Scope and Contents Documenting the administrative arrangements to organize and program this series, the file largely includes correspondence between Daniel S. Anthony, who proposed and organized the series, with Dean Birenbaum, regarding speaker invitations, including letters regarding the controversy surrounding Malcolm X and his disinvitation from the lecture series at the insistence of New School trustee, Dorothy Hirshon, and president emeritus, Alvin Johnson. Also includes reading list and outline for the...

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Planning and budgeting documentation and correspondence between Dean Birenbaum and speakers/organizers for a lecture series, including a flier for the series.

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Material, including the event poster, regarding a panel discussion on a controversial German play by Hochhuth examining the Vatican's indifference to Jews during World War II, first directed by Erwin Piscator, former director of The New School's Dramatic Workshop. The discussion was chaired by Maria-Ley Piscator, with William Birenbaum, Saul Padover, Allan Lewis, and Joseph Brennan, chair of the Philosophy Department at Barnard College.

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Includes correspondence between Dean Birenbaum and a colleague at the University of Chicago.