future first president of Israel. At the end of the term, they left England and visited Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Poland, Vienna, Venice, Rome, Naples, Egypt, and Palestine, where Bernstein completed his studies in the first classes at Hebrew University.[5] Forty years later they went on a trip around the world in the opposite direction, traveling to Los Angeles and thence to Hawaii, southeast Asia, India, Africa, Israel, and Greece. In many of these cities and countries, they inquired after the history and lives of Jewish communities: "Wherever we go, like Joseph, we seek our brethren. And we find them."[6]
While in Palestine, an apparently chance meeting with some touring residents of Rochester led Bernstein to apply for the position of assistant rabbi at Temple B'rith Kodesh. In August 1926 he was hired and when Rabbi Horace J. Wolf died in February of the next year, Bernstein became the sole rabbi. He remained at the head of the temple for 46 years until his retirement in June 1973. This long tenure was divided in two by an almost five-year absence from the congregation during World War II. The first period, from 1927 to 1942, was marked by his social activism in Rochester, extensive traveling abroad (especially to Europe, where he observed with alarm the increasingly dangerous situation of the Jewish community), and his move from pacifism to acceptance of war as the only means to stop Hitler. In the second period, from 1947 to 1973, Israel replaced Europe as the focus of his international concerns, while at home, he worried about the survival of Judaism in the affluent and superficially tolerant culture of the United States.
Bernstein's career as rabbi began at the close of the era of Old World Jewry and embodied the coming of age of New World Jewry.[7] The child of recent Eastern European immigrants, he came into a mature temple founded in 1848 at the beginning of the "German Period."[8] Bernstein integrated the liberal concerns of the German Reform movement with the new demands of the immigrants for a traditional Jewish religious experience.
Temple B'rith Kodesh was in 1926 the largest synagogue in Rochester, with a membership of about 400, and its only Reform temple. As a Reform synagogue it was liberal in its theology and practice[9] and active in social affairs. Rabbi Wolf had been the chair of the Social Justice Commission of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR)—the main body of Reform Judaism—from 1916 to 1924, and was described by Jacob R. Marens in 1954 as a disciple of well-known Protestant Social Gospel leader Walter Rauschenbush.[10] Bernstein continued its tradition of social activism and liberal thought. Theologically, he was, in his early years, squarely in the modernist camp.[11] Henri Bergson was a major influence, and Bernstein's mentors while he was a student at JIR included John Haynes Holmes, founder of the non-denominational Community Church, and Felix Adler, founder of the Ethical Culture movement. While at JIR he also took classes at Columbia University from John Dewey. In a 1926 address, given before he was hired by B'rith Kodesh, Bernstein admitted to not having "a definite belief in God" [12] (and in a 1960 sermon said of himself, "I was a teen-age atheist"). Although he was by no means a materialist, the core of his belief at that time lay in the realm of ethics; in 1948 he would still say that the aim of Reform Judaism "was to recapture the spirit, the teachings, the way of life enunciated by the Hebrew prophets."[13] This belief drew him into deep involvement in social concerns and a willingness to stir things up. "The building of a better social order means radicalism of one kind or another," he told a local PTA in 1933. "You can't find or abolish what is evil without offending vested interests, and that means trouble."[14] Locally, he worked for fair housing in Rochester, on its Housing Commission and as a private citizen (yet also using the pulpit as a forum). He often addressed the City Club on issues of economics and justice. He arbitrated several labor disputes.
What Bernstein added to B'rith Kodesh was a renewed emphasis on Jewish tradition—on ritual, ceremony, and symbolism, an effort to "re-Judaize Reform Judaism."[15] The Reform movement in the early part of the twentieth century had "little Judaism, [and] less Jewish observance (piety)," said Bernstein in the 1950s:[16] there was "not very much to distinguish the religious life of the temple from that of the First Unitarian Church."[17] He found himself "repelled" by the first Reform service he attended at the Gibbs St. Settlement House in Rochester.[18] Most of B'rith Kodesh's members in 1927 were Jews of German origin who prided themselves on a humanist thinking and practice in their temple that often transcended cultural and ethnic differences. But Jews immigrating from Eastern Europe, including Bernstein's parents, had been dramatically increasing in numbers since the end of the nineteenth century,[19] and had brought with them an interest in and desire for a more traditional, distinctively Jewish religious setting. The two groups were hostile and showed little cooperation.
However, the influence of the newcomers on the American Jewish community was decisive. In Rochester, B'rith Kodesh began to offer Hebrew lessons to students during Bernstein's first decade as rabbi. Bar mitzvahs were introduced during that same period. "Sentimental Protestant music" was replaced by music informed by "Jewish religious sources."[20] And in 1941, the Temple discontinued Sunday morning services to return to traditional Friday evening services. Despite the renewed attention to tradition, Bernstein emphatically denied he was a Conservative. He was striving to institute a "liberalism steeped in Jewish tradition." He defined the difference between the Reform and conservative branches of Judaism as being that of choice: The Reform wing chose to adopt the traditional ritual practices, whereas the conservatives saw themselves as being bound by them.[21] This approach could be seen as simple pragmatism: Writing to one of his congregation in 1951, Bernstein accepted a compliment on a Friday evening service, noting, "We try to make [our historic traditions] appealing and meaningful and win our people to them not through compulsion but through their desirability and usefulness."[22] Looking back in 1967, Bernstein could claim that the genius of Reform Judaism lay in its adaptation of its historic core to the times: "[It was] a way of being a Jew, a way of seeking the essence of faith, relevant to the needs of one's time and place. It represented a readiness to change, to adapt, to acculturate."[23] He also noted that the Temple had, under his leadership, become more traditional. That this balance between keeping the old and introducing the new could not please everyone is revealed in some notes received as B'rith Kodesh was looking for Bernstein's successor in 1972–1973. "Give us back our Reform Service," said one congregant, and another wrote, "The kind of Rabbi I would want is a reformed [sic] Rabbi."[24]
The location of Jewishness in practice, or the structure of the religious life—rather than in a creed, or in theological abstractions—found full expression in Bernstein's tremendously popular essay, "What the Jews Believe." Originally published in Life magazine September 11, 1950, it received an enthusiastic response from Jewish and non-Jewish readers, and Bernstein later expanded it into book form. The interest of non-Jews seemed especially important to him. An intrinsic part of having a Jewish identity was explaining and relating it to the adherents of other creeds and cultures. Yet "What the Jews Believe" was in large part addressed to Bernstein's own community. He was to say later, "As the years passed it was clear that it was even more important to get Jews to respect Judaism than to get Christians to respect it."[25]
During the first part of Bernstein's rabbinate, the Jewish community's great foe on the outside was a relatively straightforward anti-Semitism. Europe was home of the Oberammergau Passion Play and, of course, Hitler; and even after the War, pogroms and racial hatred continued. Americans were subject to the rantings of Father Coughlin and the reflexive anti-Semitism of the uneducated. However, the challenge of this kind of prejudice was gradually replaced by the end of the 1950s by the threat of assimilation. On the positive side, Jews had made great strides in finding acceptance in society, and Bernstein was glad to note that his students in his confirmation classes were reporting having had no experiences of anti-Semitism.[26] Economically, American Jews shared in the post-war prosperity of the United States; B'rith Kodesh moved in 1962 from the inner city to Brighton, one of Rochester's wealthy suburbs, where most of its burgeoning population lived. This increase in numbers and in wealth was not an unambiguously good thing. "In Rochester one can't join the country club unless he's a member of a synagogue; in this place the synagogue is the country club," Bernstein lamented .[27] Furthermore, the cost of this growth seemed to be the loss of a distinctive, vibrant Jewish identity. Bernstein complained in 1969, "In my youth intermarriage was rare, assimilation was remote. On one day earlier this month I had five requests for conversion and intermarriage."[28]
Bernstein saw an active Jewish identity as the basis for participation with other creeds and movements in a ministry of social reform; his ecumenism had deep roots. In the early 1930s he, along with Rochester Unitarian minister David Rhys Williams, were the foremost religious leaders in progressive reform in Rochester. They sometimes parted ways, such as over Williams's strenuous attacks on the Catholic Church, one of which he delivered from Bernstein's pulpit during Thanksgiving. But the friendship survived and thrived on argument and disagreement, and together Williams and Bernstein made a significant contribution to settlement houses, missions, educational institutions, and political life in Rochester. Nationally, Bernstein campaigned on behalf of and also with the socialist Norman Thomas during the Depression.
Bernstein saw himself as an advocate of woman's emancipation and Negro American rights in the 1930s and 1940s. Primarily a liberal paternalist, even on that basis he was nonetheless often several strides ahead of Rochester public opinion. In the early 1930s, he and David Rhys Williams both invited Margaret Sanger to speak from their pulpits. They publicly defended her and the birth control movement against charges of obscenity, a stance which cost Bernstein some important Temple members. As a Reform Jew in the 1930s, Bernstein advocated the emancipation of women from traditional restrictions on their autonomy and development, and was impressed by the achievements in that area in the young Soviet Union. In 1960 he boasted that one of Reform Judaism's unique contributions had been the achievement of equality by women, pointing to the establishment of Confirmation for girls as well as for boys, and the permitting of women in the pulpit.[29] However, he was relatively silent on the issues of feminism in the 1960s and 1970s.
Much stronger was Bernstein's outspokenness on civil rights. From 1936 to 1940 Bernstein was Chair of the Rochester City Planning and Housing Council. From that position he argued for integrated neighborhoods and the construction of affordable, integrated residences for low-income families. He was also active in the Rochester City Club, and was its president from 1932 through 1933. He often pressed his causes in addresses to the Club. A sense of humor accompanied his moral earnestness. He wrote to David de Sola Pool in 1946:
"This seems to be 'TESTIMONIAL DINNER TO BERNSTEIN MONTH.' … On Wednesday there is to be a Chamber of Commerce interfaith brotherhood luncheon in my honor at which I plan to tell them that brotherhood has no meaning unless Negroes are permitted to live everywhere in Rochester. I think that will end 'TESTIMONIAL DINNER TO BERNSTEIN MONTH.'"[30]
In that same year, in a more serious vein, he forecast: "The fate of the Negroes in the United States for the next generation will be determined in these coming months."[31] He continued to speak out on civil rights, with increased vigor, for many years. When he received the 1958 Rochester Rotary Club award, for example, he charged that the construction of the low-cost Hanover Houses project "in the worst slum area of town" amounted to a "surrender to bigotry" on the part of the city.[32] But one can perhaps hear a note of resignation or withdrawal in his 1966 claim that "as the Jews emancipated themselves from [the ghetto north of the railroad tracks, where most Jews lived in the first part of the century] and other ghettoes, the Negroes can and will [also emancipate themselves]."[33] By then Bernstein was seeking solutions more often in the management skills of social and political elites, whom he hoped to morally awaken, than in grassroots organizing. Not surprisingly, he was also distinctly uncomfortable with black nationalism. Still, in his public addresses and private correspondence, especially in relation to the local Rochester organization FIGHT, Bernstein maintained that black anger had its roots in palpable inequalities whose reform could not help but upset the economic and political arrangement of things by whites. He put it bluntly in the spring of the turbulent year 1968: "The first [of ten commandments for Black-White relations] is the acceptance of White guilt for the problem that confronts us."[34]
Bernstein's removal from his congregation in Rochester during the war was to fill two prominent national positions—both, ironically, serving in a supportive role to the U.S. armed forces. For almost two decades after his enthusiastic enlistment in the army in 1918, PSB had been a staunch pacifist, speaking out frequently and fervently against the evils of war and the economic and social conditions that he saw contributed to war. From 1936 to 1938 he was chairman of CCAR's Committee on International Peace, and had lectured President Roosevelt on the evils of arms buildup. However, the unrelenting growth of anti-Judaism in Europe, especially in nazi Germany, forced him to reluctantly give up his pacifism,[35] although he never became a hawk. When World War II came to the U.S., Bernstein responded.
The first position was Executive Director of the Committee on Army and Navy Religious Activities (CANRA) of the National Jewish Welfare Board, a role Bernstein filled from December 1942 to February 1946. Soon after the U.S. entered the war Bernstein volunteered his services as an overseas chaplain. Although he was formally rejected in that capacity, he nevertheless became, as Executive Director of CANRA, chaplain to the chaplains—overseer of the Jewish chaplains in the U.S. armed forces. This role is documented by the Papers, although much may be missing. They reveal the lengths to which PSB went to help ensure that the Jewish enlisted men and their chaplains received appropriate material and spiritual support—letters from home, supplies for the holidays, kosher food, torahs and prayer books, places and time for worship, guidance about following Jewish practice under wartime conditions, gossip about their peers, and humor. Out of that work came Rabbis at War, explaining the work of CANRA, published in 1971 by the American Jewish Historical Society. His travels in the Pacific theater in 1944 made a lasting impression on him; he was especially fond of telling the story of the Hanukkah service on a shattered Saipan where the tropical heat melted the candles as fast as they burned.[36]
The second position came almost immediately on the heels of the first. Bernstein had barely returned home when he was asked to succeed Judge Simon Rifkind as Advisor on Jewish Affairs to the U.S. Army Commander in Germany (later expanded to include Austria). His was the longest tenure of all the advisors, serving Generals Joseph T. McNarney and Lucius D. Clay in Germany, and Mark Clark in Austria, from May 1946 to August 1947. As Bernstein was to recall in 1962: "The displaced persons were at the lowest ebb of their morale. They were among the people who had brought about their misfortunes and were facing the coldest winter in Germany's recorded history."[37] Many Germans, and other Europeans, were unrepentantly hostile toward Jews. In July 1946 a bloody pogrom in Kielce, Poland, sparked an exodus of Jews toward the haven of the U.S. Occupied Zone in Germany. This section of the papers covers Bernstein's successful efforts to open the borders of the American zone after the Kielce attack, and to keep them open through the winter and into the next year, and his concern over the maintenance of adequate food and housing standards for the DPs. While their ration at first was 2200 calories, as against 2000 for other DPs, this was reduced to 2000 in March 1947. He took special pride in his role in reversing history. The Weisbaden Temple rededication in December 1946 was the first since the Nazis came to power. His son Stephen became Bar Mitzvah in Frankfurt in January 1947, the first in Germany for seven years. Bernstein noted, "Since liberation there was not a single Jewish boy in this once great city of Frankfurt who reached the age of thirteen."[38] Perhaps his greatest achievement, in his own estimation, was gaining recognition by the U.S. Army of the Central Committee for Liberated Jews. The Committee, he crowed, "in effect re-established an official Jewish community in an area from which Hitler claimed he had forever abolished them."[39] Less successful, however, were his efforts to convince the U.S. Congress to open the doors wider to Jewish DP immigration. This section of the papers also includes correspondence and reports on Bernstein's efforts to get DPs to Palestine, and related to that, on his meetings with President Harry Truman and English Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin.
Bernstein's other two major roles did not take him away from his congregation. The first of these was his presidency of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), the chief organization of Reform Judaism in America, from July 1950 to June 1952. Bernstein initiated major changes of lasting importance to that organization, including the establishment of its own periodical, CCAR Journal. He was most proud of his leading a seminar of American rabbis to Israel in 1951 to see first hand how Israeli Jewish life compared with American Jewish life.
Finally, the last major national position held by PSB was Chair of the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs (AZCPA), founded early in 1954. Not surprisingly, Bernstein's Zionism underwent some changes through the years. It does not seem to have meant to him the end of the Diaspora and the ingathering of the Jews. Bernstein himself seems to have seriously considered emigrating to Palestine only twice: first while he was attending Hebrew University in 1926, and later after the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. Before and immediately after the war, Zionism for Bernstein was the expression of the hope for a port in the storm: a refuge to which the Jews of Europe could flee from mounting persecution. Thus Zionism was not a theological issue, but "an answer to anti-Semitism."[40] This view guided his efforts as Advisor on Jewish Affairs to get Jews admitted to Palestine, where most of them wanted to go. After the birth of Israel, Bernstein's Zionism seems to have become the expression of the safeguarding of the young country from the hostility of its Arab neighbors. Israel was now indeed a Jewish homeland, a place where Jews could develop their own culture free from the oppression that had haunted them in Europe. Nonetheless, Jews could also remain loyal citizens of any hospitable country in the world. In 1951 he claimed, "There will be two great Jewries in the world,—Israeli and American."[41]
Bernstein became the second chairman of AZCPA in 1954, succeeding fellow Rochesterian Louis Lipsky. The Committee's purpose was to promote an American foreign policy favorable to Israel's interests by lobbying government officials, and by countering what it considered Arab propaganda in the media and elsewhere. Bernstein's position was that of a western cultural paternalist, and the main line of argument of the Committee with government officials and the public was that Israel was a lone western democracy, tamer of the Palestinian wasteland, surrounded by backward, hopelessly despotic Arab governments.[42] As such, it was the United States' most promising ally in the Cold War competition with the Soviet Union for hegemony in the Middle East. Bernstein and AZCPA president I.L. Kenen were unsympathetic to a hearing on the Palestinian side of the Israeli-Arab conflict.
In 1959, the Committee changed its name to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), to reflect, according to public explanation, non-Jewish support for U.S. foreign policy favorable to Israel. Perhaps "Zionist" seemed a historical anachronism once the state of Israel had been established. But the name change might also have been a result of the fairly continuous problems the Committee had concerning its status with Senator Fulbright and other non-Zionist Jewish organizations, who claimed that the Committee should be formally registered as a foreign agent of the Israeli government rather than as a domestic lobby.
Ironically, though, Bernstein would probably consider today's AIPAC as something of a repudiation of what he and Kenen had worked to make it in its first few decades. In Bernstein's day, AIPAC was allied with liberal Jewish and non-Jewish organizations, at least ostensibly supportive of democratic principles, while the AIPAC of today has sought out right-wing support, and especially the dollars and political power of the kind of Christian right-wing organizations that Bernstein abhorred.
All along, however, AIPAC has remained a low-profile organization. The position of chairman in most organizations such as AIPAC is usually that of a public relations figure, while the executive director is responsible for policy and organization. Chairmen are usually chosen for their status in a particular community, and their talents in interpreting the organization's work to the public. Bernstein, however, worked in equal partnership with Kenen in building the Committee and forming its policy. And, ironically, the strength of this section of the papers comes from the fact that Bernstein could not be in Washington, D.C., where the lobby was located, all the time, and so, instead, he and Kenen corresponded, sometimes twice a day. Their heavy, substantive correspondence survived.
In 1968, Bernstein retired from his position as Chairman of AIPAC, and in 1973 he retired as rabbi at Temple B'rith Kodesh. His review of Judd L. Teller's Strangers and Natives sums up his experience of the development of American Jewry in the 47 years from 1921 to 1968 (the same span as Bernstein's leadership at the Temple): "The swift evolution from ghetto to suburbia, from poverty to affluence, from the laboring masses to the middle classes, from anti-Semitism to a-Semitism, from segregation to acceptance, from inbreeding to intermarriage."[43] In the 1970s he began to suffer from Parkinson's Disease, and he died on December 3, 1985, at the age of 84. Before his death an endowed chair was established in his name in the Department of Religious and Classical Studies at the University of Rochester.
Bernstein is probably best described as one of those figures who, while not very readily or widely known, worked with and knew, sometimes very well, everyone who was.[47] Perhaps precisely because of his non-celebrity status among leading Jewish figures and the wide and in-depth work that he did, his papers form a rich source for just about every issue one can think of concerning American Jewish identity.
[1] "… said the Chairlady in presenting me to a women's club," quipped PSB. [Subject files, Jewish wit and humor] It seems to me that beginning this essay with a joke would have pleased PSB, who recorded a humor-filled vinyl record to explain Why Jews laugh.
[2] This story is recounted in numerous places, e.g. "The meaning of America," sermon, 31 May 1953.
[3] Address on the dedication of the PSB Chair at the University of Rochester, 16 December 1974.
[4] According to Thomas Philip Liebschutz, in his M.A. thesis on Bernstein, "The impact of these men [Zionists such as Louis Lipsky, Nathan Straus, and Stephen S. Wise] and these meetings upon the gifted and impressionable Bernstein was momentous. They made him into a lifelong Zionist; they gave him a feeling of Jewish dignity and self-respect; they moved him in the direction of Hebraic culture and the Hebrew language" (p. 37). Much of Liebschutz's information came from a 1964 interview with Bernstein.
[5] Years later PSB would write: "Cambridge was a beautiful experience, but Jerusalem changed my life. In a real sense it saved me for the rabbinate, giving me a sense of sacred responsbility to the history and destiny of our people. I developed a love for the Hebrew language and culture which enriched my entire life." Temple B'rith Kodesh Bulletin, 6 Feb 1970. (Subj.: Glueck, Nelson.)
[6] Letter to TBK for Temple bulletin, 14 December 1966. (Personal misc.: travel)
[7] Jacob Rader Marcus, in The Jew in the American World: A Source Book (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996), calls the years 1925–1960 the "Emerging American Period" and notes that the immigration restrictions of the early 1920s "had the effect of spurring the diverse Jewish ethnic groups here to begin blending ... there was, very definitely, a Jewish melting pot. Out of diversity came forth unity" (p. 393).
[8] Marcus' term.
[9] The organ and pews were introduced in the 1860s, and according to the Jewish Ledger of 5 December 1928, TBK was the first congregation in the country to conduct services in English. Edward J. Wile, "History of Temple B'rith Kodesh," Jewish Ledger (v. 9, no. 13):2.
[10] I don't know where this is from.
[11] In 1933 he wrote that he was a rabbi "of the liberal variety, which means that in addition to the modernization of my ideas, I wear Michaels Sterns clothes, Hannan shoes, Manhattan shirts and sport a snappy, collegiate haircut. A generous-minded person might mistake me on the street for an enterprising insurance agent." On Jewish destiny, Publications.
[12] This sermon, "The Minister," was published in the JIR's yearbook, The Annual, a copy of which may be found in the Personal Miscellanea section of the Papers. Ten years later he wrote in The Christian Century, "I do not believe in absolute religious truth." Pubs., box 1.
[13] "What's ahead for Reform Jews?" sermon, 26 Nov 1948.
[14] Addresses box
[15] "My last Friday evening sermon on Gibbs Street," 11 May 1962.
[16] I don't know where this is from; similar phrasing in his 11 May 1962 sermon.
[17] ?Summer letter, 1960?
[18] "Gibbs Street—meaning and memories," sermon, 23 April 1965.
[19] Bernstein said in his 15 January 1965 sermon on Fiddler on the Roof, "Perhaps three quarters of the members of this congregation are descended from Anatevka, from the shtetlah of Eastern Europe."
[20] Sermon, 23 April 1965.
[21] Despite this claim, PSB could also write (in 1954, thanking the Rochester Civic Music Association for moving the Artists' Series concerts away from Friday nights, which conflicted with the Sabbath service), "By ancient religious precept these [Sabbath services] are not subject to change, but must be observed on the Sabbath Eve." Local, NYBR Council, 15 Sept. 1954.
[22] Family worship and consecration of children, January 1951. (TBK 6?)
[23] "Presentation of Cantor David Unterman," 21 May 1967 (2:18). In this light it is amusing to see how the unexpected news that Bernard Chernik, scheduled to speak at TBK in February 1955, was Orthodox, came as "a complete shock to everyone here." Accommodating Mr. Chernik's dietary and Sabbath observances "caused a re-arrangement of many plans that were made." These comments were made in PSB's absence by his secretary, who claimed, "I have been placed in a very awkward position due to this negligence [i.e., the failure of the Speakers' Bureau to inform the Temple beforehand]." (3:13)
[24] Search for Successor Folder (2:23). While this last respondent would seem to be criticizing the Temple's move away from Liberal Judaism, the letter continued that the kind of Rabbi wanted is "One as near as you can get like [sic] Rabbi Bernstein."
[25] "My Last Friday Evening Sermon on Gibbs Street," 11 May 1962.
[26] Contrast this to his 1936 statement: "High-school students seem preoccupied with problems of anti-Semitism, and are quite worried about their future." "Jews have the jitters," pubs box 1.
[27] "Time and estrangement," pubs. Box 3, June 1958.
[28] 1969 speech to CCAR
[29] "Reform Judaism confronts Orthodoxy and Conservatism," 28 October 1960. In the same sermon Bernstein also said: "I know of what the preparations for the Passover in a traditional home meant to Jewish women. Certainly it was an effort, but it gave them the deepest kind of spiritual joy." One wonders how Bernstein knew of the women's balance between the effort and the joy.
[30] Correspondence, 1946.
[31] Sermon, 1 February 1946.
[32] Acceptance speech, 6 May 1958.
[33] Sermon, 14 September 1966.
[34] Sermon, 19 April 1968.
[35] In his "Apologia pro aetate mea," CCAR Journal (April, 1969):12, Bernstein stated, "At a midnight rump session of the Conference [i.e., CCAR] in Charlevoix, Michigan, in June, 1938, I made my public confession of sin. I renounced my pacifism and committed myself to the war against Nazi Germany." However, in the 20 July 1949 Christian Century, as part of a series on "How My Mind Has Changed in the Last Decade," he wrote, "My last pacifist speech was delivered at Williamstown on September 1, 1939." This speech is not extent.
[36] e.g., in "Out of this world—a report from the Pacific," radio broadcast by PSB, 25 February 1945.
[37] Address to AIPAC, 1 April 1962.
[38] AJA box.
[39] Press release, September 1946.
[40] "Reform Judaism," column in Jewish Daily Bulletin, 23 June 1935. [Publications]
[41] CCAR box?
[42] Typical of this attitude is this selection from a 1951 sermon describing the "colonization" of Palestine by Jews: "To the rank and file of the Arab people they brought nothing but benefits. The country was poor, the political system had been corrupt and rotten and the health conditions were abonimable [sic]. Every Arab suffered from some major illness and most of the Arab children died in infancy. Into this backward situation, the Jews introduced modern health and hygiene, public education, scientific agriculture, and modern industry. As a result, the Arabs near the Jewish settlements developed the highest standard of living to be found among any Arab people in the world." (Sermons, 1951)
[43] Publications box, 1968.
[44] In a letter to the editor a Rochester reader, quoting Pope Paul, wrote, "Rabbi Bernstein has long been himself a blessing 'Urbi et Orbi.'" Dec.? 1974
[45] Letter to Samuel Karff, in 1976, in CCAR box, on ideas for a book.
[46] CANRA section, letter.
[47] When helping plan a festschrift for his 30th anniversary in 1964, Bernstein compiled a list of possible contributors that included Ben Gurion, Abba Eban, Golda Meir, Norman Cousins, Hubert Humphrey, Jacob Javitz, Lawrence Spivak, Max Lerner, and J. Robert Oppenheimer. In his 1966 summer letter to the congregation he claimed "to have had contacts with every American president since 1928."
[48] In his 1951 address "A Day in the Life of a Rabbi," he wrote, "I never use an old sermon." But in the paragraph preceding that statement he said, "Most of these addresses ... are fit for publication as they appear [amended to: are written]. As a matter of fact, a number of them have actually been published in magazines as articles." He also told this joke on himself: "My son was asked whether his father ever preached the same sermon twice. 'Yes,' he replied, 'but he yells loud in different places.'" Subjects, Jewish wit and humor.
[49] Publications, Box 1.
Scope and Content
Temple B'rith Kodesh (TBK):
Here is gathered material related to Bernstein's official role and duties as Rabbi at TBK, insofar as it is distinct from other material (correspondence, in particular, presents the problem of distinguishing personal from private in an all-consuming vocation). Other material possibly construed as "official" may be found in, for example, the "Personal Miscellanea" section.
The major categories of this section are given below along with the kinds of material typically found therein. While the primary content of the folders is generally correspondence, a variety of other material may be present. Within each category or subsection, the arrangement is usually chronological.
Congregational meetings and committees. Documents from, and relating to, the work of ad hoc and established groups within TBK conducting the temple's affairs. Folders for the annual meetings often include programs, agendas, invitations, correspondence, budget reports, addresses by PSB and others, lists of members, press releases and other announcements, newspaper clippings, and research material.
Correspondence and papers. Primarily correspondence, chiefly from or to PSB, on TBK matters. Since the bulk of PSB's correspondence is found in its own section, the material collected here is more directly related to the doings of TBK or its members. Also included are other papers relating to the temple, such as on conversion and financial matters.
Anniversaries and other special Temple events. These folders include programs and invitations having to do with celebrations of or at TBK.
Holidays and annual services. These folders typically include programs, invitations, Temple bulletins, press releases, correspondence, memos to and lists of participants, and other material from the regular holiday and other services. Many folders include material from previous (or even future!) years' services. The services are given here in the order in which they appear in the annual cycle, starting with the High Holy Days in the fall of the year, although not all the services are part of the cycle or even Jewish (e.g., Jewish Music services, or Thanksgiving). Services associated with religious education are in the next section.
Religious education. Material relating to the education of all ages at TBK, from youngest to oldest. Papers from services relating to education, such B'nai Mitzvah or confirmation, are included here rather than with the preceding section. Folders for services may contain programs for the service, Temple bulletins, sermons and manuscript notes by PSB or others, lists of students, schedules of the services (particularly for the Mitzvahs), photographs of the class, exam questions and other class material, correspondence and memoranda, and research material.
Clubs. Programs, calendars, correspondence, and research material pertaining to some of the social groups within TBK. Much of what is gathered under the heading "Temple Club" is correspondence regarding possible speakers at Temple events, along with material from speakers' bureaus.
New Temple in Brighton. Material (correspondence, drawings, research material, and more) from the congregation's decision in the late 1950s to move from Gibbs Street through the move to the new building in Brighton in 1962, with some later material on landscaping. A separate section on the Temple's Ark, designed by Luise Kaish, consists chiefly of correspondence with the artist and the new temple's architect, Pietro Belluschi.
Temple bulletins. Incomplete runs of bulletins.
Sermons:
In his unpublished autobiography Bernstein wrote, "For forty-seven years I preached an average of perhaps seventy-five to a hundred sermons a year. Somewhere in the Temple files there must be manuscripts and notes on perhaps three to four thousand sermons." This collection numbers substantially fewer than Bernstein's figure, which in any case must be viewed with some suspicion: For most of his career Bernstein took a long summer vacation, and when he had an assistant rabbi after the War, he did not preach every Friday. These boxes gather nearly all the extant sermons, preached at B'rith Kodesh or elsewhere, and associated drafts, manuscript notes, and research material. The arrangement is chronological where dates are given or can be determined. Some sermons may be found in the section on TBK with material on special services.
Although this section attempts to gather all Bernstein's sermons, such an attempt cannot be considered definitive, primarily because of the problem of venue. In many cases it is impossible to distinguish which manuscripts may be sermons, and which may articles intended for publication, or addresses to be spoken before a secular audience. One example of this problem appears in a manuscript entitled "Religion in Russia," in which PSB refers to himself as "the writer," but pencilled at the top is: "Preached Sunday a.m. Temple B'rith Kodesh"! Some manuscripts have an added handwritten title and statement of authorship ("by Rabbi Philip Bernstein"), and sometimes a request to return to PSB's home address; these features suggest that perhaps they had been, or were intended to have been, sent to an editor for consideration for publication. Some manuscripts from the 1950s include both a Friday and a Sunday date--indicating, perhaps, that the same address was delivered as a Friday evening sermon to TBK and also as one of PSB's regular Sunday evening radio addresses to the larger Rochester area.
A second problem arises in the arrangement of the list. The order is chronological, using, in most cases, the date appearing on the manuscript. However, some of the early manuscripts lack dates, and attempting to assign them can be quite difficult. If undated sermons contain clues which point to a probable single calendar year as the date of composition, the sermon has been placed under that year in this register. This method is only reliable, of course, when PSB was preaching on, or happened to mention, dateable events. The dating of manuscripts by examining accompanying research material, such as newspaper clippings, is not reliable, as PSB often added later material to folders. Dates on a manuscript have been accepted as the date of composition unless evidence to the contrary is clear. An example is the sermon, "Korea--What Meaning--What Hope?" on the manuscript of which is typed "December 14th" by the title, but on page 8 the text reads, "This is the 7th of December." Sermons whose composition could not be determined to within a single calendar year are in a group at the end of this section arranged by possible ranges of years.
There are not a few manuscripts whose appearance and style or tone suggest another author; however, in the absence of clear evidence to the contrary, they have been presumed to be PSB's.
Some folders contain only associated material, such as announcements and research material, without a manuscript, which could not be located.
Unless otherwise noted, all sermons, insofar as can be determined, were preached at Temple B'rith Kodesh.
Funeral and Memorial services:
Primarily funeral and memorial services for members of the Temple; arranged alphabetically.
CANRA: (Executive Director of the Committee on Army and Navy Religious Activities)
Correspondence, reports; typescript drafts of Rabbis at War, and miscellaneous material.
Advisor on Jewish Affairs:
Reports, memos, official documents, addresses and publications, correspondence, and research material, arranged chronologically. Included in the material from Bernstein's official term of service (May 1946-August 1947) are accounts of his meetings with Pope Pius XII, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, and President Harry S. Truman, as well as a photograph of General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking to Bernstein and General Joseph T. McNarney. There is also some material--publications, reports, etc.--produced by DPs themselves. Material from before and after his term, beginning in the late 1930s and continuing after his service ended to 1973, focuses on the aftermath of the Holocaust, U.S. immigration policy, the rise of anti-Semitism in Germany, and the future of Zionism after the establishment of the state of Israel. Also included are two student papers on Bernstein's role as Advisor. At the end of this section are several fairly complete manuscript drafts from the 1970s by Bernstein's advisor Abraham S. Hyman of what was eventually published in 1993 as The Undefeated (Jerusalem: Gefen).
Central Conference of American Rabbis:
Bernstein was a long time member of CCAR. He was chairman of its Committee on International Peace from 1936 to 1938, and its president from 1950 to 1952.
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (originally American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs):
This section of the papers contains the following: minutes of executive committee meetings; materials from larger, annual policy meetings of members; confidential accounts of meetings between Bernstein, Kenen and State Department and other government officials; material relating to the formation of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations and its annual policy meetings; material relating to AIPAC's conflicts with the American Council for Judaism and Elmer Berger and with the Arab Organization of Students; general correspondence files; and a fairly complete run of AIPAC publications.
Organizations:
Material relating to Bernstein's participation in various conferences and symposia, and memberships on boards, committees, and commissions, not directly related to any of his official positions or his Temple duties. Material relating to conferences, etc. at which Bernstein was not an active participant (a speaker or moderator, for example) will be found elsewhere.
Local (Rochester and New York State):
Material dealing with local issues: housing, politics, the arts, personalities (such as Senator Kenneth B. Keating, school superintendent James Spinning, theologian Conrad H. Moehlmann, etc.), civic and religious organizations and committees, Bernstein's work in arbitration, etc.
Addresses:
Addresses (as opposed to sermons, although, as noted above, the distinction is not always clear in Bernstein's case) and associated research material. Freda Gold, writing in the 29 March 1954 issue of the Tulsa Daily World , described Bernstein as "a lecturer who delivers four or five addresses a week in addition to his sermons at Temple B'rith Kodesh in Rochester." The address which occasioned her article--delivered to the Hadassah regional convention banquet--has not survived. If her figure on Bernstein's addresses is correct, the majority of them also have not survived. The arrangement is chronological where dates are given or can be determined. As with the sermons, some addresses may be represented only by announcements or other material. Some manuscripts may never have been used; his planned radio address for 9 July 1938 was cancelled by NBC, perhaps the most notorious case of censorship faced by PSB.
Publications:
All extant publications and manuscripts of articles intended for publication, including letters to newspapers and magazines, and other printed appearances (brochures, offprints, etc.), associated research material, and related correspondence. Again, the arrangement is chronological, except that material related to the Life article and subsequent book What the Jews Believe, including much correspondence, forms a large block at the end of this section. Bernstein's sound recordings are also grouped at the end of this section. Material relating to his book Rabbis at War will be found in the section on Executive Director of CANRA. His unpublished manuscript autobiography I Never Regretted Being a Rabbi is in the Personal Miscellanea section.
Correspondence:
Typescript and handwritten letters, and telegrams, postcards, airmail, cards, etc. The folders include correspondence to and from PSB, as well as correspondence or copies of correspondence by other persons or organizations. The folders also include miscellaneous material such as notes, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, programs from events, etc. Much correspondence can also be found in other sections of the Papers.
The correspondence folders were received from PSB in three groupings: correspondence with individuals or with clearly defined small groups of individuals; correspondence (chiefly from the 1960s to PSB's retirement, roughly sorted by decade) with multiple correspondents, grouped together by surname; and miscellaneous--folders containing no clearly discernible primary recipient or subject. Dates are earliest and latest within each folder where they can be determined.
Personal Miscellanea:
Biographical and autobiographical material, including his unpublished manuscript autobiography I Never Regretted Being a Rabbi (not altogether reliable for factual matters), published interviews with and miscellaneous articles about Bernstein, photographs, awards, honors, and citations, legal documents (tax returns, passports, etc.), the disposition of his papers and the establishment of the Bernstein Chair at the University of Rochester, travel mementos, ticket stubs, receipts, and other material associated with Bernstein which does not fit any other category.
General subject files:
These boxes gather material not readily assignable to the other categories, as well as miscellaneous material Bernstein collected, possibly to be used in preparing sermons or publications. While some of the material is clearly identified by subject, other material only has a general indication of the time it was collected or a date of possible use (e.g., "Holidays 1966"), and much material has no indication whatsoever as to Bernstein's intentions. The material in these boxes includes newspaper clippings, journals, brochures, reports, tracts, typescript and manuscript notes, and other miscellaneous material. Each folder has been assigned a subject heading established by the Library of Congress, supplemented by descriptive terms where necessary for clarification or expansion, and dated by decade unless a more precise date is available or appropriate.
Oversized Materials:
Arrangement
The Philip S. Bernstein Papers maintain their original arrangement as compiled by the author.
The papers of Philip S. Bernstein have been arranged in chronological and topical order. Fully one third of the material comes from his career as rabbi at Temple B'rith Kodesh, and includes various kinds of Temple papers and correspondence, as well as his sermons and memorial addresses. This material is listed first in the register. It is followed by material from his various public offices--Director of CANRA, Advisor on Jewish Affairs, President of CCAR, and President of AIPAC. Then comes material dealing with local issues, affairs of Rochester, Monroe County, and New York State. Another large section includes his addresses and publications. Correspondence and personal miscellanea round out the specific material. Finally, the last part of this register lists the "research material" PSB collected--miscellaneous documentation and notes for sermons and articles.
One of the stickiest problems in arranging the papers is that of venue. In some cases it is impossible to determine unequivocally whether a manuscript may be a sermon, an article intended for publication, or an address to be spoken before a secular audience. The listing of these documents is at times more a matter of judgment than of certainty. Some manuscripts seem to belong to more than one category. Although he claimed he never gave the same sermon twice, he undoubtedly used the same text more than once. A typical example is a manuscript entitled "Religion in Russia," in which PSB refers to himself as "the writer," but penciled at the top is: "Preached Sunday a.m. Temple B'rith Kodesh"! Some sermon manuscripts from the 1950s include both a Friday and a Sunday date--indicating, perhaps, that the same address was delivered as a Friday evening sermon to TBK and also as one of PSB's regular Sunday evening radio addresses to the larger Rochester area. A third example of PSB's recycling of material may be found on some sermon manuscripts, which have an added handwritten title and statement of authorship ("by Rabbi Philip Bernstein"), and sometimes a request to return to PSB's home address--features suggesting that perhaps they had been, or were intended to have been, sent to an editor for consideration for publication. Finally, some of his published articles appeared with varying degrees of changes in more than one publication.
More detailed notes on the arrangement or other problems of material with each section may be found at the beginning of those sections.
NOTE: In the text of this register, the term research material (usually used for folders containing services and sermons) designates several or all of the following items, in varying quantity: magazine and newspaper clippings, issues of periodicals and pamphlets, and manuscript and typscript notes.
Subject(s):
Sermons
Correspondence
Manuscripts
Bernstein, Philip S. (Philip Sydney), 1901-
Temple B'rith Kodesh (Rochester, N.Y.)
Rabbis
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Content List
Series I: Temple B'rith Kodesh
BOX 1: Congregational meetings and committees
Box 1, Folder 1Constitution: November 1925, 4 copies (1 torn); "Proposed Constitution," 10 March 1961; page 5 excerpted, unknown date, with note of amendment dated 16 February 1964, attached; notices of other amendments, 1951-1960.
Annual Meetings of Congregation
Box 1, Folder 280th Annual Meeting, 5 December 1928.
Box 1, Folder 397th Annual Meeting, 17 February 1946. (On PSB's typs. address: "98th Annual Congregational Meeting.")
Box 1, Folder 499th Annual Meeting, 14 December 1947. Addresses by PSB and Joseph T. McNarney.
Box 1, Folder 5100th Annual Meeting, 7 March 1949.
Box 1, Folder 6101st Annual Meeting, 29 January 1950.
Box 1, Folder 7102nd Annual Meeting, 31 January 1951. Program for PSB's 25th anniversary celebration, 5 June 1951.
Box 1, Folder 8103rd Annual Meeting, 3 February 1952. Advertisement for play, "A bus called Gibbs Street."
Box 1, Folder 9Annual Meeting programs, 104th-109th, 1953-1958. "What I learned from my readers," by PSB, from The Octagonian of Sigma Alpha Mu, 1952.
Box 1, Folder 10104th Annual Meeting, 22 January 1953.
Box 1, Folder 11105th Annual Meeting, 7 February 1954. Playscript, "Founding of the Mikveh."
Box 1, Folder 12106th Annual Meeting, 9 January 1955.
Box 1, Folder 13107th Annual Meeting, 24 January 1956.
Box 1, Folder 14108th Annual Meeting, 20 January 1957.
Box 1, Folder 15109th Annual Meeting, 26 January 1958. Notice of 1959 110th anniversary dinner dance, 21 February 1959.
Box 1, Folder 16111th Annual Meeting, 17 January 1960.
Box 1, Folder 17112th Annual Meeting, 22 March 1961. "Proposed constitution of Temple B'rith Kodesh."
Box 1, Folder 18113th Annual Meeting, 25 March 1962.
Box 1, Folder 19114th Annual Meeting, 17 March 1963.
Box 1, Folder 20115th Annual Meeting, 16 February 1964.
116th Annual Meeting, 23 May 1965.
117th Annual Meeting, 22 May 1966.
118th Annual Meeting, 21 May 1967: "Presentation of Cantor David Unterman," address by PSB; "Forever CANRA," [recent typs. of 1947? speech].
119th Annual Meeting, 26 May 1968.
120th Annual Meeting, 25 May 1969. "A tribute to Rabbi P. Selven [sic] Goldberg," address by PSB.
122nd Annual Meeting, 23 May 1971.
123rd Annual Meeting, 21 May 1972. "In honor of Rabbi Herbert Bronstein," address by PSB.
124th Annual Meeting, 20 May 1973.
125th Annual Meeting, 19 May 1974.
129th Annual Meeting, 21 May 1978.
Board of Trustees and Its Executive Committee
Board of Trustees, [1940s-1960s]. Lists of members.
Board of Trustees, 1948-1959. Meetings of minutes and other material.
Board of Trustees, 1952
Board of Trustees, 1956-1960. Form letters to Board members.
Board of Trustees, 1960. Notification letters of meetings, minutes of meeting, proposed constitution.
Board of Trustees, 1964. Minutes of meetings, lists of members, constitution and other material.
Board of Trustees. and other committees, 1964-1965. Minutes of meetings, correspondence, and other material.
Board of Trustees and Executive committee, 1966.
Board of Trustees and Executive committee, 1967.
Board of Trustees, 1968.
Board of Trustees and Executive committee, 1969.
Board of Trustees, 1970.
Board of Trustees, 1970-1971.
Board of Trustees, 4 January 1972. Minutes of meeting.
Board of Trustees, 4 June 1973 Minutes of meeting.
Board of Trustees, May 1974. Minutes of meetings.
Board of Trustees Institutes
Board of Trustees Institute, 17-18 November 1959.
Board of Trustees Institute, 24-25 September [1960].
Board of Trustees Institute, 27-28 October 1962.
Board of Trustees Institute?, 25 April 1964.
Board of Trustees Institute, 6 November 1965.
Committees
Committees and clubs, etc. [1950s?].
Art Committee, 1965. Correspondence between PSB and Thomas Horwitz.
Committee on observance of Tercentenary Anniversary of American Jewry, 1954-1955.
Committee on observing the centennial of the Jewish Center Movement in the United States, 1953.
Committee to Promote Attendance, 1960-1963.
Library Committee, 1963-1964.
Religious Practices Committee, 1956-1960.
Religious Practices Committee, 1960-1961.
Religious Practices Committee, 1962-1967.
BOX 2: Correspondence and papers
Rabbis and Cantors
Box 2, File 7Correspondence, PSB and others, on Horace Manacher as "supply rabbi," 1942.
Box 2, Folder 8Rabbinical pension plan, 1942. Correspondence, informational brochures.
Mixed material 2, File 9Rabbinical pension plan, 1944-1955. Correspondence, informational brochures.
Box 2, Folder 10Correspondence and memoranda from Rabbi Myron Weingarten, 1948-1949, 1955.
Rabbinical pension plan, 1953-1955. Correspondence.
Installation of Rabbi Herbert Bronstein, 25 October 1957.
On Rabbi Herbert Bronstein's Master's Thesis, 1958. Correspondence and review, by A.B. Yaffa.
Correspondence regarding PSB's pension, Jerome Gordon and Rabbinical Pension Board, 8 September 1960.
On replacing Assistant Rabbi Herbert Bronstein during his sabbatical, 1966-1971.
Search for Cantor, 1967.
Temple Cantor, 1967-1973.
Cantor David Unterman, 1967. Installation address by PSB (22 December 1967).
On replacing Assistant Rabbi Herbert Bronstein during his sabbatical, 1968.
On Rabbi P. Selvin Goldberg replacing Assistant Rabbi Herbert Bronstein during his sabbatical, 1968.
Search for Cantor, 1969-1971.
Herbert Bronstein and his appointment to the North Shore Congregation, Chicago, 1972-1973. Hallel : a service of praise for festivals and times of rejoicing, by Bronstein (1971); A Passover Haggadah, edited by Bronstein (1973).
Search for PSB's successor, 1972-1973.
Letter from TBK president Henry J. Rubens announcing selection of Rabbi Judea Miller as PSB's successor, 8 March 1973.
"Introduction of Rabbi Judea B. Miller," address by PSB, 1 April 1973.
Rabbi's pension, extract from a contract from Congregation Beth Israel, no date.
Temple Museum and Library
Brandeis Exhibit, February 1957. Pamphlet, "Louis Demblitz Brandeis."
Temple Museum, 1957-1965.
Temple Museum, 1956-1960.
Temple Museum, 1961-1965.
Temple Museum, 1966-1968.
Temple Museum, 1969-1975.
Temple Museum, 1968. Proposed festival of Jewish art.
Temple Library, 1971.
General
Correspondence, TBK-William Thurston Brown, 1900-1901. Photocopies. Later correspondence from PSB, 1970. 3 carbons.
Condolences to TBK on death of Rabbi Horace Wolf, 1927.
Correspondence on radio broadcasts of Jewish music, 1930-1931; mss. scripts [by PSB?].
Letter from former TBK president Henry M. Stern to 1938 Annual meeting [1976? photocopy of later typs.].
Correspondence between PSB and others on the reinstitution of Friday evening services, 1939-1941; catalogues from McCarthy & Simon, 1940-1941.
Correspondence between PSB and others on the reinstitution of Friday evening services, 1941.
Correspondence between PSB and others on Jahrzeit, 1940-1950.
Correspondence between McCarthy & Simon and PSB, including brochure and fabric samples, 1941.
Lists of TBK members in the armed forces, 1942-1944.
Form letters regarding TBK members in the armed forces and to returning veterans, 1943-1945.
BOX 2: Congregational meetings and committees
Committees
Box 2, Folder 1Religious Practices Committee, 1968-1972.
Box 2, Folder 2Religious Practices Committee: Responsa, 1960-1965.
Box 2, Folder 3Religious Practices Committee: Responsa, 1966-1968.
Box 2, Folder 4Religious Practices Committee: Responsa, 1969-1977.
Box 2, Folder 5Religious Practices Committee, 1970. Selihot Services.
Box 2, Folder 6Social Action Committee, 1968. "Proposal of the Housing Sub-Committee . . . to the Board of Trustees," 19 August 1968.
BOX 3: Correspondence and paper
General
Box 3, Folder 1Correspondence from TBK servicemen, 1944.
Box 3, Folder 2Correspondence between TBK and its members in the armed forces, 1944.
Box 3, Folder 3Correspondence from TBK servicemen (H-L), 1944-1945.
Box 3, Folder 4Correspondence from TBK servicemen (M-R), 1944-1945.
Box 3, Folder 5Correspondence from TBK servicemen (S-Z), 1944.
Box 3, Folder 6Temple correspondence, 1946-1947, chiefly between PSB and Ben Goldstein.
Box 3, Folder 7Correspondence regarding maintenance and upkeep of Gibbs St. Temple, 1949-1950.
Box 3, Folder 8Correspondence between TBK and Bentley & Simon on garments, including notes, orders, and invoices, 1949-1965.
Box 3, Folder 9Correspondence regarding religious school equipment, June 1950.
Box 3, Folder 10Miscellaneous Temple correspondence, 1951-1959.
Correspondence from TBK servicemen, 1953-1954.
Correspondence on Tercentenary exhibit, 1954.
Correspondence on engagement of Bernard Cherrick to speak at TBK, 1955.
Miscellaneous Temple correspondence, 1956.
Correspondence about Benjamin Goldstein, 1958.
Miscellaneous Temple correspondence, 1958.
Miscellaneous Temple correspondence, 1958.
On selection of Jerome B. Gordon as Executive Secretary of TBK (succeeding Benjamin Goldstein), 1958: correspondence between Gordon and PSB; temple bulletin; photograph; newspaper clippings.
Correspondence on religious articles, 1958: catalogues and price lists.
Correspondence on religious articles, 1958: catalogues and price lists.
Correspondence primarily between PSB and Ivan and Matthew Mestrovic on display and acquisition by TBK of Ivan Mestrovic's "Jeremiah" sculpture, 1958-1963.
Correspondence, PSB and others, regarding TBK splinter group forming Temple Sinai, 1959-1961.
Paul Dworkin Memorial Camp Youth Institute, 1960.
Correspondence, PSB and Estelle Kaplan, December 1961.
Correspondence between PSB, Roy Wilkins, and others regarding lifetime membership of TBK in NAACP, 1963-1964, 1967.
Correspondence between PSB and others regarding Czecho-Slovakian Torah Scrolls, 1965-1966, 1970, 1979.
On the Czecho-Slovakian Torah Scrolls: research material, 1965-1972.
Correspondence regarding Torah mantles, 1966: photgraphs and samples.
Correspondence between PSB and others regarding new reading stands, 1967.
Correspondence on the establishment of a TBK Conference Center, 1968-1970.
Correspondence between PSB and Jerome H. Folkman, Louis H. Feldman, and S. Andhil Fineberg, 1968-1973.
Memo from PSB on marking centennial anniversary of arrival of Max Landsberg in Rochester, 1 June 1970.
Temple membership, conversion, and weddings
Certificate of conversion for Frank Lee, 15 June 1931.
Membership, 1931-1950. Correspondence, lists of new members.
Certificates of conversion, 1948-1971.
Membership, 1955-1957. Correspondence, mostly on resignation from membership.
Membership, 1956-1958. Lists for new members dinners, correspondence, addresses by PSB ("Where did you go? To Temple. What did you do? Nothing," delivered over radio 11 May 1958, 1 copy) and Herbert Bronstein ("Reform Judaism and commitment," excerpt from sermon delivered during winter 1958 titled "Reform Judaism : way, or way out," 1 copy).
Membership, 1958. Correspondence, chiefly on dues.
Wedding records, 1958-1960.
New Members Dinner, 30 October 1959.
New Members Dinner, 28 October 1960.
Membership, 1961. Form letter to members of Temple Society of Concord, Syracuse, N.Y., containing address by Harold C. Greenstein delivered there 15 January 1961.
New Members Dinner, 20 October 1961.
Membership, 1967-1970.
Certificates of conversion, 1973.
Endowments, Memorials, Gifts, and other Financial Papers
Letter from Horace Hart offering to donate seven books printed by Leo Hart to Temple Library, 1940.
Mobile kitchen purchase for England, 1941. Correspondence.
Centennial Improvement Fund Campaign, [1948?] Flyers, newspaper clippings.
UAHC dues, 1949-1958: correspondence, receipts, etc.
Financial material, 1953-1960.
Correspondence acknowledging gifts to TBK, 1958.
Building fund pledges, 1958.
Balance sheet for Ida Sylvia Louis Memorial Exhibit, 1958.
TBK budget materials, 1958.
Correspondence on rental of Eastman Theatre and of TBK, 1958-1967.
Correspondence on memorials, 1962-1970.
Isaac Gordon Foundation, and Memorial, 1965-1967.
Rabbi and Mrs. Philip S. Bernstein Fund, 1965-1968.
Contribution offer of records, by Mitch Miller, 1967-1968.
Campership Fund, 1967-1968.
Correspondence on memorials, 1968-1974.
Jeanette Campbell Gift, 1969-1972.
Donations and contributions, etc. 1970.
Donations and contributions, etc. 1971.
BOX 4: Correspondence and Papers
Endowments, Memorials, Gifts, and other Financial Papers
Box 4, Folder 1Donations and contributions, etc. 1971.
Box 4, Folder 2Donations and contributions, etc. 1972.
Box 4, Folder 3Falk Music Fund, 1972.
Box 4, Folder 4Donations and contributions, etc. 1973.
Box 4, Folder 5Donations and contributions, etc. 1974.
PSB's Congregational Letters
Box 4, Folder 6Congregational letters, [1943?] and 22 June, 13 July, 6 August, and 8 November 1946.
Box 4, Folder 7Congregational letters, 30 April, 31 May, and 9 July 1957.
Congregational letters, 30 April, 31 May, and 9 July 1957. Typs., mss., and final copies.
Summer letter, 8 August 1960.
Summer letter, 18 August 1961.
Summer letter, 31 August 1962.
Summer letter, 29 August 1963.
Summer letter, 29 June 1964.
Summer letter, 9 September 1965.
Summer letter, 29 August 1966.
Congregational letter, [November 1966], printed in the Temple bulletin.
Summer letter, 31 August 1967.
Summer letter, August 1968.
Summer letter, 27 August 1969.
Summer letter, 8 September 1970.
Summer letter, 4 September 1971.
Summer letter, 28 August 1972.
Summer letter, 28 August 1972.
Summer letter, 28 August 1972.
Summer letter, 28 August 1972.
Summer letters, 1960, 1962-1972. 1 copy from each year; list of names (recipients?) for 1971 and 1972; typs. notes.
Congregational letter, 8 October 1973. Letter from Henry W. Clune, 15 October 1973; invitation to award of Morris J. Kaplun Prize to Harry A. Wolfson, 26 June 1973.
Summer letters, [1962-1966].
Summer letters, [1965-1969].
Anniversaries and other special Temple events
Temple B'rith Kodesh Anniversary Celebrations
85th Anniversary, 1933. Address by PSB introducing Stephen S. Wise.
90th Anniversary, 20 November 1938. Address by PSB.
90th Anniversary, 20 November 1938. Address by PSB; letter from Henry Stern, 1 photocopy of [1960s?] typs.
90th Anniversary, 20 November 1938.
90th Anniversary, 20 November 1938. Correspondence.
90th Anniversary, 1938. Program of dramatic review, "The first ninety years," 1 February 1939.
95th Anniversary, 20 January 1944.
Centennial Anniversary, 1948. Essay, chronology.
Centennial Anniversary, 1948. Temple B'rith Kodesh, 1848-1948. 1 book.
Centennial Anniversary, 1948.
Centennial Anniversary, 1948.
Centennial Anniversary, 1948.
Centennial Anniversary, 1948.
Centennial Anniversary, 1948. Newspaper clippings.
Centennial Anniversary, 1948.
Centennial Anniversary, 1948. Script for pageant (presented 18-20 January 1949) by Beatrice G. Haniford (42 p.).
Centennial Anniversary, 1948. Script for pageant (42 p.).
Centennial Anniversary, 1948. Script for pageant (42 p.).
Centennial Anniversary, 1948. Script for pageant (48 p.).
Centennial Anniversary, 1948. Script (incomplete) for pageant spoof, "With malice toward none, or, Rehearsal time 7:12 1/2."
Centennial Anniversary, 1948. Address ("uncorrected copy") by [Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, 8 October 1948], 1 carbon.
Centennial Anniversary, 1948. Address by Herbert H. Lehman, with introduction by PSB, 18 November 1948.
Centennial Anniversary, 1948. Correspondence with Herbert H. Lehman.
Centennial Anniversary, 1948. Correspondence with, and address by, David E. Lilienthal, 16 January 1949.
BOX 5: Anniversaries and other special Temple events
Temple B'rith Kodesh Anniversary Celebrations
Centennial Anniversary, 1948. Address by Robert P. Patterson, 15 February 1949, 1 carbon.
110th Anniversary, 1959. Bulletin announcement for 16 January 1959.
125th Anniversary, 1973. Correspondence, 1972.
Philip S. Bernstein Anniversary and other celebrations
PSB's 10th Anniversary, 22 November 1936. Addresses by PSB and Henry M. Stern.
PSB's 10th Anniversary, 22 November 1936. Congratulatory telegrams.
PSB's 15th Anniversary, 11 January 1942.
PSB's 15th Anniversary, 11 January 1942. Congratulatory telegrams.
PSB's 25th Anniversary, 5 June 1951.
PSB's 25th Anniversary, 5 June 1951.
PSB's 30th Anniversary, 20 January 1957.
PSB's 40th Anniversary, 22 May 1966. Correspondence between PSB and others regarding plans for a festschrift in his honor, 1964-1966.
PSB's 40th Anniversary, 65th Birthday, 22 May 1966. Correspondence.
PSB's 40th Anniversary, 65th Birthday, 22 May 1966. Cards.
PSB's 40th Anniversary, 65th Birthday, 22 May 1966. Cards.
PSB's 40th Anniversary, 65th Birthday, 22 May 1966. Telegrams.
PSB's 70th Birthday, 23 May 1971.
PSB's 70th Birthday, 23 May 1971. Correspondence.
PSB's 70th Birthday, 23 May 1971. Correspondence.
PSB's 70th Birthday, 23 May 1971. Correspondence.
PSB's 70th Birthday, 23 May 1971. Correspondence.
PSB's 70th Birthday, 23 May 1971. Correspondence.
PSB's 70th Birthday, 23 May 1971. Correspondence.
PSB's 70th Birthday, 23 May 1971. Newspaper clippings.
"Series forty-seven," 1972.
Reunion of rabbis, 11 May 1973 (in conjunction with Graduation Service and Confirmation alumnae reunion).
Retirement celebration at TBK annual meeting, 20 May 1973.
Questions from children, [1973-1974?].
Benjamin Goldstein, Executive Secretary: Testimonials and Memorials
Benjamin Goldstein Silver Anniversary Dinner, 4 May 1952. Miscellaneous materials of the Silver Anniversary Committee.
Bible Dedication, 7 November 1958, in memory of Benjamin Goldstein.
Benjamin Goldstein Chapel Dedication, 14 December 1962. Memorial booklet.
Benjamin Goldstein Chapel Dedication, 14 December 1962.
10th Anniversary of Benjamin Goldstein's death, 3 March 1968.
Dinners and Testimonials for Other Temple Officers
Joseph Goldstein Testimonial Dinner, 20 April 1948. Correspondence, 1948-1951.
Luncheon honoring Max Herzberger, 9 December 1964.
Dinner honoring Clifford N. Lovenheim, 31 March 1968, in conjunction with Israel Bond drive.
Tribute to Emanuel Goldberg, at United Jewish Welfare Fund Dinner, 9 June 1969.
Tribute to Virginia McConnell, 5 May 1972.
Dedications
Family Service and Ark Dedication, 11 May 1951.
Dedication of Organ (recital by Berj Zamkochian), 1 February 1963.
Family Service of Dedication of Library and Museum, 17 April 1964.
Dedication of Stones from Israel, 22 October 1967.
BOX 6: Anniversaries and other special Temple events
Dedications
"The people Israel lives," brochure on dedication of "Chai," bronze relief by Harvey Breverman, 19 May 1974.
Dedication of TBK sanctuary in memory of PSB, 7 May 1986. Newspaper clipping.
Holidays and annual services
High Holy Days
Atonement services, [1931?]
Tickets to Holy Day Services, 1949-1963.
High Holy Days services, 1950-1963.
Holiday services at Eastman Theatre, September 1956.
Children's Services for Yom Kippur, 1960-1961.
Sukkot
Sukkot services, 1953-1961.
Sukkot service, memo for, 1961.
Sukkot and Simchat Torah, October 1962.
Sukkot services, September 1964.
Sukkot services, October 1965.
Sukkot services, October 1967.
Sukkot services, October 1968.
Simchat Torah and other dedication and consecration services
Simchat Torah, candlelight, and consecration services, 1926-1956.
Simchat Torah, [1930?]
Simchat Torah, 1931-1972.
Simhas Torah, 30 September 1945. Program for radio program, including "Law and destiny," address by PSB, 1 carbon, 3 copies.
Family Worship and Consecration Services, 1951-1954.
Family worship service and consecration of children, 30 January 1953.
Consecration Service, 3 December 1954.
Simchat Torah Service, 5 October 1958.
Simchat Torah, 23 October 1959.
Simchat Torah, 1960-1961.
Simchat Torah, 9 October 1963.
Simchat Torah, 27 September 1964.
Simchat Torah, 13 October 1968.
Simchat Torah and Sukkot, 1969-1970.
Simchat Torah, 1973.
Thanksgiving
Union Thanksgiving Service, 1926-1956.
Union Thanksgiving Service, 1928.
Union Thanksgiving Service, 1928. "Whither America?" sermon by PBS, 1 typs.
Union Thanksgiving Service, [1930s].
Union Thanksgiving Service, 1932.
Union Thanksgiving Service, 1935. Research material, 1935-1961.
Union Thanksgiving Service, 1936.
Union Thanksgiving Services, 1938-1965.
Union Thanksgiving Service, 1939.
Union Thanksgiving Service, 1940.
Union Thanksgiving Service, 1941.
Union Thanksgiving Service, [1947-1959].
Union Thanksgiving Service, 1952.
Union Thanksgiving Service, 1957. "America-what went wrong?," by PSB, 1 typs., 2 carbons.
Union Thanksgiving Service, 1957. Research material.
Union Thanksgiving Service, 1958.
Union Thanksgiving Service, 1959.
Union Thanksgiving Service, 1960.
Union and Family Thanksgiving Services, 1960-1963.
Union Thanksgiving Service, 1961.
Union and Family Thanksgiving Services, 1962.
Thanksgiving Family Service, 1964.
Union Thanksgiving Service, 1965.
Union Thanksgiving Service, 1966-1967.
Union and Family Thanksgiving Services, 1967.
Union Thanksgiving Service, 1968.
Union Thanksgiving Service, 1969.
Union Thanksgiving Service, 1970.
Union Thanksgiving Service, 1971.
Union Thanksgiving Service, 1972.
Hanukkah
Chanukah Services, 1952-1955.
Chanukah Service, [1953?]
Chanukah Service, 20 December 1957. Judah Maccabeus: the Sabbath of Hanukah, by Joseph I. Weiss, 1957, 1 booklet.
Chanukah Service, 25 December 1959.
Chanukah Service, 16 December 1960.
Chanukah Service, 8 December 1961.
Chanukah Service, 21 December 1962.
Chanukah Service, 13 December 1963.
BOX 7: Holidays and annual services
Hanukkah
Chanukah Service, 4 December 1964.
Chanukah Service, 20 December 1968.
Chanukah Service, 25 December 1970.
Annual Youth Service
Annual Youth Service, 31 December 1939. "Youth faces 1940." Addresses by students; Annual Youth Service, 26 December 1941: address by PSB ("Youth faces the crisis").
Annual Youth Service, 26 December 1947. "Jewish youth faces tomorrow's world."
Annual Youth Service, 24 December 1948. "Youth faces the next century." Programs from previous services.
Annual Youth Service, 30 December 1949. "Youth looks ahead-to what?"
Annual Youth Service, 29 December 1950. "Youth looks ahead-to what?"
Annual Youth Service, 28 December 1951. "Youth faces '52."
Annual Youth Service, 26 December 1952. "Youth faces '53."
Annual Youth Service, 25 December 1953. "Youth faces '54."
Annual Youth Service, 23 December 1955. "Youth looks ahead."
Annual Youth Service, 28 December 1956. "Jewish youth looks ahead."
Annual Youth Service, 27 December 1957. "Jewish youth looks ahead."
Annual Youth Service, 26-27 December 1958. "Judaism on the campus-success or failure."
College Homecoming Services
College Homecoming Service, 1 January 1960. "Is youth beat?"
College Homecoming Service, 30 December 1960. "Who Is an Educated Person?" "The Future of the University," by Cornelius W. de Kiewiet.
College Homecoming Service, 30 December 1960. Research material.
College Homecoming Service, 22 December 1961.
Annual Scout Service
Annual Scout Service, 13 February 1942; Special Scout Service, 10 February 1950.
Lists of Scout troops with Jewish members, undated
Brotherhood Week (and Rochester Interfaith services and material )
Brotherhood Day, 24 February [1935]. Address by PSB.
Brotherhood Week, [late 1930s-early 1940s]. Research material.
Brotherhood Week, [1940?]. Address by PSB.
Brotherhood Week, [1940?]. Address by PSB.
Brotherhood Week, 18-25 February 1940.
Brotherhood Week, 18-25 February 1940. Newspaper clippings.
Brotherhood Week, 22-28 February 1941.
Interfaith material, [1943].
Brotherhood Week, 1946. "The role of brotherhood in 1946," address by PSB, 20 February 1946. Pamphlet.
Brotherhood Week, 1948. "What price brotherhood?" address by PSB, 24 February 1948.
Brotherhood Week, [1950s]. Mss. notes.
Brotherhood Week, 23 February 1951. "Brotherhood-what it means to me."
Brotherhood Week, 19 February 1960. "How good is good will today?" "Some plain talk about interfaith relations today," address by PSB [1952?]
Brotherhood Week, 1963. Includes correspondence with Ralph Bunche.
Annual Brotherhood Inter-Faith Meeting, 1963, 1965.
Brotherhood Week, 1964-1969.
Purim services, 1965-1969.
Music Services
Mendelssohn Service, 8 December 1929.
Sacred Service by Ernest Bloch, 31 May 1938.
Jewish Music Service, 9 March 1951.
Jewish Music Service, 13 March 1953.
Jewish Music Service, 9 April 1954.
Jewish Music Service, 25 March 1955.
Jewish Music Service, 9 March 1956.
Jewish Music Service, 1 March 1957.
Jewish Music Service, 14 March 1958.
Jewish Music Service, 27 March 1959.
Jewish Music Service, 15 April 1960.
Jewish Music Service, 21 April 1961.
Jewish Music Service, 27 April 1962.
Jewish Music Service, 20 March 1964.
Jewish Music Service, 30 April 1965.
Jewish Music Service, 29 April 1966. "Sabbath morning liturgy," score by Heinrich Schalit.
Annual Music Service, 1 March 1968.
Jewish Music Service, 2 May 1969.
Annual Music Service, 1 May 1970.
BOX 8: Holidays and annual services
Jewish Music Services
Annual Music Service, 30 April 1971.
Annual Music Service, 14 April 1972.
Annual Jewish Music Festival, 30 March 1973.
Schalit Music Service, 9 April 1976: address by Heinrich Schalit.
BOX 8: Other services
Dialogue by the Rabbis [between PSB and Herbert Bronstein, unless otherwise indicated]
Dialogue, 20 November 1959. On Job and Archibald MacLeish's play, J.B.
Dialogue, 30 December 1960. "Who is an educated person?" Announcements only.
Dialogue, 7 April 1961. "War or peace? What can we do?"
Dialogue, 30 October 1964. "How should you vote for the next President?"
Dialogue, 30 October 1964. "How should you vote for the next President?" Research material.
Dialogue, 25 December 1964: "The college student: What's wrong? What hope?"
Dialogue, 28 February 1969. "What's a rabbi for?" PSB and P. Selvin Goldberg.
Ecumenical trialogue, 24 December 1971: "Peace on earth, good will to men," Rev. Charles Lavery, Dr. Arthur R. McKay, PSB.
Trialogue, 27 April 1973: "Common Problems-Uncommon Answers," Dr. William H. Hudnut, Rev. Charles Lavery, PSB.
Culture in the Courtyard
Culture in the Courtyard, Summer 1968.
Culture in the Courtyard, Summer 1969.
Culture in the Courtyard, Summer 1970. Chiefly material on "Why Jews laugh."
Culture in the Courtyard, 1 July 1970. "Why Jews laugh."
Culture in the Courtyard, 25 June 1971. QB VII.
Culture in the Courtyard, 4 June 1972. Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat.
Forum Weekends and Program
Forum Weekend, March 1963. Erich Fromm, Arthur J. Lelyveld, Howard Hanson. "Jewish values and the condition of man."
Forum Weekend, November 1963. Nelson Glueck, J.A. Sanders, John Brennan. "The Bible, archaeology and modern man."
Forum Weekend, October 1964. Abba Eban, David MacLennan, Clifford Carpenter. "Israel and the future of man."
Forum Weekend, January 1966. Abram L. Sachar, Jules Brody, Harry D. Goldman, "The future of the American Jewish community."
Forum Program, 12 April 1969. Yitzhak Rabin.
People to People Services
People to People Service, 17 November 1961.
People to People Service, 8 November 1963, 20 November 1964.
People to People Service, 12 November 1965.
People to People Service, 12 November 1965. Research material.
People to People Service, [November? 1967]
People to People Service, 15 November 1968.
People to People Service, 21 November 1969.
People to People Sabbath, 8 January 1971.
People to People Sabbath, 17 November 1972.
Other Services, Programs, and Events
Armistice Day Service, 11 November 1923.
Concert of compositions by Heinrich Schalit, 17 November 1930; Concert in honor of Heinrich Schalit, 13 December 1940.
Lists of TBK Activities, 1938-1941.
"On growing old," 18 November 1949.
"Happy Family Series," 1950-1951.
Masonic Consecration Service, 14 January 1955.
"Flowers in the sanctuary," 30 October 1955. Garden clubs of Brighton tour of Rochester churches and synagogues, including TBK.
Masonic Consecration Service, 1 February 1957.
Temple B'rith Kodesh-Third Presbyterian Church Dinner, 18 February 1960.
NELFTY Youth activities, 1960-1968.
NELFTY Winter Conclave, 24-28 December 1962.
Drama Workshop, 1963-1965.
Summer program ideas, 1967.
Florence Rothman Fisher Creative Worship Service, 10 May 1968.
Students visiting TBK [1969]. Photographs.
Creative Services, 1969-1971.
Joint Worship Services, 1970-1973.
Symposium on patriotism, 11 February 1972. "What patriotism means to me."
Prospective programs and services, [1950s].
"Sabbath eve in the home," Kiddush service and songs, n.d.
BOX 9: Religious education
Religious School
Photograph of a class? [n.d.]
Religious education, 1947-1956.
"Report on trip to Cleveland, Ohio," [1950s?]
"Pronunciation of Hebrew words," [1950s?] Change to S'fardit.
Correspondence on Hebrew instruction, 1951.
Correspondence on religious education, 1958-1959.
Adult Education Committee, 1959-1970.
"Code of practice," Temple B'rith Kodesh Department of Religious Education, [1960?]
Religious School, 1960-1961.
Paul Dworkin Memorial Camp Institute, 31 August-3 September 1961.
Religious School, 1962. Children's essays on the question of living in a ghetto.
Religious School, 1962-1963.
Paul Dworkin Memorial Camp Institute, 26-30 August 1964.
Religious School, 1964.
Education committee, 1965.
Religious School, 1967-1968.
Religious School workshop, 7 December 1969.
Religious School, 1969.
Religious School, 1970-1973.
B'nai Mitzvah Services
Mss. notes [1940-1942?]
Bar Mitzvah of Stephen Bernstein in Frankfurt, Germany, 25 January 1947.
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1947-1951.
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1952-1953.
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1954-1955.
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1956.
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1957.
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1958.
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1959.
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1960 (January-June).
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1960 (July-December).
Bar Mitzvah Services, 1960-1961.
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1961 (January-May).
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1961 (June-December).
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1962 (January-June).
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1962 (July-December).
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1963 (January-June).
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1963 (July-December).
Bar Mitzvah Service, 11 April 1964.
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1964.
BOX 10: Religious education
B'nai Mitzvah Services
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1965 (January-June).
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1965 (July-December).
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1966.
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1967 (January-June).
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1967 (July-December).
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1968 (January-June).
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1968 (July-December).
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1969.
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1970.
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1971.
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1972 (January-June).
Bar Mitzvah Service, 13 May 1972.
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1972 (July-December).
B'nai Mitzvah Services, 1973-1976.
Bar Mitzvah Services, 1977-1979.
B'nai Mitzvah, [1950s-1970s].
B'nai Mitzvah, [1960s-1970s].
Confirmation Services
Confirmation Service, 5 June 1927.
Confirmation Service, 1928.
Confirmation Service, 16 June 1929.
Confirmation Service, 1930.
Confirmation Service, 24 May 1931.
Confirmation Service, 28 May 1933.
Confirmation Service, [1934].
Confirmation Service, 9 June 1935.
Confirmation Service, 31 May 1936.
Confirmation Service, 5 June 1938.
Confirmation Service, 28 May 1939. "The price of security," address by University of Rochester president Alan Valentine, 10 February 1938.
Confirmation Service, 9 June 1940.
Confirmation Service, 1 June 1941.
Confirmation Service, 24 May 1942.
Confirmation Service, 6 June 1943.
Confirmation Service, 28 May 1944.
Confirmation Service, 20 May 1945.
Confirmation Service, 2 June 1946.
Confirmation Service, 18 May 1947.
Confirmation Service, 13 June 1948.
Confirmation Service, 5 June 1949.
Confirmation Service, 21 May 1950.
Confirmation Service, 10 June 1951.
Confirmation Service, 1 June 1952.
Confirmation Service, 17 May 1953.
Confirmation Service, 6 June 1954.
Confirmation Service, 29 May 1955.
Confirmation Service, 20 May 1956.
Confirmation Service, 14 April 1957.
BOX 11: Religious education
Confirmation Services
Confirmation, 1957.
Confirmation Service, 25 May 1958.
Reconsecration Service, Confirmation Classes 1881-1958, 20 February 1959.
Confirmation, 5 June 1959.
Confirmation Service, 31 May 1960.
Confirmation Service, 21 May 1961.
Confirmation Service, 9 June 1962.
Confirmation Service, 28 May 1963.
Confirmation Service, 17 May 1964.
Confirmation Service, 6 June 1965.
Confirmation Service, 24 May 1966.
Confirmation Service, 24 May 1966.
Confirmation Service, 13 June 1967.
Confirmation Service, 2 June 1968.
Confirmation Service, 22 May 1969.
Confirmation Service, 22 May 1969.
Confirmation Service, 9 June 1970.
Confirmation Service, 30 May 1971.
Confirmation Service, 30 May 1971.
Confirmation Service, 18 May 1972.
Confirmation Service, 18 May 1972.
Confirmation Service, 5 June 1973 (in conjunction with Reunion of Rabbis Service, Graduation Service, and Confirmation Alumnae Reunion).
Confirmation class, 1974. Photograph.
Confirmation class photographs.
Confirmation Service program, undated
Pre-Confirmation class essays [1944].
Pre-Confirmation Student Interchange, with Holy Blossom Temple of Toronto, Canada, April 1963.
Confirmation class materials, undated
High School Graduation Services
Graduation Service, 26 April 1936.
Graduation Service, 14 May 1939.
Graduation Service, 5 May 1940.
Graduation Service, 4 May 1941.
Graduation Service, 24 April 1942.
Graduation Service, 28 April 1944.
Graduation Service, 2 May 1947.
Graduation Service, 29 April 1949.
Graduation Service, 4 May 1951.
Graduation Service, 9 May 1952.
Graduation Service, 15 May 1953.
Graduation Service, 30 April 1954.
Graduation Service, 30 April 1954.
Graduation Service, 11 May 1956.
Graduation Service, 3 May 1957.
Graduation Service, 5 May 1958.
Graduation Service, 15 May 1959.
Graduation Service, 13 May 1960. Address by Joseph F. Kauffman.
Graduation Service, 12 May 1961.
Graduation Service, 18 May 1962.
Graduation Service, 17 May 1963.
Graduation Service, 8 May 1964.
Graduation Service, 17 May 1968.
Graduation Service, 16 May 1969.
Graduation Service, 15 May 1970.
Graduation Service, 11 May 1973 (in conjunction with Confirmation Alumnae Reunion).
BOX 12: Religious education
High School Graduation Services
Graduation Service sermon, untitled, undated
Graduation, 1950s-1960s. Research material (chiefly newspaper clippings).
Graduation, 1950s-1960s. Research material.
Graduation, 1950s-1960s. Research material.
Adult Education and Seniors Programs
Adult Institute, 1950-1968.
Adult Institute, 1960-1965.
Adult Institute, 1961-1965.
Adult Institute, 1961-1965.
Adult Institute, 1963.
Adult Institute, 1963-1965.
On Jewish image in literature, 1965-1966.
On Jewish image in literature, 1965-1966. Research material.
Senior Adult Programs, 1966-1970.
Adult Institute, 1969-1970.
Adult Institute, 1969-1971.
Council on Adult Jewish Learning, 9 October 1977.
Clergy Institutes
Clergy Institute, 7 January 1937.
Clergy Institute, 22 March 1938.
[Clergy Institute?], 10 January 1939.
Clergy Institute, 11 January 1940.
Clergy Institute, 27 January 1941.
Clergy Institute, 16 February 1942.
Clergy Institute, 18 January 1943.
Clergy Institute, 9 January 1946.
Clergy Institute, 20 January 1948.
Clergy Institute, 20 January 1948.
Clergy Institute, 4 April 1949.
Clergy Institute, 13 February 1950.
Clergy Institute, 15 January 1951.
Clergy Institute, 25 February 1952.
Clergy Institute, 29 January 1953.
Clergy Institute, 1954.
Clergy Institute, 21 February 1955. Guest, Thurgood Marshall.
Clergy Institute, 3 December 1956.
Clergy Institute, 13 January 1958.
Clergy Institute, 13 January 1958.
Clergy Institute, 19 January 1959.
Clergy Institute, 1 February 1960.
Clergy Institute, 26 January 1961.
Clergy Institute, 31 January 1962.
Clergy Institute, 7 March 1963.
Clergy Institute, 16 January 1964.
Clergy Institute, 12 January 1965.
Clergy Institute, 20 January 1966.
Clergy Institute, 10 April 1967.
Clergy Institute, 14 February 1968.
Clergy Institute, 26 March 1969.
Clergy Institute, 26 February 1970.
Clergy Institute, 14 January 1971.
Clergy Institute, 25 February 1972.
Clergy Institute, 10 May 1974.
Clergy Institute, 1974. Research material (newspaper clippings).
Clergy Institute, 1974. Research material (newspaper clippings).
BOX 13
Clergy Institutes
Clergy Institute, 1974. Research material (newspaper clippings).
Clubs
Sisterhood
Sisterhood Lecture series, "The achievement of maturity," 1949-1950.
Sisterhood meeting and panel discussion, "Let's look at our children," 19 November 1952.
Sisterhood History Lectures, 1953.
Sisterhood Inter-faith Luncheon, 19 January 1955.
Sisterhood News, November 1957. 1 issue.
Correspondence, 1959.
Sisterhood Study Group, 1959-1962.
Sisterhood Study Group, 1960s. Research material.
Sisterhood Study Group, 1960s. Research material.
Sisterhood Study Course, 1962. Typed notes about books.
Sisterhood Bulletin, April 1963. 1 issue.
Sisterhood, 1963-1964.
Sisterhood-sponsored Israel tour, 1966.
Sisterhood sponsored Israel tour, 1966.
Sisterhood sponsored Israel tour, 1966. Newspaper clipping.
Sisterhood, 1968. Correspondence.
Sisterhood, 1968. Research material.
Sisterhood Luncheon, 23 September 1970. "The Jewish woman in today's society," address by PSB.
Sisterhood Sabbath, 14 May 1971.
Temple Club
Temple Club, 1929-30 season brochure.
Temple Club Lecture, [1932]: comments by PSB on Chief Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, 1 typs.
Temple Club, 1939-1940: correspondence regarding possible speakers.
Temple Club, 1939-1941: brochures from lecture bureaus.
Temple Club Lectures, [1940s-50s].
Temple Club Hanukkah dinner, 22 December 1940.
Temple Club meetings, November-December 1940. "Judaism and Christianity compare notes."
Temple Club, 1940-1941.
Temple Club, 1940-1941.
Temple Club, 7 February 1943. "Jews in the post-War world," address by PSB, 1 carbon. "Samuel Gompers and free silver, 1896," article edited by Irving Bernstein, extracted from Mississippi Valley historical review, n.d.
Temple Club, 1948-1952. Correspondence, Max Lerner.
Temple Club, 1949: Correspondence, U.S. Senator Paul H. Douglas.
Temple Club, 1949-1950. Correspondence regarding possible lecturers.
Temple Club, 1949-1950. Brochures from lecture bureaus.
Temple Club, 1949-1950. Brochures from lecture bureaus.
Temple Club Lecture, 1951. Address by PSB introducing guest speaker Cornelius DeKiewiet; correspondence between PSB and DeKiewiet.
Temple Club Lecture, 1951. Correspondence, Martin Agronsky.
Temple Club Lectures, 1951. Correspondence regarding possible lecturers.
Temple Club Lectures, 1952. Correspondence regarding possible lecturers.
Temple Club Lectures, 1953. Correspondence regarding possible lecturers.
Temple Club Lectures, 1953. Correspondence regarding possible lecturers.
Temple Club Lecture, 9 March 1954. Correspondence, G. Bromley Oxnam.
Temple Club Retreat, 1954-1955.
Temple Club Annual Dinner meeting, 13 May 1958, featuring Philip, Saul, Irving, and Jeremy Bernstein.
Temple Club Lectures, [1950s].
Temple Club Lectures, [1950s].
Temple Club Lectures, [1950s].
Temple Club Lectures, [1950s]. Newspaper clippings [of potential speakers?]
Temple Club Lectures, [1950s]. Newspaper clippings of speakers.
Temple Club, [1950s-60s]. Constitution; minutes of meetings.
Temple Club, 1960s. Newspaper clippings on possible speakers and topics.
BOX 14: Clubs
Temple Club
Temple Club dinner with Moshe Sharett, 20 November 1960.
Inter-congregational Men's Group Hanukkah Dinner, sponsored by Temple Club, December 1960.
Temple Club Lectures, 1960-1962.
Temple Club activities, 1960-1962.
Temple Club Lectures, 1960-1963.
Temple Club Lectures, 1963-1964.
Temple Club Lectures, 1963-1967.
Temple Club Lectures, 1965-1967.
Temple Club, 1967-1970.
Temple Club Lectures, 1968-1970.
Temple Club Lectures, 1960s-1970s.
Temple Club Lectures, 1960s-1970s.
Young Couples Club
Young Couples Club, 1959-1965.
New Temple in Brighton
Correspondence, programs of special events, and other materials
Correspondence, 1956-1959.
"Arise and build," consecration service for land for new temple, 19 October 1958.
Correspondence, 1958-1960.
Correspondence and financial material, 1958-1962.
Correspondence, 1958-1969.
Miscellaneous, 1959.
Color separations of architect's rendering of new Temple, [1959?]
Correspondence between PSB and other temples regarding religious school, 1959
Newspaper clippings on new temple design, and on architectural subjects, 1959-1961.
Miscellaneous, 1959-1967.
Correspondence, 1960.
Correspondence, 1960-1961.
Correspondence, photos, and slides, 1960-1965.
"Arise and build," groundbreaking service, 7 May 1961.
Correspondence, 1961-1962.
Correspondence, chiefly financial, 1961-1962.
"Arise and build," dedication of cornerstone, 11 June 1962.
"My first Friday evening sermon in the new temple," by PSB, 2 November 1962: 1 typs., 3 carbons, research material.
"The art and architecture of Temple B'rith Kodesh," two addresses by Herbert Bronstein, [1962?]
Research material on new religious buildings, 1962.
Press accounts of new Temple, 1962.
Correspondence, PSB and Mitch Miller, on latter's financial gifts, 1962-1963.
Correspondence on landscaping, 1962-1963.
The song is you, "a petite musical," 1963.
Weekend of consecration, dedicating new temple, 19-21 April 1963.
New Temple Dedication, 1963. Correspondence.
Correspondence on landscaping, 1964.
Correspondence on landscaping, 1965.
Correspondence on landscaping and courtyards, 1966.
Correspondence on landscaping, 1967.
BOX 15
New Temple in Brighton
Correspondence, programs of special events, and other materials
Correspondence on landscaping, 1968.
Correspondence on temple brochure, 1968-1969.
Ark by Luise Kaish for New Temple
Correspondence between PSB, Luise Kaish, Pietro Bellushi, and others; also correspondence on religious school, 1959.
On the ark and artists, 1959-1964.
Correspondence, PSB-Solomon Freehof, on art on the Ark, 1960-1964.
Correspondence, 1961-1962.
Correspondence, 1963.
Correspondence, other material by and on Luise Kaish, 1963-1964.
Correspondence, 1964.
Sanctuary Ark Dedication, 3 April 1964, with later materials.
"What is the Ark?" address by PSB for Ark Dedication, 3 April 1964.
Ark Dedication, 3 April 1964. Photographs, newspaper clippings, other material.
Ark Dedication, 3 April 1964. Correspondence.
Ark Dedication, 3 April 1964.
Luise and Morton Kaish exhibition catalogues, 1973-1974.
Temple bulletins and news releases
Temple bulletins
Temple bulletins, 1928.
Temple bulletins, 1929.
Temple bulletins, 1930.
Temple bulletins, 1931.
Temple bulletins, 1932.
Temple bulletins, 1933.
Temple bulletins, 1934.
Temple bulletins, 1935.
Temple bulletins, 1936.
Temple bulletins, 1939.
Temple bulletins, 1940.
Temple bulletins, 1941.
Temple bulletins, 1946.
Temple bulletins, 1947.
Temple bulletins, 1948.
Temple bulletins, 1949.
Temple bulletins, 1950.
Temple bulletins, 1951.
Temple bulletins, 1952.
Temple bulletins, 1953.
Temple bulletins, 1954.
Temple bulletins, 1955.
Temple bulletins, 1956.
Temple bulletins, 1957.
Temple bulletins, 1958.
Temple bulletins, 1959.
Temple bulletins, 1960.
Temple bulletins, 1961.
Temple bulletins, 1962.
Temple bulletins, 1963.
Temple bulletins, 1964.
Temple bulletins, 1965.
Temple bulletins, 1966.
Temple bulletin, 1969.
Temple bulletins, 1970.
Temple bulletins, 1971.
Temple bulletins, 1972.
Temple bulletin material and news releases
Press releases on TBK services, [1949?]
Bulletin material and press releases, 1949-1967.
Announcement of address by Nelson Glueck, 20 April 1956, with 1953 biographical sketch, and announcement of "Brunch with Broido," [1955?]
Bulletin material, 1958-1968.
Bulletin material, 1961-1970.
Bulletin material and press releases, 1962-1963.
Memo from PSB on adding Rabbi Herman Dicker to TBK Bulletin mailing list, 1970.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous, 1945.
Miscellaneous, 1956-1968.
Miscellaneous, 1971-1973.
List of names, undated
Miscellaneous, undated
Series II: Sermons
BOX 1
1922
"I Am an Hebrew," 1 October 1922.
1926
"The Minister," May 1926. 3 carbons (typed later), 2 photostats from Jewish Institute Quarterly.
Yom Kippur morning, 18 September 1926. 1 carbon.
Yom Kippur evening, 18 September 1926. 1 carbon.
1927
"All Alone," 27 March 1927. 1 typs., ms. notes.
"I the Jew," 30 October 1927.
"The Soul of America," 20 November 1927. 2 typs., carbon fragments, ms. notes, newspaper clippings.
On anti-Semitism [1927?].
1928
["Alone With God," 4 March 1928, Unitarian Church of Rochester]. 1 typs., church bulletin.
"Disraeli," 25 March 1928. Ms. speech notes.
"Who Is Free?" 1 April 1928. 1 typs., ms. notes.
"Russia: Religion and Revolution," 28 October 1928. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
"Judaism in Russia," 18 November 1928. 1 carbon, carbon fragments, ms. notes, issues of periodicals.
Holidays and other sermons [1928]. Four different sermons: 1 typs., 1 carbon, ms. notes, newspaper clippings.
On Freedom in Russia [1928?].
The Island Within [1928?].
1929
"Bergson and Judaism," 20 January 1929. 1 typs., ms. notes.
Rosh Hashonah Eve, [4 October] 1929. 1 typs., ms. notes.
Yom Kippur Morning, [14 October] 1929. 1 typs.
"Tolerance," 3 February [1929]. 2 carbons.
"The Challenge of Youth," Buffalo, N.Y., 27 December 1929. 1 typs., 2 carbons, ms. notes.
1930
"Scaling the Heights," 5 April 1930. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
Rosh Hashonah Evening, September 22 1930. 1 typs.
Rosh Hashonah Morning, September 23 1930. 1 typs.
Yom Kippur Eve, [1 October] 1930. 1 typs.
Yom Kippur Memorial, [2 October] 1930. 1 typs.
"Betrayed," 2 November 1930.
"The Religion of a Scientist, an Agnostic, and a Rabbi," 30 November 1930. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
1931
Rosh Hashonah Eve, [11 September] 1931. 1 typs.
Rosh Hashonah Morning, [12 September] 1931. 1 typs., newspaper clipping on PSB.
"A Rabbi looks at Gandhi," 8 November 1931. 1 typs., ms. notes.
"Justice Brandeis," 15 November 1931. 1 typs., 1 carbon, ms. notes.
"'The Fool': a message for Chanukah," 6 December 1931. 1 typs., carbon fragments, ms. and typs. notes, pamphlets, newspaper clippings.
On "Mourning becomes Electra," [1931?]
1932
"What is left of Judaism?" 3 January 1932. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
"Hitler: is he Germany's messiah or greatest menace?" 10 January 1931 [i.e. 1932]. 1 typs.
"Jane Addams and Margaret Sanger: ideals of American womanhood," 17 January 1932. 1 typs., 2 carbons, ms. notes, additional statement in support of Sanger, research material.
On the Japanese war in Manchuria, [14 February 1932?]. 1 typs., 3 carbons, ms. notes, research material.
On the Japanese war in Manchuria, [14 February 1932?]. Research material.
"Lenin's communism, Gandhi's spinning wheel, Hoover's 'rugged individualism'-whither mankind?" 6 March 1932. 1 typs.
Purim sermon, [March 1932?]. 1 typs.
"Plagues that destroy a nation," Passover 1932. 1 carbon.
Rosh Hashonah Evening, [30 September] 1932. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
Rosh Hashonah Morning, [1 October] 1932. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
Yom Kippur Eve, [9 October] 1932. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
Yom Kippur Memorial, [10 October] 1932. 1 typs.
"In the beginning, God," 30 October 1932. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
On the relationship between religion and politics, [6 November 1932?]. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
"Gandhi's fast or Mussolini's fist," 13 November 1932. 1 typs.
"A challenge to defeat," 20 November 1932. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"What kind of a city do we want to live in?" 27 November 1932. 1 typs., 3 carbons, correspondence, research material, some later.
"'Mourning Becomes Electra'-the moral implications," 11 December 1932. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
On shrines and gods, 25 December 1932. 1 typs., 3 carbons, research material, correspondence.
On Robert Falcon Scott's death in the Antarctic [1932?]. 1 typs.
On economic conditions as the real threat to American society, [1932?] 3 carbons, ms. notes.
1933
"Herbert H. Lehman, Governor of New York," 1 January 1933. 1 typs., 3 carbons, research material.
"A rabbi looks at foreign missions," 29 January 1933. 1 typs., research material.
"Hitler: Chancellor of Germany," 5 February 1933. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Haman Hitler: lessons for Jewish history," 12 March 1933. 1 typs., research material.
"Plagues that destroy a nation," Passover 1933. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
Rosh Hashonah Evening, [20 September] 1933. 1 typs., ms. notes.
On the New Deal [Rosh Hashonah Evening? 1933]. 1 carbon.
Rosh Hashonah Morning, [21 September] 1933. 1 typs., 2 carbons, carbon fragments; letter entitled "National Special German Party Group Schramberg," 1 typs., 1 carbon.
Yom Kippur Evening, [29 September] 1933. 1 typs.
Yom Kippur Memorial, [30 September 1933?]. 1 typs.
Thanksgiving, 30 November 1933. 1 typs.
"The Christian-Jewish tragedy," 24 December 1933. 1 typs., ms. notes.
Reviewing 1933, [31 December 1933]. 1 typs., research material.
On the increase in anti-Semitism abroad and in the United States [1933?]. 1 carbon, research material.
On history of his thinking on and experiences in Germany [1933?]. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
1934
On Jakob Wasserman and his life as a German and Jew, [7 January 1934]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
On life and death of Linsley R. Williams, Ernest F. McCarron, and Travis Harbord Whitney, [14 January 1934?]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Hitler against God: the struggle of religion in Germany," 28 January 1934. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
"Three cities, Sholom Asch," 11 February 1934. 1 typs., research material.
Purim, [March 1934?]. 1 typs., research material.
On Einstein, Minuchin, Wise, [13 April 1934?]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
On Passover and Easter, [1 April 1934?]. 1 carbon.
Passover [1934?]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Eve, 9 September 1934. 1 typs.
"The pursuit of happiness," Rosh Hashonah Morning, 10 September 1934. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
Yom Kippur Eve, 18 September 1934. 1 typs., research material.
Yom Kippur Memorial, 19 September 1934. 1 carbon.
"Has education failed?" 4 November 1934. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"How odd of God," 2 December 1934. 1 typs., research material.
"The truth of a lie," 9 December 1934. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
BOX 2
1934
"Elmer Rice's 'Judgment day'," 16 December 1934. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
On Everett R. Clinchy's All in the name of God, 23 December 1934. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
On Jewish survival [December 1934].
On the Depression and self-reliance [December 1934]. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
On Austria, [1934].
On Lion Feuchtwanger's The Oppermans [1934] 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
On the movie industry [1934] 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material; correspondence.
How to be happy [1934?] 1 carbon.
1935
"The sorry Saar" [13 January? 1935]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
On the movie
Power, [1935]. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
On the Good-Will Pilgrimage sponsored by the United Church of Christ, 3 March 1935. 1 typs., 2 carbons, correspondence, research material.
On Robert Nathan's Road of ages, [March 1935?]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Passover and Easter," 21 April 1935. 1 typs., research material.
"Marriage," 29 [i.e. 28?] April 1935. 1 typs., 1 carbon, ms. notes.
"My reply to the President," September 1935. 1 typs., 1 carbon, letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt.
"My reply to the President," September 1935. Research material.
Rosh Hashonah, [27 September?] 1935. 2 different typs., 1 carbon.
Yom Kippur, October [7?] 1935. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
Yom Kippur, October [7?] 1935. Research material.
Thanksgiving sermon [1935], University of Rochester Chapel. 1 typs.
Chanukah, December 1935. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
On the Lindberghs, December 1935. 2 carbons, research material.
On Charles Lindbergh, December 1935. Research material.
On Charles Lindbergh, December 1935. Research material.
On motion picture The Crusades, [1935?]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
On the"good heart," [1935?]. 1 typs., research material.
On Jewish self-esteem [1935?]. 2 carbons, research material.
On Thomas Mann's Joseph stories, [1935]. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
On a home for the Jews [1935?]. 1 typs., 3 carbons, research material.
"Why Jews Laugh" [1935?] 1 typs.
1936
"Shall we buy freedom for German Jews?" 26 January 1936. 1 typs., research material.
"If I were a Christian," 2 February 1936, Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse University. Photocopy of Post-Standard newspaper clipping describing the sermon.
"Tobacco Road: the moral implications," 29 March 1936. 1 typs., 2 carbons, ms. notes.
"The Christian Jewish paradox," 12 April 1936. 1 typs., research material.
Yom Kippur Memorial, [26 September?] 1936. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
Yom Kippur sermons [1936?]. Four different typs.
On liberty, 1 November 1936. 1 typs.
"The Jew can wait," Hannukah [December 1936]. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
On the American South, [1936]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, correspondence, research material.
"Jews in America," [1936]. 2 carbons, research material.
"The strange case of Ludwig Lewisohn" [1936]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
On Max Lowenthal's The Jews of Germany [1936]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
On racism in the American South, [1936?]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
On being a rabbi, [1936?]. 1 typs., research material, including responses to congregational questionnaire.
On Aldous Huxley' Eyeless in Gaza, [1936]. Two versions, 1 typs. each, research material.
BOX 3
1936
On Louis D. Brandeis, [1936]. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
On Sinclair Lewis's It can't happen here, [1936?]. 1 carbon, research material.
1937
On Max Reinhardt's production of "The eternal road," 24 January 1937. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Jews come to America," 31 January 1937. 1 typs., 1 carbon, draft of sermon?, research material.
"What I expect from Roosevelt," [January? 1937]. Newspaper clippings reporting on sermon; 2 carbons of reflections on 1936 elections, research material.
"Is there anything to be thankful for in this unhappy world?" [28 November? 1937]. 1 typs.
"Those far off hills," Hannukah [December?] 1937. 1 typs., research material.
"Epistles to the Jews," 19 December 1937. 1 carbon, research material.
"Epistles to the Jews," 19 December 1937. 1 typs., research material.
"Epistle to the Christians" [26 December 1937]. 1 typs., research material.
On PSB's"Epistle to the Jews," [26 December 1937]. 1 carbon.
On communism, December 1937. 1 carbon, research material.
On Pride and prejudice, [1937]. 1 typs., research material.
On Louis D. Brandeis [1937?]. 1 typs.
"Can we save democracy?" [1937]. 1 typs.
On pride and prejudice [1937?]. 1 typs., research material.
On PSB's recent trip to Palestine [1937?]. 2 different carbons, research material.
On Palestine [1937]. 1 carbon, research material.
On discontent in Nazi Germany [1937?]. 1 typs., 1 carbon of notes on meeting with former German Chancellor Heinrich Bruening, 14 January [1938].
On religion [1937?] 2 carbons, ms. notes.
On what it means to be human [1937?] 1 typs., ms. notes.
1938
On Ludlow Amendment, [January 1938]. 1 typs., ms. notes.
On Ludlow Amendment, [January 1938]. Research material.
On Ludlow Amendment, [January 1938]. Research material.
On women [March 1938]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"If I could talk to Hitler," [10 April 1938]. 1 typs., newspaper clipping on sermon.
On Easter and Passover, [17 April 1938?]. 1 typs., research material.
Rosh Hashonah, [26? September 1938]. 1 typs., 1 carbon of two different sermons, research material.
Rosh Hashonah morning [27? September 1938]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
Yom Kippur Eve [4 October 1938]. 1 typs.
Yom Kippur Memorial [5 October 1938]. 1 typs., 1 carbon of two different sermons, research material.
On the aftermath of the Munich Pact [October? 1938]. 1 typs., research material.
"It can't happen here -reconsidered," 6 November 1938. 1 typs., research material.
"It can't happen here -reconsidered," 6 November 1938. Research material.
On Jews in Germany [November 1938?]. 1 typs., research material.
On Jews in Germany [November 1938?]. Research material.
"Why are Jews persecuted?" [November 1938?]. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
"Why are Jews persecuted?" [November 1938?]. Research material.
"Shadow and Substance"-an answer to Father Coughlin [December? 1938]. 1 typs., research material.
"What Jews think about Messiah, chosen people" [25 December 1938?]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, ms. notes.
On"Abe Lincoln in Illinois," 30 December 1938. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
On German Nazis and religion [1938?]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
BOX 4
1938
On Jewish prayer [1938?].
On the Catholic Church [1938?] 1 typs., ms. notes.
"Religion faces a world in crisis" [1938?] 1 typs.
1939
"The Christian Jewish heritage," 29 January 1939, Hendricks Memorial Chapel, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
Passover [April? 1939]. 1 typs., ms. notes.
Rosh Hashonah Eve, 13 September 1939. 1 typs.
Rosh Hashonah Morning, [14 September] 1939. 1 typs., 1 carbon, 1 typs. each of 2 different Yom Kippur sermons.
Holidays, 1939. Research material.
Yom Kippur Evening, [22 September] 1939. 1 typs.
Yom Kippur Morning, [23 September] 1939. 1 typs.
On the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 29 October 1939. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"Freud, Moses, and God," 5 November 1939. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Why I am a Zionist" [17 December 1939]. 1 typs., 2 carbons, 1 typs., 2 carbons of address? on Palestine; correspondence, research material.
"Why I am a Zionist" [17 December 1939]. Research material.
"Candles in the dark," [December 1939?]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
On the present as a"Dark Age," [1939]. 1 typs., ms. notes.
On Jews in public office, [1939?]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Are Jews communists?" [1939?]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
On the twenty most interesting Jews [1939?]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
On Conrad Moehlman's book Protestantism's challenge [1939?].
On what Jewish parents owe their children [1939?].
Jews and democracy [1939?]. Carbon fragments.
1940
On Gone with the wind [February? 1940]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
On the enduring values in life, [30 March 1940?]. 1 carbon.
Passover [April? 1940]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material
On The grapes of wrath [April? 1940]. 1 carbon, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Eve, 2 October 1940. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Morning, 3 October 1940. 1 typs., 2 carbons, 2 carbons of different sermons, research material.
Yom Kippur Eve [11 October 1940?]. 1 typs., research material.
On the meaning of history, 12 October [1940?]. 1 typs., research material.
Yom Kippur [memorial?], 1940. 1 typs.
On the Presidential election [October 27? 1940]. 2 typs., 2 carbon, correspondence.
On the Presidential election [October 27? 1940]. Research material.
On The great dictator [November 3? 1940]. 1 typs., research material.
On The great dictator [November 3? 1940]. 1 carbon, research material.
"Einstein's God-and yours," 1 December 1940. 1 typs., research material.
"The great hatred," [22 December 1940?]. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
On what we should do with our lives, [1940?]. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"Russia, the enigma" [1940?]. 1 carbon.
On housing in Rochester, 1940. 1 typs., 1 carbon, correspondence.
On housing in Rochester, 1940. Research material.
"Judaism you" [1940]. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"Henrietta Szold, a woman of valor" [1940?]. 1 typs., correspondence, research material.
On the Catholic Church [1940?]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, correspondence.
On the Catholic Church [1940?]. Research material.
On the Mormons [1940?]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
On Russia, [1940?] 1 carbon, ms. notes.
BOX 5
1941
On what these times require, [January? 1941]. 1 typs., research material.
On what we owe our youth, [8? February 1941]. 1 typs., research material.
"Welcome Weizmann," 30 March 1941. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
Purim [March 1941]. 1 typs., research material.
"Moses Jesus," 13 April 1941. 1 typs., research material.
"Consulting our community conscience," 17 September 1941. 1 typs.
Rosh Hashanah Eve, 21 September 1941. 1 carbon, research material.
Rosh Hashanah Eve, 21 September 1941. 1 typs.
Rosh Hashanah Eve, 21 September 1941. Research material.
Rosh Hashanah Eve, 21 September 1941. Research material.
Rosh Hashanah, 22 September 1941. 1 typs., research material.
Yom Kippur Eve, 30 September 1941. 1 carbon, typs. and carbon fragments, research material.
Yom Kippur Memorial, 1 October 1941. Three? different sermons and fragments, typs. and carbons.
"The keys of the kingdom," 28 November 1941. 1 typs, research material.
"What do Jews believe-messiah, mission, mankind?" 5 December 1941. 1 typs, research material.
"What the Bill of Rights means to me," 12 December 1941. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
On what the world owes to the Jew [1941?]. Typs. fragment.
On what the Jew owes to the world [1941?]. 1 carbon, typs. fragment.
On Winston Churchill [1941?]. 1 typs., research material.
On Winston Churchill [1941?], reprint in The Jewish Ledger, 19 February 1965, 1 issue.
On the family [1941?]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
On For whom the bell tolls and other novels [1941?]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
1942
"Christian and Jew look at 1942," 2 January 1942. 1 typs., research material.
"First principles for American Jews," 10 January 1942. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Japan-its faith and its fate," 30 January 1942. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Democracy and the Negro," 6 February 1942. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Priorities," 20 February 1942. 1 typs., 1 carbon, both incomplete, ms. notes.
"Jewish nonsense and nonsense about Jews," 6 March 1942. 1 typs., research material.
"The conquest of fear : the book of Daniel," 13 March 1942. 1 carbon., research material.
"The conquest of loneliness," 20 March 1942. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Living under tension," 27 March 1942. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Out of the night," 3 April 1942. 1 typs., 1 carbon, ms. notes.
Rosh Hashonah eve [12? September 1942]. 1 typs.
[Rosh Hashonah? September 1942?]. 1 typs., research material.
Yom Kippur [21 September 1942]. 1 typs., research material.
["Where is God?"] Yom Kippur, September 1942.
Yom Kippur, 1942. Research material.
Yom Kippur, 1942. Research material.
Yom Kippur Memorial, October 1942. 1 typs.
"The greatest day in Jewish history" [30? October 1942]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"The Jew in the American scene," 6 November 1942. 1 carbon.
"Letters from our fighting men," 13 November 1942. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"The case against the Saturday evening post," 1942. 1 typs., correspondence between PSB and Jacob Billikopf and others, correspondence between Wesley Winans Stout and others, research material.
"The Jew in quest of God" [1942?]. 1 typs.
1943
"Dedicatory sermon," 5 February 1943. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
Rosh Hashonah, 29 September 1943. 1 carbon, research material.
1944
Rosh Hashonah Eve, 17 September 1944. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
Yom Kippur Memorial, 27 September 1944.: 1 carbon.
1945
Eulogy for President Franklin D. Roosevelt [13 April 1945]. 1 typs.
"What do we owe our youth?" Rosh Hashonah Morning, 8 September 1945. 1 typs., 2 carbons, 1 incomplete.
Yom Kippur Memorial, 17 September 1945. 1 typs.
1946
["Coming home"], 1 February 1946. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"What Is Greatness," 1 March 1946. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
BOX 6
1946
"The dilemma of the Jew in America," 8 March 1946. 2 carbons, research material.
On scapegoats, 27 April 1946. Ms. notes.
Rosh Hashonah Eve, 25 September 1946. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Morning, 26 September 1946. 1 carbon, ms. notes.
Yom Kippur Eve, 4 October 1946. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
Yom Kippur Morning, 5 October 1946. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
Yom Kippur Memorial, 5 October 1946. Two different sermons: 3 carbons of 1st, 1 carbon of 2nd.
On Erich Maria Remarque's Arch of triumph [1946?]. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
On Erich Maria Remarque's Arch of triumph [1946?]. Research material.
1947
Rosh Hashonah Eve, 14 September 1947. 1 typs.
Rosh Hashonah Morning, 15 September 1947. 2 typs., 2 carbons.
Yom Kippur Eve [1947]. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
Yom Kippur Memorial [1947]. 2 carbons, research material.
"Can we make peace with Russia?" 24 October 1947. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Freedom train-all aboard!" 31 October 1947. 1 typs.
"Why are we different?" 21 November 1947. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"The truth about Germany," 28 November 1947. 1 typs., 1 carbon, ms. notes.
"What can you believe?" 5 December 1947. 1 typs., 2 carbons, ms. notes.
"Is Hitler dead?" 19 December 1947. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
1948
"The Palestine fight-where I stand," 16 January 1948. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Life -and Mr. Ginsburg," 30 January 1948. 3 carbons, correspondence, research material.
"Why did Gandhi die?" 6 February 1948. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Czechoslovakia-Palestine-what's ahead?" 5 March 1948. 3 carbons.
"Gentlemen's agreement," 16 April 1948. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Eve, 3 October 1948. 1 carbon.
Rosh Hashonah Morning [4 October 1948]. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
Yom Kippur, 13 October 1948. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
Yom Kippur Memorial, 13 October 1948. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
"Israel and the American Jew," 29 October 1948. 1 typs., 2 carbons, ms. notes.
"If I were President," 5 November 1948. 1 typs., research material.
The Naked and the Dead, 12 November 1948. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"The American century," 25 November 1948. 1 typs.
"What's ahead for Reform Jews?" 26 November 1948. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
"How to stop worrying and start living," 9 December 1948. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"How to face life's dark hours," 17 December 1948. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
"How my mind has changed," 31 December 1948. Ms. notes.
On displaced persons and post-war Europe [1948?].
1949
"How to love yourself," 6 [i.e. 7] January 1949. 1 typs., 2 carbons, ms. notes.
"The shame of Britain," 21 January 1949. 1 typs., 1 carbon, ms. notes.
"A rabbi looks at Hamlet," 4 February 1949. 1 typs., 2 carbons, ms. notes.
"The high cost of living," 11 February 1949. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Can Jews agree? On what?" 11 March 1949. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"Do we have to live by lies?" 25 March 1949. 1 typs., carbon fragment, research material.
"The danger of Winston Churchill," 8 April 1949. 1 typs., research material.
"The tears of St. Ann and the laughter of Baal Shem," 22 April 1949. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Eve (["These fateful years"]), 23 September 1949. 1 typs., 1 carbon, ms. notes.
"What do we owe our children?" Rosh Hashonah, 24 September 1949. 1 typs.
Yom Kippur Eve, 2 October 1949. 1 typs., 2 carbons, ms notes.
Yom Kippur Memorial, 3 October 1949. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material; 1 typs. of Yom Kippur memorial, 9 October 1943.
"If I forget thee, O Jerusalem- " 28 October 1949. 1 typs., research material.
"Aaronsburg-an American adventure," 4 November 1949. 2 carbons, research material.
"'Peace of soul' or 'Peace of mind,'" 11 November 1949. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Communists, U.S.A.-U.S.S.R. : what shall we do?" 25 November 1949. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Happiness and fear," 2 December 1949. 1 typs., 1 carbon, ms notes.
Chanukah Candlelight Service, 16 December 1949. Program, ms. notes.
"Mary and her Jewish Son," 23 December 1949. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Can We Make Peace with Russia?" [1949?]. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
1950
"The first fifty years-what's ahead for Jews?" 6 January 1950. 1 typs., research material.
"Mercy deaths-suicides-are they ever justified?" 20 January 1950. 1 typs., research material.
"The educated heart," 3 February 1950. 1 typs., typs. fragments; 2 carbons, research material.
"Is Germany going Nazi again?" 10 March 1950. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
BOX 7
1950
"Religion for mature persons," 17 March 1950. 2 carbons, research material.
"Where Jews and Christians meet and part," 7 April 1950. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
Worlds in collision, 14 April 1950. 1 typs., 1 carbon, ms. notes.
Rosh Hashonah Eve, [11 September] 1950. 1 carbon, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Morning, 12 September 1950. 1 carbon.
Yom Kippur Eve, 20 September 1950. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
Yom Kippur Memorial [21 September? 1950]. 1 typs.
"Life and letters-what I learned," 20 October 1950. 1 typs., 2 pamphlets "reprinted for private distribution" by Life.
"'The Assumption of Mary' and the assumptions of Judaism," 27 October 1950. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Must there be war with Russia?" 10 November 1950. 1 typs.
"Reform Jews-what now?" 17 November 1950. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
"City lights -is life crazy?" 24 November 1950. 1 typs.
Harry Levi lecture, 1 December 1950, Temple Israel, Boston. 2 carbons, correspondence, research material.
Chanukah service, 8 December 1950. Ms. notes, research material.
"Religious freedom in Israel?" 15 December 1950. 2 carbons, research material.
"Judaism and Christianity: a declaration of independence and interdependence," 22 December 1950. 2 typs., 4 carbons.
1951
"Church and state-the Jewish view," 4 January 1951. 2 typs., 2 carbons.
"Church and state-the Jewish view," 4 January 1951. Research material (mostly from 1954).
"The wall," 19 January 1951. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"What I learned in Washington," 2 February 1951. 1 typs., research material.
"An evening with the Psalms," 9 February 1951. 1 typs., research material.
"Israel's cabinet crisis," 2 March 1951. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Jewish wit and wisdom," 16 March 1951. 1 typs.
"How do we find our way to God," 23 March 1951. 1 typs., research material.
"Is it getting tougher to be a Jew?" 30 March 1951. 1 typs., research material.
"The decline of morals in America," 6 April 1951. 1 typs.
"MacArthur-messiah or menace?" 27 April 1951. 1 typs., 2 carbons, correspondence.
"MacArthur, messiah or menace?" 27 April 1951. 4 pamphlets.
"Faith and destiny," Rosh Hashonah Eve, 30 September 1951. 1 carbon.
"What do we owe our children?" Rosh Hashonah Morning [1 October?] 1951. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
Yom Kippur Eve, 9 October 1951. 1 typs., research material.
Yom Kippur Memorial, 11 October 1951. 1 typs., correspondence, research material.
"Israel and the Arabs," 2 November 1951. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Religion in Israel," 9 November 1951. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Are we hell-bent for Heaven?" 30 November 1951. 1 typs., research material.
"Korea-what meaning-what hope?" 14 [i.e. 7] December [1951]. 1 typs., research material.
"A modern guide for the perplexed," 14 December 1951. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
1952
"Should Jews deal with Germany?" 18 January 1952. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Can we escape: from God? To God? With God?" 25 January 1952. 2 typs., 4 carbons, research material.
"Has Judaism a message for our times?" 1 February 1952. 1 carbon, research material. "Has religion a message for our times?" address delivered before the Chicago Sunday Evening Club, Orchestra Hall, 11 January 1953. 1 copy.
"The meaning of America," 22 February 1952. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Why get married? A leap year sermon," 29 February 1952. 1 typs., research material.
"Jews under England's queens," 14 March 1952. Ms. notes, Temple bulletin.
"A faith for liberals today," 28 March 1952. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Christians and Jews-closer together or farther apart?" 4 April 1952. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
Rosh Hashonah Eve, 19 September 1952. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Morning, 20 September 1952. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Morning, 20 September 1952. Research material.
BOX 8
1952
Rosh Hashonah Sermons, 1952. Research material.
Yom Kippur Eve, 28 September 1952. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
Yom Kippur Memorial, 29 September 1952. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"A letter to the next President," 24 October 1952. 1 typs., correspondence, research material.
"A letter to the next President," 24 October 1952. Research material.
"What is a Jew?-What a Jew is not," 31 October 1952. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"A Jew looks at Ivanhoe," 7 November 1952. 1 typs., research material.
"Christian Bibles, and ours," 5 December 1952. 1 typs., research material.
"Purge in Prague-behind the headlines," 19 December 1952. Ms. notes, research material.
"How Jews face death," [1952?]. 1 typs.
1953
"Is B'rith Kodesh getting too Orthodox?" 2 January 1953. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
"Truman and Eisenhower-some personal observations," 16 January 1953. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Truman and Eisenhower-some personal observations," 16 January 1953. Rresearch material.
"Why don't they leave the Jews alone?" 23 January 1953. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"America has many faces," 20 February 1953. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"Must there always be a Haman?" 27 February 1953. 1 typs., 1 carbon, ms. notes.
"The Rosenberg case," 6 March 1953. 1 typs., copies of petitions to President Eisenhower; correspondence, including restrospective comment by PSB in 1977 letter to Marc Tanenbaum, research material.
"Investigate the clergy?" 20 March 1953. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Investigate the clergy?" 20 March 1953. Research material.
"Investigate the clergy?" 20 March 1953. Research material.
"Investigate the clergy?" 20 March 1953. Research material.
"Why I am a Reform Jew," 27 March 1953. 1 typs., research material.
"Why I am a Reform Jew," 27 March 1953. Research material.
"Passover and Easter-why are we different?" 3 April 1953. 1 typs., 1 carbon, ms. notes.
"Their finest hour," 17 April 1953. Research material.
"The state of the Union," 24 April 1953. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Hear my prayer-for what?" 8 May 1953. 1 typs., research material.
"The meaning of America," 31 May 1953. 1 carbon, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Eve, 9 September 1953. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
"What do we owe our children?" Rosh Hashonah Morning, 10 September 1953. 2 typs., 3 carbons.
Yom Kippur Eve, 18 September 1953. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
Yom Kippur Memorial, 19 September 1953. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"The Robe -the Jewish view of the Crucifixion," 3 October 1953. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Martin Luther and the Jews," 13 November 1953. 1 typs., 1 carbon, correspondence, research material.
"Questions Jews ask about Jews-psychosomatic? Psychosemantic? Psychosemitic?" 27 November 1953. 1 typs., 1 carbon, ms. notes.
Chanukah Candlelight service, 4 December 1953. Ms. notes, research material.
"The greatest faith ever known," 11 December 1953. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Inside Washington," 18 December 1953. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
1954
"Design for Jewish living-1954," 1 January 1954. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"The present challenge to freedom," 10 January 1954, Third Presbyterian Church. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
BOX 9
1954
"The first Cain mutiny," 15 January 1954. 1 typs., 2 carbons, ms. notes.
"'Wipe out Israel' -- a reply to King Saud," 29 January 1954. 1 carbon.
"How to face life's dark days," 5 February 1954. 1 typs.
"Lincoln and the Jews," 12 February 1954. Research material.
"A rabbi looks at Hollywood," 5 March 1954. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
"A rabbi looks at Hollywood," 5 March 1954. Research material.
"Israel and the American Jew," 12 March 1954. 1 typs., 3 carbons, research material.
"Haman, Hitler, and McCarthy: parallels and contrasts," 19 March 1954. 1 typs., 3 carbons.
"Haman, Hitler, and McCarthy: parallels and contrasts," 19 March 1954. Correspondence.
"Haman, Hitler, and McCarthy: parallels and contrasts," 19 March 1954. Research material.
"Julius Caesar-Othello: Shakespeare's message to our time," 26 March 1954. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"What's happening to American Jews?" 2 April 1954. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"Should Jews take Jesus back?" 23 April 1954. 1 typs., 3 carbons, research material.
"27, a welcoming service to Rabbi Joel Dobin," 7 May 1954. 2 carbons.
["What America means to me"], 30 May 1954. Ms. notes, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Eve, 27 September 1954. 1 typs., 2 carbons, ms. notes.
Rosh Hashonah Morning, 28 September 1954. 1 typs., 2 carbons, ms. notes.
"A heart of wisdom," Yom Kippur Eve, 6 October 1954. 1 carbon.
Yom Kippur Memorial, 7 October 1954. 1 typs., 2 carbons, 3 pamphlets with title "How to face death," correspondence.
"American Jew, what next?" 29 October 1954. 1 typs., 3 carbons, research material.
"Is Adenauer Germany?" 5 November 1954. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"From Dreyfuss to Mendes-France," 12 November 1954. 1 typs., 3 carbons.
"From Dreyfuss to Mendes-France," 12 November 1954. Correspondence, research material.
"Herzl, Israel, Dulles," 26 November 1954. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Should Jews keep Christmas?" 10 December 1954. 2 carbons, 1 photocopy, correspondence, research material.
"Windows on Washington: is McCarthy through? Arms for the Arabs? What hope for peace?" 17 December 1954. 1 typs., 3 carbons, research material.
["A faith for '55"], 31 December 1954. Ms. notes.
1955
"The strange love of J. Robert Oppenheimer," 7 January 1955. 2 typs., 5 carbons; 1 carbon of radio address "J. Robert Oppenheimer," 30 January 1955, research material.
"The price of principle," 21 January 1955. Ms. notes, research material.
"These things I have seen," 18 February 1955. 1 typs., 3 carbons.
"Religious faith and human brotherhood," 20 February 1955, Third Presbyterian Church. 3 carbons, research material.
"Morroco and Mendes-France," 4 March 1955. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
"Israel, 1955," 11 March 1955. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"The Berlin Orchestra-motifs and overtones," 18 March 1955. 1 typs., research material.
"How shall I know thee?" 1 April 1955. 1 typs., 4 carbons, research material.
"From Egypt to Egypt," 15 April 1955. 1 typs., 4 carbons, research material.
"Marriage and divorce-the Jewish view," 6 May 1955. 1 typs., 2 carbons, correspondence.
"Marriage and divorce-the Jewish view," 6 May 1955. Research material.
Rosh Hashonah Eve, 16 September 1955. 1 typs.
"What do we owe our children?" Rosh Hashonah Morning, 17 September 1955. 1 typs.
Yom Kippur Eve, 25 September 1955. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
Yom Kippur Memorial, 5 October 1955. 1 typs.
"Egypt, Israel and the United States," 21 October 1955. 1 carbon.
"Are American Jews religious?" 28 October 1955. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Sharrett confronts Molotov: the Jews versus communism; the Jews behind the Iron Curtain," 4 November 1955. 1 typs., 3 carbons.
"Sharrett confronts Molotov: the Jews versus communism; the Jews behind the Iron Curtain," 4 November 1955. Research material.
"Marjorie Morningstar," 18 November 1955. 1 typs., 1 carbon, correspondence, research material.
"Do we have to live by lies?" 25 November 1955. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"Religion for mature persons" [27 November? 1955], Unitarian Church. Correspondence, research material [for sermon see same title, 17 March 1950].
"Approaching Chanukah and Christmas," 2 December 1955. 1 typs., 1 photocopy, 2 carbons.
BOX 10
1955
"Life looks at the Jews, Look's life of the Jews," 30 December 1955. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
"Life looks at the Jews, Look's life of the Jews," 30 December 1955. Research material.
1956
"Toynbee and the fossil," 6 January 1956. 1 typs., 3 carbons, research material.
"The strange case of Ludwig Lewisohn," 20 January 1956. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
"West of Eden," 27 January 1956. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"The Mideast muddle," 16 March 1956. 1 carbon, research material.
"Passover-a new look," 23 March 1956. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Do Jews await the messiah?" 30 March 1956. 1 typs., 3 carbons.
"Heine- Poet and Jew," 27 April 1956. 1 typs., 3 carbons, research material.
"Freud- Pathfinder and Jew," 4 May 1956. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Eve, 5 September 1956. 1 typs., 2 carbons, correspondence.
Rosh Hashonah Eve, 5 September 1956. Research material.
Rosh Hashonah Eve, 5 September 1956. Research material.
Rosh Hashonah Morning, 6 September 1956. 1 typs., 3 carbons.
Rosh Hoshonah Morning, 6 September 1956. Research material.
Yom Kippur Eve, 14 September 1956. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
Yom Kippur Memorial, 15 September 1956. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
"Why are you a Reform Jew?" 19 October 1956. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Crisis in the Middle East," 26 October 1956. 1 typs.
"Mid-East conflict-the way out," 2 November 1956. 1 typs., 1 pamphlet, research material.
"To the next President," 9 November 1956. 1 typs., 3 carbons.
"Americanism and Judaism, a Thanksgiving address," 23 November 1956. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"From Sinai to Sinai and back," 7 December 1956. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
"Should the Jews take Spinoza back?" 14 December 1956. 1 typs., 1 carbon, correspondence.
"Where Judaism differed," 21 December 1956. 1 typs., 3 carbons, research material. 3 folders.
1957
"The Jews-1957," 4 January 1957. Ms. notes, research material. 3 folders.
"Baby doll - Peyton Place: the moral implications," 11 January 1957. 1 carbon, research material.
"The Eisenhower Doctrine," 25 January 1957. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"Tribute to Brandeis," 8 February 1957. 1 typs., 4 carbons, temple bulletin with temple exhibit pamphlet on Brandeis with PSB's "The Brandeis I knew," research material.
"Tribute to Brandeis," 8 February 1957. Correspondence.
"What America means to me," 22 February 1957. 1 typs., 3 carbons, research material.
"Questions Napoleon asked- American Jews answer," 8 March 1957. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God: Why? How? When? Where?" 22 March 1957. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"Israel-Double crossed? Desperate? Dauntless!" 5 April 1957. 1 typs., research material.
"A Rabbi's thirty years," 12 April 1957. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
Rosh Hashonah Eve, 25 September 1957. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Morning, 26 September 1957. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
Yom Kippur Eve, 4 October 1957. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
Yom Kippur Memorial, 5 October 1957. 1 typs., 3 carbons; 1 carbon of Yom Kippur Eve Service, 4 October 1957.
"A Rabbi looks at Sputnik," 15 November 1957. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material. 2 folders.
BOX 11
1957
"A Rabbi looks at Sputnik," 15 November 1957. Research material. 3 folders.
"By love possessed," 22 November 1957. 1 typs., 4 carbons.
"By love possessed," 22 November 1957. Research material.
Thanksgiving Day Sermon, [28] November 1957. 1 typs.
"Should Jews celebrate Christmas?" 13 December 1957. 1 typs., research material.
On the Jewish communities of Europe [late 1957?]. 1 typs., ms. notes.
1958
"Put father back at the head of the family?" 3 January 1958. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
"Put father back at the head of the family?" 3 January 1958. Research material.
"Remember God to me," 17 January 1958. 1 typs., 3 carbons, research material.
"Russia, Germany, Israel: the issues behind the headlines," 31 January 1958. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"Russia, Germany, Israel: the issues behind the headlines," 31 January 1958. Research material.
"Russia, Germany, Israel: the issues behind the headlines," 31 January 1958. Research material.
"By fear possessed! Courage to overcome anxiety and adversity," 14 February 1958. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"By fear possessed! Courage to overcome anxiety and adversity," 14 February 1958.
"The Baruch story- is it good for American Jews?" 7 March 1958. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"Anne Frank revisited," 21 March 1958. 1 typs., 3 carbons, ms. notes.
"Where did you go? To Temple. What did you do? Nothing," 11 April 1958. 1 typs., 2 carbons; 1 copy of sermon broadcast on the "Message of Israel" radio show, 11 May 1958, research material.
"Israel confronts tomorrow: a tenth anniversary address," 18 April 1958. 1 carbon, research material.
"America confronts tomorrow," 25 April 1958. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
On a Jewish philosophy of history, 30 August 1958. Ms. notes.
Rosh Hashonah Eve, 14 September 1958. 2 typs., 4 carbons, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Morning, 15 September 1958. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
Rosh Hashonah Morning, 15 September 1958. Research material.
Rosh Hashonah Morning, 15 September 1958. Research material.
Yom Kippur Eve, 23 September 1958. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
Yom Kippur Eve, 23 September 1958. Research material.
Yom Kippur Memorial, 24 September 1958. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Why did you join B'rith Kodesh?" 24 October 1958. 1 typs., 2 carbons, ms. notes.
"Synogogue bombings-what shall we do?" 31 October 1958. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Who is a Jew?" 21 November 1958. 1 typs., ms. notes.
"Who is a Jew?" 21 November 1958. Research material.
BOX 12
1958
"Only in America," 28 November 1958. 1 typs., 4 carbons, research material.
Chanukah Candlelight Service, 12 and 13 December 1958. Ms. notes, research material, programs.
"Life, loves, and lies," 19 December 1958. 1 typs., 3 carbons.
"Life, loves, and lies," 19 December 1958. Research material
1959
"What kind of a new temple do you want?" 2 January 1959. 1 typs., 3 carbons, ms. notes, correspondence.
"Mid-East showdown-the facts behind the headlines," 16 January 1959. 1 carbon, research material.
"The enemy camp," 23 January 1959. 1 typs., 3 carbons, research material.
"The American dream and today's realities," 6 February 1959. 1 typs., 2 carbons, ms. notes.
"The American dream and today's realities," 6 February 1959. Research material.
"John Foster Dulles-a personal re-appraisal," 6 March 1959. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Exodus-what was the truth?" 13 March 1959. 1 carbon, correspondence, research material.
"A faith for the Space Age," 3 April 1959. 1 typs., 3 carbons.
"A faith for the Space Age," 3 April 1959. Research material.
"A faith for the Space Age," 3 April 1959.
"From Wise to Wise-where is Reform Judaism heading?" 17 April 1959. 1 carbon.
"From Wise to Wise-where is Reform Judaism heading?" 17 April 1959. Research material.
"From Wise to Wise-where is Reform Judaism heading?" 17 April 1959. Research material.
"From Wise to Wise-where is Reform Judaism heading?" 17 April 1959. Research material.
"Freedom of religion and the religion of freedom," 24 April 1959. 1 typs., 2 carbons, 1 photocopy; ms. notes.
"Freedom of religion and the religion of freedom," 24 April 1959. Research material.
"Freedom of religion and the religion of freedom," 24 April 1959. Research material.
"May Day-what is the hope of the world?" 1 May 1959. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
On Reinhold Niebuhr's "Serenity prayer," 8 May 1959. 1 typs., 3 carbons, correspondence, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Evening, 2 October 1959. 2 carbons, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Evening, 2 October 1959. Research material.
Rosh Hashonah Evening, 2 October 1959. Research material (newspaper clippings).
Rosh Hashonah Evening, 2 October 1959. Research material (newspaper clippings).
Rosh Hashonah Morning, 3 October 1959. 1 typs., 3 carbons, research material.
Yom Kippur Eve, 11 October 1959. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
Yom Kippur Eve, 11 October 1959. Research material.
BOX 13
1959
Yom Kippur Memorial, 12 October 1959. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"The case for Reform Judaism," 30 October 1959. 1 typs., 2 carbons, ms. notes.
"Can a Catholic be elected president?-or a Jew?" 6 November 1959. 1 carbon, correspondence.
"Can a Catholic be elected president?-or a Jew?" 6 November 1959. Research material.
"'America the beautiful' versus The ugly American," 27 November 1959. 1 typs., 3 carbons, research material.
"What should Jews do about Christmas?" 4 December 1959. 1 typs, 2 carbons, 1 photocopy, research material.
"The Status Seekers ... a rabbi replies!" 11 December 1959. 1 typs., 1 carbon, correspondence, research material.
1960
"The way to faith-in yourself," 8 January 1960. 1 typs., 3 photostats, 1 carbon, research material.
"This anti-semitism-what does it mean?" 15 January 1960. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Can you have faith in your fellowman?" 29 January 1960. 1 typs., 3 carbons, research material.
"I was a teen-age atheist," 12 February 1960. 1 typs., ms notes.
"Why Jews laugh," 11 March 1960. Ms. notes for sermon, research material.
"What I learned in the desert about God," 18 March 1960. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"As a driven leaf: a conflict of faith and reason," 25 March 1960. 1 carbon, research material.
"The fight for equality in America including Rochester," 1 April 1960. 1 typs., 1 carbon, 2 photostats, research material.
"The fight for equality in America including Rochester," 1 April 1960. 1 photostat; correspondence.
"How to become a Jew," 22 April 1960. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
"From Herzl to Harman," 29 April 1960. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"What kind of a Jew are you?" 6 May 1960. 1 typs., 3 carbons, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Morning, 22 September 1960. 1 typs., 2 carbons, correspondence, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Morning, 22 September 1960. Research material.
Rosh Hashonah Morning, 22 September 1960. Research material.
Yom Kippur Eve, 30 September 1960. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
Yom Kippur Memorial Service, 1 October 1960. 2 carbons, correspondence.
Yom Kippur, 1960. Research material.
"Reform Judaism confronts Othodoxy and Conservatism," 28 October 1960. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"The election and you," 4 November 1960. 1 typs., 1 carbon, ms. notes, correspondence.
"The election and you," 4 November 1960. Research material.
"Jews and the moon," 2 December 1960. 1 typs., 2 carbons, correspondence, research material.
"Can we believe in miracles?" 23 December 1960. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
1961
"What's Israel up to?" 6 January 1961. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
BOX 14
1961
"The Eichmann case: the rise and fall of the Third Reich," 20 January 1961. 1 typs., 1 carbon, ms. notes.
"The Eichmann case: the rise and fall of the Third Reich," 20 January 1961. Research material.
"The Eichmann case: the rise and fall of the Third Reich," 20 January 1961. Research material.
"What must you do to be a good Jew?" 3 March 1961. 1 typs., 3 carbons, research material.
"Making marriage work," 10 March 1961. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"What's new in Washington," 24 March 1961. 1 typs., 2 carbons, ms. notes, correspondence.
"What's new in Washington," 24 March 1961. Research material.
"John Birch Society; The Nazi Rockwell; The Eichmann case: is there a common denominator?" 14 April 1961. 2 carbons, correspondence, research material.
"John Birch Society; The Nazi Rockwell; The Eichmann case: is there a common denominator?" 14 April 1961. Research material.
"John Birch Society; The Nazi Rockwell; The Eichmann case: is there a common denominator?" 14 April 1961. Research material.
"John Birch Society; The Nazi Rockwell; The Eichmann case: is there a common denominator?" 14 April 1961. Research material.
"Are you a fatalist?" 5 May 1961. 1 typs., 3 carbons.
"Are you a fatalist?" 5 May 1961. Research material.
Rosh Hashonah Morning, 11 September 1961. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
Yom Kippur Eve, 19 September 1961. 1 typs., 3 carbons, research material.
Yom Kippur Eve, 19 September 1961. Research material.
"Wisdom from life about death," Yom Kippur Memorial, 20 September 1961. 1 typs., 1 carbon, correspondence, research material.
"Who is a Reform Jew?" 20 October 1961. 2 carbons, research material.
"Israel-what's new?" 27 October 1961. 1 typs., 2 carbons, ms. notes.
"Israel-what's new?" 27 October 1961. Research material.
"Ten ways to find God," 17 November 1961. 2 carbons, correspondence.
"What Christmas means to a rabbi," 15 December 1961. 1 typs., 1 carbon, correspondence.
"What Christmas means to a rabbi," 15 December 1961. Research material.
"What Christmas means to a rabbi," 15 December 1961. Research material.
"What Christmas means to a rabbi," 15 December 1961. Research material.
1962
Sabbath family service, 12 January 1962. Ms. notes, research material.
"How to deal with life's dark hours," 26 January 1962. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"How to defend America," 9 February 1962. 1 typs., 2 carbons, ms. notes.
"How to defend America," 9 February1962. Correspondence.
"How to defend America," 9 February 1962. Research material.
BOX 15
1962
"A report from Israel," 30 March 1962. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"Israel-lights and shadows," 6 April 1962. 2 carbons, research material.
"Israel-lights and shadows," 6 April 1962. Research material.
"Smut and censorship: what should we do?" 13 April 1962. 1 typs., 1 carbon, 1 photocopy, ms. notes.
"Smut and censorship: what should we do?" 13 April 1962. Correspondence.
"Smut and censorship: what should we do?" 13 April 1962. Research material.
"My last Friday evening sermon on Gibbs Street," 11 May 1962. 1 typs., 2 carbons, correspondence.
"What are we doing?" Rosh Hashonah Evening, 28 September 1962. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Evening, 28 September 1962. Research material.
Rosh Hashonah Evening, 28 September 1962. Research material.
Yom Kippur Memorial, 8 October 1962. 1 typs., 1 carbon, Yom Kippur Morning, 8 October 1962. 1 typs., 1 carbon, 2 pamphlets of condensed version, research material.
Yom Kippur Memorial, 8 October 1962. Research material.
"Can there be religious unity? Should Jews be included?" 16 November 1962. 1 typs., 2 carbons, correspondence, research material.
"Can there be religious unity? Should Jews be included?" 16 November 1962. Research material.
"Can there be religious unity? Should Jews be included?" 16 November 1962. Research material.
"Can there be religious unity? Should Jews be included?" 16 November 1962. Research material.
"The ways of love," 7 December 1962. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
1963
"Man in search of God," 4 January 1963. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"The enduring prayers of faith," 18 January 1963. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Nasser and Israel: a rabbi's report from Washington," 8 February 1963. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"The war we must win," 1 March 1963. 1 typs., 1 carbon, ms. notes.
"The war we must win," 1 March 1963. Research material.
"The war we must win," 1 March 1963. Research material.
"The two Chayims and Chabad," 15 March 1963. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"The two Chayims and Chabad," 15 March 1963. Correspondence, research material.
"The two Chayims and Chabad," 15 March 1963. Research material.
"My old Leopold Street Shule Torah," 5 April 1963. 1 typs., 2 carbons, 1 photocopy, research material.
Passover, 9 April 1963. Ms. notes, religious school materials.
"Service of dedication," 19 April 1963. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Love and healing," 26 April 1963. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Love and healing," 26 April 1963. Research material.
"The Arabs, Israel and the U.S.A.," 10 May 1963. 1 typs., 2 carbons, ms. notes.
"Ten commandments of brotherhood," 2 June 1963, Unitarian Church: 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
BOX 16
1963
Rosh Hashonah Morning Service, 19 September 1963. 1 typs., 1 carbon, ms. notes.
Rosh Hashonah Morning Service, 19 September 1963. Research material.
Rosh Hashonah Morning Service, 19 September 1963. Research material.
Yom Kippur Eve, 27 September 1963. 1 typs., 1 carbon, 2 pamphlets, research material.
Yom Kippur Memorial Service, 28 September 1963. 1 carbon, 1 typs.
"So teach us...," High Holy Day sermons by PSB and Herbert Bronstein, 1963. 3 pamphlets.
High Holy Days, 1963. Research material. 4 folders.
"Is a Reform Jew a good Jew?" 18 October 1963. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"The Ten Commandments of our time," 8 November 1963. 5 photostats, research material.
"That's gratitude," 22 November 1963. typs., ms. notes, research material.
"What is this country coming to? Where was God?" 6 December 1963. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
Untitled [notice only?], 27 December 1963. 1 carbon.
1964
"The Pope goes back to Zion: what does it mean?" 3 January 1964. 1 typs., 3 carbons, ms. notes, correspondence.
"The Pope goes back to Zion: what does it mean?" 3 January 1964. Research material. 2 folders.
"Automation: what is it doing to us? What can we do about it?" 10 January 1964. 1 typs., 1 carbons, research material.
"Automation: what is it doing to us? What can we do about it?" 10 January 1964. 2 folders.
"The Arabs threaten Israel: What will happen? What must be done?" 24 January 1964. 1 typs., 1 carbon, correspondence.
"The Arabs threaten Israel: What will happen? What must be done?" 24 January 1964. Research material.
"The Ten Commandments of love," 26 January 1964. 3 typs., 1 carbon, 1 photostat.
"The Deputy," 6-13 March 1964. 1 typs., 2 carbons of pt. 1, 1 typs., 1 carbon of pt. 2, research material.
"The Deputy," 6-13 March 1964. Correspondence.
"The Deputy," 6-13 March 1964. reprinted in The Jewish Ledger, 20 and 27 March 1964. 4 issues.
"The Deputy," 6-13 March 1964. Research material.
"Religion in Israel versus Judaism in Russia," 24 April 1964. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Eve, 6 September 1964. 1 typs., 2 carbons, ms. notes.
Rosh Hashonah Eve, 6 September 1964. Research material. 3 folders.
Yom Kippur Morning, 16 September 1964. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
Yom Kippur Memorial, 23 [i.e. 16] September 1964. 1 typs., 2 carbons, correspondence.
Yom Kippur, 1964. Research material. 2 folders.
BOX 17
1964
Yom Kippur, 1964. Research material. 2 folders.
Holidays, 1964.
High Holy Days, 1964. Research material. 2 folders.
Shemini Atzeret, 28 September 1964. Ms., typs. notes.
"The faith of other men," 6 November 1964; ms notes, research material.
"The meaning of John F. Kennedy," 20 November 1964. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Ten guideposts for a good life," 18 December 1964. 1 typs., 3 carbons, ms. notes.
1965
"Fiddler on the Roof I," 8 January 1965. 1 typs., 1 carbon, correspondence between PSB and Harold Prince; ms. notes.
"Fiddler on the Roof I," 8 January 1965. Research material.
"Fiddler on the Roof II," 15 January 1965. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Lovers' quarrels with God," 5 February 1965. 3 carbons, research material.
"Germany and the Jews: the new problems," 26 February 1965. 1 typs., 2 carbons, correspondence, research material.
"Germany and the Jews: the new problems," 26 February 1965. Reprinted in The Jewish Ledger.
Issues of 19 and 26 March 1965.
"Germany and the Jews: the new problems," 26 February 1965. Research material. 3 folders.
"Herzog," 12 March 1965. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Israel in danger?" 26 March 1965. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"The Jew as hero," 9 April 1965. Ms. notes, research material.
"Gibbs Street-meaning and memories," 23 April 1965. 1 typs., 3 carbons, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Morning, 27 September 1965. 2 typs., 2 carbons, 2 photostats, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Morning, 27 September 1965. Research material. 2 folders.
Yom Kippur Eve, 5 October 1965. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
Yom Kippur Eve, 5 October 1965. Research material.
Yom Kippur Memorial, 6 October 1965. 1 typs., 3 carbons.
High Holy Days, 1965. Research material.
BOX 18
1965
High Holy Days, 1965. Research material.
"The Rabbi," 22 October 1965. 1 typs., 1 carbon, correspondence, research material.
"The elections and the Jews : Beame for mayor, Goldberg for president, Ben Gurion for oblivion?" 5 November 1965. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"Is B'rith Kodesh still Reform?" 3 December 1965. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material. 3 folders.
"Liberation, twenty years after," 17 December 1965. Ms. notes, research material.
1966
"The Jews, God, and history," 4 February 1966. Ms. notes, research material.
"History and hope," 1 April 1966. 1 typs., 4 carbons, research material.
"The new ecumenism-what still divides us?" 8 April 1966. 1 typs., 3 carbons, research material.
"Martin Buber: a memorial tribute," 6 May 1966. 1 typs., 1 carbon, programs.
Rosh Hashonah Eve, 14 September 1966. 1 typs., 3 carbons.
Yom Kippur Morning, 24 September 1966. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
1967
"What the Seder will mean to me," 21 April 1967. 1 typs., 3 carbons, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Eve, 4 October 1967. 1 typs., 3 carbons, 1 photocopy, research material.
Yom Kippur Morning, 14 October 1967. 1 typs., 2 carbons, 1 photocopy, correspondence.
"What do we owe our dead?" Yom Kippur Memorial, 14 October 1967. 1 typs., 1 carbon, 4 pamphlets, 2 galley proofs; program; correspondence.
Yom Kippur, 1967. Research material.
High Holy Days, 1967. Research material. 3 folders.
"Report from Israel I and II," 27 October and 3 November 1967. Ms. notes, research material.
"Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: are there any minor characters in life?" 1 December 1967. 1 typs., 3 carbons, research material.
"Vietnam, where I stand [L.B.J. and H.H.H., recent personal contacts]," 15 December 1967. 1 typs., 2 carbons, 4 photocopies.
"Vietnam, where I stand [L.B.J. and H.H.H., recent personal contacts]," 15 December 1967. list of recipients of sermon; correspondence in response [copy of letter from L.B.J., dated 1957; short letters of response from Dean Rusk, Arthur Goldberg, and others].
"Vietnam, where I stand [L.B.J. and H.H.H., recent personal contacts]," 15 December 1967. Research material. 3 folders.
1968
"Tell us dear children, what did we do wrong?" 5 January 1968. 1 typs., 1 photostat, 3 carbons, ms. notes.
"Tell us dear children, what did we do wrong?" 5 January 1968. Research material.
BOX 19
1968
"Tell us dear children, what did we do wrong?" 5 January 1968. Research material.
"A Jerusalem celebration," 16 February 1968. 1 typs., research material.
"A Jerusalem celebration," 16 February 1968. Research material.
"Mazel and Schlmazel," 23 February 1968. 1 typs., 1 photocopy, research material.
"Anti-Semitism: was Haman right? Or DeGaulle?" 15 March 1968. 1 typs., 1 carbon, 2 photocopies, correspondence.
"Washington-Vietnam-Israel: where do we stand now?" 22 March 1968. 1 typs., 1 carbon, correspondence.
"Ten Commandments for black-white relations: anticipating the march on Washington," 19 April 1968. 1 typs., 1 photocopy, 1 pamphlet; correspondence, research material.
"What Israel means to me," 3 May 1968. 1 typs., 1 carbon, 1 photocopy.
"What Israel means to me," 3 May 1968. Research material.
On Temple B'rith Kodesh and the history of the rabbinate, 10 May 1968. Photocopied ms. notes.
On history of American Jewry, Temple Israel, South Orange, N.J., 24 May 1968,. 1 carbon, ms. notes.
"Robert F. Kennedy memorial service," 9 June 1968. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Morning, 23 September 1968. 1 typs., 2 carbons, 3 photocopies.
Yom Kippur Kol Nidre service, 1 October 1968. 1 typs., 1 carbon, 1 photocopy.
On responsible idealism, 25 October 1968. 1 typs., 2 carbons, 3 photocopies.
On responsible idealism, 25 October 1968. Research material.
"The dance of Genghis Cohn-the man in the glass booth: can we make a joke out of the Holocaust?" 18 November 1968. 1 typs., 2 carbons, 1 photocopy.
"The dance of Genghis Cohn-the man in the glass booth: can we make a joke out of the Holocaust?" 18 November 1968. Research material. 2 folders.
"Converts: do we want them? What can they expect?" 6 December 1968. 1 typs., 1 carbon, 1 photocopy, research material.
1969
"Rabbi Goldberg's Yamulka, a dialogue by PSB and PSG (P. Selvin Goldberg)" 17 January 1969. Ms. notes, correspondence, research material.
"Are Jews democratic?" 7 February 1969. 2 photostats, 1 carbon, ms. notes.
"Are Jews democratic?" 7 February 1969. Research material. 3 folders.
"The Arabs and Israel: the lies and the truth," 7 March 1969. 1 typs., 1 photocopy, research material.
"5729-1969-2001: Judaism and science," 21 March 1969. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
"5729-1969-2001: Judaism and science," 21 March 1969. Research material.
"Report from Israel," 18 April 1969. Ms. notes, research material.
"Fiddler revisited," 25 April 1969. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Eve service, "Israel in danger," 12 September 1969. 1 typs., 1 carbon, 2 pamphlets.
Rosh Hashonah Eve service, "Israel in danger," 12 September 1969. Research material.
Rosh Hashonah Eve service, "Israel in danger," 12 September 1969. Lists of sermon recipients; correspondence.
Yom Kippur morning sermon, 22 September 1969. 1 typs., 3 carbons, 3 photocopies, offprint from 19 November 1969 Congressional Record (4 issues); Yom Kippur Memorial sermon, 1 typs., 2 photocopies.
Yom Kippur service, 22 September 1969. Correspondence.
Yom Kippur service, 22 September 1969. Research material.
High Holy Days, 1969. Research material. 3 folders.
BOX 20
1970
Family service, 2 January 1970. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"from The chosen to The promise," 16 January 1970. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"The sun's eclipse: what is God telling us?" 6 March 1970. 1 typs., 1 photocopy, research material.
"What youth thinks of us, what we think of youth," 13 March 1970. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"What youth thinks of us, what we think of youth," 13 March 1970. Research material.
"Oberammergau passion play: Christian anti-semitism again," 1 May 1970. 1 typs., 1 carbon, 1 photocopy.
"Obergammerau passion play: Christian anti-semitism again," 1 May 1970. Research material.
Rosh Hashonah Morning: "The generation confrontation," 1 October 1970. 1 typs., 2 carbons, 2 photocopies, 4 pamphlets.
Rosh Hashonah Morning: "The generation confrontation," 1 October 1970. Correspondence, research material.
Yom Kippur Eve, Kol Nidre-Yom Kippur sermon, 9 October 1970. 1 typs., 1 photocopy, 2 programs, correspondence, research material.
High Holy Days, 1970. Research material. 3 folders.
"The sweet delights of the Sabbath," 20 November 1970. 1 typs., 2 carbons.
"For what can we still be thankful?" 27 November 1970. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
"For what can we still be thankful?" 27 November 1970. Research material.
"Dayan and Eban: a study in contrasts," 18 December 1970. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
1971
"Dedication of new Bibles: rabbinic commentary in 'Old Style'," 22 January 1971. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"Erich Segal's Love story: ah, sweet mystery of love," 29 January 1971. 1 typs., 1 photocopy, 1 carbon, ms. notes.
"Erich Segal's Love story," 29 January 1971. Research material. 2 folders.
"Thoughts on living through an earthquake," 19 February 1971. 1 typs., 1 carbon, correspondence, research material.
"Thoughts on living through an earthquake," 19 February 1971. Research material. 2 folders.
"Fighting Jews: the moral dilemma," 5 March 1971. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
"Fighting Jews: the moral dilemma," 5 March 1971. Research material.
"Fighting Jews: the moral dilemma," Park Avenue Synagogue, New York, 12 March 1971. 4 typs., 2 pamphlets (with title: The fighting Jew- a moral dilemma).
"Should Reform and Conservative merge?" 19 March 1971. 1 typs., 2 carbons, correspondence, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Morning Service, 20 September 1971. 1 typs., 1 carbon, 1 photocopy.
BOX 21
1971
Yom Kippur Eve, 28 September 1971. 1 typs., 1 photocopy.
On David Ben Gurion, 22 October 1971. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
"Rabbi Wolf's old sermons," 12 November 1971. 1 typs., 1 carbon, correspondence, research material.
"'Our crowd' -- The grandees: what's wrong with rich Jews?" 3 December 1971. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
1972
"Hats on! Hats off! Hats on?" 21 January 1972. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
"What patriotism means to me," 11 February 1972. 2 carbons, remarks of other participants, with photos and biographies; correspondence, research material.
"China and the Jews," 18 February 1972. 1 typs., research material.
"Ki Tissa portion," 3 March 1972. 1 typs.
"Fiddler on the Roof: what have we lost? What have we gained?" 31 March 1972. 1 typs., 1 photocopy, research material.
Pesach Morning, 5 April 1972. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
"The Ari and us, a pulpit colloquy," 5 May 1972. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
On the priestly benediction (Numb. 6:24-26), 20 May 1972. 1 typs.
Rosh Hashonah Eve, 8 September 1972. 1 typs., 2 photocopies, research material.
Rosh Hashonah Eve, 8 September 1972. Research material.
Yom Kippur Eve, Kol Nidre sermon, 17 September 1972. 1 typs., 1 photocopy, ms. notes.
Yom Kippur, Yizkor Service, 18 September 1972. 1 typs., 1 photocopy.
High Holy Days, 1972. Research material. 2 folders.
"Race and religion in the election," 20 October 1972. 1 typs., 1 photocopy; correspondence.
"Race and religion in the election," 20 October 1972. Research material. 2 folders.
"Is Chanukah the Jewish Christmas?" 1 December 1972. 1 typs., 1 photocopy, ms. notes.
"Heinrich Heine resurrected at 175," 15 December 1972. 1 typs., research material.
1973
"Will my friend, the jumping rabbi, solve Israel's religious problem?" 26 January 1973. 1 typs., 1 photocopy.
"Will my friend, the jumping rabbi, solve Israel's religious problem?" 26 January 1973. Research material. 2 folders.
"The death of Harry S. Truman, the death of Lyndon B. Johnson, the death of Life and the death of the Leopold Street Shule: some personal recollections on a single theme," 9 February 1973. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
"Stalin and the Jews," 23 March 1973. 1 typs., research material.
"Crises which shaped the fate of Israel," 31 March, 1 April 1973. 1 typs., 1 photocopy.
"Moses leaves Egypt, Jesus enters Jerusalem: some pre-Passover, pre-Palm Sunday thoughts about Key 73, Conversion, Jews for Jesus, Bridget loves Bernie, and intermarriage," 13 April 1973. 1 typs., research material.
Passover, 21-23 April 1973. 2 sermons, 1 typs. each.
"What do we owe our dead?" 5 September 1973, Congregation B'nai Jeshrun, N.Y.C. 2 reprints by New York Board of Rabbis.
BOX 22
Lists
Listings of PSB's sermons and other addresses, 1949-1971.
"Sermons and lectures," various listings, 1958-1965.
Prayers
Dedication of plaque, Scio St., 25 March 1941.
United States Senate, 23 April 1958. 4 carbons; "Israel confronts tomorrow," sermon of 19 April 1958, 1 excerpt from Congressional Record, 23 April 1958. Correspondence.
United States Senate, 23 April 1958. 1 photocopy, 1 issue of 23 April 1958 Congressional Record.
World Brotherhood Luncheon Prayer, 4 June 1958. 1 typs., correspondence.
Prayer at East High School, 18 November 1959. 1 carbon; Dedication prayer at East High School, 1 May 1960. Ms. notes, correspondence.
Invocation at Shlesinger dinner, 1 November 1960. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
Court House Dedication, Rochester, 1 May 1961. Ms. speech notes for prayer; program; correspondence.
Wallis Inauguration Dinner, University of Rochester, 16 May 1963. 1 carbon.
Thanksgiving prayer, broadcast on station WHEC, 26 November 1963. 1 carbon.
Opening session of Electoral College of the State of New York, New York State Senate Chamber, Albany, 14 December 1964. 2 carbons.
"Linowitz-Kiwanis," 7 April 1967. 1 carbon.
Prayers, 1958-67. Carbons and typs. of preceding prayers.
University of Rochester commencement, morning, 3 June 1973. 3 photocopies, research material.
Fragments and dates uncertain
"Changing gods" [late 1920s?] 1 typs., 1 carbon, ms. notes.
On seeking God [late 1920s?] 1 ms. draft.
On Karl Marx [1930s?] 1 typs., 2 carbons, ms. notes.
"What Can My Religion Do For You?" [1930s?] 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
On religion [1930s?] 1 typs.
On what we owe our children [1930s?] 1 carbon fragment.
On the development of religion [1930s?] 1 typs., 3 carbons.
On the evolution of Judaism, [1930s?] 1 carbon.
On what the world owes the Jew, [1930s?] 1 typs.
On the characteristics of a Jewish life, [1930s?] 1 typs., 1 carbon.
On youth and religion, [1930s? University of Rochester?] 2 carbons.
On prayer [1930-1935?]. 1 typs., 2 carbons, research material.
On religion [1930s?] 1 typs., 2 carbons, ms. notes.
Yom Kippur sermon [1930s?] 1 carbon.
["The cross of peace"], [1930s?] 1 carbon.
On brotherhood [mid-1940s] 1 typs., 6 carbons, research material.
"On Being a Mature Jew" [mid-1940s]. 1 typs.
"Church and State-A Jewish View" [1950s?]. 1 typs.
Yom Kippur Memorial [1940s?] 1 typs.
On the scapegoat, 27 April 1946.
"I Am a Jew" [1960s?]. 2 photocopies.
Miscellaneous fragments and notes, [1930s-1950s?]
Miscellaneous fragments and notes, [1930s-1960s?]
Ms. notes
On brotherhood, [1920s?]
Chiefly on Passover, [1927-1968]
Chiefly on Passover, [1928-1970]
On unknown topics, [1928-1972]
On unknown topics, [1929-1942]
On unknown topics, [1930s?] Research material.
Holidays, [1930s?]
["Peculiar treasure"], [1930s?] ms. notes.
On unknown topics, [1930s-1960s?]
On unknown topics, [1940s-1950s?]
Ms. and typs. notes and research material, [1950s?]
Holidays, [1950s?]
["Tu B'shvat"], [1950s?]
On unknown topics, [1950s?]
On unknown topics, [1950s?]
On unknown topics, [1960s?]
On unknown topics, [1960s?]
On unknown topics, [1960s-1970s?]
Saturday morning sermon notes, [1964-1970]
Sermons by Assistant Rabbi Herbert Bronstein and others:
"So long, God, I'm off to college," by Joel C. Dobin, 15 February 1957. 1 Temple bulletin.
"The return of the Dybbuk," by Bronstein, 26 February 1960. 1 carbon, research material.
"Catholics and Jews-and Jesus," by Bronstein, [early 1970s]. photocopy of published article in Jewish Frontier; ms. notes by PSB, research material.
Temple bulletins containing announcements for Bronstein sermons, Jan.-May 1958.
"Religious Faith and Human Brotherhood," by Rev. William H. Hudnut, Third Presbyterian Church, 25 February 1955. Temple, church bulletins; correspondence.
Series III: Funeral Memorial Services
BOX 1
A
Achter, Charlotte, 14 April 1972.
Adler, Elmer, 26 January 1962.
Adler, Ida, 19 June 1975.
Adler, Isaac, undated
Adler, Max A., 11 April 1965.
Adler, Simon L. [n.d.]
Angell, Irma, 22 February 1972.
B
B
B
Benewick, Dorothy, 7 March 1954.
Ben-Gurion, David, 3 February 1974, Jewish Community Center, Ben Gurion Memorial Service.
Berlove, Lester J., 21 October 1965.
Berman, Ira, 1967, by HB; also Fred Forman, 1 October 1963.
Braverman, William A., 3 April 1953.
Brennan, Joseph, Monsignor, 9 May 1977 [memorial or tribute while alive?].
C
Cohen, Oscar, 7 June 1973.
Cominsky, Jacob Robert. [1968?]
Croog, Samuel, 18 February 1973.
Crowley, May, 7 July 1965, Third Presbyterian Church, Rochester; address on presentation of May F. Crowley Memorial Award, 8 November 1967.
D
Derman, Jonathan S., 8 December 1968.
Dicker, Samuel B., 18 February 1960.
E
F
Falkenheim, Curt H., 9 November 1949.
Feinberg, Nathan, 19 December 1973.
Feinbloom, William F., 13 April 1962.
Feldman, Harold, 15 April 1968.
Feldman, Sandor (Salamon Sandor), 25 March 1973.
Fisher, Florence, 24 April 1967.
Forman, Benjamin, 26 March 1951.
Forman, Edward, 16 January 1953, at home.
Forman, Frederick S., 1 October 1963.
Friedman, Mary, 21 January 1962.
G
G
Gannett, Mary T. L., 2 November 1952, Unitarian Church of Rochester.
Goldstein, Benjamin, 14 February 1958.
Goldstein, Benjamin, 14 February 1958.
Goodman, Milton, 22 November 1959; also Marianet H. Holtz and Fannie Benjamin.
Gordon, Isaac, 1 February 1965; address at testimonial to Isaac Gordon, 6 May 1964.
Gordon, Theodore, 9 November 1967.
Greenhouse, Samuel H., 25 June 1965.
H
Hallauer, Carl S., 9 November 1971.
Harris, Herbert H., 16 March 1964, at home.
Hart, Leo, undated
Hart, Robert, 12 November 1972.
Hays, Henry W., 9 April 1967.
Hellman, Anna, 25 October 1971.
Hertz, Helmut, 23 October 1970.
Herz, Emanuel Emil, 11 June 1971.
Heumann, Sol, 14 September 1949.
Horwitz, Jesse S., 2 April 1964, at home.
Hurwitz, Isadore, 27 March 1973.
J
Jacobstein, Lena, 18 October 1972.
Jacobstein, Meyer, 21 April 1963.
Jones, Helen Stone, 13 October 1947.
K
K
Kates, Robert E., 6 January 1971.
Katz, Therese, 5 January 1952.
Kirstein, Henry, undated
Klonick, Lena B., 17 July 1966.
L
L
L
Lansdale, Herbert P. [19? July 1942]
BOX 2
Lasner, Bryna Samuels, 25 November 1963, Westport, Connecticut.
Lavine, George, 29 September 1957; also Milton Lazeroff, Robbie Lempert.
Levin, Harold. [1973?]
Levin, Harry, undated
Levinson, Joseph, 3 February 1969.
Lipsky, Louis, 20 June 1963.
Lowenthal, Sidney. [1944]
M
M
MaGill, I. David, 12 February 1969.
Markus, Charles, 24 April 1950;"Address Delivered by Mr. Charles Markus in a Symposium 'On Growing Old,'" 18 November 1949.
Meyer, Adolph, 8 November 1964.
Neisner, Hattie, 26 July 1949.
Neisner, Joseph, 11 November 1942.
Nusbaum, Milton, 6 November 1956; also Lester N. Nusbaum.
O
P
Paley, Nathaniel Harold (Hertz), 1 April 1973.
Pelton, Norman, 1 October 1975.
Present, Philip, 1 June 1932.
Plutzik, Hyam, 10 January 1962, New York.
R
Rose, James Everett, 1 June 1942, Salem Evangelical and Reformed Church.
Rosenzweig, Lewis, 8 May 1972.
Rubens, Jack H., 20 June 1967.
S
S
S
S
Samuelson, Fannie, 14 October 1953.
Sapozink, Ira C., 13 September 1963.
Schalit, Heinrich, 1976.
Scheiman, Robert A., 25 June 1973.
Schneider, Mendell, 22 February 1968.
Schonfeld, Howard J., 15 February 1968.
Schwarz, Ralph C., 3 May 1971.
Steefel, Estelle D., 20 October 1947; also Sadie Steefel, 26 November 1947?
Steinberg, Edith, 22 February 1970.
Stern, Henry Michaels, 2 September 1950, at home.
Stern, Herbert L., 24 March 1977.
Stewart, Helen Wile, 22 October 1976 .
T
U
W
W
Weil, Frank L., 12 November 1957, by Nelson Glueck, Temple Emanu-El, New York.
Weil, James M., 14 March 1965.
Weil, Katherine M., 4 February 1962.
Weissberger, Louise H., 6 September 1962.
Wilcox, Albert H., undated
Williams, David Rhys, 30 March 1970, and tribute on dedication of David Rhys Williams Gallery at First Unitarian Church, 12 October 1969.
Wolf, Ruth L., 2 February 1966.
Y
Z
Eulogies for Sarah S. Bernstein, Milton Steinberg, Mordecai M. Kaplan.
Eulogies for Milton Steinberg, Stephen S. Wise, Louis Brandeis.
Fragments and correspondence.
Research material.
Research material.
Research material.
Research material.
Obituary clippings.
Correspondence
Series IV: CANRA
BOX 1
Ms. notes and research material, [1940s?]
"A Tour of the Camps," by PSB, [1940s?], mss. notes [1970s?]
What Chaplains Preach, by Aryeh Lev, 2 September 1941. 1 booklet.
Correspondence, 1941-1942.
Correspondence, 1941-1944.
TBK "War Service Bulletin," 1 October 1942, and related material.
Newspaper clippings, 1942.
"An Excellent Choice," editorial, Independent Jewish Press Service, 29 November 1942, with cover letter from Ethel Lipsky, 1 December 1942. 5 copies.
"Rabbi Bernstein Chosen Military Religious Leader," [Rochester newspaper, 1942]. 1 clipping.
Correspondence on PSB's appointment, 1942.
Notes on food [1942?]
Correspondence, [1942-1945]
Correspondence, 1942-1945.
Chaplain's reports [1942-1945?]
Research material, [1942-1945]
Research material, [1942-1945]
Royce Memorial Chapel dedication, 11 April 1943. Photocopies of newspaper articles and photographs, with letter from Jack Cohen to PSB, 1 December 1976.
Job analyses of PSB and others, May 1943.
"What is a chapel for?" address by PSB, 15 August 1943. 1 typs., 1 copy, notes.
"Faith for fighting men," address by PSB on "Message of Israel," 27 November 1943. 1 copy.
Correspondence from chaplains, 1943-1944.
Addresses, 1943-1944, by PSB and others.
Photographs, [1943-1944]
Correspondence, 1943-1945.
Correspondence and reports from chaplains, 1943-1945.
Press releases and correspondence, 1943-1945.
News releases, Jewish Welfare Board, 1943-1945.
Research material, 1943-1945.
The Jewish Chaplain, v. 1, no. 1 (February 1943)-v. 2, no. 10 (November, 1945) (some missing)
Miscellaneous, [1943-1945]
Orientation fact sheets (=Army talk), no. 1-122 (Oct. 1943-11 May 1946) (scattered issues only)
Miscellaneous, 1943-1946.
Address by PSB at TBK high school graduation, 28 April 1944. 1 typs., mss notes.
"Executive Director's report," 1 May 1944. 1 carbon (p. 1-3).
Address by PSB to JWB dinner, 3 May 1944. 1 carbon, 1 news release, Independent Jewish Press Service, 19 May 1944.
"Military Experiences Tend to Overcome Prejudice, Says Rabbi," article by PSB, 2 Jun 1944. 2 clippings, 1 photocopy.
Letter to TBK from PSB, 5 June 1944. 3 copies.
Address by PSB [to JIR?], 1944. 2 carbons.
Report and address by PSB on trip to Alaska; clippings, 1944.
Addresses by PSB, 1944.
"Sat Eve Post Story," by PSB, 1944. 2 carbons.
Miscellaneous, 1944.
Newspaper clippings, 1944.
Research material, 1944-1945.
Research material, [1944-1945]
Correspondence and extracts from chaplains' reports, 1944-1946.
Photographs, [1944-1946?]
"Rabbi Bernstein-Chaplains' Friend," by Ben Samuel,
Jewish Advocate, 16 February 1945. 1 clipping.
Minutes, Army and Navy Staff meeting, 23 February 1945. 1 copy.
Report on Pacific journey, by PSB [February 1945]; newspaper clippings.
Correspondence about PSB's trip to Chicago, April 1945, and other material.
Correspondence from [Irving?], 3 July 1945.
The Overseas Sentinel, July-August 1945. 1 issue.
Correspondence from Harold I. Saperstein to PSB, 18 October 1945; photograph.
"Chaplain Returns," by PBS, Jewish Chronicle, 30 November 1945. 1 clipping, 1 photocopy.
"Address to CANRA Meeting in Washington," [December 1945]; research material.
Correspondence on special offering, 1945.
"Out of This World-A Report from the Pacific," by PSB [1945]. 1 carbon.
"Chaplains," by [PSB? 1945?] 1 carbon.
"Jewish Chaplains in World War II," by PSB. Reprinted from the American Jewish Year Book, vol. 47, 1945-46. 1945.
"Jewish Chaplains in World War II," photocopy of p. 179-200 from the American Jewish Year Book, vol. 47, 1945-46. 1945, with later memo from PSB.
"Pacific Holidays," by PSB, [1945]. 1 typs., 1 carbon, mss. notes.
CANRA Schmoose Sheet for Chaplains, 14 September-30 November 1945, and other material.
Newspaper clippings about PSB, 1945.
Jewish Theological Seminary of America news releases, 1945.
Report and correspondence, Marvin M. Reznikoff-Louis Sobel, 1945.
Research material, 1945.
Research material, 1945.
Research material, [1945]
Research material, [1945]
Miscellaneous, [1945?]
Miscellaneous, 1945-1953.
Correspondence to PSB on his return to Rochester, January 1946.
Addresses by PSB: at Testimonial Dinner of Northeastern Chaplains' Conference, 6 February 1946, 1 carbon; on brotherhood, 1 carbon.
Address by PSB, [February] 1946. 1 typs., 1 carbon, 1 photocopy.
"Retreat in Germany," article by PSB, 1946. 2 carbons.
Materials for final report on CANRA, 1946.
"Chaplains to the Rescue," by Lee J. Levinger, supplement to the January 1946 issue of the Jewish Chaplain. 2 issues.
Correspondence, primarily National Jewish Welfare Board, 1946.
"Rabbis at War," by PSB [1946?] 1 typs., 2 carbons, drafts.
"A Protestant's Faith," by Daniel A. Poling, [1949]. 1 clipping from Life.
Chaplaincy Procurement Plan, adopted by CCAR, 13 November 1950.
The Jewish Chaplain, vol. 5, no. 2 (November, 1950)-new ser. #23 (July 1971). 4 issues.
BOX 2
Jewish Welfare Board, Division of Religious Activities, minutes and agenda of meetings, 19, 29 March and 3 May 1951.
Responsa, 13 September 1951.
"The American Jewish Chaplaincy," by Louis Barish, reprinted from American Jewish Historical Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 1 (September 1962). 1 pamphlet.
PSB's business card as Executive Director, CANRA.
"Dedication of Four Chaplains' Plaque," address by PBS, 31 May 1965. 1 typs., 1 copy, research material.
CANRA 25th anniversary dinner address, by PSB, 23 May 1967. 1 typs. draft, 2 carbons, correspondence.
"From B'rith Kodesh to the Chaplaincy," sermon by George J. Astrachan at TBK, 10 May 1968. Temple bulletin, mss. notes by PSB, correspondence.
Correspondence, PSB-Alex Grobman, 1974-1978.
War poetry.
Mss. notes by PSB.
List of servicemen? and next of kin.
Index? To CANRA files?
Correspondence on Rabbis at War, 1966-1969.
Correspondence on Rabbis at War, 1969-1971.
Correspondence on Rabbis at War, 1971.
Correspondence on Rabbis at War, 1971.
Correspondence on Rabbis at War, 1971.
Correspondence on Rabbis at War, 1971.
"A Unifying Force in American Jewish Life," review of
Rabbis at War, by A. Alan Steinbach. [1971?]. 1 clipping.
Correspondence on Rabbis at War, 1971-1975.
Rabbis in the War, by PSB [draft of Rabbis at War], 1946. 1 typs.
Rabbis in the War, by PSB, [1946]. 1 carbon.
Rabbis in the War, by PSB, [1946]. 1 carbon.
Rabbis in the War, by PSB, [1946]. 1 carbon.
Rabbis in the War, by PSB, [1946]. 1 copy, p. 1-50.
Rabbis in the War, by PSB, [1946]. 1 copy, p. 51-100.
Rabbis in the War, by PSB, [1946]. 1 copy, p. 101-171.
Appendices to Rabbis in the War, [1946].
Appendices to Rabbis in the War, [1946].
Preface to Rabbis at War, by PSB, [1970]. Mss.
Rabbis at War: the CANRA Story, by Philip S. Bernstein. Waltham, Mass. : American Jewish Historical Society, 1971. 95 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 1 book.
Northeastern Regional Chaplains Conference, Feb. 4-6, 1946, Henry Hudson Hotel, N.Y. 1 carbon of minutes.
Series V: Advisor on Jewish Affairs
BOX 1
To 1945
["Incident in Bermuda"], draft of article published in The Christian Century, 12 July 1939: 1 carbon.
Research material on Palestine and Zionism, 1941-1945: Corrected proofs of "A Peace for Palestine," by William H. Stringer, from The New Republic, 12 November 1945, p. 633-635.
After the Victory: A Blueprint for the Rehabilitation of European Jewry. New York: The American Zionist Emergency Council, 1943: 1 pamphlet; ms. note by PSB.
"Escape to Nowhere," by Jacob J. Honig. News release, Headquarters, Eastern Base Section, Office of the Chaplain, 23 October 1943: 1 carbon.
Letter to Pope Pius XII from Frank C. Weil, President, and David de Sola Pool, chairman, of the Committee on Army and Navy Religious Activities, 21 July 1944: 2 carbons, drafts, and correspondence, including 1 May 1964 cover letter from Aryeh Lev to PSB accompanying file.
1945
General correspondence, 1945.
Guide to the Care of Displaced Persons in Germany, G5 Division Displaced Persons Branch, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, revised May 1945. "CA/d9": 1 pamphlet.
"Excerpt from Chaplain Poliakoff's Report," 1 August 1945, from Rabbi L.J. Levinger to PSB, 29 August 1945: 1 carbon.
Report on Activities in Behalf of Displaced Jewish Persons, by Herman Dicker, 14 September 1945: 1 pamphlet.
"Zionistic Awakenings Amongst the Jews in Europe," a "copy of a translation from a Stockholm Paper, dated 19th Sept. 45." Document datestamped 6 December 1945: 1 carbon, envelope.
Letter on Jewish DPs from chaplain Eli A. Bohnen to PSB, 12 November 1945: 1 carbon.
Research material on DP camps, [November 1945-February 1946].
"Interim Report of American Jewish Conference Representatives in American Occupied Zone of Germany with reference to Jewish Displaced Persons Centers," from Alfred Fleishman, Samuel L. Sar, and Hans Lamm to Simon Rifkind, 13 December 1945: 1 copy.
"Summary of Activities of the Location and Repatriation Section of Aide Israelite Aux Victimes de la Guerre, Belgium, May through October, 1945," from AJDC, Paris to AJDC, New York, 17 December 1945: 1 carbon.
Research material on DPs and Palestine, [1945-1948].
1946
General correspondence, January-June 1946.
Correspondence, July-August 1946.
General correspondence, September-October 1946.
General correspondence, November-December 1946.
Correspondence between PSB and Marie Syrkin and others, October 1946-April 1947.
Free Again, published by the liberated Jews in the DP center in Stuttgart, no. 2, January 1946: 1 issue.
"Report on Conference of J.D.C. Representatives in American Zone-January 28 and January 29, 1946," from Blanche Bernstein to Joseph J. Schwartz, 8 February 1946: 1 copy.
"Report on the Netherlands-December, 1945," from Blanche Bernstein to Joseph J. Schwartz, 18 February 1946: 1 copy.
"Research Department Report to Field Personnel-No. 3," on the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee budget for January-February 1946, from Blanche Bernstein to all JDC field personnel, 26 February 1946: 1 copy.
Memo on DPs in U.S. Zone in Germany, from Headquarters, U.S. Forces, European Theater, Office of Military Government (U.S. Zone), Displaced Persons Division to Joint Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, [February?] 1946: 1 copy.
"Radio Listening in Germany, Winter, 1946," report from Surveys Section, Intelligence branch, Information Control Division, 1 March 1946: 1 copy.
"Final Memorandum," from Simon Rifkind, Advisor to Theater Commander on Jewish Affairs, to Chief of Staff, Headquarters, U.S. Forces, European Theater, 7 March 1946: 1 carbon.
"My Mission to England," address by PSB, 15 March 1946: 1 typs., mss notes.
"Report on Austria," from Blanche Bernstein to Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, 25 March 1946: 1 carbon.
"Address to be Delivered by Rabbi Philip Bernstein, on Monday, April 1st, 1946," 29 March 1946: 1 carbon, mss notes.
Memos on disturbance at Reinsburgerstrasse DP camp, Stuttgart, on March 29, 1946: report of investigation by James W. Holsinger and report summary of incident, 29 March 1946: 2 carbons.
"Rabbi Appointed M'Narney Adviser," May 14 [1946]: clipping from an unidentified newspaper.
"Check and Search Operations in United Nations Displaced Persons Assembly Centers," by L.S. Ostrander (Standing Operating Procedure no. 81), 16 May 1946: 1 copy. Memo on amendments, 6 September 1946: 1 copy. Note to PSB from Office of the Chief of Staff, Headquarters, U.S. Forces, European Theater, 13 August 1947: 1 typs. Memo to Commanding Generals, US Army, on "interim policy of offering haven in US Occupation Zone to persecuted persons from outside GERMANY," "9/12/46": 1 copy.
PSB's travel documents, [May 1946-November 1947].
"Attitudes Toward Religion and the Church as Political Factors in German Life," report from Surveys Branch, 7 June 1946: 1 copy.
Press release on commencement exercises at Jewish Institute of Religion on 9 June 1946, at which PSB was awarded, in absentia, honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity: 1 copy.
"Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Occupation Zone," memo from PSB to General Joseph F. McNarney, 17 June 1946: 1 typs.; 2 carbons with cover letter attached, to General White.
"Issuance for U.S. Visas for Displaced Persons and Persecutees in Germany," memo from Cecilia Razovsky Davidson to PSB, 25 June 1946: 1 carbon.
Photographs of PSB and others, 25 June 1946: 6 photographs (1 mounted).
Statement by PSB on infiltrees into the American zone, press statement, 26 June 1946: 2 copies.
"Problems arising in Berlin under the Truman Directive," memo to Cecelia Razovsky-Davidson from Eli Rock, 29 June 1946, with cover letter from Eli Rock to PBS: 1 carbon.
National Refugee Service report on program for Jewish immigrants entering the U.S. under the Truman Directive, by Joseph E. Beck, 1 July 1946, with cover letter from Charles A. Riegelman to PBS, 2 July 1946: 1 carbon.
"German Attitudes Toward the Expulsion of German Nationals from Neighboring Countries," Surveys Branch, Information Control Division, 8 July 1946: 1 copy.
Letter from PSB on his recent activities as Advisor on Jewish Affairs to General McNarney, chiefly on his attendance at Nuremberg Trials, 13 July 1946: 1 copy.
"Recommendations on the Landsberg Case," memo to General Clay from PSB, [July?] 1946: 1 typs., 3 carbons. Cover letter for memo to General White from PSB, 17 June 1946, on the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Occupation Zone (memo missing): 1 typs.
"Recognition of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews," memo from PSB to Chief of Staff, 2 August 1946, with the Committee's revised bylaws: 1 carbon.
"Report on Poland," by PSB, to General Joseph T. McNarney, 2 August 1946: 1 carbon, 4 copies (1 photocopy).
Report on Poland, press release about PSB's report and trip to Poland, 3 August 1946: 1 copy.
"The Jewish Situation in Poland," slightly edited version of PSB's official report, labeled "secret" and referring to the report as an "article" [August 1946?]: 1 copy.
"Polish-Jewish Survey, July, 1946," on the pogrom in Kielce, Poland, 6 August 1946: 1 copy.
UNRRA Committee on Policy draft resolution, 15 August 1946: 1 copy.
"Scope of Activities of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone of Germany," memo to Chief of Staff, 16 August 1946: 1 carbon.
PSB's certificate of identity, UNRRA, issued 17 August 1946.
"Basic Attitudes Explored by the German Attribute Scale," Surveys Branch, Office of Director of Information Control, 19 August 1946: 1 copy.
"Jewish Leaders to Meet General McNarney Tomorrow," press release, 22 August 1946: 1 copy.
Minutes of PSB's meeting with Jewish leaders, by Abraham S. Hyman, 23 August 1946: 1 carbon.
Address by General McNarney at luncheon for American Jewish leaders in Frankfurt, 23 August 1946: 1 copy.
Statement by PSB at luncheon for American Jewish leaders in Frankfurt, 23 August 1946: 1 copy.
Statement by Stephen S. Wise at luncheon for American Jewish leaders in Frankfurt, 23 August 1946: 1 copy.
"Report on Inspection of Displaced Persons Camp at Windsheim," to PSB from Captain Abraham S. Hyman, 27 August 1946: 1 carbon.
"Maintenance of Law and Order Among U.N. Displaced Persons," memo by Colonel George F. Herbert, 31 August 1946. "Maintenance of law and order among U.N. displaced persons-Supplement No. 1," by Lt. Col. Peter Calza, 27 December 1946: 1 copy.
Statement [by General McNarney?] on Jewish infiltrees into the American Zone, [August? 1946]: 1 typs.
"Legal Aspects of Jewish Rehabilitation in Germany," by Dr. George Weis. With cover letter to Major Emanuel Rackman, 2 September 1946: 1 copy.
"Report on Visit to the D.P. Camp at Landshut," to PSB from Captain Abraham S. Hyman, 4 September 1946: 1 carbon.
Address by Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, press release, 6 September 1946: 1 copy.
"Jewish Displaced Persons," press release by PSB, 7 September 1946: 1 copy.
"Private Audience with Pope Pius XII at Castel Gandolfe [sic] on Wednesday Morning, 11 September 1946," by PSB, with cover letter to General Joseph T. McNarney, 14 September 1946, and letter of invitation from Franklin C. Gowen, 10 September 1946; and press release? describing audience: 1 typs., 3 carbons of memo, with slight differences.
On PSB's private audience with Pope Pius XII, 11 September 1946. Later correspondence (1954, 1958) regarding publication of PSB's original memo. Late typs. in photocopy and carbon. "Forty Minutes With the Pope," in "Henry W. Clune's Seen and Heard" newspaper column, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 21 October 1958, containing excerpts from PSB's memo: 3 clippings.
"Austrian Laws on Property Restitution," memo from PSB to General Mark W. Clark, 12 September 1946, accompanying report to PSB from Captain Abraham S. Hyman, 11 September 1946: 1 carbon.
"Proposed Jewish DP Settlement in Italy," memo by PSB, 13 September 1946: 1 carbon.
"Rosh Hashonah Message to my Fellow Jews," by PSB, 14 September 1946: 2 carbons.
"Recommendation Relative to Problem of Law and Order Among Jewish Displaced Persons," memo by PSB, 14 September 1946: 1 carbon.
"Visit to DP Installations at Ulm," memo to PSB from 1st Lt. Herbert Friedman: 1 carbon.
"A Study of Attitudes Toward the Reconstruction and Rehabilitation of Germany," [Report no. 22] from the Surveys Branch, Office of the Director of Information Control, 25 September 1946: 1 copy.
Sermon [by PSB?], Rosh Hashonah, [September 26?], 1946: 1 typs.
OMGUS Observer, issue 62, September 27, 1946: 1 copy of newspaper.
Material on promotions of Herbert Friedman and Abraham S. Hyman, September 1946, with military documents regarding promotion, [1946-1947].
"Rabbi Bernstein Says Immigration to Palestine is Matter of Life or Death for Displaced Jews," press release from United Palestine Appeal on PSB's arrival in the United States, [September 1946]: 2 copies.
Press statement by PSB on the DPs and the U.S. government, [September? 1946]: 1 carbon.
"Postwar Poland, and the Jews," sermon? by PSB, [September? 1946]; research material: 1 typs., 2 carbons.
Address by PSB at reception at Hotel Biltmore, 1 October 1946: 1 typs., 1 carbon; 2 extra carbons of p. 1.
"Care and Feeding, in Approved Assembly Centers, of United Nations Displaced Persons, Persecutees and Those Assimilated to them in Status," memo from Peter Peters to Commanding Generals, 11 October 1946: 1 copy.
"Conference with President Truman, 11 October 1946," memo from PSB to General McNarney, 18 October 1946: 1 typs., 3 carbons (2 different versions), 2 later typs.
Photographs of PSB's arrival in Paris, France, 13 October 1946: 6 photographs.
"Report on the Activities of the Jewish Adviser in the United States," memo by PSB to General McNarney, 18 October 1946: 1 carbon.
"Mannheim Attitudes Toward Negro Troops," [Report no. 24] from the Surveys Branch, Office, Director of Information Control, 22 October 1946: 1 copy.
Travel documents, PSB and others, October 1946-August 1947.
"German-American Relations in Germany: Frequencies of Group Contacts," [Report no. 27] from the Surveys Branch, Information Control Division, 13 November 1946: 1 copy.
"An Investigation to Determine any Changes in Attitudes of Native Germans Toward the Expellees in Württemberg-Baden," [Report no. 28] from the Surveys Branch, Information Control Division, 14 November 1946: 1 copy.
"Immigration to USA," report from Headquarters for AJDC Emigration Operations for Germany and Austria in Frankfurt, [by Helen Tannenbaum, 1 November 1946], with cover letter from PSB to Herbert Fierst, 19 November 1946: 1 copy.
"The Trend of Cares and Worries in Germany," [Report no. 29] from the Surveys Branch, Information Control Division, 21 November 1946: 1 copy.
"Press Statement by Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein, Adviser to the Theater Commander on Jewish Affairs-26 November 1946," on the need for a decision on Palestine: 1 copy.
"Rabbi Bernstein," by Saul Green; transcript of radio broadcast? on PSB press conference, 26 November 1946: 1 typs.
"Report of Raid on the Ulanen Kaserne, 25 November 1946," from Abraham S. Hyman to PSB, 5 December 1946: 1 carbon.
"Field Trip to DP Installations in US Zone, Austria and Vienna," memo by Herbert Friedman to PSB, 5 December 1946: 1 carbon.
"Dedication of Synagogue Center of Wiesbaden," program, 22 December 1946: 2 programs.
Photographs of Dedication of Synagogue Center of Wiesbaden, 22 December 1946: 5 photographs.
"Review of United States Immigration Activity under the Truman Project-April through December, 1946," report from Irwin Rosen to PSB, 30 December 1946: 1 carbon.
Pamphlet in Yiddish, published by Centralna Zydowska Komisja Historyczna in Lódz, Poland, 1946: 1 pamphlet.
Photograph of PSB [addressing Jewish DPs, Berlin, 1946]: 2 photographs.
"The Jewish Production Corporation," memo from "Central Committee for [sic] Liberated Jews," to General McNarney, [1946?]: 1 carbon.
"Zionism Restated," article? by PSB, [1946?] 2 carbons.
Miscellaneous material, 1946.
Photographs [1946?]: 9 photographs.
Miscellaneous personal financial papers, 1946-1947.
Army bills and accounts for food, etc., for PSB, 1946-1947.
Army bills and statements for food, etc., for PSB, 1946-1947.
Miscellaneous orders, forms, and administrative materials, 1946-1947.
Miscellaneous orders, forms, and administrative materials, 1946-1947.
Miscellaneous memoranda, 1946-1947.
On United States immigration policy and DPs, [1946-1947].
Photographs, [1946?-1947?] including photograph of PSB with Generals Eisenhower and McNarney: 18 photographs.
BOX 2
1946
Photographs, [1946-1948]: 10 photographs; ms. note accompanying some of the photographs to PSB from James J. Markus, 4 July 1947.
Research material on Zionism, Palestine, Israel, and post-War Europe, [1946-1949].
1947
General correspondence, January 1947.
General correspondence, February 1947.
General correspondence, March 1947.
General correspondence, April-May 1947.
General correspondence, June 1947.
General correspondence, July 1947.
General correspondence, August-October 1947.
General correspondence, November-December 1947.
"Study on Maintenance of Law and Order Among Jews DPs," memo by Abraham S. Hyman to PSB, 13 January 1947, with cover letter from PSB to Chief of Staff, 27 January 1947: 1 carbon. "Conversation between General Clay and Rabbi Bernstein," 2 June 1947: 1 typs. sheet.
"Labor Skills Among Jewish DPs," report with cover letter from PBS to General McNarney, 18 January 1947: 1 carbon of report and letter.
Bar Mitzvah of Stephen Bernstein in Frankfurt, Germany 25 January 1947: address by PSB: 1 typs., 1 carbon. "Arranging a Bar Mitzvah in Frankfurt, Germany," [by Sophie Bernstein, date unknown]: 3 later copies.
Bar Mitzvah of Stephen Bernstein in Frankfurt, Germany 25 January 1947: photographs, showing PSB, Stephen, and others: 6 photographs.
Correspondence between PSB and others regarding Stephen Bernstein's Bar Mitzvah, January-March 1947.
"Report of Negotiations Regarding the Resettlement of 'Displaced Persons' in Belgium," reproduced 27 January 1947: 1 copy.
"Answer to Mr. George Meaders Statement... 22 November 1946," by A. Goldman, 28 January 1947: 1 carbon.
[Address?] by PSB on emigration of DPs, 1 February 1947. [Final page of a larger document?] 1 carbon.
"Opinions of German Community Leaders on International Affairs," ODIC Opinion Surveys Unit, 6 February 1947. (Report no. 44): 1 copy.
"Bevin Says No," PSB's account of 13 February 1947 meeting with British Foreign Minister: 1 typs., 1 carbon, 1 photocopy; 1 later typs., 1 carbon; ms notes.
["I spent two weeks in England during the winter"], notes on PSB's visit to England and meeting with Bevin: 1 typs., 1 carbon. [1947?]
"Conditions of the Jewish Displaced Persons in the U.S. Zones, Germany and Austria," memo from PSB to Arthur Creech Jones, 17 February 1947, with cover letter: 1 carbon, 1 photocopy. Later correspondence regarding memo between PSB and others, 1969.
"Radio Listening in the American Zone and in Berlin," Opinion Surveys Unit, Office of the Director of Information Control, 17 February 1947. (Report no. 45): 1 copy.
"Opinions on the Expellee Problem," Opinion Surveys Unit, Office of the Director of Information Control, 20 February 1947. (Report no. 47): 1 copy.
"2nd Congress of the 'Sheirit-Hapleita' in the American Zone of Germany," Bad Reichenhall, February 1947: 2 pamphlets.
"German Attitudes Toward Freedom of Speech," ODIC, Opinion Surveys Headquarters, 3 March 1947. (Report no. 48): 1 copy.
"Anti-Semitism in the American Zone," ODIC, Opinion Surveys Headquarters, 3 March 1947. (Report no. 49): 1 carbon.
"Report on Attitude of American Delegation Towards the Minority Group Provisions in the Proposed Austrian Treaty," memo to PSB from Abraham S. Hyman, 3 March 1947: 1 carbon.
"Memorandum Submitted by The Interorganizational Sub-Committee on Combatting Anti-Semitism in Germany," 14 March 1947: 2 copies.
"A Pilot Study on Displaced Persons," ODIC, Opinion Surveys Hq, 20 March 1947. (Report no. 50): 1 copy.
Report on "the work skills of the Jewish displaced persons in our [i.e., the American] zone," forwarded from PSB to Louis Jones, 28 March 1947: 1 carbon.
Jüdische Rundschau = The Jewish Review, no. 12/13, March 1947: 1 issue.
["With reference to newpaper reports concerning 'mass exodus' of Jewish displaced persons to Palestine"], statement by PSB, 2 April 1947: 1 carbon.
"Attitudes Toward Collective Guilt in the American Zone of Germany," ODIC Opinion Surveys Hq., 2 April 1947. (Report no. 51): 1 copy.
"Unjust Distribution of Certificates to Palestine," memo from PSB to Chief of Staff, 3 April 1947: 1 carbon.
"Conference between Rabbi Bernstein, Dr. Chaim Hoffman and Abraham Hyman on Miscellaneous matters, 10 April 1947." 1 typs.
"Rabbi Bernstein's Views on Migration of Unacompanied Jewish Children to Palestine," memo from Abraham S. Hyman to Commander in Chief, 15 April 1947: 1 carbon.
"The Commander-in-Chief's Press Conference," transcript of press conference with Lucius D. Clay, 16 April 1947: 1 copy.
On PSB's departure and replacement as Advisor, letter from General Lucius D. Clay to US Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, 16 April 1947: 1 carbon.
"Feeding of Displaced Persons," memo from Abraham S. Hyman to Chief of Staff, 28 April 1947: 1 carbon. "Difficulties and Problems Encountered in the Feeding of Displaced Persons in the U.S. Zone . . . " memo from Paul B. Edwards to Commander in Chief, 14 April 1947: 1 carbon. "Extract from Report of Marie Syrkin to Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein," [March? 1947]: 1 carbon.
"Confidence in News in Present-Day Germany," ICD-Opinion Surveys Hq., 1 May 1947. (Report no. 57 [corrected in pencil to 58]): 1 copy.
"Displaced Persons," by Alvin Johnson, excerpted from "Places for Displaced Persons," The Yale Review (Spring 1947); reprinted in New School Bulletin, 5 May 1947: 1 pamphlet.
"Report on Economic Provisions in Austrian Treaty Relative to Minority Groups," memo from Abraham S. Hyman to PSB, 8 May 1947: 1 copy.
"Report on the Jewish Displaced Persons in U. S. Zones, Germany and Austria," address by PSB to "The Five Organizations meeting in the Hotel Biltmore, 12 May 1947." 1 typs., 2 carbons; 1 different carbon; 1 typs. and carbon of p. 1-6.
Memo from David Bernstein to PSB on German anti-Semitism, with cover letter, 15 May 1947: 1 typs., 1 carbon. Review of W.L. White's Report on the Germans (1947) by Charles Poore, New York Times, 17 July 1947: 1 newspaper clipping.
"Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein," by David O. Boehm, in The American Hebrew, v. 157, no. 3 (16 May 1947): 1 issue, 1 photocopy of article.
"Comments on the Proposed Liquidation of the Jewish Assembly Center at Zeilsheim," memo from Abraham S. Hyman to Chief of Staff, 19 May 1947: 1 typs., 3 carbons; 2 different carbons.
"Comments on Proposed Austrian Fourth and Fifth Restitution Laws," memo from Abraham S. Hyman to Commanding General, U.S. Forces, Austria, 26 May 1947: 1 carbon.
"Proposed Agreement Between IRO and the Commander-in-Chief, European Command," 31 May 1947. "Third Revised Draft." Internal route slip, 5 June 1947: 1 copy.
On Jewish DPs, [by PSB?] [May? 1947] 1 carbon.
"Conversation Between General Clay and Rabbi Bernstein," notes by PSB, 2 June 1947: 1 typs. sheet.
"Statement by the Honorable John H. Hilldring . . ." press statement, 4 June 1947. 1 copy.
"Resume of the Remarks Made at the Meeting of Liquidation of the Jewish DP Assembly Center at Zeilsheim," including PSB and others, 5 June 1947: 1 typs., 2 carbons; 1 different carbon.
"Employment of Jewish Displaced Persons," memo by Paul B. Edwards, 6 June 1947: 1 carbon.
"Status of Restitution Laws in Germany and in Austria," memo from Abraham S. Hyman to PSB, 9 June 1947: 1 carbon.
"Statement on Jewish Displaced Persons," by PSB, "to be presented to House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Hearings," on H.R. 2910 (the "Stratton bill," emergency legislation for immigration), 13 June 1947: 1 carbon.
"Statement of Mr. William Green . . . before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives," on H.R. 2910, press release, 13 June 1947: 1 copy.
"Statement by Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein," press release for 20 June 1947 on PSB's testimony before the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization, on H.R. 2910, 19 June 1947: 2 different carbons.
"Night Letter," on H.R. 2910, [1947]: 1 carbon.
"Prior to the Exodus," notes by PSB on visit to Lindenfels in June, 1947, for address? in 1970s? 1 typs., 1 photocopy of 1st page.
Jüdische Rundschau, no. 14/15, June 1947: 1 issue.
On tobacco products for displaced persons, internal Army memos, June-July 1947.
"Statement by Lieutenant-Colonel Jerry M. Sage . . . before the House and [sic] Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization," press release, 2 July 1947: 1 copy.
American Joint Distribution Committee reports for the US Zone of Occupation, Germany, June 1947: Cover letter dated 15 July 1947.
"A Program to Deal with Anti-Semitism in Germany," memo from PSB to Commander in Chief, 16 July 1947: 1 carbon.
"Memorandum to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine," from the Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in Germany, Austria, and Italy; cover letter, addressed to the Chairman, 22 July 1947. 1 copy. Cover letter from S. Adler Rudel to PSB, 4 August 1947: 1 typs.
"Summary of D.P. Population," Office of Reports and Statistics, PCIRO Headquarters, 26 July 1947: 1 copy. Also "Supplement to Summary" and other miscellaneous population figures.
"Dedication of Dieburg Synagogue," 29 July 1947: 1 program; advertisement for Schade Market, [1950s?]
Letter with photographs (some of PSB) from [Arnold?], Rochester, N.Y., 1 August 1947.
Address by PSB at Zeilsheim DP camp, 4 August 1947: 2 typs., 3 carbons; invitation to the event from the Committee of Liberated Jews, [July?] 1947: 1 leaflet.
Notes on the Zeilsheim farewell party, [n.d.] 1 typs., 2 carbons.
"Infiltration of Romanian Jews," memo from PSB to Commander in Chief and Commanding General, 5 August 1947: 6 carbons (2 different formats).
The Displaced-Persons Problem: A Collection of Recent Official Statements, U.S. Dept. of State, "Released August 1947." 2 pamphlets.
Sermon by PSB, "Rosh Hashona Eve," 14 September 1947: 1 carbon.
["Yes, We Have No Bananas"], sermon by PSB, "Rosh Hashona morning service," [15 September 1947] 2 carbons.
"Article on Jewish Displaced Persons for the Palestine Year Book," by PSB, September 1947: 2 carbons, correspondence.
Displaced Persons, by PSB, pamphlet reprinted from The American Jewish Year Book, v. 49, 1947-48, 1947: 3 pamphlets. "Jewish Displaced Persons," by PSB, typs. version of publication: 2 carbons.
"Final Report, to Honorable Kenneth C. Royall, Secretary of the Army," by PSB, 9 October 1947: 2 carbons, 1 extra carbon of p. 6.
"Army Department Releases Rabbi Bernstein's Report," press release, 26 October 1947: 3 copies, photocopy of p. 1-2.
Correspondence, PSB and Arthur Hays Sulzberger, October-November 1947; ms. notes by PSB.
"The Jewish Problem-A World Challenge," address by PSB, 17 November 1947: 1 carbon.
"The Truth About Germany," sermon by PSB, 28 November 1947: 1 carbon; fragment from address? [n.d.] 1 carbon of p. 2-3.
Correspondence, PSB and Walter M. Besterman, Clerk, Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization, regarding printing of H.R. 2910, December 1947-January 1948.
Address by PSB at the "McNarney Luncheon by 5 Organizations, Waldorf, N.Y.," 1947: 1 typs., 3 carbons.
Jidisze Bilder, no. 6, 1947: 1 issue.
"Estimated Numbers of Jews who left Germany in 1946 and 1947 (June-July)," [1947?] 1 typs.
"Zionist Activity Among Displaced Persons in US Zone Germany, 1945-1947," [1947?] 1 carbon.
"Report by Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein, Advisor on Jewish Affairs, U.S. Zones, Europe, May, 1946 to August, 1947," [1947?] 3 carbons.
Fragment of sermon by PSB on experience as AJA, [1947?] 1 typs. (p. 7-11), 1 carbon, ms. notes.
On legislation for restitution for the Jewish community, [1947?] 1 carbon.
Sermon on the lessons of World War II by PSB, [1947?] 1 typs.
Miscellaneous materials on Palestine, [1947-1948]
Research material on DPs, Germany, and other issues [1947-1951]
1948
General correspondence, [1948]
J.T.A. news, 4 February 1948: 1 copy (p. 4-5 only).
"The Present Status of the DPs," memo [from Meyer Abramowitz?] to the 5 Agencies, [March 1948?] 1 carbon.
"Rabbi Mayer Abramowitz," press release for 1948 United Jewish Appeal, March 1948: 1 carbon.
"Summary of Provisions of the Displaced Persons Act of 1948. (Public Law 774, 80th Congress.) And Definitions of Eligibility Under the IRO Constitution," IRO News Digest no. 13, United States Office, Preparatory Commission, International Refugee Organization, 30 June 1948: 1 copy.
Report from William Haber, Advisor on Jewish Affairs, 31 August 1948: 1 copy of typs.
Report on the activities of the International Refugee Organization from 1 July 1947-30 June 1948, by William Hallam Tuck, to the UN General Council, 7 September 1948: 1 copy.
"Report on the Policy of the International Refugee Organization Regarding Repatriation and Resettlement," 13 September 1948: 1 copy.
"Report on Certain Aspects of Jewish DP problems in the US Zone, Germany and Austria," report by Harry Greenstein and Abraham S. Hyman, 15 September 1948, with cover letter to PSB from William Haber, 6 October 1948: 1 copy.
"Passport to Nowhere," by Gertrude Samuels, from
The New York Times magazine, 19 September 1948: Newspaper clipping.
"Israel and the American Jew," radio address by PSB, 17 October 1948: 1 typs, ms. notes.
"Jewish Detainees on Cyprus," radio address by Morris Laub, 21 December 1948: 1 copy. "Radio Script on Cyprus," author unknown, 5 January 1949: 1 copy.
"Meeting of the members of the Executive Committee of the JRSO, Dec. 24, 1948," memo to PSB and others from N. Robinson, 27 December 1948: 1 carbon.
BOX 3
1948
Address [by Samuel Gringaus at TBK, 1948] 1 carbon.
Report on Jewish DPs, author unknown (Chief of G5 for the U.S. Army in Europe), [1948?] 1 carbon.
"Displaced Persons," article by Abraham S. Hyman, galley proofs for Year book[?] [1948?].
Correspondence, PSB and others, chiefly Wisconsin Sen. Alexander Wiley, on Displaced Persons Bill, 1948-1949.
On revising the Displaced Persons Act of 1948, correspondence and statements, 1948-1949.
Commission on the Future Program and Constitution of the World Zionist Organization, reports, minutes, and correspondence, 1948-1949.
1949-
General correspondence, [1949, n.d.]
"Report of Rabbi Simon G. Kramer, Synagogue Council of America Liaison Representative Between American Military Government and The German Jewish Community," [1949?] 1 copy.
Reports from Advisors on Jewish Affairs (Abraham S. Hyman and Harry Greenstein), covering periods from 15 January-15 March 1949, to Four Organizations, 7 April 1949. "Report No. 429." 2 copies.
"The Plight of the Jewish DP's," by PSB, in World Alliance News Letter, v. 25, no. 4, April, 1949: 1 issue; research material.
Notes on meetings of the four Organizations, May-December [1949].
"Denazification," television show script by David Lowe, with segment narrated by PSB, 25 October 1949: 1 copy.
"Restitution and Compensation Legislation in Austria: A Survey of Enactments," by Nehemiah Robinson, 1949: 1 copy.
Charter? Displaced Persons Commission, Washington, D.C.: "Delegation of Authority and Availability of Records" and "Part 700-Admission Into the United States of Displaced Persons," [1949?] 1 copy.
Research material on German denazification, [1949-1951].
Essay by unknown author on German anti-semitism, [late 1940s]: 1 carbon.
"Compensation Legislation in Germany: A Survey of Enactments," by Nehemiah Robinson, 1950: 1 copy.
Research material on Germany and denazification, 1950.
Research material on German denazification, [1950]
Correspondence, PSB and Leo W. Schwartz, 1950-1953.
Correspondence, 1950-1972.
"Plight of Survivors of Concentration Camps," progress report by the Secretary-General, United Nations Economic and Social Council, 6 February 1951. 1 copy.
"Report of the International Refugee Organization," to the UN, 6 June 1951, with cover letter to PSB from Henry H. Grossman, 27 June 1951: 1 copy.
"Annual Report, October 1950-October 1951, of the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization, on the Restitution of Jewish Property in the U.S. Zone of Germany," [31 October 1951]: 1 copy.
Reviews of Leo W. Schwartz, The Redeemers (New York: Farrar, Straus Young), 1953: Newspaper clippings.
"10 Years Ago Nazi Camps Were Freed," special issue of Congress Weekly, v. 22, no. 15, April 18, 1955: 1 issue.
Retrospective correspondence, 1958-1979.
Correspondence, PSB and Thomas P. Liebschutz and others, 1964-1965.
"Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein and the Jewish Displaced Persons," by Thomas Philip Liebschutz, M.A. thesis, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, May 1965: 1 copy of typs. Folder 1: cover-p. 51.
"Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein and the Jewish Displaced Persons," by Liebschutz. Folder 2: p. [52]-102 (p. 71 missing).
"Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein and the Jewish Displaced Persons," by Liebschutz. Folder 3: p. [103]-146 (end).
"A View of the Jewish Problem from the Pentagon and State Department, 1945-1948: Transcription of Memoirs Taped by Herbert A. Fierst," 1972: 1 copy of typs. Folder 1: cover-p. 55.
"A View of the Jewish Problem from the Pentagon and State Department, 1945-1948," by Herbert A. Fierst. Folder 2: p. 56-110.
"A View of the Jewish Problem from the Pentagon and State Department, 1945-1948," by Herbert A. Fierst. Folder 3: p. 111-166 (end).
"General McNarney Remembered," by PSB, [1972?] 1 typs., 1 carbon.
"The Career of Rabbi Philip Bernstein as Advisor to the Theater Commander in Germany After World War II," by Harvey Jay Winokur, 14 January 1973 [i.e. 1974?], with cover letter to PSB from Jacob R. Marcus, 22 January 1974: 1 copy of typs.
Correspondence, PSB and Abraham S. Hyman and others, 1974-1979.
On a Bar Mitzvah in Berlin, by PSB, [n.d.] 3 carbons.
Postcard to PSB from [Boris] Plishkin, [Aria] Retter, and [Schlomorres?], [n.d.]
Ms. notes by PSB, undated.
Ms. notes by PSB, undated.
The following folders are typed drafts, in varying stages of revision (some pages are photocopies, some original typs., with ms. corrections and additions, and insertions), of a work by Abraham S. Hyman which would eventually be published as The Undefeated (Jerusalem: Gefen, 1993).
"After the Holocaust," by Abraham S. Hyman, [late 1970s]. 1 copy of typs. Folder 1: cover-p. 50.
"After the Holocaust," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 2: p. 51-p. 100.
"After the Holocaust," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 3: p. 101-p. 151.
"After the Holocaust," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 4: p. 152-p. 200.
"After the Holocaust," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 5: p. 201-p. 250.
"After the Holocaust," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 6: p. 251-p. 300.
"After the Holocaust," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 7: p. 301-p. 350.
"After the Holocaust," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 8: p. 351-p. 400.
"After the Holocaust," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 9: p. 401-p. 450.
"After the Holocaust," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 10: p. 451-p. 473 (end).
"After the Holocaust," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 11: Substitute and additional pages, with cover letter to PSB, 19 September 1945 [i.e. 1975?].
"After the Holocaust," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 12: Substitute and additional pages.
"Unbeaten: The Story of the Jewish DPs," by Abraham S. Hyman, [1970s]. 1 copy of typs. Folder 1: cover-p. 50.
"Unbeaten," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 2: p. 51-100.
"Unbeaten," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 3: p. 101-150.
"Unbeaten," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 4: p. 151-200.
BOX 4
The following folders are typed drafts, in varying stages of revision (some pages are photocopies, some original typs., with ms. corrections and additions, and insertions), of a work by Abraham S. Hyman which would eventually be published as The Undefeated (Jerusalem: Gefen, 1993).
"Unbeaten," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 5: p. 201-250.
"Unbeaten," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 6: p. 251-300.
"Unbeaten," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 7: p. 301-366 (end).
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman, [1976-1978]. Carbons. Folder 1: Outline, Preface [both entitled "The Survivors"], Foreword, chapters 1-4.
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 2: chapters 5-7, portions of chapters 7 and 8 with cover letter to PSB, chapter 13.
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 3: portions of several chapters with cover letters to PSB.
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 4: portions of several chapters with cover letters to PSB.
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman, [1976-1978]. Photocopies. Folder 1: Outline, Preface [both entitled "The Survivors"], Foreword, chapters 1-3.
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 2: chapters 4-5, portions of other chapters with photocopies of cover letters to PSB.
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 3: chapters 6-8 (2 different versions of chapter 8), portions of chapter 8 with photocopy of cover letter to PSB.
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 4: chapter 9, portions of other chapters with photocopies of cover letters to PSB.
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 5: chapter 11, portions of other chapters with photocopy of cover letter to PSB.
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 6: chapters 12-13, portions of other chapters with photocopies of cover letters to PSB.
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman, [1979?]. Photocopies with inserted carbons. Folder 1: beginning-p. 50.
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 2: p. 51a-100.
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 3: p. 101-150.
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 4: p. 151-200.
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 5: p. 201-250.
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 6: p. 251-300.
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 7: p. 301-344 (end).
"The Undefeated: The Story of the Jewish Displaced Persons," by Abraham S. Hyman, [198-?]. Clean copy. Folder 1: beginning-p. 50.
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 2: p. 51-100.
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 3: p. 101-150.
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 4: p. 151-200.
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 5: p. 201-250.
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 6: p. 251-300.
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 7: p. 301-350.
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 8: p. 351-400.
"The Undefeated," by Abraham S. Hyman. Folder 9: p. 401-421 (end).
BOX 5
Photograph albums of and by DPs, [1946-1948].
Photographs of a UNRRA children's home; captions in German.
"UNRRA Team 521, Germany-Lampertheim, 1946," inscribed to PSB by Mathilde Oftedal. Photographs of camp life; captions in English.
"Ma'apilim: Shearit Ha'Platah Begins its Journey Into the Future." Photographs of emigration from Germany to France; captions in English.
Photographs of Jewish settlers in Palestine at [Gearrah?]. Photograph captions in Hebrew, some English translations. [1948?]
"Lager Zeilsheim, 18. 1. 1947," inscribed in [Hebrew?] and English "to Samuel [sic] Bernstein, son of the Honorable Rabbi Dr. Philip Bernstein on the day of his Bar-Mitzva." Photographs of camp life; captions in German.
Series VI: CCAR
BOX 1
Correspondence, PSB and others. 1938.
Correspondence, PSB and others. 1940-1943.
Correspondence. 1941-1952.
Correspondence about 1952 CCAR convention. 1951-1952.
Correspondence, PSB and others. 1952.
Correspondence, chiefly PBS and Joseph L. Fink. 1952-1953.
Correspondence, PSB and others. 1954-1962.
Correspondence, PSB and Committee on Solicitation of Funds. 1955.
Correspondence, 1956-1967.
Correspondence, PSB and CCAR Journal. 1958-1975.
Correspondence, PSB and others. 1963-1976.
Research material on peace. 1935-1941.
Research material on peace. 1938.
Research material on peace. 1938.
Committee on International Peace, correspondence. 1937-1938.
Committee on International Peace, correspondence. 1937-1938.
Report of the Committee on International Peace, 1938.
"Program of World Reconstruction" and mss. notes by PSB. [early 1940s?]
"Report of Preliminary Meeting on Pulpit Placement and Ethics." 1942.
On passage by CCAR of a resolution on a Jewish army. 1942.
"Proposed Report of Commission on Justice and Peace." 1942.
"Judaism and Race Relations," 25-26 November 1945.
Meeting with Judah Maimon on religious liberty in Israel, 6 March 1951.
"Report of the Committee on Projects in Palestine," 26 June 1949.
"The President's Message" to the 1949 CCAR Convention, by Abraham J. Feldman, 23 June 1949.
On status of Reform rabbis in Israel. 1950.
On Summer Institute in Israel. 1950.
On Summer Institute in Israel. 1950-1951.
On Summer Institute in Israel. 1950-1951.
Summer Institute in Israel itinerary. [1951?]
"The President's Message" to the 1951 CCAR Convention, by PSB, 19 June 1951. 3 issues.
"Six Statements on Preaching Techniques." 1951.
62nd Annual Convention, New London, Conn., 19-24 June 1951.
On CCAR statement on religious education. 1951.
"Report of the Committee on Church and State." [1951?]
63rd Annual Convention, Buffalo, N.Y., 10-15 June 1952.
Newspaper reports on PSB's President's Message to 1952 Convention. 1952.
PSB's appointments to committees. 1952.
"Report of the Committee on Church and State." 1952.
CCAR representatives on various organizations. [1952?]
On the goals of the Reform movement, correspondence, Herbert A. Friedman and Abraham J. Brachman. 1953.
64th Annual Convention, Estes Park, Colo., 23-28 June 1953.
"The President's Message" to the 1954 CCAR Convention, by Joseph L. Fink, 22 June 1954.
65th Annual Convention, Pike, N.H., 22-27 June 1954.
66th Annual Convention, Asbury Park, N.J., 20-23 June 1955.
"The Jewish Community and its Leadership," by Morris Lieberman, 22 June 1955.
PSB's appointments to committees. 1955-1970.
CCAR Newsletter. 1955-1962.
"Report of the Committee on Nominating and Electoral Procedure." 1956.
"The President's Message," to 1956 and 1960 CCAR Conventions; "The State of our Union," by Maurice Eisendrath, report to Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1955-1959.
CCAR Convention programs, 1958-1968.
"Justice and Peace," CCAR resolutions. 1956.
"Report of Commission on Justice and Peace," "Recommendations of Commission on Church and State." 1957.
"The CCAR-Seventy Fruitful Years-Evaluation and Challenge," address by PSB to 1960 CCAR Convention, 24 June 1940. Typs., correspondence, research material.
"The CCAR-Seventy Fruitful Years-Evaluation and Challenge," address by PSB to 1960 CCAR Convention, 24 June 1940. Correspondence, research material.
71st Annual Convention, Detroit, Mich., 21-26 June 1960.
Annual Convention seminar papers, notes, 1960-1969.
Admissions Committee, correspondence. 1960-1964.
Admissions Committee, correspondence. 1964-1967.
"Placement Plan." 1961.
Special Committee on Mixed Marriage. 1961-1962.
Miscellaneous reports. [1961-1971]
BOX 2
"Stephen S. Wise-Some Personal Recollections," by PSB for CCAR Journal, 11 January 1963.
"Code of Ethics Between Rabbi and Rabbi." 1964.
Address [by Garson Meyer?] at CCAR Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada, 24 June 1966.
CCAR Journal, October 1966, January 1967.
CCAR Liturgy Committee, correspondence. 1967-1968.
New York State Regional Conciliation Committee. 1967-1968.
Special Committee on Chaplaincy. 1968.
Special Committee on Chaplaincy. 1968-1969.
"Report of the Committee on Church and State." 1968.
"The Report of the Committee on Justice and Peace." 1968.
"Apologia Pro Aetate Mea," article in CCAR Journal, April 1969.
Address by PSB given at CCAR Annual Convention, Houston, Texas, 18 June 1969.
Report by the CCAR Committee on Rabbinic Tenure and Security. 1973.
Executive Board Meeting, minutes and budget. 1973.
Insurance program proposal. 1973.
Memos on Yom Kippur War, 11-12 December 1973.
Announcement of death of Aryeh Lev, 2 May 1975.
Addresses by PSB, to be considered for publication [by CCAR Journal?] Correspondence, 1976.
Series VII: AZCPA/AIPAC
BOX 1: Chronological Files, 1954-1961
"Current Issues in U.S.-Israel Relations," 15 October 1953.
Announcements of formation of AZCPA: Press release from Paul Green, 15 March 1954; by Chairman Louis Lipsky, 22 March 1954; by Executive Director ILK, 30 March 1954.
"Information for Representations of Israel Abroad: The Jews in the U.S.S.R.," Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem, 18 March 1954. 1 carbon.
"Report from Washington," 3 May 1954-15 October 1959.
"Are We Really Impartial?", on 1954 Mutual Security Act, 22 June 1954. 2 copies.
"Excerpts from a Statement on 'The American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs,'" by ILK, 27 June 1954. 2 copies.
"Memorandum," on statements by Congresswoman Frances Bolton on 1954 Mutual Security Program, 2 July 1954. 2 copies; State of Louisiana, House Concurrent Resolution no. 44, on achieving peace in the Middle East, 28 June 1954.
"Digest of Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the 1954 Mutual Security Act," 14 July 1954. 2 copies.
"Highlights of Hearings, House Appropriations Committee, 1954 Mutual Security Program," 26 July 1954. 2 copies. "Highlights of Hearings, Senate Appropriations Committee, 1954 Mutual Security Program," 12 August 1954.
"No Arms for Arab States Without Peace in the Middle East," letter and statement from AZCPA Chairman Louis Lipsky, 15 September 1954.
Resignation of Louis Lipsky from Chair: press release, 29 November 1954.
"Dinner Party at Ambassador Lawson's, 7 December 1954," typs. notes by A[llen] L[esser], 10 December 1954.
"Memorandum," on US foreign policy in Middle East, 20 December 1954. "Background Information on American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs," [1955?].
Election of PSB to Chair: press release, 30 December 1954.
"For Peace and Economic Development in the Near East: How American Public Opinion Views Proposals to Arm the Arab States," 31 December 1954.
"Some Thoughts on a Zionist Public Information Program for the United States," 16 February 1955.
"Moroccan Jewry," statement by PSB, 17 February 1955; "Memo, Re: Crisis in Morocco," by M.L. Perlzweig, 30 September 1955.
PSB's report on Moroccan Jewry, 17 and 22 February 1955.
On Morocco: PSB's reports, statements before US Congress, research material. 1955.
Statement by PSB before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Technical Assistance Programs, 23 February 1955, 2 versions; extracts from the Congressional Record-Senate, 1-2 June 1955.
On US government policy in the Middle East, address by PSB to David Marcus Chapter of American Jewish Congress, 23 February 1955.
"Report of Activities," by ILK. 1 March 1955.
"Morocco and Mendes-France," sermon by PSB. 4 March 1955. 1 carbon.
Conference of National Jewish Organizations, 5-6 March 1955. Declaration of policy; excerpts from address by George V. Allen; address by John D. Jernegan.
Conference of Jewish Organizations, 5-6 March 1955. Declaration of policy.
"Because Israel Is," address by PSB at Conference on Israel, 6 March 1955. 1 typs., 1 carbon, research material.
Address to Bronx Zionist Council. 20 April 1955. 1 carbon.
Bill to amend the Mutual Security Act of 1954. May 1955; "Report to Congress on the Mutual Security Program." 31 December 1954.
"Statement of Senator George H. Bender (Ohio) on the Mutual Security Program," 2 June 1955. 1 copy.
Press release, statement by PSB before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, 16 June 1955.
Statement by PSB before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives. Marked-up, pasted printed copy; 1 typs. of same, 13 June 1955.
Address by PSB to Zionist Organization of America, 17 June 1955. 1 typs., 1 carbon; correspondence; research material.
"Report," by ILK. 9 August 1955; memo from ILK to Senator Styles Bridges. December 1955; other political material.
National Finance Council of AZCPA. Correspondence, drafts of statements. August-September 1955.
"New Hope in the Near East," by ILK. 28 September 1955. 2 carbons.
"Egypt, Israel, and the United States," sermon by PSB. 21 October 1955. 1 typs., 1 carbon.
Excerpts from address by Anthony Eden in U.S. regarding arming Israel and Arab nations, 10 November 1955; research material.
"Progress Report No. 1," memo to PSB from ILK, 23 November 1955.
About AZCPA. [1955?]
On "Structure" and "Terms of Reference" of AZCPA. [1955?]
Newspaper clippings on PSB and AZCPA. [1955]
Conference of American Jewish Organizations, 17-18 January 1956. Statement; address by PSB, 18 January 1956.
"The Near East- Crisis for Democracy," January 1956.
Address by PSB in honor of Edward B. Lawson, 15 May 1956. 1 typs.; research material.
"Statement of policy," 23 May 1956; "What Kind of Peace Settlement for Middle East?", article by PSB, offprint from Foreign Policy Bulletin, 15 December 1956.
Memo on AZCPA's work. 25 June 1956.
Democratic and Republican party platforms: various versions of pro-Israel planks; memos; correspondence. July 1956.
"Provocative Preparations in Israel," article in Izvestia, broadcast 21 September [1956].
"Israel's Current Position, and Immigration to Israel," memo from Herbert A. Friedman to those speaking on behalf of United Jewish Appeal, 26 September 1956.
["Crisis in the Middle East"], address by PSB to Ad Club of Rochester. [27 September 1956] 1 carbon, correspondence.
"Israel Issues at the Democratic and Republican Conventions," interview with ILK by Murray Frank, 30 September [1956].
Notes made by Rita Grossman on Republican-sponsored television program, "The Eisenhower Administration and Israel," 17 October 1956.
Opinion on U.S. policy in Suez War, material collected by Allen Lesser, 1 November 1956; mss notes by PSB.
[News release?] on address on Middle East by Edwin Wright, by Allen Lesser, 2 November 1956. Research material.
"Mid-East Conflict-The Way Out," sermon by PSB. 2 November 1956. 3 copies.
American Jewish Committee letter to John Foster Dulles on the Arab-Israel conflict, 3 November 1956. 1 copy.
Reports [minutes of meeting?], 5 November 1956. 1 typs.
"Special-Urgent no. 5," American Zionist Council Report to local committees on 1956 war, 9 November 1956.
On resolving Suez War, [letter?] from PSB, 13 November 1956.
"News and Opinion" on Suez War, to Presidents' Group from Judd L. Teller. 14 November 1956.
"What Kind of Peace Settlement for Middle East?" by PSB, reprinted from Foreign Policy Bulletin, 15 December 1956. Cartoon clipping; reprint from Congressional Record (Senate), 8 November 1963.
"The Menace of Nasser" and "Why Arms for Israel." [1956?] 1 carbon.
"The New Communist Threat to the Near East." [1956?] 1 carbon.
"The United States and the Security of the Middle East." [1956?] 2 carbons, mss. notes by PSB.
Research material on U.S. policy in Middle East. 1956 and earlier.
"Analysis of the Eisenhower Doctrine," by ILK, 13 January 1957. 2 copies; Untitled article? on situation in Suez Canal Zone, 3 January 1957. 1 copy.
On the Eisenhower Doctrine, address by PSB. 14 January 1957. 1 typs.
Statement by PSB to Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, 16 January 1957, and [Committee on Foreign Relations and Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Senate], 4 February 1957. 1 typs. each, summary, correspondence.
"70 Democratic Members of Congress Address Themselves to Dulles in the Mideast Issue," 23 January 1957. 1 copy.
"Aide Memoire on the Israel Position on the Sharm el-Sheikh Area and the Gaza Strip," Delegation of Israel to the United Nations, New York, 23 January 1957. 1 copy.
"Public Statements Made by Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson on the Dispute in the Middle East," 18 February
Draft proposal to rename and reorganize AZCPA (as American Committee for Israel and Near East Peace). 21 February 1957. 1 copy.
Excerpts from address by James A. Pike at a meeting of the American Christian Palestine Committee, 21 February 1957.
Evidence of the Arab War in Peacetime Against Israel, Presented to the General Assembly of the United Nations by the World Jewish Congress, 1957. 1 pamphlet; cover letter from Abraham S. Hyman, 4 March 1957.
"Israel's Fight for Peace and Security," 6 March 1957. 1 copy.
"America's Moral Commitment to Israel," from Zionist Organization of America memo to district and regional leaders, from Harold P. Manson, 6 March 1957. 1 copy.
Memo from ILK to AZCPA National Finance Council. 14 March 1957. 1 copy.
Memo [from ILK?] to PSB, 29 August 1957.
Draft statement by Joseph Schectman and summary by ILK. 23 October 1957.
"Economic and Military Cooperation with Nations in the General Area of the Middle East," hearings before Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, on H.J. Res. 117. Includes PSB's statement. U.S. G.P.O., 1957.
"The President's Proposal on the Middle East," hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Senate, on S.J. Res. 19 and H.J. Res. 117. Pt. 1. Includes PSB's statement. U.S. G.P.O., 1957.
On changing AZCPA's name: correspondence, 1957-1959.
On Arab boycott, research material. 1957-1965.
Memo from American Zionist Council to local committees on Arab Boycott. 25 September 1958.
"Memo from Washington," 26 September, 31 October, 1958.
Address [by Elmer Louis?] for United Jewish Appeal, 9 October 1958, with letter from Louis to PSB. 7 October 1958.
Address by ILK at Hadassah Convention in Miami. 22 October 1958. 1 copy.
Research material for United Jewish Appeal, including memo to PSB from Abraham Hyman and "A Report on Three Weeks in Israel with the Histadrut," by P. Jacobs. [1958?]
"U.S.-Israel Friendship," [article? by PSB?] for Israel's 10th Anniversary. [1958]
"How the Current U.S. Intervention Affects American-Israel Relations," draft [by ILK? 1958?]. With a memo by ILK, 26 August 1958.
"Report" on address by General Sir John Bagot Glubb to the Rochester City Club, by Julia Berlove. 21 February 1959.
"Excerpts from Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein's address to the American Christian Palestine Committee." 8 April 1959. 1 typs.
AIPAC lobbying activities against World Bank Loan to UAR for Suez Canal, chiefly correspondence. 1959-1960.
Presidents' Conference Subcommittee on the Suez Canal: minutes of meeting. 10 February 1960.
Statement by PSB to House Committee on Foreign Affairs, 14 March 1960: correspondence; drafts and final copies of statement.
Address by John F. Kennedy to Zionist Organization of America: 1 typs., newspaper report giving different version. 26 August 1960.
"Mutual Security Act of 1960," hearings before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives. Includes PSB's statement. Pt. 5. U.S. G.P.O., 1960.
Congressional Record, 2 May 1960. 1 issue.
"Memo on Senator Fulbright's Arab Refugee Amendment," by ILK. [1960.] 1 copy.
"Memorandum on the Suez Blockade and the Arab Boycott," [1960?] 1 carbon.
On the Mutual Security Act and its emendation: correspondence, research material. 1960-1961.
AIPAC statements and memos on Arab refugee repatriation, by ILK; research material. 1961-1962.
BOX 2: Chronological Files, 1961-1974
David Ben-Gurion: notes of meetings, questions, mss. notes. 1961-1967.
Address by PSB to AIPAC on his recent visit to Israel. 1 April 1962.
Department of State National Foreign Policy Conference for Nongovernmental Organizations, 28-29 May 1962.
Reception for Congressional delegation from Greater New York area, 21 January 1963.
Address by PSB before AIPAC on Israel's 15th Anniversary. 5 May 1963. 1 copy.
Notes by PSB on meetings with President John F. Kennedy, 17 June 1963, and at Dept. of State Conference, 27-28 May 1963.
Address by ILK to Pioneer Women Convention. 13 August 1963. 1 copy.
On Senate Foreign Relations Committee investigation into The Jewish Agency-American Section, Inc., and other organizations and persons, including ILK. August-September 1963.
On AIPAC's response to Senate Foreign Relations Committee investigation into The Jewish Agency. Correspondence, drafts of statements. August-October 1963.
Address by ILK to United Jewish Appeal Conference. 13 September 1963. 1 copy.
Address by ILK to 49th National Convention of Hadassah. 30 October 1963. 1 copy.
"Statement at Meeting of Presidents' Conference with Secretary of State Phillips Talbot," by PSB. 2 December 1963. 1 typs.
"Prepared for introduction by Senator Jacob J. Javits, A Bill to Amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961." [1963]
Statements of policy and other AIPAC materials. 1963-1968.
AIPAC addresses and notes by PSB. 1963-1969.
[Address? by PSB?] 4 May 1964. 1 typs.
Statement by ILK to Platform Committee, Republican National Convention. With correspondence between Kenen and PSB. 8 July 1964. 2 copies with correspondence.
"Some Background Material in Connection with Renewed Border Incidents on the Israel-Syrian Border," by Yehuda Hellman. 17 August 1964. 1 copy.
Address by ILK to National Convention of Hadassah. 19 August 1964. 1 copy.
"Arab Propaganda Menace to Jewry," article by PSB for
American Judaism. 5 October 1964. 2 carbons, galley proof.
AIPAC reception in honor of Greater New York Congressional delegation, 31 January 1965: correspondence; notes, etc.
AIPAC dinner celebrating Israel's 17th Anniversary, 3 May 1965: correspondence between PSB, State Department people, and others; pamphlet copy of Arthur J. Goldberg's address.
On Williams-Javits Bill against the Arab Boycott of American corporations doing business with Israel: text of bill, 1965: correspondence; research material from 1960.
On anti-Semitism, address [by ILK? 1965?]
[Address? to Canadian Hadassah. January 1966] 1 carbon
Address by ILK. [January? 1966] 1 carbon. With cover letter to PSB.
Address by ILK to National Convention of Hadassah. 15 August 1966. 1 copy.
AIPAC statement adopted during conference, 29-30 November 1966. 1 copy.
"War ... or Peace ... in the Near East," address by ILK to Tri-State Regional Conference of AIPAC, 18 December 1966. 1 copy.
AIPAC publicity materials, 1966-1968.
Statements of policy and other materials, 1966-1969.
"Community Wide Rally" in Rochester, New York, 29 May 1967. Advertisements, correspondence between PSB and others; misc. material.
"Mid-East Crisis, Myths and Realities," address by PSB to community-wide rally, Rochester, New York. 29 May 1967. 1 typs., 1 carbon, 1 photocopy; advertising reprints.
AIPAC luncheon to honor PSB, 6 June 1967. Addresses by PSB and others, correspondence.
AIPAC luncheon to honor PSB, 6 June 1967. Addresses by PSB and others, correspondence.
Address by PSB to AIPAC, with different prefaces. 6 June 1967.
"Where Do We Stand?" address by PSB, United Jewish Welfare Fund, Temple Beth El. 19 June 1967. 1 carbon.
Address by PSB, Washington DC, [8 June 1967?] 1 corrected typs., 1 copy of "extracts", 1 issue of Congress Weekly, 19 June 1967.
Notes by PSB on meeting of Baron Alan de Rothschild with Presidents' Conference. 12 December 1967.
AIPAC statement of policy, draft 1, 5 January 1968. 1 copy.
"Excerpts of remarks by Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin" to Presidents' Conference, 7 March 1968. Notes by PSB on talk given by Rabin to Presidents' Conference, 18 January 1971.
Account of Richard M. Nixon's meeting with the Presidents' Conference, by Rabbi Herschel Schacter, 21 October 1968. With correspondence on Nixon, 5 May 1972.
Address by PSB to AIPAC, 24 November 1968. 1 copy.
Address by AIPAC Chairman Irving Kane to National Press Club. 3 December 1968. 1 copy.
On visit of Salim Johnson, Arab member of Histadrut in Israel, to Rochester, New York. April 1968.
"The American Israel Public Affairs Committee from 1955 until 1968," excerpt from larger document. [1968-1969?]
Statement by AIPAC to Republican Platform Committee. June-July 1968.
Statements by AIPAC to Democratic and Republican Platform Committees. July-August 1968.
AIPAC and other addresses by PSB, 1968-1969.
Statement by Rabbi Marc H. Tannenbaum before New York Chapter of American Jewish Committee, 12 January 1969. 1 copy.
"The Arabs and Israel: The Lies and the Truth," sermon by PSB, 7 march 1969. 1 copy; research material.
"The Reaction of the Churches to the Middle East Crisis," address by Dr. A. Roy Eckardt to National Leadership Conference on Peace in the Middle East. 24 March 1969. 1 copy.
Letter to editor, New York Times, by PSB, 14 August 1969: mss. drafts; published letter; correspondence.
Letter to editor, New York Times, by PSB, 2 September 1969. 1 carbon.
Notes on talks with Abba Eban [by PSB?] 11-14 December 1969.
"Israels [sic] Third Front," address by Edward Ginsberg, General Chairman, United Jewish Appeal, to annual UJA meeting. 11-14 December 1969.
"The Righteous Among the Nations," address by PSB, annual United Jewish Appeal meeting, 13 December 1969. 1 copy; mss. notes.
"Israel in Danger, Not in Jeopardy," sermon by PSB, 12 September 1969, reprinted for fundraising by United Jewish Appeal. 1 pamphlet.
Introductory address by PSB on Rochester meeting commemorating Iraqi hanging of nine Jews, 17 February 1969.
"Press Comment Across the Nation: A Vote of Confidence for Israel's Peace Policy," AIPAC compilation. January 1970. 1 pamphlet.
AIPAC Luncheon in Rochester, 16 April 1970: correspondence; lists of participants; misc. materials.
Typs. notes on address by Louis Pincus, Chairman of the Jewish Agency, to Council of Jewish Federation and Welfare Funds [by PSB?] 11 September 1970.
Typs. notes on meetings with Golda Meir, by PSB, 20 September 1970. Cover letter to ILK, 19 October 1970.
Typs. notes on address by Abba Eban of Israel to Presidents Conference [by PSB and other?], 27 September 1971.
"The Rise of Israel and the Arab Confrontation," by ILK. Judaism Pamphlet Series. 1971. 1 pamphlet.
Statement of leaders of American Jewish community on Soviet Jewry, press release, with "Excerpt from the State of the World Message" [by Richard M. Nixon?], from National Conference on Soviet Jewry. 26 April 1972.
"Israel's man on Capitol Hill," article on ILK by Myra MacPherson, Washington Post, 21 April 1972; photograph from article.
Address by PSB, Israel Bond Dinner, 2 May 1972.
"Memorandum on the Resettlement of Soviet Jews." [1972?]
"Phantom Jets to Saudi Arabia," memo from AIPAC by ILK. 4 June 1973.
Letter on AIPAC agenda items, to AIPAC members and others, from ILK and Kenneth Wollack. 2 August 1973.
"Military Aid to Israel," statement by ILK to House Committee on Foreign Affairs, 29 November 1973, and Senate Committee on Foreign Relations [delivered by PSB], 13 December 1973..
"Emergency Military Assistance for Israel and Cambodia," hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, 13 December 1973. U.S. G.P.O., 1973. Includes PSB's delivery of ILK's statement; correspondence; copies of statement.
Testimony by PSB before Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate. 2 January 1974.
Account of founding of AIPAC, by ILK, for PSB. 31 January 1974. 1 typs.
"The Conversion of J. William Fulbright: a Foe of AIPAC Comes to Hurt but Stays to Praise," article by PSB, 12 February 1974. 1 copy, 1 carbon; correspondence.
Statement by ILK before Senate Foreign Relations Committee. 24 July 1974.
"Memorandum on U.S. Aid to Israel-Fiscal 1975," from AIPAC. 27 June 1974. 1 pamphlet.
BOX 2
Anti-Zionism
American Council for Judaism
General correspondence, 1947-1959.
General correspondence, 1965-1967.
On statement by ninety non-Zionist Reform rabbis. August-September 1942.
"Zionism an Affirmation of Judaism," statement issued by Zionist Reform rabbis, drafted in part by PSB. 1942. 1 pamphlet; with memo from PSB to Rabbis Miller and Baruch, 2 October 1973.
Committee on Unity for Palestine, correspondence and other materials; newspaper clippings;
Information Bulletin of the American Council for Judaism, June-December 1945. 1945.
On allegations that Elmer Berger refused to serve as chaplain during World War II, correspondence, 1946. Publications of American Council for Judaism, 1946-1952.
Bulletin of the American Zionist Council, May 1953.
BOX 3: Anti-Zionism
American Council for Judaism
Letters to the editor, New York Herald-Tribune, from A.H. Sakier (11 August 1953) and Francis Wood (1 September 1953).
Correspondence from Elmer Berger to New York Representative Emanuel Celler on upcoming founding meeting of Presidents' Conference, 25 February 1955; with advance copy of article by American Council for Judaism on same, 21 February 1955; and American Zionist Council memo on American Council for Judaism, 21 October 1954.
Christian Nationalist Crusade flyer to members of Congress, defending President Dwight D. Eisenhower's pastor, Dr. Edward L.R. Elson. [1955 or 1956]
"Anti-Zionist Propaganda: Its Distortions and Dangers," analysis of speech by Omar Burleson given 28 April 1956. 1 copy.
"'After Searching Our Conscience ...' A Statement by American Rabbis on the American Council for Judaism," May 1956. 1 Pamphlet.
"American Council for Judaism: Evaluation of the movement in Detroit as of the Present Time," [by ILK?] 14 June 1956.
Memo from American Zionist Council to local committees on American Council for Judaism, 18 July 1956. "Ex-Officer Quits Judaism Council," copy of article from New York Times, 22 July 1956.
"Council for Judaism Backs Soviet Policy on Jews; Denies Discrimination," Jewish Telegraphic Agency Bulletin. 10 April 1963.
Address by PSB at AIPAC and Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington luncheon celebrating 15th anniversary of Israel, 5 May 1963. 1 copy, 1 carbon.
Newspaper and magazine articles chiefly on American Council for Judaism. 1963. With cover letter from Julian Landau to PSB, 9 May 1963.
"The American Council for Judaism : An Analysis and Evaluation of Its Platform and Program : A factual Study, issued by the New York Board of Rabbis on behalf of its 800 members." June 1963. 3 pamphlets with cover letter from AIPAC, 18 August 1964.
Correspondence between Assistant Secretary of State Phillips Talbot and Elmer Berger, newspaper accounts of the exchange, and PSB's response. April-May 1964.
"Urge Democratic Platform to Expand Curbs on Zionism," press release from American Council for Judaism, 19 August 1964.
"Elmer Berger," by A.S. Epstein, in "The Open Forum" column, copied from an unidentified journal, May 1964.
On "Die Wahrheit über Israel," by Elmer Berger, in Deutsche National-Zeitung und Soldaten-Zeitung, 5 March 1965. Correspondence, 1 issue.
Newspaper clippings and copies on American Council for Judaism. 1965-1968; with cover letter from Julian Landau to PSB, 25 March 1965.
Memo from Yehuda Hellman to members associated in the Conference of Presidents, with attached documents, 1 April 1965.
Near East Report, v. 9, no. 7 (6 April 1965). 1 issue.
"The Gulf Between Jewry and Zionism," by Bill Gottlieb, and reports on seminars at New York chapter of American Council for Judaism, winter 1964-1965. With cover letter from Ruth Hershman to PSB, 21 April 1965.
"Briefing for the Congress," by Elmer Berger, reprint from Issues, American Council for Judaism, Summer 1965.
"Foreign Policy Report/Nixon gives Israel massive aid but reaps no Jewish political harvest," photocopy of extract from The National Journal, 8 January 1972, with cover letter from ILK to PSB, 13 January 1972.
"Lobbying in Washington,"
The Jerusalem Post Magazine, 20 August 1974, with note from Leonard Davis to PSB, 4 September 1974. 1 photocopy of article.
"'Jewish Lobby' Part of American Texture," by Stephen Isaacs, Washington Post, 23 November 1974. 1 photocopy of article, 1 clipping.
Organization of Arab Students
"Keating Charges Arab Students Running Propaganda Network in United States," press release, 23 April 1958.
"Rabbi Bergman Affair: American Zionist Organization Vilifies the OAS," excerpt from Understanding the Arab World Series, Organization of Arab Students, No. 1, August 1963. 1 copy.
Arab Journal, Organization of Arab Students, v. 1, no. 1 (Winter 1964). 1 issue.
Excerpt from The Arab-Ute Reporter special issue on Palestine, Organization of Arab Students, v. 2, no. 2 (15 May 1964).
"Mission of Arab Students," Letter to The Editor, New York Times, by Adly M. Derha[? illegible]. [30 September 1964]
"Arab Propaganda," Near East Report Special Survey, October 1964. Proof copy with mss. corrections.
"Arab Propaganda-A New Campus Problem," by PSB, in The Octagonian, Sigma Alpha Mu, v. 52, no. 4 (November 1964); drafts of letters; mss notes by PSB; carbon of article.
"A Defense of the American Council for Judaism," by Edgar S. Genstein, in The Octagonian, Sigma Alpha Mu, v. 53, no. 1 (Winter 1965). 1 issue.
"'Let me Support the Charges,'" by PSB, in The Octagonian, Sigma Alpha Mu, v. 53, no. 2 (Spring 1965). 2 issues, photocopies, 1 typs.
"Zionism and Americanism," by Elmer Berger, copied from Organization of Arab Students Newsletter, v. 9, no. 2 (Spring-Summer 1963), with cover letter from Julian Landau to PSB, 1 April 1965.
"The Battle Rages On!", letters to the editor, The Octagonian, Sigma Alpha Mu, v. 53, no. 3 (Summer 1965).
Correspondence between PSB and others on debate in The Octagonian, 1964-1965.
Correspondence
General correspondence
1951-1954.
January 1955.
February 1955.
March 1955.
April 1955.
May 1955.
June-July 1955.
August-September 1955.
October-December 1955.
January-February 1956
March-April 1956.
May-June 1956.
July-September 1956.
October-December 1956.
Chiefly on fundraising, 1956-1965.
Chiefly on fundraising. 1956-1965.
January-February 1957.
March-August 1957.
September-December 1957.
January-February 1958.
March-April 1958.
May 1958.
June 1958.
July-December 1958.
January-February 1959.
March-April 1959.
May-August 1959.
BOX 4: General correspondence
September-December 1959.
January-March 1960.
April-May 1960.
June-July 1960.
August-December 1960.
January-May 1961.
July-December 1961.
January-May 1962.
June-December 1962.
1963.
1964.
1964-1968.
1964-1969
January-April 1965.
May-August 1965.
September-December 1965.
1966.
1966-1968.
January-May 1967.
June 1967.
July-December 1967.
To ILK, March-May 1968.
April-July 1968.
May-July 1968.
July 1968-October 1969
September 1968-October 1969.
1968.
1969.
1970.
1971.
1972.
1973.
1974.
1975.
1976-1977 and undated
BOX 5
Press releases and form correspondence
Press releases, 1954.
Press releases, 1955-1965.
Press releases and statements, undated
Form correspondence, including "Memoranda for Action," March-July 1954.
Form correspondence including "Memorandum for Action" nos. 4-6, 9-10, 18 May-14 October 1954.
Form correspondence, including "Memoranda for Action," August-December 1954.
Form correspondence, 1955.
Form correspondence, 1956-1957.
Form correspondence, 1958-1962.
Form correspondence, 1963-1968
Form correspondence, 1970-1975 and undated
Conferences and Meetings
Policy Conferences
First National Policy Conference, 26-27 March 1960. Correspondence, statements.
First National Policy Conference, 26-27 March 1960. Statement in different drafts and forms.
Second National Policy Conference, 19-20 March 1961. Correspondence, memos, address by PSB, mss. notes.
Second National Policy Conference, 19-20 March 1961. Correspondence, Statement in different drafts and forms.
Third Annual National Policy Conference, 31 March-1 April 1962: Correspondence, address by PSB; research materials.
Third Annual National Policy Conference, 31 March-1 April 1962: Statement of policy in draft and published (including "Firmness for Peace," address by PSB) form.
Fourth Annual National Policy Conference, 4-5 May 1963, including luncheon observing Israel's 15th anniversary. Correspondence, address by PSB.
Fourth Annual National Policy Conference, 4-5 May 1963. Address by ILK, 5 May 1963. 2 copies.
Fourth Annual National Policy Conference, 4-5 May 1963. Statement of policy in different drafts and forms.
National Policy Conference, 3-4 May 1964: program, correspondence.
National Policy Conference, 3-4 May 1964: addresses by PSB and ILK.
National Policy Conference, 3-4 May 1964: address by Israeli Ambassador Avraham Harmon, 4 May 1964. 1 copy.
National Policy Conference, 3-4 May 1964: address by Thomas E. Morgan, Chairman, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, 4 May 1964. 1 copy.
Sixth Annual National Policy Conference, 3 May 1965: news releases.
Sixth Annual National Policy Conference, 3 May 1965: news releases, correspondence.
Sixth Annual National Policy Conference, 3 May 1965: address by PSB (1 carbon), news releases, mss. notes by PSB.
Sixth Annual National Policy Conference, 3 May 1965: Statement of policy in different drafts.
Eighth National Policy Conference, 5 February 1967. Statement of policy, AIPAC report.
Ninth Annual Policy Conference, 10-11 March 1968. News releases, programs, address by PSB, 11 March 1968.
Ninth Annual Policy Conference, 10-11 March 1968. Address by PSB. 2 copies.
Ninth Annual Policy Conference, 10-11 March 1968. Address by PSB, correspondence, mss. notes, research material.
Ninth Annual Policy Conference, 10-11 March 1968. News releases.
Ninth Annual Policy Conference, 10-11 March 1968: addresses by PSB and Yitzhak Rabin.
Tenth National Policy Conference, 23-24 April 1969: "The Goal Is Peace," pamphlet containing highlights from the conference. 1 pamphlet.
National Policy Conference, 11-12 May 1970: address by PSB, 11 May 1970, typs. notes by PSB on meeting with Israeli Ambassador Shlomo Argov.
National Policy Conference, 11-12 May 1970. Statement of policy; other statements of policy.
Twelfth National Policy Conference, 29-30 April 1971: address by PSB, mss. notes.
Twelfth National Policy Conference, 29-30 April 1971: Statement of policy, reprint.
Thirteenth National Policy Conference, 19-20 April 1972: Correspondence, addresses by PSB; typs. notes.
Thirteenth National Policy Conference, 19-20 April 1972. Drafts of statement of policy.
Fourteenth National Policy Conference, 7-8 May 1973: correspondence, research material.
Fourteenth National Policy Conference, 7-8 May 1973: Drafts of statement of policy.
Fifteenth Annual Policy Conference, 29-30 April 1974: program, correspondence.
Fifteenth Annual Policy Conference, 29-30 April 1974. Draft of statement of policy.
Sixteenth Annual Policy Conference, 1975: programs; correspondence.
Minutes of meetings of Executive and other Committees
11 January 1955.
25 January 1955.
28 March 1955.
19 April 1955.
6 June 1955.
26 July 1955.
13 September 1955.
5 October 1955.
12 October 1955.
9 November 1955.
7 December 1955.
4 January 1956.
14 March 1956.
5 April 1956.
16 April 1956.
23 May 1956.
8 June 1956.
28 June 1956.
17 September 1956.
9 October 1956.
20 November 1956.
18 December 1956.
23 January 1957.
27 March 1957.
13 May 1957.
11 June 1957.
13 November 1957.
18 December 1957.
10 February 1958.
On to AZCPA/AIPAC, Section 3
BOX 6
Conferences and Meetings
Minutes of meetings of Executive and other Committees
28 April 1958.
29 July 1958.
8 October 1958.
5 December 1958.
29 December 1958.
28 January 1959.
15 July 1959.
5 March 1973.
31 May 1973.
30 July 1975.
Agendas and correspondence, 1955-1964.
Memoranda from ILK and others to the Executive and other Committees
1955-1959.
1960-1962.
1963-1968.
1970-1978 and undated
Miscellaneous meetings and materials
Reports from meetings, chiefly by Rita Grossman, 1954-1959.
Subcommittee report, on the use of Israeli pounds, 9 September 1955, with subsequent memorandum to "Allen" [Lesser?]
Minutes of "Special Meeting," 11 July 1956.
Minutes of "Special meeting," 24 July 1956.
"Notes from meeting," 26 October 1956.
Minutes, Joint meeting of AZCPA and American Zionist Council, 30 October 1956.
[Report on address? By Rita Grossman?] 2 December 1958.
Minutes, Subcommittee on Reorganization, 25 August 1960, and unnamed subcommittee, 5 December 1960; correspondence, list of names.
Notes, etc., from meetings. [1960?]-1969.
Minutes, unnamed subcommittee meeting, 17 January 1962.
Meetings with government officials
PSB with Robert Murphy, 3 January 1956. Notes, questions.
PSB with Robert Murphy, George Allen, and William Rountree, 30 August 1956, by PSB.
PSB with William Rountree and Robert Murphy, 22 October 1956, by PSB; with prefatory letter from Allen Lesser, 17 October 1956.
ILK with Donald Bergus, 6 February 1958, by ILK, 7 February 1958.
Rita Grossman with Yehuda Hellman and Rabbi Irving Miller, 22 December 1961, by Rita Grossman.
[Presidents' Conference delegates?] with Averill Harriman, 23 April 1964. [By Rita Grossman?]
PSB and ILK with Phillips Talbot, 4 May 1964, by L.K.
Delegation from Presidents' Conference with Dean Rusk, 16 March 1965, by PSB.
Presidents' Conference delegates with various Senators, 4 June 1967.
Presidents' Conference delegates with Hubert Humphrey, 8 June 1967.
PSB with Avraham Harmon, 22 July 1967, by PSB, 24 July 1967.
PSB, ILK, and Rabbi [Stanley?] Rabinowitz with William B. Macomber, PSB and ILK with Harry McPherson," and [PSB and ILK?] with Avraham Harman, 30 August 1967, by ILK, 1 September 1967.
Presidents' Conference with Joseph Sisco, 14 January 1970, by Ruth Hershman, 16 January 1970, and PSB [two different accounts].
"To be taken up with Hall," unspecified meeting [mid-1950s?].
Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations
"Memorandum Submitted to Secretary of State Dulles by Heads of Jewish Organizations." 25 October 1954.
On the relation between AIPAC and Presidents' Conference. 1959-1963.
Minutes and summaries of Presidents' Conference meetings. 1955-1967.
Accounts of addresses by or meetings with American and foreign officials. 1955-1972.
Correspondence, memos, minutes, notes on meetings, and associated materials. 1956-1965.
Correspondence, memos, minutes, notes on meetings, and associated materials. 1959-1960.
Correspondence, memos, minutes, notes on meetings, and associated materials. 1961.
Correspondence, memos, minutes, notes on meetings, and associated materials. 1962.
Correspondence, memos, minutes, notes on meetings, and associated materials. 1963-1965.
Notes by PSB on meeting of Conference of Presidents with US Secretary of State Dean Rusk, 16 March 1965.
"Arab Anti-Jewish Activities in Europe," by S.J. Roth. [1965?]
Summary of Conference meeting of 7 December 1965. With cover letter from Yehuda Hellman, 14 January 1966.
Correspondence, memos, minutes, notes on meetings, and associated materials. January 1966-January 1969.
Correspondence, memos, minutes, notes on meetings, and associated materials. October 1966-November 1967.
Correspondence, memos, minutes, notes on meetings, and associated materials. 1966-1970.
Correspondence, memos, minutes, notes on meetings, and associated materials. July 1967-May 1968.
Press releases. 1967-1973.
Correspondence, memos, minutes, notes on meetings, and associated materials. 1971-1972.
Correspondence, memos, minutes, notes on meetings, and associated materials. 1973
Correspondence, memos, minutes, notes on meetings, and associated materials. 1959-1973.
Middle East Memo. 1973-1978.
Proceedings of Plenary Meeting of World Conference of Jewish Organizations (COJO) held December 1974. With cover letter from Yehuda Hellman, 7 February 1975.
Finance And Employment
Conference of Presidents, 1956-1962
Conference of Presidents, report of meeting, May 7, 1868
Conference of Jewish organizations, January 17-18, 1956
Financial statements, and related correspondence and other material. 1955-1960.
Financial statements, and related correspondence and other material. 1961-1974.
Fundraising correspondence, 1961-1968.
Fundraising in Rochester, New York: correspondence, lists. 1955-1959.
Fundraising in Rochester, New York: correspondence, lists. 1960-1969.
Fundraising in Rochester, New York: correspondence, lists. 1970-1974.
Fundraising in Rochester, New York: correspondence, lists. 1963-1966.
Fundraising in Rochester, New York: correspondence, lists. 1967.
Fundraising meeting in Rochester, New York, 12 May 1969: correspondence, lists.
BOX 7
Finance And Employment
Resumes of candidates for Chair; correspondence. 1972-1973.
Correspondence on Morris Amitay as candidate for Chair. 1973.
"Statement of Understanding between American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Near East Report Research, Inc., I.L. Kenen and Morris J. Amitay." [1974]
On assumption by Morris Amitay of Executive Directorship. [1974.]
Applications for employment with AIPAC. [1972?]-1973.
Near East Report materials. 1965-1973.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous publications, 1954-1971.
1954-1973.
AIPAC brochures. 1955-1972; mss. notes by PSB, 27 April 1965.
September 1962-March 1963.
1962-1973.
March-April 1963.
June-October 1963.
October-December 1963.
Chiefly newspaper clippings. 1963-1964.
January-March 1964.
March-August 1964.
October 1966-April 1967.
May-July 1967.
August-December 1967.
Articles and clippings About PSB, AIPAC
1957.
1957-1963.
1960-1962.
1961-1962.
1964-1970.
1964-1973.
1972.
PSB Miscellanea
"'Wipe Out Israel'-A Reply to King Saud," sermon by PSB. 27 [i.e. 29] January 1954. 1 carbon.
PSB's hotel and air travel receipt, 1965
Conferences, 1966-1968.
"Crises Which Shaped the Fate of Israel," sermon, 1 April 1973. 1 copy.
Excerpts from address by PSB.
Biographic sketches.
Mss. and typs. notes, 1950s.
Mss. and typs. notes, 1967.
Mss. and typs. notes, 1960s?
Mss. and typs. notes.
Mss. and typs. notes.
Mss. and typs. notes.
Mss. and typs. notes.
Mss. and typs. notes.
Mss. and typs. notes.
Mss. and typs. notes.
Mss. and typs. notes.
Mss. and typs. notes.
Mss. and typs. notes.
Near East Report
v. 1: 3 June 1957-15 May 1958. Lacking: no. 13, 18-19, 21.
v. 2: 2 June 1958-15 April 1959. Lacking: no. 3, 13-16, 20, 23-24.
v. 1-2: June 1957-May 1959 in one volume. Signed and inscribed by ILK to PSB.
v. 3: 1 July 1959-16 May 1950. Lacking: no. 1-2, 4-5, 11-14, 20.
v. 4: 2 June 1960-15 May 1961. Lacking: no. 8-9, 13, 15-17.
v. 5: 3 July 1961-15 December 1961. Lacking: no. 1-2, 7, 12.
v. 6: 2 January-18 December 1962. Lacking: no. 2, 4, 8, 23.
v. 7: 2 January-17 December 1963. Lacking: no. 4-6, 8-9, 12, 15-16, 18-19, 21, 23, 25.
v. 8: 1 January-29 December 1964. Lacking: no. 4-5, 12-14, 16, 23.
v. 9: 12 January-28 December 1965. Lacking: no. 15.
v. 10: 11 January-29 November 1966. Lacking: no. 4, 6, 9-10, 15, 19-20, 22-23, 25-26.
v. 11: 21 March-12 December 1967. Lacking: no. 1-5, 9-14, 16, 18-19, 22, 24, 26.
BOX 8
Near East Report
v. 12: 23 January-24 December 1968. Lacking: no. 1, 6, 11, 13.
v. 13: 7 January-23 December 1969. Lacking: no. 8, 18, 21, 23-24.
v. 14: 7 January-30 December 1970. Lacking: 3-5, 12-15, 21-25, 27-30.
v. 15: 13 January-29 December 1971. Lacking: 1, 6-11, 18-19, 24-25, 27, 29, 31-36, 43, 45-48.
v. 16: 26 January-13 December 1972. Lacking: 1-3, 6, 8, 10-11, 13-16, 18, 20-21, 23-24, 37-39, 42-49.
v. 17: 3 January-26 December 1973. Lacking: no. 3-4, 7, 10-11, 13, 15-20, 23-24, 28, 33, 38-40, 43.
1974-1978 (scattered issues)
Near East Report Special Surveys
May, December, 1964.
March, May, October, 1965.
January, May, September, 1966.
February, August, 1967.
January, May, October, 1968.
January, May, 1970.
"Myths and Facts-1970," January 1970. 2 issues, different covers.
April, 1971.
"Myths and Facts 1974," 6 February 1974.
Lists of radio stations airing
Near East Report, 24 April, 7 June, 1962.
Research material, Jewish sources
Jewish Telegraphic Agency [New York]
News, Daily News Bulletin. 1940-1960.
Daily News Bulletin. 1960-1963.
Daily News Bulletin. 1964-1969.
Daily News Bulletin. Fragments, 1960s.
Daily News Bulletin. 1970-1977.
Community News Reporter. 1962-1964.
Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds
"Israel Fact Sheet," 1955-1959.
Israel Digest
1954-1960.
American edition. 1964-1971.
American edition. 1971-1978.
Israel Weekly Digest
1957.
Embassy of Israel
"Fedayeen Activities Inside Israel Since the U.N. Resolution of 2 November 1956." [1956]
"Hasbara Notes," no. 5, 9 November 1956.
Press release, 12 November 1968.
Policy Background, October 1968-February 1969.
Policy Background, March-September 1969.
Policy Background, December 1969-June 1971.
Policy Background, 6 April 1978.
Israel Office of Information
Pamphlets, 1952-1958.
"Egypt-Israel Relations." [1955]
"Address by Mr. David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel, at the 25th Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, 26 December 1960."
Israel Information Services, Consulate-General of Israel
"Nation United in Search of Security," address by David Ben-Gurion, 21 February 1957.
Press releases, 1964-1965.
Pamphlets, 1967.
Texts of statements, etc., 1967.
"News From Israel," 14 July 1967, 8 April 1968.
BOX 9. Research material, Jewish Sources
Israel Information Services, Consulate-General of Israel
Articles and photgraphs prepared for publication in connection with the celebration of Israel's 20th anniversary on May 2, 1968.
Texts of statements, etc., 1968.
Texts of statements, etc., 1969.
Consulate-General of Israel in New York
Publications, 1978.
Permanent Mission to the United Nations
Press Release, 7 April 1967.
Research material
Newspaper clippings. 1947-1973.
Seating chart, "Senate luncheon," 15 April 1948.
On Zionism, 1949, 1962.
Statement by Abba Eban to the UN General Assembly, 13 November 1952.
Newspaper clippings on David Ben-Gurion and Moshe Sharett, 1953-1954.
On Israel, 1954.
On the Middle East, 1954-1955.
On Iraq. 1954-1955.
On Israel, 1954-1955.
On Israel, 1954-1955.
On Israel, 1954-1973.
"Modern Israel: An Adventure of the Human Spirit," address by Abba Eban, 11 January 1955.
Press release, statement by Levi Eshkol, 13 March 1955.
"New Libyan Chief Assailed in Cairo on Bonn Issue,"
New York Times
Clipping, 22 March 1955.
Address by Alvin M. Bently to Jewish Community Council of Detroit, 30 April 1955.
Zionist Organization of America advertisement, 25 November 1955.
Newspaper clipping on Israel, 27 August 1955.
On the Middle East. 1955-1971.
Zionist Organization of America materials, 1955-1973.
Zionist Information Service
Weekly News Bulletin, 20 January 1956.
"Mission to Israel: The Disposition of Informational Media Guaranty Funds in Israel for Education, Science, Culture, and the humanities," report by Bernard Katzen. With cover letter to PSB, 27 July 1956.
Memorandum, to Zionist Organization of America district and regional leaders, 27 August 1956.
Memorandum, to Zionist Organization of America district and regional leaders, 31 October 1956.
Middle Eastern Affairs, v. 7, no. 12 (December 1956); publicity brochure, Council for Middle Eastern Affairs.
Foreign Policy Bulletin, September-December 1956.
Newspaper clippings on the Middle East. 1956.
Newspaper clippings on the Middle East. 1956-1958.
On US policy in the Middle East. 1956-1964.
On Israel. 1956-1973.
"The Black Record: Nasser's Persecution of Egyptian Jewry." American Jewish Congress, [1957].
World Jewish Congress material, 1957.
1957.
Jewish Agency material. 1957-1958.
On Israel and Egypt. 1957-1958.
Newspaper clippings on the Middle East. 1957-1958.
1957-1960.
Newspaper clippings on Israel. 1957-1974.
Address by Senator John F. Kennedy at 50th Anniversary Dinner, Bnai Zion, 9 February 1958.
"Israel's Role in the Asian-African Community," address by U Thant to National Biennial Convention of American Jewish Congress, 17 May 1958.
Statement by Golda Meir to UN, 7 October 1958.
Newspaper clippings on the Middle East. 1958.
Congressional Record, "Tenth Anniversary of Israel," 1958.
"Israel: The First Decade and the Next," by David Ben-Gurion and Nahum Goldmann. 1958.
Newspaper clippings on Israel. 1958.
1960.
On Zionism. 1960-1962.
Extract from statement by Mr. Plimpton to UN, 21 April 1961.
1961-1965.
On American Jewry. 1961-1962.
1961-1975.
News releases, Senator Hugh Scott, 1962.
Newspaper clippings, 1962.
Newspaper clippings, 1962-1964.
1962-1966.
1963.
On the Middle East. 1963.
1963-1964.
Zionist Information Service Weekly News Bulletin, 24 April 1964.
American Zionist Council material. 1964.
Newspaper clippings. 1964-1965.
Newspaper clippings on Arabs. 1965-1968.
"Facts Figures series," no. 1-2, from Research Center, Palestine Liberation Organization, 1965-1966; "Jerusalem Diary of Sister Marie-Terese of the Companion of Jesus," July 1968.
1965-1973.
On Israel and Arab refugees. 1966-1967.
On Israel. 1966-1968.
On Israel. 1966-1968.
BOX 10. Research material
CIA Perspectives, American Jewish Congress, 23 May 1967.
"Danger in the Middle East," weekly column no. 202 from Representative Frank Horton, week of 5 June 1967.
"Israel Must be Annihilated," edited by Ohad Zmora, July 1967.
On the Middle East. 1967.
On the Middle East. 1967.
On the Middle East. 1967.
On the Middle East. 1967.
"Education in Hatred in the Schools of the Arab States." [1967?]
1967-1969.
Newspaper clippings on the Middle East. 1967-1972.
On Yitzhak Rabin. 1967-1974.
"Challenge of the Future," by Moshe Dayan. January 1968.
"Israel Will Not Permit a Stranglehold on its Air Lifeline," by Yosef Tkoah, Israel Ambassador to UN, 31 December 1968.
Photographs of Israel. [1968?]
1968-1969.
1968-1969.
On kibbutzim. 1968-1970.
On Arabs. 1968-1970.
Memo on Jewish migration by Gaynor I. Jacobson, United Hias Service, 22 May 1969.
On Israel's budget, 7 September 1969.
Newspaper clipping on Israel. 1969.
1969-1970.
Newspaper clippings. 1969-1970.
1969-1970.
Material from American Jewish Committee, 1969-1971.
"Questions and Answers on Middle East Problems," American Jewish Committee, May 1970.
"Face the Nation," transcript of 21 March 1971 broadcast.
"Sixty Minutes," transcript of 13 April 1971 broadcast.
Newspaper clippings. 1971.
Congress Bi-Weekly, 30 April, 17 September 1971.
Tadmit Newsletter, 15 August, 15 September 1971.
"The Palestinians," Analysis #19, Synagogue Council of America, 15 September 1971.
On Jerusalem. 1971.
Newspaper clippings. 1971-1973.
"Public Affiars Memorandum," Zionist Organization of America, April 1972.
On energy crisis. 1972-1973.
1973.
News release, National Conference of Christians and Jews. [1973]
Newspaper clippings. 1973-1977.
1978.
"Religious Connection Between Israel and American Jewry."
Jerusalem Post
February-March 1962.
February-March 1962.
February-March 1962.
March 1962.
March 1962.
Series VIII: Local
BOX 1: Housing and race relations
Research material on housing, 1945.
On the Baden Street Settlement, 1950-1957.
"Jewish Population Growth in Rochester, 1843-1938," by Stuart E. Rosenberg. Reprinted from Publication of the American Jewish Historical Society, v. 44, no. 4 (June 1955). 1 booklet.
On racial and ethnic tensions in Rochester, [1955?]-1964.
Research material on Puerto Rican immigration, 1958-1959.
On Hanover House and other housing issues. Newspaper clippings, 1958-1969.
Correspondence on housing, 1958-1973.
On housing in Rochester. Newspaper clippings, 1960.
Rochester City School District student population characteristics, 1962.
"Survey, Moderate-income and low-rent housing need and demand, Rochester, New York," October 1962. 1 booklet.
On civil rights, 1962-1963.
On FIGHT and other race issues, 1962-1974.
On the Baden-Ormon area violence, July 28-August 3, 1964.
On riots. Newspaper clippings, July 1964.
On Sol Alinsky and the Industrial Areas Foundation, 1965.
Research material on housing, 1965-1966.
Addresses by PSB on Rochester's housing problems, 1965-1970. Three addresses: typs., carbons, research material.
"The Reply to Violent Dissent," by Cliff Carpenter,
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 8 November 1967. 1 clipping.
Letter to the editor, Rochester Times-Union, 7 September 1967, by PSB. Clippings, photocopy.
"First Unitarian Church Housing Complex," [1969?] 1 pamphlet.
On housing. Newspaper clippings, [1960s?]
Observations on blacks in Rochester, by Kenneth I. Segel and unidentified author, [1960s?]
Tempro Development Co. Correspondence, 1971-1972.
Better Housing Association. Correspondence, research material, 1947-1952.
Citizens' City Planning and Housing Council. Newspaper clippings, 1940-1942.
Citizens' City Planning and Housing Council. Constitutions, membership, 1940-1942.
Citizens' City Planning and Housing Council. Minutes and reports, 1940-1942.
Citizens' City Planning and Housing Council. Correspondence, 1940-1942.
Citizens' City Planning and Housing Council. Research material, 1940-1942.
Citizens' City Planning and Housing Council. Reports, 1941-1942.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Résumés and applications for position of Director, 1960.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Reports on similar committees from other areas, 1960.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Correspondence, 1960-1961.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Reports, 1960-1963.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Administrative material, 1960-1963.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Meeting agendas, 1960-1963.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Reports and statements, 1960-1964.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Newspaper clippings, 1960-1965.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Minutes, 1961-1962.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Brochures, 1961-1962.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Research material, 1961-1962.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Minutes, 1961-1963.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Minutes, 1961-1963.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Correspondence, 1961-1963.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Reports, 1962-1963.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Correspondence, 1963.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Minutes, 1963-1964.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Minutes, 1964.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Minutes, 1964.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Press releases, 1964.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Correspondence, 1964-1968.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Minutes, 1965-1966.
BOX 2
Housing and race relations
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. News letter, 1965-1966.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Minutes, 1966.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Minutes, 1966.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Minutes, 1967.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Minutes, 1968.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Minutes, 1969.
Monroe County Human Relations Committee. Minutes, 1971-1972.
Religion religious issues
On Riverside Church, New York Newspaper clippings, 1930.
Rochester residents' protest against Nazi Germany, 1935.
Anti-Semitism Correspondence, 1938-1939.
Student Christian Movement Conferences, Silver Bay, N.Y., 1938-1941.
Letter from PSB and others to radio station WSAY on Father Coughlin, 17 September 1940.
New York State Conference on Palestine, 20 October 1940.
Religious education and the public schools, 1940-1941.
German refugees in Rochester Lists and correspondence, 1935-1940.
Refugees in Rochester List of names, undated
Rochester Co-ordinating Committee Annual Meeting report, [address by PSB?], 1939.
Rochester Co-ordinating Committee Correspondence, minutes, 1939.
Rochester Co-ordinating Committee, Address by Stella J. Schiffrin, 7 April 1940. 1 typs.
"Sunday School Review," 1939-1940.
Founding of Temple Emmanu-el, 1953.
Founding of Temple Emmanu-el, 1954-1956.
American Jewish Tercentenary, correspondence, 1953-1954.
Rochester Rabbinical Council Institute on Judaism, 1954.
Suggestions by PSB for possible uses of the Charles W. Markus Fund, 21 March 1957.
Hillel Foundation, correspondence, 1962-1968.
On Rabbi David Z. Ben-Ami, correspondence. 1964.
Protest and memorial of Iraqi hanging of Jews, 1969.
Torahs for Interfaith Chapel, University of Rochester, 1970.
Synagogue bombings, 1970-1971.
Genesee Ecumenical Ministries, 1972.
State of Israel Bonds dinner, 11 March 1973.
Rochester Jewish Education Study," by Samuel I. Cohen, [1975?]
Rochester Conference on Jewish Studies, University of Rochester, 22-24 February 1976.
University of Rochester and Jews, correspondence from PSB, 25 May 1977.
Jewish Community Council. Research material on anti-Semitism, 1939-1940.
Jewish Community Council. Research material on anti-Semitism, 1939-1941.
Jewish Community Council, 1941-1942.
Jewish Community Council. Research material, 1944-1964.
Jewish Community Council. Correspondence, 1949-1973.
Jewish Community Council. Executive Committee minutes and correspondence, 1950-1954.
Jewish Community Council. Studies and reports, 1950-1960.
Jewish Community Council. News releases, 1952-1955.
Jewish Community Council. Constitutions and by-laws, 1952-1961.
Jewish Community Council. Minutes, 1953-1971.
Jewish Community Council, 1954-1956.
Jewish Community Council, 1954-1962.
Jewish Community Council, 1955-1961.
Jewish Community Council. Reports, 1961-1972.
Jewish Community Council. Agendas and minutes of meetings, 1962-1973.
Jewish Community Council. "Leisure Time Study," preliminary draft, [1965?]
Jewish Community Council. "Planning Process to Implement Recommendations of the Leisure Time Study," June 1967. 1 booklet.
BOX 3
Religion religious issues
Jewish Community Council. By-laws. 1960s-1971.
Jewish Young Men's and Young Women's Association. Building dedication, 8 September 1936.
Jewish Young Men's and Young Women's Association. Reports, 1937-1942.
Jewish Young Men's and Young Women's Association. Annual Report?, 1939.
Jewish Young Men's and Young Women's Association. Minutes, Board of Governors, 28 March [1957?]
Jewish Young Men's and Young Women's Association. 1957-1968.
Jewish Young Men's and Young Women's Association. Correspondence, 1960-1975.
Jewish Young Men's and Young Women's Association. Minutes, reports, etc., 1961-1965.
Jewish Young Men's and Young Women's Association. "Planning Process to Implement Recommendations of the Leisure Time Study," June 1967. 1 booklet, correspondence.
Jewish Young Men's and Young Women's Association. Candidates for position of Executive Director, 1968.
Jewish Young Men's and Young Women's Association. 1968-1973.
Leopold Street Shule, 1963-1973: correspondence regarding its tearing down between PSB and others.
Leopold Street Shule, 1973: newspaper clippings on history, on visit of B'rith Kodesh, and on black Jewish congregation to move in.
Leopold Street Shule, undated: "An East European Congregation on American Soil: Beth Israel, Rochester, New York, 1874-1886," by Rabbi Abraham Karp, 1 typs., 1 carbon.
New York Board of Rabbis. 1947-1973.
New York Board of Rabbis. Correspondence, 1953-1957.
New York Board of Rabbis. Correspondence, 1959-1976.
New York Board of Rabbis. 1965.
Rochester Board of Rabbis. Correspondence, 1948-1951.
Rochester Board of Rabbis. Correspondence, 1952-1958.
Rochester Board of Rabbis. Correspondence, 1961-1973.
United Jewish Welfare Fund of Rochester. 1939-1942.
United Jewish Welfare Fund of Rochester. Search for Director, 1941-1942.
United Jewish Welfare Fund of Rochester. Lists of contributors, 1955-1956.
Aging
New York State Conference on the Problems of the Aging, 18-20 October 1955. Citizens' Advisory Committee, 1948-1957.
New York State Conference on the Problems of the Aging, 18-20 October 1955.
New York State Conference on the Problems of the Aging, 18-20 October 1955.
New York State Conference on the Problems of the Aging, 18-20 October 1955. Newspaper clippings, 1955.
On aging. Correspondence, 1955-1971.
"Not Beyond Reach," on housing in Rochester for the elderly, [1964?] 1 booklet.
Arbitration
United Cannery Agricultural Packing and Allied Workers of America v. Webster Basket Co., 1937-1940.
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America v. Rochester Packing Co., 1939.
Steel Workers Organizing Committee v. Brace, Mueller, Huntley, Inc., 1940-1941.
Upholsterers International Union of North America v. Trimble Nurseryland Furniture, 1940-1941.
Organizations
American Red Cross, Rochester chapter. 1942.
American Red Cross, Rochester chapter. PSB endorsements, correspondence, 1948-1955.
Arts Council of Rochester, [1959]
Conference on Vital Social Problems, University of Rochester, 18-21 February 1941.
Draft Information Center of the Rochester Area. 1971-1972.
Family Welfare Society. 1931-1942.
Federal Security Agency National Youth Administration for New York State. 1941-1942.
Friends of the Rochester Public Library Annual Literary Award Committee. 1969-1970.
Institute on Minority Groups in the United States, University of Rochester, 17 October-5 December 1955.
Ira C. Sapozink Award. 1968-1970.
Monroe County League for Planned Parenthood. 1942.
Monroe County League for Planned Parenthood. 1946-1958.
Nation Associates' Conference on Atomic Power, New York City, 1-3 December 1945.
New York Child Labor Committee. 1938-1941.
New York State Conference of Mayors. 1954.
New York State Conference on Social Work. 1940-1942.
BOX 4
Organizations
Planned Parenthood League of Rochester and Monroe County. 1961.
Rochester Association for the United Nations. 1948-1952.
Rochester Civic Music Association. Correspondence, 1956-1957.
Rochester Civic Music Association. Correspondence, 1958-1962.
Rochester Civic Music Association. 1960-1967.
Rochester Civic Music Association. Special report, newspaper clippings, 1962-1969.
Rochester Civic Music Association. 1964-1969.
Rochester Civic Music Association. Correspondence, 1972.
Rochester Community Chest. 1947-1953.
Rochester Defense Council. 1942.
Rochester Forum. "How Good is Goodwill?" address by Everett Ross Clinchy, 2 December 1948. 1 typs., 3 carbons, correspondence.
Rochester Gas and Electric Corp. 1955.
Rochester International Friendship Council, Inc. Correspondence, address by PSB, 1963-1967.
Rochester International Friendship Council, Inc. 1972.
Rochester School Board and Harold O. Rugg textbook controversy. 1942.
Rochester School Board and Howard C. Seymour controversy. 1960.
Russian War Relief, Inc., Rochester chapter. 1942.
Sampson Naval Training Station. Correspondence, 1942.
Symposium on Love, Vassar College, 6-8 March 1955.
"Twenty Club Turns 50," by Cliff Carpenter, Rochester newspaper clipping, 13 October 1970.
University of Rochester student newspaper editor controversy. Newspaper clippings. 1932.
University of Rochester Class of 1907 Reunion, June 1957.
On University of Rochester Medical School, article by [Ernest H. Saward? 1970s?].
WROC-TV Merit Awards for Achievement. 1959.
Young Men's Christian Association of Rochester, N.Y. 1951-1961.
Individuals
Judeh Abid. 1967.
Julia Berlove, Tribute, 9 June 1977.
Morse Bettison, Installation service, 17 March 1968.
Joseph P. Brennan, Testimonial Dinner, 9 May 1977.
Henry D. Carhart to Europe, undated
Henry W. Clune. Newspaper clippings, 1952-1958.
Alphonso Davis case, Niagara County. 1934.
Fred H. Eidlin to Czechoslovakia. 1971.
Avraham Harman, convocation at University of Rochester honoring, 21 November 1968.
William Philip Jenkins, Installation service, 13 September 1959.
Arthur J. Kavanaugh controversy. 1932.
Kenneth J. Keating. 1955-1974.
Kenneth J. Keating. 1956-1975.
Charles Lavery, report on Israel to TBK Sisterhood. 25 February [1976].
Elmer Louis. 1967-1975.
Edna Manley Ludwig Lewisohn. Correspondence, newspaper clippings, 1939-1970.
Robert E. Marshak. 1955.
Conrad Henry Moehlman, program for funeral service, 22 September 1961.
Conrad Henry Moehlman: extract from Grace Moehlman Forbes' biography, and correspondence. 1976-1978.
Edward Cardinal Mooney. 1958.
Walden Moore for Congress. 1942.
Howard Samuels for governor. 1970-1974.
Margaret Sanger controversy. 1932.
Margaret Sanger controversy. 1932.
Wilbour Eddy Saunders, Inauguration service, 21-22 May 1949.
Fulton Sheen. 1966-1967.
John R. Slater. Newspaper clippings, 1965.
James M. Spinning. Newspaper clippings, 1973.
William vanden Heuvel, author of On His Own. 1970.
W. Allen Wallis, "Military Conscription," address, 11 November 1968.
John R. Williams, "The Tree-Its Importance to Society," address. 1961.
Miscellaneous
Trip to Israel by four Rochesterians. 1958.
Freemasonry. 1967-1970.
Rochester personages Dexter Perkins and Abraham J. Karp. 1968-1972.
On Rehovot, Rochester's sister city. 1972.
Series IX: Addresses
BOX 1
1930-1934
"What Is Happening in Russia?" 8 May 1930, Rochester City Club: 2 carbons, typs. fragment.
Graduation address, 22 January 1931.
"Will Russia Communize the World?" 21 February 1932, Y.M.-Y.W.C.A.: program; correspondence.
Graduation address, 1 February 1933.
"Can Schools Create a Better Social Order?" Winter 1933, Parent Teachers Association, Monroe High School: 1 typs.; research material.
Dedication address for new post office, 5 June 1933: 1 typs.; program.
"America Rediscovered," radio address, 5 November 1933: 4 pamphlets.
On Germany's preparation for war [25 November 1933], City Club: 1 typs., carbon fragments; correspondence; research material.
On economic conditions in Russia [1933?]
On Russia [1933?]
"Hitler's Germany-An Eyewitness Report" [1933-1937]: 1 typs.
"With Malice Toward None, With Charity For All" [12 February 1934], Convention Hall.
Rochester centennial, 9 June 1934.
Graduation address, [June?] 1934.
"Education and the Good Life," 15 October 1934, PTA, School 46: 1 typs.; research material.
1935-1937
Address to Park Avenue Synagogue, 7 January 1935?
"Report on the Jews of Mexico," 16 or 17 March 1935, Extraordinary Session of American Jewish Congress, Philadelphia: 1 carbon, 2 typs. copies; "the Situation in Mexico," by Charles S. Detweiler: 1 typs., 1 carbon; research material.
On religion in Mexico, 30 March 1935, City Club: 1 carbon; mss. notes, newspaper clippings.
On religion in Mexico, 30 March 1935, City Club: correspondence between PSB and others.
On religion in Mexico, 30 March 1935, City Club: research material, [mid 1920s-mid 1930s].
On U.S. provocation of Japan [26 May 1935], before Rochester citizens [Mary Gannett presiding] group opposed to war: 1 carbon, carbon fragments.
On U.S. provocation of Japan [26 May 1935]: research material.
"The Lesson of the Stone," 15 June 1935, Dedication of Rundel Memorial Library: 1 carbon; research material.
Testimonial dinner address for police chief Kavanaugh, 12 July 1935: 1 typs.; research material.
"Religious Instruction and Prejudice," 28 August 1935.
High school graduation address [1935]: 1 typs., 1 carbon.
"On What it Means to be a Jew," [1936]
Graduation address, [1936]
Dedication address for Fire House, 1 October 1936: 1 typs.
Address at dinner for Syracuse University Chancellor, 6 December 1937: 1 typs.
On the Spanish Civil War [1937?]
1938-1939
On fascism and anti-Semitism [20 March 1938], before B'nai B'rith: 1 typs., 2 carbons; research material.
Interfaith Goodwill Dinner address against anti-Semitism, 9 April 1938: 1 carbon; research material.
Interfaith Goodwill Dinner address against anti-Semitism, 9 April 1938: research material.
"Universalism and Particularism" [23 June 1938], CCAR: several typs. versions of the address; correspondence.
"Universalism and Particularism" [23 June 1938], CCAR: research material.
"Youth Looks At War," radio address, 9 July 1938.
"Youth Looks At War," radio address, 9 July 1938.
Interfaith Rally address against anti-Semitism in Germany [19 November 1938]: 2 addresses, 1 carbon each; research materials.
Interfaith Rally address against anti-Semitism in Germany [19 November 1938]: research material.
On how Jews view democracy, [1938?], before unidentified Rochester group?: 1 typs.; research material.
"What Can Jewish Youth Do to Serve the Synagogue," 19 February 1939, Temple Emanuel: 1 typs.; correspondence; research materials.
Address to New England Conference of Jewish Communal Agencies, 4 March 1939: 1 typs.; research material.
"The Crisis in Palestine-Where Does the Jew Take His Stand?" 20 March 1939, Ohabei Shalom Temple Center [Boston?]: 1 announcement (water damaged).
"Stand By America" [9 April 1939]: 1 typs., 2 carbons, fragments; correspondence; research material.
Address to Council of Jewish Women, [16 April 1939]: 1 typs., research material.
Dedication address for camp, 9 July 1939: 1 typs.
On propaganda, 5 December 1939, Cleveland temple: 2 carbons; correspondence; research material.
On propaganda, 5 December 1939, Cleveland temple: research material.
On propaganda, 5 December 1939, Cleveland temple: research material.
On Palestine and the British White Paper [1939]: 1 typs., 1 carbon; research material.
BOX 2
1939
Tribute to James M. Spinning [1939?]
1940
"The World Jewish Crisis and Palestine Today," address delivered at the City Club of Rochester, 13 January 1940: 2 pamphlets.
"The Jew Today and Tomorrow" [January 1940?]: 1 typs.; research material.
"Inter-Relationships of Religion and Democracy," 5 May 1940.
Fundraising address for Red Cross, radio address, 25 June 1940: 1 typs., 1 carbon.
On aiding refugees [September-October 1940], Red Cross Regional Conference: 1 typs., 2 carbons; correspondence.
On how religion aids education [27 December 1940], New York State Association of Elementary Principals: 1 carbon; correspondence; research material.
Graduation address at Harley School [1940]: 1 typs.; research material.
On refugees [1940], before Kodak ladies club: 1 carbon; correspondence; research material.
On refugees [1940], before Kodak ladies club: research material.
On refugees [1940], before Kodak ladies club: research material.
1941
On Franklin D. Roosevelt's second term [19 January 1941]: 1 typs.
"This Is My Faith," radio address, 1 February 1941: 2 typs., 1 mimeograph; research material.
"What Do We Owe Our Youth?" radio address, 8 February 1941: 2 mimeographs, 2 carbons; research material.
"The Bill of Rights and the Bill of Duties," radio address, 15 February 1941: 1 typs., 1 carbon, 1 mimeograph; research materials.
"George Washington's Birthday Sermon," radio address, 22 February 1941: 2 typs., 1 carbon, 3 mimeographs; correspondence; program.
"Pioneer Oh Pioneer," radio address [February 1941?]: 2 typs.; research material.
"How Shall We Strengthen Our Spiritual Bulwarks?" 21-14 April 1941, Parent-Teacher Institute: 1 carbon; correspondence; research material.
On Palestine, address to joint meeting of Elmira Chapter Zionist Organization of America and Elmira Chapter of Hadassah, High H. Temple [Elmira, N.Y.], 27 May 1941: 1 clipping describing address, 1 photocopy.
On Democracy, radio address, 7 December 1941: 1 typs.; research material.
"The Community Chest in a Troubled World" [1941?]: 1 typs., carbon fragments of reduced form of address; research material.
On Jewish communities throughout the world [1941?]
"How Can the Rabbi Bring Zionism To His Congregation and Community?" [1941]
Graduation address [1941], Brockport Normal School: 1 typs., 1 carbon.
1942-1944