Jack Mendelsohn

Background

Mendelsohn, Jack was born on July 22, 1918 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

Education

Bachelor, Boston University, 1939. STB, Harvard University, 1945. Doctor of Divinity (honorary), Meadville Theological School, 1962.

Career

Minister in, Rockford, Illinois, 1947-1954; minister in, Indianapolis, 1954-1959; minister in, Arlington St. Church, Boston, 1959-1969; senior minister, 1st Unitarian Church, Chicago, 1969-1979; minister, 1st Parish, Bedford, Massachusetts, 1979-1988; emeritus minister, since 1988; partner, Halcyon House, 1979-1985. Member adjunct faculty Meadville Theological Sch, University of Chicago, 1969-1979. Officer tothe university Harvard University, since 1981.

Achievements

• Jack Mendelsohn has been listed as a notable clergyman, author by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Channing : The Reluctant Radical

    (Although he died more than a century ago, William Ellery ...)

  • Being Liberal in an Illiberal Age: Why I Am a Unitarian Universalist

    (Book by Mendelsohn, Jack, Skinner House Books)

  • Being Liberal in an Illiberal Age: Why I Am a Unitarian Universalist

    (Politics and religion in today's society.)

  • God, Allah, and Ju Ju

    (New York 1962 1st Nelson. 8vo., 454pp., hardcover. Ex-uni...)

  • The Forest Calls Back. Signed
  • Channing, the Reluctant Radical
  • God, Allah and Ju Ju: Religion in Africa Today
  • Being Liberal in an Illiberal Age: Why I Am a Unitarian Universalist by Jack Mendelsohn (1995-08-02)
  • Why I Am a Unitarian Universalist (Why I Am...)
  • (Channing: The Reluctant Radical * * ) Author: Jack Mendelsohn Jan-1980
  • God, Allah and Ju Ju;: Religion in Africa today
  • Channing, the Reluctant Radical. (Revised) By Mendelsohn, Jack ( Author ) Hardcover 1980
  • Being Liberal in an Illiberal Age: Why I Am a Unitarian Universalist Paperback August, 1995
  • Channing, the Reluctant Radical. by Jack Mendelsohn (1980-01-31)
  • the Forest Calls Back
  • The Forest Calls Back - The heroic story of Dr. Theodor Binder who is bringing healing and hope to the jungel Indians of Peru

Membership

Vice president Unitarian Service Committee, 1963-1967. President Urban League Greater Boston, 1966-1968. Board directors World Affairs Council Boston, 1962-1966.

Chairman Alliance to End Repression, Chicago, 1970-1976. Member advisory council Comprehensive Health Planning, Chicago, 1969-1979. President Hyde Park-Kenwood Council Churches and Synagogues, Chicago, 1974-1976.

Chairman William Ellery Channing Bicentennial Celebration Committee 1979-1980. President Abraham Lincoln Centre, Chicago, 1977-1979, Binder Schweitzer Hospital Foundation, New York City, 1965-1973, Chicago Memorial Association, 1969-1979, Civil Rights Project, Inc., sponsors television series Eyes on the Prize, since 1987. Senior adviser to Jesse Jackson, since 1984, trips to Syria, Center American, Cuba.

President continental Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association, 1987-1989. Member National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American Civil Liberties Union, International Institute Boston (board directors 1962-1968), Harvard Club (Boston), Harvard Faculty Club (Cambridge).

Connections

Married Ruth P. Mendelsohn, December 26, 1949 (divorced 1969). Children: Channing T., Deborah T., Kurt A. Married Joan Silverstone Hall, August 3, 1969.

1 stepdau., Lisabeth Hall.

Spouse:

Joan Silverstone Hall

Spouse:

Ruth P. Mendelsohn

child:

Kurt A. Mendelsohn

child:

Channing T. Mendelsohn

child:

Deborah T. Mendelsohn