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Horace Meyer Kallen (August

11, 1882 – February 16, 1974) was a Polish-born American philosopher who

supported pluralism and Zionism.

Horace Meyer Kallen was born on August 11, 1882, in the town

of Bernstadt, Austrian Silesia (now Bierutów,

Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland).

His parents were Jacob David Kallen, an Orthodox rabbi, and Esther Rebecca

Glazier. In 1887, the family emigrated to the United States. Kallen studied

philosophy at Harvard University under George

Santayana; in 1903, he received a BA magna cum

laude.That same year, Kallen was personally hired by future American

President Woodrow Wilson, then Princeton University's president, to

become the first Jew

to ever teach at the university. But after teaching English at Princeton for

two years, his contract was not renewed, and he returned to Harvard for

graduate study and worked as Santayana's assistant. In 1908, Kallen received

his doctorate and was awarded a Sheldon Travelling Fellowship to study at Oxford

University.He was also a lifetime friend of Alain Locke,

whom he met at Harvard and who was the first African-American Rhodes

Scholar; and would remain the only one until the 1960s.He lectured

in philosophy

at Harvard from his graduation until 1911, occasionally working as a logic instructor at Clark College

in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1911, he

moved to teach philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

until 1918, when he was named a professor at The New

School in New York City as a founding member, where he

remained for the rest of his career. By 1933, Kallen and his colleague Sidney Hook

were serving on the ACLU's academic freedom

committee. A pluralist, Kallen opposed

any oversimplification of philosophical and vital problems. According to

Kallen, denying complications and difficulties is to multiply them, as much as

to deny reality to evil would aggravate evil. Kallen advanced the ideal that

cultural diversity and national pride were compatible with each other and that

ethnic and racial diversity strengthened America. His critics pointed out his

disingenuousness since, as a Jewish intellectual and member of the Zionist Organization of America,

his vision of multicultural America was quite the opposite of his vision of the

Jewish state of Israel as a totally Jewish nation. Kallen is credited with

coining the term cultural pluralism.[He was acquainted

with William James,

whose last unfinished book he edited. In 1939 he became acquainted with Immanuel

Velikovsky and became a lifelong friend, informal literary advisor,

mentor, and advocate.He was a member of the American Philosophical Society,

the Western

Philosophical Society, the Society for Psychical Research,

the Zionist Organization of America,

the Palestine

Development Council, and the National Council of the League of Nations Association. He served

on congressional committees on international peace and was a part of many think tanks

and study groups on questions ranging from philosophy and law to labor

relations