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                        1933–1951</title>
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                <opener><dateline><date when="1945-11-24">November 24,
                        1945</date></dateline><salute>Dear <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__3352" type="person">Miss Watson</rs>:</salute>
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                <p>Referring to <rs ref="#L10879" type="letter">your request of November 21</rs>,
                    concerning <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__3353" type="person">Mrs. Margaret
                        Blumenfeld Plaut</rs> I would like to give you the following
                    information:</p>
                <p>I have known <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__3353" type="person">Mrs. Plaut</rs>
                    already in <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__736" type="place">Europe</rs> and have
                    then met her often in this country from <date when="1938">1938</date> on. <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__3353" type="person">Mrs. Plaut</rs> has been and
                    still is one of the most efficient volunteer social workers of the SELFHELP OF
                    EMIGRES FROM CENTRAL <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__736" type="place">EUROPE</rs>,
                    Inc. of which organization I am the Chairman. She is excellent in interviewing
                    people, has full understanding for their problems, a clear point of view and
                    consequently always finds a way in rehabilitating refugees or placing them on
                    the right job. Besides that she has creative abilities. She composes the
                    pamphlet for Selfhelp, edits reports and appeals.</p>
                <p>For the last three years she acts as Executive Secretary of the COOPERATIVE
                    RESIDENCE CLUB, a home for elderly refugees, working in close cooperation with
                    Selfhelp. She is doing this work independently and very efficiently.</p>
                <p><rs ref="#tillich_person_id__3353" type="person">Mrs. Plaut</rs> stems from a
                    highly cultured family. Both her educational background and her intellectual
                    standard qualify her for whatever position you might secure for her. I know very
                    few people whom I would recommend as strongly as I do recommend <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__3353" type="person">Mrs. Plaut</rs>.</p>
                <closer><salute>Sincerely yours,</salute><signed><rs ref="#tillich_person_id__1928" type="person">Paul Tillich</rs>
                        <lb/>Professor at Union Theological Seminary, <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__319" type="place">New York City</rs></signed>
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                     <p>Paul Tillich (20. August 1886 – 22. Oktober 1965) war ein deutscher evangelischer Theologe und Religionsphilosoph. Nach seiner Tätigkeit als Feldprediger im Ersten Weltkrieg lehrte er an verschiedenen Universitäten in Deutschland, bis er 1933 emigrieren musste und in den USA wirkte, unter anderem in New York, Harvard und Chicago. Tillich entwickelte eine Theologie der Kultur und verstand Religion als das „was uns unbedingt angeht“. In seiner „Systematic Theology“ formulierte er die Methode der Korrelation und deutete Gott als „Macht des Seins“. Seine Arbeiten verbinden Theologie, Philosophie und Existenzdenken und hatten großen Einfluss auf das religiöse Denken der Moderne.</p>
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