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1960-1973 (Creation)
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- Mendelson, Alan
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17 cm of textual records.
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Alan Mendelson, Professor Emeritus in Religious Studies at McMaster University (appointed to the position of Assistant Professor in 1976), was born on 30 July 1939 in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of three universities: A.B., Kenyon College, 1961; M.A. in the History of Ideas, Brandeis University, 1965; and Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1971. He is the author or editor of several books: <em>Secular Education in Philo of Alexandria</em> (1982); <em>Philo's Jewish Identity</em> (1988); <em>From Bergen-Belsen to Baghdad: the Letters of Alex Aronson</em> (with Joan Michelson, ed., 1992); <em>Frye and the Word: Religious Contexts in the Writings of Northrop Frye</em> (with Jeffery Donaldson, ed., 2004); and <em>Exiles from Nowhere: the Jews and the Canadian Elite</em> (2008).
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The fonds consists of 237 letters written by Professor Mendelson to his family, three journals, and travel documents. The fonds documents two periods in Professor Mendelson's life (1961-63 and 1971-72) when he lived as a student in Israel with his wife Sara.
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Accession 29-2009 was acquired from Alan Mendelson in June 2009.
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- English
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See also the Alex Aronson fonds and the Palestine and Israel postcard collection.
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15 March 2012
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- English