The Inventory of the Joshua Loth and Fan Loth Liebman Collection #1342
The Inventory
of the
Joshua Loth and Fan Loth Liebman
Collection
#1342
Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center RESTP.len;IJ \JIHlL MRS. LIEBMAN 13 DEA'J'!I ::D("c. ~ > 191-f 5"' Liebn~n, Joshua Loth and Fan Loth
Gift of October, 1968
~.!.!!holograph £f JLL.
1. 11 B.isic Judaism" 4 pp.
2. "Talmud - Newman" 2 PP•
3. "Talmud" 9 pp.
~. "Bost.on G-.rde:1 Address" Oct. 11, 1947. J pp. folio.
5. "Lecture Notes - 1932" 13 pp.
6. "Notes for sermon~ - 1931" 5 PPo
7. "Notes for article on the p~ycholo6y of children" 11 pp.
Bo 11 Society - Toynbee" folio, 1 p.
9. "Tillich" l p. folio.
10. 11 Memorial Service" 4 pp.
11. "M.I.T. Address" 5 PP•
12. 11 M.I.T. notes" 4 pp.
130 "Mason's Address", "Sachar Aodr~ss" 4 rp.
11.. 11Notes for pr-.ye.rs" 2 pp.
15. "Sermon notes" 4 pp.
160 "Statement on visit to Palestine" 1 p. (I came to PalestiPe a yotn1r,
Rabhi - versed int, he theories of Judaism. I left Palestine a
Jew, f iJ.led with a burning fire of a humble pride that I was a
member of a cosmic race - and I wanted to bring back with m~ some
coals with which to gear the minds and hearts of the Am~rican Jew." Liebman, Joshua Loth and Fan Loth Page 2
Semons and Addresses in typescri~t
l. 11 Man and His Hope" Harv.i.rd. Sept. 17, 1946. Holo. corrections, 14 "P•
2. "Muriel Zet~el" 4 PP•
). ''What the Negro Wmts- and Deserves" Holo. coITections, 15 pp.
4. "Youth and Poverty" ~Tuly 8, 1939. Hole. correct.iom1, 4 pp.
S. "Immortality" 1935. Holo. corrections. 5 pp.
6. 11 All religions have sh.i.red ••• " April 23, 1935. 2 pp.
7. 11 Four Reasons Why I Am Not a Pessimist" lh ~F'•
8. "Andover-Newton Theological School Adiress" M.i.y 16, 1945. 6 pp. 9. "S~hool for Parents" Holo. corrections. 2 ,p.
10, 11 Has God Deserted Us" October 23, 193B. 15 pp.
11. "Prayer Fer Labor" Holo. corrections. Nov. 9, 194?.. 2 pp.
12. 11 The Future of Civilization, th~ Atomic Bomb, Congress, and the Scientist. ' ( Nov. 2, 19h5 pp•
13. 11 Maimonides" April 7, 1935. Holo. corrections. 20 pp.
14. 11 M.I. T. Baccalaureate Addr"ss" June 10, 1948. ll• pp.
15. "Titans of Jewish Philosophy" Nov. 18, 1938. 7 pp.
16. 11Reconstructionists Foundation Address" Oct. 14, 1945. Holo. corrections. 10 p
17. 11 Report for Annual Meeting - November lh, 1943" 13 pp.
18. 11Edna Ferber's A PECULIAR TREASURE" Holograph, 3 pp. Typescript. with holo.
corr., 1 7 pp.
19. "Statement Against Diecriminaticn in Employment" State House, Boston. March 7,
1945. 6 pp.
20. "Hise .H.ules For A Happy Marriage" Broadcast, Dec. 2, 1945. Holo. corr. 11 PP•
21 ttfle are met in the great historic Cradle of Liberty ••• " Address, Faneuil Hall.
October 10, 194.5. PP• Liebman, Joshu.i. Loth and F.rn Loth Page 3
Sermons and Addresses in typescript continued.
22. 11 Dr. Julian Morgenstern: A Biogr.phic.i.l Sketch" 9 pp.
23. "Dictatorship ..nd Democr.cy~ "Message of Israel II NBC Broadcast. SP,rt. 2.,
1937. Mimeo. 3 PP•
24. "The Mystery of the Lost Hatred". "~ss.ige of Isr.i.el" Oct,ober 30, 1943.
Mirneo, 3 pp.
1'_ :tl.l.nuscr:ipts (10 ?--
THE RELIGIOIB PHILffiOPHY OF AARON BEN ELIJAH (OJMP>Jl.ED FSPECIALLY WITH
THAT OF MAIMJNIDES) Dissert.ition suhmitted by JLL to Hebrew Union Collegeo
Novembt-r 21, 1938.
Typescrint with holo. additions. (Xerox copy) 543 PPo
PEACE OF MIND. Published by Simon and Schuster, 19460
Galleys o
Correspondence
Allauers, M. (Consul of Belgium in Bosto~) AIS to Mrs. JLt. June 10, 194R.
Alschuler, Rost M. ALS to Mrs. JLL Ji.me 17, 1948.
Bachrach, Alfred TLS to JLL. Aug. 28, 19L7.
C B.i.eck, Leo (Rabbi) 2 ALS to JLL. April l, 22, 1948.
~lS to Mrs. JLL. June 25, 1948.
c B.i.ldffin, F,ith ALS to Mrs• JLL. Ji.me 10, 1948.
Berlot, Pierre TLS to JLL June 23, 1951.
c Bixler, Julius S. (President of Colby College) A1S to Mrs. JLL June 11 [19483
TIS to Mrs. JT.. Lo June 12, 1948.
Bucke, Em::>ry Telegram to Mrs. JLL June 10, 1948. Liebman, Joshua Loth and Fan Loth Page 4
Qorrespondence continued
Clerf, Louis H. TLS to Mrs. JU. June 16, 1948.
Cohen, Sidney S. (Exec. Director, Associated Jewish Philanthropies) TLS to M~s. JLL
Dec. 2, 19)~9.
Colclough, Elizabeth s. (Town Hall, New York) Telegram to ~s. JLL. June 10, 1948.
C Compton, Arthur AIS to Mrs, JLL. rJune 18, 1948 ,1
C Compton, Karl TIS to JLL. March 8, 1948. TIS to JLL. March 9, 1948,
Compton, ~garet H. (Mrs. Karl T. Compton) AIS to Mrs. JLl, rMay 10, 1948J
C Conant, James B. ALS to Mrs. JLL. No date,
Conant, Grace R. (Mrs. James Bry.int Con.int) AIS to Mrs. JLL. No date.
Co_ngregaticn Ema.nu-El New York, Board of Trustees. Telegr-.m to Mrs. llLL. June 11, 1948.
Cronbach, Abraham TLS to JLL. J\Ille 6, 1948.. AIS to Mrs, JLL, Sept., 1964.
C Crum, Bartley C. TLS to Mrs. JLL. Jw-ie 10, 1948 o
C Deane, Martha TLS to Mrs. JLL. August 8, 1951. C:olalo9ue d v.- fo., lo~) l"'lai:: ic.t,i y'ounj
c DeSola Pool, David (Raobi) AT.S to Mrs. JLL. June 10, 191.lB, Cat as P()olJ Den 1d &: SolcL
Du Plessis, David J. TIS to • JLL Jan. 8, 1951.
C Einetein, Albert TIS to JLL J.m. 31, 194 7 o
C Eisenhower, Dlfight David TLS to JLL March 23, 1948.
C Eliot, Frederick 14, TIS to 14.rs. JLL. June 1, 1949 -. c Ell, Carls. (President, Northeastern University) 3 TIS to M<"s.... JLL: June 10, se,t. 18, Oct. 8, 19h8. Enclosed in last is signed typescript
of President Ell 'a tribute to JU,, 2 pp.
C Epstein, Eliahu (Allbaesador) Telegram to Mrs, JU. June 10, 19480
Field, Marshall Telegram to Mrs. JLL. June 11, 19l..t8
shbein, Morris (President, A»A) Telegram to Mrs. Jl,L. June 10, 1948.
ford, George B. TLS to M,.s. JLL. June 10, 1948. c., Fosdick, Harry E11erson TLS to JLL April 9, 1947. L;_ebman, Joshua 18th and Fan Lgth Page S
Gardner, Lester D. AL.5 to Mrs. JLL. June 14, 1948. Enclosed is M.I.T. Resolution upon death of Dr. Liebman.
Glasser, Betty Ann TL.5 to M.,.s. HLL Jan 11, 1967.
Goldenson, Samuel H. (Rabhi) Tl.S to JLL June 10, 1948.
Grinker, Roy R. (Exec. Director, Mich.el Reese Hospital) TI.S to 19:s. JLL.
June 14, 1948.
Hall, Lewis Fred (Exec. Sec., Taunton Council of Churches) TIS to Mrs. JLL.
F~b• 23, 1949. Encloeed is tribut~ to Dr. Liebman.
Hartrnan, Lewis o. (Bishop, Met.ho dist Church, Boston area) TL.5 to Mrs. JLLo June 12, 19480 Enclosed is 3 P~o typescript of memorial broadcast
sp~ech on Dr. Liebman's death by Bishop Hartman over WCDP. Heller, James o. TI.S to Mrs• JLL, June 15 rl948J
C Hoover, J. Edga:r TIS to Mr.s. JLL.. June 10, 1948. C Hotcr.ner, A. E. (Editor, Coemo~olitan) TLS to JLL. April 16, 1948.
C Javits, Jacob TL.5 to Mrs• JLL. June 16, 19480 Telegram Lo Boston University October 28, 19680
Kaplan, Mordecai M. ALS to M.,.s. JLt June 11, 19480
Karsch, Hans Hellmut ALS to JLL June 7, 1948
Knight, Walter David (Synod of New England of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A)
ALS to M,..s. JLL.. June 11, 1948.
Kohnky, Fr-.nces AL5 to Mrs. JLL. June 17, 1948.
Kranzbaum, Pauline (Simon and Schuster) 2 TLS to JLL. F~b 19, March 3, 1948.
Kubie, La~rence s. TL.5 to JLL Jan 22, 1948. Levy, David M. TIS to Ms.... JLl,. June 11, 1948. Liebman, Joshua Loth,., AIS (draft) to Rabbi Friedman re: Maurice Eisendrath. n.d. L~ebman, Joshu.w. Iflth and Fan L0 th Page 6
McCarthy, WilliaJO T. (U.S. Attorney of Massachusetts) TIS to ~'s. JLL. June ll, 194' McGinnis, Edward F. (Sergeant at Arms of the u.s. Senate) TLS to Mrs. JLL.
C, ~goun, F. Ale.x.nder ALS to Mrs, JLL. June 19, 1952.
Mahoney, Mildred AI.S to Mrs. Jll. June 17, 1948.
C Marshall, George c. Telegram to Mrs. JLL. June 10, 1948.
Meister, Karl P. (Exec. Sec. Board of Ho3pitals of the Methodist Church) TI..S
to Mrs. JLL. July 7, 1948 • ., C Menninger, William C. TLS to Mrs. JLL June 11, 1948.
v~tzler, Philip ALS to Mrs. JLL. June 24, 1948.
~yer, Carl Jr. TLS to JLL May 26, 1948.
llinosson, Fred (President, New EngliJld J~wish National Fwid) TLS to Mrs. JLL. June 1,
1948.
C Murray, Philip (President CIO) Telegram tJ Mrs. JLL. June 10, 19hRo
C Nash, Nona.an ALS to Mrs. JLL June 10 tl948J
Olan, Levi, A. (Rabbi ALS to Mrs. JLL. no date.
Osgood, Phillips E. .ALS to Mrs. JLL rJune 16, 1948.J
C Overstreet, Bonaro TLS to Mrs. JLL June 14 tl948j
C Oxnam, G. Bromley Telegram to Mrs. JLL June 10, 19li8.
C Perkins, Palfrey (Minister, King 1 5 Chapel, Boston) ALS to Mrs. JLL. June 16, 1948.
Robinson, H. M. TLS to JLL. Sept. 14, 1945.
C Rosenman, Samuel I. Telegram-to M.. s. JLL June 10, 1948.
C Samuel., M.iurice (novelist) AI.5 to Mrs. JLL June 11, 1948.
C, Sherrill, Henry Knox (Bishop) ALS to Mrs. JLL. June 11, (194B)
Si.mon, Rich.rd (Simon and Schuster) TLS to JLt. Sept. 10, 19160
Solomon, Irving Telegram to Mrs. JLL. no date.
Steinberg, Milton (Rabbi) AlS to Mrs. JLL June 10, 1948.
Sulki!!, Emanuel Ho 0Preddent, Boston B1 nai B1 rith) TIS to Mrs. JLL June 23, 1%8. Liebman, Joshua 1 0 th and F.n Loth Page 7
C Sulzberger, Arthur HaY?J. Telegram to M.rs. JU... June 11, 1948.
Tribble, Harold W. (President, Andover-Newton Theological School) Telegram to
Mrs. JLL. June 10, 1948.
Trust, Harry (President, Bangor Theological Seminary) Telegram to 14,..s. JLt.
June 10, 1948.
Vi.rajdus, Kanchanltl ALS to JLL. Jan 9, 1951.
C Wallace, DeWitt TLS to JLL. April 10, 1947. TIS to Mrs. JLL June 10, 1948.
C Wedemeyer, A. G. (General, U.S.A) TlS to JLL May 20, 1948.
C Weeks, Edffard (Atlantic Monthly) TIS to JLL May 7, 1948. TLS to Mrs. JLL,
June 25, 1948.
Wendt, Lloyd (President, Society of )lid.land Authors) Telegram to Mrs. JLL.
June 10, 1948.
White, Margaret M. AlS to Mrs. JLL. June 10, 1948.
C White, Wtl ter Telegr.i.m to Mrs. JLL June 10, 1941.
Wilson, Lucy (Dean of Students, Wellesley College) TLS to Mrs. JLL. Dec. 10, 1952.
C Wine, Stephen TL3 to Mrs. JLL June 11, 1948. (Included is 1 p. typ"scrii,t with
holo. correction o.f a statement upon Dr. Liebrnan 1 5 death
C Wright, John (Bi21hop) TIS to Mrs. JLL. June 10, 1948.
&~x. 4 Memorabilia 1. 11 Rabbi Liebm,m of Temple Israel Voted Life Tenure" Article from
Boston Sunday Globe, Nov. 20, 19117.
2. 11 Dr. and Mrs. Liebman Adopt Polish Born War Orphan" Newn clipping. No date.
3. "The Union of American Hebrew Congregations Presents Rabbi Joshua tnth
Liebman" Lecture program. no da teo
4. Joshua Lith Liebman House at Ben Shemen, Ispael. Brochure. Liebman, Joshua Loth and Fan Loth Page 8
Me~orahilia continued
5. Se~vices of Installation of Dr. Joshu- Loth Liebman as Rabbi of Temple
Israel. Nov, 10, 1939. Program.
6. Reviews from the press of PEACE OF MIND. 8 piecee.
7, Newspa,er article on Dr. Liebm:l.n 1 s mroadcasts.
8. Dr. Liebman 1s personal book plate. 2.
9. 15oth Anniversary of Massachusetts State House. Program containing invocation
by JLL. May 2L, 19h8. • 10. Hallmark eift brochure containing ~\lr Mennry Shall Be A Blessing" '.r by JU.
11. tToshua Loth Liebman Scholarship Fund at Wellesley College. Brochureo l2. Dust jacket of PSYCHIATRY AND RELIGION edited by JLL.
13. Materials relating to Dr. Liebman 1 s address at Mass Rally, Boston Garden,
Oct. 11, 1947. "They Must Live" Greater Boston Combined Jewish Appeal.
14. Remarks made •y Senator,. Leverett Saltonst.all upon the occasion of the establishing of the Joshua Loth Lieb!lan and Fan Loth Liebrn,m Collection.
Boston University, October 27, 1968. Xerox cory.
15. Remarks made by Dr. H. !3. Gotlie\:I on occasion noted above. Typescri:c,t.
16. Comments of five distinguished scholars relative to Dn Joshua Loth Liebman,
Tearsheet. lj. 11 Philsophical Ideas and Enduring Peace" by Edear Briehtm.an. Pamphlet. SiV1ed
:pre~entation to JLL 0
18. Christmas card with name of JLL inscribed in the design "• ••Who have made
twentieth century history?"
19. Joshua. 1/.)th ~ ebman Memorial F'lmd. Established by Boston donors. Mimeo. 15 Jt1,
200 "Here is what Temple Israel Broadcasts have meant to hundreds of thousands
of listeners 11 • Brochure.
21. ETERNAL LIGlIT Broadcast devoted tn the life of JLI. .• 11Who Saves One Life"
by n~vid Davidsono ~ay 3, 1953. Liebman, Joshua Loth and Fan Loth Page 9
Memcrabilia co~tinued
22. J. Edgar Hoover selects PEACE OF tID1D as one of the World's gr~at books. u Brochure of the Boston Public Library.
23. Stories of JI..L in The ,Jewish Advocate, Nov. 11,. 1948; The Reconstructionist
June 25, 1948.
24. Citations and Awards
a) Sigma Alpha Mu Medal. 1946.
b) Ohioana L+brary Award. 1946.
c) Phi Beta Karpa Association of Chicago Medal.
d) Citation of Honorary Doctor of Divinity presente
College, Cincinnati, Ohio. May 29, 1948.
e) Honorary Doctor of Letters, awarded posthumously by Colby College. 1948.
f) "ln MelJlOriu. 11 Citation presented by the Board of Trustees of Temple
'( Adath Israel of Boston, July 26, 1948.
g) Citation presented by Associated Jewish Philanthropies. 111n
Meiooriu". No date.
Published!!£.!!~ JI.J.,
1. "The Time has oome for Americ-.n Isra~l to take the Spiritual 0ffensi ve 11
June 1948. Cir£le
2. 1!Wh.t Is Behind the Prejudice A6ainst Religion" The Re constructionist
Dec. 13, 1940. J. "The Art of Hap~iness" Cosr10politan Sept. 19480
4o Prayer spoken by JIJ.. at the Openin~ of the u. S. Senateo May 19, 1948.
Congressional Record May 19, 1948.
5. "How Can We Find Peace of Mind in This A;mnic Age?" ~ Meetin__g Jan. ?O, 1948.
60 n'l'he Outlook for Palestine Now'' Published by Brotherhood o.f Temple Israel.
,.April '.~ 1 1948. I
JOSHUA LOTH LIEBMAN PAPERS
BOX 7
Many copies of radio addresses Peace for our World - Is it Still possible? WBZ 12/21/47 How to remain normal in abnormal times WNAC 3/7/43 V for Victory WNAC 12/6/42 Atlantic Monthly Reprint, June 1948 A Living Saint - Rabbi Baeck Friday night sermon 1/21/44 In this time of Tension How the Bible can help you live today Ways to live your life victoriously The Art of courage WBZ 2/6/44 The art of saying no WBZ 1/2/44 The road to inner serenity today WNAC 4/1/43 (see box 8)
Box 8
20 copies of United Jewish Laymens Comm. pamphlets 10/43 The road to serenity today 4/1/43 (see box 7) David the King WBZ 5/5/46 Favorite Works of the year Yankee from Olympus 2/4/45 A Bell for Adano Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin Conference WBZ 2/18/45 Henrietta Szold 4/45 Rosenwald & Zionists Before Congress (see box 9 and others) Religion-Race-Nation- What are we? (see box 10)
BOX 9
Roxenwald & Zionists before Congress How to Believe in Yourself WBZ 4/45 How to find God (first in a series) The Talmud--its help for modern living WBZ 3/45 Earth and High Heaven What I think about Intermarriage 12/5/44 (see box 10) John Roy Carlson, "Under Cover" 12/5/43 What shall we do with the Germans WBZ 5/20/45
BOX 10
Periodicals: Opinions 2 part article 4/45 & 5/45 The Jewish Challenge The Reconstructionist 10/43; 11/26/43; 12/24/43; 1/7/44 1/21/44; 12/13/46 What is behind prejudice in Religion? 10/31/41 & 40 Religious attitudes reprints: What hope for Jews by Rabbi Philip Bernstein The Bigot by Gordon Allport Social Psychology & Civilian War Effort by Gordon Allport Zionism by Abba Hillel Silver Sermons on intermarriage (cf 9) Rosenwald & Zionists before Congress (cf. 8 & 9) .,
BOX 11
dresses & sermons in folders 1934 + Handwritten notes - 64 pages - UAHC on top Sermons: 1939-44 radio addresses on D-Day List of Bar Mitzvahs 1947-48 How to Remain normal in Abnormal times, Ford Hall Forum 7/22/42 Typed pages of Peace of Mind Introduction, purpose, Ch. III, IV, V, VI, VII
BOX 12
Sermons and Book Reviews 1935 - 1939 e.g.: Eyeless in Gaza Religious Education for Children Is Mohammedanism still a living religion? Intermarriage Anti-Semitism is Decreasing here 3/5/39 Father Coughlin 11/38 Lectures in Jewish History Moses, George VI, Mohammed--To Whom Does Palestine Belong?
BOX 13
Assorted Sermons 1934-1937 Mann's Joseph in Egypt Lectures on Christianity .( handwritten sermon revisions Is Russia the Promised Land for the Jews 1934
Box 14
Correspondence 1935 - 1939 re: income tax Sermons 1939-41 6/1938 Chicago KAM Temple Confirmation Service Letter with clippings from BB Dorfman re: Ambassador Kennedy written: some characteristics of the P code written notes re Olympics in Germany
Box 15
two folders of letters to and from servicemen 12/1/44; 8/45-1946 handwritten notes and small diary (43-44) typewritten index cards with quotes, book references and resource material "manuscript" notes: Book suggestion?? Spiegel?? Greek religion lecture notes - handwritten letter from father 6/13/35 correspondence re Cincinnati to Chicago 3/3/35 Box 16
. :ndwritten manuscripts e.g. Yorn Kippur sermon 1939 notes: what is Judaism Syllabus: BU Philosophy 210 God, Man, Society letters of condolence on death of Mrs. Liebman's father The Cypress bulletin 3/11/38 Chile asks Ecuador Abandon Plans for Expulsion of Jews
Box 17
Some duplicates of sermons: Shabbat and holidays (cf, box 8) several addresses re: Lincoln 90th Anniversary Celebration 4/2/44 The Synagogue Today and Tomorrow How can I believe in God now? WNAC 2/7/43 Faith WBZ 12/7/47 A Jew Looks at Xmas 12/27/40 Correspondence with Mr. Lincoln Schuster 1946 great enthusiasm re: Peace of Mind Excerpts from, and copies of, prayer pamphlets
Box 18
Sermons 1936-37 (some handwritten)
{· f Box 19
Sermons 1934 Jewish history addresses occasional talks to Sisterhood, Religious School & Congregational Meetings (Chicago 37-38 1931-32: reports, reviews, holiday sermons Peace 1931-32; Chanukah; challenge to Israel Bible as Literature 1937 Citadel & Marie Curie 1928 handwritten lectures on Reform Judaism handwritten & typed lectures on Einstein; view of life; Orthodox Judaism Kol Nidre 1931- written in Hebrew; Cincinnati talks in Lafayette 1931?
Box 20
Information on outside of folders does not correspond to contents Children's sermons 1939 Freehof & Liebman sermons, misc. Lafayette What to do with our schools 37-38 clippings re. Jewish affairs 1938 Jewish Current News, Chicago sermon: The Mother (6 titles within folder) Emile Zola ·· 11as America's Greatest Thinker Discovered God?" Clipping 1935 JOSHUA LIEBMAN COLLECTION AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Box 1/21
Envelope listing sembrance and talks given in 1936-37. Some handwritten ,,otes in this. Interesting undated handwritten notes on stationery of Park Central Hotel, N.Y. Luncheon with S. S. W., which presumably is Steven S. Wise , discussion of the nomination of Justice Black with his history of Ku Klux Klan. A relationship to the Supreme Court, Black will probably make a quite good justice. Some Palestine Petition apparently quoting Weiss: "I don't think it will come to pass." he says. I don't know that the Rabbis of the period before Hertzel were to be flawed. If I had lived before Hertzel I believe that I might have been a following of the High Horn Kohler tradition. The belief that a Messianic era of one humanity and one faith was dawning. Apparently quoting Weiss, "Franklin R. is not a great man but does sometimes great things. He is not a thinker but has thinkers around him. He is bitter, vengeful and the damndest liar, but one thing he did, he saved American Democracy. Comment about Hirsch. Hirsch was a tragedy." Josh, I want you to come here, speak to my student body, and preach Sunday morning at Carnegie Hall sometime in March or April.
Bulletin of the Anshi Emmet Congregation in Chicago, dated September 3, 1937, no apparent connection with Liebman. Letter dated December 17, 1937 to Liebman from Steven S. Wise , National Chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, Copy for Liebman of 5-page letter from Weiss to Rabbi Solomon Goldman of the Jewish Welfare Fund of Chicago complaining about the allocation between Joint Distribution Committee and United Palestine Appeal. p1 Interesting quotation: "Without regard even to political objectives in Palestine, surely no one could countenaricethe failure to provide innocent colonists with the measures to defend themselves against attackers. Whether the latter are motivated by nationalistic ambitions or by the mercinary hope ful loot. I can add in this confidential letter that the funds which this Jewish agency has at its disposal at the present time are inexclusively inadequate in the scope of the heavy defense measures which should be available. The upbuild ing of Palestine is a dynamic and rather static task. A country who will respond to the type of treatment given it in terms of men and money. But if there should be Jews who retreat time a shot is fired or difficulty appears, then we cannot fully utilize the opportunities for immigration that Palestine affords. I wonder how far the upbuilding of America would have proceeded if prospective settlers in Europe had decided to live in the economic and religious oppression of their homeland because they heard reports of attack by Indians.
Other comments on land purchase and colonization. Handwritten notes giving in detail a visit with Justice Brandeis in Washington on stationary of the Willard Hotel, Washington, D. C. Justice Black and wife were just leaving the Brandeis apartment and Liebman says,"I greeted them, he looked vigorous and happy. His wife, gray-haired, slender and sparkling. Apparently, the visit with the Brandeis had been serene and peaceful." He goes on to say that they lingered and had quite a chat. He -spoke of his profound admiration for Brandeis,one of the greatest Americans who had ever lived. I assured Black that his speech last night over radio had masterly elements and that the Jewish people liked him for the enemies he has now made -- the Clan itself, the economic and social reactionaries. He was very grateful for this expression of opinion. Liebman was apparently still •ing in Chicago at that time. He described Justice Brandeis's library and the ice enters extremely tall and Lincolnesc. He laughs at my references to the royalties. Rabbis should pay for giving them so much material for sermons and Joshua Liebman Collection BU ~ge 2
;;: reference to J. H1-nes Holmes statement to me, "I am cramming up on
Louis D. Brandeis." Rich few momemts with a giant of the Twentieth Century,
he writes, Then he paraphrases Brandeis's remarks. "I appreciate the invita
tion, but it is impossible to accept and made it a variable rule never to give
public speeches since I have come to the bench. Brandeis is quoted as saying:
"I feel a great need of restoration of your ideas expressed in your "Americanism
in Judaism". He quotes Brandeis in saying "There will be no Jewish State. I do
not believe Britain will go through with its partition plan which was a tragic
mistake from the start." Brandeis was especially interested in the British
Jewish Chronicle article by a man by the name of Broadhurd, a police official.
He is a good man for Jews to listen to. He tells what would happen in the i,,..)1£/ZM~N partition of Palestine. C:;~ ; and Ben Gurion are wrong. It should never f( come to pass. Britain has dealt unwisely from her new maybe its starting point.
Mandate is workable, Britain can make it succeed. In answer to the question,
What do you think about the Jewish State if created? Brandeis says, "Tragic
mistake, We Jews want peace with the Arabs, not War. It would be worse than
little Balkan States, because at least they were potentially defensible. Palestine
would not be. And, furthermore, the whole deal would go out of a Zionist dream.
Palestine would have to industrialize and give up social visions.
ENVELOPE CONTAINING LECTURES AND ADDRESSES, such as John Dewey lectures, June
1932, Mother's Day Address, May 1932. Talk on Spinozza.
On stationary of the Fowlar Hotel, Lafayette, Indiana, a handwritten speech
apparently at the completion of the first year as Rabbi there.
other lectures also here.
'. ENVELOPE WITH TALKS ON HITLERISM. -
Joshua Liebman Collection BU "7ag• :::3::
unsigned, three-page, typewritten letter dated Berlin, March 14, 1933. Apparently this is a copy of a letter sent to someone else with horrible tales of the Hitlerism, the of Nazi persecution of the Jews in the stores and in their apartment houses that they own. A quotation from this letter. "Please get this over to the rabbis for something must be done to counteract the terrible stuff that this man Goebbels will now begin to get out. They should never mention my name should th~y announce anything from a pulpit -- simply refer to it as reports from Germany. Catholic priests have also been mishandled and then beaten, It got so bad that the Embassy had to appeal to the foreign office for protection of their citizens, I understand that all other foreign missions have done the same thing for their nationals, Foreign correspondents dare not write and many have fled for fear of being taken for a ride, I want to get this elsewhere.
A quotation: If you can get this over in strictest confidence to all your rabbis that word has been received from Germany, etc,, I don't mind. I only cannot afford to have my name connected with public reports. What I have told you about American Jews resident in Germany about beaten up etc. is public property, printed illegally in the papers, but this was named has been reported in the London Times where that can be told freely.
COLLECTION OF 1939 FRIDAY NIGHT SERMONS AND A BI HOSPITAL VICTORY ADDRESS.
. i ' One example, from 23, 1939, address on "Will Palestine Become \ ( Another Czechos1-vakia?", Address on Grapes of Wrath, Lecture of 1940, Friday Night Service. One on Bertrand Russell and his beliefs: "The Real Moral Issue". Four challenging books of 1940 Synagogue.
BOX NO. 22
COLLECTION of Friday Night Sermons for 1941 - Yorn Kippu~ Rosh Hashannah and Community organization addresses.
March 21, 1941 - Sermon entitled: "Our Athiest Neurotics Begins" - The City of London is being blown, the Balkans are a powder keg ready to explode. Talk on Jochanan Ben Zakkai, December 12, 1941, talk on "Americans All We Are In the War" - Starting it seems like a dream or a nightmare, the coming of War to our country Forum talk on February 9, 1941 entitled, "Psychoanalyzing Anti-Semitism". It starts: Sigmund Frued has left an immortal legacy for human civilization. He has been the Columbus of the mind reviewing the unsuspected continent of the subconscious which dwells in all of us. Talk given November 24, 1941 at a Hadassah "PEP" Tea, entitled: "_Sources of Optimism in a Warring World". Chose a wide range of his quotations. First story of Jewish heroism in a book by Ben Paasan quotes the new work of Sorrocan of Harvard as a (Saroki) in Spenglar Achad Haam "Douglas Freeman, Biographer of Robery Eli, John Keats Sonnet, preparatory notes with his talk. State: "Professor Charles A. Beard, one of the leading historians our time, was asked some time since what major lessons he had learned from ory, and the answer that he learned for, here they are: "First whom the god~ would destroy, they first make mad with power. Second, the mills of the gods grind slowly yet they grind exceedingly small. Third, the bee fertilizes the flower it robs. Fourth, when it is dark enough you can see the stars. , ---:Pegs :Jt-
BOX 22 (Continued)
COLLECTION OF Friday night Sermons for 1942. Some Titles: Japan - Its Religious Faith and National Policy, Hitler, Herzold and Judge Frank. Roosevelt at 60, Reform Judaism in the Distant Future, One Christian who understands this, there are two Jews who do not. Why the modern Phaaroh will not win. Coughlin and Civil Liberties, dated April 24, 1942. Why America Will Not Go Anti-Semetic, Immortal Dutch, V for Victory over Fear, Collections of other sermons, some of them have been found in other boxes. Interesting pamphlet entitled: He Brought Peace of Mind to Millions, an intimate Biography of Joshua Loeb Liebman, 1907-1948, reprinted from the Boston Sunday Advertiser and Evening American in whose columns it appeared immediately following his death at the age of 41. It consists of 22 or so pages with asteriks beside some lines. At the beginning it says, This indicates errata article by Liebman in Journal opinion made 1945 entitled: The Jewish Challenge in Human Hope - Part 3, Reprints in pamphlets of some of his talks, published and distributed to other Brotherhood of Temple Israel, 1946-47, 48. The Meaning of Life, The Jew and Judaism, Past and Future, How Shall we Face the Atomic Age, Hope for Survival, My Faith - What I Understand by Morality and Immorality, a_reprint entitled: God and the World Crisis - Can we Still Believe in Providence, reprinted from Yearbook YM 51 Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1951.
END OF BOX 22. 6ox .15(!) Manila Folders, some alphabetically arranged, presumably from his days at Chicago. This contains correspondence also current events, items for Sisterhood. One folder with label Confirmation. One with letters of condolence sent by Dr. Liebman. Interesting letter dated October 15, 1937 · to Professor Albert Einstein. "My Dear Professor, I cannot tell you how highly treasured is my memory of the hour that I spent in your presence. My reaction on leaving your home was that others may say, See Naples and Die, but for myself a truer expression would be, See Professor Einstein and live." In the letter he states: "As I told you in our conversation, externally the Jews of Chicago are somewhat disturbed at the fact that this city is a center of Nazi propaganda and Nazi activities; internally the almost one-half million Jews here are concerned about the future status of Palestine and the development of Zionism. Any words that you have to say on these themes or any other themes will make the 90th anniversary celebra tion, December 19, a ~emorable and historic occasion.''
I do not see any letter by Professor Einstein in this folder.
BOX 24
Manila Folders with correspondence continue from letter H through 0 in folder as letters of welcome from Rabbi Liebman, apparently to new members of his Chicago temple. These all seem to be in the 1930, 1950 7-59. BOX 25
A Manila Folder with many handwritten notes for apparently sermons and all books, notes for paper, the Rehabilitation of World Jewry. One folder entitled: FAN File. Three letters. Several folders with hand written notes, some on stationery of .Temple Israel Boston. One folder with correspondence from Paul S. Barabb. In 1947, he was suggesting the creation by Temple Israel of a Department of Personal Counselling. A folder with invitations for Talks all over the country. Some of these talks were arranged through Harry Walk Lecturing Concert Management, the honorarium for one was $600. A folder with Mrs. Liebman written on the outside, has a few letters addressed to her. One letter with an envelope marked personal from Fanny Rose Gancfried from Youngstown, Ohio dated May 22 (?) 1948. One comment in the letter is: You are under a great strain Josh dear and you must not drive yourself so hard. There must be time when you can relax and rest. When we grow tired, we can't do our best work. You must remember that rest is the builder and you must not squander your good health. You are very wise in considering the problems of others, but even with my limited capacity, I know that you, too, are a problem child and you are not always in complete control. That terrific drive. Please pause a little now and then and take stock of yourself. The quiet, restful companionship of a loved one, or a good friend is worth more than all the glitter and glamour in the world. The great task that needs to be done by persons like you can only be achieved as you protect and rebuild your own resources. In doing that you are helping to attain the goals you are striving toward."
I: I Bill for draperies and recoved.ng sofa in Mr. Liebman' s RtJ1rlv. Prnnf \ of biographical sketch in "Who's Who" to be revised for: "Who knows and What." A typewritten page is the following: "Send book to Mr. J. Edgar Hoever, Director, F.B.I., Washington, D. C. Send book to Mr. McGinnis, Sargeant of Arms, U. S. Senate, Washington, D. C. Send book to President Harry S. Truman and to Mary Margaret Truman. Some correspondence with Dr. Merrill Moore. Letter dated May 26, 1948 from Joseph E. Cohen, who apparently was one of the leaders of the UJA in New York. Great praise for his speech at the Assemblage at which close to $2 Million Dollars was contributed. "Your splendid impassionate and spirited address. You thrilledevery fiber in the deep recesses of their hearts and like a concert master achieved a unison of emotion that prevailed throughout." Correspondence for an article to be published in Cosmopolitan Magazine. In a letter to Jerome Nathanson, leader of the Society for Ethical Culture in New York, he says: "In writing that chapter on God, I was really not aware of my indebtedness to William James. If I was, you can rest assured that I would have called attention to this fact." Letter dated June 1, 1948 from the Town Hall Inc. of America's Town Meeting of the Air. Rabbi Liebman must have anticipated in the June 22 America's Town Meeting of the Air. Fulsom, Treasurer of Eastman Kodak Co., would talk on industry's policies. Senator Claude Pepper would talk on "Are You Prepared To Grow Old Successfully?"
Some correspondence referring to a visit to Hanover, N.H., January 1948. A letter dated January 21, 1948 from Rudolph Wyner in regard to radio broad cast at the Town Meeting of the Air, January 20, 1948. The remarks he says made during the broadcast is to the advisability of appointing a psychologist to advise the U. S. Senate or Cabinet were very intriguing. In a letter from Charles Kemler, dated February 17, 1948, there is attached an article which ~as reprinted in the New York Times. Apparently it was first published in q
BOX 25 (Cont.)
Hollywood. It is entitled "For Film Folk" by Leo Gutterman. Two typewritten pages. Profile of Dr. Liebman. First paragraph - When America's most famous Rabbi, Joshua Loth Liebman, arrived in Hollywood, he upset a serene and peaceful community comprised of the world's most famous personalities who quietly go about their business of making motion pictures elsewhere. Apparently, everyone in Hollywood vasseeking peace of mind for Dr. Liebman's lecture according to all box office reports turned out to be the fastest sellout in the history of the · famous concert hall. Hundreds were turned away with regret. Following his talk, Rabbi Liebman received the most thunderous ovation this columnist has ever heard given a single individual on a platform. Josua Loth Liebman stands as straight as a major, weighs perhaps 150 lbs., has the smooth, round almost cherubic face that carries not a wrinkle in his pleasant, jovial contour and dresses in the latest but conservative of fashion. He presents the picture of a successful university president, handsome physical specimen who has taken life as felt it and not make too much possible for setbacks he has suffered and the privation he has known. There was a man who, through and through, was a true man of religion, uncommonly steeped in ancient, important learning, utterly sophisticated,and with no trace of cynasism, pessimism or conceit, Other interesting comments: He is no cap and gown philosopher frowning from the pulpit. There was reference in one letter to his article: Hope For Human Brotherhood in the January 1948 issue of the Ladies Home Journal. Letter from the President of the American Unitarian Association, dated October 24, 1947 referring to Liebman's contribution to our Washington Conference. On the following Sunday, he writes: I found myself in Pittsburgh in the afternoon, ran into one of our younger ministers in that neighborhood who told me that your address is completely changed. His whole approach to the problem of preaching and wound up by saying with usual exhuberance, "This morning I preached the best sermon of my career,"
B - Miscellaneous Folder
There is a letter from the Board of Overseers of Harvard College. Appar ently Rabbi Liebman was a member of the Overseers Committee to visit the Divinity School. Some people asking for autographed copies of his book, asking for the names of a psychiatrist. Correspondence in August and July 1947 from the Ladies Home Journal with Publishing Company asking for an article on tolerance. July 30, 1947 article says: "You will be interested to know that the Novelist, David Davidson, and his wife, Hilda Abel are going to write your family biography. They will be back in New York on August 27 and can arrange to go to Boston for the first interview any time after that at your convenience, It may be well to set a date now. They will want to follow through during the week of September 25 when observances are being held, but this will be more for reporting atmosphere than for interviews •
.END OF INVENTORY OF BOX 26 ,. Page 1, ? / BOX 27 - ~- \ BO - MISCELLANEOUS
Reference to letter April 1948 - Dr. Liebman being included in 1947-48 edition of Best Sermons. Folder labeled "Board Reports 1947". In a January 25, 1948 report is included this: "I talked with Mr. Fromm concerning some added Jewish music at the Friday evening services and as always he proved both understanding and cooperative. At the present time, I believe that a cantor ially trained person would be a ~plendid addition to our choir, one who would be able to participate in part of the ritual downstairs with me as in the choral singing in the choir loft. I am not convinced, however that we want to add a full-time cantor to our staff. There also was a discussion of holding double services of the holy day season
Mike Golden in regard to course for conversion. Just another class for converts ought to be formed with a regular teacher and a fee be charged.
Folder labeled Books - contains orders for books.
Folder entitled: Brochures, Flyers for Temple Israel Institute. Lectures 1940-41 - 6 lectures, Monday evenings, starting February 3, 1941. Four fascinating courses on significant Jewish studies. Brochure on Temple Israel Brotherhood, 1942-43, Institute at the Temple. Second Session, October 28, 1942 was on a Symposium on Zionism by Rabbi Louis Wolsey and Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman. The brochure states: Dr. Joshua Loth Liebman who is just entering his third year as the spiritual leader of Temple Israel has firmly entrenched ( himself not only New England Jewry because of his fervent espousal of all Jewish causes, but he is also become nationally known through the media of the radio. Tribute was given to Rabbi Liebman when he was selected by the Jewish Welfare Board to deliver an address on Yorn Kippur over a coast-to-coast network of shortwave stations to the Jewish servicemen in all parts of the world. His brilliance as a speaker, his erudition and philosophical understanding of Judaism is well-known to all.
There is a small pamphlet labeled Temple etiquette and procedure put out by Temple Israel, Minneapolis, Minnesota. One page at the end on what our sages said on the subject has this quotation: "Where there is no Torah, there are no manners - where there are no manners, there is no Torah.''
Folder labeled C MISCELLANEOUS
In one letter the Rabbi says: He is delighted to say that he is completely recovered from his throat ailment. Another letter says that he was compelled to be away from the pulpit for almost six months due to the throat ailment. Many notations for speeches and letters about his book are included. Folder labeled BO-MISCELLANEOUS - Letters dated 1947-48. Large number of letters praising his book and asking him to speak at various occasions. Correspondence with Governor Robert Bradford of Massachusetts. Rabbi Liebman was willing to serve as one of the incorporators of the American Silent Guest Committee. A letter to the Governor, dated April 22, 1948, asking him to sign a bill "to permit juries to recommend life in first degree murder verdicts. A reply from the Governor telling why he did not support that bill. A letter ' thanking him for speaking to the National Council of Jewish Women and· not accepting a fee in return. He stayed at the home of Mrs. Louis Bordo and ser,t her a check for $6.00 to take care of the shopping expenses and also his suit pressing bill. He was to speak March 31, 1948 at the Brooklyn Institute with a request for colleges in non-Jewish religious groups. I/
Box 27 (continued)
-Folder labeled "Clippings (newspaper)" -clipping from "Boston Post" dated May 3, 1943, in regard to Mass meeting at Boston Garden for oppressed Jews. Rabbi Liebman says it will be too late after war. -a similar clipping from the "Boston Herald" entitled "All Creeds Score Nazi Slaughter - 20,000 at Garden, in appeal for Jews under heel of Nazi." "One of the highlights of the meeting was when Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman of Temple Israel delivered a fiery speech, calling for immediate action (or?) resucing of remaining Jews from Nazi-held Europe. Rabbi Liebman departed frequently from the text of his prepared speech to drive home points: 'We want the United Nations to rescue those who can't be rescued.' He said ' ..• that the Red Cross is some international organization, at least rescue the children.' 'One does not argue when the roof is aflame,' he said, whether the victims shall be rescued. One acts. Europe is a burning house for the Jewish people, rescue them! And then, after the fire is put out, make your plans for rehabilitation.' -article in the "Boston Evening Transcript," June 24, 1939, on the choice of Joshua Liebman for the ministry at Temple Israel. "Rabbi Liebman is a remarkable person, a citation of his scholastic and rabbinic talents (and?) they have been (signally?) recognized by academic and Temple authorities and leave one with the impression that he is a prodigy. But he is not. In all things he is so well versed and ready, and the human nature in him is so full and spontaneous (you?) simply see him as a person with the ultimates blended into a charming, poised and forceful leader." -a transcript in "The Jewish Advocate" of Rabbi Liebman's address at the concluding event of Temple Israel's 90th anniversary, April 2 at the Hotel ( Statler. Ari~o11u-- -an editorial commending the eae ef e Newton theological school in appointing Rabbi Liebman as visiting professor of Jewish philosophy and literature: This is the first time in the history of this long-famous Christian seminary that a Rabbi has been appointed a regular faculty member. The editorial states "He is regarded as the outstanding Reform Rabbi of his generation." It described his address at the 90th birthday party of Temple Israel as a brilliant and eloquent masterpiece that maintained throughout a high and exalted note; one of the greatest addresses ever delivered by him since his coming here, -a newspaper clipping regarding dedication of service-bins plaque at Temple Israel, pictured were Rabbi Liebman, a Brigadier-General, Congressman (Pecomik?) a Marine Colonel, and the chief of chaplains at Camp Edwards.
-Folder labeled "C. !.-Miscellaneous" -a card dated January 6, 1948, refers to articles about him in "Look" magazine and "Ladie I s Home Journal." -many letters requesting psychiatric and religious help -copy of a letter to Joseph Cohen, President of Temple, from Nelson Glueck, dated October 15, 1947, "I knew how happy you and all the members of your congregation must be at the question of Dr. Liebman's remaining at Temple Israel. It has been definately and affirmatively settled. I told Dr. Liebman that if he did remain at Temple Israel, I felt that both he and his congregation must realize that he belong not only to Boston, but to American (inter-?)Jewry at-large." Apparently in April, 1948, he was notified of a parliamentary decree to be given at Colby ( \ College on June 21. -letter dated May 5, 1948 in regard to the baccalaureate address to be given by the Rabbi on Thursday, June 10. -letter dated April 14, 1948, from James B. Conant, President of Harvard University, stating that he enjoyed the conversation the other day, was glad that you and your wife could be there on Sunday afternoon so that we could both enjoy a talk. ,~
BOX 28
Folders containing guest lists and responses of:
Dinner - 3/25/48 Sisterhood and Brotherhood II 3/17/48 Board of Trustees 6-48 P.T.A.
Folders of miscellaneous correpondence arranged alphabetically answering requests to speak at a variety of functions and institutions, perform wedding ceremonies, letters of appreciation of services performed, letters of comment about the influence of Peace of Mind, of his radio talks etc .. requests for and letters of reference for college admission etc., many requests for help regarding mental and physical health problems from many geographical areas. Always answered sensitively and with a recommendation to a local psychiatrist, rabbi etc. if he could not help.
B -
C - Corresondence from Dr. A. Cronbach, Hebrew Union College re Peace of Mind Letters from thenArchbishop Cushing in gratitude for contributions to his "cause"
D - Correspondence with Albert Deutsch editor of P.M. Daily
Di's - A complimentary copy of Peace of Mind sent to apoche office in Ratuapura Ceylon following an excerpt of Peace of Mind in a journal. ( Letter from Ceil Duers - a neighbor in Hamilton, Ohio (where he grew up) after hearing a Town Hall Radio Program 2/27/48, "Your grandfather would be proud".
E. Rabbi Liebman was invited to speak at the United Palestine Appeal for Funds in England in the summer of 1945
There are letters on White House Stationery from the White House from Isador Lubin 4/5/45 introducing him to Professor Cheswell John Wimant from Felix Frankfurter to Professor Harold Lasic:
It was wartimes and Mrs. Liebman could not get visa clearance for travel and as her father had died, Rabbi Liebman cancelled the trip. Many of his letters indicate the overcrowded schedule in the congregation - his speaking engagements - his voice problem etc.
E. Communications with Eisendrath U.A.H.C. 1947-48 - November 1948 Talk in Los Angeles.
F. 11/11/47 - Letter from Joseph Ford re meeting and Henry Wallace ·9/30/47 - "went into detail about the Palestinian s it ua tion.. • very sympathetic towards our people". ( 6/1/48 - Letter from Lee M. Friedman - "I am closing with my usual Cassandra word of warning. Do not overdo etc. Remember, no man successfully performed three men's jobs." IJ IJ
Box 28 (cont'd)
, 17/47 inviting Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick to talk at Institute on Religion and !'sychiatry for all New England Clergy Oct. 27, 28 10/15/47 thanking Casper Grosber for check for Erich Lindemann Research Fund 1/14/48 call to Emanu-El in NY mentioned letters from mentally ill --thank you for writing me from Maine, Texas, Wisconsin Sample letter: I am desperately in need of all, and after having read your book "Peace of Mind" I feel that if any one can help me, you are the one." letter from Lee Friedman 5/3/48 " ..• and I recognize what a wife can do for a man. It is too late for me and I only have regrets that I did not learn all this earlier." 5/27/48 letter to Lee M. Friedman about copies of adoption decree for Leila Invitations to speak: Elkhart,Indiana Letters asking if assistance possible for students applying to Harvard, Radcliffe, B.U. One reply to request for speech at a testimonial dinner. "O.K. will have to leave early" (in pencil) Folder labelled Dinner Mar. 25, 1948 Board of Sisterhood & Brotherhood List of invitees and replies folder: Dr. & Mrs. L. Dinner Mar. 17 list of invitees and some replies dinner: April 6, 1948 PTA Folder: CR Miscellaneous Letter noting Spanish translation of Reader's Digest selection of Book reference to operation on vocal chords by Dr. Clerf of Philadelphia letter (July 15, 1947) from Am .Medical Association about his speech in Atlantic City Article in Journal of Am. Med. Assoc. Aug. 23, 1947.
Box 29
Friday night services Nov. 1939 - Jan. 1942 Miscellaneous correspondence July 1947 - Feb. 1948; May 1948
BOX 30
Folder laqeled INSTALLATION March 10, 1939. Letters thanking Mayor of Boston, Right Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, Leverett Saltonstall, Governor. Letter to Editor of the Boston Globe thanking them for editorial entitled: A Prophet Installed. I only trust that I shall fulfill the high hopes and expectations which you express with such beauty and such dignity in that article. Eight typewritten pages of the response by Dr. Liebman. Speech by Mr. Lee Friedman, Rabbinical charge by Dr. Harry Levi, Installation address by Dr. Liebman, Friday, November 10, 1939. Address was given then also by Dr. Carl T. Compton, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, entitled: Religion in a Scientific Era. Copies of Installation brochure with text of addresses.
Folder - J MISCELLANEOUS
A letter to Look Magazine, dated March 31, 1948: Courtesy in sending me the tear sheet which contained a photograph of myself in the photo quiz column of the March 30th issue.
Letter dated November 30, 1947 from the First Baptist Church, Pittsfield, stating that they unanimously approve changing the date for his coming from ,:bnuary 8 to Sunday, January 11. "We consider his coming such a high privilege, that we are delighted to make this slight adjustment." '7,~
Box 30 (cont'd)
Letter dated October , 1947 - "P.S. "Someone told me about F. Weil's attempt to get you to Emanuel. If you should decide to come, I would be very happy. It really would offer you a marvelous field, assuming that the trustees are willing to give you a free-hand. This, I believe, from Max Jung. Folder labeled "Holy Days Lectures and Festivals". Copy of letter to members dated July 1, 1940. Letter in the I MISCELLANEOUS folder. The Inner Sanctum of Simon and Shuster on plans for book on hope for man. Last week's total for Peace of Mind was 2,603 copies. The first two days look like this on the sales chart: 934 and 186 copies.
Folder MISCELLANEOUS, innumerable request for talks. Folder: Hebrew Union College. Letter of October 18, 1946 for Dr. Liebman, regarding the possibility of making Rabbi Liebman President of Hebrew Union College. Copies of letters that have been sent to individuals concerned talking about his qualifications for such a position.
Box 31
correspondence re: Mr. Lowell Brentano correspondence with college students 1946-47 correspondence 1947 "K" file correspondence Feb/March 1948 April 10, 1938 "Joseph in Egypt" Sermons Mar/April 1935 delivered KAM Temple Chicago lectures and sermons 1936 sermons Mar/April 1938
Box 32
Rejection of service by War Department March 1944 for physical reasons handkept record of contributions and some bank statements for special fund 1946-47 miscellaneous correspondence May 1948 and 1947~48 includes handwritten draft letter to Adm. Strauss refusing offer to come to Temple Emanu-El in NY also letter from Henry Luce regarding rabbi's book attorney's bill for drafting JLL's will speech at annual Sisterhood meeting misc. correspondence 1947 "L" file misc. correspondence 1947-48 "L" file ,,; JOSHUA LIEBMAN COLLECTION AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Box 33
Folder labeled "M Miscellaneous" -letter dated May 26, 1948to General George C. Marshall, Secretary of State: "I have just returned to my desk and I cannot allow an hour to pass without writing to express our great appreciation for that wonderful evening at your home last Thursday. Your brilliant and insightful evaluation of men and events will remain with me as long as I live. AmericP;to/.l. is blessed in your great and creative leadership. When I see Dr. (~~E¼!) next week I shall convey your personal greetings to him and to his wife. I am en closing an essay of mine, appearing in the June issue of the Atlantic Monthly, about which I spoke to you and Mrs. Marshall. -an invitation, February 12, 1984, from the chaplain of the United States Senate, to have Rabbi Liebman open the Senate with prayer one day while he is there. (I:, \ -. ' ~ I, -a letter from a faculty member of Northeastern University: ''I want you -r1 \) ... to know that your sermon of Friday evening on the (~) program some weeks 1;·,, -t~, ago have been important and necessary to me in my effort to maintain my ,':\ own stability and to impart some stability and confidence to a number of disturbed veteran students with whom I am in close relationship." -In regard to the methods that a minister might use in equipping himself for minor therapy ministrations, he wrote: "It is my firm belief that the minister should attempt first of all to get a good psychiatric background, take a course in clinical psychology or pastoral psychology, and if possible undergo a personal course of psychotherapy with a competent doctor." Folder labeled "M.E. - Miscellaneous" -many letters asking for advice or praising his book or asking him to speak 1 · 1 at various organizations -Folder labeled "M.O.-Miscellaneous" -correspondance as before -Folder labeled "N-Miscellaneous" -one letter congratulates him on being given life tenure at Temple Israel in 1947. -Folder labeled "Memorial Services" -Program(?) services from 1942-1946 -Folder labeled "Samuel Nemzoff" -memoranda for Dr. Liebman from Mr. Nemzoff, all in regard to religious school -Folder "O Miscellaneous" - I (p JOSHUA LIEBMAN COLLECTION AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Box 34
,.Folder labeled "New Book" -four typewritten pages titled "Conversations with Dr.Bibring and Dr. Lindemann" on peacefare -several copies of four typewritten pages entitled "Conversation with President and Mrs. Cohen( ?ipril 4, 1948" -galley proof of 1936-Psychiatry and Religion-Todd, pp. 9-13 and 66-69. -clippings about views of President Conet (?) -two typewritten pages, outline for ''Hope for Man .. - eleven chapters are outlined -about forty index cards with handwritten notes (and other notes) -Folder labeled "Permanent Records" -confidential document in regards to an adoption
-Folder entitled "Psychiatrist" -many letters and replies seeking names of psychiatrists -Folder labeled "P.H. Miscellaneous" -a newspaper clipping entitled "Plain Talk" by Alfred Seigal, written when Rabbi Liebman turned down the invitation to Temple Emanu-El in New York: "I could think of him as just Josh because I had known him from the time when, as a small boy, he entered our municipal university. He was only fifteen and the newspaper headlines called him a child prodigy. There were evenings when Josh, on our porch, tried to make clear to me what he would tell his congregation about God when he became a rabbi. He was studying at the Hebrew Union College then. (' i -personal letters for(?•n old friend in Chicago, Dr. Sidney Portis, in reference to invocation at the ceremonies for the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the occupacy of the Boston State House -a warm?reply to Columbia University. Rabbi Liebman states: "It is a principle never to speak during the summer. The summer is the only time that I can really refill the reservoir of reading for the coming season." -requests from all kinds of institutions - talks Folder labeled "P Miscellaneous" -Folder labeled "Publicity - Dr. Liebman biographic" -several copies of a three-page bibliography for universities and organizations, very well written -copy of biography in Who's Who: his academic background is detailed -biography in October, 1946 in publication called "Current Biography," giving his lineage. This gives the background of the book Peace of Mind, originally presented in the form of six lectures. It states that, with one or two exceptions, critics of Peace of Mind were enthusiastic, with comments by various people -Folder labeled "Publicity - Dr. Liebman photographs" -many photographs, some in groups ,,,
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Box 35
·~Folder labeled "Henry Morton Robinson" -a typewritten review of "The Great Snow," by Henry Morton Robinson, a novel that apparently grasps the deepest life-affirming motifs of Freud -some handwritten notes, apparently on psychiatric topics -Folder labeled "R Miscellaneous" -a??? layout -Folder labeled "R.O.-Miscellaneous" -many letters requesting his speaking at organizations. In reply to one letter to a rabbi, he writes: "You must realize how genuinely sorry I am that I cannot accede to your request but it just happens that by virtue of the good luck of the book, and a great deal of the popularity of Peace of Mind is good luck, and the troubled times in which we live so many of our mutual friends have asked me to appear on their forum or auxiliary programs that I have to be consistent in my response to all of them." -letters commenting on his magnificent addresses -correspondance with Rabbi Jacob J, Hornstein, (?) Temple in Chicago, regarding his problems with the administration there -carbon copies of two typewritten sermons"After These Things" and "How Old is Your World?" -letter from the Reader's Digest, dated May 12, 1948, thanking him for his cooperation in the June symposium "Must We Change our Sex Standards?" -in March, 1948, Rabbi Liebman was a member of the examining committee of the public library of the City of Boston, and there is a report of his visit to the Washington Village Library in South Boston -Folder labeled "Radio Publicity- 1942-43" -the opening announcements of his radio programs, and the titles of his talks -Folder labeled "Radio (?) Mailing Lists" -lists -Folder labeled "Rabbinical Pension Fund, 1946" -lists contributors, all in small amounts, to that fund -Folder labeled "Q Miscellaneous" -letter from a non-Jewish secretary-nurse in a Jewish doctor's office in San Antonio Texas, stating that the doctor is in his forties, and would appreciate a Jewish wife, and asking Rabbi Liebman if he happened to know a refugee, or someone who would like a good home and a good, kind husband, -large number of small pieces of paper, which apparently are questions which the audience submitted to the Rabbi during one of his talks -December 24, 1943 issue of The Reconstructionist, which contains an article by Joshua Loth Liebman, entitled "The Mystery of the Lost Hatred": in this article he uses Othello as a parable. "Israel has been like Desdemona - Iago, with his propaganda and his lying, led the Othellos of the world to destruction ( ?"?) "V
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-Folder labeled "S.E.-Miscellaneous" -correspondance regarding his sermons read on the radio -invitations for speeches -letter from Ben G. Shapiro, on stationery of B'nai Brith, dated November 24, 1947, previous letters state that the Amos Lodge, B'nai Brith, purchased a large building at 233 Bay State Rd. for the Hillel students of Boston University. Rabbi Liebman spoke at the dinner meeting, and Mr. Shapiro writes "I feel, too, that as long as the Hillel building at Boston University stands, it will always be a tribute to you and all the fine things that you have done and will continue to do, regardless of race, color or creed." -letter dated November 7, 1947, from Simon & Schuster: an article by Liebman was to appear in the January 6 issue of"Look" magazine, planned as the lead article -Simon & Schuster (letter), dated May 18, 1948, talks about the possibility of a motion picture using the title "Peace of Mind" -Folder labeled "S.M.-Miscellaneous" -letter from Sam Quinton prison stating that the newspaper issued by the incarcerated men reviewed Peace of Mind. "There are many, many more requests for this book than they can possibly handle. We are therefore wondering if the congregation had some copies that could be spared for the benefit of the the 4,700 men here." -Folder labeled "S.T.-Miscellaneous" I: I t -Folder labeled "St. Regis Hotel" -in regard to reservations there in New York h ' ,• ' - /. ! . .. ' -Folder labeled "P-Miscellaneous" -letter accompanying a check for $250 from the Atlantic Monthly for his article entitled "A Living Saint." Reference is made to his sermon, "Medicine and Religion," which appeared in the August 9, 1947 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association -also in this folder(?) - new tape ... -correspondance from people seeking advice on mental health, organization~ asking for his talks, rabbis asking for advice -Folder labeled "W-Miscellaneous" -letter from Colby College in regard to honorary degree planned to be awarded on June 21, 1948 -"an example is a talk he was to give on MAy 10, 1948, before the society of Midland Offices in Chicago
Box 37 N -Folder labeled "C.R.-Miscellaneous" -correspondance referring to an invitation to Rabbi Liebman to address the centennial anniversary of the American Medical Association -letter dated January 20, 1947 -Folder labeled "Confirmation" -enrollment books -two lists of students in confirmation classes I 19 Box 37 (continued)
-Folder labeled "E-Miscellaneous" ( -in a letter by Dr. Liebman, dated September 11, 1946, he says that he is committed to two visiting teaching professorships at Boston University and Andover-Newton Theological School -Folder labeled"C.I.-Miscellaneous" -corres~IPce -a list of substitutes for Dr. Liebman during the time that, because of his laringytis, he could not give a sermon -letters pertaining to the fortieth birthday party given for him on May 9, 1947 at which a briefcase was given as a gift -letter signed by about eight clergymen, including Rabbi Liebman, addressed to the governor of Massachusetts, opposing a House bill which would interfere with the rights of citizens before legislative hearings, providing for investigating any person or group which a legislative commission believes to be subversive. -Other folders of correspondance, labeled with other letters of the alphabet, through "E' -- BOX 38
Folders of wedding services: ( Visiting lists - condolence, illness, and for contributions Ushers
Folders of miscellaneous correspondence with individual~ whose names begin with:
A w B WH U - V XYZ - a four-page ernate letter - wordy - to J.L.L.
Most of the correspondence - letters of condolence re loss of J.L.L. 'smother.
Thank you notes for everything, including thank you notes Requests for recommendations for school, jobs, rabbinate Requests for lectures - Harvard Club, fund drives · Requests for reprints of Peace of Mind for Anthology for magazines, etc. Refusals of above because of congregational pressures and laryngitis Many letters about Peace of Mind and comfort given - referrals to Rabbi Goldman and/or psychiatrists Warm letters to and from friends.
Lecture at Atomic Energy Conference 1948
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Box 39
-Checkbook of the United States Trust Company, account of Joshua Loth Liebman's special fund, only two pages are listed of 1948 checks -Envelope with the stamp die and rubber stamp with Dr. Liebman's signature. -Folders of correspondance labeled from "F-Miscellaneous" through "H.O.-Miscellaneous" -Correspondance in regards to (officers'?) meeting of the Institute of Religious and Social Studies, at which Louis Finkelstein Dean (Sperry?), Professor Talcum-??? were involved. -Correspondance with Dr. Israel Goldstein, of the Albert Einstein Foundationfor higher learning, in regards to the founding of Brandeis University. This includes a letter dated July 25, 1946, to Mr. David K. Niles, the White House Washington P.C. -Copy of a release from Harper & Bros. Publishers, "To the Trade," Dr, Joshua Loth Liebman, author of the nation's #1 bestseller, Peace of Mind, comments as follows on another bestseller, Harry Emerson Fosdick's On Being Fit to Live With, which was published late in 1946, and now has 75,000 copies in print. -In a letter dated August 28, 1946, to the University of Vermont, he tells Mr. Hall, "I do not fly, and therefore I am afraid of the transportation difficulties would be an insuperable obstacle for your religious parley. I have spoken with Mrs. Liebman about this, but she is adamant in her objections to planes, and I imagine that I am going to continue to use the trains for a long time to come." -Small catalogue of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, with committee assignments for 1946-47. Dr. Liebman was on the visiting committee of the Divinity School -Copy of a letter from Dr. Bernard Heller in New York, dated May 1, 1947, recounting a mystifying visit of Dr. Godesson(?) to my apartment; he told me that an announce ment is to soon appear of his retirement and asked whom I would select as his successor. I mentioned Rabbi Saul Frehof, or, in some respects, I'd even be more favorably disposed to Rabbi Joshua Liebman. The latter, I am convinced, would galvanize and revitalize a Jewish cathedral on Fifth Avenue." The writer goes on to say that he is critical of Peace of Mind, but it is an extraordinarily well written book. "No ordinariy mind could produce such a volume." JOSHUA LIEBMAN COLLECTION AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Box 40 ( ·-Folders marked "Dr. J. L. L.," containing New Years Messages -a letter regarding adopted daughter (in 1946); requests and addresses at Bar Mitzvahs and weddings -Folder marked "Mrs. J.L.L.," including invitations to speak at sisterhood activity programs, etc. -their move to the Somerset Hotel, 1946 -Mrs. L's J.F.Welfare Association case records -checkbook 10/46-5/48 -Folder "J Misc." -correspondance with Jewish Publication Society of America, 1946: review of Marie Syrkin's Blessed is the Match, 10/46 -many requests for interviews and referrals to psychiatrists -appointed B.U. School of Theology staff 9?12?46 -Folder "K" 1944-46 -Chairman of Committee for Racial and Religious Understanding -letter from military chaplain seeking advice re: civilian future - referred to M.G.H. (for) counseling the sick, etc. -congratulations to (J.I.) Kaplan -1944-46 - Dr. Nathan Krass - protege and Liebman's maestro, Temple Emanuel - thank-you letter to Krass for tea -lost voice in 1945 -Folder "KL" 1946-47 -requests for "Peace of Mind" for doctors -Knopf publishers request permission to quote review of Syrkin's book -his Ohio roots: b. Hamilton 4/7/07, grandfather was a rabbi -Jewish Center Lecture Bureau 1946-47: Spring and Fall Series: Jewish Arts Festival, featuring art, dance team - need for good program -Folder "I Miscellaneous" -requests re: college application to Dental School -10/46 CBS requests - Church of the Air - no -thank you to Morris Itkin for Brotherhood Testimonial Dinner -envelope with clippings (from of?) clipping service -bestseller list of books from many cities -book reviews -digest of Ladies Home Journal article -Boston Post Article 6/22/47 -notice of speeches -Folder Jewish Community Council -minutes of September 27, 1945 meeting -correspondence with Robert E. Segal, Executive Director -Folder "Li Miscellaneous" -correspondence with Dr. Eric Lindemann about book review planned for Harvard Educational REview by Professor Mowner, the editor - a 51 page analysis Lindemann and Liebman planned a reply -letter 10/31/46 to Isador Lubin: past summer spent considerable amount of time in Europe as the U.S. representative on the Devaststed Areas Sub-Commission -- JOSHUA LIEBMAN COLLECTION AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Box 41
-Folder labeled "M-Miscellaneous" -many letters asking for advice -many letters inviting him to speak, letters from the Hebrew Union College. -card from the Boston University School of Theology, dated September 21, 1946, noting that thirty-nine students have signed up for his course in "The Nature of Man in Jewish Thought" -Folder labeled "O-Miscellaneous" -a letter refers to the inspiring address he delivered on the closing day of the American Red Cross convention on Friday, June 21, 1946 -Folder labeled "Poems" -a few (printed?) poems -Folder labeled "M.E.-Miscellaneous" -in one letter, there is a reference to Dr. Liebman having the spot in "This Week Magazine" -- part of the Sunday "Plain Dealer" in Cleveland -letter to Rabbi Liebman, dated May 17, 1945, from the United Jewish Laymen's Committee in New York, which managed the broadcast of message of Israel, Saturday, 7 P.M. He was scheduled to speak on Sunday mornings, October 7, 14, 21 and 28 at 10 A.M. , ,_, _, : I \ "Please note Box ... II r vr- . ' -
Box 41 (-enth • i Sil authn: tore)
-Memorandum re: sermons on message of Israel is present. Deletions to his sermon I: ( f were suggested, apparently ordered by Jonah Wise, \ -Folder labeled "N-Miscellaneous" -in June, 1947, there was correspondance with Professor Otto Nathan, of N.Y.U., in regard to unhappy developments in regard to Brandeis University. Professor Einstein and his associates had unbridgeable controversies with other members and Einstein and Nathan withdrew support for the new university. JOSHUA LIEBMAN COLLECTION AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Box 42
-Folder labeled "Reconstructionist" -a few copies of the December 13, 1940 issue of The Reconstructionist, with an article by Joshua Loth Liebman, entitled "What is Behind the Prejudice Against Religion?" -five typewritten pages entitled "How Belief(?) in God Today" In pencil is added Reconstructionist November 26, 1941. Perhaps this was an article which appeared there. -several typewritten articles dated 1941 by other writers, which apparently worked at the editorials in that magazine -Folder labeled "R.0.-Miscellaneous" -again, many letters praising him for his sermons, asking for psychiatric advice, and from rabbis, requesting help in assignments. -interesting correspondance with Henry Morton Robinson, roving editor of the Readers' Digest. Liebman mentions that over a thousand requests have come in for a sermon on "Honor Thy Son and Thy Daughter" -there is a typed review of "The Great Snow," by Henry Morton Robinson. In his revie' Liebman writes "I know of no novel in recent times that has grasped the deepest life-affirming motifs of Freud as brilliantly as had 'The Great Snow."' This review was sent to the Boston Globe. -a ten-page typewritten letter dated February 5, 1947, from Rudolph M. Rosenthal, rabbi at the Temple on the Heights, Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Leo Blum was the patriarchal figure about whom all the (spunted?) French parties could rally. Ten years previously, the writer noted, he would see signs "Better Hitler than Leon Bloom." From Paris he flew to Prague. Three waiters and the manager of a hotel
(;, " wanted to know if the writer could get them out of Czechoslovakia since they I\ feared Russia even more than a resurgent Germany, and, most of all, the atomic bomb. From Prague he went to Basle. "The Swiss," he writes, "are sheltering plenty of Nazis, living up to the Swiss tradition of hospitality at high prices and political asylum." There apparently was a Zionist Congress there, in Basle. There were men in the uniforms of every army. There were ex-underground fighters, rabbis in caftans, rabbis wearing the collar - almost like the priesthood. There were dark oriental Jews and there were blond, Aryan-looking Polish Jews who had been preserved because they were mistaken for Germans. There were Palestineans waiting to hear the great American orator, demanding that he speak in Hebrew when he talked English, and English when he conversed in Yiddish. He then travelled from Basle back into Czechoslovakia, and deep into the heart of the Slovakia. The train ride was literally an odyssey through hell. He went to Koschau, where the 15,000 Jews who had dwelt there had been reduced to some 500-800 families. He returned to the Congress. Wise was volcanic in his utterances of (sova?). He saw in him a combination of Machiavelli, Talleyrand, Tammany and Hitler. Weizman became the symbol of pro-British feeling, and he apparently resigned. The writer then went to Germany to visit the D.P. camps. Instead of getting into Germany, he went to Italy. He had unkind words to talk about the U.N.R.R.A. people, living off the fat of the land and black-marketing, etc. The U.N.R.R.A. people see only dirty Jews. Most of the camps have their own committees, who have almost dictatorial power. They sleep in packing-boxes. There is no doubt that Jews are being used as political pawns. He visited the children's camps which are really pathetic. There are children who have to be taught to trust people. --
Box 42 (con't)
-Folder labeled "R-Miscellaneous" -there is a letter from a Dr. Joseph Rauch, in Louisville, KY, dated June 3, 1947, in which he mentions informal conversations as to the first presidents of Brandeis University. Several there felt that he, Rabbi Liebman, was the best-qualified to be the head. In reply, Rabbi Liebman says "My field will, I am sure, continue to be the rabbinate and not the academic world." He mentions that a letter from Professor Otto Nathan told him that Professor Einstein had severed his connections with Brandeis. -There is a letter dated May 5, 1947 from Holland. A simple teacher from Holland could not find the book. -A letter dated April 24, 1947 refers to an address at the vesper service at Smith College. -Folder labeled "Sabbath of Return" -apparently, a sermon given Saturday, October 5, 1940 -Folder labeled "A.L. Sachar" -a letter to Liebman mentions a full-page ad in the current issue of Life magazine in 1946 -there are many letters relating to the B'nai Brith Hillel Foundations -many letters requesting him to speak -Folder labeled "S.E.-Miscellaneous" -October 29, 1946 letterfrom Simon and Schuster, from Dick Simon: "Dear Josh: The original manuscript of "Peace of Mind" is still in the Simon and Schuster office. Would you like to keep this in your own archives, or filing bin, or bottom desk draw, or would you prefer to have us keep it for you? If I were author of a work even one-tenth as distinguished, ~r one-half as successful, ''! I would want to keep it myself." -a letter dated September 30, 1946, Dr. Slawson, of American Jewish Committee, adds "By the way, I gather that your magazine Commentary has not yet had an opportunity to review "Peace of Mind." It certainly would be a great satisfaction if you could find time to write the review. I hope that you will not regard this suggestion of mine as presumption on my part, but I would like to have a review in Commentary which would point out the essential Jewishness of the ••• (book?) and its contribution to the dignified position of the Jew in the American scene. -a long, handwritten letter to a California corespondent says "I read your letter with much interest. I am not, however, familiar with the ideas of the occult and therefore it is difficult for me to make specific statements about the thoughts you have presented. -- JOSHUA LIEBMAN COLLECTION AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Box 43 - Alphabetical Correspondence Folders 1946 Sm - communication with Smith College re: talks there and at Mt. Holyoke ; f Lou Smith testimonial dinner t Rabbi Phineas Smoller, Chicago - letters RE: illness help requested in writing a thesis Institute for Religious and Social Studies at Memorial Church, Harvard Radio 4/47 - "Wise Rules for a Happy Marriage ..• Honor thy Son and Daughter" St - Russell H. Stafford re: Anatolia College, Boston Con(?) Rabbi Milton Steinberg re: friend with laryngitis J.M. Stenbuck (Brookline) life profile on J.L.L. (28 papers) correspondence radio program author meets the critic 9/46, 6/47 letters from: Dr. Richard Struik re: National Citizens' Committee on Displaced Persons Bob Segal opposed to admitting all followers of the Communist party line - playing into the hands of those totalitarian mind intransigents trying to slow up any operation not planned by the Kremlin. war criminals-military or semi military T - two songs "Brother" and "In God We Trust," words composed by Harry Tobias (and brothers) sent to J.L.L. and referred to Herbert Fromm (Music Director) 3/29/47 New Years greetings 1946 from Mayor Maureice J, Tobin, (Gov's?) communication from Unitarian Service Committee re: telegram to the Ambassador of Spain in Washington, D.C. regarding the whereabouts fo American 21 year-old veteran prisoner Rabbi Lep Trepp (Tacoma, Washington) - reveiw of "Peace of Mind" and (,I . four radio broadcasts (1940) (formerly of Boston) Correspondence with Henry C. Tuttle re: "Peace of Mind" and lengthy discussion of Boos of JOb. UV - letter from Reverend Erwin J. vanEtten re: illness - "Of all the voices I know, your is the one we can least spear" (2/47) Z - request from Town Hall N.Y.: lecture: "Words to Live By" (4/47) "Love Counterfeit or Real" or "The Road to Inner SErenity" and tickets to the lecture 1/27/47 Board Reports 1942-43 (includes reports, marriages and funerals) Letter to Board 10/11/43 re: setting adise 3 Tuesdays for conferences with any member of congregation 2 copies of a 13 page letter (6/13/43) justifying work outside the Temple re: Zionism - anti-Semitism as well as importance of conferences with young people, spiritual guidance etx. a physical and mental burden during these war years! see enclosure - Board Reports 1944-47 4/16/44 90th anniversary celebration as success. J.L.L. has a dream of more congregational participation in song and prayers. commission Jewish poets and musicians to write new humns, etc. to dramatize an aspect of Jewish life, etc. to establish a Ritual-Activities Committee to study other synagogue services 5/14/44 Importance of establishing some contact with servicemen - at Temple services and serving out-of-town. 1/14/45 (3 copies) An Adult Education program presented 3/10/45 (2 copies) plans for 3 simultaneous High Holiday services for 1210 families and ?600 children between 15 and 20 years 6/21/45 recommendations - youth clubs etx. - Grace Masters youthroom - library - P.R. 3/9/47 Temple Israel now 6th largest Reform congregation in U.S. -,
-r .) Box 43 (con't) -Folder sermonic material -copy of Jewish Review, May 10, 1945 -anonymous critical letter dated November 28, 1944 about attack by Rabbi on Republican candidate -news release on shaplain Roland Gittelsohn's sermon at Iwo Jima -sermon by Dr. Nathan Krass 4/6/40 -report of Joint Distribution Committee - June 20, 1945 on European activites -review of Helene Deutch's "The Psychology of Women" -review of Grinker & Spiegel's "Men Under Stress" -quotation about~ The Religious Individual and Mature Religion - an attempted definition -statement on atomic energy -handwritten notes -pamphlet "Prejudice - The American Way" JOSHUA LIEBMAN COLLECTION AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Box 44
-Copy of radio sermon of April 4, 1943, entitled "The Road to Inner Serenity Today." In it are quotations from Hegel, the Bible, Shakespeare, Spinoza, Somerset Maugham, Maritain and the philosopher Morris. -There is a long(?) typewritten paper on Reform Judaism. It is apparently a talk given before the U.A.H.C. March 31, 1947, in New York. He talks about a recent witty, philisophic book by Professor Irwin Edman of Columbia, with one chapter entitled "The Great Purgation," a fantasy about a constitutional amendment prohibiting the writing or teaching or reading of philosophy. -There is a collection of carbons of Friday evening sermons 1940('s?) and 1947. -Folder labeled "Brandeis Letters" 1- --!'· r:correspondance between Lloyd K. Garrison, Dean of University of Wisconsin Law School, and Jacob Billikopf of Philadelphia and Felix Frankfurter. -There is copy of a Friday evening sermon - a Brandeis memoraial service October 31, 194 l-:a sermon entitled "The Mother," dated 12/5/37 -Folder labeled "Dr. Liebman -Permanent Letters - October 1943-June 1945" -many requests for speeches and many letters praising him for talks given. One lette to the Rabbi talks about the Wise-Silver controversy. This apparently referred to the question whether President Roosevelt did all he could for the suffering Jewish populace of Europe. -letters from many permanent Church officials and letters of introduction from the White House, when he was invited as an outstanding American Jewish personality to visit England in May or June 1945, during the period of the United Palestine Appeal Campaign of 1945. -a letter refers to the Old Corner Bookshelf(?) publishing his sermon, "The Road to Inner Serenity" -Folder labeled "Dr. Liebman - Permanent Letters - 1939-1943" -there is a huge number of letters praising his talks before various non-Jewish organizations and Jewish organizations -there are copies of a bulletin of the General Theological Library, from an issue of April, 1943, containing a bibliography of contemporary Judaism complied by Rabbi Liebman -in 1941, he apparently gave a series of lectures on Jewish religion and philosophy, sponsored by the Women's School of Jewish Studies of the National Council of Jewish Women -there are several pages of quotations from letters received regarding Rabbi Liebman's speaking engagements -Folder labeled "W.H.-Miscellaneous" -the editor of Current Biography, published by the H.W.Wilson Company, asked for clarification of some details he gave. These include the following: Fan Loth Liebman is my first cousin. Moritz Loth, first president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and, for many years, leader of Cincinnati Jewry, (was?) my great uncle. Rabbi Lippmann Liebman was the founder of the first synagogue in Youngstown, Ohio, and was a distinguished Reform rabbi throughout the late nineteenth century and beginning of twentieth. I attended the school in Hamilton, Ohio through the third grade, and then moved to Cincinnati and continued my education at the Aevondale public school and Walnut Hills High School, from which I graduated at the age of fifteen, and with the Harvard Prize for the highest academic record. My grandfather, who had a great influence on my life, expressed the hope, when I was nine years of age, that I would follow in his footsteps and become a rabbi. This, more than any other event in my childhood, developed the direction of my career. I was elected Phi Beta Kappa in my junior year. Box 44 (can't)
-Folder labeled "W.H.-Miscellaneous" (can't) The temple in Chicago with which he was affiliated was the K.A.M. Temple. the initials are the abbreviation of three Hebrew words, meaning "the congregation of the men of the west." His doctoral dissertation at the Hebrew Union College, some 600 pages in length, dealt with the major concepts of medieval Jewish philosophy in relation to the insolence of Plato, and particularly of Aristotle. He took his doctorate in philosophy under Professor Levi Diesendruck, termed "one of the greatest Jewish philosophic minds of our age." "Teleology and attributes of God" is a translation from the Hebrew of an important work on philosophy by that professor. -in a letter dated September 18, 1946, to Mr. David Weiss, the director of the A.B.C. Sunday programs "The Message of Israel," he writes that C.B.S. asked him to be on the "Church of the Air" program, but he declined and said "I have gathered that C.B.S. is put out at me and perhaps will blackball me forever from its programs." -many letters refer to his book "Peace of Mind" -in a l~tter dated December 17, 1945, from Zionz Herald, the Methodist weekly, published in Boston, reference is made to a gift of $1,000 from the rabbi. Apparently, the rabbi offered to send books to 90 churchmen and the names were sent ot him. -letter from G. Bromley Oxnam, bishop of the Methodist church in New York, dated October 30, 1945. He is greatly honored to have his name associated with Rabbi Liebman's in the scholarship established at Boston University School of Theology by Mr. Joseph Ford. -November 2, 1945 letter on White House stationery, signed by Samuel I Rosenman JOSHUA LIEBMAN COLLECTION AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY
\ Box 45 ( ·-Folder labeled "Associated Jewish Philanthropies," containing speeches listed: 1/14/40 Dinner Address - Close of Drive 10/27/40 Prayer for Mrs. Roosevelt 10/16/41 Address at Ohabei Shalom 10/8/42 Philanthropies Appeal and Address for I. Friedlander 10/17/43 at Hotel Statler 11/1/45 Victory Dinner - Combined Jewish Appeal 10/11/47 Boston Garden, Combined Jewish Appeal -Folder labeled "Associated Jewish Synagogues" -1/19/44 broadcast from Temple Mishkan Tefila: spoke on role of Palestine, condemning The White Paper, which restricted immigration there. "I lived in Jerusalem for a year and •.• saw how under modern scientific agriculture •.• There is room enough in Palestine for every Arab who lives there to remain in that land and still have enough territory to welcome several million Jews from lands of oppression. We Jews will never by guilty of any injustice, any imperialism, any expulsion of any Palestinean Arab from his rightful and just place in the (sun?)" -Folder labeled "Art of Living Together" -an essay by Max Ehermann "Desiderata," recommended by Dr. Merrill Moore -Folder "Annual Meeting 1940-46 Temple Israel" reports: 1/28/40 3/29/41 1/11/42 1/18/43
f ( 11/14/43 12/9/44 -annual report of President Joseph H. Cohen for 1946 -religious school enrollment is 817, increase of 111. -mortgage reduced to $165,000 from $516,500 on September 1, 1940 -for 11 months to July 1946, total receipts approximately $106,500. -recommended dues Age group single · married 31-35 75.00 96.00 36+ 96.00 125.00 -some handwritten notes -Folder 11 90th Anniversary" -4/2/44 - Mortgage Redemption Fund -address at Hotel Statler, refers to symposium in Contemporary Jewish Record for on what Jewishness means to a group of writers and poets all under 40 years of age: role of synagogue outlined -Folder "American Red Cross" -June 21, 1946 - Convention Hall, Philadelphia EMPTY FOLDER -Folder "Atlantic Monthly Article" -"A Great Living Jewish Saint" -"About Rabbi Leo Baeck" -Folder "American Cancer Society" -address 12/18/47: "Religion and the Battle AGainst Cancer," with drafts ·-Folder "American Fund for Palestinean Institutions" -address 6/5/44 at Waldorf Astoria. NY -Folder "American Jewish Congress -address 11/30/41 against isolationism -,
Box 45 (con't)
-Folder "Chapter 5" -typewritten pages numbered 7,8,9,11,12,17,33. t i -handwritten outlines for chapters of book -handwritten notes for prayer services -copies of letters to General Eisenhower, 1948 -address 4/18/42 to Jewish Welfare Board: "25 Years of Jewish Community Life in America." -address 3/14/43, Dinner in honor of Secretary Icker. Jewish National Fund Address -address 12/21/41 Jewish Na~d -~~r_~on l_2_/_2Ili.Af}_,_}:J) l1f!!J} typewritten pages with corrections and additions (?book "Peace of Mind?) JOSHUA LIEBMAN COLLECTION AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Box 46
-Folder "Bar Mitzvah" -typed speech for Robert Schneider -Folder "Beth Israel Hospital" -first draft of address 6/4/42: victory address. "Sources of Hope in a Warring World' -address - Baccalaureate Service 4/25/41 -pamphlet Annual Victory Luncheon 3/23/39 -page of 6/26/42 Jewish Advocate with report of Beth Israel Hospital June 4 meeting. -address of 4/4/40 for Beth Israel Hospital luncheon -Folder "Big Brother Association" -article by J.L.L. in Jewish Big Brother Bulletin of June, 1944, vol. 13, No. 1 -Folder "Bill of Rights" -mimeographed 6 pages "Another Bill of Rights," issued by the Department of National Religious Radio, NY -B'nai Brith program for observance of 150th anniversary of Bill of Rights. History of bill and Jewish friends of founders in 1787. -government publication: Bill of Rights Day 38 pages, 1941 -Folder B'nai Brith -outline for address May 10, 1946 -paryer for breadfast 12/21/41 -Folder "Boston University" -outlines for lectures 1944-45, bibliography, 13 pages, all references in German to scholars and rabbis of Germany in 19th and 20th centuries -examination questions for course -Folder "Boy Scouts" -address May, 1947 in NY -carbon copy and pamphlet copy: "Scouts of the World Building for Tomorrow. A New Interpretation." -Folder "Brotherhood Week" -address 2/5/40 - The American Task radio address 2/18/40 -Folder "Brotherhood" -first address by Rabbi, Temple Israel 10/18/39 -typed outline for speech on assimilation -Folder "Charity" -address May 3, 1936: appeal for funds for European Jews -Folder "Chamber of Commerce" -address March 27, 1940 -Folder "Cohen" -pamphlet of sermon by RabbiBeryl Cohan 2/13/48 - his 50th birthday -Folder "Community Fund" -Broadcast 1/21/40 and 1/12/41 -Folder "Consecration Services" -address at inaugural of President Nelson Glueck, Hebrew Union College -Folder "Duker, Abraham G." -mimeo of address by Duker 6/8/42: National Conference of Jewish Social Welfare Folder "Eulogies" -2 written by others -10 eulogies of friends and temple members 1941-44 Box 46 (con't)
-Folder "Fair Employment Practice Bill" -address by Charles H. Tuttle 2/20/45 to state committee Folder "Ford Hall" -addresses: 10/21/39 on J0hn Dewey -'3/22/42 - "How to Remain Norman in Abnormal Times" -3/19/44 - on Stephen S, Wise -2/9/41 - Psychoanalyzing anti-Semitism -Folder "Freud" -tribute to Freud in Nation 10/7/39 by Karl Menninger JOSHUA LIEBMAN COLLECTION AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Box 47 i( a. Installation Address (with corrections and additions) \ re: science and religion - mood of intellectual integrity justice = universal idealism of Judaism greatest goal= peace pledge in the spirit of Solomon= wisdom, Amos=justice, Isaiah =peace b. Hecht House (neighborhood?): handwritten outline (2 pages) c. Ivniah - handwritten outline - English and Hebrew - 5 by 8 cards d. Jew and Christian chapter 5 (only copy) 51 pages e. A Jewish Evaluation of Christianity 23 papers at a gathering of Christians and Jews f. Jewish Federation Address: 2/14/43 St. Louis 25 pages, 3 copies - the first 2 pages identical to chapter 5 above: Jew and Christian(cf. d. above) g. Jewish Institute of Religion J.I.R. newsbulletin - Dec. 1944-Jan. 1945, 2 copies p.3 report of lecture series (6 lectures) by J.L.L. "Dynamic Psychology and Living Religion" analyses of Jewish religion and ethics in relation to problems of creative personal and social adjustment: !!to be embodied in a book in the near futurelll The Jewish Challenge and the Human Hope 10/5/44 And God said "Let there be light ... " 2 copies, 41 pages h. Hadassah speeches at luncheons 11/8/39 The Place of Palestine in Jewish Life (14 pages) 1/21/41 Palestine: Destiny and Hope (16 pages) 3 copies 4/28/41 at thrift luncheon re: Churchill, British war and Palestine 11/24/41 Hadassah "Pep" Tea (12 pages) Sources of Optimism in a Warring World 5/13/42 Who is the Jew 11/14/45 speech, 3 copies i. Harvard speech at Harvard Teachers' Association 3/16/40, similar to d, and f. above "Dictatorship versus Democracy: the Jewish Attitude" 2 copies j, Jewish Welfare Board "Twenty-Five Years of the Jewish Community Life in America" 4/18/82 18 pages, 6 copie· outline included "one large paragraph - dramatic and brilliant on high spots of 25 years" report of Jewish Welfare Board - twenty years old for reference - Cyrus Adler J.W.B. address 5/12/47 - Pittsburgh J.W.B. address 5/9/48 - Pittsburgh discusses social psychology experiments, need for significant "belongingness" to Jewish groups to avoid psychic conflict reprinted in J.W.B. Circle June 1948 radio address JOSHUA LIEBMAN COLLECTION AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY , I r Box 48
Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 10/13/40 -pamphlet with "What is Behind the Prejudice Against Religion" -Jewish Self-Discipline 11/26/41 -How to Believe in God Today 10/14/45 -Conference at Hotel McAlpin, NY - tribute to Mordechai Kaplan Addresses - miscellaneous 3/31/40 -lecutre delivered by Rabbi Selwyn D, Ruslander "Youth" (14 pages) -Purim: Translation from the Haggadah (8 pages) -Democracy and the Jew - Passover 15 pages -Psychoanalysis and the Theory of Social Systems, by Talcott Parsons 19 pages Advertising club of N.E. 12/19/39 common heritage and common destiny of this time (1939) - excerpt to be published by Boston Transcript Agoos Dinner "1/12/44 To Combat Anti-Semitism" - EMPTY FOLDER Aid for Great Britain Aid for Great Britain Campaign 4/28/41 13 pages, 2 copies Allport, Gordon W. Bigot in Our Midst8 reprints, Commonweal 10/6/44 Jewish War Veterans empty folder, sermon 8/30/40 Jewish self-Discipline National Community Relations Activity Council (NCRAC), NY 1/15/45 Jewish Self-Discipline 2 copies, 23 pages moral and ethical principles, especially in business, etc. Jewish National Fund 3/14/43 address at dinner in honor of Secretary Ickes - 6 copies, re: European Jewry and Palestine Excerpt of address - Jewish National Fund 12/21/41 King's Chapel empty folder 6/29/41 - God and World Crisis Jewish Memorial Hospital 6/24/46 appeal for enlarging following showing of a film handwritten outline and dev.(?) of speech - 4 copies, 2 pages Junior Hadassah . c<\~ several letters regarding misconstrued speech "demanding;reparations" to Junior Hadassah headlined in N.Y. Times and elsewhere 11/28/41 J.L.L. letter to Times and answer
Grief carbon copy of article apparently rejected by Readers' Digest titled "Grief'' based on sermon in folder entitled "How Shall We Face Grief."
God and the World Crisis; 28 page typed article
Typed report by referees on dissertation by JLL for degree of Doctor of Hebrew Literature, HUC, Cincinnati Jan. 26, 1939 (signed by referee and co-referee) :1dsed mainly on Aaron's book, Ez Hayim, completed in middle of 14th C.
6 pages remarks by other rabbis at CCAR Atlantic City, June 25, 1941 -v
Box 48 (contd) outline for paper and address itself on belief in Providence in Judaism Folder: Gandhi: 5x8 cards with handwritten notes on Gandhi, stapled to carbon on stationery of Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Boston, with program of Gandhi Memorial Service Folder: Mass Meetings Several copies of address Sunday, May 2, 1943 at Boston Garden "Jewry's Crisis calls for Justice." Several copies of address October 10, 1945, mass meeting at Faneuil Hall pleading for liberty of people of Israel in Palestine. Folder: Morgan Memorial: Prayer (address) Aug. 8, 1940, Good Will Village Dedication Athol, Mass. Very beautiful appeal for social justice.
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Folder labelled Message of Israel 1940 Addresses delivered on radio program, "Message of Israel" Hour 11/9/40 Why wars come 11/16/40 Where Jew and Christian Meet 11/23/49 How to face the thought of death 11/30/40 How religion can help you today 1939 Addresses Sept. 2 Dictatorship and Democracy Sept. 9 War and Peace (A Jewish Message) Sept. 16 Three rules for happiness Sept. 23 The triumph over Anti-Semitism Sept. 30 What can we believe today 1942: April 4 Making Life worth living today (A Passover sermon) April 11 Why the Axis will not win April 18 Finding Security in an Insecure world April 25 The Jewish Hope and the American Dream Faith in God. These Difficult Days 1943: Oct. 2 How Can I believe in God now/ Oct. 9 A Heart of Wisdom Oct. 16 Beyond Fear Oct. 23 Death in the Garden of Life Oct. 30 The Mystery of the Lost Hatred 1944: Oct. 1 The Art of Accepting Yourself Oct. 8 The Art of Saying No Oct. 15 The Art of Conquering Grief Oct. 29 The Art of Finding Faith in the Future (multiple copies) 1945: Oct. 7 How Shall we Face the Atomic Age Oct. 14 Our Fear and Worries--How to Master Them (not in folder, but labelled) Oct. 28 Personal Happiness and our Money Culture 1946: Feb. 3 How to Win Serenity under Sorrow Box 50 Folder: Message of Israel 1946 (Oct. 6) The Fate of Man--What Hope for the Future Oct. 27, 1946 Wise Rules for a Happy Marriage Folder: Parent-Teachers Assoc. Pamphlets and mimeographed pages from other synagogues in reference to home observances, absences from secular schools on religious holidays Rosenwald and the Zionists before Congress Religion-Race-Nation--What are we? 62 page article: "Palestine and the West" Folder: Message of Israel 1948 April 4: Road to Inner Serenity April 11: How to face death without dread Folder: Religious School Report on education for 1945-46 Budget for Religious school 46-47 Folder: Prayers clippings with prayers prayers from Union Prayerbook typed prayers for many occasions -- e.g., V-E Day, Armed Services, D-Day, for labor, for Pres. Roosevelt loose copies of sermons Nov. 6, 1941 to March 19, 1944; includes broadcasts, Ford Hall Forum, tribute to S.S. Wise, Brandeis, Henrietta Szold
Box 51 Inaugural Sermon, Rosh Hashannah Eve 1934 KAM Temple, Chicago /t How to Find Peach of Mind in this Atomic Age 1/20/48 Town Meeting of the Air American Medical Association: 6/8/47 Medicine and Religion A Living Saint: Rabbi Baeck,Atlantic Monthly, 6/48 Our Fears and Worries - How to Master Them WBZ 5/6/45 Why I believe in a better future for man WBZ 11/5/44 How to face the thought of death The Road to Inner Serenity today WNAC 4/4/43 How to remain normal in abnormal times WNAC 3/7/43 Three Ways to prevent an American Hitler WBZ 4/16/44 Peace for our World--Is this still possible? WBZ 12/21/47 Yorn Kipper Sermonette WEEI 11/20/42 Reprint: Twenty-five years of Jewish Community Life in America Fri. sermon: What the Negro wants--and deserves 4/45 reference: Myrdal's An American Dilemma Ford Hall Forum: Psychoanalyzing Anti-Semitism 2/9/41 Boston City Club: Psychoanalyzing Anti-Semitism 11/7/40 Good Will Program: Tolerance WBZ 4/21/40 Fri. Sermons: The Great Hatred 11/29/40 A Guide for the Bedeveilled" Ben Hecht's startly (?) analysis of Jews, German and anti-Semites 4/21/44 Anti-Semitism, Henry Wallace & Sixty Million Jobs 2/16/45 American Cancer Society: Religion and the Battle against Cancer 12/18/47 The Reconstructionist- What is the Prejudice Against Religion by JLL Fri. Sermon: Coughlin and Civil Liberties 4/24/42 The Jewish Future in America and the World WBZ 5/19/46 My Three Favorite Books of the Year WBZ 1/20/46 Karen Horney, Bertrand Russell, Milton Steinberg Fri. Sermon: World Famous Christians Rekindle the Lights of Judaism 12/24/ 43 Thomas Mann, S. Undset, Rebecca West, etc. _R_~x~ (cont'd) Fri, Sermon: How to be Happy in a Warring World 3/13/42 Hadassah Pep Tea: Sources of Optimism in a Warring World 11/41 The Jews in this War WBZ 12/17/44 Friday sermon: My three favorite books of the year 12/17/44 WBZ 2/4/45 Holmes: Yankee from Olympus Thomas Mann: Joseph the Provider L. Mumford: The Condition of Man
WBZ 4/2/44 Madame Curie: Where do science and religion meet and part?
handwritten notes regarding addresses manuscripts: Ch. I Questing Inward Ch. II Conscience Doth Make cowards Ch. V. Democracy and Dictatorship Ch. VIII Thou Hast Enthralled me God Ch. IX Where Religion and Psychology Meet and Part Ch. IX continues with corrections and additions through p. 75 Ch. III Love Thyself Properly Ch. IV Dare you not love thy Neighbor Ch. V. Fear wears many masks Red Cross Address. Philadelphia 6/21/46 Boy Scout Address. New York 5/27/47 C.J.A. Rally, Boston Garden. Remember Us Unto Life Sermons: My Faith I. The meaning of God (Reality) 11/47 My Faith -- What I understand by Morality and Immorality Nov., Dec. 47
Box 52 John Dewey: 1/30/35 typewritten pages on Dewey's philosophy Radio Mar-May 1947 3/16/47 Peace of Mind 4/6/47 The Value of Judaism for the 20th Century 4/20/47 Honor thy Son and Thy Daughter 5/18/47 America's Great Moral Opportunity Now Radio: Nov-Dec. 1947 2/1 and 2/15/48 Gentlemen's Agreement 11/16/47 The Jew and Judaism: Task and Future 12/7/47 My Faith: What I understand by Morality and Immorality 12/21/47 Peace for our world--is it still possible? Special Broadcasts: Sermon: Sept. 21, 1947 The Values of Judaism (broadcast on Yorn Kippur) 3/27/37 Radio on Passover 11/19/39 Radio: Our common heritage 10/27/46 Peace of Mind Miscellaneous addresses: Boy Scouts 5/47 Scouts of the World building for tomorrow Jewish War Veterans Aug. 30, 1940 Beth Israel Hospital Baccalaureate Service 4/25/41 ., ~
Box 52 (cont'd) Sermons 2/6/42 The Man who lived a thousand years 10/16/41 Associated Jewish Philanthropies talk 10/17/43 II II II II 1/14/40 II " II II 90th Anniversary Celebration Temple Israel, April 2,1944: The Synagogue Today & Tomorrc 2/20/42 How Green Was my Valley 5/2/43 Jewry's Crisis calls for Justice (Boston Garden Mass Rally) 5/12/47 Jewish Welfare Board Address Tribute to Louis E. Kirstein Brotherhood in the Atomic Age Dec. 46
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3/17/46 Love: Counterfeit and Real 4/21/46 Hope for Survival 1/20/46 My three favorite books of the year 11/3/46 The Fate of Man--What Hope for the Future 5/19/46 The Jewish Future in American and the World 5/5/46 David the King - Biblical Novel 5/5/46 Folder: Radio 1945 2/4/45 My three favorite books of the year, Yankee from Olympus 2/18/45 A Bell for Adano and Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin Conference 3/4/45 Henrietta Szold 3/18/45 How to Find God; First in series of the Talmud. Its hope for modern living 4/1/45 How to Believe in Yourself 5/6/45 Our Fear and Our Worries--How to Master Them 5/20/45 What Shall we Do with the Germans and Ourselves 11/4/45 How shall we face the atomic age 11/18/45 Rusia and America--What Hope for Lasting Peace 12/2/45 Wise Rules for a Happy Marriage 12/16/45 Palestine today Folder: Radio 1948 4/4/48 The Outlook for Palestine Now 2/15/48 Gentleman's Agreement Reprint of Atlantic Monthly article, A Living Saint: Rabbi Baeck (June 1948) Handwritten notes with numbers probably referrring to pages of some book BOX 54 RADIO BROADCASTS 1940-1941 Listed in folder Jan. 20, 1940 "The Nazarene"
Mar. 3, 1940 missing= Chaim Weizman + Palestine Mar. 3, 1940 Ritual Service Mar . 1 7 , l 9 4 0 Bnai Brith Service (WNAC) April 21, 1940 Good Will Program (WBZ) (with handwritten notes) Nov. 17, 1940 The Only Defense for a Jew 4 copies Dec. 15, 1940 Why Go To the Synagogue Jan. 19, 1941 Three Challenging Books of 1940 Lincoln Schuster "Treasury of the Worlds's Great Letters" Louis Adamic "From Marylands" Lewis Mumford "Faith for Living"
Feb. 2, 1941 Ritual ~ copies Mar . 16 , 1 9 4 1 Good Will Between Christians and Jews (WNAC) 3 copies Apr. 20, 1941 Athens Against Greece Nov. 16, 1941 Brandeis - Amreican - Jew (missing)
RADIO BROADCASTS FOLDER - Nov. 1943-Dec. 1944 March 7, 1943 How to Remain Normal in Abnormal Times April 4, 1943 The Joad to Inner Serenity Today October 1943 United Jewish Laymen's Committee Series -Message of I~rael Oct. 2 - How Can I Believe in God Now Oct. 9 - A Heart of Wisdom not listed Oct. 16 - Beyond Fear in folder Oct. 23 - Death in the Garden of Life Oct. 30 - The Mystery of the Lost Hatred Folder: Nov. 7, 1943 The Road to Inner Serenity (WBZ) 2 copies (1 corrected) Nov. 7,1947 Order of the Service (Ritual) Dec. 5, 1945 John Roy Carlson's "Under Cover" (re: anti-Semitism in Boston)
~ copies (with handwritten corrections' Jan. 2, 1944 Ways to Live Your Life Victoriously I - The Art of Saying No 2 copies II - The Art of Accepting Yourself 3 copies Ill - The Art of Courage 2 copies
Feb. 20, 1944 Brotherhood or Chaos 2 versions ~ copies
Nov. 5, 1944 ' Why I Believe in a Better Future for Man ~ copies
Nov. 19, 1944 The Art of Conquering Grief 3 copies If -2-
Dec. 3, 1944 A Genius of the Twentieth Century (Freud) 4 copies
Dec. 1 7, 1944 The Jews in This War
RADIO FOLDER March 5-Ma y 21 , 19 4 4
March 5, 1944 How the Bible Can Help You Live Today ~ copies March 19, 1944 How to Face the Thought of Death l copies April 2, 1944 Madame Curie - Where Do Science Meet and Part I copies April 16, 1944 Three Ways to Prevent an American Hitler 2 copies
May 7, 1944 What Are the Real Moral Issues of Our Day ~ copies
BOX 55 RADIO SERMONS Nov. 1942-April 1943 Nov. 1 ' 1942 How To Make Life Worth Living Today Dec. 6' 1942 V for Victory Over Fear Mar 7, 1943 How To Remain Normal in Abnormal Times 5 copies April 4, 1943 The Road to Inner Serenity Today 5 copies April 1' 1945 How to Believe in Yourself Feb. 7' 1943 How Can I Believe in God Now? (Printed pamphlets - 2 copies) Nov. 7' 1943 The Road to Inner Serenity I ' i Oct. 16, 1943 Sermon - Beyond Fear (over Message of Israel-Sat. evening) United Jewish Laymen's Committee Apr. 4' 1942 Making Life Worth Living (over Message of Israel radio progra1 Passover - sermon on Inner freedom
REFORM JUDAISM FOLDER Mar 31, 1947 Talk on Reform Judaism, Hotel Biltmore, NYC. New York Federation of Reform Synagogues Mar. 3, 1946 Reform Judaism - UAHC (first final drafts) Oct. 19, 1947 The Role of the Rabbi in Pastoral Psychology Feb. 22, 1946 Issue of Palestine (Union speech - one subject)
RECONSTRUCTIONIST FOLDER Feb, 22,1948 Reconstructionists Foundation Address at Hotel Alpine, NYC. Talk by Liebman - Tribute to Mordecai Kaplan and his book The Future of the American Jew.
BOX 56 ROSH HASHONAH 1946 FOLDER I Copies - Baruch's atomic Proposal. Must avoid atomic war. World Federation urged. -3- ROSH HASHONAH FOLDER Sermon - Dawn of Peace Breaking ROSH HASHONAH FOLDER - 1947
A New Era in Jewish History - Need for Jewish State Russia War Relief Message at Russian War Relief Program Hosel Brodford, Dec. 14, 194- Tuluse to Russian heroism Folder Road to Inner Serenity (Marked FULLER Sermon)
BOX 56 - Aug. 21, 1939 Address to T.I. Religious School Welcome - Philosophy: 1. Purpose of Religious Education - sense of purpose and feeling in a Jew. 2. Methods of attaining goals - Curriculum - gr. 1-4 - Legends and stories - personalities gr. 5-7 - Adventure of Jewish people pre-conf. - Course of Jewish History K - Customs and ceremonies ( Teaching Technique and Methodology Philosophy of the School - Current events Richness of heritage of Israel Positive attitude towards Judaism Feel the significance of Zionism of its social ideals - literary and ethic creativity. FOLDER - ROSH HASONAH - 1944 , Sermon - Sept. 17, 1944 - End of Blackout in London (4 copies) YJ
Bo~ (grey box) Folder labelled Rosh Hashona 1939-1940-1941 Typed sermons Folder - Rosh Hashana - 1942 Typed original drafts and final copies 2-page mimeo .'d article: The Healing of Humanity by Professor Jacques Maritain Page of Jewish Advocate- Friday, June 26, 1942 - Containing long address by Rabbi Liebman at Annual Meeting, June 1947, Beth Israel Hospital Annual Meeting. Folder- Rosh Hashonah - 1943 Typed copies of final copy and 1st draft of sermon Box 58 Folder of sermon material Address by Henry A. Wallace (dinner on Paletine sponsored by Progressive Citizens of America - 11/5/47 - following an 18 day visit to Palestine and Italy. Article by Henry Walllace - New Republic - 11/10/47 -more detail of above address. Handwritten notes for sermon Returning Veteran envelope - "Negro Question" magazine Opportunity Journal of Negro Life - winter 1945 NAACP - Analysis of Model State FEPC Bill The Secret of Jewish Adjustment - R.H. Eve 9/14/47 Several Temple Bulletins - Pittsburgh and K.A.H. Chicago Several pages of sermon titles Psychological Reflections Are Wars Inevitable? 1 copies More Bulletins and articles clipped for potential sermon material? From Professor Einstein to J.B. ??? there for Holy Day Sermon Folder - Simmons College Address 5/12/44 Anti-Semitism and the Christian Conscience and outline 6 copies psychological reasons religious source of anti-semitism what can be done - etc. Handwritten outline Reprints Gordon Wallpost The Bigot In Our Midst 3 copies Folder - Sisterhood 2/2/43 The Role of a Sisterhood woman in a Wat.'11ng World (Ohabei Shalom - Joint Sisterhood. 3 copies - one with pencil marks '7 i.JL/
3/7/44 Letter (?) to TI Sisterhood - Purim luncheon - apology for not speaking. Box 58 Folder - Supper Club "Ecclesiastes and Jobi 3/24/47 23 pp. Some correspondence regarding supper club: appreciation and suggestion for discussions Many index cards (5x8) handwritten (difficult to read) notes on books read? outlines and "bon mot" notes Box 59 (grey box) Folders: Addresses: Jan. 11, 1943 - TI Fund Raising - June 10, 1946 - Victory Dinner Testimonials For Reuben L. Lurie (Jan. 8, 1941) typed Handwritten notes - Tributes to Rabbi Abrams Three Wise Rules for Happiness page l is handwritten page two to 18 typed with corrections Ways out of Recession Overcoming obstacles to your happiness. 8 typed pages - Much of of this material is in "3 Wise Rules" article. Feb. 12, 1942 - Modern Theories of Judaism (???of folder: Women's School for Jewish Studies) Address: Modern Theories of Judaism 3 modern philosophies discussed Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) in German Martin Buber Mordecai Kaplan Williamstown Aug. 29, 1931. Judaism and its Relation to Communism, Fascism and Democracy. United War Fund Address - Jan. 12, 1942 United Palestine Appeal - Jan. 9, 1944 - broadcast 25 years of Jewish community Life - several reprints of J.L.L. article Tributes A tribute to Bishop Nash - 5/8/47 Yom Kippur 1947 Sermon - The Call to Judaism Also afternoon sermon Reprint of radio sddress 11/1/42 "How to Make Life Worth Living Today" 4 folders with titles but empty. Envelope labeled RADIO TALKS About 40 copies mimeographed of radio addresses of various dates, including 9/17/38, 1/14/39, 9/16/39, 9/23,39. Letter from H.B. Clemenko about importance of American Jewish Committee. Box 60 Folders: Yorn Kippur 1946 - first and final drafts Yorn Kippur 1945 - drafts and Memorial Service Yorn Kippur 1944 first and final drafts and Memorial service Box 61 Folder: Yorn Kippur Sermon October 8, 9, 1943 Incomplete first draft one copy First complete draft two copies 67 pp. Final copy three copies 37 pp. Yam Kippur Memorial Service First draft 10/9/43 - 2 copies - one with pencilled corrections Folder: Yam Kippur 1942 Y.K. Sermonette Broadcast WEET 9/20/42 8 copies Memorial Sermon - Sept. 21, 1942 2 copies Y.K. Sermon Sept. 20 and 21, 1942 3 copies Folder: Yorn Kippur 1941 Kol Nidre Sermon 10/1/41 Yam Kippur Memorial Service 9/24/41 5 copies Additicnal material in connection with Yorn Kippur service 9/24/41 3 copies Box 62 Sept. 23. 1939 - Kol Nidre Sermon Psycho-Analyzing Anti-Semitism Oct. 11, 1940 - Charities Appeal Oct. 12, 1940 Yorn Kippur Sermon Oct. 12, 1940 - Memorial Service
Zionist Addresses 5/12/42 - A Phihophy for Zionism 10/28/42 - Zionist Symposium (J.L.L. and Rabbi Wolsey) at TI 5/18/43 - Churchill, anti-Semitism and the future of Palestine 9/13/43 - Zionist Banquet Address) Columbus, Ohio) Rosenwald and the Zionists Before Congress 5/11/42 - Zionism and the Hebrew Institute of Technology Box 62 1) Friday evening Sermons - Folder 11/21/47 - Why I Believe Organized Religion is Necessary. 11/28/47 - What I Understand by Morality and Immorality. 12/ 5/47 - Is War With Russia Inevitable? 12/12/47 - \..here ardJe American Jews Headed Now? 12/19/47 - The Palestine Situation - First Thoughts About the Future, 2) 2/6/48 - A Great Living Jewish Saint 3/26/48 - The Outlook for Palestine Now ', ( 4/2/48 - Dr. Baeck's views on Death, Evil and the Reality of God. 4/9/48 - Childhood: How Can We Make it Happy? 4/30/48 - Adolescence: How Can We Solve Its Problems? Box 63 Friday Sermons 1) 3/9/45 - Universal Military Conscription 3/16/45 - The Converted Rabbi of Rome and the Jews of Italy 3/30/ITT - Our Fears and Worries - How to Master Them 4/13/45 - Quotations by Sandburg (Eulogy for President Roosevelt) 2) 12/1/44 - Churchill, Weitzman adn the New Palestine Problem 12/8/44 - Earth and High Heaven (What I think of Intermarriage) 12/15/44 - The Jews in this War (A Tribute to our Modern Maccabees) 3) 3/28/47 - Honor Thy Son and Thy Daughter 4) 11/14/47 - What I Believe About Prayer (Handwritten notes) 5) 11/1/46 - "Peace of Mind" Case histories for American Weekly. 6) 11/28/47 - What I Understand by Morality and Immorality (Handwritten and typed) 7) 3/29/46 - Wasteland - Psychoanalysis and Jewish Morale 4/5/46 - Hope for Survival - What Philosophy Says Today 4/26/46 - David the King - The Biblical Novel of the Year 8) 11/2/45 - The Future of Civilization 11/9/45 - Russia and America - What Hope for Lasting Peace 12/7/45 - Weitzman and the Palestine Crisis 12/21/45 - My Three Favorite Books of the Year Box 64 Noveme:ber 1944 Nov. 3 - Sidney Hillman, This Election and Post War America Nov. 10 - Wilson and Dumbarton Oaks Nov. 17 - What Shall We Do With Germany? Nov. 24 - The Greatest Mind of the 20th Century April - May 1944 April 14 - What Are the Real Moral Issues of Our Day? 21 - Ben Hecht's "A Guide to the Bedevilled" 28 - The GReates Jewish Story of This War January 1944 Jan. 14 - My Three Favorite Books of The Year 25 How the Talmud Can Help to Live Today Mood and Morale March 10 - Rosenwald and the zionists Before Congress Religion-Race-Nation What Are We? 24 - Three Ways to Prevent and American Bitler February 1945 Feb. 2 - "A Bell for Adano" and The coming Conference of lloosevelt Churchill-Stalin 16 - Anti-Semitism - Henry Wallace and Sixty Million Jobs
Box f/65 May 1. 1942 Why America will Not go Anti-Semitic 15 Immortal Dutch Handwritten outline on cards - Hillel address Sat. Oct. 10, 1942 Meaning of Genesis - A Time for Greatness 6 V for Victory over fear 13 Song of Bernadette 20 What Does American Youth Think Today (typed outline) 28 Wallace, Wilkie and the the Future of Anti-Semitism Dec. 11 How Can I Believe In God Now? 18 Patriotic Service - Dedication of Tl - Honor loll
25 The 4 Outatanding Books of 1942
Nay 7, 1943 The Human Comedy (Does Judaiam agree with Saroyan'• outlook on Life and Man?) lov. 5, 1943 "The Apostle" - Solom ASch I The Road From Jesus to Paul - The Jewiah Viewpoint 12 "The Apostle" Sholom Asch II Its Message to Christians and Jews Today 19 The American Jewish conference - and After What American Jewry Must Do Now 26 John Roy Carlson's Under Cover Dec. 3, 1943 Russia, Religion and the Coming Peace 10 Four Ways to Live Your Life Victoriously 29 World-famous Christians Rekindle the lights of Judaism Box 66 Fri. Eve Sermons 4-2-43 On Being a Real Person 9 Jefferson Speaks to Churchill and the U.S 23 The Robe - Lloyd Douglas 30 The Bermuda Refugee Conference and Wilkie's One World Bulleton - Tl - 5-15-43 Papers-typed The Road to Inner Serenity Fri. Eve Sermon - 2-27-48 - Four Reasons Why 1 am Not a Peaailliat Message of Israel - 10-27-46 - "Wis4 Rules For a Happy Marriage" Radio - Mar-May 1947 - Honor Thy Son and Thy Daughter Dec. 1946 - Brotherhood in the Atomic Age Radio - 11-3-46 - The Fate of Man - What Hope For the Future? Reconstructionist Foundation Address - Hotel McAlpin, WY 10-14-45 Harvard College Address - 4-28-42 - The Jewish Concept of Buun natur{ Radio - Nov-Dec 1947 - My Faith; What I Underatand by Morality and Immorality New Century Club - 12-10-42 - Courage Where It Nay le round Speech delivered at Town Hall 5-2-? - Hope For Nan Page 8 on apeech (a) Blacks (negros) Booklet - Services of Inatallation - Dr. Joahua L. Liebun •• labbi of Tl - 11-10-39
Box 66 January 1943 January 8 President Roosevelt - The New Congress and outlook for Progress in 1943 15 The Pope - The Protesants - The American Rabbis Plan for Peace 29 Morality Today and Yesterday February 5 The Jews of North Africa 19 What Christianity Can Offer the Post-War World 26 Jewish Pioneers and Patriots March 28, 1947 Honor Thy Son and Thy Daughter March 1943 March 5 Hitler's Children vs. America's Children 12 Madame Chiang Symbol of the New China 19 Out of Haman's Hands - What the United Nations Can Do to Save European Jews Now May 7, 1948 The Art of Living - Maturity: How Can We Really Attain It? 14 Reconstructing the Individual for a New Society Radio Broadcast - Jan 20, 1948 - How Can We Find Peace of Mind in this Atomic Age? Chapter 13 Brotherhood in the Atomic Age Chapter 10 Reconstructing the Individual for a New Society April 30, 1948 The Art of Living - Adolescence: How Can we Solve its Probpems? Outline for "Hope for Man" Chapter 8 Love in Marriage Today The Art of Living - Chapter 7 - Maturity: How Can We really Attain it? Chapter 5 Childhood - How Can We Make It Happy? Chapter 2 Hope For Man - The Four Reasons for Modern Man's Predicament CourAGE: Where It May Be Found Chapter 12 The Road To Inner Serenity Chapter 14 ls Life Worth Living? Chapter 4 The Meaning of Life Radio - April 4, 1948 Roads to Inner Security and Nov. 7, 1943 March 29, 1941 What Is Man? April S, 1946 Hope For Survival - What Philosophy Says Today Radio - Dec. 1946 - Brotherhood in the Atomic Age so
Box 67 3/7/41 Good Will Between Christian and Jew: Reality or Illusion 14 Love in Marriage Today - Personal Desighns for Happiness 21 Are Atheists Neurotics? 29 What Is Man? 4/18/41 Athens vs. the Axis - The Epic of Greec 25 The Jewish Future 1/9/42 One Foot in Heaven 16 Japan - The Religious Faith and National Folly 23 Hitler, Herzl and Judge Frank 2/6/42 The Man Who Lived a Thousand Years 13 The Man Who Was Born Twice 20 How Green Was My Valley 3/6/42 Reform Judaism and the Christian Future 13 How to be Happy in a Warring World 20 One christian Who Understands Israel and The Jews Who Do Not 27 The Greatest Living Jewess Sermons 4/3/42 - Why The Modern Pharaoh Will Not Win 4/10/42- Two Startling Portraits of the Modern Jew 4-24-42- Coughlin and Civil Liberties Box 68 Jan 5, 1940 - The Jew and the World Scene - 1940 Weizman and Palestine Today Jan 12, 1940- The Jew and the World Scene- 1940 Stalin's Russia - The Land of the Broken Promise Jan 19, 1940- Can Mussoline: Turn Back? (Jews and the World Scene) Jan 26, 1940- The Other Germany Feb. 9, 1940- Lincoln - The American Front Feb 16, 1940- The Dies Committee: Menace or Defender Mar 8, 1940- What You should Know A bout Rashi (Master Builder of Judaism) Mar 15, 1940 How Can Religion Help You In These Times? Apr. 5, 1940 Bertrand Russell and His Beliefs - The Real Moral Issue Apr 12, 1940 American Education: Success or Failure Apr 19, 1940 How Can I Believe In God? Apr 26, 1940 What Have We' Jews Done For Our Freedom? May 10, 1940 The Only Defense for The Jew (B'Nai Brith) Jan 17 1941 Embezzled Heaven rt Box 68 Jan 24, 1941 Henri Bergson, France and Freedom Jan 31, 1941 Must America Ride the Lindberg's Wave of the Future? Feb 9, 1941 Lincoln - The American Front Feb 14, 1941 The Three Great Loves of Jehudah Malevi Feb 21, 1941 Is Life Worth Living Today? Box 69 (n.d-=no date) Letters of congrats - JLL responses on getting Honorary Degree from HUC Letters of response regarding article in Atlantic Monthly National Jewish Post - Fri. Oct. 31, 1947 - Article by Al Segal on JLL decision to stay in Boston. Typed copy with handwritten corrections of statement by HUC Alumni deploring remarks of Dr. Julian Morganstern regarding Palestine. Palestine and the West - chapter for book Sermon - 4/14/44 - What Are the Real Moral Issues of Our Day? (based on banning of Strange Fruit. Intermarriage as two moderns see it (based on 2 articles in Atlantic Monthly) n.d. Youth and Poverty n.d. Address - Armistice Day - Covenant Club - 11/11/36 - "Must the War Go On" Rosh Hashannah Eve 1938 - Sermon (draft with handwritten editing) Jewish Youth looks at Marriage n.d. Yorn Kippur Sermon n.d. Wed. morning - Sept. 15, 1937 Kol Nidre - Oct. 4, 1938 God and the world Crisis Handwritten ms. Madrid Wave and Mussolini Sermon - 12/14/35 - What Keeps a Jew Going - An Answer For Troubled Times Lord Russell and John Haynes hold D (?) Munich: Are They Right or Wrong? Address on Mussolini 1/4/36 Sunday - 3/19/39 - Will Palestine be Another Czechoslovakia? Message of Israel - Sat. April 11. 1942 - Why The Axis Will Not Win Sermon Passover (n.d.) on achieving inner freedom - "How to Make Life Worth Living Today?" page 1 - handwritten, rest typed Part of a sermon untitled Envelope of letters and telegrams regarding call to Emanu-el in NYC and his decision to remain in boston. Letter from Julian MOrganstern with paragraph re Temple Israel Clipping NY Times - Wed. 10/8/47 - Liebman declines call to Emanu-el. Box 69 (c~' .f) Letter from Bill Silverman - 10/7/47 - with paragraphs about son's Bar Mitzvah at TI Letter from Sidney Rabb re Trustees Mtg. at which JLL voted life tenure 9/29/47 Letter 10/20/47 - Walter Muelder, Dean, BU School of Theology Letter from RBG - 10/17/47 congrat on remaining in Boston. Box 70 5x7 file cards Personal file of books and sources for reference - categorized by subject, with his comments. Nov. 19 1939 - Are the Jews a Chosen People (Torah Service0 Nov. 24, 1939 - Grapes of Wrath: Prophetic Challenge to America (Thanksgiving) Dec. 1, 1939 - A Great Catholic Answers the Anti-Semites Dec. 8, 1939 - Courage is our Badge Dec, 15, 1939 - Sholom Asch - "The Nazarene"-Part I Dec . 2 2 , 1 9 3 5 - " " " " Part I I Box 71 5 x 7 file card Personal file of books and sources for reference - categorized by subject, with his personal comments.
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Miscellaneous letters Jew and Christian Palestine and the West Cosmic salvation The Human Future Broadcast "Gentlemen's Agreement" - February l & 15, 1978 Death in the Garden of Life Psychology and religion - where they meet and part Chapter 8 and conclusion Galleyproofs - Peace of Mind - to be published Spring 1946 Broadcast: 4/20 & 5/4/47 - Honor They Son & They Daughter, Love - Counterfeit and Real - 3/17/46 Opinion Magazine 5/45 The Jewish Challenge and The Human Hope, Part 3 Reconstructionist 12/31/40 - What is Behind the Prejudice Against Religion? 2/18/ 55 Social Questions Bulletin 2/46 - How Shall We Face The Atomic Age? Cultural Development of Modern Palestine Broadcast 2/7/43 - How Can I Believe in God Now? 1941 - God and The World Crisis - Can We Still Believe In Providence? October 1939 Bulletin - 9/1/42 - 10/1/42 How Shall We Face Grief? - sent to Readers Digest
BOX 73 Large bound notebook - notes on courses at Hebrew Union College are on related reading. Soul problems, Education, Midrashic Literature. Brown envelope containing ( ) Introduction to speech by Rabbi Freehof. Wedding ceremonies. Prayers Memorial Services. Eulogies Good Will Dinner address Bar Mitzvah speeches. -4- Folder Labelled PSYCHIATRY Pamphlets announcing J.L.L. 's participation in Symposium - Dec. 17, 1936, ( Chicago. Pamphlet - "The Voice of K.A.M." - biography of Rabbi Elect, date April 1934. (many copies) Mimeographed note from Religious News Service (11/29/38). Copy made. J.L.L. to tour 9 of the most famous Protestant Theological Schools in the east from Dec. 5 to Dec. 15. Subject: The Jewish Challenge to the Christian ' Conscience. Notice of speech - Nov. 11, 1936 to Forum Committee, Chicago, on "Must the War Go On?" Large loose leaf notebook with 1947 outlines of sermons and addresses. Large ledger book - Notes on readings and for sermons. Bound notebook - Notes on readings and lectures, theological subjects e.g.Incorporeality of God. Envelope with very large number of requests for contributions. Large envelope labelled FOR FILING. Many letters, personal ones about gifts and condolences and congratulations from J.L.L. C References to unfavorable nasty review of Peace of Mind in Menorah Journal (Nov. 1947) by Bernard Heller (Holy Snake Oil) Folder: Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself 63 pp. Folder: Book material Letter from Elisha Friedman (consulting economist) re: talk a) Institute of Religion, response for J.L.L. re comments - will probably in Democracy and Dictatorship. 5/11/45 Letter from Inner Sanction of S+S with quote re life and death. Brief outline and notes for book. Pamphlet 5/42: The Resources of Religion and Aims of Higher Educati Julius S. Baxter (Colby, Calif)•book material Outline of book II The Road to Life - The Principle of Polarity -philosophy, psychiatry, social, religious Outlines: Anti-Semitism - Hitler - history - psychological on A-S Jew and Christian The Road to Normalcy -5- 1941 - Typed Psychology and Religion Book Material - How to Make Life Worth Living
Notes on Niebuhr - quoted in Thy Shalt Love They Neighbor etc. criterion of Human Destiny. Reading notes - Schecter, Saroyan, Human Comedy, etc. Ginsberg Book - Palestine and the West Outline of Ch. on Road to Life Freedmen and God "Palestine and the West" 57 pp. 1943 Pamphlet - The Future of the Jews - Dorothy Thompson -United Palesti· Appeal Jews must write for Palestine Zionism "Jew and Christian" 51 pp. "Rosenwald and The Zionists Before Congress" Race - Nation - Religion "God and the World Crisis" Can we still believe in Providence part 5 - corrections Folder- Jew and Christian - only copy - Ch. I Conscience 35 pp. Envelope: Book material - completed copies Ch. 5 - Democracy and dictatorship VI - God~ The Psychology of Atheism and Theism VII - Concluding ch. Psychology and Religion - where they meet and where they part. Envelope - with list of National Honorary Committee members appointed (?) Sponsoring the Joshua Loth Libman Memorial Fund - creating a Department of Human Relations at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. Letters to and from members. A letter from Sam Swerdloff, Director of J.L.L. Memorial Fund to Mrs. J.L.L. re committee and organization 12/30/43 "The Nature of Man and the Subject of Sin" 11/29/44 Andover Newton Theological School Folder: Simmons College 5/12/44 - Anti-Semitism and the Christian Conscience 4/45 Three addresses by Harry E. Fosdick - When Noah Got Drunk - on Friday Hard to Believe in God - On Being Fit to Live Together 1/26/45 - The Reconstructionist 4/16/44 - J.L.L. Three Ways to Prevent an American Hitler Reprint - Race Hate - The Enemy Bullets Can't Stop - Frank Murphy - U.S. Supreme Court 12/-/43 - J.L.L. Under Cover -John Roy Carlson reprint Envelope - Book material : Peace of Mind pamphlets, magazines, publicity 1) HUC Bulletin - March 1948 - Photographic album of - p. 3 in Aug. of Dr. Nelson Glueck 2) King's Chapel - J.L.L. preaching, Feb. 3 and 6, 1948 Publicity - re: Readers Digest condensation 5/46 ??? Book shop : HUC Bulletin A,Q.C. Book Review Interview by Robert Caplan, Montreal 12/47 re: "War Orphans" and "Can't have individual peace of mind until we show our collective peace of mind in the deeds of compassion we perform." S&S letter re: change of last paragraph of book. Look photo quiz ??? Reprint of Meet the Author 12/29/47 Bob Dworkin The Atlantic 6/19/48 J.L.L. A Living Saint - Rabbi Leo Baeck : / Publishers Weekly The Octagonian - great photo - smiling in front of book. Letter to J.L.L. - with photo with J.L.L. and comments, re: address at Dartmouth on 1/25/47 Reprints "Gentleman's Agreement" Combat anti-Semitism with education, social legislati0n (Fair Empl. Prac.) and religious inspiration. The Faith of Man - What Hope for the Future.
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The Nature of Man - typed copy and handwritten notes - Chapter of Book Chapter - "Conscience" Chapter VI: God, The Psychology of Atheism and Theism Death in the Garden of Life Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbor The Meaning of God Folder of Exams given at B. U. and Andover - Newton Envelope labelled - Used Notes on Book Father Coughlin's New Anti- Semitism Son - 11/6/38 The Gleam - Yearbook from Walnut Hills H. S. 1922 Marriage License - July 2, 1925 Printed Sermons - The Fate of Man: What Hope for the Future Assorted papers, sermons, magazine articles Booklet: named scholarship funds of Wellesley College (JLL Fund established in his memory) "The Mystery of the Lost Hatred" - The Reconstructionist 12/24/43 Vol. lX, No. 17 pp. 10-14 2 copies I i Composition book with some handwritten entries Miscellaneous correspondence prior to arrival in Boston 1936 Yearbook - Young Men's J. Charities of Chicago Governor's Commission (on Inter-faith Activities) for Racial and Religious Understanding - several folders dealing with (Public Policy Pamphlet (Bulletin for Police Administrators Letter from Emanuel, N.Y. with invitation for interview Minutes of TI Bot - Sept. 15, 1947 - discussion re: JLL's offer from Emanuel Ketuba for JLL Correspondence from all over the world regarding book - requests for copies, speeches, comments, etc. Speeches etc. on Reform Judaism Small comp. book(?) in Hebrew with his picture University of Cincinnati (blue book) University of Cincinnati (senior year) What are moral issues of our time - May 7, 1944 (Radio Broadcast) The future of the Jews by Dorothy Thompson, issued by United Palestine Appeal 1943 BOX 75 1945 - Fri night - 1/12 The Talmud to Help for Modern Living I - How to Find God 1/26 Ill - How to Build a Good Society 2/2 "A Bell for Adano" a.~~ The Coming Conference of Roosevelt,Church and Stalin 2/9 "What the Negro Wants - and Deserves" with reference to Murdals "An American Dilemma" 3/16 The Converted Rabbi of Rome and The Jew of Italy 3 drafts 3/30 Our Fears and Worries - How to Master Them 4/22 II II II II II II II II read in broadcast Full page ad for peace of mind - p. 60 New York Times - Tuesday, Dec. 9, 1947 -
1944 1/14 My three favorite books of the year Americanism, Judaism and human morality On Native Ground - Alf Kazain Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism - Gershon Schelan (???) Arrival and Departure - Koestler 1/21 In This Time of Tension I - How the Bible Can Help you Live Today 11 - How Modern Hebrew Llterature can Help You Live Today 2/11 Madame Curie - Where Do Science and Religion Meet and Part? 2 copies 2/25 My Trip To Fort Bragg - Impression of Army - Mood and Morale 3/24 Three Ways to Prevent an American Hitler 4/14 What Are the Real Moral Issues of Our Day? reflections re: banning of "Strange Fruit" 4/21 Ben Hecht's A Guide for the Bedeviled (His startling analysis of Jews, Germans and Anti-Semites.) 5/5 How To Find Courage for the Coming Crisis 11/3 Sidney Hillman - This Election and Postwar America 2 copies 11/10 Wilson and Dumbarton Oaks 11/17 What Shall We Do with Germany? 12/1 Churchill Werman and The New Palestine Problem 12/8 "Earth and High Heaven" What I Think About Intermarraige. 2 copie~ 12/22 My Three Favorite Books of the Year: Joseph the Provider, The Mann for the Condition of Man (???), Yankee from Olympus. Yom Kippur Sermon - 9/27/44 Yorn Kippur Sermon - 9/26/44 ·1 • Rosh Hashonnah Sermon - 9/44 Agoos Dinner to Combat Anti-Semitism 1/12/44
In a brown envelope - handwritten confirmation addresss 6/1/41 2 copies of The Christian Leader 4/6/46 - Brotherhood in Urban, Lewiston, Me.
4/6/45 - "From Turret to Foundation's Stone'' from Scott's M ??? Rev. Nathan Krass, emer. Temple Emanuel, NY Seder Hagadah. NY 1907 - Domestic Service for the Eve of Passover Adapted from the German of Dr. Leopold Stein by D.S. Moses 5/44 - Liberal Judaism -monthly journal article "Redemptive Sanctuaries" J.L. Liebman, p. 29 Publication of radio broadcasts: 2/1 and 2/15/48 - "Gentleman's Agreement" 4/4/48 - The Outlook for Palestine Now Address before Union theological Seminary and Yale University (no date) a few days after he appeared at Princeton with Einstein - Thomas Mann Protest to Members of Board of Trustees re Rabbi Cohen - on lists of protesters Miscellaneous pages of address on medicine and doctors. Marriage ceremony Miscellaneous pages: mysticism, 10 commandments, anti-semitism, ch. 2 p. 1-3, 20-43, God??
Folder:The Nature of man - 3 copies p. 10-34 from The Human Comedy-Saroyan - 5/7/43 with notes Democracy and Dictatorship - 2nd draft - 3 pp.- incomplete - no date(post war) II II - corrected for final manuscript with notes - 55 pp
Envelope - Installation Service - 11/10/39 - J. L. Liebman
Folder: Revision - p. 262-281 typewritten Add it ion and correction - 2 copies Chapter I - Personality and the Universe - with corrections 11 - The Rabbis and their Problems " " Ill - p. 39 Awareness and Formulations IV - p. 47 The Occidental Myth V - p. 58 The Impotence of science VI - p. 74 The Purpose of Maimonides Vll - p. 94 Joshua - Soldier or Metaphysician top. 99 Envelope with The Unity of God 65 pp. Thesis Different Views on Nature of Good and Evil Notes on pad - Hotel St. Regis, NY - Miscellaneous addresses: Chanukkah, Joseph,"Israel the Preserver of Life" Some handwritten notes and typed papers. &,und notebook - Apparently reading notes and lecture notes - handwritten July 5, 1932 - Cultural Development of 19th Century Economics - Banking and Credit Value 18th Century History Some Biblical notes Proofs for existence of God Absurdity of corporalizing God ? book by Aaron (?Aaron hen Elyah) Hebrew Book Photographs of life in Palestine Pamphlet in Hebrew - 1925 Lecture notes - hand written - History - Hygiene - on loose leaf page, Psychology Typewritten article (?sermon) about Jews as characterized vs. Capitalists and radicals. Hand written "The Lane of Promise" about Palestine. Thick bound notebook - handwritten notes - Theology - Philosophy (Abad re suffering of animals) I f I Handwritten notes of our fears and -How To Master Them Folder containing 68 typewritten pages with heading. Chapter II with appendices. Installation program - Nov. 10, 1939 (Xerox of Rabbi Levi's remarks about choice of Liebman.) Large leatherette loose-leaf notebook with written notes on Theology & Philosophy Snap-Binder with notes during Hebrew Union College days Small notebook - Lecture notes as senior at U. of Cincinnati. Leatherette snap-binder - notes - on Bible. II II Philosophy. Long envelope on bottom - Reform Judaism - Address re Cincinnati meeting in March battle over Zionism Reform Judaism - UAHC - 3/3/46 17 pp. p. 9-23 Notes on UAHC speech (reunion etc.) Mimeographed Radio Broadcasts April 18, 1942 to Mar 18, 1945 In envelope - Natl Jewish Welfare Bd - School notes of Mrs.Liebman Medical lectures - Social Resource.
I" Courses of Simmons - School of Social Work - 1944-194? Syllabus of Course in History of Philosophy - 1943-1944 Social Philosophy 1938-9 Folder: Remnant of Fear - Chapter? Folder: Fragments of Love - Chapter? "Thou shalt Love Thy Neighbor Thick notebook - School notes on Philosophy etc. Folder - the Meaning of God 1941 Reprint - God and the World Crisis Can We Still Believe in Providence Yearbook-Conf of Amer. Rabbis 2/7/43 " How Can I Believe in God Now WNAC 4/25/42 ? ? Israel Broadcast - Faith in God in Difficult Days 12/13/40" The Reconstructionist - What is Behind the Prejudice vs. Religion - JLL Folder - The Meaning of God - only copy
'Box 7 6 1) N. Y. Times Book Review 4-20-58 I I 2) Herald Tribune Book Review 4-20-58 3) "Love of Books as Revealed in Jewish Bookplates" by Philip Goodman - Reprinted from Jewish Book Annual, Vol 12, 1954. 4) American Judaism, Rosh Ha-Shana, 1956, Vol VI, Vol 1 - Contains article on Bar Mitzvah in Reform Judaism by Rabbi gittelsohn, p. 14. 5) Personal Information - Nat'l Assoc. of social Workers, Mar 1958, Vol 1 #2 6) "Changing Psychological Concepts of Aging" by L. F. Greenleigh, M.D., Nat'l Institute of Mental Health, 1953 7) Council Women (NCJW) Mar 1958, Vol 20 #1 8) Typed sermons and lectures. 9) "Twenty-five fears of Jewish Community Life in America" by J. L. Liebman (2 copies) 10) Chapter III - "Fear" - Rpugh draft of his book? 11) Address by Hon. J.M. curley, M.C. 12) Handwritten notes - "Schilder" written at top. 13) Letters in response to Peace of Mind from Karen Horney, M.D. and Elsie Stokes of Stokes and Stockell, Inc., Nashville, TN. ) Folder of notes and speech on Reform Judaism given in Cincinnati, OH, Mar 3, 1946
l I Handwritten blessing at a wedding at KAM Temple, Chicago. 16) Book material - typed and handwritten notes. \ ) Chapter I - "Conscience" - rough draft 18) Chapter VI - God-The Psychology of Atheism and Theism - rough draft. Chapter IV - Death - rough draft. 19) Folder of notes on chapter VII - Psychology and Religion - Where they meet and part. 20) Folder - Jew and Christian 21) Morale for Moderns - outline 22) "Thou Shall Love Thy Neighbor" - folder 23) Folders of incomplete Chapters on: Love, Death, Fear etc. 24) Letter to Simon and Schuster re: publicity on Peace of Mind. 25) Briefcase of miscellaneous papers including personal correspondence to Fan (?) Liebman, information and research on troubled children. 26) Invitation to Memorial Service - June 19, 1949
Message of Israel Address - Sept 2, 1939 - Oct '44 Morale for Moderns: Essays on Philos. and Psychology of Religion Looks like typed ms - check to see if published NE Journal of Medicine May 7, 1959 April 23, 1959 Social Casework July 1950 Folder of shorthand notebook - looks like her casework notes. Personal misc, correspondence What's new? Late winter '58 Various requests for contributions, sponsorships, to join committees or lend name to committees. Proposal by J. Max Weis, NYC to form organization Psycho-Dynamics, Inc, Lecture for Am. Unitarian Assoc. 10/16/47 Review Peace of Mind in Am. J. of Psychotherapy, July '47 Vol 1 No 3 A reprint from Am J of Psychotherapy II, 1 Jan. '48 Some personal correspondence general " rabbinic " ind. Eisendrath Torchbearer 1948
Correspondence of W's and V's 1937 Correspondence with Dr. Stephen S. Wise re: introduction to Prof Einstein etc. Correspondence with several members of Chicago congregation Correspondence re: recommendations (rabbi) re: Theology on U of Chicago Campus (vs. Adler) and a meeting with Dean gilkey 1935 lectures Envelope - Parts of Thesis "Creation" scattered paper - re: Aaron and Maimonides Fall 1937 Brown notebook - with handwritted "verbatim" dialogue between Professor Albert Einstein and Rabbi Liebman. J.L.L. presented message form Professor Albert Einstein at the 90th anniversary dinner and meeting of KAM Congregation, Dec. 19, 1937. Envelope with photo of J.L.L. signed 12/1937 Envelope with Installation of J.L.L. @ Temple Israel 11/10/39
I Envelope - confirmation services ( 1939 Folder with letters to Elkan Voorsanger UAHC and addresses re: E. V. 1937-39 Many letters to colleagues - requests for addresses of meetings etc. and responses. Envelope to Mrs. Liebman with letter of condolence from Abraham Cronbach HUC 6/14/48 Pamphlets reprints of WBZ addresses 11/4/45 How Shall We Face The Atomic Age 4 and 3 copies 4/7/46 Hope for Survival 4/7/46 6 copies 2/3/46 How to win Serenity Under Sorrow 6 copies 3/16/47 Peace of Mind 8 copies 4715/47 Honor Thy Son and Daughter 4 copies 4/6/47 The Value of Judaism for the 20th C. 2 copies 11/16/47 The Jew and Judaism - Past and Future 25 copies 2/15/48 Gentleman's Agreement 7 and 3 copies 4/4/48 The Outlook for Palestine Now 5 and 9 copies Box '11 Pamphlets 1/18/48 The Meaning of Life 21 copies
12/7/47 My Faith - What I Understand by Morality and Immortality 19 copies 10/9/43 Yom Kippur Memorial Service Folder - Morale for Moderns typewritten 69 pp. Essays in the Philosophy and Psychology of Religion Envelope - Book comments - a manuscript (?) with corrections - incomplete atheists agnostics - chapter 8 notes re: Hasney 4 bound notebooks with handwritten notes: on Maimonides are such topics as God is incorporeal - God is not compounded - Unity of God - Prophecy - Soul. About 50 sheets clipped together - apparently part of his thesis. A loose page in carbon copy of draft of index.
The Religious Philosophy of aaron Ben Fakjah. (compared especially with that of Maimonides) 1. Intorduction 2. Creation 3. Incorporeality of God and homonyms. 4. Unity of God and the Attribute 5. Theodicy and Providence etc. 10. The Commandments 11. Reward and Punishment, The Immortality of the Soul and The World to Come. 12. Summary and Conclusion
Bound folder 67 typed pages "Thy Shalt Love Thy Neighbor" Envelope with large collection of newspaper clippings about Peace of Mind. Typed sermon "Theodore Dreiser Exiles the Jews - April 28, 1935, KAM Temple 4 Hebrew paper-back books (?magazines) Register of friends who called at funeral of Mrs. Carrie Levi Loth, Cincinnati. Hebrew textbook Notes - probably lecture notes - on religion of Semites Notes on hotel paper on "Grief" and other topics/ Carbon copies of typed pages: Chap. 14 Where Religion and Psychology Meet and Part. Folder labelled Ps_ychological Prerequisites of Peace. Also contains Erich Lindemann's article on Symptomatology and Management of Acute Grief. Box 77 Printed "25 Years of Jewish Community Life in America" Carbon of "Where Jew and Christian Meet"
Mimeographed broadcast "V for Victory-Over Fear" - written "bbok out.ine" page 1 Many copies of printed Temple Israel Friday evening Services 1939-42 Plaque to JLL from CJP - 1945
Box 7fJ Folder of notes - philosophy - U. of Cincinnati) of Hillel JLL Several pamphlets re services for the aginf 1953-55 FLL Several articles on psychiatry and the aged FLL The Atlantic: June 1948 "A Living Saint: Rabbi Baeck, president of the World Union of Progressive Judaism, London Standard Daily Journal (5 books) B. R. Berman, Secretary of JLL diaries 1941, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1947 The Retail Bookseller Trade News March 1946 Peace of Mind advertised on p. 88A "good sales, at least" 1945 pamphlet re religious instruction in Ontario public schools. Folder - Anti-Semitism 1944 Envelope with pamphlets (no date) Good Will commissions ! ( Letters re Commission of Community Interrelations of the Am. Jewish Congress-1945 and articles re prejudice Can Catholicism Win(?) America? reprint Simon and Schuster envelope with advertising flyers re Peace of Mind Manuscript: The Unity and Attrributes of God 65 pp.-with Hebrew footnotes-2 copies The Religious Philosophy of Aaron ben Elijah (compared with Maimonides) Tab le of contents and many papers Miscellaneous papers - Chapter x p. 126 No Means Yes Ch VIII Thou Hast Enthralled Me, God 26 pp. 10-13-39 The Histadruth information re Jewish labor in Palestine Envelope enclosing: Chapter I Questing Inward Chapter II Conscience Doth Make Cowards ChapterIII Love Thyself Properly 20 pp. Chapter IV Dare You NOt Love Your Neighbor? Chapter V Fear Means Many Masks 21 p. ChapterVII Intimations of Own Immortality Chapter IX Where Religion and Psychology Meet and Part Cardboard Box 7 8 Envelope with return address Hebrew University College, Cincinnati - containing handwritten notes. Some dated Oct. and Nov 1928, on French Literature, History of Religion. Metal Plaque - ? and Rebeccah & small pamphlets - Discourse by Nathan Krass, Sun, Feb. 4, 1923 at Central Synagogue, NY "The Religion of Dr. Grant" Many copies of pamphlets- Friday evening Service prayers at Temple Israel - 1941 and other dates. Clippings on Medical Economics belonging to Fran Liebman. Pamphlet - A Symposium - Proposed Roads for American Jews - Ntl. Council of Jewish Women, NYC 1936 Folders: Typewritten pages Chapter II Consciene Doth Make Cowards Chapter IV Dare You NOt Love Your Neighbor? Chapter III Love Thyself Properly Folder with items on Anti-Semitism (Catholic) Notices of Meeting of Temple Israel Brotherhood - Oct. 18, 1939, welcoming Liebman and tribute to Levi. Folder with ? typewritten manuscripts Chapter Ill Love Thyself Properly Chapter IV Love Thy Neighbor Folder - Chapter V Fear Wears Many Masks Chapter VI Grief's slow Wisdom Folder - Chapter VII Intimations of Our Mortality Chapter VIII Thou Hast Enthralled Me, God Folder - Chapter IX Where Religion and Psychology Part and Meet Copy of Zion's Herald, March 20, 1946 with review of Peace of Mind on page 271 .
• I j s~'I- 71 1) Duke U,, Council on Gerontology - Proceedings of Seminar 1956-7 (Nov. 1957) Precis of Geriatrics Research Program of Duke U., School of Medicine, Nov., 1957 2) The Atlantic, June 1948 - "A Living Saint" by Rabbi Liebman , ) Book notes & comments. Winter 1944-5 (?) I(! \ Misc. typed papers - "Palestine & the West" "Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself" 5) Book Material - Chap. 1- "The Problem of Conscience" and other papers and notes 6) Page from a newspaper with poem by Bonaro W. Overstreet - overside photo of Marines and Child in internment camp 1944 7) Handwritte note cards 8) Handwritten notes and typed papers 9) Softcover book "War Neuroses in N. Africa" the Tunisian Campaign-Jan.-May 1943 by Grinker and Spiegel, Restricted, Pub. Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation 10) The Jewish Way of Life by David Aronson. The Nat'l Academy for Adult Jewish Studies - Jewish Theological Seminary of America 11) Misc. typed pages. 12) J.N.F. ? certificate for Rabbi Leibman by Worcester Zionist District 13) Envelope -Copy 113 Chap. 1-5 Genesis pp 155-229 Commentaries on Ecclesiastes and Job 14) Folder on Confirmation Program, 1947 15) Envelope - Handwritten note cards - re: Santayana and Bergon 16) Folder - Handwritten notes 17) Copy of letter refusing pulpit of Temple Emanuel 10-8-47
'/ " ) "More Books" - Bulletin of B.P.L. April 1946 19) The Jewish Post Fri., June 25, 1948 20) Compilation of the Social Security Laws - 76th Congress - 1939 21) 4 pp of the Old Age Assistance Law of the Comm. of MA 1943 22) Misc. - handwritten and typewritten notes 23) "The Jew and Judiasm" Past and Future" by J.L.L. Radio 11-16-47 24) Letter to J,L.L. from Maurice Eisendrath 3-2-48 re: $1,000 check, Dr. Baeck, and personal comments 25) Record of sales of P. of M. as of 1-19-48 (letter) 26) 2 personal letters to Mrs. J.L.L. in reference to J.L.L. works - from Rabbi Zwitman Temple Israel - Miami, FL 1948 and Burt I. Harris of Harriscope, ? Beverly Hills, CA 1954 27) Envelope with? certificates 28) American Red Cross 21st Nat'l Convention - Summary of Proceedings, Phila,, PA June 18-21. 1946 (addressed by J.L.L. included) 29) Letter and comments by David Glock and Dr. Baeck 30) Envelope with letter and paper on J.L.L. by B.W. Morris - Wellesley Student #,-1-48 letter to J.L.L. from MLS at Simon and Schuster re: past article and future book \lls from SAM Frat. and JAHC-HUC Apr. and May 1948 33) i::ulogy for J.L.L. - author unknown (Brandeis?) 34) Hebrew poems/prayers-mimeo *Letter from HUC? awarding D.D. (hon)
~ ~ontract with S & S for Peace of Mind ,etter from Nelson Glueck 5/29/48 regarding establishment of Dep't in name of JLL at HUC ~erald Trib. Weekly book Review 5/2/46 moved up 3d place Assorted condolence notes from organizations and friends F.L.L. calendar 48-49 radio broadcasts The Outlook for Palestine? 4/4/48 ) Hope for Survival? What Philosophy Says Today ) 4/7/46 Invitation to Northeastern Univ. 50th Anniv. Convocation The Poems of Mortimer Slaiman (1923-53) Privately Printed Public Welfare: Lectures and Discussion Notes 3/20/44 Folder: Jew and Christian (may be book chapter Folder: typed pages Chapters of Book Alphabetical File Folder: Confirmation Services by Freehof, Cronbach, Rosenou Lectures on J. History 1937 Adult Ed. Course 12/1/38 Heb. Bible or literature A Jewish tribute to Am. Christianity KAM Scroll (Sunday school newspaper) What does it mean to be Ortho. Jew - 1st in series on present and future of Judaism in America - Handwritten ( ( / Thomas G. Masaryk KAM Sermon ?? Palestine Comes to Washington 1/20/35 (Palestine Day) Thomas Paine Peace Bulletin - No. Shore Congreg. Israel - JLL preaching Titans of J. Philosophy - speech to Chicago Women's Aid 11/18/38 What Keeps a Jew Going? Handwritten Composition Book * Temple Israel - 80th Anniv. Program Folder: (1) Address to TI Relig. School (undated but states is 1st official act) (2) Rep't of President 1/18/43 (3) JLL Report 1/11/42 (4) 90th Anniversary Address 4/2/44 (at Hotel Statler) Composition Book Notes Hope for Man Part I, Chap I Fri. night sermons and organizational addresses 1943 Galley proofs with some corrections Typed and handwritten notes Envelope - notes, letters, articles of Apr.-May 1946 Box io 1) Photos - KAM Temple Confirmation, Class, June 1938 2) Central Conference of Am. Rabbis, June 1930, Providence, RI - panoramic print 3) Misc. photos including one of Samuel Alschuler and signed by him - 6-2-36 4) Scrapbook appears to be that of Leilas including personal memorabilia with articles and pictures about JLL 5) Calendar of B.R. Berman 1940 6) II 1948 - owner not clear 7) Scrolls - Program of Jewish Welfare Board - Dec. 21, 1918 - 1st anniversary 8) 2 personal books of poems, sayings and meditations 9) Leather Masonic Apron 10) Card with misc. notes 11) Admission to 3rd degree Masonry Shawmut Lodge 12) Dinner program 1948, Phila. American Jewish Cavalcade. 2-4-48. Handwritten notes on back about Rabbi Baeck. JLL gave address. 13) Ten Commandment bookends. 14) Gold thread knob 15) TI Bulletins - Vol. 30 and 31, 32 ?. 1940, 41, 42, 43. misc. copies many duplicates.
1 1 r FLL graduation form 8th grade Avondale School, Cincinnati, OH Panoramic photo Testimonial for Rabbi solomon Goldman, Sept 19, 1938, chicago
(1) Golden Book Certificate JNF from BBN Zionist District, Boston. Young Business Men's Division of Histadrut, Boston. FLL Confirmation Certificate, May 1917 (5677) B'nai Yeshurun, Cincinnati FLL High School diploma June 14, 1922 Cincinnati Picture JLL walking doen steps of TI on Comm Ave. (excellent photo, but poor brittle condition) Community School of Religion - Branch of TI Religious Schools in Mattapan - Dorchester District: 2 certificatees making JLL and Leo Bergman Honorary Members of Board Dec. 10, 1941 The Synagogue Review - (organ of Assoc. Brit. Synagogues) Jan, March, April, May 1946 April 1947 Box '6/ 1) Publisher's Weekly Vol. 151 #3 Jan 18, 1947 Sec. 1 p. 357 Peace of Mind #1 in sales 9 wks. I 2) Pamphlet about th eAcademy of Religion and Mental Health and note - Fan about joinig - 1959 (in large manila envelope). 3) Family Service Assoc. of Greater Boston - outline for Psychiatric Consultation Summaries 9-6-56 4) Envelope with info sbout the United World Federalists, Inc. Greater Boston Council and letter from Chairman Wm. V, N, Washburn to Fan 5-19-54 5) 2 copies "L? Home Journal" 1957 6) Manila env. form Family Service Assoc. with audiograph from inside also paycheck stub. 7) "Readers Scope" (mag) Nov. 1946. Featuring Peace of Mind.
8) Cosmopolitan Magazine. Sept. 1948. Featuring of JLL's last article "The Art of Happiness" 9) 10-7-53 Letter from insurance company and accident report to Fan. 10) Personal correspondence to Fan 11) List of medical cases from S.S. Liebman 12) Duke U. Council on Gerontology - Proceedings of Seminars 1955-56 ? 13) Photos 14) Composition book of Fan's. Cin. OH prior to marriage 15) Inventory sheet of room contents 16) Report of a survey of the Salem Seaman's Orphan and Children's Friend, Soc., Salem, MA. Made by Child Welfare League of America, Inc., 130 E. 22 St. NYC, Feb. 1949 17) Misc. - personal correspondence, diet Letter re: Leila's application to Harvard Med School 19) Bonwit Teller Christmas Catalogue 20) "Patterns of Emotional Recovery from Hysterectomy" reprinted from Psychosomatic Medicine Vol XIX #5 Sept-Oct 1957 21) "Relationship Between Social Attitudes Toward Aging and the Delinquencies of Youth" by Maurice Linder, M.D. 22) Children's Book Section of NY Times 11-1-59 Sec 7 Pt II 23) Sat. Eve. Post 11-1-58 24) Look Magazine 8-5-1958 25) Ladies Home Journal - Jan 1948 "How America Lives: Meet an American Rabbi and His Family" (JLL subject) complete article. "Hope for Human Brotherhood" by Dr. JLL Box (I Photos of Leila 8/15/50 100th Anniversary KAM Temple 11/2/47 JLL gave dinner address invitaion and handwritten notes for speech.
List members Advisory Comm for White House Conference on Aging 5/2/59 Rh6 Pi Phi Phamaceutical frat. election of both FLL and JLL to honorary aembership - separate citations May 13, 48 Simmons College Register of Graduates July 1960 (FLL class 1950) Current Biography - Who's News and Why, Vol 7, No. 9 Oct. 1946 Social Casework April 1960 Social Service Dept - 30th Anniversary Celebration - Beth Israel Hosp. - Dec. 5, 1958 Handwritten report on Group Psychology 2/28/54 Dentist bill FLL Sept. 2, 1958 Photos JLL at WNAC (Yankee) Mike JLL and FLL Mar. 5, 1936 In envelope marked Yankee Network Jll in pulpit robe (excellent) formal pies Check bookstubs 1948 Letters to FLL 2/26/55 Sunset Inn, Lowell, ME { Time Magazine 12/1/58 I:/ SAturday Review 11/24/56 Time Magazine Oct. 13, 1958 Harper's Magazine March 57 Copy letter DAvid K. Niles to Harold Zellerbach May 19, 1947 Bills for Leila from B. I. Hosp. Sept and Nov. 1949 Misc. notes and personal correspondence, bills etc of FLL J. of Social Work Vol. 3 No. 4 Oct '58 Boston Herald Dec. 16, 1957 - Headlines - Ike Bars Nucler Tests Halt Photos: JLL at Am. Red Cross convention June '46 Summary of Proceedings Am Red Cross 21st Convention. JLL Address Photo: FLL, Albert Goldman and two others?? New Yorker Mag. Aug 2, 1958 and Nov. 15, 1958 Envelope of Fri eve service rituals 1939-42 (not in any order) Misc. material dealing with social work and FLL's various professional activities and organizations. Cloth bag from Long's (used to protect silverware) Royalty Statement Sand S Dec. 7, 1954