Access
and Provenance
An Inventory to the
Stephen S. Wise Collection
Manuscript Collection No. 49
1893-1969. 13.4 Linear ft.
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An Inventory to theStephen S. Wise CollectionManuscript Collection No. 491893-1969. 13.4 Linear ft. |
ACCESS AND PROVENANCEThe STEPHEN S. WISE COLLECTION was presented to the American Jewish Archives by various donors, 1945-1999. (For a complete listing of donors see Appendix).
The American Jewish Archives holds the property rights to the STEPHEN S. WISE COLLECTION. All literary rights to materials authored by Rabbi Wise are held by his heirs. Literary rights to materials authored by others are held by the individual author or his/her heirs. Questions concerning rights should be addressed to the Director of the American Jewish Archives.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
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Stephen Samuel Wise was born in 1874 in Budapest, Hungary, and taken to the United States at the age of 17 months. From childhood he determined to become a rabbi like his father Rabbi Aaron Wise, who, together with Alexander Kohut
and Gustav Gottheil, rabbi at Temple Emanu-El, helped to prepare him for the rabbinate. He was graduated with honors from Columbia University at the age of 18. Ordained in 1893 by Adolph Jellinek of Vienna, he became assistant rabbi of New York City's Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, and assumed full responsibility after the death of Rabbi Henry S. Jacobs.
In 1900, shortly before marrying Louise Waterman, Wise became rabbi of Temple Beth Israel in Portland, Oregon, where for the next six years he pioneered in interfaith cooperation, social service, and civic leadership. His sermons are collected in Beth Israel Pulpit: Sermons (2 vols., (1906-06). He also served as unpaid commissioner of child labor for Oregon.
In 1902 Wise received his Ph.D. degree from Columbia University for his translation editing of Solomon in Gabirol's Improvement of the Moral Qualities. For the Jewish Publication Society he translated the Book of Judges for their English version of the Bible, submitting his work in 1908.
Wise had begun his Zionist career during the late 1890's helping to articulate the movement's ideology and organize its followers. A founder of the New York Federation of Zionist Societies in 1987, he led in the formation of the nationwide Federation of American Zionists in 1898 and served as honorary secretary until 1904 in close cooperation with Theodor Herzl. He had met Herzl at the Second Zionist Congress in Basle in 1898 and at that time agreed to serve as American secretary of the world Zionist movement. In 1914 he was instrumental in creating the Provisional Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs and later headed it.
He acted as an important intermediary to President Woodrow Wilson and Colonel Edward House in 1916-19, when, with Louis D. Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter, he helped formulate the text of the Balfour Declaration of 1917. He spoke on behalf of Zionist aspirations in Palestine at the Versailles Peace Conference of 1918-19, where he also pleaded for the cause of the Armenian people.
He was vice president of the Zionist Organization of America from 1918 to 1920 and president from 1936 to 1938. On several occasions he served as chairman of the United Palestine Appeal. Though he worked closely with Chaim Weizmann, David Ben Gurion, and Abba Hillel Silver, he often disagreed with them on specific policies and broke relations with Weizmann in the 1920's and with Silver in the 1940's. His views at times conflicted with those of the Zionist organizations as well. Wise always sought unity for the movement, which did not at that time have the backing of a united Jewry or the sympathy of the non-Jewish community. His Great Betrayal (1930), written with Jacob De Haas, reviews the history of British policy toward Palestine up to the Passfield White Paper in 1930.
To direct American Jews into pro-Zionist channels, lead them to more liberal objectives in the United States, and create a more democratic base in American Jewish life, Wise led in the organization of the American Jewish Congress first on a provisional basis in 1916-19, then more permantly in 1920; he served as vice-president in 1921-25 and as president or honorary president until his death.
Wise sounded the first warnings of the dangers of Nazism to the Jewish and non-Jewish world and sought to organize opposition to it and protection for the victims of Hitler. In 1936 he organized the World Jewish Congress and headed it until his death in 1949. As a Zionist leader, president of the American and World Jewish Congresses, and co-chairman of the American Jewish Conference, he presented the Jewish cause to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the U.S. State Department, as well as to the general public, Jewish and non-Jewish.
Beyond his public role lay the commitment to his vocation as a rabbi. Wise first sprang into national prominence in 1906 when, after preaching trial sermons at Congregation Emanu-El in New York City, he rejected overtures to serve as rabbi because his demand for a "free pulpit," not subject to control by a board of trustees was refused. His famous "Open Letter to the Members of Temple Emanu-El of New York on the Freedom of the Jewish Pulpit" is reprinted in his autobiography, Challenging Years (1949, pp. 86-94), with a discussion of Louis Marshall's denial that the congregation had called Wise to its pulpit.
A year later he returned from Oregon to New York and founded the Free Synagogue, based on freedom of pulpit, free pews to all without fixed dues, outspoken criticism of social ills, the application of religion to their solution, and an extensive program of social welfare. His sermons are collected in Free Synagogue Pulpit: Sermons and Addresses (10 vols., 1908-32).
In 1922 he launched the Jewish Institute of Religion (J.I.R.), a new kind of seminary which provided training of rabbis from all branches of Judaism, education of Jewish scholars, and preparation of leaders for community service. He served as president until 1948, when J.I.R. merged with Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Nelson Glueck assumed the presidency.
A social liberal, Wise was co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909 and the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920. He pleaded for clemency and justice on behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927. He was also active in organizations such as the Child Labor Committee, the Old Age Pension league, the Religion and Labor Foundation, and the League to Enforce Peace. Also, he battled for the rights of workers to organize, and championed the strike against the U.S. Steel Corporation in 1919 and the Passaic textile union strike in 1926. He actively campaigned for Woodrow Wilson in 1912 and 1916, and later supported the candidacies of Alfred E. Smith, Norman Thomas, and (from 1936 on) Franklin D. Roosevelt. With John Haynes Holmes he headed the City Affairs Committee which exposed corruption in New York City and finally succeeded in forcing the resignation of Mayor James J. Walker in 1932.
Like his Christian counterparts and friends Walter Rauschenbusch, Josiah Strong, and Washington Gladden, Wise was a forthright, forceful, and influential preacher of social concerns. His opinions and attitudes are expressed in his Child Versus Parent (1922); As I See It (1944), a collection of his articles for the journal Opinion, which he edited from 1936 to 1949; Personal Letters of Stephen S. Wise (1956, ed. by J.W. Polier and J.W. Wise); Stephen S. Wise: Servant of the People-Selected Letters (1969, ed. by C.H. Voss).
Stephen Wise died in 1949.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The STEPHEN S. WISE COLLECTION reflects the career of Rabbi Wise, Zionist leader, founder and president of the Jewish Institute of Religion (J.I.R.), and founder and senior rabbi of the Free Synagogue in New York City.
Material in the collection deals with Wise's participation in Zionist activities and organizations. There is also material dealing with the publication of Jewish Studies in Memory of Israel Abrahams, the founding of the Jewish Insititue of Religion (JIR), the founding of the Free Synagogue, as well as audio recordings of speeches and sermons, and correspondence congratulating Wise on his birthdays and anniversaries. The collection, consisting of correspondence, audio recordings of Wise's sermons and public addresses, newsclippings, nearprint, and press releases, has been divided into three series:
The Subject Tracings of this inventory serve to selectively index and cross reference the material in the collection.A. CORRESPONDENCE B. MISCELLANEOUS C. AUDIO RECORDINGS SERIES A. CORRESPONDENCE, 1898-1949, consists of 4.5 boxes of material alphabetically arranged by name of correspondent. Letters within the folders are arranged chronologically. The "General" folders at the beginning of each letter of the alphabet contain material concerning individuals or organizations for which there are less than five items. Some of the notable correspondents are Ismar Elbogen, Nahum Goldmann, Richard Gottheil, Horace M. Kallen, Lily Montagu, and Chaim Weizmann. Box 7, while a part of the CORRESPONDENCE series, is restricted. The box is arranged alphabetically. Questions regarding access should be addressed to the director of the American Jewish Archives.
SERIES B. MISCELLANEOUS, 1893-1969, consists of 2 boxes of material arranged by type of material, eg. speeches, press releases, etc. Much of the material in this series deals with the Jewish Institute of Religion and with tributes to Wise on his birthdays and upon his death.
SERIES C. AUDIO RECORDINGS, 1931-1942 consists of 20 oversize Hollinger boxes of 1080 aluminum recording discs and 37 CD-ROM's arranged chronologically by types of material, i.e. Stephen Wise Sermons, radio talks and talks by other personalities of the day. Only the CD-ROM versions are readable. See the audio-cassette collection for additional copies of sermons.
BOX AND FOLDER LISTING
Box Folder Contents
SERIES A. CORRESPONDENCENote: The material in this series is arranged alphabetically by
name of correspondent. Material within the folders is arranged
chronologically. The "General" folders at the beginning of each
letter of the alphabet contain material concerning individuals or
organizations for which there are less than five items. To obtain
a more complete listing of the correspondents and subjects within
this collection, this list must be used in conjunction with the
Subject Tracings of this inventory.1 1 A, General
2 Abrahams, Freda. 1925-1944; n.d.
3 Abrahams, Israel. 1923-1925.
4 Abrahams, Israel. Memorial Volume, Jewish Studies in Memory
of Israel Abrahams. 1927-1928; n.d. [correspondence, reviews
of book].
5 Abrahams, Phyllis. 1925; 1928.
6 Adelstein, Gertrude. Secretary of J.I.R. 1922-1947.
7 B, General.
8 C, General.
9 Cronbach, Abraham. 1921-1923.
10 D, General.
11 E, General.
12 Eastern Council of Reform Rabbis. 1911-1918, n.d.
13 Elbogen, Ismar. 1922-1924. [efforts to get Elbogen and other
European scholars to teach at J.I.R.].
14 Elbogen, ismar. 1925-1933; n.d.
15 F, General.
16 Federation of American Zionists. 1898-1899. A-B.
[arranged alphabetically by name of city].
17 Federation of American Zionists. 1898-1899. C-G.
18 Federation of American Zionists. 1898-1899. I-L.
19 Federation of American Zionists. 1898-1899. M-New Haven.2 1 Federation of American Zionists. 1898-1899. New York.
2 Federation of American Zionists. 1898-1899. Norfolk-P.
3 Federation of American Zionists. 1898-1899. R-S.
4 Federation of American Zionists. 1898-1899. T-W.
5 Federation of American Zionists. 1898-1899. Unidentified.
6 Federation of American Zionists. 1898-1899. Lists of city
representatives.
7 G, General.
8 Glueck, Nelson. 1948-1949. [merger of H.U.C. and J.I.R.]
9 Goldmann, Nahum. 1934-1936.
10 Goldmann, Nahum. 1937-1940.
11 Goldmann, Nahum. 1941-1949; n.d.
12 Goldschmidt, Sigmund. 1912-1918.
13 Goldschmidt, Sigmund. 1919-1922.
14 Goldschmidt, Sigmund. 1923-1926.3 1 Gottheil, Emma. 1936; 1939-1941. [protest of Mrs. Gottheil
over George Antonius replacing her husband after his
death at Columbia, 1936].
2 Gottheil, Richard J.H. 1904; 1910-1915.
3 Gottheil, Richard J.H. 1916.
4 Gottheil, Richard J.H. 1917-1918.
5 Gottheil, Richard J.H. 1919-1922.
6 Gottheil, Richard J.H. 1923-1926.
7 Gottheil, Richard J.H. 1927-1932.
8 Gottheil, Richard J.H. 1933-1936; n.d.
9 H,I, General.
10 Hebrew Union College and the Jewish Institute of Religion
1921-1949. [efforts to federate or co-operate].
11 Holzhausen, Adolf. 1927-1928. [publisher of the Israel
Abrahams memorial volume].
12 J, General.
13 Jabotinsky, Vladimir. 1928-1935.
14 K, General.
15 Kallen, Horace M. 1914-1915 October.
16 Kallen, Horace M. 1915, November-1948.
17 Kallen, Horace M. 1914. [cancellation of speech at H.U.C.]4 1 Kohler, Kaufmann 1893; 1901; 1912-1913.
2 Kohut, George Alexander, 1924-1929; 1932. [Israel Abrahams
memorial volume]
3 L, General.
4 Levine, Joseph M. 1907-1949.
5 M, General.
6 Montagu, Lily. 1925-1926.
7 Morgenstern, Julian. 1945-1947. [federation of H.U.C. and
J.I.R.]
8 N,O,P, General.
9 New York, New York. City Affairs Committee of New York.
1932-1935.
10 New York, N.Y.-Free Synagogue 1907-1914; 1944, n.d.
11 Portland, Oregon. Temple Beth Israel. 1899. [call to pulpit].
12 R, General.
13 Rauch, Joseph. 1927-1928; 1941-1942.
14 Rosenau, William. 1927.
15 S, General.
16 Sundayism. 1915-1917. [correspondence to Wise concerning his
comments on Billy Sunday].
17 T, General.
18 U,V,W,Y,Z, General.
19 Weizmann, Chaim. 1918; 1921; 1925-1929.
20 Weizmann, Chaim. 1937-1938.
21 Weizmann, Chaim. 1940-1948; n.d.
22 Unidentified fragments.SERIES B. MISCELLANEOUS
5 1 Jewish Institute of Religion. 1922-1948; n.d. [minutes,
memoranda, statements of purpose].
2 Memorials. 1949-1969; n.d.
3 Newsclippings. 1902-1953.
4 Press releases. 1933-1948.
5-7 Scrapbook. 1924-1948 [articles, newsclippings].
8 Speeches, addresses by and about Wise. 1893-1939.
9 Speeches, addresses by and about Wise. 1940-1949.6 1 Diamond Jubilee Journal in Honor of the 75th Birthday of
Dr. Stephen S. Wise. 1949.
2-4 Bank statements and checks, 1925-1927.
5 Wise family ]correspondence and postcards], 1902-1934.
6 Miscellaneous, 1920-1928; 1940.7 1 Diary, 1922. [Jewish conditions in Western and Central Europe].
2 Lewisohn, Ludwig, 1924-1934. [correspondence with, and
about,Lewisohn].
3 Lewisohn, Ludwig, 1935-1938.
4 Lewisohn, Ludwig, 1939.
5 Lewisohn, Ludwig, 1940-1948; n.d.
6 Neumann, Emanuel, 1941 [comment on Judah L. Magnes' statement to
the press about Zionism].
7 Zionism, 1942-1948. A-K [arranged alphabetically by name of
correspondent].
8 Zionism, 1942-1948. L-Z.SERIES C. AUDIO RECORDINGS
Stephen Wise Sermons (Aluminum discs)
8 1 Memorial Service: Remembrance and Hope. 10 October 1932. [8
discs]
2 Must We Surrender: Our Faith in God? Our Moral Ideals?
Our Hope for a World of Justice and Peace? 3 December 1933.
[6 discs]
3 Jews Survive and Thrive on Persecution: Is It True? 17
December 1933. [5 discs]
4 The Christian-Jewish Tragedy: A Jewish-Christian Sermon. 24
December 1933. [5 discs] [CD-171]
5 The President: Can We Still Follow Him? 7 January 1934. [5
discs] [CD-172]
6 Jakob Wasserman: His Life As Jew; His Books as German. 14
January 1934. [4 discs]
7 Is the American Jew Safe? 21 January 1934. [6 discs]
8 The Rising Fascist Tide: Will It Overwhelm Us? 28 January
1934. James Waterman Wise. [6 discs]
9 Fears and Worries: Can They Be Controlled? 11 February 1934.
[5 discs]9 1 Rights and Wrongs of Sterilization and Birth Limitation. 18
February 1934.[5 discs]
2 'Murder Made in Germany'--What of Austria? 23 February 1934.
[5 discs]
3 Roosevelt and Hitler: March 4th and March 5th-Two
Anniversaries. 4 March 1934 [5 discs]
4 Unknown Event. 7 March 1934. Speakers include: Wise, Seabury,
John Haynes Holmes, Hays, Smith, Fidello LaGuardia, Moley,
Tydings, Deutsch. [12 discs]
5 My Forty Years Battle in the Ministry: A Pre-Anniversary
Address. 11 March 1934. [5 discs]
6 Dr. Wise's Sixtieth Birthday Anniversary Service. 18 March
1934. Speakers include: Rabbi J.X.Cohen, Rabbi Morton M.
Berman, Hon. Joseph M. Levine, Rev. Dr. William Fineshriber
Hall, Seabury, Kohut, Goldstein. [14 discs]
7 What Religion Asks of Us; What We May Ask of Religion. A
Post-Anniversary Address. 25 March 1934. [5 discs]
8 A Passover-Easter Sermon. 1 April 1934. [5 discs]
9 What Has Judaism to Say on Poverty, Racial
Hatred, International War? 15 April 1934. [5 discs]
10 Must Jews Suffer--And Why? 33 April 1934. [5 discs]10 1 Who Are the Real Enemies of the Jewish People? 6 May 1934. [5
discs]
2 What Reason for Believing in the Future Life? 13 May 1934. [5
discs]
3 For Better or for Worse (New Year's Eve) 9 September 1934.
[missing disc]
4 The Mountains Shall Depart (New Year's Morning)10
September 1934. [4 discs]
5 Israel Faces Itself (Atonement Eve) 18 September 1934. [3
discs]
6 The Common Level (Atonement Afternoon)19 September 1934. [3
discs]
7 What I Found in Europe: Will It be War or Peace? 10 October
1934. [7 discs]
8 "POWER"-Does the Jew Seek Power and Why? 14 October 1934. [3
discs]
9 NO ARMISTICE!- For Merchants of Death or Munitions
Manufacturers. 11 November 1934. [5 discs]
10 Advice to Jews: Good and Bad. 25 November 1934. [3 discs]
11 Is the American Jew Safe? 2 December 1934. [5 discs]11 1 The Battle Against Prejudice and Ill Will (with Rev. Cadman) 9
December 1934. [3 discs]
2 What Christians Should Remember and Jews Forget! 16 December
1934. [5 discs]
3 Motion Pictures and Morals: Is Censorship or Boycott
the Solution? 16 December 1934. [3 discs]
4 The Jews' Right to Differ and Protest. 6 January 1935. [5 discs]
5 The Roosevelt Revolution. 27 January 1935. [4 discs] [CD-170]
6 Robert Nathan's Road of Ages: Satire or Prophecy? 3 February
1935. [4 discs]
7 Does Anti-Semitism Keep Jews Alive? 17 February 1935. [6
discs]
8 How Can Family Life Be Decently Adjusted? 3 March 1935. [5
discs]
9 Why Zionists Cannot Support Jabotinsky and Revisionism. 10
March 1935. [6 discs] [CD-165]
10 The Coughlin-Long-Johnson Controversy: Some Jewish Aspects.
24 March 1935. [6 discs]12 1 Must War Be? What Can We Do? 7 April 1935. [3 discs]
2 The Berlin Olympics- The Truth and Some Lies. 3 November 1935.
[5 discs]
3 What I Now Know of Palestine. 17 November 1935. [5 discs]
4 Twenty-one Centuries Later-Israel Still Lives. 8 December 1935.
[6 discs]
5 Problems in Palestine-Arab, British, Jewish: Can They
Be Solved? 15 December 1935. [5 discs]
6 If Jesus the Jew Returned to a Christian World. 22 December
1935. [4 discs]
7 Is Dr. Carrel Right? Is Man Immortable? 29 December 1935. [4
discs]
8 The Lindbergh Exodus and American Lawlessness: Why?
5 January 1936. [5 discs]
9 Dramas of Social Revolt-- Dead End, Paradise Lost, Let
Freedom Ring. 26 January 1936. [5 discs]
10 Are Jewish Fears Justified? An Analysis of the Fortune magazine
article "Jews in America." 28 February 1936. [5 discs] [CD-164]13 1 Can it Happen Here? Is American Democracy Safe? 8 March 1936.
[5 discs] [CD-163]
2 My Forty Years' Battle in the Ministry. 15 March 1936. [5 discs]
3 Is Anything in Life Worth While? 29 March 1936. [4 discs]
4 Lewisohn's 'Greatest Jews'; Who Are the Great Jews? 5 April
1936. [5 discs] [CD-162]
5 When Will Jewish Slavery End? A Passover-Easter Sermon. 12
April 1936. [4 discs]
6 Race, Religion, Nation- Who, What Are Jews? 19 April 1936. [4
discs]
7 "Bury the Dead" A Ghastly Protest Against War. 3 May 1936. [4
discs]
8 President Roosevelt's Leadership of America--Is It Good or Bad?
17 May 1936. [4 discs]
9 Opening World Jewish Congress from Geneva. 8 August 1936. [2
discs] [CD-178]
10 Not Without Hope (New Year's Morning). 17 September 1936. [4
discs]14 1 Atonement--With Whom? (Atonement Eve). 25 September 1935. [4
discs]
2 I. How Near Is War? 4 October 1936. [4 discs]
3 II. The Truth About Palestine: Britain-Arab-Jew. 18 October
1936. [5 discs]
4 Why the President Triumphed: Now It Can Be Told. 8 November
1936. [4 discs] [CD-173]
5 Intro to Brandeis Memorial--The Immortal Jew: Louis
D. Brandeis. 15 November 1936. Judge Mack. [3 discs]
6 In What Can Men Now Believe? A Cry from the Deeps! 6
December 1936. [4 discs]
7 Is the Christmas Message for Christians Only? A Jewish
Question! 20 December 1936. [4 discs]
8 Some New Jewish Books--Good and Bad! 10 January 1937. [6 discs]
9 The Hated Hunted Jew: What Shall He Do? 24 January 1937.
[6 discs]
10 Four Years of Roosevelt and Hitler: What Have They Brought?
31 January 1937. [5 discs]15 1 The LaGuardia Chamber of Horrors- and Its Exhibits. 14 March
1937. [5 discs]
2 Gains or Losses in Religion: Have We Lost or Found Faith?
21 March 1937. [4 discs]
3 The Jew to Jesus-Jesus to the Jew: Passover-Easter. 28 March
1937. [4 discs]
4 Does Divorce Doom Marriage and the Family? 4 April 1937. [4
discs]
5 Spain's European War-The World's Losses and Gains. 11 April
1937. [4 discs]
6 Britain and Palestine Partition: Why Not? 10 October 1937.
[6 discs]
7 Our Country and the War in China. 17 October 1937. [5 discs]
8 Why Fear Death? Why Hope for Immortality? 14 November 1937.
[4 discs]
9 Does Religion Make for Reaction or Revolution? 12 December
1937. [5 discs]
10 How NOT to Win Friends. 19 December 1937. [3 discs]
16 1 What Says Religion on Democracy, Fascism, Communism? 9 January
1938. [5 discs]
2 Eli, Eli,-The Jew Asks - Wohin? 30 January 1938. [5 discs]
3 'Prodigal Parents'- Are Parents Always Wrong? Sinclair Lewis
Answers. 6 February 1938. [4 discs]
4 European Jewries and Palestine in the World Crisis. 27 March
1938. [5 discs]
5 The Truth About Palestine-Arab Threats and Jewish Hopes. 3
April 1938. [5 discs]
6 Where Now Little Jew? Whence Now Big Christian? A Passover-
Easter Sermon (Last disc marked JX Cohen). 17 April 1938.
[5 discs]
7 Is Suffering Good for Man--or Bad? 1 May 1938. [5 discs]
8 Through Gentile Eyes---John Haynes Holmes' Plea for Good Will.
8 May 1938. [5 discs]
9 Opponents of the World Jewish Congress Elections and
Referendum--Who and Why? 15 May 1938. [5 discs]
10 Isolation or Security-An American Answer to the Dictators.
22 May 1938. [4 discs]17 1 Unruined Altars (New Year's Eve). 25 September 1938. [4 discs]
2 Of What Does the World Rob the Jew? (New Year's Morning)
26 September 1938. [6 discs]
3 Refugees of History (Atonement Eve). 4 Octboer 1938. [6 discs]
4 Dishonor Without Peace. 9 October 1938. [6 discs]
5 Palestine- Great Britain and the World Conscience. 23 October
1938. [6 discs] [CD-158]
6 What Jews Owe the World: What the World Owes Jews! 30 October
1938. [5 discs]
7 Must This Happen Anywhere! 20 November 1938. [7 discs] [CD-167]
8 Father Coughlin, Jews, and America. 4 December 1938. [7 discs]
9 Which Light Failed--Maccabean Lamp or Christmas Candle?
18 December 1938. [5 discs]
10 Hitler's Mein Kampf and Van Loon's Our Battle. 8 January
1939. [5 discs]18 1 Dreyfuss: Sacco-Vanzetti: Tom Mooney- Does Justice Always
Prevail? 15 January 1939. [5 discs]
2 Can 'Isms' Take Religion's Place? 22 January 1939. [4 discs]
3 The Defense of Freedom. (Horace M. Kallen). 5 March 1939.
5 March 1939. [7 discs]
4 The London-Palestine Conference and Arab Appeasement. 12
March 1939. [7 discs]
5 Is War Inevitable--What Can America Do Now? 19 March 1939.
[6 discs]
6 Passover and Easter--Jewish and Christian Symbols. 9 April
1939. [4 discs]
7 Are Jews Rich or Poor? Myth and Fact. 16 April 1939. [5
discs]
8 How Safe Are Jews? 7 May 1939. [5 discs]
9 Are Jews Communists and War Mongers? An Answer to Father
Coughlin. 14 May 1939. [7 discs] [CD-131]
10 Fiction of Jewish Riches and the Facts of Jewish Poverty.
25 October 1939. [5 discs]19 1 Jews and the Election: Who Drags Jews into Politics. 1
November 1936. [4 discs]
2 Where to Lay His Head-? The Measureless Tragedy of Refugees.
2 April 1939. [5 discs]
3 A Tale That Is Old (New Year's Day). 14 September 1939.
[5 discs]
4 Hearts Contrite (Atonement Eve). 22 September 1939. [4 discs]
5 Who Can Now Believe in God? 8 October 1939. [5 discs]
6 Untitled Sermon. 15 October 1939. [5 discs]
7 Untitled Sermon. 29 October 1939. [5 discs]
8 Untitled Sermon. 29 October 1939. [4 discs]
9 Untitled Sermon. 5 November 1939. [5 discs]
10 Untitled Sermon. 19 November 1939. [4 discs]20 1 Untitled Sermon. 26 November 1939. [5 discs]
2 Untitled Sermon. 10 December 1939. [5 discs]
3 Untitled Sermon. 17 December 1989. [3 discs]
4 Untitled Sermon. 24 December 1939. [6 discs]
5 Palestine and the World Jewish Crisis. 7 January 1940.
[2 discs]
6 Untitled Sermon. 14 January 1940. [0 discs]
7 Untitled Sermon. 21 January 1940. [4 discs]
8 Untitled Sermon. 4 February 1940. [4 discs]
9 Untitled Sermon. 18 February 1940. [4 discs]
10 Untitled Sermon. 25 February 1940. [5 discs]21 1 Untitled Sermon. 2 March 1940. [5 discs]
2 Special Service and Birthday Celebration. 17 March 1940.
Speakers include: Wise, Rabbi Sidney E. Goldstein,
Rabbi J.X.Cohen, Fisher, Whitelaw, Gardner, Slonimsky,
Levine, Holmes. [12 discs]
3 Untitled Sermon. 23 March 1940. [5 discs]
4 Untitled Sermon. 31 March 1940. [4 discs]
5 Untitled Sermon. 7 April 1940. [6 discs]
6 Hitler's Invasion of Scandinavia. 14 April 1940. [5 discs]
[CD-160]
7 A Passover Sermon: A Year of Better Bondage; What of Next
Year? 21 April 1940. [4 discs]
8 Christians Only! Why Not Jews? 5 May 1940. [4 discs]
9 Native Son- One Race Pleads for Another. 12 May 1940. [CD-160]
10 But If Lot (Daniel III, 18) (New Year's Eve). 2 October 1940.
[4 discs]22 1 New Year's Day Service. 3 October 1940. [5 discs]
2 Chosen to Serve vs Choosing to Enslave (New Year's Day).
3 October 1940. [5 discs]
3 Untitled Sermon. 6 October 1940. [6 discs]
4 How Can the Prophets Can Help Us Now? (Atonement Eve). 10
November 1940. [4 discs] [CD-159]
5 Hitlerism Unites Free Peoples: How Shall America Now Lead?
19 May 1940. [5 discs]
6 Pastor Hall: The Church at Last Speaks for Freedom. 20
October 1940. [5 discs]
7 An American's Duty on Election Day. 27 October 1940. [5 discs]
8 Is Racial and Religious Bigotry Dangerous To Our Country?
3 November 1940. [3 discs]
9 Is Your Life a Success or Failure--And Why? 17 November 1940.
[4 discs]
10 Does Anti-Semitism Keep Jews Alive? 24 November 1940. [4 discs]23 1 The Hebraic Heritage--and the Disinherited Jew. 1 December 1940.
[4 discs]
2 Nazi and Nazarene- The Eternal Conflict. 15 December 1940. [4
discs]
3 Foremost of Jewish Women: Henrietta Szold, An Eightieth
Birthday Tribute. 22 December 1940. [8 discs]
4 What Must We Fear-What Can We Hope for 1941? 5 January 1941.
[4 discs]
5 Monday's Inauguration: Roosevelt and Churchill vs. Hitler and
Mussolini. 19 January 1941. [5 discs]
6 Why No United Appeal--Who is Responsible? 2 February 1941.
[6 discs]
7 Good and Evil in Jews or Jew at Their Best and Worst. 16
February 1941. [6 discs]
8 The New World Order- What Kind? 2 March 1941. [6 discs]
9 Memories, Experiences, Hopes After Forty-Five Years in the
Ministry. 16 March 1941. [7 discs]
10 The President Speaks for Freedom, Faith, Democracy. 23 March
1941. [6 discs]24 1 Hitler's Starved Peoples-Shall America Feed Them? 30 March
1941. [6 discs]
2 And Now-Mussolini. 16 October 1938. [6 discs]
3 Christianity's Palm Sunday--A Jew's Interpretation. 6 April
1941. [5 discs]
4 Faith and Freedom- A Passover-Easter Sermon. 13 April 1941.
[5 discs]
5 Ambassador Dodd's Diary: Revelations of Appeasement by Jews
in Germany. 20 April 1941. [6 discs]
6 Watch on the Rhine: The Theatre and the Fifth Column. 4 May
1941. [6 discs]
7 Palestine- Is It in Danger Because of Nazi Threat? 11 May 1941.
[6 discs] [CD-169]
8 The Tragedy of France- Betrayed and Betraying. 25 May 1941.
[5 discs- last disc with 12/7/41 sermon]
9 An American Prophet: Louis D. Brandeis. 12 October 1941. [9
discs]25 1 If Hitler Won! 19 October 1941. [3 discs- last disc with]
12/7/41 sermon]
2 Where Is God Now? 2 November 1941. [3 discs- last disc with
12/7/41 sermon]
3 Must the Prophet Be Unsafe: The Tragic Fate of Prophecy.
9 November 1941. [5 discs]
4 Mass Murder in Nazi-occupied Countries: America Protests!
16 November 1941. (Clark M. Eichelberger). [6 discs- last
disc with 12/7/41 sermon] [CD-174]
5 The Jew in a Warring World. 23 November 1941. (James Waterman
Wise) [4 discs- last disc with 12/7/41 sermon]
6 Churchill and Goebbels on the Jewish Future. 30 November 1941.
[4 discs- last disc with 12/7/41 sermon] [CD-176]
7 Sides 9 and 10-- Index No. 176
8 Jewish Heros, Jewish Cowards, Jewish Traitors. Sermon.
7 December 1941. [8 discs] [CD-177]Miscellaneous Speeches (majority NOT Stephen Wise)
26 1 Rabbi J.X. Cohen. 9 December 1931. [2 discs]
2 Durant. 10 December 1933. [7 discs]
3 J.W.Wise. 28 October 1934. [5 discs]
4 J.H. Holmes/E. Roosevelt. 28 February 1934. Possibly
25th Anniversary of Free Synagogue. [4 discs]
5 J.W. Wise. 4 November 1934. [5 discs]
6 Prince Loewenstein. 10 February 1935. [6 discs]
7 Salvation. Rabbi M.M. Berman. 24 February 1935. [5 discs]
8 Jewish Current Events. Rabbi J.X. Cohen. 13 March 1935.
[3 discs]
9 Deutsch Memorial. 1 December 1935. (Possibly for Bernard S.
Deutsch (1884-1935) president of AJC). Speakers include:
Fidello LaGuardia, Joseph M. Levine, Free Synagogue,
Louis Lipsky, ZOA, Horace M. Kallen, AJC. [6 discs]
10 Rabbi Berman. 2 February 1936. [5 discs]
27 1 Public Forum on Palestine. 20 April 1936. Lemper, Straus, Wise.
[2 discs]
2 80th Birthday Party to Judge Louis D. Brandeis. 8 November 1936.
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. [1 disc]
3 Brandeis Memorial- Brandeis the Lawyer. 15 November 1936. Mack,
Pesora. [6 discs]
4 Europe Now. 29 November 1936. Ludwig. [7 discs]
5 Thomas Mann. 18 April 1937. [5 discs]
6 Lewisohn or Lewaison. 25 April 1937. [4 discs]
7 Unknown Event. 27 April 1937. Speakers include: Levine, Nizer,
Lipsky, Lewisohn, Holmes, LaGuardia, Mack, Brauer, Levy,
Wise. [12 discs]
8 Must History Repeat Itself. 5 October 1938. Dr. S.E. Goldstein.
[4 discs]
9 Miscelleneous unmarked/undated discs.Miscellaneous Disks (glass)
28 1 WOR -- Louis Bamberger's Funeral and Memorial Service. Undated.
Wise. [4 discs]
2 Adler, Larry. We the People. 18 June 1940. [1 disc]
3 Untitled speech. 14 December 1941. [6 discs]
4 Untitled speech. 4 January 1942. [5 discs-last disc with 11
January 1942].
5 Untitled speech. 11 January 1942. [6 discs]
6 Untitled speech. 8 February 1942. [6 discs]
7 Untitled speech. 8 March 1942. [5 discs]
8 Untitled speech. 15 March 1942. [5 discs]
9 Untitled speech. 22 March 1942. Includes Kaddish and Adoration.
[6 discs]
10 Unitled speech. 29 March 1942. [3 discs]
11 Untitled speech. 5 April 1942. [6 discs]
12 Untitled speech. 10 April 1942. [1 disc]
13 Untitled speech. 17 April 1942. [3 discs]29 1 J.X. Cohen. 1 May 1942. [1 disc]
2 Untitled Speech. 8 May 1942. [5 discs]
3 Untitled speech. 22 May 1942. [4 disc]
4 Untitled speech. 13 November 1942. With JX Cohen. [5 discs]
5 Untitled speech. 20 November 1942 [5 discs]
6 Untitled speech. 27 November 1942. [5 discs]
7 Untitled speech. 25 December 1942. [6 discs]
8 Rabbi J.X. Cohen. 12 March 1943. [4 discs]
9 Stephen Wise. n.d. [2 discs]
10 Dewise. Undated. [1 disc]
11 Radio Talks at WJZ in New York. Includes: Colby, LaGuardia,
Deutsch, Mak, Rosenberg, Colby, Wise.
12 Radio Talks at WOR in New York. Includes: Colby, Deutsch,
La Guardia, Mack, Fosdick, Holmes.
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