Dear Professor Lamm: Perhaps your attention has already been called to the fact that in Garrity vs. New Jersey, decided by the United States Supreme Court on January 16, Justice Douglas quoted from your article on "The First Amendment and Its Equivalent in Jewish Law." The quotation takes up a good bit of space as a prominent footnote. I want to congratulate you on this recognition, and it is simply another bit of evidence that Jewish law still has a contribution to make to modern life, if only our scholars worked at it and made known their findings.I was please at the same time that in another case decided by the Supreme Court in the following week, on January 23, Justice Brennan referred to my latest book, "Expanding Liberties."Incidentally, I very much would like to have a reprint of your article. I do not know the volume in which it was published, though I thought I knew a great many scholarly publications, but I have never heard of the Decalogue Journal. At the same time, I saw a reference in the Anglo-Jewish Press to your article in the current issue of "Jewish Life," in which you cite Jewish law with respect to the right of privacy. I would appreciate having a copy of this article also. In view of your interest in this subject, I am sending you, under separate cover, a reprint of a recent article of mine on the right of privacy, in which I cite only one or two incidents from biblical law.I hope that our paths will cross. When I last visited Dr. Jung in his office, some months ago, I wanted also to see you, but you were not in at that time. With kindest regards, I amSincerely yours,Milton R. KonvitzProfessor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of LawMRK:mh

Dear Professor Konvitz: Please forgive me my undue delay in reacting to the splendid article, a reprint of which you sent me, on "Privacy and the Law: A Philosophical Prelude." I preferred to do justice to so eminent an author by reading his work, with the requisite diligence and attention, instead of a perfunctory and cursory reading together with a superficial note of thanks. Your ideas are certainly enlightening, and constitute a most valuable contribution to the current literature on the theme of privacy. I quite agree with your association of sexual immorality with the exposure of one’s physical privacy in the Bible, as evidenced by the cases of Adam and Noah. I would add that the general Biblical term for Illicit sex is giluy arayot – which implies exposure, revealing, uncovering, and therefore the reverse of privacy and modesty.I hope you will forgive me for registering one objection to this section of your article. I would not have referred to the story of Adam and Eve as a "mythical" teaching. Even if one does not accept the narrative of Adam and Eve as being literal and historical truth, it is still a considerable jump from mythology to figurative truth in the Bible.Your connection of Justice Douglas’s opinion on "Zones of Privacy" as flowing out of Justice Brennan's notion of "breathing space," calls to mind the great and fundamental Talmudic principle of seyag le’torah; if, therefore, indeed, privacy is a Biblical notion, then Jews must consider it not as a point but as an area or "zone," and therefore Rabbinical legislation must include the "penumbra" in the areas prohibited to intrusion.It might interest you to know that I have been invited by Senator Edward Long to testify before his Senate sub-Committee on the view of Jewish law and theology on the question of privacy.It was a pleasure corresponding with you – I still hope to hear from you and receive any comments you may have on my article – and I look forward to meeting you personally at the May 7…

Dear Rabbi Lamm: I appreciate your letter of October 9, and in due course the addendum to your article will be incorporated. I do not expect to get the book ready for the publisher until next summer, so there is ample time for changes. I am always very pleased to hear from you and I reciprocate heartily your holiday greetings and best wishes. With friendliest regards, I am Sincerely yours, MiIton R. Konvitz, Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of Law

Dear Rabbi Lamm, I acknowledge gratefully receipt of your letter of February 18 and your two articles. Thank you very much for your prompt response to my request. I have not met Aaron Kirschenbaum but will try to meet him and will ask him about his book. Rabbi and Mrs. Jung arrived yesterday. They are well, and I am sure that they will enjoy their stay in Israel. With kindest regards, I am, Sincerely yours, Milton, Visiting Professor

Dear Rabbi Lamm, One of my chief undertakings while here at the Hebrew University is to prepare for publication my volume on Judaism and Human Rights, which, as you know, W.W. Norton has agreed to publish in a series edited by Professor David Patterson. I have gone over carefully the two papers which you were good enough to let me have for this volume, and again I want to thank you warmly for what will be important contributions to the volume. I have used the typed scripts of your articles rather than their published versions, for, as I believe is the case, the manuscripts have a later date. I have edited each of the two papers and I am sending you herewith xeroxed copies of them. What I have done in my editing was to cut out your discussion of American constitutional developments relating to privacy or the Fifth Amendment. I did this for two reasons: 1). Because I want my book to deal with the Jewish view of fundamental liberties and not with comparative law, 2). The American law on these topics, as you know, is in flux, and I do not want our discussion to become quickly out of date. I hope that you will approve my editing, which I have tried to keep to the minimum and which I have tried to do mainly with an eye on the above two considerations. It will be necessary for you, I'm afraid, to have the articles re-typed, so that they will be ready for the printer. The footnotes will need to be numbered in view of the omissions. But I believe that the task will be a fairly simple one for you. I hate to impose this burden on you since you have been so helpful up to now, but I do want you to see the changes I have made, and I am anxious that the copy for the printer will offer him no opportunity for mistakes. I would greatly appreciate your kindly sending me at my Jerusalem address the re-typed articles by air-mail as soon as you can and I assure you again of my profound thanks for your very valuable contributions. Incidentally I knew your grandfather, Rabbi Baumol, very …