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04/12/1945, Israel Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to Sumner Bernstein from father Israel regarding New Republic article; concept of liberalism; Russia; New Deal; difficulties of serving in the military.

04/11/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding life on base; correspondence with sister Helen-Barbara; news from home; strategy in Germany.

04/09/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding Chinese troops; San Francisco Conference; the future of Germany.

04/07/1945 B, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding White's "Report on the Russians"; postwar American politics; postwar international politics; law school reading list; reflections on democracy.

04/07/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding photograph taken at Friday services; Antisemitism; American Jews.

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04/06/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding life on base; Russian break with Japan; mandatory peacetime military training.

04/05/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding USO performance of "Porgy and Bess"; San Francisco Conference; Palestine; Zionism; American Jewish organizations' different positions on Palestine.

04/04/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding frustrations with work; sister Helen's writing; Helen's college decision; international intervention in human rights abuses.

04/03/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding life on base; move to a new tent; correspondence with Uncle Lou; returning to college after the war; marriage; American labor disputes.

04/01/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding correspondence; life on base; American Jewish Committee; Palestine; experience of being Jewish at Harvard.

04/01/1945 B, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding life on base; marriage; news clippings; holiday celebrations at home [Passover]; college football.

07/30/1944, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding dance at the Club; socializing with female nurses and Red Cross workers; Portland Press Herald clippings; softball game; living in the Southern Hemisphere.

07/29/1944, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding meeting with Ned Hanscomb (acquaintance from Maine); life on base; correspondence; internationalism among members of different American political parties.

07/28/1944, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding friend from home Ned Hanscomb; Portland Players; news from Uncle Lou; correspondence.

07/28/1944 B, Israel Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to Sumner Bernstein from father Israel regarding Dewey's condemnation of Hamilton Fish; potential cabinet members for a Dewey presidency; hope for Germany's quick collapse.

07/27/1944, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding discussion on American economics; B'nai Brith's position on Commonwealth issue; description of living situation.

07/26/1944, Israel Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to Sumner Bernstein from father Israel regarding mathematical computation; book being sent separately.

07/25/1944, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding correspondence with Dot Fried; thoughts on GI Bill of Rights; recent USO show.

07/25/1944 B, Israel Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to Sumner Bernstein from father Israel regarding nightmare Israel had about Sumner overexerting himself; correspondence between Sumner and Dot; restrictions on availability of certain books to servicemembers.

07/24/1944 B, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding mail delay; impressions of tentmate Herb; news clippings; which American politicians are responsible for the war; sister Helen's social life.

07/24/1944, Israel Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to Sumner Bernstein from father Israel regarding crack in German morale; attempted assassination of Hitler; impact on war in Pacific; Democratic Convention; presidential race; Between Tears and Laughter by Liu Yutang.

07/23/1944, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding correspondence, GI Bill of Rights, activities on base.

07/22/1944, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding invasion of Guam; adjustment to life in the New Hebrides; GI Bill of Rights; the war in Europe; reports of Hitler's deposition as party leader.

07/20/1944, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding officers' discussion of governments in exile; economics; Strange Fruit; native population of the island; description of tentmate Herb and his wife, who converted to Judaism when they married.

07/19/1944, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding entertainment on base; orientation talk; weather; who will get to Paris first; tentmate Herb's attitude toward pleasure reading.

07/17/1944, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding arrival of mail; testifying about fatal accident; news from home; squatters at summer cottage on Menikoe Point; Falmouth elite's attitudes toward Bernstein family; Jewish majority rule in Palestine.

07/16/1944, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding witnessing a Jeep rollover accident; Republican convention; thoughts on Dewey.

07/15/1944, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding correspondence, reading materials and library on base, hopes for starting a discussion group.

07/13/1944, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding correspondence; sister Helen's social life; news from home; bridge hands.

07/12/1944, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding tongue-in-cheek piece about changing a typewriter ribbon; future relationships with Soviet Union.