Letter to R. Wurzburger about Transition of Tradition Leadership (1961)

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Letter from R. Charles Weinberg about R. Wurzburger Assuming Leadership of Tradition Journal (1961)

Dear Rabbi Lamm: I should like to express to you my deep appreciation for your past services to Tradition. I am pleased to inform you that our new editor-in-chief is Rabbi Walter S. Wurzburger, under whose leadership I am confident that Tradition will continue to present a high standard of scholarly articles. Rabbi Wurzburger has indicated that he would like to retain you on the editorial staff, and so I am hereby asking you to remain on the Editorial Board. It is conceivable that the editor-in-chief will rearrange the responsibilities, but in that event I presume he will discuss the matter with you directly.Cordially yours,Rabbi Charles WeinbergPresident

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Letter to R. Wurzburger about Content of "Treasury of Tradition" (1965)

Dear Walter: I am enclosing a list of twenty-four (24) articles which we selected for inclusion in the volume we intend to co-edit. Rentgeveoser and I would recommend one of two names: "The Best in Tradition," or "A Tradition Treasury." The total number of "Tradition" pages for the twenty-four (24) articles enclosed is 430 for all of them, and 388 if we exclude No. 13 and No. 14. To this has to be added the Halakhic Digest we talked about, to be pre-edited by Rabbi Jakobovits, plus a few extra pages of introduction and biographical description of contributors.May I recommend that you now try to group these articles into various areas such as: Israel, The Synagogue, America, Review Articles, Criticism, etc.I await your response in alienated disintegration, anxiously awaiting my monistic redemption.Co-editorially yours

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