American Jewish Tercentenary celebration collection undated, 1949-1956

Contains correspondence, monthly newsletter and other publications of the American Jewish Tercentenary Committee. Also contains correspondence of the Tercentenary Committee of the American Jewish Historical Society primarily relating to the Conference of Historians (September, 1954) and correspondence, financial records and reports of the Office of Historical Information set up jointly by the AJHS and the American Jewish Tercentenary Committee. Includes also material relating to tercentenary celebrations and exhibits sponsored by the National Committee and various state and local committees, universities and synagogues, particularly Cong. Shearith Israel in New York City.

Beradt Family Collection 1850-1956

Documents related to Ulla Brode, née Beradt and her family.

Ira S. Goldberg Collection 1954-1956

Letters to Ira Goldberg from Dora Edinger (1955), Paul P. Homburger (1955), The New York Public Library (1956) in reference to Bertha Pappenheim; article about stamp dedication by the German postal service honoring Bertha Pappenheim (in Allgemeine Wochenzeitung der Juden in Deutschland, 11/5/1954)

The Soviet Union, Finland and the Cold War : The Finnish Card in Soviet Foreign Policy, 1956-1959

From the Soviet point of view the actual substance of Soviet-Finnish relations in the second half of 1950s clearly differed from the contemporary and later public image, based on friendship and confidence rhetoric. As the polarization between the right and the left became more underlined in Finland in the latter half of the 1950s, the criticism towards the Soviet Union became stronger, and the USSR feared that this development would have influence on Finnish foreign policy. From the Soviet point of view, the security commitments of FCMA-treaty needed additional guarantees through control of Finnish domestic politics and economic relations, especially during international crises. In relation to Scandinavia, Finland was, from the Soviet point of view, the model country of friendship or neutrality policy. The influence of the Second Berlin Crisis or the Soviet-Finnish Night Frost Crisis in 1958-1959 to Soviet policy towards Scandinavia needs to be observed from this point of view. The Soviet Union used Finland as a tool, in agreement with Finnish highest political leadership, for weakening of the NATO membership of Norway and Denmark, and for maintaining Swedish non-alliance. The Finnish interest to EFTA membership in the summer of 1959, at the same time with the Scandinavian countries, seems to have caused a panic reaction in the USSR, as the Soviets feared that these economic arrangements would reverse the political advantages the country had received in Finland after the Night Frost Crisis. Together with history of events, this study observes the interaction of practical interests and ideologies, both in individuals and in decision-making organizations. The necessary social and ideological reforms in the Soviet Union after 1956 had influence both on the legitimacy of the regime, and led to contradictions in the argumentation of Soviet foreign policy. This was observed both in the own camp as well as in the West. Also, in Finland a breakthrough took place in the late 1950's: as the so-called counter reaction lost to the K-line, "a special relationship" developed with the Soviet Union. As a consequence of the Night Frost Crisis the Soviet relationship became a factor decisively defining the limits of domestic politics in Finland, a part of Finnish domestic political argumentation. Understood from this basis, finlandization is not, even from the viewpoint of international relations, a special case, but a domestic political culture formed by the relationship between a dominant state, a superpower, and a subordinate state, Finland.

El ideal de justicia en la cultura

Introducción: En el medio social existen numerosas manifestaciones culturales en torno a la justicia, ideal supremo de la convivencia armónica y pacífica. Diversas imágenes, literarias y artísticas, representan ese valor permanente de la humanidad. Páginas hermosas, no exentas de poesía, han sido escritas para describirla, pues todo gran pensador le ha dedicado un libro o una simple línea. Recordemos a escritores que legaron a la humanidad mensajes sublimes, como Cervantes, Shakespeare y Montaigne. Al nombre de esos geniales creadores se deben añadir los de Charles Dickens, León Tolstoi, Bertolt Brecht y Arthur Miller, quienes elevaron la prosa a su máximo lucimiento. De quien más se habla en nuestros días es del checo Franz Kafka, autor que describió en su obra El proceso la angustia de los justiciables. Un género literario algo olvidado es la oratoria forense, siendo su precursor el griego Demóstenes, brillante expositor de las defensas que asumió como abogado, entre otras las de su propio padre...

Sapientia, 1956, Vol. XI, nº 41 (número completo)

Contenido: Filosofía y Teología en el tomismo / La Dirección – Gérmenes de idealismo en las “Investigaciones lógicas” de Husserl / Juan A. Casaubón – La materia inteligible / Emilio Mondelli – El estoicismo y su teoría del hombre / Benito R. Raffo Magnasco -- Bibliografía

Argentina. Crisis de pagos y sinergia entre programas del FMI y Club de París. 1956-2009

Desde 1956, en ocho ocasiones la Argentina refinanció deudas oficiales en el ámbito del Club de París. Estas refinanciaciones implicaron implementar programas de ajuste, acompañados en seis oportunidades por acuerdos contingentes con el FMI. Pero la apreciación subsiguiente de la moneda doméstica y los compromisos de facilitar importaciones pactados en tales acuerdos, desencadenan un ciclo de auge y deterioro de la cuenta corriente del balance de pagos que finaliza con una nueva crisis y una deuda externa incrementada, agravando la restricción de divisas originante de tal situación, en un contexto de salida masiva de capitales, inflación y recesión.

Sapientia, 1956, Vol. XI, nº 42 (número completo)

Contenido: Verdad y libertad, enseñanza y Universidad / La Dirección – El objeto de la metafísica y la analogía del ente según Escoto / José Riesco Terrero – El arte y la naturaleza / Domingo Renaudiere de Paulis – Notas y comentarios -- Bibliografía

Sapientia, 1956, Vol. XI, nº 39-40 (número completo)

Nota: Homenaje a Octavio Nicolás Derisi en sus veinticinco años de docencia filosófica.

Projeto de lei de conversão à MP 1956, que altera o Código florestal

Consultoria Legislativa - Área XI - Meio Ambiente e Direito Ambiental, Organização Territorial e Desenvolvimento Urbano e Regional.

Proposta do Conama sobre a MP 1956, que altera o Código florestal

Consultoria Legislativa - Área XI - Meio Ambiente e Direito Ambiental, Organização Territorial, Desenvolvimento Urbano e Regional.

[Discurso do Deputado Taciano de Melo : Sessão da Câmara dos Deputados de 12 de janeiro de 1956]

Entrevista do Marechal José Pessoa, Presidente da Comissão de Localização da Nova Capital Federal, aos jornais O Globo, Correio da Manhã e O Jornal, sobre os trabalhos executados para localização do local mais apropriado para a instalação da nova sede do Governo Federal.

[Discurso do Deputado Fonseca e Silva : Sessão da Câmara dos Deputados de 04 de maio de 1956]

Considerações sobre aspectos históricos relativos à mudança da Capital Federal.