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Learning and scholarship

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Records of the Jewish Academy of Arts and Sciences

 Collection
Identifier: I-121
Abstract

The collection contains correspondence with notable American Jews regarding membership, lectures and other activities of the Jewish Academy of Arts and Sciences; copies of the presentations introducing new members; a typescript address by Bernard Revel on "Maimonides and Our Present Generation" (1935); and other manuscript and printed materials dealing with Academy affairs. The largest amount of correspondence by volume is with David I. Macht (1882-1961) and Abraham Aaron Roback (1890-1965).

Dates: 1932-1949

Stephen Wise papers

 Collection
Identifier: P-134
Abstract

The collection has been arranged according to the following broad subject areas: personal affairs; speeches, sermons, and articles, both manuscript and published; the Free Synagogue in New York City; the Jewish Institute of Religion; American Jewish affairs; relations between the Jewish and non-Jewish communities; New York City affairs; United States affairs; the press (both Jewish and non-Jewish); world affairs; the American Jewish Congress and World Jewish Congress; refugees; Zionism; Palestine and Israel; arts and letters; and individual corrspondence of a general nature.

Dates: 1841-1978