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Steinberg, Milton, 1903-1950 | ||
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| Type / Call # | Personal Papers / P-369 (Finding Aid Available) | Contains the correspondence, writings, a remnant of the library, photographs, and memorabilia of Rabbi Milton Steinberg and his immediate family. The collection includes extensive documentation of Steinberg's rabbinate at Beth-El Zedeck in Indianapolis and the Park Avenue Synagogue in New York in the form of articles, letters, memoranda, and sermons plus data about Steinberg's publishing and editing, Zionist activity among Jews and Christians, relations with his alma mater, the Jewish Theological Seminary, his chaplaincy and wartime work with the National Jewish Welfare Board. Of particular interest are two drafts of an unfinished novel about the prophet Hosea, a series of lectures on modern theology presented at the Park Avenue Synagogue, an address criticizing Commentary magazine, an exchange with Judge Jerome Frank about Jewish "survivalism", letters accusing the New York Times of an anti-Zionist posture, a fragmentary letter challenging the position of Eleanor Roosevelt on Palestine, three sermons critical of Conservative Judaism, a letter from Governor Herbert H. Lehman of New York enclosing a check in payment for a Holy Ark and Torah scroll for the New York State Guard, letters from a German rabbi, Erwin Zimet, saved by the efforts of the Park Avenue Synagogue at the outbreak of World War II, the eulogy of Sophia Monte Loebinger, a New York women's advocate and socialite, a record of a visit to Cornell University to conduct religious services, and several hundred letters to and from Edith Alpert Steinberg and Rabbi Judith Goldman. Beyond the study of Steinberg's career, these materials are especially useful for the period 1930-1950 and highlight Conservative Judaism and its Reconstructivist offshoot, including a focus on efforts to reorganize the Conservative movement and on development of native American texts for worship, Jewish community organization in New York City and State, WWII efforts on behalf of Palestine and European Jewry, Jewish educational groups, the impact of modern philosophy and theology on American Judaism, and the evolving role of the congregational rabbi in America. Included are letters to Milton Steinberg from morris Raphael Cohen, Louis Finkelstein, John Haynes Holmes, Mordecai Kaplan, Henry Morgenthau, Sr., Stephen S. Wise, and other leading rabbis of the 1940's. In addition the collection contains correspondence about and the full-page proof of Anatomy of a Faith, edited posthumously by Arthur A. Cohen, as well as two letters from Lionel Trilling to Arthur A. Cohen (1960). There are also several letters to Edith Steinberg from Lord William Beveridge, A.K. Brohi and James Ernst (1961-1963). A detailed outline and guide accompany the collection. |
| Years | 1920-1981 | |
| Locality | NY, New York | |
| Size | 28 boxes | |
| Scope | The Milton Steinberg Papers 1903-1908, #P-369, has a names index. Rabbi Milton Steinberg (1903-1950) was a talented lecturer and teacher. He officiated at the Conservative Park Avenue Synagogue in New York from 1933 until his death. | |
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