This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Silberman, Lou H., Rabbi".
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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See also Cold War Letters #102 published in Witness to Freedom
If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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1962/09/19 |
transcript from Merton |
Thanks for your letter and for the interesting offprints. I am glad to see our concerns are so |
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[Cold War Letters #102 - photocopy from published volume]
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1963/02/07 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Forgive my delay in answering your letter. I have been not only taken up with my classes |
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