Finding aid for the Arthur J. Lelyveld Papers


Repository: Western Reserve Historical Society
Creator: Lelyveld, Arthur J.
Title: Arthur J. Lelyveld Papers
Dates: 1901-1993
Dates: 1950-1987
Extent: 23.10 linear feet (26 containers)
Abstract: Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld served as senior rabbi of Anshe Chesed Congregation (Fairmount Temple) in Beachwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, from 1958-1986. Throughout his career he played key roles in national and local Jewish organizations and actively fought for civil rights. A native of New York City, Lelyveld received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1933, and was ordained at Hebrew Union College in 1939. From 1939-1944, he served congregations in Hamilton, Ohio, and Omaha, Nebraska. From 1944-46 he was Executive Director of the Committee on Unity for Palestine, and from 1946-1956 served as Associate National Director, and then National Director, of B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations. He also played leadership roles in a number of other national Jewish organizations, including American Jewish Congress, Central Conference of American Rabbis, and the Synagogue Council of America. On the local Cleveland level, he served in various capacities on the Cleveland Jewish Welfare Fund, the Jewish Community Federation, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Cleveland Chapter, and the Cleveland Board of Rabbis. Lelyveld was also the author of Atheism is Dead and of numerous monographs and articles. He was active in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, participating with other Cleveland clergy in voter registration efforts in Mississippi and serving as a minister-counselor to the Council of Federated Organizations under the auspices of the Commission on Race and Religion of the National Council of Churches. While serving in this capacity, Lelyveld was severely beaten. He also delivered the eulogy at the funeral of slain civil rights worker Andrew Goodman in 1964. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, sermons, writings, minutes, publications, newspaper clippings, appointment books, and certificates.
MS Number MS 4639
Location: closed stacks
Language: The records are in English

Biography of Arthur J. Lelyveld

Rabbi Arthur Joseph Lelyveld (1913-1997), Senior Rabbi Emeritus of Anshe Chesed Congregation (Fairmount Temple) in Beachwood, Ohio, served that congregation as Senior Rabbi from 1958 to 1986. Throughout his career he has played key roles in national and local Jewish organizations and has actively fought for civil rights. Born in New York City, Lelyveld received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1933, and was ordained at Hebrew Union College (Cincinnati) in 1939. He served as rabbi of Congregation B'nai Israel, Hamilton, Ohio, from 1939-1941, and as rabbi of Temple Israel, Omaha, Nebraska, from 1941-1944. From 1944-1946 Lelyveld was Executive Director of the Committee on Unity for Palestine, from 1946-1947 and 1948-1956, respectively, he served as Associate National Director, and National Director, of B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations. From 1956-1958 he served as Executive Vice-Chairman of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. While serving as rabbi of Fairmount Temple, Lelyveld played leadership roles in a number of national organizations. Among these were: American Jewish Congress (national president, 1966-1972), the Central Conference of American Rabbis (executive board, national vice-president, 1973-1975, president, 1975-1977), and the Synagogue Council of America (national vice-president, 1975-1979, national president, 1979-ca.1981). Among the positions that Rabbi Lelyveld has held on the local level are the following: General Chairman of the 1963 Cleveland Jewish Welfare Fund Campaign, Board of Trustees of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, (1960s), Executive Committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Cleveland Chapter (1960s), and second president of the Cleveland Board of Rabbis. Rabbi Lelyveld is the author of Atheism is Dead (1968, 1970, 1985), and of numerous monographs. He has contributed articles to numerous books including: The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia (1939-1941), Religion and the State University (1958), and Retrospect and Prospect: Position of the Jew in the Modern World (1964). In addition, he has contributed articles and reviews to numerous journals including: American Jewish Archives, Jewish Book Annual. Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Journal of Higher Education, Journal of Jewish Communal Service, Journal of Reform Judaism, Judaism, and The Reconstructionist. Throughout his career Rabbi Lelyveld has been active in the civil rights movement. Following the lynching in Mississippi of civil rights worker Andrew Goodman, the son of friends, Lelyveld joined other Cleveland clergy on a voter registration drive in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. On this trip, in the summer of 1964, Lelyveld served as a minister-counselor to the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) under the auspices of the Commission on Race and Religion of the National Council of Churches. While serving in this capacity Lelyveld was severely beaten by segregationists.


Scope and Content

The Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld Papers 1901-1993 (1950-1987) consist primarily of correspondence, speeches, sermons, writings, minutes, publications, clippings, appointment books, and certificates

The Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld Papers are of value to researchers studying the history of Judaism in America. As a rabbi of one of the largest Reform Jewish congregations in America and as a leader of key national Jewish organizations, Lelyveld's sermons, writings, and correspondence provide important documentation relating to the history of Judaism in the second half of 20th century America. Researchers studying the anti-Vietnam War and pro-civil rights positions of many leading Reform rabbis, will find much of value in these papers. Of particular interest in this regard is Lelyveld's July 17, 1964 sermon which describes his motivation for going to Mississippi and the physical attack upon him. These papers are also a significant addition to materials that document the history of Jewish congregational leadership in the greater Cleveland, Ohio, area.

The researcher should be aware that documents pertaining to a given topic may be located in more than one place. For example, materials pertaining to Lelyveld's civil rights positions and activities are found not only in Series IV: Mississippi Summer Project, but throughout the collection. In addition, the researcher should be aware that Series V: Miscellaneous Correspondence, contains a very wide-range of topics, including materials focused upon in Series I-IV.


Statement of Arrangement

The collection is arranged in seven series.
Series I: Speeches, Sermons, and Writings is arranged chronologically.
Series II: Fairmount Temple is arranged alphabetically by subject and then chronologically.
Series III: National Organizations is arranged in three sub-series, each containing a significant body of records pertaining to an organization in which Lelyveld played a major role.
Sub-Series A: American Jewish Congress is organized alphabetically by subject and then chronologically.
Sub-Series B: Central Conference of American Rabbis is organized alphabetically by subject and then chronologically.
Sub-Series C: Synagogue Council of America is organized alphabetically by subject and then chronologically.
Series IV: Mississippi Summer Project is arranged chronologically and then by document type.
Series V: Miscellaneous Correspondence is arranged in four sub-series.
Sub-Series A: 1929-1993 is arranged alphabetically by subject and then chronologically.
Sub-Series B: 1955-1970 is arranged alphabetically by subject and then chronologically.
Sub-Series C: 1957-1977 is arranged alphabetically by subject and then chronologically.
Sub-Series D: 1966-1987 is arranged alphabetically by subject and then chronologically.
Series VI: Appointment Books is arranged chronologically.
Series VII: Oversize Certificates is stored in one container.

Restrictions on Use

Literary rights are retained by Rabbi Lelyveld.

Restrictions on Access

None.

Related Material

The researcher should also consult MS 4806 Arthur J. Lelyveld Papers, Series II; MS 5020 Arthur J. Lelyveld Papers, Series III; MS 5130 Arthur J. Lelyveld Papers, Series IV; PG 506 Arthur J. Lelyveld Photographs; PG 584 Arthur Lelyveld Photographs, Series II; MS 3941 Anshe Chesed Congregation Records; and PG 280 Anshe Chesed Photographs.

Separated Material

Photographs have been removed to the photographic collections.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects:

America-Israel Cultural Foundation.
American Jewish Congress.
Anshe Chesed Congregation (Cleveland, Ohio)
B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations.
Central Conference of American Rabbis.
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi.
Civil rights workers -- Mississippi.
Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964.
Jewish Community Federation (Cleveland, Ohio)
Jewish sermons -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
Lelyveld, Arthur J., 1913-1997.
Mississippi Freedom Project.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cleveland Branch.
Rabbis -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
Reform Judaism -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
Reform Judaism.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Synagogue Council of America.
Synagogues -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
Zionism.
Zionists -- Ohio -- Cleveland.

Preferred Citation

[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 4639 Arthur J. Lelyveld Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio

Acquisition Information

Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld, 1972, 1976, 1987, and 1993.

Processing Information

Processed by Stanley Lasky, Evy Rosenblum, Lou Rosenblum, and Nancy Schwartz in 1993

Detailed Description of The Collection

Series I: Speeches, Sermons, and Writings 1935-1982 undated

Box Folder
1 1 Speeches, sermons, and writings 1935
1 2 Speeches, sermons, and writings 1936
1 3 Speeches, sermons, and writings 1937
1 4 Speeches, sermons, and writings, including "What is Zionism?" 1938
1 5 Speeches, sermons, and writings 1938
1 6 Speeches, sermons, and writings 1939-1941
1 7 Speeches, sermons, and writings 1942-1944
1 8 Speeches, sermons, and writings, including criticism of American Council for Judaism 1945-1947
1 9 Speeches, sermons, and writings, including article, "Twenty-five years of Hillel" 1948
1 10-11 Speeches, sermons, and writings 1949
1 12 Speeches, sermons, and writings 1950-1951
1 13 Speeches, sermons, and writings, including article, "Religion in Higher Education" 1952
1 14 Speeches, sermons, and writings, 1953
1 15 Speeches, sermons, and writings, 1954
1 16-17 Speeches, sermons, and writings, including scripts for television series, "Look up and Live" 1955
1 18 Speeches, sermons, and writings 1956-1957
1 19 Speeches, sermons, and writings, including Fairmount Temple installation sermon 1958
1 20 Speeches, sermons, and writings 1959
1 21 Speeches, sermons, and writings, including "How much prejudice is there in Cleveland? A Newcomer's View", City Club address; and sermon, "Ben Gurion Quotes the Talmud" 1960
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2 22 Speeches, sermons, and writings, including "How much prejudice is there in Cleveland? A Newcomer's View", City Club address; and sermon, "Ben Gurion Quotes the Talmud" 1960
2 23-24 Speeches, sermons, and writings 1961
2 25-27 Speeches, sermons, and writings 1962
2 28-29 Speeches, sermons, and writings, including a memorial tribute to Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver and a memorial tribute to Senator Herbert Lehman 1963
2 30-32 Speeches, sermons, and writings, including sermons: "The Call to Racial Justice - Why Us?", and "My Stand on the Civil Rights Crisis" ; eulogy notes for Andrew Goodman, lynched civil rights worker; and July 17th sermon describing Lelyveld's motivation for going to Mississippi and the attack upon him 1964
2 33-35 Speeches, sermons, and writings 1965
2 36-38 Speeches, sermons, and writings, including American Jewish Congress symposium re: Negroes and Jews (ther participants: Charles Silverman and Bayard Rustin); and "So You Don't Believe in God?" 1966
2 39-42 Speeches, sermons, and writings, including sermon, "Patriotism, Treason, and Viet Nam" ; drafts of book manuscript, Atheism is Dead, and related correspondence; and "Rise of Zionism", Fairmount Temple lectures 1967
Box Folder
3 43-46 Speeches, sermons, and writings, Atheism is Dead, draft, notes, reviews 1967
3 47-50 Speeches, sermons, and writings, including sermon re: Israel's 20th anniversary; correspondence re: Atheism is Dead. (For oversize material relating to Atheism is Dead see Container 5); and speaking engagements (out of town), correspondence, programs 1968
3 51-53 Speeches, sermons, and writings, including transcript of Negro-Jewish Relations Conference sponsored by A. Philip Randolph Institute; and speaking engagements (out of town), correspondence, programs 1969
3 54-56 Speeches, sermons, and writings, including speaking engagements (out of town), correspondence, programs 1970
3 57-59 Speeches, sermons, and writings, including speaking engagements (out of town), correspondence, programs 1971
3 60-62 Speeches, sermons, and writings, including essay, "Should the Traditional Jewish Dedication to Liberal Causes Be Maintained?"; and six lectures, "The Now Prophets" 1972
Box Folder
4 63-65 Speeches, sermons, and writings, including sermon, "Parallels to Wounded Knee"; and article, "Reform Judaism, an Insider's Evaluation" 1973
4 66-69 Speeches, sermons, and writings, including address, "American Jewry and the State of Israel, 1948, 1967, 1973" 1974
4 70-71 Speeches, sermons, and writings, including sermon, "The Legacy of Martin Luther King" 1975
4 72-73 Speeches, sermons, and writings 1976
4 74-75 Speeches, sermons, and writings 1977
4 76-77 Speeches, sermons, and writings 1978
4 78 Speeches, sermons, and writings, including speaking engagements (out of town), correspondence 1978-1981
4 79 Speeches, sermons, and writings 1979
4 80 Speeches, sermons, and writings 1980-1981
4 81 Speeches, sermons, and writings 1982 undated
4 82-83 Speeches, sermons, and writings undated
Box Folder
5 84 Speeches, sermons, and writings, Atheism is Dead, oversize materials: galley proof and notes 1968 undated

Series II: Fairmount Temple (Anshe Chesed Congregation) 1901-1983

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6 85 Adult education 1967 1969
6 85 Akiva High School 1966-1972
6 86 Annual meeting 1958-1966
6 87 Art work 1959-1967
6 88 Bennett, Alan, Education Director, Fairmount Temple 1967-1979
6 89 Board of Trustees, minutes and correspondence 1963-1970
6 90 Board of Trustees, Nominating Committee 1955-1964
6 90 Board of Trustees Institute, programs, correspondence 1959-1963
6 90 Board of Trustees Seminar, materials for participants 1967-1968
6 91 Committee for Congregational Action 1969
6 91 Concert series, correspondence, programs, minutes of Committee on Cultural Events 1959-1962
6 92 Confirmation 1967-1976
6 93 Coordinating and Activities Committee, minutes 1958
6 93 Creative Arts Weekend, correspondence, programs, announcements 1962
6 93 Cultural Series, correspondence, program 1959-1960
6 93 Director of Education search 1967
6 94 Fairmount Temple Daily Companion (contains prayers, inspirational quotations), correspondence 1962
6 94 Finance and Budget Committee 1960-1966
6 95 Forum Series, correspondence, programs, announcements 1961-1965
6 96 Funds and scholarships 1957-1962 1967-1970
6 96 Good Neighbor Sabbath, correspondence, program, clippings, names of Protestant minister participants 1961
6 96 Guidepost Award, correspondence, programs, list of participants 1966
6 97 Hebrew Department 1962-1964
6 97 High Holy Days, lists of participants 1979
6 97 High Holy Days Institute 1959-1972
6 97 High School, correspondence, programs 1973-1975
6 97 Installation services of officers 1948-1965
6 98 Judaica collection, Joseph Horwitz 1961-1966
6 98 Junior Alumni of Fairmount Temple 1957-1968
6 99 Lelyveld, Rabbi Arthur J., installation ceremony, plans, invitation, participants 1958
6 99 Lelyveld, contract renewal controversy, letters of support 1964
6 100 Lelyveld, Rabbi Arthur J., tenth anniversary as Fairmount Temple rabbi, correspondence, programs, and newspaper clippings 1968
6 100 Lelyveld, sixtieth, sixty-fifth, seventieth birthday, special services, and programs 1973-1978 1983
6 101 Library 1957-1965
6 101-104 Men's Club 1957-1975
6 105 Men's Club and Sisterhood Forum 1961
6 105 Mezzuzahs dedicated to Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner 1959-1960
6 105 Music 1958-1965
6 105 New member dinner and service, including Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner correspondence 1958-1961
6 105 Ombudsman program 1971-1974
6 106 Parent Teachers Association (PTA) 1957-1971
6 107 Peskin, Allan, draft of This Tempting Freedom: History of Anshe Chesed Congregation, and related correspondence 1969-1973
6 108 Post mortem, including evaluation of temple picnics and seders 1957-1959
6 108 Prayer assemblies (student) 1964
6 108 Pre-Confirmation classes 1962-1967
6 108 Program Planning and Coordinating Committee 1960-1963
6 109 Pulpit Committee reports (Rabbis' schedules) 1967-1975
6 110 Purim Family Service 1959
6 110 Rabbis' Philanthropic Fund 1960-1965
6 110 Religious Needs Committee, including Fairmount Temple survey form ca. 1960
Box Folder
7 111-115 Religious School, including proposal to change Hebrew pronunciation and spelling from Ashkenazic to Sephardic 1957-1970
7 116 Religious School Committee 1972-1976
7 117-118 Ritual Committee Reports 1956-1975
7 119 Senior Alumni 1958-1964
7 119-123 Sisterhood, including correspondence, reports, scripts, services 1956-1977
7 124-125 Social Action Committee, including correspondence and pamphlets 1959-1976
7 126 Social Action service 1959
7 126 Soloff, Rabbi Rav, co-Rabbi Fairmount Temple (1970-1973) 1970-1976
7 127 Staff meeting minutes 1959-1975
7 128 Staff memoranda 1959-1968
7 128 Succah Cum Laude competition 1963
7 128 Teachers reference library 1961-1962
7 128 Temple attendance 1958
7 129 Twenty-fifth celebration, Beachwood building, correspondence, program, and participants 1982
7 130 Unattached Ltd., singles group 1957-1966
7 130 Yom Ha-Moreah, (teacher recognition day) 1965-1966
7 131-133 Young People's Congregation, including correspondence, scripts, minutes, and announcements 1950 1957-1968
Box Folder
8 134 Young People's Congregation, including correspondence, scripts, minutes, and announcements 1969-1972
8 135 Miscellaneous, materials considered by Lelyveld to relate to important aspects of congregation's history including commemoration of Dr. Machol's 25th year at Anshe Chesed, 1901, and Clarence Darrow's notes on lecture he delivered at Anshe Chesed, 1932 1901-1970

Series III: National Organizations 1945-1987 undated

Sub-series A: American Jewish Congress 1965-1986 undated

Box Folder
8 136 Address file 1966-1977
8 137 Affirmative action position papers 1972
8 138 'All in the Family" (television program), responses to Lelyveld's statement regarding 1972
8 138 American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry 1967-1971
8 138 Autopsies in Israel 1966-1967
8 139 Baum, Phil 1966-1974
8 140 Bikel, Theodore 1968-1979
8 140 Christmas stamp issue 1966
8 140 Cohen, Richard 1966-1975
8 141 Commission on Community Interrelations 1967-1970
8 141 Committee appointments 1970-1972
8 142 Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations 1967-1972
8 143 Conference on New Politics 1967-1968
8 143-144 Conventions of American Jewish Congress 1967-1972
8 145 CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), including correspondence expressing support 1965-1969
8 146 Day Schools 1966-1967
8 147 Decentralization of New York City public schools 1968-1969 undated
8 148 Fein, Leonard J., Jewish Identity Project 1967-1971
8 148 Goldman, Nahum 1967-1971
8 148 Governing Council 1970-1973
8 149 Israel Dialogue 1966-1974
8 150 Levine, Naomi 1966-1974
8 151-153 Maslow, Will 1966-1972
8 154 Merger of American Jewish Congress and American Jewish Committee, proposal regarding 1974-1975
8 155 National Community Relations Advisory Council 1966-1971
8 155 Press and publicity 1966-1972
8 156 Polier, Justine Wise 1966-1971
8 156 Prinz, Dr. Joachim 1966-1970
8 157 Rejuvenation Committee 1969-1970 undated
8 158 Resolutions 1966 1974
8 158 Schatz, Julius 1966-1972
8 158 Search Committee 1971-1972
8 159 Shaw, Paul 1966
8 159 Speaking engagements 1966-1971
8 160 Steiner, Jean-Francois, controversy re: his book, Treblinka 1966
8 160 Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee 1967
8 160 Wise, Stephen, award dinners 1968-1971
Box Folder
9 161 Women's Division 1966-1971
9 162 World Jewish Congress 1966-1974
9 163 World Jewish Congress, Committee on Organization 1965-1974
9 164 Youth Division 1966-1971
9 165-181 Miscellaneous, arranged alphabetically 1966-1978
Box Folder
10 182-183 Miscellaneous, arranged alphabetically 1978-1986

Sub-series B: Central Conference of American Rabbis 1945-1986

Box Folder
10 184 Breira correspondence 1975-1977
10 185 Centennial 1984
10 185 Committee appointments 1964-1967 1975-1977
10 186 Committee on Israel 1967-1976
10 186 Committee on Jews in Arab Lands 1974-1977
10 187-189 Committee on Justice, Peace and Church State Relations 1945 1964-1967
10 190 Congratulations re: Lelyveld's presidency 1975-1976
10 190 Congratulations re: Lelyveld's vice-presidency 1973
10 190 Convention, Cincinnati 1975
10 191 Convention, San Francisco 1976
10 192 Convention, Grossinger's Hotel, New York, including presidential address 1977
10 193 Convention, Jerusalem 1981
10 193 Convention, Snowmass, Colorado 1986
10 194 Ethics committee 1975-1978
10 195 Executive board minutes 1972-1978
10 196 Expenses 1976-1977
10 196 Gates of Prayer, correspondence concerning this prayer book 1975
10 197 Glaser, Rabbi Joseph, executive director 1973-1978
10 198 Israel tour, correspondence, descriptive literature 1974
10 199 President's office 1975-1978
10 200 Program planning 1973-1974
10 201 Rabbinic Pension Board 1976
10 201 Rabbinic Placement Commission 1976-1977
10 201 Responsa Committee 1975
10 201 Retirement association 1984
10 201 Rotary International president issue 1976
10 201 Seventy-fifth Jubilee Yearbook 1965
10 201 Soviet Jewry 1971
10 202 Sternfield, Rabbi Michael P. 1975-1976
10 203 Tadrich (publication) 1976-1977
10 204-205 Task force on changing structure 1977-1979
10 206-207 Miscellaneous, A-H 1972-1977
Box Folder
11 208-210 Miscellaneous, I-Z 1971-1978
11 211-215 Miscellaneous correspondence 1959-1986

Sub-series C: Synagogue Council of America 1975-1987

Box Folder
11 216-218 Cleveland solicitations 1976-1987
11 219 Committee on Synagogue-Federation Relations, reports, correspondence 1975-1982
11 220 Council of Jewish Federation funding 1983
11 220 Fundraising 1983-1985
11 220 Interfaith programs 1984-1985
11 220 Mission to Egypt 1978
11 221 Officers and committees 1979-1987
11 222 Reports 1975-1982
11 223 Rome trip 1981
11 223 Search Committee 1978-1979
11 224-228 Miscellaneous 1975-1979
Box Folder
12 229-232 Miscellaneous 1980-1987

Series IV: Mississippi Summer Project 1963-1964 undated

Box Folder
12 233 Materials re: Mississippi civil rights activities including public statement by Lelyveld in Hattiesburg following assault, copy of affidavit given to FBI, correspondence, memoranda, and publications re: SNCC (Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee), COFO (Mississippi Council of Federated Organizations), Hattiesburg Ministers' Project, and Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism 1963-1964
12 234 Clippings re: Lelyveld's participation and assault upon him and his eulogy at funeral of Andrew Goodman, slain civil-rights worker July-August 1964
12 235-239 Correspondence expressing support and concern July-September 1964 undated
12 240-241 Hate mail (racism, anti-Semitism, etc.) 1984

Series V: Miscellaneous Correspondence 1929-1993 undated

Sub-series A: 1929-1993 1929-1993 undated

Box Folder
12 242 American Fund for Israel, correspondence, and newspaper clippings 1956
12 243 Biographical materials including curriculum vitae, clippings, etc., 1941-1993
12 243 Brickner, Rabbi Barnett R. memorial observance, correspondence, and announcements 1958-1963
12 244 Committee on Unity for Palestine, correspondence, including proposed members of national committee 1944 1946-1948
12 245 Contributions, financial, correspondence and acknowledgements 1949-1956
12 246 Eichmann, Adolph trial, correspondence 1962
12 246 Evans, Reverend Richard, correspondence, clippings 1948-1950
12 246 Glueck, Nelson, responses to Glueck's New York Times article, correspondence, and clipping 1960
12 247 Jewish National Fund, correspondence 1948-1956
12 247 Lewisohn, Ludwig, correspondence 1947-1954
12 248 Local community participation and memberships, correspondence and pamphlets 1959-1975
12 249 McKissick, Floyd B., National Director, CORE 1967
12 249 Miller, David, correspondence 1974-1976
12 250 Monsky, Henry, president of B'nai B'rith, correspondence 1947-1954
12 251 Shapiro, Judah, correspondence 1948-1949
12 251 Temple Israel, Omaha, Nebraska, list of marriages, funerals, brises, and conversions, performed by Lelyveld 1938-1944 1949-1950
12 252 Temple Israel, Omaha, Nebraska, Lelyveld resignation correspondence and clipping 1944
Box Folder
13 253 United Nations Freedom from Hunger Campaign, correspondence and pamphlets 1961-1964
13 253 University School, correspondence, courses of study 1973-1975
13 254-255 W subjects 1958-1973
13 256 Wakonda Clarion (camp newsletter) 1932
13 257 Weinberg, Rabbi Dudley, correspondence 1958-1969
13 258 Western Reserve University Visiting Committee, correspondence, reports 1961-1964
13 259 World Union for Progressive Judaism, correspondence 1960-1965
13 260-261 World University Service, correspondence, journals, and reports 1959-1968
13 262 World Zionist Organization, publications 1978
13 263 Y-Z subjects 1958-1971
13 264-265 Zionist Organization of America's Zionist Youth Commission, 1947 - May 1950, minutes, reports, correspondence,and publication 1947-1953
13 266-271 Miscellaneous, including correspondence, camp newsletters, programs, bulletins, and clippings 1929-1986 undated

Sub-series B: 1955-1970 1955-1970

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13 272 A subjects 1958-1969
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14 273-274 A subjects 1958-1969
14 275 American Council on Education 1955-1961 undated
14 276 American Zionist Council 1959-1967
14 277-280 B subjects 1957-1966
14 281 Beth Israel-The West Temple 1961
14 281 B'nai B'rith, adult Jewish education 1958-1960
14 282 B'nai B'rith, adult Jewish education 1961-1969
14 283 B'nai B'rith, Hillel, structure committee 1963-1965
14 284-285 B'nai B'rith, Hillel, miscellaneous 1958-1963
14 286 B'nai B'rith, Harry Ratner Memorial Hall 1963-1968
14 286 B'nai B'rith, summer institute 1959
14 287-288 B'nai B'rith, miscellaneous 1958-1970
14 289-290 C subjects 1958-1966
14 291 Citizens for Safe Housing 1961-1962
14 292 Cleveland school crisis, concerning picketing of schools re: segregation 1964-1965
14 292 "Cleveland's Conscience" -television--City Club Forum, responses to Lelyveld's remarks at Forum supporting desegregating Cleveland schools 1964
14 293 Community Relations Board of Cleveland 1960-1964
Box Folder
15 294 Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds 1960 1962
15 295 E subjects 1958-1969
15 296-297 F subjects 1958-1967
15 298 G subjects, including analysis of executive director role at Fairmount Temple 1956-1964 1973
15 299 H subjects 1958-1965
15 300 I subjects 1959-1967
15 301 Interreligious Peace Conference 1963 1966
15 301 Israel Bond events 1959-1970
15 302 Israel crisis 1967
15 303-304 J subjects 1958-1970
15 305 Jewish Community Federation, Board of Trustees 1959-1967
15 305 Jewish Community Federation, Delegate Assembly 1959-1961
15 305 Jewish Community Federation, Interreligious dialogue 1959-1960
15 306 Jewish Community Federation, Jewish Education Committee 1962-1963 1965
15 306 Jewish Community Federation, traditional institutions 1962 1966 1970
15 306 Jewish Community Federation, Welfare Fund 1960-1967
15 307 Jewish Community Federation, Welfare Fund, Mission to Israel 1962
15 307 Jewish Community Federation, Welfare Fund, miscellaneous 1962-1963
15 308 Jewish Community Federation, miscellaneous 1959-1970
15 309 Jewish Family Service Association, JFSA-Synagogue pilot project 1958-1960
15 309 Jewish National Fund Dinner honoring Rabbi and Mrs. Lelyveld 1963-1964
15 310-311 K subjects 1958-1965
15 312-313 L subjects, including correspondence with Louise Lewisohn, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, re: possibility of Lelyveld heading Ohio Civil Rights Commission, 1964 1958-1967
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16 314 Legacy of Light program 1962
16 315-316 M subjects 1958-1967
16 317 Mallory, Mae, civil rights case 1962-1963
16 318 Message of Israel 1959
16 318 Ministers' Institute, including Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner correspondence 1957-1963
16 318 Murstein, William, Cincinnati, Ohio, philanthropist 1959-1963
16 319 N-0 subjects 1958-1964
16 320 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1959-1969
16 321 National Federation of Temple Youth 1962-1964
16 321 National Foundation for Jewish Culture 1961
16 321 National Home Visit Day 1964
16 321 National Jewish Welfare Board 1958 1961
16 322 Office of Religion and Race (Cleveland) 1963-1965
16 322 Organization for Rehabilitation and Training (ORT) Sabbath 1960
16 323-324 P-Q subjects, including correspondence of civil rights activist Irene Paull 1958-1970
16 325-328 S subjects, including correspondence with Max Sandin, pacifist 1959-1965
16 329 Television broadcasts 1962
16 329 United Jewish Religious Schools 1960

Sub-series C: 1957-1977 1957-1977

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16 330 A subjects 1969-1972
16 331 Abby, "Dear Abby" (Mrs. Morton Phillips) correspondence 1959 1964
16 331 Adler, Nehama (Mrs. Peter Hillman) 1959-1965
16 332 America-Israel Cultural Foundation 1957-1972
16 333 American Association for Jewish Education 1963-1968
16 333 American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science 1967-1971
16 334 American Israel Public Affairs Committee 1960-1972
16 335 American Jewish League for Israel 1959-1971
16 335 Anna Sokolow Lyric Theatre, Israel 1962-1964
16 336 Anonymous correspondence 1959-1977
16 337-338 B subjects 1964-1973
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17 339 Berger, David, funeral of Clevelander killed in Munich Olympics 1972
17 340-342 B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, local and national, correspondence 1959-1975
17 343 B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, 50th anniversary 1972-1974
17 344 B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, selections committee 1974
17 344 Brickner, Rebecca, 80th birthday 1974
17 345 Bureau of Jewish Education, primarily material describing the Bureau 1959-1974
17 346-348 C subjects 1958-1975
17 349 Civil rights in Cleveland, correspondence supporting or attacking Lelyveld's activism 1964
17 350 Clergy and laymen concerned about Vietnam 1966-1969
17 351 Cleveland Board of Rabbis 1964-1975
17 352 Cleveland Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy 1960-1968
17 353 Cleveland Interfaith Housing 1967-1973
17 354 Cleveland secondary and higher Jewish education, including Bureau of Jewish Education report 1964-1965
17 355 College students, correspondence from and to 1962-1963
17 355 Conscientious objectors, including correspondence from those seeking c.o. status 1967-1973
17 356 Cort, Howard 1959-1961
17 356 Council of Churches tour 1973 1975
17 357-358 D subjects 1958-1975
17 359 Development Fund for American Judaism 1960-1965
17 360 Draft Counseling, primarily reprints from the Boston Jewish Advocate 1969-1970
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18 361 E subjects 1963 1969-1975
18 362 Emergency Clergy Committee for Civil Rights 1963-1966
18 363-364 F subjects 1961-1976
18 365 Fair Housing 1958-1963
18 365 "Fan" letters 1959-1963
18 366-368 G subjects 1958-1975
18 369-370 H subjects 1960-1975
18 371 Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Board of Alumni Overseers 1966-1975
18 372 Heights Citizens for Human Rights, Inc. 1967
18 372 I subjects 1972-1974
18 372 Israel, students in 1970-1971
18 373 J subjects, including information re: Jewish Defense League 1969-1972
18 374 Jewish Community Federation, miscellaneous 1966-1973
18 375 Jewish National Fund 1959-1970
18 376 Jewish Publication Society 1961-1973
18 377-378 K subjects 1965-1973
18 379 King, Martin Luther, Jr., including correspondence from Dr. King and Coretta Scott King 1958-1972
18 380 L subjects, including correspondence with George Lusk (Jewish Community Center synagogue, White Plains, New York), regarding Lelyveld's possible employment as rabbi 1966-1973
18 381 Lelyveld, Jacob, correspondence re: fundraising to bring Dutch-Israeli cousin to CWRU to do research 1971-1972
18 382 M subjects 1964-1970
18 383 Metzenbaum, Howard 1961-1970
18 384 McGovern, George, campaign 1972
18 385 N-O subjects, including correspondence with Abe Nathan, Israeli peace activist 1964-1972
18 386 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 1970-1973
18 386 National Council to Repeal the Draft 1969-1971
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19 387-388 Negative correspondence to Lelyveld, including Anti-Semitic, racist 1960-1974
19 389 P-Q subjects 1969-1970
19 390-393 R subjects 1958-1974
19 394-397 S subjects 1963-1974
19 398 Sachar, Dr. Abram L., President of Brandeis University 1958-1971
19 398 Samuel, Maurice, correspondence soliciting funds for Samuel's book re: Beiliss case (1913, Kiev) 1963-1964
19 399 Sobell, Morton case, concerning convicted spy, relative of Rosenbergs 1961-1969
19 400 Steinfirst, Donald 1958-1963
19 401-402 T subjects 1965-1970
19 403 U subjects 1959-1971
19 404 U-V subjects 1959-1971
19 405 Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Commission on Jewish Education 1958-1967
19 406 Union of American Hebrew Congregations, convention 1959-1975
19 407 Union of American Hebrew Congregations, liberal Judaism in Israel campaign 1967-1968
19 407 Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Ohio Valley Council 1960-1970
19 407 Union of American Hebrew Congregations, United Jewish Appeal (UJA) and Rabbinical Advisory Committee 1959-1970
19 408-409 Union of American Hebrew Congregations, UAHC-CCAR (Union of American Hebrew Congregations Central Conference of American Rabbis) Commission on Social Action 1960-1970
19 410-411 Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC), miscellaneous 1958-1969

Sub-series D: 1966-1987 1966-1987

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20 412 A subjects 1972-1984
20 412 Agnon Committee, Bureau of Jewish Education 1984
20 412 Americans Against Nuclear War and Anti-Nuclear Family 1982-1983
20 413 American Arbitration Association 1986
20 413 American Assembly for Zionism and Israel 1981
20 413 American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors 1983
20 413 American Israel Public Affairs Commission 1977-1982
20 413 American Jewish Archives 1981-1985
20 413 American Jewish Leadership Conference 1983
20 413 American Jewish League 1972-1985
20 413 American Jewish Society for Service 1978-1985
20 414 American Zionist Federation 1982
20 414 Association for a Progressive Reform Judaism 1974-1975
20 415 Association of Reform Zionists of America 1977-1985
20 416-418 B subjects 1973-1987
20 419 Baraz, David 1982
20 419 Black-Jewish relations 1979-1980
20 420-421 B'nai B'rith, Hillel 1957-1980
20 422 B'nai B'rith, Hillel, including a report re: Hillel Foreign Student Program (1938-1950) and related correspondence with Albert Einstein, Marie Syrkin, and others 1979-1986
20 423 B'nai B'rith, International 1979-1985
20 423 B'nai B'rith, lecture bureau 1977-1984
20 424-425 C subjects 1979-1987
20 426 Case Western Reserve University, Lelyveld's class 1978-1980
20 426 Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1983
20 427 Chabad 1976-1978
20 428 Cleveland College of Jewish Studies 1981-1986
20 429 D subjects 1975-1986
20 429 Duker, Abe 1981-1984
20 430 E subjects 1976-1986
20 431-432 F subjects 1976-1986
20 433-434 G subjects 1969-1987
20 435 Glenn, John 1983
20 436-437 H subjects 1972-1987
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21 438-440 Hebrew Union College 1976-1987
21 441 Histradut Ivrit 1977-1981
21 442-444 I-J subjects 1972-1986
21 445 Jewish Community Federation 1973-1985
21 446 Jewish funeral services, costs and practices 1976-1977
21 446 Jewish National Fund 1977-1985
21 447-448 John Carroll University 1979-1987
21 449 John Carroll University, Clergy Interfaith Program 1982-1986
21 450-451 K subjects 1974-1987
21 452 Kibbutz Yahel 1977
21 452 King, Martin Luther, Jr. Center for Social Change 1980-1986
21 453-454 L subjects 1972-1987
21 455 Leo Baeck School 1983
21 456-458 M subjects 1970-1987
21 459 Mayor's Award for Volunteerism 1984
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22 460 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture 1980-1981
22 460 Millenson, Judith Rehman, personal correspondence 1981-1982
22 461-462 N-O subjects 1971-1987
22 463 National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods 1980
22 463 National Foundation for Jewish Culture 1984-1986
22 463 Negative correspondence to Lelyveld 1980-1984
22 464-465 P-Q subject 1971-1986
22 466 People for the American Way 1982-1986
22 467 Pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1980
22 468 Pisar, Dr. Samuel, author of Blood and Hope 1980
22 469-470 R subjects 1972-1987
22 471 Rabbis (national and local), lists of 1960-1973
22 471 Reform rabbis and mixed marriages, correspondence and position papers 1976 1984-1986
22 472-476 S subjects 1968-1987
22 477-478 Synagogue/Federation Relations 1974-1979
22 479 T subjects 1971-1987
22 480 Traub, George 1972-1987
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23 481 U subjects 1969-1981
23 482-485 Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC) 1967-1987
23 486 Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC), biennuals 1980-1985
23 487 Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC), Board of Trustees 1973-1977
23 488 Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Commission on Social Action 1971-1986
23 489 Union of American Hebrew Congregations, constitution revision 1975-1977
23 489 United Jewish Appeal 1977-1983
23 490 Unity for Palestine 1944-1975
23 490 United Farm Workers of America 1975
23 491 V-W subjects 1970-1977
23 492-493 W subjects 1978-1987
23 494 White House 1977-1980
23 495-496 World Union for Progressive Judaism 1966-1986
23 497 World Union for Progressive Judaism, prospective trip 1978
23 497 X, Y, and Z subjects 1969-1987

Series VI: Appointment Books 1962-1985

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23 498-501 Appointment book (1966 missing) 1962-1970
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24 502-505 Appointment books 1971-1977
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25 506-509 Appointment books 1978-1985

Series VII: Oversize Certificates 1963-1964 undated

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26 510 Honorary certificates 1963-1964 undated