Legacy
Louis D. Brandeis died on October 5, 1941. Sympathies poured in to Alice Brandeis from around the world. Government officials, judges, editors, academics, student zionists, rabbis, friends, and family all relayed their condolences and expressed their thoughts about Brandeis’s immense contribution to American life and his championship of Zionism.
The University of Louisville Law School was named in Brandeis’s honor. His ashes were buried under the porch of the Law School building.
The Harvard Law Review honored Brandeis by dedicating an edition to him after his death. 1 In 1968, Harvard Law School established the Louis D. Brandeis Professorship of Law.
Rabbi Israel Goldstein, heading a group of Jewish community leaders, gave life and substance to an idea for a secular Jewish university, first proposed to Brandeis in 1931 by a Zionist named Abraham Sakier. Less than a decade after Brandeis's death, this institution was opened and named in his honor. The University emphasized a non-discriminatory policy for admission and a student body small enough to encourage the development of community. 2
Legacy Items
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Tribute to Louis D. Brandeis
from Massachusetts -
Photograph of the Launching
of the SS Louis D. Brandeis -
Photographs of Louis D. Brandeis’s
Office Display in the
Brandeis University Library -
News About Brandeis University
printed in July, 1947 -
Photograph of Susan Brandeis receiving her Honorary Degree from Abram Sachar at Brandeis University -
Invitation to the Inauguration of Brandeis University -
Letters from Dean Acheson to Alice G. Brandeis in October, 1941 -
Telegram from The Orthodox Jewish Youth of America to Alice G. Brandeis on October 8, 1941 -
Letter from The American Civil Liberties Union to Alice G. Brandeis on October 7, 1941 -
Letter from Antioch College to Alice G. Brandeis on October 11, 1941 -
Letter from the Baltimore Young Men Relief Association and Ladies’ Auxiliary and Extract from the Baltimore Sun on October 10, 1941 -
Radiogram from the Brandeis School Herzlia to Alice G. Brandeis on October 15, 1941 -
Letter from the Brookline‑Brighton‑Newton Zionist District to Alice G. Brandeis on October 20, 1941 -
“Louis D. Brandeis” by Lewis H. Weinstein -
Letter from The U.S. Senate to Alice G. Brandeis on October 7, 1941 -
Telegram from The Czechoslovak National Council of America to Alice G. Brandeis on October 6, 1941 -
Radiogram from the London Executive Jewish Agency to Alice G. Brandeis on October 7, 1941 -
Letter from Agnes Fitzpatrick to Alice G. Brandeis on October 7, 1941 -
Telegram from The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union to Alice G. Brandeis on October 6, 1941 -
Letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Alice G. Brandeis on October 6, 1941 -
Letter from Edward Rothchild to Alice G. Brandeis on October 7, 1941 -
List of Books by Members of the Brandeis Family
back to 1Letter from Harvard Law Review to Alice G. Brandeis, Oct. 15, 1941. Box 50, I.II.d.2, Louis Dembitz Brandeis Collection, Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, ascdepartment@brandeis.edu, Brandeis University Library.
back to 2 Pasternack, Susan A. Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis: Guided by the Light of Reason: Commemorating the 150th Birthday of the Late Supreme Court Justice and University Namesake. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University, 2007.