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Research Institute on Peace and Post-War Problems The American Jewish Committee Research Institute on Peace and Post-War Problems Preliminary cufnnouncement May, 1941 THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE 386 FOURTH AVENUE NEW YORK, N. Y The American Jewish Committee Research Institute on Peace and Post-War Problems Preliminary ÿ[nnouncement May, 1941 COMMITTEE ON PEACE STUDIES OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE MORRIS R. COHEN, Chairman Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, College of the City of New York," Honorary President, Conference on Jewish Relations SOLOMON LOWENSTEIN, Fice-Chairman Executiq)e Vice-President of The Federation for the Support of Jeowish Philanthropic Societies of New York City MOSES MOSKOWITZ, Secretary Member, Research Staff, The American Jewish Committee SHLOMO BARDIN JACOB LANDAU Principal, tIaifa Technical High School, Managing Director, Jeÿvish Telegraphic Haifa Nautical School Agency SALO W. BARON CHARLES LIEBMAN Professor of Jewish History and Instl- President, Refugee Economic Corpora- tutions, Columbia Unicÿerslty; Presi- tion dent, Conference on Jecoish Relations HENRr MONSKY GABRIEL DAVIDSON President, B'nai B'rith Managing Director, The Jecoish Agri- EDWARD A. NORMAN cultural Society President, American Economic Commit- tee for Palestine; Member of Council Louis FINKELSTEIN of The Jewish Agency for Palestine President, Jewish Theological Seminary of America MRS. DAVID DE SOLA POOL President, Hadassah, The Women's MAx GOTTSCHALK Zionist Organization of America Director, Research Institute on Peace and Post-War Problems JOSEPH ROSEN President, Agro-Joint; Fice-Presldent, ADOLPH HELD Dominican Republic Settlement Asso- Chairman, Jewish Labor Committee ciation MAURICE HEXTER ABRAM L. SACHAR Assistant Executive Fice - President, National President, B'nai B'rith Hillel The Federation for the Support of Foundation Commission Jeÿoish Philanthropic Societies of New HARRY SCHNEmERMArr York City Assistant Secretary, The American ALEXANDER KAHN Jewish Committee Fice-President, American Jewish Joint JOSEPH SCHLOSSBERÿ Distribution Committee Chairman, National Labor Committee BERNHARD KAHN for Palestine Honorary Chairman, European Execu- JACOB SHATZKY tive Council of the American Jewish Librarian, Ne¢o York State Psychiatric Joint Distribution Committee Institute ALAN M. STROOCK ISAAC L. KANDEL Member, Surÿey Committee of The Professor of Education, Teachers Col- American Jewish Committee; Member, lege, Cohtmbia University Jewish Education Committee MAURICE J. KARPP " MORRIS D. WALDMAN Director, Graduate School for Jewish Secretary, The American Je¢vish Com- Social Work mittee MAX M. WARBURG ARTHUR K. KUHN Former President, American Branch of MAX WEINREICH the International Laÿw Association; Research Director, Yiddish Scientific Former President of The Judeans Institute [3] ADVISORY COUNCIL* RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON PEACE AND POsT-WAR PROBLEMS RUTH BENEDICT ARTHUR W. MACMAHON Department of .4nthropology, Columbia Department of Public Laco, Columbia University University MAURICE R. DAVlE WESLEY C. MITCHELL Chairman, Department of Sociology, Department of Economics, Columbia Yale University University EDWARD MEAD EARLE WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON Institute for Advanced Study, School of Economics and Politics, Princeton Uni- President Emeritus, Smith College versity ARTHUR NUSSBAUM WILLIAM HABER Department of Public Laÿz, Columbia Department of Economics, Uni,versity of University Michigan WILLIAM F. OGBURN MELVILLE HERSKOVITS Department o[ Sociology, University of Department of ./lnthropology, North- Chicago western University WILLIAM JAFFE JOHN E. ORCHARD Department of Economics, Northwest- Department of Economic Geography, ern University Columbia University PHILIP C. JEssue ROBERT REDFIELD Department of Public La,w, Columbia Department of /lnthropology, Univer- University sity of Chicago ALVIN S. JOHNSON JESSE SIDDALL REEVES Department of Economics, Yale Uni- Department of Political Science, Uni- versity versity of Michigan HANS KELSEN ALEXANDER SACK Law School, Harvard University Laÿa School, Neÿ.o York University SIMON KUZNETS ISAIAH LEO SHARFMAN Department of Economics, University Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania of Michigan ROBERT H. Lowlr W. LLOYD WÿNER Department of Anthropology, Univer- Department of .4nthropology, Univer- sity of Sohthern California sity of Chicago ROBERT S. LYND Louis WIRTH Department of Sociology, Columbia Department oÿ Sociology, University of University Chicago *As of May, 1941. Es] RESEARCH STAFF MEMBERS OF THE RESEARCH STAFF---Continued RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON PEACE AND POsT-WAR PROBLEMS Director MOSES MOSKOWITZ, B.S., College of the City of New York; Graduate MAX GOTTSCHALK, LL.D., Candidat en Philosophie et Lettres, University studies in International Law and Relations, Columbia Uni- of Liege, Belgium. versity. Research professor, Institut de Soclologie Solvay (Brussels Member of Research Staff, American Jewish Committee U,nlversity) ; Professor, Instltut des Hautes Etudes, Brus- since January 1937; Contributor to various publications, sels; Belgian Correspondent of the International Labor including: American Jewish Year Book, Menorah Jour- Office, Geneva; President, National Office for Unemploy- nal, Contemporary Jewish Record, etc. ment and Placement, Belgium; President, HIAS-IcA Emigration Association (HICEM) ; Vice-President, Su- SIMON SEGAL, M.A., LL.D., University of Paris, Diploma, Ecole Libre des preme Council for Labor and Social Security; Member of Sciences Politiques, Paris; Research Fellow, Institute of the Board: Jewish Colonization Association, Palestine Internation'al Relations, Geneva; Carnegie Endowment for Jewish Colonization Association, EMICA, Alliance International Peace. Israelite Universelle; President, Refugee Committee, Brussels; Author: La Reforme de L'Assurance Chbmage, Lecturer at the Institut de Droit Comparfi, University of La Remise des Ch6meurs au Travail, La Legislation So- Paris; Research associate, Foreign Policy Association; Au- ciale dans la Bible, etc. thor: L'individu en Droit International Positif, The New Poland and the Jews; Contributor to various publications, including: Revue de Droit International et de Legislation Comparÿe, Bruxelles; La Rÿvue du Droit International ABRAHAM G. DUKER, B.A., College of the City of New York; Graduate Public; Britannica Year Book, etc. studies in History, Columbia University; Research Fellow on the Miller Foundation, 1933-1934. MILTON WOLL, B.A., M.S., College of the City of New York; Graduate Author: The Situation of the Jews in Poland, Conference work in Sociology, Columbia University on Jewish Relations, New York, 1936; Jewish Survival in the World Today, Hadassah, New York, 1938-1941; Research assistant, Division. of Placement and Unemploy- Contributor to various publications, including: Hebrew ment Insurance, New York State Department of Labor, Union. College Annual, Current History, Jiwo Bleter, 1935-1937; Research in.vestigator, Division of Women in Kirjath Sepher, etc. ; Managing editor, Contemporary Jew- Industry and Minimum Wage, New York State Depart- ish Record; Associate editor, The Reconstructionist, The ment of Labor, 1937-1939; Staff member, Carnegie-Myr- Universal Jewish Encyclopedia; Associate chairman, Edi- dal Study of the Negro in America, 1939-1940. torial Board, Jewish Social Service Quarterly. SPECIAL STUDIES: Friedrich Blach; Ben Halpern; Joachim Haniel; Leopold EUGENE HEVESI, LL.D., University of Budapest; Graduate, Academy for Heinemann; Guido Kisch; Franz Neumann; Gerhard Neumann. Oriental Trade, Budapest; Graduate, Consular Academy, Vienna. Chief of the Section of Foreign Trade Policy of the Royal Hungarian Foreign Trade Office, 1931-1936; Hungarian Commercial Attache, Bucharest, 1936-1937; New York, 1937-1938. Author: Pacta Sunt Servanda, Intricacies of a Commercial Treaty, Prices and the Exchange Rate, Compensation and Clearing as a Technique in Interna- tional Trade, etc. (all published in Hungarian). INTRODUCTION HE center of gravity of the world's interest has been steadily shifting from one battle area to another. The importance of the war's immediate issues has thrust into the background the question of the peace that will follow after the hostilities have ceased. Yet, throughout the United States as well as in the free British Commonwealth of Nations thoughtful men and women with a sense of responsibility for the future are individually and in groups studying the prob- lems of an enduring and endurable peace. It is obvious that Jews have not only a vital concern but an imperative duty in seeing not only that those aspects of these problems which concern Jews, as such, be given due consideration, but also that adequate information for the intelligent consideration of these aspects be made available. Since the days of antiquity Jews have recognized that their welfare is closely bound up with that of the community in which they live. However, in view of the various factors that enter into the Jewish problem, a more specific undertaking is required on their part, in addi- tion to joining their fellow-citizens in the general struggle for a just world order. In this spirit, The American Jewish Committee, immedi- ately upon the outbreak of the war, began to orientate its pro- gram to the new situation. In the spring of 1940, it appointed a Committee on Peace Studies, under the chairmanship of Professor Morris Raphael Cohen, to prepare a program of studies which would promote a more intelligent understand- ing of the Jewish situation and aid in the defense of the rights of Jews in the free forum of the world's conscience,
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