Bernard Flexner Papers

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Call Number:

MC056

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Public Policy Papers

Extent:

20 boxes
1 folder

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Bernard Flexner Papers, Box and Folder Number; Public Policy Papers, Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1882-1946 (inclusive) and 1917-1943 (bulk)

Creator:

Flexner, Bernard (1865-1945)

Form:

Correspondence, Diaries., Family papers, Photographs, Original., and Poems.

Abstract:

Bernard Flexner, a lawyer, philanthropist and Zionist leader, was an early supporter of the juvenile court movement. Contains the personal papers of Flexner, including diaries and letters to his sister Mary while he served with the American Red Cross Commission to Romania (1917) and as counsel for the Zionist delegation to the Paris Peace Conference (1918-1919); material concerning Albert Einstein, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Sacco-Vanzetti trial record, and the juvenile court system of the early 1900s; and miscellaneous correspondence.

Flexner

Bernard Flexner, a lawyer, philanthropist and Zionist leader, was an early supporter of the juvenile court movement. From 1917 he lived in New York, devoting himself to various Zionist movements and organizations to aid Palestine.

Contains the personal papers of Flexner, including diaries and letters to his sister Mary while he served with the American Red Cross Commission to Romania (1917) and as counsel for the Zionist delegation to the Paris Peace Conference (1918-1919); material concerning Albert Einstein, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Sacco-Vanzetti trial record, and the juvenile court system of the early 1900s; and miscellaneous correspondence.

Also included are biographical notes on Flexner family history, photographs, poems by Hortense, James, and Jean Flexner, and correspondence (1882-1944) between various other members of this large Kentucky family.

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Publisher: Public Policy Papers
Finding Aid Date: 2007
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Collection Inventory

Arrangement

No arrangement action taken or arrangement information not recorded at the time of processing.

Physical Description

7 boxes

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1 box

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1 box

"Diary of Bernard Flexner" and letters to Mary Flexner (Sister of Bernard Flexner), 1917 July-December. 1 box.

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1 box

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1 box

"Diary of Bernard Flexner" and letters to Mary Flexner, during the period in which Bernard Flexner was serving as a Member of the Commission and Counsel to the ZIonist Delegation, 1918 December-1919 June. 1 box.

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1 box

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1 box

Ascoli, Max, 1934-1940. 1 box.

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1 box

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1 box

Clippings regarding Juvenile Courts and Probation by Bernard Flexner and Roger N. Baldwin, New York, The Century Co., circa 1914. 1 box.

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1 box

Burlingham, Charles C, 1935-1943. 1 box.

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1 box

Cohen, Benjamin V, 1928-1935. 1 box.

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1 box

Cohn, Alfred E, 1927-1939. 1 box.

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1 box

deHaas, Karel H, 1938-1941. 1 box.

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1 box

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2 boxes

Earle, Edward mead, 1929-1943. 1 box.

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1 box

Einstein, Albert, 1939-1940. 1 box.

Scope and Contents

(and related items 1932-1933, 1938, 1942-1943)

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1 box

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Flexner, Abraham (Brother of Bernard Flexner), 1928. 1 box.

Scope and Contents

(and reprints, 1897 ...1930)

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1 box

Flexner, Bernard (to and from Flexner family members), 1894-1944. 1 box.

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1 box

Flexner, Jacob (Brother of Bernard Flexner), undated. 1 box.

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1 box

Flexner, Mary (Sister of Bernard Flexner), 1894-1944. 1 box.

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1 box

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1 box

Frankfurter, Felix, 1929-1945. 1 box.

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1 box

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1 box

Griffith, David Wark, 1940. 1 box.

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1 box

Hurewicz, Witold, 1939-1940. 1 box.

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1 box

Johnson, Alvin, 1935-1940. 1 box.

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1 box

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1 box

"A Decade of the Juvenile Court" by Bernard Flexner, National Conference of Charities and Correction, St. Louis, Missouri, May 10. 1 box.

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1 box

A scrapbook of letters and clippings regarding Juvenile Courts and Probation by Bernard Flexner and Roger N. Baldwin, New York, The Century Co, circa 1914. 1 box.

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1 box

Krock, Arthur, 1939. 1 box.

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1 box

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1 box

La Follette, Fola, 1941. 1 box.

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1 box

Laski, Harold J, 1930-1931. 1 box.

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1 box

Lenroot, Katherine F, 1925-1928. 1 box.

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1 box

Levi, Nino, 1940. 1 box.

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1 box

Ludington, Katharine, 1927-1928. 1 box.

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1 box

Miscellaneous, 1924-1941. 1 box.

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1 box

Re Palestine: "The Right to a Jewish Homeland," by Bernard Flexner, Nation, 1929 October 2. 1 box.

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1 box

Re Refugees, 1933-1934. 1 box.

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1 box

Re Roosevelt, Franklin D, 1930-1933. 1 box.

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1 box

Sabin, Florence, 1934-1936. 1 box.

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1 box

Re "Sacco-Vanzetti Record", 1927-1933. 1 box.

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1 box

Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1939-1941. 1 box.

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1 box

Szold, Robert, 1938-1944. 1 box.

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1 box

Veblen, Oswald, 1939. 1 box.

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1 box

Williams, Maurice, 1936. 1 box.

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1 box

Arrangement

No arrangement action taken or arrangement information not recorded at the time of processing.

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1 box

Articles by Bernard Flexner, 1910-1934. 1 box.

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1 box

Notes regarding his speeches by Bernard Flexner, 1914 March-1915 June. 1 box.

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1 box

Notes by Bernard Flexner concerning his family history, early life, etc, 1926. 1 box.

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1 box

Biographical information about Bernard Flexner and the Flexner family members, 1926-1945. 1 box.

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1 box

Photographs including Flexner family members, undated. 1 box.

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1 box

Arrangement

No arrangement action taken or arrangement information not recorded at the time of processing.

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12 boxes

Articles by members of the Flexner family other than Bernard Flexner, 1897-1941. 1 box.

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1 box

Poems by Hortense Flexner (Niece of Bernard Flexner), James Flexner (Son of Simn Flexner) and Jean Atherton Flexner (Daughter of Abraham Flexner), dates not examined. 1 box.

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1 box

Letters and other items to and from Bernard Flexner, Esther Flexner (Mother of Bernard Flexner) and Mary Flexner (Sister of Bernard Flexner), 1882-1902. 1 box.

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1 box

Letters to and from Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Flexner (Brother and Sister-In-Law of Bernard Flexner), 1899. 1 box.

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1 box

Eleanor Flexner and Jean Atherton Flexner (Daughters of Abraham Flexner), 1899. 1 box.

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1 box

Letters and other items from Bernard Flexner to Mary Flexner, 1916 - 1936. 1 box.

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1 box

Letters from Flexner family members to Mary Flexner, 1919-1937. 1 box.

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1 box

Letters to Bernard Flexner and Mary Flexner from Hortense (Niece of Bernard Flexner) and Wyncie King, 1916-1936. 1 box.

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1 box

Letters to the Flexner family from Helena Flexner, Isador Flexner, Louis Flexner, Morris Flexner (Father of Bernard Flexner), Hetty Goldman, 1922-1935. 1 box.

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1 box

Letters to Flexner family members from Dr. and Mrs. Simon Flexner (Brother and Sister-In-Law of Bernard Flexner), James and William Flexner (Sons of Simon Flexner), 1893-1899. 1 box.

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1 box

Letters from family and friends to Bernard Flexner and Mary Flexner, 1935-1939. 1 box.

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1 box

Miscellaneous letters to and from the Flexner family (1 of 2), 1935. 1 box.

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1 box

Miscellaneous letters to and from the Flexner family (2 of 2) including Birthday Greetings, Christmas card, etc, 1940-1942. 1 box.

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1 box

Financial Records, 1928-1933. 1 box.

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1 box

Arrangement

No arrangement action taken or arrangement information not recorded at the time of processing.

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1 folder

Poster and clipping announcing a talk by Flexner about Roumania and the War on April 2, 1918, 1918. 1 folder.

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1 folder

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Collection Inventory

Series 1: Correspondence and Related Materials, 1894-1946. 7 boxes.

Aa-Am, 1917-1919. 1 box.

Re American Red Cross Commission to Roumania, 1917 July-December. 1 box.

Re American Commission to Negotiate Peace, 1918 December-1919 June. 1 box.

As-Dz, 1914-1946. 1 box.

Re Baldwin, Roger N, 1914-1915. 1 box.

Ea-Fl, 1894-1944. 2 boxes.

Fr-Fz, 1929-1945. 1 box.

G-K, 1910-1942. 1 box.

Re Juvenile Courts, 1910-1928. 1 box.

L-Z, 1924-1944. 1 box.

Series 2: Articles and Notes by Bernard Flexner; Biographical Information and Photographs, 1910-1945. 1 box.

Series 3: Family Records, 1882-1944. 12 boxes.

Series 4: Clippings and posters, 1918. 1 folder.

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