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Lown, Philip W.

Type / Call #Personal / P-162Contains minutes, correspondence, speeches, photographs and newspaper clippings relating to Lown's activities in the American Association for Jewish Education, B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations, Brandeis University, Hebrew College, Maine Jewish Council, World Council on Jewish Education, Y.M.C.A. of Auburn Maine, and in various Zionist activities. Also contains autobiographical memoirs and notes, biographical notices, Lown's writings, speeches, personal correspondence, honors and photographs and miscellaneous newspaper clippings about Lown. The correspondence contains the educational views of many prominent American Jewish scholars. In addition, the more important correspondents from a point of contents and quantity of material are Horace M. Kallen, Milton Konovitz, Nachum Goldmann, Abram L. Sachar and Rudolf G. Sonneborn. The collection also contains a hand written letter from David Ben Gurion.
Years1944-1975
Size2 boxes

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