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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Silberman, Lou H., Rabbi

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1963

Volume: 2 item(s); 2 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Silberman, Lou H., Rabbi".

Biography

Rabbi Lou H. Silberman was a professor from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, who came to Gethsemani with Rabbi Zalman Schachter in mid-August 1962 to speak to the novices regarding Hebrew, the Psalms and the Dead Sea scrolls.

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Related Information and Links

See also Cold War Letters #102 published in Witness to Freedom

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1962/09/19 transcriptfrom MertonThanks for your letter and for the interesting offprints. I am glad to see our concerns are soYes [Cold War Letters #102 - photocopy from published volume]
 1963/02/07 TL[c]from MertonForgive my delay in answering your letter. I have been not only taken up with my classes   
        

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