From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-608

This collection contains a copy of the ethical will of William Abramowitz, first written in Jerusalem on August 3, 1963 and revised in Boston on October 15, 1970. The will highlights Abramowitz's faith and importance he places on Judaism and family. The three-page will ends with the names and dates of relatives that were added after the revision of the will in 1970.
Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-787

Contains newsletters and related documents composed by San Francisco area organizations pertaining to Soviet Jewry. The newsletters are composed by American Jewish activists on behalf of Soviet Jewish refuseniks and refugees. The documents provide insight into the daily lives of Soviet Jewry and the American Jewish fight for Soviet freedom during the 1970s and 1980s. The newsletters document different organizations and attempts to aid Soviet Jewry, their status and their plight. Organizational newsletters included are from such organizations as: The Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry and Northern California Lawyers' Committee for Soviet Jews. Highlights of the collection include UN Human Rights documents, the Pesach Project (1978-1979) and Twinning programs for Bar/Bat Mitzvah.

The collection is predominantly in English, with Russian.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-487

The collection contains the records of the ASJ, an organization active in the Boston area, which survives today as Action for Post-Soviet Jewry, as well as those of two other organizations closely related to ASJ: the New England Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and the Soviet Jewry Legal Advocacy Center. The bulk of the collection is from the decade starting in the late 1970s through the late 1980s. The collection includes large databases on Refuseniks, prisoners of conscience and Jewish émigrés. Along with the database spreadsheet forms there are a large number of individual files. Among these files are materials related to Soviet Jewish refugees in Italy from the time of the Ladispoli crisis of the late 1980s. The collection also includes a substantial number of reports from visits to the USSR by ASJ activists and other travelers cooperating with the Soviet Jewry Movement as well as a considerable number of photographs, posters and publications.

The collection is in English, Russian, Hebrew, German, and Armenian.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-176

Charles Follen Adams was born in 1842 and was known for his dialectic poems. This collection includes an excerpt from "Leedle Yawcob Strauss" (1876) dated 1882 and signed, as well as a reprint of a photogravure signed by Adams.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-890

This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Celia Adler and Lazar Freed, including theatrical materials such as scripts, programs and sheet music, correspondence, newspaper clippings, assorted publications, and photographs of many of the members of the Adler family and their friends from the Yiddish theater. These materials reflect the wide scope of the Adler acting family and their immense influence on Yiddish theater, Broadway and motion pictures.

Yiddish, English, Hebrew, German, Russian, Dutch

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-16

Born in Arkansas and raised in Pennsylvania, Cyrus Adler was a prominent Jewish scholar, educator, and leader. A nephew of the Philadelphian Sulzbergers (Mayer and David), Adler developed an interest in libraries, Semitics, and Assyriology, earning a Ph.D from Johns Hopkins. In 1888, Adler began work at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.circa, and eventually became the President of Dropsie College in Philadelphia. Adler was active in Jewish affairs and history, in the American Jewish Historical Society, the Jewish Theological Seminary, the United Synagogue, the American Jewish Committee, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, The Jewish Encyclopedia, the National Jewish Welfare Board, and he participated in the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. The collection represents a small portion of Adler's papers with materials concerning Jewish activism, Conservative Judaism, and Jewish scholarship and history in America. The collection contains correspondence, galleys and page proofs, manuscripts and published articles, clippings, notes, speeches, and ephemera.

The collection is in English, with some Hebrew and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-544

Born in Kovno, Lithuania, Abraham Alpert immigrated to the United States, and in 1886 settled in Boston, Massachusetts. He learned English while attending night school and would later become an internationally known writer. Outside of his writing, he also rose to become a prominent Jewish figure and leader, not just in Boston but nationally, as well. One newspaper wrote that there was not a synagogue on the Atlantic Coast that had not heard Alpert talk. He helped organize the Boston branch of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), and was active there for over 40 years, aiding over 2000 immigrants in receiving citizenship. This coll ection contains materials pertaining to Abraham Alpert’s role as a public figure in Boston’s Jewish community, including correspondence, news clippings, a scrapbook and programs. Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-82

Rabbi of Boston. Diaries containing notes and reflections on religious and personal matters, on a trip to Israel and Europe, and on current political events. Includes general observations of a hospital chaplain and background information on patients at Boston City Hospital where Alpert served as the Jewish chaplain; includes material from the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis and the Eastern New England Conference of Liberal Rabbis. Material also consists of a scrap book containing newspaper editorials by Alpert, 1945-1949, a booklet containing hand-written notes on the first meeting of Central Conference of American Rabbis in Israel, 1970, as well as newspaper clippings pertaining to the biography of the rabbi and a short, reflective essay, 1979.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-508

Consists of correspondence from the formative years of the American Academy for Jewish Research from 1930 to 1936, fellows files and correspondence, ledgers and notebooks of membership dues and fellowship grants, minutes of the various committee meetings, Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, and photographs. Correspondents include Salo Baron, Isaac E. Barzilay, Robert Chazan, Louis Finkelstein, Louis Ginsberg, David Weiss-Halivni, Arthur Hyman, Saul Lieberman, Alexander Marx, Harry Orlinsky, and Harry Austrin Wolfson.

The collection is in English, Dutch, French, German and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-503

Founded in 1969, the American Association for Ethiopian Jews (AAEJ) was instrumental in the international effort to promote recognition of the Beta Israel (known among non-Jewish Ethiopians as "Falashas") by Israeli authorities, and to assist Jewish emigration from Ethiopia to Israel. The extensive files of the AAEJ include case work files, research materials and Jewish artifacts collected in Ethiopia by AAEJ workers. In the wake of the successful evacuation of Ethiopian Jewry to Israel in 1993, the AAEJ decided to disband and voted to deposit its record s at the American Jewish Historical Society. Included are correspondence, office files, photographs, slides, videotapes, audiocassettes and other materials which pertain to AAEJ's efforts to raise the consciousness of the American Jewish community about this unique Jewish subculture. The organization's papers supplement those of its founder, Graenum Berger, which are also held at the American Jewish Historical Society.

The collection is in English, Amharic, Chinese, French, Hebrew, Polish, Spanish, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-344

This collection is comprised of correspondence, invitations, programs, fliers, pamphlets, reports, memorandum, membership applications and a directory of publications. The documents in this collection describe resolutions and reports concerning organizational issues, reports concerning reaction to ACJ from other organizations and general promotional materials. Of special interest to researchers will be the correspondence that addresses the 1963 60 Minutes television program "A Tyranny of Minorities." Another topic discussed in the correspondence is David Ben Gurion's visit to Boston in 1967 on behalf of the United Jewish Appeal. Included in the collection are the following publications: (1958), (1949-1957), (1967), (1943-1967), (1966-1991), (1947-1967), and (I & II).

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-11

This collection documents the administrative planning, research, publicity, and activities surrounding the American Jewish Tercentenary celebration from its inception in 1948 to its closing in 1955. The collection includes a representation of materials used in planning and presenting the event including correspondence, programs, minutes, proposals, reports, clippings, press releases, filmstrips, photo reproductions of illustrations and a photograph.

The collection is in English, with a small amount of materials in Yiddish and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-326

Consists of correspondence, articles, pamphlets, speeches, lectures, and reports issued by the organization lobbying its stance on Jewish anti-Zionism as a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-9

The records consist of documentation of the American Jewish Committee's project to describe Jewish participation in the United States Armed Forces during World War I. The bulk of the material consists of questionnaires that the AJC sent to servicemen to determine Jewish identity, which contain information on personal identification and details of military service. Responses to the questionnaire come from both Jews and non-Jews. In addition, the collection contains office papers concerning the project and a ledger of manuscripts. The manuscripts document the distribution of records the Office of Jewish War Records collected, as well as list Jews who died or were given military honors.

The collection is in English and Spanish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-67

The collection contains background materials pertaining to the formation of the Conference and the election of delegates, financial records, memoranda, reports, and incomplete minutes of the Conference and its committees. It also includes extensive correspondence of the Administrative Secretary Jesse B. Calmenson, for March-December, 1943. The major portion of the collection consists of transcripts of the 1st-4th sessions (1943-1947) of the Plenum and committees of the Conference. The published material in the collection includes the Bulletin of the activities and Digest of the press.

The collection is in English and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-77

The records of the American Jewish Congress, a national Jewish agency, concerned primarily with Jewish and other minority civil rights, include the constitution, by-laws, and minutes of the Administrative and Executive Committees and Governing Council of the Congress. The collection has materials generated by the National Biennial Conventions, Executive Directors, including Phil Baum and Henry Siegman, and the General Counsel files of Will Maslow, Commissions and the Jerusalem Conferences of Mayors, Regional Chapters, National Women's Division, Business and Professional Chapters, Public Relations, and miscellaneous activ ities conducted by American Jewish Congress.

The collection is in English, German, Hebrew, Russian and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-21

Contains the minutes, reports and financial records of the Executive Committee for the American Jewish Historical Exhibition pertaining to the planning and execution of the Exhibition as well as printed material and the correspondence of the members of the various committees established, arranged alphabetically; includes also a collection of printed material relating to the International Exposition at St. Louis, in 1904.

The collection is in English and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-345

This collection is comprised of annual reports, budget reports, cables, calendars of events, catalogs, correspondence, minutes, memorandum, lists of Board of Director members, photographs of speakers, and a chart of the organization?s Geneva Headquarters. The documents in this collection describe the many and varied activities of the committee such as fundraising, relief distribution, general information concerning Russian farm colonies and immigration. Also included are cables of congratulation on JDC?s 33rd anniversary. The collection also includes a bound volume of the financial, statistical and general data relating to the committee's activities since its inception which is located at the end of the Miscellaneous Collections.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-527

Contains records on the formation, purpose, and activities of the American Jewish League for Israel, as reflected in organizational documents (including minutes), event literature, publications (including the AJLI newsletter, AJLI Bulletin, later called the AJLI News Bulletin and other titles), scholarship material, financial information, membership appeals, correspondence, media coverage, and photographs.

The collection is in English and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-521

The AMIT records contain correspondence, periodicals, program, project, and subject files, films, reports, convention and chapter material and photographs that document the organizational activities, educational and humanitarian achievements in Israel, and fundraising efforts of this American Jewish Zionist volunteer organization from 1933-2005. The AMIT Records were donated to the American Jewish Historical Society in 2010. The donation, while incomplete, represents the most complete set of documents, to date, related to the projects and achievements of AMIT and its history as the American Mizrachi Women's Organization.

The collection is in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-219

The Anshey Dowig Association began in the last quarter of the 19th century, initially as informal meetings for Jews from the region of Dowig, Lithuania, living in the Boston area. The association functioned as a benefit society for its members and in 1898, with the acquisition of burial plots in a cemetery in West Roxbury, it also established itself as a chevra kadisha or burial society. By the 1980s, as membership dropped, it began working towards reviving the organization as a cemetery corporation, its main function being to maintain and provide perpetual care for the graves in the Anshe Dowig Cemetery. The collection includes the constitution and by-laws, minutes, financial reco rds, government documents & correspondence concerning the activities of the landsmanshaft, mostly relating to its cemetery in Dedham, as well as a fiftieth anniversary souvenir booklet with a membership list. Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-510

The records consist of documentation of the Anti-Defamation League efforts to track and counter activities of the John Birch Society from its founding in 1958 through the mid-1970s. The material was organized by the ADL New England regional office and consists of correspondence, including copies of internal JBS material, memoranda, a large volume of newspaper clippings, as well as pamphlets, publications and reports.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-701

The Anti-Semitic Literature Collection documents journalistic source materials (newspapers, newsletters, and illustrations) regarding views of anti-Semitism in the United States during the 20th-century. A few items from the 19th-century are included, particularly illustrations from Puck, Vanity Fair, and The Judge. Items are from various periodicals (i.e., The Dearborn Independent, Common Sense, The Crusader, The White American), organizations (i.e., American Nazi Party, the Christian Educational Association, and the White Party of America), and by many different authors (i.e., Father C.E. Coughlin, Benjamin Freedman, Otto H.F. Vollbehr). Additionally, this collection contains responses by American organizations to American and European anti-Semitism as well as documentation on the reaction of anti-Semitism in Canada.

This collection is in English, Yiddish, German, French, Spanish, and Italian.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-583

Consists almost entirely of magazine articles about American Jews who have attained prominence in various fields, including entertainment, sports, and business. Files arranged by name, except small number at end listed by particular topics.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-290

The records of the Association of Jewish Community Organization Personnel (AJCOP) cover the years 1969 to 1990 (although there is less material for the fiscal year 1989/1990). Though the collection does not preserve the total volume of papers produced by AJCOP, it is valuable to researchers studying the Jewish Community Center movement, especially in the area of the growing professionalization of Jewish community work.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-529

The collection reflects the role of B’nai B’rith and other organizations in the movement to liberate Soviet Jews. The materials in the B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum Soviet Jewry collection include articles, a flier and posters.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-427

Collection consists of first day of issue stamps issued by the U.S. Post office. Included with each stamp is a biographical or historical sketch of Jewish history as it relates to the stamp's theme. Sketches are organized alphabetically by subject.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-31

Contains the minute books, financial records, and membership declaration books (1918-1931) for the lodge established in 1918 by a merger of two lodges, and similar records for the individual lodges prior to the merger: Washington Lodge (1903-1917) including the list of officers (1903-1915), and Manhattan Lodge (1871-1918) including a book of sick benefits and declaration books listing names of beneficiaries of individual members of the lodge in case of death (1871-1905). Also contains the minutes of Mt. Sinai Lodge No. 270 for the years 1882-1896 and a book of applications for initiation into the lodge, 1878-1903, with personal information about the applicants (See Box 13). Also contains a declaration book of Washington Irving Lodge No. 312 listing the amount and names of beneficiaries of individual members of the lodge in case of death (See Box 13).

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-80

The Baron de Hirsch Fund Records document the organization's involvement in the planning of agricultural communities across the United States and to some extent in South America; the founding and administrative dealings of agricultural and trade schools; the establishment of the Jewish Agricultural Society; and the business records of the Fund itself. In addition, the collection documents the protection offered to immigrants through port work, relief, temporary aid, promotion of suburban industrial enterprises and removal from urban centers through the Industrial Removal Office, land settlement, agricultural training, and trade and general education. In this respect, the collection is of major interest for Jewish genealogists as it documents a number of individual immigrants. In addition, the collection contains documentation on the administration and organization of the fund, documentation on Jewish farming colonies such as the Jewish Agricultural Society, Woodbine Colony and Agricultural School, and documentation on the Baron de Hirsch Trade School. In addition, the collection contains blueprints and photographs of facilities.

The collection is in English, French, German, Yiddish, and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-547

Jennie Loitman Barron was a judge and suffragist. She earned her law degree and master of law at Boston University. As the first president of the Boston University Equal Suffrage League, JLB advocated for equal rights for women. In 1934 she was appointed by the Governor of Massachusetts as a special Justice of the Western Norfolk District. JLB was the first mother on the Boston School Committee, and the first female United States delegate to the United Nations Congress on Crime and Juvenile Delinquency. In 1957, JLB became the first woman who was an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court. This collection contains notes for her judicial ca ses, “Guest of Honor” award and photograph of the event, campaign flyer supporting JLB as the first mother of the Boston School Committee, and award letter for Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Andelman.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-505

The collection documents the activities of a human rights non-government organization on behalf of Soviet Jewry. Organized by Harold Light in San Francisco in 1967, the group worked to bring the Soviet Jewry issue to national and international attention. The collection contains correspondence, minutes, case files, publications, newspaper clippings, card files of Refuseniks, subject files, audio/visual materials, and information on other Soviet Jewry and interreligious organizations. Also included are materials relating to Soviet Jewish emigration, Cold War relations, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and human rights conditions in Russia and the former Soviet republics.

The collection is predominantly in English, with Russian and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-45

Judah P. Benjamin, called the "brains of the Confederacy", was a statesman and jurist in the United States, the Confederate States, and Great Britain who achieved high-ranking titles wherever he served, and especially left an indelible mark in the South where he held more official positions than any other man during the Civil War. After the fall of the Confederacy, Benjamin fled to England, where he was admitted to the English bar, and later assumed a judgeship In 1872, he was appointed the highest ranking of Queen's counselor. Containing correspondence, letters, newspaper clippings, Confederate bank notes and bonds, Civil War memorabilia, pamphlets, and a bound copy of Benjamin's diary from 1862-1864, the collection is valuable to researchers studying the activities and experiences of Jews in the antebellum South and under the brief reign of the Confederate States of America. Additionally, through the material relating to memorials and preservation endeavors for Benjamin, the collection also provides a look at the continued glorification of Confederate heroes in the South long into the twentieth century.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-924

This collection contains photocopies of documentation regarding professional baseball player and Office of Strategic Services (OSS) secret agent Moe Berg's nomination for a Congressional Medal of Freedom and correspondence from Berg declining the honor.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-717

The Papers of Graenum Berger (1908-1999) document Berger's involvement with Ethiopian Jewry and his efforts to bring about their rescue from Ethiopia through the organization he formed, the American Association for Ethiopian Jews (AAEJ). The Papers also contain materials from Berger's other interests - his writings, his travels throughout the world, his community affiliations, his research into Ethiopian Jewry and Black American Jews, his career as a Jewish social work executive, and his commitment to Jewish causes and to Israel. There are also many personal and biographical materials from the numerous long-term friendships and associations Berger established. The Papers contain correspondence, minutes, reports, clippings, manuscripts, research materials, journal articles, photographs, and publications.

The collection is in English with some materials in Hebrew, Amharic, French, and German.

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Identification number: P-900

This collection documents the work of Ira Berkow, American sportswriter, was born in Chicago, Illinois on January 7, 1940. He attended Roger C. Sullivan High School in the Rogers Park section of Chicago and graduated there in 1957. His college career began at Miami University (BA, 1963) and ended at Northwestern University (MSJ, 1965). His first post as a sportswriter was with the Minneapolis Tribune (1965-1967). He then moved on to the syndicated news service Newspaper Enterprise Association where he worked as a columnist and writer from 1967-1976. In 1981 he started as a sports feature writer and columnist for the New York Times. He remained at the NY Times until his retirement in 2007. This collection contains correspondence and photographs of Ira Berkow documenting his relationship with leaders in sports, politics, religion, and the arts. The collection also contains selected articles and appearances on television and radio made during his career.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-842

Scrapbook contains concert programs, news clippings, and photographs tracing Berlin's career as a violinist.

The collection is in English and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-102

Edward Bernard was a composer in the Boston area. He also wrote several pamphlets on sociology, religion, politics and music, as well as an unpublished manuscript of a sociological novel entitled, "Maxie the Genius." This collection contains Edward Bernard's musical compositions and writings, including an unpublished manuscript, "Maxie the Genius," and letters to editors of local newspapers and Nathan Kaganoff, former library director of the American Jewish Historical Society. In addition, there are several self-published pamphlets on topics ranging from sociology to music included in this collection.
Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-877

Contains addresses, agendas, articles, budgets, by-laws, correspondence, eulogies, interviews, minutes, newspaper clippings, obituaries, papers, photographs, reports, resolutions, speeches, telegrams, and tributes. Included are his writings, his role in the establishment of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture and the National Jewish Community Relations Council, and his years with the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. The articles and speeches were written and delivered over a 50 year span from the 1940s to the 1990s. The collection contains valuable information about many Jewish communal organizations, including unpublished documents concerning the merger of the United Jewish Appeal and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York. The collection also contains Bernstein's correspondence with Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Rabbi Milton Steinberg. The papers are valuable to researchers studying the following aspects of Jewish history: anti-poverty programs, Jewish communal service, interfaith activities, Israel and Zionism, public welfare, and social policy.

The collection is in English and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-925

The papers of the Soviet Jewry movement activist Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook Dr. Arthur Bernstein contain a copy of his petition on behalf of fellow computer scientist and Soviet Jewish Prisoner of Conscience Anatoly Sharansky signed by over 230 prominent American computer scientists and mailed to the Soviet and American officials and to the United Nations in 1977. The collection also contains an autobiographical note with a brief history of the Sharansky petition.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-51

Israel Bernstein was born in Portland, Maine. He graduated from Harvard College in 1912 and Harvard Law School in 1915. After graduating, he served as a Regimental-Sergeant-Major in the 12th division U.S. Army during World War I. Bernstein co-established the Casco Bank and Trust Co. He played a prominent role in the Jewish Federation of Portland, Maine. In 1948, he was elected President of the Jewish Federation of Portland, Maine and was President and founder of the Jewish Historical Society of Portland, Maine in 1953.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-239

Beth Hamidrash Hagodol (known colloquially as the Crawford Street Shul), was founded in 1913 in a small house on Harold Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. In 1915, the cornerstone of the synagogue was placed at 105 Crawford Street in the Elm Hill District of Roxbury. The congregation elected Louis M. Epstein as their first Rabbi in 1918. This collection contains the business, activity and social records of Beth Hamidrash Hagodol, including correspondence, financial records, ledgers, yearbooks, souvenir books, and meeting minutes.

The collection is in English, and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-455

In 1916, the Jewish community of Boston established Beth Israel Hospital on Townsend Street in Roxbury to provide health care to immigrants in the area. Although accessible to everyone, the hospital provided Yiddish-speaking services for Eastern European Jewish immigrants and served kosher food, as well as conducted Jewish religious services. In 1928 the hospital entered into a teaching agreement with Harvard Medical School, Tufts University, and Simmons College. Shortly thereafter, the hospital moved to its current location in the Longwood area of Boston and expanded to a 220-bed operation. During 1935-1936, at the height of the Depression, Beth Israel spent 1.5 million dollars in free patient care and was only one of two local hospitals to offer health care to people on welfare. In 1996, Beth Israel Hospital merged with Deaconess Medical Center and became Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. This collection contains reports, pamphlets and hospital publications.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-85

The collection contains items collected by Julius Bisno from various Jewish leaders from the early 1800's to the 1980's. These materials mainly include correspondence and autographed photographs from Jewish members of the United Nations, U.S. President's Cabinet, U.S. Governors, U.S. Senators, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Supreme Court, diplomats, philanthropists, and miscellaneous Jewish leaders and organizations.

The collection is in predominantly in English, with some French and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-867

The Irving J. Block Papers are a blend of personal papers and organizational records, documenting the evolution of the Brotherhood Synagogue (Congregation Beth Achim) in Manhattan and Block's role as rabbi and his involvement in efforts outside of the congregation. The collection is primarily comprised of correspondence, sermons, minutes, notes, clippings, photographs, audiocassettes, and drafts of Rabbi Block's memoir.

The collection is in English, with a few items in Hebrew, German, Polish, Russian and Yiddish.

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Identification number: P-362

Collection contains primarily the professional writings and correspondence of Bluestone and his associates. Three scrapbooks contain articles by or about Bluestone, each with a table of contents. Of special importance in his collected writings are a large number of studies pertaining to specific hospitals and hospital needs in various communities and material relating to the Hadassah Medical Organization (1926-1928). Among the correspondents, who are mainly colleagues and people prominent in the Jewish communal world, are _ayyim Na_man Bialik, Albert Einstein, Abraham Flexner, Fiorello La Guardia, Fannie Hurst, David de Sola Pool, and Nathan Straus.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-323

Contains the "memoirs and scrapbooks" of Bluestone concerning his numerous communal activities, especially those in the Zionist movement. A description of the collection was published by Hyman B. Grinstein in Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, no. 35 (1939), and a detailed inventory was prepared by Harry Bluestone.

This collection is in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-83

Consists primarily of manuscripts, detached texts, notes, news clippings and other source material of the author's published books and articles. Includes also music, photographs, misc. correspondence and personal documents, and copies of published works.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-2

The Board of Delegates records document the earliest of the Jewish civil rights organizations in the United States. The Delegates, based in New York City, acted as a central organization working to obtain civil rights not only for American Jews, but also collaborated and coordinated internationally with the Committee of Deputies of British Jews and the French Alliance Israélite Universelle, to provide for the relief and aid, civil, and religious rights of Jews throughout the Americas, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, particularly Romania, Ottoman Palestine (including Jerusalem), and Morocco. In the United States, the Delegates were partially responsible for the appointment of the first Jewish Military Chaplain and surveyed member synagogues concerning the history and size of their congregation, being the first organization to systematically record this data in the United States. The Delegates merged with the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC) in 1878 and dissolved in 1925.

Among the correspondents included in this excellent collection and available on the Internet for the first time are legendary Jewish and non-Jewish American leaders of the 19th century including: Adolph Crémieux, Sir Moses Montefiore, Benjamin Franklin Peixotto, Myer S. Isaacs, the Rev. Dr. Arnold Fischel, and Civil War Maj. General Benjamin Butler and American President Taft. Documents include correspondence, minutes, committee reports, memorials, surveys, some printed material including clippings, and a 1932 Rabbinical thesis on the Delegates by Allan Tarshish, all now available for the first time for review.

The collection is in English, Yiddish, French, German, Hebrew, Romanian, and Spanish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-307

Beginning as the Bureau of Education in 1910, the Board of Jewish Education is an agency of the UJA Federation of New York. Under the motto of "Preparing the Jewish Future," the Board of Jewish Education strives to "motivate, strengthen and increase Jewish identity and commitment to the Jewish people through educational services and acculturation programs in New York." The collection includes surveys, promotional documents, and publications documenting the activities of the Board of Jewish Education.

The collection is in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-767

The collection consists of memorabilia and research materials Hyman Bogen collected regarding the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York and its alumni association, the Seligman Solomon Society. A wide range of documents exist, such as orphanage and alumni publications, personal and academic histories, souvenir programs, articles and newslcippings, reports, files on certain individual alumni, correspondence, completed alumni questionnaires, photographs, veteran and census documents, a scrapbook, and banners and towels. Of unusual interest are research files Hyman Bogen gathered for his book "Luckiest Orphans" and a possible book on the Franco and Goldman families.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-937

Abraham Bornstein was a well known publisher and collector of art and art books. In 1923, Bornstein founded the Boston Book and Art Shop, which distributed art books from leading publishers of Europe, as well as published books, portfolios and monographs. Abraham and his wife, Rachel, used their publishing house to help encourage and promote many Jewish artists and writers in the United States, among them, Chaim Grade, a Yiddish poet. This collection contains materials from the Boston Book and Art Shop, including financial records and inventory, inventory and sample of collection donated to YIVO, inventory and sample of collection donated to the Jewish National and He brew University, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and work of Chaim Grade, ????? ????. Also included in this collection are original photographs and certificates.

The collection is in English and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-856

This collection primarily consists of MB’s correspondence and memorabilia pertaining to his Americana collections and involvement in the People-to-People Program. The bulk of the correspondence consists of condolence letters sent to MB’s wife, Llora, and include letters from former Presidents Eisenhower and Truman, and former First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson. Bortman’s own correspondence includes letters from these luminaries as well as Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister. Several photographs, some signed, of Bortman with Vice President and Lady Bird Johnson, Churchill, and Eisenhower are included, as well as scrapbooks with news clippings and programs regarding the People-to-People program and the Paul Revere Liberty Bowl.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: I-123

Includes material preceding and relating to the founding of the Council, including early papers of the local American Jewish Committee and the Central Advisory Committee (a predecessor agency); the Constitution & by-laws of the Council; material relating to organizational membership in and representation on the Council; correspondence of the officers & staff; minutes of Council meetings and proceedings of its Administrative Committee and other committees; and finances of the Council. Includes also material on the relation of the Council to other Jewish agencies including the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, National Community Relations Advisory Council, and community councils and local agencies in other communities. Contains also extensive material on the activities of the Council, including anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic organizations, individuals, writings, and incidents; civil liberties and political extremists; civil rights, Negro-Jewish relations, and changing neighborhoods; Christian-Jewish relations, especially with the local Catholic community and Church hierarchy; church-state problems relating to education, Sunday blue laws, dietary laws, and adoption; crime and law enforcement; discrimination in housing, employment, and university admissions; immigration; intergroup relations; Israel and the Middle East, including material on Arab propaganda, boycotts, terrorism, the Palestinian problem, Christian attitudes toward Israel, United States policy, Jews in Arab countries, and pro-Israel organizations and activities; Israel anniversary celebrations; Nazism, the Holocaust, and World War II; political campaigns and organizations, and extensive correspondence with local and national government officials; rabbis and synagogues; and Soviet Jewry. Includes also material on the public conferences of the Council; Council publications and releases; and photographs of Council activities and individuals connected with the Council.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is predominantly in English, with Hebrew and Russian.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-494

Created to provide mutual aid and education, The Workmen's Circle was established in New York in 1900 and officially chartered in 1905. Massachusetts established an Independent Workmen's Circle in 1903 to maneuver around prohibitive insurance laws, but was able to unify with the national organization in 1921. Several chapters were operational in Massachusetts by 1911. The Boston District often mirrored National's development, including the establishment of cemeteries, a chorus, a camp, and I.L. Peretz Schools. The Workmen's Circle focused on Jewish life and culture, promoted the use of Yiddish, and provided a place of learning for members. The Workmen's Circle was also instrumental in the creation of the Jewish Labor Committee in 1934. This collection contains correspondence, meeting notices and minutes, mortgages, curriculum, event flyers and programs, and news clippings from the Boston District, local branches, New England Region and National offices.
Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English, Yiddish, Hebrew, and Russian.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-74

Includes constitution, minutes of the Board of Trustees (1934-1948, 1953-1958), budgets (1942-1948, 1951-1953, 1955-1958), financial reports, material on membership, and numerous activities. Among the latter is extensive material on camping, clubs, and the nursery school. Contains material on the history of Hecht House, surveys, publications, and other material issued, photographs, and memorabilia. Includes similar material of the YMHA for the years 1933-1958, and for the merged organization for the years 1959-1970. Among the latter are the minutes of the Board of Directors (1959-1970) and budget reports (1959-1963). Contains some material of the Hebrew Industrial School as well as papers on the following institutions relating to the work of the Hecht House: Associated Jewish Philanthropies, Central Service Agency for Groupwork, Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Greater Boston Council of Jewish Centers, Jewish Centers Association, Jewish Community Centers Camps, Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Boston, National Jewish Welfare Board, National Association of Jewish Center Workers, New England Association of Jewish Center Workers, New England Association of Jewish Center Youth Councils, New England Association of Young Adult Councils, United Jewish Youth Council, and United Synagogue of America.
Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-865

Percy Brand (1908-1985) was a violinist by profession and Holocaust survivor. Born in Liepaja, Latvia on April 2, 1908, he began playing violin at the age of ten. In 1941, when the Germans took control of Latvia and other Baltic countries, Brand was concertmaster of the Riga Latvian Symphony Orchestra. After the SS Einsatzgruppen units occupying Latvia killed his first wife and two children, Brand was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Playing the violin saved his life during the Holocaust. Brand and his second wife, Gertrude, immigrated to the United States and moved to Boston in 1949, where Brand became a well-known radio and television performer. He died on August 8, 1985, at the age of 77. This collection contains papers and photographs of Percy Brand, chronicling his professional life as a violinist in Boston. Mainly composed of programs and newspaper articles of his performances, the collection has miscellaneous files with name cards, memos, correspondence, and Brand's artwork in pencil, crayon, and watercolor. Also included is the oversized music stand he used when he performed.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-833

Ms. Brandmark conducted research on early Jewish wills in New York City in order to complete the requirements of an undergraduate course conducted by Leo Hershkowitz at Queens College. Her research includes typed worksheets for each will, statistical charts compiling information in various categories, and lists of death records by synagogue name.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-896

Eric Breindel, political commentator and columnist, was born in 1955 and passed away at the age of 42 on March 12, 1998. He worked as the Editorial Page Editor of the New York Post and worked to improve that paper. He wrote on a variety of topics and was noted for his conservative perspective. During his time at the helm of the New York Post's editorial page his convivial personality allowed him to befriend many of the city’s leaders, not only in politics but in other areas regardless of political persuasion or affiliation. In 1997, he was appointed to the position of Senior Vice President of News Corporation and became the host of Fox News Channels' Fox News Watch. This collection documents his life, work, and passing.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-250

The collection consists of material relating to the organization, positions, activities and contracts of Breira. Includes Certificate of Incorporation; by-laws; Board and committee minutes and mailings; position statements; publications; membership lists; material relating to the organization's funding; information on regional chapters; correspondence with membership and Jewish and non-Jewish leaders and organizations in the U.S. and abroad; program material including material relating to the planning, proceedings, resolutions and evaluation of Breira's first national membership conference in 1977. Also included is material on Breira sponsored tours of Israeli leaders in the U.S.; articles and newspaper clippings from other sources related to Breira's activities and areas of interest; as well as material critical of the organization.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-507

Personal papers of Rabbi Isadore Breslau, including World War II military chaplaincy documents and correspondence with figures in the American Zionist Movement. Materials include: confidential memoranda, reports, minutes, financial and legal documents, newspaper clippings, conference agendas, handwritten notes, prayer books and chaplaincy photographs.

The collection is in English with one document in Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: AR 25018

This collection contains photographs, correspondence and personal papers of members of the Broh Family.

The collection is in English, German, French, Hebrew and Icelandic.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-161

The collection contains writings, minutes, financial records, correspondence, printed materials, newspaper clippings and photographs relating to Broido's employment, investments, and Jewish and non-Jewish communal activities. Includes material on the department store, Gimbel Bros. (1934-1966), where he was associated with Bernard Gimbel and where he served as Executive Vice President (1936-1953), and as Chairman of the Advisory Committee (1953-1961); Temple Emanu-El (1957-1970), where he served as trustee and opposed secession from the Union of American Hebrew Congregations; the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (1944-1976) serving as President from 1965-1975 and where he was involved in the investigation of the Charles Jordan murder in Prague (1967); the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (1953-1972) where he served as trustee and played an active role in financial matters and relations with the Hebrew Union College; the United Jewish Appeal (1941-1972) where he served as President (1951-1952), trustee and member of the Board of Directors; the New York City Community College (1956-1972) where he served as trustee; and the Department of Commerce and Industrial Development of the City of New York (1961-1971) where he served as Commissioner (1961-1966).

The collection is in English, French, German, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-230

Established in 1878, the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum changed its name to the Jewish Youth Services of Brooklyn in 1954. The agency merged with the Jewish Child Care Association in 1960. Records encompass histories of the asylum, constitution and by-laws, certificates of incorporation, Board of Trustee meeting minutes, information on the cornerstone laying, correspondence, annual reports, plaques and awards, publications, scrapbooks, and admission and discharge ledgers (1879-1953). Information concerning the Women's Auxiliary and Alumni Society also forms part of the collection.

Contains histories of the Asylum (1878-1939), Certificate of Incorporation (1878, 1900, 1926), Constitution and By-Laws (1894), Board of Directors Minutes (1921-1953), Annual Reports (1878-1958), Admission and Discharge Records (1899-1960), Women's Auxiliary Minutes (1922-1955), a statistical report (1957), papers re the Asylum's merger with the Jewish Child Care Association (1960), and various Alumni Society Publications and Scrapbooks (1912-1940).

The collection is in English, with German.

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Identification number: I-120

The Bureau of Jewish Education (BJE) in Boston, Massachusetts, was founded in 1920 when the Associated Boston Hebrew Schools and Bureau of Jewish Religious Schools merged under the leadership of Louis Hurwich. While not the first centralized Jewish education organization in the country, the BJE was the first to receive support from its local Federation. From 1920 to 2009, the BJE provided consultation, evaluation and teacher training services using a variety of methods and tools. It worked closely with Jewish day schools, synagogue schools and non-traditional Jewish community programs to ensure professional standards and guideline s were implemented. This collection contains meeting minutes, Jewish school directories, publications, reports, glass plate negatives and financial ledgers. For more detailed records, please also see the Bureau of Jewish Education- Boston, Massachusetts, #I-497.
Please note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-497

The Bureau of Jewish Education (BJE) in Boston, Massachusetts, was founded in 1920 when the Associated Boston Hebrew Schools and Bureau of Jewish Religious Schools merged under the leadership of Louis Hurwich. While not the first centralized Jewish education organization in the country, the BJE was the first to receive support from its local Federation. From 1920 to 2009, the BJE provided consultation, evaluation and teacher training services using a variety of methods and tools. It worked closely with Jewish day schools, synagogue schools and non-traditional Jewish community programs to ensure professional standards an d guidelines were implemented. This collection contains pamphlets, reports, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, curriculum, programmatic information, grants, meeting minutes, agendas, audio-visual materials, media and publicity. For additional information, please see the Bureau of Jewish Education-Boston, Massachusetts, I-120.
Please note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-303

Collection contains annual reports, board minutes, case studies, correspondence, newsletters, survey reports, and other items.

This collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-883

The papers of Rabbi Leonard S. Cahan focus on the imprisonment of the American Soviet Jewry Movement activist for demonstrating on behalf of Soviet Jews in front of the Soviet embassy in Washington D.C. on May 1st, 1985. Materials include memorandums, correspondence, clippings and brochures.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-359

The collection consists primarily of correspondence reflecting Calmenson?s involvement in numerous national and local Jewish organizations. The largest quantity of material pertaining to national Jewish organizations relate to the United Palestine Appeal (1926-1945, primarily 1926-1929) and the Zionist Organization of America (1919-1952). Among the local St. Paul Jewish organizations, the largest quantity of materials relate to the Emergency Committee for Palestine (1942-1951) and the Zionist Organization of America, St. Paul Chapter (1918-1950). Among the correspondents are Harry S. Truman, H.V. Kaltenborn and Emanuel Neumann. Among the topics dealt with are the 1929 riots in Palestine, the protest against the Passfield paper, and the establishment of a Jewish army after World War I. The collection also contains materials relating to Calmenson?s private activities, e.g., the Cosmopolitan Bank in St. Paul, the Stameshkin family, the George Alexander Wilson Estate, as well as miscellaneous writings and papers belonging to the Calmenson family.

The collection is in English and German.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-113

The Cambridge Hebrew Ladies Educational Society was first formed in 1898 for the purpose of teaching the Hebrew language to Jewish children. The society was renamed the Cambridge Hebrew Women's Aid Society in 1914, and reorganized to include a broad range of philanthropic causes, including the care of tubercular patients and provision of Passover food to the needy. The collection contains bound ledgers of meeting minutes from 1914-1969.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-731

Stanley Canner was a 24 year old pilot in World War II, when his plane was shot down over Normandy on July 14, 1944. Canner, along with Alfred Sutkowski from Portland, Connecticut and Russell Leith of Australia were rescued by members of the French underground, and were hidden in a farmhouse owned by Jean and Renee Renault. The couple hid the three soldiers for six weeks, until they were liberated by the Canadian Allied Forces. This collection includes his book, , and photocopies of articles, photographs and correspondence.
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The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-914

The collection documents the time David Cedarbaum spent serving as a Jewish military chaplain in the Marianas during World War II.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-491

Century Productions produced the one-woman show, "Hannah Senesh: Portrait of a Woman Warrior," written and directed by David Schechter and starring Lori Wilner as Senesh. The script was based on the diaries and poems of the WWII Hungarian-Jewish paratrooper Hannah Senesh, with songs and music composed and arranged by Steven Lutvak with additional music by Schecter and Elizabeth Swados. “Hannah Senesh” ran at the Cherry Hill Theater in New York City from 1984-1985 and traveled throughout the U.S. and Israel until 1987.

The collection is in English, with some Hungarian.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-806

This collection consists of a published copy of Cheney's Master's thesis, Narratives of Courage: Oral Histories of Jewish Émigrés from the Former Soviet Union, that she submitted to the Public History program of California State University, Sacramento in 2002. As part of her research, Cheney conducted oral history interviews with five Russian Jewish immigrants and one non-Jewish spouse of a Jewish immigrant. The collection includes audiotapes of these interviews, biographical worksheets, release forms, and transcripts. These materials offer a kind of coda to the long epic of the Soviet Jewish struggle to emigrate, as the speakers look back and relate, in English, their struggles in the USSR and subsequent life in the U.S.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-530

The records of Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry (CASJ, after 1991 known as Chicago Action for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, CAJFSU), a grassroots volunteer organization dedicated to helping Soviet Jews emigrate from the Soviet Union and protecting the Refuseniks. CASJ was founded in the early 1970s as a result of the formation of the national organization, the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, which included approximately 50 other local councils. The collection documents the CASJs activities from its inception until it closed in 2010. The collection also features materials related to the activities of CASJ’s umbrella organization, Union of Councils for Soviet Jews and its legal arm Soviet Jewry Legal Advocacy Center. The materials include correspondence, memoranda, case files, trip reports, publications, photographs, posters, audio, video, and three-dimensional artifacts.

The collection is predominantly in English, with Russian.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-930

This collection contains the papers of Samuel J. Citron, dramatist and educator.

This collection is in English with some material in Hebrew, Spanish and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-3

Contains primarily correspondence and some business and official papers of the Cohen Family of Baltimore and Richmond. Papers center about the following members of the family: Jacob I. Cohen (1784-1822), including two receipts of the same date to the firm of Cohen & Isaacs to Mrs. Edmund Randolph, on the reverse of which is a notation in Yiddish (1787), a prmissory note of the firm of Cohen & Isaacs of Richmond (1792), orders for merchandise signed by Carter Braxton (1794) and (Edmund?) Randolph (1801) and a letter of appointment for the office of Inspector of the Penitentiary signed by Jame s Monroe, Governor of Virginia; Jacob I. Cohen, Jr. (1825-1850), including a patent signed by John Quincy Adams and James Monroe (1825), an acknowledgement of a lottery ticket purchase containing a printed description of the various lotteries for which Jacob I. Cohen, Jr. and Brothers sold tickets (1826), the reputedly last extant letter of Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1832) and several letters relating to his position as Commissioner of Public Schools for the City of Baltimore (1834, 1837); Mendes I. Cohen (1829-1874), including letters from Mordecai Manuel Noah (1837, 1845), David Salomons of London, John Wesley Davis (1845), and Benjamin F. Hallett (1848); Benjamin I. Cohen (1831-1842), including 2 letters appointing him Judge of Elections in Baltimore (1840, 1842); and Joshua I. Cohen (1823-1870), including letters from David Hoffman, John Pandleton Kennedy (1847 and n.d.), Isaac Leeserm Gustavus A. Myers of Richmond, Va. describing a visit to the home of Chief Justice Marshall (1836), William Ogden Niles, enclosing notes of his father Hezekiah Niles, Mordecai Manuel Noah and Rabbi Abraham Rice and correspondence relating to his scientific and historical interests.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-101

Contains material relating to Solomon A. Cohen in particular and the Cohen family in general. The former consists of the Confederate passport of Solomon A. Cohen (1863); a letter from James Sloan to Gov. Zebulon B. Vance (1863); a letter of introduction of S.A. Cohen to George Eustis, Secretary of Legation of the Confederate Embassy in Paris (1864); three documents signed by William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and President Andrew Johnson granting Cohen an official pardon. The latter consists of the citizenship papers of Aaron N. Cohen (1841) and David Elias (1848); a letter from S. Elias Price (1913) containing a genealogy of the Cohen family. In addition, the collection contains Confederat e Bonds and other personal items.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-661

Consists of correspondence, articles, speeches, travel notes, ephemera and other documents pertaining to the careers of a civil-engineer who retired from that profession in 1924 to become a practicing rabbi. Includes materials from Cohen's campaigns against employment discrimination and Nazi persecution of Jews in Europe from 1932 to 1945.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-897

Pamela B. Cohen Papers document activities of the prominent activist of the American Soviet Jewry Movement. Pamela B. Cohen began her activity through the independent grass roots council, Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry (CASJ) and in 1978, served with Marillyn Tallman as co-chair until 1986, when she became the national president of the Washington-based Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (UCSJ). She served in that capacity for 10 years. The Pamela B. Cohen papers include materials from the late 1960s through 2009, and the bulk of the collection is dated 1970s-1980s. The documents include correspondence, notes, memoranda, publications, news clippings, photographs, ephemera, audio and video recordings and 3-D objects.

The collection is in English, Russian, Hebrew, and Icelandic.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-24

Contains correspondence, financial data, and reports (some published) on the work and activities of the School. Among the officers were N. Taylor Phillips, treasurer, and his wife, Rosalie Solomons Phillips, president and first vice president.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-220

The Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP) of Boston, Massachusetts is the oldest federated Jewish philanthropy in the United States. The current incarnation of CJP was formed in 1960, when two separate federated philanthropies – the Combined Jewish Appeal and Associated Jewish Philanthropies – merged to create a single organization dedicated to serving the needs of Boston’s Jewish community. CJP’s records contain the history of several other organizations, from the forerunners of the current Federation to the Jewish institutions supported by CJP. Their beginnings can be traced to the founding of the United Hebrew Benevolent Association (UHBA) in 1864 at the Pleasant Street Synagogue (now Temple Israel.) This collection contains meeting minutes, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, financial documents and ledgers, appeal information, publicity, programs, brochures and other written documents relating CJP’s history.

Please note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: I-157

Contains material pertaining to the establishment of the organization, including a list of incorporators, and lists of constituent members, minutes of meetings (November 1970-February 1972), a speech giving a review of the group's activities (1972), and financial records (July 1970-March 1972). Also contains general correspondence (March 1970-March 1972), correspondence with Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston (1970-1971), and information on the group's Chavurat Shabbat project (1972), and Jewish Students Projects.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is predominantly in English, with Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-319

The work of the New York office of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany is documented in this collection via reports, financial statements and memorandum dating from 1955 to 1972.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-131

Congregation Beth Israel began in 1888 when a group of young men spilt from Shomre Beth Abraham to form their own congregation. A year later they relocated to an old Baptist Church located on Baldwin Place in Boston's North End. The Baldwin Place synagogue housed a sanctuary on the ground floor as well as schools and meeting rooms in the space above. It was the largest shul in the North End and was considered the center of Boston Orthodoxy. Rabbi Moshe Zevulun Margolies presided over it and was considered to be the chief rabbi of Boston's Orthodox community. In 1920 it was disbanded. This collection contains records of the Congregatio n Beth Israel, 1887 and 1890. It includes a constitution booklet from 1887. Also in the collection is a deed of sale from 1890 and an indenture that pertains to the deed. Please note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English and Hebrew.

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Identification number: I-51

Includes a copy of the constitution and a short history of the congregation; the minute books (1911-1923; 1939-1945) and financial records (1925-1937) of various activities of the synagogue and its relation with local, national and international Jewish events. Of special interest are the synagogue?s involvement in the providing of kosher meat in the Cambridge area, and its relation with the Cambridge and Somerville Hebrew Literary Association which maintained a Hebrew Free School. Minute book from the WWII period contains material on the congregation?s war effort and anti-Nazi and Zionist activities.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: I-464

Congregation Beth Israel was founded in 1843 and is Connecticut's oldest synagogue. Originally established as an Orthodox congregation, the synagogue eventually converted to Reform and was one of the founding members of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (Union for Reform Judaism) in 1877. This collection includes event flyers, programs for services, sermons, anniversary books with historical information, and bulletins.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-10

Minute-books, records, ledgers, and miscellaneous material relating to activities of the Congregation, 1873(?)-1933.

The collection is in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-101

Congregation Linas Zedek was located on Chestnut Street in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Founded by Ukrainian immigrants from the Kamen Kashirsky region and the local carpenter's union, it was defunct by the 1980s. The synagogue's cemetery is located in Everett, Massachusetts. This collection contains a ledger with minutes of the Ladies' Auxiliary of Congregation Linas Zedek, a membership ledger, and miscellaneous event flyers and invitations in Yiddish. The minutes ledger is in English (from 1929-1931) and Yiddish (1931-1944), and also contains a news clipping about the founding of the Ladies Auxiliary with names of officers.
Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-465

Congregation Mishkan Israel in Hamden, Connecticut, was founded in 1840. Their cemetery was established in 1843 in the Westville section of New Haven, Connecticut. This collection consists primarily of newsletters and other synagogue publications, as well as invitations to the 100th anniversary of the synagogue and other events.
Please note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: I-462

Congregation Mishkan Tefila was founded in 1858 as Mishkan Israel, and is considered to be the oldest conservative synagogue in New England. Its founding members were East Prussian Jews who separated from Ohabei Shalom, which was predominately Polish at the time. In 1894, Mishkan Israel and another conservative synagogue, Shaarei Tefila, merged to form Congregation Mishkan Tefila. The synagogue moved its religious school to Walnut Street in Newton in 1955, and began planning for a new building in Chestnut Hill on Hammond Pond Parkway. The groundbreaking ceremony was on November 13, 1955. In 1958, services were held for the first time in the new synagogue building. This collection contains plays, annual reports, programs for events and dinners, and newsletters.

The collection is in English and Hebrew.

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Identification number: I-492

Congregation Ohave Sholom was formed on January 20, 1910 in Gardner, Massachuesetts. At the time the synagogue was built, Ohave Sholom had 20 families as members, but during World War I the population peaked, and 60 families held membership. However, by the 1970s membership began to decline and in 1998, with only 12 members remaining, the congregation dissolved.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: I-4

Contains published and manuscript material relating to the activities and administration of the congregation and its subsidiary organizations including reports and weekly bulletins, early financial records and lists of those honored at religious services, copies of resolutions and forms of service and prayers for various occasions in manuscript form. Contains also material relating to the cemetery photographs, the Hebra Hased Va-Amet (the congregational burial society) and to later clergy in the congregation, Henry Pereira Mendes, David de Sola Pool and Louis Coleman Gerstein including published copies of their sermons.

The collection is predominantly in English, with some Hebrew, Portuguese, and Dutch.

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Identification number: I-516

This collection contains records of the Consultative Conference on Desegregation from 1956 to 1960; the materials are divided into folders according to the conference’s committees to which they pertain. The represented committees are: Committee on Local Community Organizations, Committee on Social Agencies, Executive Committee, Fact-Finding Committee, Liaison Committee, Mass Media Committee, and the Treasurer.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: I-169

Contains the minutes of meetings of various committees, position papers, and correspondence with agencies and individuals.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-59

Includes interviews with 26 individuals actively involved in the development of the Jewish Federation movement. They are William Avrunin, Lavy Becker, Phillip Bernstein, Toby E. Citrin, Rosalie Cohen, Arnald & Madelein Epstein, Jacob (Jack) Fisher, Max Martin Fisher, Louis J. Fox, Sam Goldsmith, Maurice Hexter, Robert Hiller, Jack Kravitz, Robert Morris, Stanley Myers, James P. Rice, Esther Leah Ritz, Dan Rosenberg, William Rosenwald, Florence Hutner Rosichan, Fannie Schaenen, Samuel J. Silberman, Sanford Solender, Lewis H. Weinstein, George Wolfe, and Henry L. Zucker.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: P-19

Philip Cowen (1853-1943), was a Conservative Jew who grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Though he only studied for one year at the City College of New York, the literary-minded Cowen became the founder (with Rev. Dr. Frederic de Sola Mendes) and editor of the Conservative Jewish publication, the American Hebrew from its inception in 1879 until his resignation in 1906. In 1905, Cowen was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to the Ellis Island positions of Immigration Inspector on the Board of Special Inquiry, determining the fitness of émigrés to the United States, and later advanced to Inspector-In-Charge of the Division of Information for Employment and the Discharging and Information Division. In addition, Cowen was a member of the Young Men's Hebrew Association, was a founder of The Judeans society, a secretary for B'nai B'rith, and published an autobiography entitled Memoirs of an American Jew (1932). Documents include writings and material on immigration, surveys of American leaders and intellectuals on Anti-Semitism, and background materials for articles written in the American Hebrew. The collection contains correspondence, articles, documents, official reports, telegrams, clippings, pamphlets, photographs, and handwritten notes.

The collection is in English, Russian, German, French, and Chinese.

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Identification number: P-63

Consists of correspondence, speeches, photographs, clippings and memorabilia relating to his activities as a lawyer and as a member of the House of Commons in the Parliament of Canada representing Montreal-Cartier, 1950-1963; includes material relating to Canadian immigration policies, German rearmament, humane slaughtering, and citizen reactions to these issues; correspondence with the members of the Israeli Parliament, and correspondence and speeches relating to his numerous activities in communal and Jewish affairs in general and Zionist organizations and The ORT in particular. Includes personal writings and memoirs in typescript and published material by and about Leon Crestohl. The collection also contains correspondence in English and Yiddish with members of the Crestohl family, primarily his mother Rose (Weitzman) Crestohl, 1926-1941, and published and manuscript material, both original and copies, relating to the career of his father Hyman Meyer Crestohl, 1904-1921.

The collection is in English, French, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Yiddish.

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Identification number: P-675

The Papers of Lucy S. Dawidowicz contain documents pertaining to American Jewish history, anti-Semitism in America, Holocaust denial, European Jewish heritage, and the Holocaust (including the American Jewish response). The bulk of the collection consists of extensive research notes and publications by both Dawidowicz and others, as well as correspondence to family, business contacts, and friends. Additional items include photographs, memoir materials and index cards.

This collection is in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, German, French, and Polish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-936

The Isaacs and the Davis families were both active members of the Jewish community in Cincinnati, Ohio dating back to the mid 19th century. The Davis family includes Charles K., who along with Leo Wise helped to found the Beersheba immigrant colony in Kansas in 1882. The Isaacs family included many well-known, religious, legal, and medical scholars. The two families were joined together on March 21, 1912 when Ella Davis, daughter of Charles K. Davis and Ida (Fletcher) Davis, married Nathan T. Isaacs, the eldest child of Abraham Isaacs and Rachel Rose (Friedman) Isaacs. Nathan went on to become a prominent legal scholar, and was a Pr ofessor of Business Law at the Harvard Business School from 1924 until his death in 1941.

The collection is in English, Hebrew, and German.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-163

Harold Debrest (formerly Harold Willinsky) was born in Brest-Litovsk, Russia on November 25, 1883, and immigrated with his father and sister to the United States in 1892, settling in New York City. Debrest attended the Jewish Theological Seminary, and was embarking upon a rabbinic career when he became disenchanted with the rabbinate. He then developed an interest in journalism, becoming a successful writer and editor of various newspapers, including the Modern Review (St. Louis), the Hebrew Standard, the Jewish Tribune, and the New York Post (New York). Debrest also distributed his own news bulletin, Debrest's Special News Service during the 1930s, and is best remembered for his Tribune feature, "Remark-Ables", a weekly column that focused on noteworthy people or events. Debrest was also involved in Jewish organizational life, and was a published poet, remaining active until his death in 1982 at the age of 98.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-899

The collection contains papers of one of the pioneers of the American Soviet Jewry Movement. Starting in the early 1960s Moshe Decter instigated broad publicity campaigns to raise global awareness about the persecution of Soviet Jews and authored hundreds of articles on the subject in a variety of publications. Mr. Decter established and directed the Jewish Minorities Research bureau, served as the executive secretary of the Conference on the Status of Soviet Jews and as a director of research at the American Jewish Congress. Moshe Decter Papers consist of materials dating from the late 1950s to the early 2000s, with the bulk of the collection dating in 1960s-1970s. The documents include articles, correspondence, transcripts, notes, memoranda, publications, news clippings, broadsides and photographs.

The collection is in English, Hebrew, French, and Italian.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-452

The Delta Phi Alpha Fraternity was a Jewish fraternity at Massachusetts State College (now the University of Massachusetts.) This collection consists of one copy of the , a newsletter by the Delta Phi Alpha Fraternity. The newsletter focuses on pledges as well as appeals to alumni for financial support. News and tidbits about former and current members of the fraternity are also included.
Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-59

Contains correspondence relating to Diamond's legal and political career during which time he served as Corporation Counsel for the City of Buffalo, New York State Supreme Court Justice, and on the faculty of the University of Buffalo Law School. Includes material on his activities in the mayoral, gubernatorial, and presidential political campaigns, 1928-1952, among which was the chairmanship of the Buffalo Volunteers for Stevenson and on his extensive communal and philanthropic activities. Of the latter the greatest amount of material is concerned with the American Civil Liberties Union, the Buffalo Jewish Center, the United Jewish Fund of Buffalo, the United Jewish Appeal, the American Jewish League for Israel, the American-Israel Cultural Foundation, the American Fund for Israel Institutions, the American Friends of the Hebrew University, the State of Israel Bonds, the Independent Zionists of America, the American Zionist Council and the American Christian Palestine Committee. Contains also material from the Civic Affairs Committee of Erie County, the Children's Aid Society, the United War and Community Fund and the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe. Includes also anti-Nazi material, material on civil rights and anti-discrimination legislation, the problem of church and education, speeches, general correspondence, files of newspaper clippings, and memorabilia.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: AR 25392

The Ruth R. Dresner Collection comprises research material and writings about the well-known Jewish social worker Bertha Pappenheim. It includes copies of articles, offprints and clippings on her in addition to a dissertation on her work and some correspondence concerning the accumulation of research on her life and work. Material on the German stamp issued in her honor and some photographs are also present.

The collection is in German and English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-359

This collection contains annual reports, membership and financial reports, an Alumni Association 50th Anniversary Journal, Art exhibit programs, guides and catalogs. The documents in this collection describe citizenship preparation guides, United States maps in English and Yiddish, declaration of Intention forms, a report by Allan David concerning the functions of the alliance and pamphlets on Project Ezra, a volunteer organization for the aged. Also included are souvenir journals for a fair to aid the Education Alliance and the Hebrew Technical Institute. This collection also includes the following publications: Alliance Reporter (1947-1948), Alliance Review (1902), and Newsletter of Education Alliance (1992-1993).

The collection is in English and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-26

The Papers of Bernard Calonius Ehrenreich, a Rabbi and civic leader in Montgomery, Alabama, document his life and rabbinate over seven decades and highlights his involvment in a broad range of organizations and activities. The collection is valuable to those researching topics such as Zionism; Progressivism; boys' camps; Montgomery, Alabama's Jewish community; Christian-Jewish relations in the South; and soldiers' correspondence from World War I and World War II. In addition, Ehrenreich's involvment in organizations such as the National Jewish Welfare Board; National American Woman Suffrage Association; Intercollegiate Menorah Association; Federation of American Zionists; and Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity are documented within the collection as well as postcards displaying various Jewish images.

The majority of the collection is in English with some materials in Hebrew, Yiddish, German, and French.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-94

Contains correspondence, addresses and speeches, newspaper clippings, and published material relating primarily to Ehrmann's activity in the national and Boston chapter of the American Jewish Committee (1935-1970). Of special interest is material on the relation of the Committee to the American Jewish Conference (1943-1948), the relationship of American Jewry to the State of Israel, and the attitude of the Committee to the establishment of Israel. Also contains genealogical material, in German and in English, between Ehrmann and his relatives in Poland immediately prior World War II, and in Italy immediately after the war. Also contains letters and reports sent by Mrs. Sara Rosenfeld Ehrmann (b. 1895) by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and the United Jewish Appeal, dealing primarily with fund-raising matters.

Also included are Speakers bulletins used by the Women's Division of the Greater Boston United Jewish Campaign, of which Mrs. Ehrmann was chairman. Of special interest are reports sent to Mr. Ehrmann by the JDC regarding the ship "St. Louis." The collection includes photographs.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English and German.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-32

Primarily sheet music of Hebrew, Yiddish and English compositions, programs and reviews, with extensive files relating to the operas "The Golem" and "The Thief and the Hangman" and the musical "Great to Be Alive." Also contains some photographs and correspondence.

This collection is in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-143

Contains personal papers, including correspondence and documents, relating to Elijah Etting, his sons, Solomon and Reuben, and three grandchildren, Samuel Etting, Kitty (Etting) Cohen, and Elijah Gratz Etting (frequently referred to as Gratz Etting).

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-208

Contains incomplete annual convention programs (1922-1986), organizational minutes (1912-1973), newsletters (1967-1981), constitution and by-laws, plaques, awards and citations. Also contains newspaper articles about the Federation and correspondence with affiliated organizations and hospitals.

The collection is in English and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-150

The collection consists primarily of a calendar of material (1900-05, 1910-11, 1913-15, 1917-23, 1927-52) relating to America found in the Weizmann Archives, Rehovot, Israel, as well as a copy of the index to the Weizmann papers (1885-1914) and various reports issued by the Archives, all annotated by Fein. Also contains microfilm and typed calendars or descriptions of America-related material found in the Central Zionist Archives, the State Archives, the Aaron Aaronsohn Archives, Jabotinsky Archives, Archives of the History of the Jewish People, Labor Archives, the Hebrew University Library and Yad va-Shem Archives.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-582

Contains correspondence, press clippings, and photos relating to Fein's career and activities while editor-in-chief and publisher of MOMENT magazine. Correspondence includes reactions to a letter sent to Israeli members of PEACE NOW on the eve of the Begin-Sadat summit (1978); a statement criticizing Begin government policies (1980) and public reactions to that statement; a discussion of American Jewish support of Israel's West Bank settlement policy during Prime Minister Begin's tenure in office; Fein's views of aliyah to Israel, of intermarriage, of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and of the politics of M.K. Meir Kahane; and a letter from Hodding Carter III (Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and Dept. Spokesman for White House) "concerning the U.S. role in negotiations for peace in the Middle East" (Jan. 19, 1979). Also contains Fein's personal correspondence (1977-1984).

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: RG 601

This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Yiddish journalist, poet, novelist, and translator Leon Feinberg. These materials include correspondence with Yiddish literary figures and with organizations, newspaper clippings about writers and about Leon Feinberg and his works, subject files, manuscripts of works by Feinberg and by other writers, and some of Feinberg’s personal documents. These materials relate to Feinberg’s long career with various Russian and Yiddish periodicals and literary organizations.

Yiddish, Russian, English, Hebrew

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-621

Beatrice Miller Feingold was a past President of both the Worcester Section and New England Region of the National Council of Jewish Women. In addition, she was the first female Vice President of the Worcester Jewish Federation, Vice President of the Worcester Chapter of Brandeis University’s National Women’s Committee, and a board member of the Jewish Community Council and Jewish Family Services of Worcester. Feingold was also one of the founders of the Worcester Area Community Service, the predecessor of the U.S. Job Corps. This collection contains records of the New England Region of the National Council for Jewish Women (NCJW), including annual reports, event program s, research studies, agendas, speeches, by-laws, bulletins, news clips, a limited number of photographs, and correspondence. There are also folders containing newsletters, speeches and programs from local chapters in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine.
Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-21

Rabbi Felsenthal was one of the first supporters of Reform Judaism in the Midwest and a strong advocate of Zionism. His papers include correspondence, notes, clippings, and ephemera.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-805

Films document the leisure activities of an American Jewish family from 1939 to 1966, with a majority of footage dating from the years after World War Two. Their activities included vacations, parades, and other outings. The films include footage of Catskills resorts, offering viewers rare and valuable images of small Jewish hotels from the postwar era. The films have been copied onto videotapes.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-638

Dr. Jacob Fine was born on February 10, 1900 in Brockton, Massachusetts. He received both his A.B. and M.D. from Harvard University (classes of 1920 and 1924.) After graduation, he served as House Officer at Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, before moving back to Boston in 1926 to serve on the staff of Beth Israel Hospital. From then on, he divided his time between Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Hospital. Dr. Fine spent some time on Nantucket Island, where he wrote the memoirs and stories in this collection. This collection contains Dr. Fine’s writings, photographs, and biographical information.
Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-859

Temple Emanuel Congregation was founded in Newton, Massachusetts in 1935. It is part of United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ), and has over 1,100 families in its congregation. Morris Finkelstein became president of the Congregation in 1972 and served until 1975. Main material types include correspondence, governance, membership lists and speeches.

Please note: Located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-926

The collection contains eight (8) color slide photographs taken by Fred Firschein, a one-time resident of East New York, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Firschein writes in a letter regarding the collection, "The slides are dated May of 1962 and they depict a neighborhood area on Blake Ave. near Ashford St. There were push carts selling all kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables, stores selling spices, sour pickles and sour tomatoes from the barrel and Morris Meat Market selling, of course, all kinds of Kosher meats."

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-146

The collection contains correspondence, documents, and newspaper clippings relating to the life and activities of Frankel in the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company as well as in other social welfare Jewish organizations. Includes biographic and bibliographic data, as well as manuscript and printed copies of his writings and speeches on the subjects of health, insurance and Jewish affairs, and miscellaneous personal correspondence especially with Milton Rosenau.

The collection is in English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-894

This collection is comprised of materials related to the Brooklyn-born, gay, Jewish bullfighter, Sidney Franklin (1903-1976), who is also known for his close friendship with Ernest Hemingway. The bulk of the collection are photographs of Franklin performing in the bullring, or posing with Spanish and Latin American matadors or famous Americans such as Franklin Roosevelt, Jr., Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Paulette Goddard, Jack Dempsey and Eddie Cantor. There are also audio recordings of Franklin, a film proposal, clippings and a copy of Franklin's autobiography.

The collection is in English and Spanish. One clipping is in Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-142

Originally from England, the Franks family were colonial merchants who settled in New York City during the 1700s. By the end of the century, they had mainly disappeared as Jews. This collection documents parts of their life through correspondence, legal documents, and financial records. The correspondence is primarily written by Abigail Franks in New York to her son, Naphtali, in England. Also included in the Papers are notes and correspondence of Dr. Leo Hershkowitz, who co-edited a book on the letters of the family entitled the Lee Max Friedman Collection of American Jewish Colonial Correspondence: Letters of the Franks Family (1733-1748), written with Isadore S. Meyer in 1968.

The collection is in English and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-871

The Si Frumkin Papers include Mr. Frumkin's articles on the subject of the Holocaust, Israel, the Soviet Union and Soviet Jews from the mid- and the late 1980's, and a video interview with him and video recordings of several television programs related to the topic of the Soviet Jewry. The documents include articles, news clippings and video recordings.

The collection is in English and Russian.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-898

The Papers of Rabbi Samuel Geffen document his professional career as the rabbi of the Jewish Center of Forest Hills West in Queens. The collection is the result of Rabbi Geffen's work as a religious leader and educator at the Jewish Center and depicts the center's and Rabbi Geffen's role in the Jewish community there.

English, Hebrew, Yiddish

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-516

Contains the surviving papers of Rabbi Tobias Geffen who served as a rabbi in New York City (1904-1907), Canton, Ohio (1907-1910), and Atlanta, Georgia (1910-1970). Includes extensive correspondence with members of his family, autobiographies in Yiddish and English (several versions) and other material relating to his personal life. Of special interest is the extensive documentation of Geffens' rabbinate in Atlanta, consisting of correspondence, responsa to numerous religious questions, and various charitable efforts on behalf of institutions in Europe and Palestine. There is a large body of material rela ting to the dietary certification of Coca-Cola. The responsa represent requests from sixty-one different Jewish communities throughout the South. The subjects discussed include supplying etrogim, sacramental wine, Passover, the Sabbath, Kashrut, gittin, schochetim, etc. Of unusual interest is Geffen's involvement with Jewish soldiers in World War I and assistance to Jewish prisoners in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, and his efforts to make the orphan home kosher and to give the orphans a religious education.

The collection is in English, French, German, Hebrew, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-170

The General Jewish Council was an umbrella organization founded by the American Jewish Committee, American Jewish Congress, B’nai B’rith and Jewish Labor Committee in order to coordinate their rights defense activities. The bulk of the records in this collection date between 1938 and 1944, the active years of the Council. Materials consist primarily of correspondence, minutes, memoranda, and reports.

English

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-517

This collection contains the chaplain's kit used by Rabbi Emery Glancz during his service as an army chaplain during World War II. Included in the kit is a flag with the Ten Commandments; one Ten Commandments plaque; two brass candlesticks, one marked "US;" two brass communion plates marked "US;" one brass priest's communion cup with cross; and three silver-plated cups.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-861

Harold and Romayne Goldberg were active members of numerous Jewish organizations in Boston. Harold Goldberg was a member of the Associated Jewish Philanthropies, American Jewish Committee of Greater Boston and the Combined Jewish Appeal. In 1964 he served as president of the Business Men's Council of the Combined Jewish Appeal and was also a member of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies. Romayne Goldberg served as president of the Boston chapter of Hadassah from 1948-1951. She also served as president of the Combined Jewish Appeal and the Brandeis National Women's Committee. This collection consists of newspaper clippings, scrapbooks and photographs documenting and highlighting aspects of the Goldbergs' extensive roles in the Greater Boston Jewish community.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-918

Papers of Rabbi David Goldstein and Shannie Goldstein contain materials reflecting their work on behalf of Jews in the Soviet Union. The materials include notes, correspondence, fliers, news clippings and photographs. The bulk of the collection consists of oversized cardboard-mounted photographs taken by Rabbi Goldstein on the trip to the Soviet Union in 1983.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-887

The papers of Doris H. Goldstein represent the activities of the American Soviet Jewry Movement activist from Atlanta, GA. The collection contains notes, photos and memorabilia from two trips to the USSR to meet with the Soviet Jews, a DVD recording of the program presented at an Atlanta rally on behalf of Soviet Jewry in 1987, local press coverage of Doris H. Goldstein’s activism, her correspondence and memos of the Atlanta Jewish Federation regarding Jews in the Soviet Union. Materials include memorandums, correspondence, clippings, ph otographs, a DVD and a scrapbook.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-31

Material relating to relief activities of Joint in Europe in 1919; includes cables and other communications to American Relief Administration, Sholom Asch, Jacob Billikopf, Morris Engelman, Max Pine, Lewis Strauss and Baruch Zuckerman.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-61

The Jonah J. Goldstein Papers chronicle Goldstein's roles as a New York City judge (1931-1956) pushing for court reform in the 1930s; as a leader of, founder of and donor to local organizations, especially those devoted to the prevention of juvenile delinquency in the Jewish community; as the New York City mayoral candidate on the Liberal-Republican-City Fusion ticket in 1945; and as a voice for drug law reform in the 1950s and 1960s. Materials include correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, photographs, awards, campaign posters, audiotapes and clippings.

The collection is in English, with a small amount of material in Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-938

The Papers of the American Soviet Jewry movement activist Betty Golomb represent one collection housed within the Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement (AASJM). Ms. Golomb was a board member of the Women's Auxiliary of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, served as the chair of the task force on Soviet Jewry for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and in the executive committee of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry and led Women's Plea for Human Rights for Soviet Jews, sponsored by the Leadership Conference of National Jewish Women's Organizations. The papers of Betty Golomb contain documents of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Leadership Conference of National Jewish Women’s Organizations’ Committee on Soviet Jewry, Women’s Plea for Human Rights for Soviet Jewry, National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, Congressional Wives for Soviet Jewry, National Conference on Soviet Jewry and National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council. The materials include correspondence, memos, agenda, organizational guidelines, manuals and proposals, publications, photographs.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-62

The Gomez family was Sephardic Jews who settled in New York City in the early 1700s. Their descendants are still associated with the New York Spanish Portuguese Synagogue Shearith Israel. The collection documents four generations of this family, and contains a photograph, correspondence, legal records and financial accounts.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-629

Dr. Samuel Goodman was a graduate of the University of the City of New York, Medical Department (now Cornell Medical School) and was one of the first Jewish physicians to practice in Boston. This collection includes clippings, letters, and a photograph pertaining to the medical career of Dr. Goodman.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-863

The collection contains papers of Jerry Goodman, the founding director of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, the largest and most influential organization created by the American Jews to coordinate efforts on behalf of Soviet Jews, which survives today as NCSJ: Advocates on Behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States & Eurasia. The bulk of the collection covers the activities from the early 1970s through late 1980s. The collection includes some minutes of meetings, memoranda, correspondence, newsletters and publications of the NCSJ and its precursor, the American Jewish Committee on Soviet Jewry (AJCSJ, 1964-1971). Among other materials are some posters and considerable number of photographs on Refuseniks and of the ASJM events in New York and the US, audio recordings on compact cassettes and reel-to-reels re-mastered into CD format, and VHS tapes. The collection also contains non-paper objects like pins, pendants, bracelets devoted to prisoners of conscience in the USSR, as well as a t-shirt, a scarf and a shopping bag.

The collection is in English, with some French and Hebrew.

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Identification number: P-862

The collection documents Rabbi Philip Goodman’s involvement with the American Jewish Historical Society, the early years of the Orthodox Union, the Institutional Synagogue in Harlem and its day camp, the Army and Navy commission of the Jewish Welfare Board during World War II, a fraternal club originating in the Uptown Talmud Torah, The Jewish Book Council of America, The Townsend Harris High School and its Hatikvah Society, Yeshiva University, Jewish scouting, and more. The collection contains addresses, articles, bulletins, correspondence, commencement book, guest book, newsclippings, newsletters, photographs, r adio broadcast transcripts, souvenir journal, and yearbook.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-86

Albert I. Gordon was a Rabbi, author, and sociologist. Rabbi of Temple Israel of Washington Heights, New York (1929-1930), Adath Jeshurun in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1930-1946) and Temple Emanuel in Newton, Massachusetts (1949-1968), Rabbi Gordon also served as Executive Director of the United Synagogue of America (1946-1949) and wrote numerous articles and pamphlets, as well as the books , , , and . Gordon also hosted a radio program in Minneap olis on WCCO for many years. This collection contains typescripts of Gordon's radio addresses; research, notes and interviews for his books, various sermons and speeches; correspondence, photographs, and materials from his synagogues.
Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-910

This collection documents the life of Rabbi Morris Gordon, particularly the time he spent serving as a chaplain in Burma and China during World War II. Included in the collection are letters, photographs, maps, newspapers and newspaper clippings, and sermons and other short religious writings. Of particular interest are letters written to Gordon's wife while he was stationed in the Pacific detailing his daily activities, as well as essays written by German refugee children in Shanghai entitled "Home is Where My Heart Is." Also included is Gordon’s autobiography.

The collection is in predominately English, with some Hebrew and Chinese.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-664

Consists of correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, ephemera, documents and a scrapbook compiled by a Boston area lawyer and civic leader who served in the United States Army during both World Wars and was a participant in the negotiations leading to the Treaty of Versailles and the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is predominantly in English, with Hebrew, and French.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-904

Herbert Gorfinkle was the eldest child and only son of Colonel Bernard and Frieda Gorfinkle of Newton, Massachusetts. Born in 1923, Gorfinkle came of age during World War II and entered the U.S. Army while an undergraduate at the University of New Hampshire. As a Tech 5 combat engineer, Gorfinkle was responsible for clearing landmines ahead of his advancing unit. He was also a trained army photographer, and aside from his letters home, he documented his years in the War with photographs. A soldier under General Dwight Eisenhower, Gorfinkle participated in the Normandy Invasion and was among the troops that liberated Buchenwald in 1945. This collecti on includes correspondence and photographs from Gorfinkle’s service in World War II, photographs of Bernard Gorfinkle’s serviced during World War I, and a collection of family carte de visites, cabinet cards and tintypes.
Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-87

Rabbi Aaron Gorovitz was born in Lithuania in 1870. He immigrated to New York at the age of 22. Before moving to Boston, he was one of the founders of Etz Chaim Yeshiva (later the Rabbi Isaac Elchonon Rabbinical College) and Yeshiva Jacob Joseph, organized the St. John, New Brunswick branch of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, and served as a rabbi in St. John, New Jersey, North Adams, Massachusetts and Woonsocket, Rhode Island before moving to Boston in 1907. Until the end of his life he was rabbi of Congregation Sons of Abraham in Roxbury. Aaron Gorovitz died in 1956.
Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-866

The collection contains the papers of Laurel Gould and her husband, lawyer Alan J. Gould. The materials include correspondence, memoranda, individual files on Soviet Jewish Refuseniks, documentation of special projects, events and visits to USSR, publications, legal materials pertinent to the Soviet Jewry, photographs, slides and audio recordings of conversations and interviews with the Soviet Jews.

The collection is in English and Russian.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-880

Papers of Sanford A. Gradinger cover the period from mid-1980's to mid-1990's and document the activities of the Rochester, NY businessman on behalf of Soviet Jews, his involvement with the Andrei Sakharov International Committee and his travels to Washington D.C., Soviet Union and Former Soviet Union. The documents include photographs, correspondence, clippings, ephemera and travel memorabilia.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-7

This collection documents the activities of the Graduate School for Jewish Social Research. It contains many papers concerning various projects undertaken by the School, especially the Lower East Side documentation project and a project that compared letters sent to Der Tag newspaper. In addition, the collection holds papers having to do with the daily activities of the school.

The collection is in English and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-312

Founded by men who had moved from their old Lower East Side neighborhood in New York, the Grand Street Boys' Association began as a reunion and grew into an active men's club. Initially membership was confined to those born on Grand Street but expanded to all men regardless of religion, race, or class. Membership included such prominent names as Irving Berlin, Albert Einstein, Jonah Goldstein, and Nelson Rockefeller. The Association promoted welfare projects, acts of fellowship and tolerance, school scholarships, summer youth employment, war efforts, and the elimination of discrimination in sports, among other projects. The association is still active at 71 W. 23rd Street in New York. The collection contains a representative example of the Association's activities and includes correspondence, financial records, clippings, programs, publications, yearbooks, speeches, a musical score, negatives, and photographs.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-8

The Gratz brothers were highly successful merchants who came to Philadelphia in the mid 1700s. Among their descendants is Rebecca Gratz, the probable model for the Jewish female protagonist in Scotts' Ivanhoe. This collection contains correspondence, notes, legal documents, financial accounts, drawings and books

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-63

The Massachusetts Observance of the American Jewish Tercentenary documents the correspondence, activities, photographs and publications of the Greater Boston Committee’s efforts to celebrate the 300th Anniversary of Jewish settlement in the United States. Many notable Boston Jewish community members were a part of the planning and implementation of activities, which included a celebration at Symphony Hall and a musical for children entitled, "A Happy Land."

Please note: Located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-358

Contains correspondence with officials of B'nai Brith Hillel, other Jewish organizations and individuals, the administration of the University of Maryland; minutes of the Student Executive Council, Building Corporation and Community Board of the Hillel Chapter at the University of Maryland; program and financial reports; publications; tape recordings of symposia and photographs and newspaper clippings relating to the activities at Hillel during Greenberg's tenure as Director, 1945-1977.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-855

Papers include published and unpublished works in the form of typed and handwritten manuscripts, bulletins, newsletters, news clippings, scrapbook pages, and sheet music. Papers contain correspondence regarding Greenblatt's autobiography, and original letters sent to her from her husband Isidore when he visited Palestine in 1920. These letters form a portion of her autobiography.

The collection is in English, with Hebrew and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-352

Samuel H. Gurvitz was the owner of New England Millworks in Dorchester, Massachusetts and a veteran of World War II. In 1936 and 1939, he visited Palestine, and the photographs from this trip are included in the collection. In 1939 Gurvitz visited Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Vienna and Prague and witnessed firsthand how the political situation in Nazi Germany was impacting European Jews. His notes from these trips are also included in this collection.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-18

Born in England of Bavarian-born parents, Aaron Hart migrated to Canada as a member of the British forces. A number of his descendants settled in New York, and became members of the New York Congregation Shearith Israel. This collection includes personal and business correspondence, legal documents and account books.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-451

Louis Hurwich, then superintendent of the Bureau of Jewish Education of Boston, founded Hebrew Teacher’s College in 1921. Hurwich was concerned about Jewish teachers leaving the field of Jewish education for other professions and sought an educational system that promoted Hebrew literacy at all levels. Hebrew Teacher’s College was also responsible for maintaining Hebrew High School (Prozdor), located at 14 Crawford Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Those students who graduated from the high school could matriculate to Hebrew Teacher’s College without having to take an exam. In 1943, the high school offered Talmud classes in addition to its regular curriculum, with studies in the Bible, Hebrew, Jewish History, and codes and customs. In 2002, the College moved to its current location in Newton, Massachusetts. One year later, it opened its Rabbinical School. This collection contains brochures, catalogs, commencement addresses, event fliers, invitations, pamphlets and publications.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-96

Consists of individual case files of refugees assisted by HIAS primarily in immigration and naturalization services. Included in many files are biographical data, correspondence between HIAS and American and foreign governmental agencies, and miscellaneous supporting documents. These files are arranged alphabetically in two groups. The first group contains cases from 1930 to 1965; the second group covers primarily the 1960's to 1977. The collection also contains individual arrival records, arranged alphabetically, from 1882 to 1929.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-363

Organized into two series: I-HIAS II - United HIAS Service. Series I, HIAS: The HIAS Series contains annual reports (1912-1953), constitution and by-laws, summary reports of the Advisory Board, promotional literature, miscellaneous individual publications, information bulletins (Yiddish/English), and a chart of cities covered by HIAS. The publications within this series include: Summary Reports (1908-1914), Monthly Reports (1908-1912), Report, Committee of Representatives (June 18, 1925), Report on Displaced Jews in Europe by Isaac Asofsky (May 1947). Series II, United HIAS Service: The United HIAS Service contains a certificate of consolidation, by-laws, annual reports (1954, 1957-1959, 1962-1993), conference proceedings, reports describing the activities of the Committee on Planned Migration, general miscellaneous correspondence, news releases concerning current organizational events and issues, pamphlets and fliers containing workshop information and a 1951 yearbook for the Women’s Division. The publications within this series include: FYI (1974, 1975, 1977), Headlines and Highlights (1992-1993), HIAS Monthly Digest (1994), Migration News (1973-1974), The Reporter (1983-1992), Special Information Bulletin (1955-1967), Statistical Abstracts (1960-1965, 1971-1989), and UHS Bulletin (1961-1979).

The collection is in English and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-166

The collection contains annual reports, admission and discharge records, and admitting physician's reports of the Hebrew Infant Asylum of the City of New York.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-520

Contains the files of the Association’s newsletter, The Alumnus; programs of its alumni reunion events; selected meeting minutes; audio-visual material (oral history tapes and a videotape on the HNOH; photographs); paper copies of website pages developed in 1997; a small collection of correspondence; a file of Dental Service annual reports about dental care given the orphans and other material from 1923-1932; scrapbooks; sports uniforms; unpublished writings about growing up in HNOH; scattered publications of other orphan homes, mainly newsletters; and mass media accounts of HNOH, other orphan homes, and issues around orphan life.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-42

Hebrew Orphan Asylum was founded in 1822 as the Hebrew Benevolent Society. It underwent various changes of name until 1906; when it merged into The Jewish Child Care Association of New York in 1940. The collection includes extensive administrative records including financial statements; property records; Board, Committee, and Executive minutes; donation books; publications; and state and government correspondence and reports. The collection also includes children’s admission and discharge ledgers; medical records; and conduct books. Also within the collection are childcare studies; dedication speeches; histories; news clippings; and photographs.

The collection is in English and German.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-43

Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society founded in 1879, merged into The Jewish Child Care Association of New York in 1940. The collection includes administrative records consisting of annual reports, Board of Directors' annual reports and meeting minutes, a limited amount of committee reports, financial records, donation books, and property records. The collection also includes children admission and discharge ledgers, which date from 1898 to 1942, with gaps. Please note that children records dated after 1925 are restricted for privacy reasons. Additional material regarding orphan life is available through student publications and programs, alumni newsletters and programs, and HSGS promotional material. Affiliated organizational records include material on Fellowship House, an after care service; Foster Home Bureau, including newsletters recruiting foster parents and records of its Baby Department; and alumni associations. Of additional interest are dedications and speeches held during the inauguration of Pleasantville, child care study papers, histories, and material concerning the New York Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies merger.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-119

The Hebrew Teachers Association of Greater Boston was founded in 1909. Its primary purpose was to unite qualified Jewish educators and to provide for their material and spiritual status. The Association first developed a curriculum based on the Bible, the Hebrew language and Jewish history in 1918. It was revised by a committee including the greater Boston Hebrew school principals, the Bureau of Jewish Education and prominent rabbis in 1922. The Association was also involved with Jewish cultural life.

The collection is in English and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-704

The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence to Hendricks & Brothers, 1833[?]-1851. Also included are business cards from various Hendricks-Tobias family enterprises, correspondence to Harmon Hendricks, and correspondence to several members of the Tobias family.

The collection is predominantly in English, with some French.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-519

The collection consists of the records of the Herman Muehlstein Foundation from 1947 to 2007. The Herman Muehlstein Foundation was a philanthropic organization that gave generously to educational institutes and agencies that supported Herman Muehlstein’s mission to improve the life and quality of young men and women in need of financial assistance. The Herman Muehlstein Foundation was established in 1947 and closed in 2005. The collection consists of correspondence, meeting minutes, legal papers, and grant proposals.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-888

The collection contains papers of a pioneer activist of the American Soviet Jewry Movement Rabbi David Hill. A New York City Rabbi and businessman Rabbi Hill served as the national president of National Council of Young Israel, member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and an officer of National Conference on Soviet Jewry. Starting 1971 he ran Operation Lifeline, an independently funded outreach program created by NCSJ Commission on Education and Culture to support Jewish life in the USSR and Former Soviet Union. David H. Hill Papers include materials from late 1950s to 2000 and the bulk of the collection represents the time period from 1963 to 1990. The documents include correspondence, memoranda, publications, news clippings, photographs with negatives, ephemera and a poster.

The collection is in English, Russian, Hebrew, Ukrainian, and Latvian.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-365

The records document the Histadruth Ivrit’s early history to the present, representing a significant portion of its work in spreading the Hebrew language in the United States in the second half of the twentieth-century. The records include substantial amount of material regarding the organization’s history, administration, public events, publications, and reports. Some information of the early history of the Histadruth Ivrit could be found in the records kept by the writer Daniel Persky. Persky collected personal and professional records that include correspondence with friends, readers, and writers; a partial collection of the drafts of his own publications, and a collection of photographs and newspaper clippings. The functions and activities of the Histadruth Ivrit are documented through Board of Trustees and Board meetings agendas and minutes; various programs for events, conventions, conferences, and celebrations; documents related to fundraising; public relations, press releases and brochures; correspondence with different individuals, organizations, and foundations; Histadruth Ivrit’s publications among them the newspaper Hadoar and Tov Lichtov; a large collection of photographs, and scrapbooks. The records of the Histadruth Ivrit represent the large majority of the organization’s activities dating from the 1980s to the present. Records for the earlier years of activities are fragmented and incomplete. The records related to the life of Daniel Persky are also partial and copies of many of his publications are missing. This collection included brochures, correspondence, financial records, flyers, grant applications, invitations, lists, minutes, news clipping, orders, periodicals, photographs, press releases, reports, and scrapbooks.

The collection is predominantly in English, with Hebrew, German, Spanish, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-232

Contains several histories of the Home, Board of Directors Minutes (1928-1942), annual report for 1927 (includes numerous photographs), a list of donations (1897-1923), records of Admission and Discharges (1922-1943), financial records (1924-1941) and the certificate of merger with the New York Association for Jewish Children (1942). Includes also material re the Young Folks League for Aid to Hebrew Infants.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-500

This collection contains the institutional records of the Houston Action for Soviet Jewry, mainly news clippings, correspondence, files about refuseniks, and various materials and programs for events which Houston Action for Soviet Jewry sponsored or was involved with. There are also some materials from other organizations set up to aid Soviet Jewry, including the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews, the Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry and the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews. Many of these materials concern the situation of Jews in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as in the 1990s, soon after the end of the Soviet Union.

English, Russian, German, French, Hebrew

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-911

Kathleen M. Hyman of La Grange Park, IL is a former Soviet Jewry movement activist, who was involved with Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry, grass-roots non-profit organization that has advocated for Jews in the U.S.S.R. In 1976 Mrs. Hyman traveled to U.S.S.R., where she established contacts with prominent Soviet Jewish Refuseniks. She has been involved with the West Suburban Synagogue in Oak Park and their adopted village Penza in the Former Soviet Union and has been a liaison between her synagogue, Congregation Beth Shalom, Naperville, IL and the remnants of the Jewish community in Jekabpils, Latvia. The collection contains Mrs. Hyman’s correspondenc e with Refuseniks, memos, notes, and clippings related to the Soviet Jewry movement.

The collection is in English and Russian.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-109

Contains the papers of the Society founded in 1938 by recent German speaking Jewish immigrants to Boston to assist their initial adjustment to the economic, cultural, spiritual, and social life of the American community and subsequently, to provide mutual assistance to its membership and aid to other immigrants.

The collection consists of the Society's by-laws (1953, 1956, 1964); handwritten notes with the names of Officers and Directors (1949-1961), plans for cultural and social programs, agenda of Board of Directors' meetings, Officers' meetings, and Annual General Membership meetings (1950-1958); printed announcements of annual meetings (1963-1974); minutes of meetings in English and some in German (1954-1975); printed news bulletins (1956, 1961-1975); printed announcements of social and cultural events (1960-1974); printed matter related to sundry other activities of the Society (1964-1968); and miscellaneous printed announcements (1972-1974).

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English and German.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-104

The Independent Order of Brith Abraham was a Jewish fraternity society headquartered in New York City. It was founded in 1887 after breaking away from its parent society, the Order Brith Abraham (founded 1859.) As a fraternal society it offered sick, death and funeral benefits for members, with both male and female members. In 1981 it merged with B’nai Zion, which is no longer in existence. The Dr. Gaster Lodge, No. 689, was most likely named for Dr. Moses Gaster, a Jewish scholar and Zionist. This collection contains an address book of members in Yiddish, a few blank invitations for meetings, a financial ledge r, and membership ledger. The financial ledger includes minutes to a 1917 meeting of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 171. Both ledgers are wrapped in tissue and should be handled with care.
Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-91

The Industrial Removal Office was created as part of the Jewish Agricultural Society to assimilate immigrants into American society, both economically and culturally. It worked to employ all Jewish immigrants. The collection contains administrative and financial records, immigrants' removal records, and correspondence. A database has been constructed to search for persons removed by the Industrial Removal Office.

The collection is in English and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-168

Contains the minutes of the Board of Directors (Trustees) meetings (1972-1975) and staff meetings (1972-1973), background materials and reports pertaining to projects proposed and acted upon, annual reports, financial reports and miscellaneous publications.

The collection is in English and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-450

The International Yiddish Cultural Movement (IKUF) was organized in Boston and held meetings there for a year. This collection contains the minutes of meetings of the International Yiddish Cultural Movement (IKUF), which occurred in Boston from 1964-1965. The minutes are in Yiddish.
Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-22

Real estate lawyer, judge, newspaper editor, and philanthropist Myer S. Isaacs was the eldest son of the second English-speaking Rabbi in the United States, the Rev. Dr. Samuel M. Isaacs (1804-1878). The Isaacs Family were founding members of the New York-based Jewish civil rights organization, the Board of Delegates of American Israelites (1859-1878), published the Jewish Messenger (1859-1902), and Myer was the first president of the Baron de Hirsch Fund. The collection contains documents deriving from Myer and Samuel Issacs, and Myer's brothers Abram (1852 or 53-1920) and Isaac Isaacs (1845-1907). Information concerning Myer's children may also be found, including documents from his son Stanley (1882-1962), Manhattan borough President and New York City Councilman. Includes correspondence, clippings, commencement programs, invitations, souvenir and anniversary programs, election campaign materials, obituaries, funeral programs, and citizenship papers.

The collection is in English and French.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-860

Rabbi Richard J. Israel was born in 1929 in Chicago. After attending the University of Chicago and Hebrew Union College, Rabbi Israel began his lengthy career in Hillel at the University of California, Los Angeles. He later worked at Hillel at Yale University, followed by an Executive Director position at the Hillel Council of Greater Boston. Rabbi Israel was also the Director of Central Services and Judaica at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston and was the Director of the Rabbinic Program at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. In addition to his work on college campuses and in Jewish education, he was the author of "The Kosher Pig and Other Curiosities of Modern Jewish Life" and "Jewish Identity Games: A How to do it Book." The bulk of this collection contains resources and information pertaining to his career at the Jewish Community Center, although there are several documents regarding his work in Hillel and Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. In addition, a brief memoir of his trip to the Soviet Union in 1974 is included, as well as copies of various Black Panther newspapers from New Haven, Connecticut.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-705

Collection consists of personal papers of the Jacobi-Schlossberg family, specifically of papers belonging to Sarah Simon Jacobi, Freda Moritz Jacobi, Alice Jacobi Schlossberg, and Deda Schlossberg Miller. Papers include correspondence between Freda and Harold Jacobi, and between Alice and Arnold Schlossberg, as well as baby books, journals, report cards, and photo albums. The collection also includes genealogical information on the family and family photographs.

The collection is in English, German, Yiddish, and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-916

The collection consists of correspondence between Maurice Jacobs and important Jewish organizations and individuals. The majority of the collection consists of Jacobs' correspondence between organizations such as colleges, universities, and notable local and national Jewish organizations. The collection documents the years 1926 to 1985, with the bulk of the material dating from 1947 to 1985. Besides correspondence, the papers contain clippings, memos, photographs, agendas, reports, and meeting minutes.

The collection is in English and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-10

Contains correspondence, receipt books, business records, insurance policies, the will of Henry Whiteman, Jacobs' father-in-law, records pertaining to the settlement of Whiteman's estate, Jacobs' will, and material relating to the settlement of Jacobs' estate by Peter McCartee, Richard Cunningham, and Richard Ellis.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-82

The collection contains items relating to the Jews in Jamaica, including a scrapbook and newspaper clippings.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-874

Oscar I. Janowsky was born on January 15, 1900 in Suchowola, Poland to Aaron and Dina (Bobre) Janowsky. In 1910, the family immigrated to the United States. In 1922, he married Pauline (Rubin); they had three children Sylvia, Melvin, and Tamar. They remained married until her death in the 1980s. His second wife Lillian, and his children, survived him after his death in 1993. Other than serving as professor of History at the City College of New York, Janowsky is known for having served as an advisor for League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, James G. McDonald and for authoring the JWB Survey, a study of the orientation of Jewish Community Centers in the United States.

The collection is in English, French, German, Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-259

Contains a brief history of the Council, minutes of the Executive Board (1949, 1968, 1969 & 1973), an incomplete set of announcements of meetings (1960-1970), literary awards and citations (1973-1976), and publications issued by the Council.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-509

Contains the Bulletin of the Jewish Center of Williamsbridge from the 1940s to the 1970s and gift books bound with yearbooks of the Center bound inside. Also includes material regarding Doctor Rabbi Akiba Predmesky (d. 1998), who served the Jewish community and the Jewish Center of Williamsbridge for over fifty years.

The collection is in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-235

Contains files relating to the history, mergers and functions of the Association, By-Laws (1960), Committees' records, President's reports (1949-1952), Executive Director's reports (1949-1952), Treasurer's reports (1945, 1948-1949), annual reports (1972, 1984- ), and papers re various activities, including Childville, Edenwald, Foster Home Department (incl. material from the European Jewish Children's Aid Project), Friendly Home for Girls, Girls' Club Group Residence, Pleasantville, Psychiatric Clinic, Social Services Department, Sylvan Stix Workshop, and Vocational Services. Includes also statistical reports (1946-1970), and Studies on the Association (1949-1972), the Manual of Policies and Procedures (1972), and files on child care conferences, property sales, annual dinners, awards and ceremonies, the 75th anniversary celebration, the 150th anniversary celebration, Herman W. Block, the Child Care Alumni Council (1954-1964), the League to Aid Hebrew Infants (1948-1953), studies and papers by Association staff, memos, publications ("Our world," "Bulletin," "Our children," "JCCA journal"), promotional material, photographs, and voluminous scrapbooks.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-523

The Jewish Chronicle is a weekly newspaper covering local, national and global news for the Jewish community of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and its vicinity. The collection contains information and photographs used by The Jewish Chronicle for coverage of the situation of Jews in the Soviet Union during the decades of 1960s and 1970s. The bulk of the materials originated from the Soviet Jewry movement organizations and other Jewish institutions in the United States and includes publications, press releases, correspondence and photographs related to Soviet Jews.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-372

This collection contains articles, program catalogs, fliers, pamphlets and informational brochures. The documents in this collection describe summer camp activities at Camp Sabra, general Association activities and articles written by members on the following topics: mental retardation, teen services, membership problems and public affairs concerns. Also included is the publication The J.C.C.A. Journal (1953-1994).

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-78

This collection contains materials collected by Boston's JCRC, which monitored the situation as well as participated in the review of the report. Materials include news clippings, written reactions from the organizations, notes and correspondence from JCRC director Robert Segal, and the full report with recommendations, reactions and NCRAC action steps.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-333

Contains annual reports, promotional materials and publications produced by the relief society which was organized in 1904 to combat all stages of tuberculosis. Publications consist of newsletters, magazines and bulletins covering the years 1915-1918, 1922-1955; as well as an historical essay describing the relief society from 1904-1934.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-504

This collection includes materials documenting the activities and publications of independent and activist American Jewish organizations. Sample news publications from a variety of independent presses are included, as are a variety of home-published newsletters and flyers. The collection addresses anti-war protests and U.S. draft avoidance; American Jewish activism on Israel; feminist involvement in Judaism; socialism and radicalism; and international affairs. Materials include newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, news clippings, articles, limited correspondence, speech notes, reports, and flyers.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-490

The collection includes materials pertaining to the Jewish Defense Organization, a radical Zionist Jewish organization devoted to protecting Jews from their enemies, imaginary and real, using all means possible. Collection consists of correspondence, financial documents, legal documents, such as depositions, subpoenas, transcripts, and a large amount of printed materials. The bulk of the materials consist of a variety of printed materials and materials pertaining to a number of legal cases against various members of the Jewish Defense Organization and the organization itself.

The collection is in English with some Russian and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-75

The Jewish Education Service of North America (JESNA), formerly known as the American Association for Jewish Education, was founded in 1939. The Association promotes and supports Jewish education in communities throughout the United States and Canada by supplying studies of Jewish education, developing supplementary educational materials, and collaborating with Jewish organizations. This collection primarily contains the results of surveys and consequent reports, in addition to some correspondence, meeting minutes, and newsletters of the administration. Somewhat unrelated, the Jewish Media Services's files on films and filmmakers make up the last series of this collection, as JESNA took over some of the responsibilities of this organization in the early 1990s.

The collection is in English and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-137

The Jewish Historical Committee (originally called the Committee on Archives) was sponsored by the Associated Synagogues of Greater Boston, and was intended to collect and preserve material related to the Jewish communal life of Greater Boston. The idea of the committee was first conceived at a meeting of the Rabbinical Association of Greater Boston. This collection contains minutes from the first three meetings. Please note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-137

Contains the minutes of the Committee, which was sponsored by the Associated Synagogues of Massachusetts, for the purpose of collecting and preserving material concerning the history of Boston Jewry.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-243

The collection consists of the Association's constitution, by-laws and regulations (1895, 1908), a History of the Jewish Hospital Association 1865-1915, detailed annual reports (1866-1948), a publication entitled: A mansion of mercy containing "an observation tour" through the Hospital (accompanied by photographs) as well as "annual reports for the years 1931-1935", a list of officers and standing committees (1922), invitations and programs including a program of the commencement exercises of the Nurses' Training School (1908).

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-90

The Galveston immigration records document the attempt of the Jewish Immigrant Information Bureau, working in cooperation with several other Jewish organizations, to receive Jewish immgrants through the port of Galveston, Texas rather than New York City. The papers further describe the JIIB's efforts to resettle the immigrants in communities throughout the United States. Papers include ship passenger lists, correspondence, and statistical reports, as well as papers dealing with individual immigration cases.

The collection is in English, German, Russian, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-377

This collection contains correspondence, brochures, memorandum, pamphlets, fliers, invitations, reports, programs and press releases. The documents in this collection describe issues concerning the Holocaust, Jewish resistance, European labor concerns, the Jewish Labor Movement in America and anti-communism and Soviet Jewry. Included are invitations, programs and general information concerning miscellaneous concerts, conventions, symposia, and summer fellowships. A brochure regarding the Jewish Labor Committee's Child Adoption Program and materials relating to the Women's Division and Workmen's Circle also are found in the collection. In addition the collection contains publications issued by other organizations, including: American Federation of Labor, American Jewish Committee, American Jewish Congress, Friends of Democracy, National Community Relations Advisory Council, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, and the United States Displaced Persons Commission.

The collection is in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-513

Contains material collected by the Jewish Media Service (JMS) on Jewish films, film company catalogs, resources and information from and about various media centers. The majority of the Jewish Media Service records date from when the JMS operated independently from 1975 to 1987. Types of material found in the collection include articles, brochures, catalogs, correspondence, examination study guides, filmographies, film stills, newsletters, pamphlets, photographs, posters, publications, scripts, and slides.

The collection is in English, French, German, Spanish and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-336

The records provide material relating to the accreditation, fundraising, management, planning, policies, programs, and public relations of a hospital that continues to serve the Greater Boston area. The records includes correspondence of various Presidents, Board Members, and Executive Directors; Board and committee minutes; scrapbooks, photographs, videotape, and film created by the Public Relations department; records of various Auxiliary groups; correspondence, reports, surveys, and other documents relating to the Pediatric Rehabilitation Program; and artifacts such as plaques, portraits, and silverware.

The collection is in English and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-189

The collection contains organizational materials, official minutes, financial records, correspondence, program materials and publications. Of special interest are the following: correspondence, and other papers dealing with the Fellowship's founding during World War II, and their work on behalf of conscientious objectors during that war (1942-45); the organization's constitution and by-laws, membership lists, internal correspondence and alternative service correspondence; financial records; and essays and articles on Jewish views about pacifism and war.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-430

The collection contains articles, constitution and by-laws, correspondence, flyers, membership lists, newsletters, officers and trustees lists, photographs, souvenir journals, and speeches. Of interest is a copy of a dinner dance program from 1925, policies regarding religious observance in the U.S. Post Office, and correspondence lobbying for support of Israel and Jewish causes.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-71

Contains the by-laws and official minutes of the Board of Directors (1943-1968) and correspondence of the various Board committees as well as policy statements of the Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, and correspondence and records of the annual and regional conferences (incomplete). Includes financial reports (1945-1968), information on allocations from Jewish community federations (1955-1962), and correspondence and records of various fund-raising programs. Contains the correspondence and reports of various projects and activities of the Foundation, most important of which are the Federation of Reconstructionist Congregations and Fellowships, the Rabbinical Fellowship, and Youth Fellowship. Also contains reports of staff meetings and correspondence of the Presidents, individual staff members, and the general correspondence of the Foundation. Of special importance in the last group are the letters of Mordecai M. Kaplan and Ira Eisenstein. Includes the minutes and correspondence of the Editorial Board (1942-1953, 1956-1960) of the Reconstructionist magazine as well as manuscripts submitted and general correspondence of the Editor (1934, 1945-1952, 1957-1967), information on the other publications of the Foundation as well as copies of pamphlets, brochures, and news releases issued by the Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, and newspaper clippings reflecting on their activities. In the correspondence are letters from Martin Buber, J. Edgar Hoover, and Albert Schweitzer.

The collection is in English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-61

The collection contains periodicals of and relating to many Jewish student organizations.

The collection is in English with some Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-248

Contains materials relating to the activities of the JSPS, including: general correspondence; correspondence of the JSPS's Israel Bureau; minutes and reports of Governing Board meetings and editors' conferences; undated and dated subscriber's mailings; and issues of the JSPS publication Jewish press features. Of note in the correspondence is material on: the image of the Jewish student press nationally, the relationship of the United States to Israel during the Yom Kippur War, and the life of Americans in Israel during the Yom Kippur War. Anti-semitic material includes a report from the Committee for Equal Justice for Marvin Kessler. Collection also contains correspondence by Bill Novak.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-216

The Jewish Vocational Aid Society, Boston, founded by Mrs. Margaret Davidson and incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts in 1907 as the Jewish Children's Aid Society; original purpose was in aiding destitute Jewish children. In 1936 became known as the Jewish Vocational Aid Society; members focused efforts on raising funds for needy Jewish students. Later, eligibility for scholarships was expanded to include non-Jewish students as well. In 1973 was forced to transfer most of its funds to the Combined Jewish Philanthropies and become a constituent agency of the latter organization. In 1979, remaining funds were transferred to the CJP and the JVAS was effectively dissolved. Collection contains JVAS materials dating from its beginnings as the JCAS and ending with correspondence between Mrs. Margaret Goldman (granddaughter of Margaret Davidson) and the CJP in 1979. Included are invitations and notices of meetings and functions (1920's-1968) and a program for a reception and dance given by the "Destitute Children's Aid Society" (February 21, 1910), invitations to memorials for Mrs. Davidson, speeches and reports (1933-1964), a certificate officially changing the organization's name from the Jewish Children's Aid Society to the Jewish Vocational Aid Society, JVAS by-laws, program books for annual brunches and luncheons (1943-1970), appeals for money, miscellaneous financial reports, lists of committees and an election ballot, case reports, papers marking the transferring of funds from the JVAS to the Combined Jewish Philanthropies, correspondence with the CJP, miscellaneous correspondence, a program book for the 25th anniversary celebration of the Jewish Children's Aid Society (November 28, 1933), newspaper clippings (1960's), and miscellaneous printed materials.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-32

Contains the correspondence of the Anti-Nazi Boycott Committee of the Jewish War Veterans appealing for support against Nazi activities in the United States, 1933, and to assist Nazi sufferers in Europe, as well as other correspondence and printed material describing the purpose, history, and activities of the national organization and local chapters. Includes a scrapbook (1924-1930) containing newspaper clippings in English and in Yiddish relating to these activities, and protests against the massacres of the Jews in Romania and the riots in Palestine in 1929, as well as appeals for financial and political support on behalf of Palestine Jewry. A large portion of this collection consists of photographs depicting the work of the organization.

The collection is in English and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-98

Contains the correspondence between Mrs. Augusta Ellis Johnson, a Jewish American citizen living in Lima, Peru, and General Alvin P. Horey, United States Minister to Peru, asking American intervention for the release of her 14 year old son Joseph who was forcibly baptized on October 27, 1868, by Dr. Jose Jesus Aylbon, curat of St. Marcelo, and abducted by the Spanish friars of the Convent of the Descalzos. The dispensation of the incident is not known.

The collection is in English and Spanish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-191

Contains background material, minutes of meetings (1947-1972, incomplete), correspondence (1947-1972), memoranda and miscellaneous publications pertaining to the question of religion in the public schools, release time and kosher slaughtering.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-932

Shirley T. Joseph was a feminist Jewish activist involved in a number of advocacy groups and community organizations working locally (in Buffalo, New York), nationally, and internationally. She attended three of the United Nations’ World Conferences on Women (in 1980, 1985, and 1995), and the bulk of the collection documents these events in the records of various planning committees, personal correspondence, official UN documentation, collections of news clippings, and Joseph’s own notes, speeches, and articles.

English

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-77

The Judah family originated as colonial merchants who settled in New York and Richmond. Their descendants included Issac H. Judah, the first hazzan of Beth Shalom Congregation in Richmond. Primarily consisting of legal importation records, this collection also contains sermons, correspondence and estate inventories.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-116

There is little information on the Kadimah Zionist Club as an organization other than being a regional branch of the Zionist Organization of America. Past presidents included Benjamin Rabalsky, Morris Rabinovitz, and Max Miller. The club occupied two locations, 27 School Street in Boston in 1929 and by 1934 and 1935, Barristers Hall, also in Boston. This collection contains the records of the Kadimah Zionist Club, 1929-1935. It includes a membership list for January 1929, letters sent to members from the president announcing upcoming meetings, and an undated raffle book. The raffle book is of interest as it is a raffle for two paintings, "Tower of David " and "Palestine Dwellings" done by the artist Joseph Tepper. Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-40

Contains correspondence, printed material, and photographs relating to Jews in the medical profession, used as a basis for Kagan's several works on Jews in medicine, including the correspondence of members of the American Physicians Fellowship Committee of the Israel Medical Association; includes also correspondence relating to the Near East and the internationalization of Jerusalem, 1945-1954; and personal correspondence. Among the correspondents are Bernard M. Baruch and Christian A. Herter.

The collection is predominantly in English, with some Hebrew, German, and French.

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Identification number: P-148

Abraham Kamberg was a Springfield attorney and art collector. The bulk of this collection contains art catalogs, newsletters and prints of artwork donated by Kamberg to museums as well as for local exhibits. Two scrapbooks of news clippings highlighting events in Kamberg's personal and professional life are also included, as well as some correspondence, photographs, and organizational material.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-864

Judge Jacob J. Kaplan, born March 12 1889, was a prominent and well-respected judge in Boston, Massachusetts. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Kaplan spent seven years under the tutelage of Louis Brandeis, and gained skills that led to employment at the distinguished law firm of Nutter, McClennen and Fish. As a senior partner at Nutter, McClennen and Fish, Kaplan earned great respect from his colleagues and soon began his career as a judge with a seat as the Justice of the Dorchester Municipal Court. Among his many interests was the financial welfare of the city of Boston. This is reflected in the choice to serve on the board of the Boston Finance Commission. This collection contains a eulogy, photographs, a patent, and scrapbooks of articles regarding his work while a member of the Boston Finance Commission.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-697

The collection consists of material relating to Betty Kaplan's involvement in two volunteer philanthropic groups affiliated with the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital (Brooklyn, NY): the Lillian R. Spector League and the Mildred Forman Foundation for Cardiac Children. Included are minutes of meetings of the LRSL, anniversary journals and correspondence of the LRSL, and a photograph album of a dinner given by the LRSL honoring Betty Kaplan. Also included is an anniversary album of the MFFCC and newspaper clippings relating to Betty Kaplan's work with MFFCC.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-92

Contains autobiographical material, personal correspondence, speeches, certificates and awards, and information on private business ventures including the New Orleans "Jewish Ledger" which he served as legal counsel and Sports, Inc., a sports promotional group. Includes also materials relating to the B'nai Brith, among these being financial records (1953, 1961), Board of Governors business and minutes (1956, 1961, 1962), activities of various committees, fund raising, and correspondence; The Anti-Defamation League including materials of the National Executive Committee, financial reports, the suit against the Jordanian Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair, discussions with the National Community Relations Advisory Council, plus material pertaining to anti-semitism, the church-state question, civil rights, and right-wing political organizations in the United States. Among the B'nai Brith activities are found information concerning the Hillel Foundations, Israel Bond Program, National Service Committee for the Armed Forces and Veterans, Old Folks Home and Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., Vocational Service, Women's Organization, and Youth Organization.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-488

The Kehillath Israel Synagogue Collection includes numerous photographs, publications and event information pertaining to services, fundraisers and anniversaries at the Synagogue from its first official year in 1924 to more recently, 2001. The primary bulk of the papers consist of photographs, K.I. Brotherhood papers and ephemera, and activities supported by the Synagogue. Kehillath Israel was home to noteworthy Rabbis, including Louis M. Epstein, Judah Nadich, and Manual Saltzman. Correspondence, photographs and programs about events regarding these three Rabbis are included in this collection. Also part of the collection are several scrapbooks, most of which are very fragile, that offer a glimpse into the synagogue's own historical documentation process.

Please Note:This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is predominantly in English, with Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-680

The bulk of the collection documents Kenen's Zionist activities, his work with the United Nations, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and its predecessor organizations and the Near East Report. Materials include correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, publications, press releases, manuscripts, notes, photographs, speeches, and scrapbooks.

The collection is in English and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-511

Contains correspondence, newsletters and minutes of meetings of the Non-Sectarian Committee for German Refugee Children, which was established in 1938 to lobby the U.S. government to allow immigration for refugee children. Also contains correspondence, pamphlets, newspaper articles and editorials and congressional testimony relating to the 1939 Wagner-Rogers Bill authorizing the admittance of German refugee children to the U.S; and correspondence pertaining to this legislation from the Jewish Children's Bureau of Chicago (1939). Among the more important correspondents are Stephen S. Wise, Robert F. Wagner, Justin Wise Polier, Eugene Meyer and Dorothy Canfield Fisher.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-25

Contains correspondence and related material of the Committee organized to sponsor the Kishinev Protest Meeting held on May 27, 1903, at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Includes letters from Carl Schurz, Lyman Abbott, and Newell D. Hillis; addresses of former President Grover Cleveland and Robert S. MacArthur; resolutions adopted at the meeting; and a copy of the appeal sent to Czar Nicholas II of Russia to protect Jewish rights.

The collection is in English, with some French and Russian.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-879

This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Abraham Klausner, including articles written by and about him, research materials for his articles and his memoir, correspondence, and Klausner's personal and military records. These materials reflect his active involvement with Displaced Persons and the DP Camps in Postwar Germany as well as his sometimes complicated relationships with the Joint Distribution Committee and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA).

English, Yiddish, German, Hebrew and French

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Identification number: P-386

The transcripts and articles in this collection were either written by Rose Klein or transcribed by Klein from The Massachusetts Spy, originally printed between 1775-1845. Klein's papers include those on Jewish life in Worcester, Massachusetts. Transcripts from The Massachusetts Spy are those that are anti-Semitic in nature and were most likely used as research for Klein's articles. This collection does not contain any original documentation.
Please note: Located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-7

The Papers of Max J. Kohler (1871-1934) document his life's work as lawyer, historian, author, researcher, and defender of Jewish and immigrant rights. Correspondents include many of Kohler's contemporaries in the field of history and immigration law including Cyrus Adler, William Taft, John Bassett Moore, Mortimer Schiff, David Hunter Miller, Baron and Baroness de Hirsch, the Straus Family including Oscar Straus; Luigi Luzzatti, Leon Huhner, and Julian Mack. Subjects include U.S. immigration law, American-Jewish history, Col. Alfred Dreyfus, Haym Salomon, Ellis Island, Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler, the publication God in Freedom international treaties and the Peace Conference of 1919.

The collection is in English, German, French, Yiddish, Hebrew, and Italian.

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Identification number: P-90

The collection contains manuscript and published material pertaining to Kohs' career as a psychologist and social worker. Included also is extensive personal correspondence of a general nature and Kohs' specific involvement with Jewish communal institutions. A major portion consists of material pertaining to the National Coordinating Committee and his work with Jewish immigrants. The major correspondents in terms of quantity are Harry Barron, William Haber, and Jacob Billikopf. The collection also contains lecture notes and bibliographies for courses at the New York Graduate School of Jewish Social Work and other academic institutions, psychological tests devised by Kohs, manuscript and published versions of speeches and articles as well as personal memorabilia and an autobiographical sketch.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-903

William Korey Papers document life and works of a prominent human rights expert who played a leadership role in the American Soviet Jewry movement. Dr. Korey served as a regional director of Anti-Defamation League and later as a founding director of B'nai Brith International's U.N. office which worked on the problem of discrimination faced by the Jews in the Soviet Union. Dr. Korey was deeply involved in the processes pivotal to the success of the Sovet Jewry movement, such as the defense of the Helsinki Accords and the adoption of the Jackson-Vanik amendment. Parallel to his work on behalf of Soviet Jewry Dr. Korey participated i n the efforts to realize the U.S. ratification of the genocide treaty that eventually came to fruition in 1988. William Korey authored hundreds of articles and essays and a number of books on the subjects related to the Jews in the Soviet Union. He taught at the Long Island University, City College of New York, Columbia University, Brooklyn College and several other major universities. The William Korey papers include materials from the late 1940s through 2010, and the bulk of the collection is dated 1970s-1990s. The documents include manuscripts, correspondence, notes, publications, news clippings, photographs and a data CD.

The collection is in English and Russian.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-269

Consists primarily of mimeographed copies of thirteen travel diaries prepared by Nettie Kosminsky and her sister Myrtle Cassett in the course of their travels around the world. They are personal in nature and contain primarily anecdotal material on each place visited. Also contains photocopied typescripts of speeches delivered by Meyer Friede in the Missouri legislature on slavery (1860), and a reply to an anti-Semitic statement made by another legislator (1861).

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-673

Papers of Louis Kraft, social worker, writer, executive director of the Jewish Welfare Board from 1938 to 1947. The collection is valuable to researchers studying the Jewish Community Center movement, in particular the activities of the National Jewish Welfare Board during the 1940's, as well as the reestablishment of Jewish community life in Europe after World War II. The collection contains correspondence, minutes, financial and fund raising documents, newspaper clippings, publications, agenda of meetings and conferences, resolutions, annual reports, and handwritten notes. Also included are personal items such as certificates, scrapbooks, diaries, greeting cards, and photographs.

The collection is in English, French, Hebrew, and German.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-934

The collection documents the trip to the Soviet Union that Dr. Irwin H. Krasna, a pediatric surgeon, and his twin brother, Dr. Alvin I. Krasna, a Professor of Biochemistry at Columbia University, took in September-October 1971, traveling under the auspices of Arye Kroll, a prominent Israeli Zionist and representative of Lishkat Hakesher (commonly known as Nativ), the Israeli liaison Bureau that carried out clandestine activities to establish contact with Jews in Eastern Europe during the Cold War to encourage them to immigrate to Israel. Materials include a manuscript, an audiocassette and photographs.

The collection is in English and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-935

The papers of the Soviet Jewry movement activist Constance S. Kreshtool of Wilmington, DE, who was active in the Delaware Committee on Soviet Jewry contain her correspondence with the Refuseniks in the Soviet Union and postal return receipts, a newspaper article describing her trip to the USSR in 1978, and a letter to the Jewish Family Services on behalf of a Soviet Jewish family.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-4

Contains the minute book (May-December 1898) and other material of the Ladies' Patriotic Relief Society of Newark, N.J. organized to assist needy families during the Spanish-American War; a diary for the War Period, and mimeographed copies of the Kussy family genealogy and the history of Miriam Auxiliary of Oheb Shalom Congregation in Newark from 1880-1945.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-515

The Ladies Bikur Cholim Society of Roxbury, Massachusetts, was the founding organization of Jewish Memorial Hospital. In the 1920s, Beth Israel Hospital moved to a larger medical facility in Boston and sold their existing building to the Society. The president at the time of the building's purchase was Ida Cooper. This collection contains the minutes book of the Board of Directors meetings, with meeting minutes and membership lists from 1928-1932. The meeting minutes specifically discuss the purchase of the old Beth Israel Hospital Building (dated October 2, 1928.) Minutes are well-written and detailed, and provide additional insight into the founding a nd beginnings of Jewish Memorial Hospital.
Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-332

The bulk of this collection consists of anniversary or souvenir journals for approximately 90 landsmanshaftn.

The collection is in English and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-785

Lt. Col. Rachel Diane (Rae) Landy was a nursing pioneer in the development of health services in Palestine under the auspices of Hadassah from 1913-1915, and served as a U.S. Army nurse in World War I through World War II. The collection documents hospital care in Palestine and the history of Hadassah; career women in the early 20th century, particularly military personnel and profession innovators; and the Cleveland, Ohio Jewish community, school system, and George Crile U.S. Army Hospital. Documents include correspondence, reminiscences, legal documents, newspaper and magazine clippings, and photographs.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-518

The Lavanburg-Corner House (LCH) Fund was a philanthropic fund started in 1927 under the Lavanburg Foundation. Its mission was to support/fund agencies that dealt with troubled children and youth. The LCH Fund became fully philanthropic in 1972. The collection contains bills, by-laws, correspondence, financial statements, histories, letters, meeting minutes, memorandums, newspaper clippings, proposals, publications, and reports of the Lavanburg-Corner House Fund.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-915

The papers of Philip Lax document his work with four major organizations: the American Jewish Historical Society, B'nai B'rith International, National Conference on Soviet Jewry, and Ellis Island Restoration Commission. The collection documents the years 1915 to 2008, with the bulk of the material dating from the 1970s and 1980s. The papers contain photographs, correspondence, speeches, publications, subject files, and organizational records, such as minutes, financials, memorandums, agendas, and reports.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-2

Lazarus is best remembered as author of "The New Colossus" and as a strong supporter of Jewish immigrants' rights. Her collection includes correspondence, articles, a notebook of her poetry, published copies of her poems and copies of her obituaries.

The collection is in English and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-20

Contains letters and articles in manuscript to Leeser pertaining to: his work as editor of , his translation of the Bible and his other literary works; discussions concerning Jewish law, the Reform movement in the United States and in Cura?ao; Reform and Orthodox Judaism in Albany, N.Y., Massachusetts Senator Henry Wilson's anti-Semitic comments in the United States Congress; the founding of a synagogue in San Francisco; the condition of Jews and Jewish education in America and in England; equal rights for Jews in Massachusetts and North Carolina; the controversy over the Touro Monument; slavery and the Civil War; and converts to Judaism. Also includes information on Israel Joseph Benjamin's trip in the U.S., 1859-1862; Isaac Mayer Wise; Sabato Morais; a manuscript guidebook on Jewish ritual slaughter written by Moses Julian in Barbados in 1820; Moses Montefiore's report on his mission to Rome on behalf of the Edgardo Mortara affair; articles discussing Christian theology; the Jews in Cochin, India and in China; a Latin preface to Leeser's Hebrew Bible; a Portuguese prayer against the evil eye; and poems on topics of Jewish interest.

The collection is in English, French, German, Hebrew, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, and Yiddish.

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Identification number: P-154

Raphael Lemkin, an international lawyer, initiated the use of the term "genocide," and succeeded in persuading the United Nations to adopt the Genocide Convention in 1948. Documents include personal correspondence and artifacts; correspondence, documentation, clippings, and articles regarding the United Nations adoption of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment on the Crime of Genocide treaty; and source material for the unfinished manuscript, History of Genocide. Collection includes photographs, identity cards, articles, papers, essays, clippings, magazines, research materials, term papers, posters, United Nations materials, and microfilm.

The collection is in English, French, Hebrew, German, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Lithuanian.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-902

The Howard Lenhoff Papers were generated and accumulated by Howard Lenhoff starting with his involvement with the American Association for Ethiopian Jews (AAEJ) in 1974 and running up until his final preparations for his book, Black Jews, Jews and Other Heroes: How Grassroots Activism Led to the Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews (2007). In addition to chronicling Lenhoff’s participation in AAEJ, the collection documents AAEJ’s relationships with other activists and organizations; Israeli government officials’ responses to AAEJ pressure; requests for help and stories of trau ma from the Ethiopian Jews; AAEJ’s extensive publicity efforts; and American Jewish press coverage of the struggles of Ethiopian Jewry. The materials include correspondence, clippings, notes, drafts, photographs, audiocassettes and posters.

The collection is in English, Amharic and Hebrew, with a few items in Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Russian, Spanish and Yiddish.

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Identification number: I-524

This collection contains information about the Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital located in Hot Springs, Ark. The collection also includes Board Meetings, the Constitution and By-Laws of the Hospital Annual Reports and the Hospital Newsletter.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-592

Harry Levine was the Massachusetts President and Chairman of the Board of the U.S. Plastic and Chemical Company. He was highly involved in the establishment of the State of Israel, primarily related to his facilitating the construction and import of Uzi submachine guns into then British-Mandated Palestine. The majority of this collection includes transcribed interviews with Levine, photographs and correspondence. Biographical information, certificates, speeches and news articles are also included.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-625

Israel Levine was a Hebrew teacher, poet and Yiddish writer from Malden, Massachusetts. This collection contains translations of works into Hebrew and Yiddish, published works in Hebrew and Yiddish, biographical material and correspondence.
Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-646, P-646A

Leo Levine was born Leizers Levins in Riga, Latvia, on September 30, 1907. He worked as a European war correspondent until the outbreak of World War II. After immigrating to Dorchester circa 1941, Levine wrote freelance newspaper columns about the war, including several that were published in St. John’s, Newfoundland’s The Telegram. Levine was also an artist. Leo Levine died in November 1980.

The addendum contains materials about Leo Levine's wife, Sylvia Shlifer Levine, and their daughter, Helena Levine Ryan. Sylvia immigrated from Russia in 1913 with her family to escape the pogroms. A graduate of Radcliffe College, she wrote short stories and poems, many of which are included in this collection. Their daughter, Helena Levine Ryan, is a poet and piano teacher. Her work, as well as photographs of the Levine family and various published and unpublished memoirs, are included in this collection.
Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English, French, Portuguese, and Latvian.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-48

Contains clippings, letters, certificates and photographs relating to the activities of Levy in private life and as a Representative of the state of N.Y. to the U.S. Congress with special emphasis on fiscal and labor legislation; the suffering of the Jews in Russia and Rumania and the attempts for the amelioration of their condition; and the controversy over the purchase of Thomas Jefferson's home at Monticello owned by Levy. The latter constitutes the greater part of the collection. Includes also correspondence of Amelia Mayhoff, 1901-1939, sister of Levy, and documents relating to the military career of Monroe Mayhoff, 1910-1930.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-412

Contains papers and documents dealing with Levy's involvement in the disposition of Monticello, owned by his brother, Uriah P. Levy, Jonas P. Levy's claims against the U.S. government for losses suffered during the war with Mexico, 1843-1846, and two items relating to the Civil War.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-43

Uriah Phillips Levy rose to the rank of Commodore in the United States Navy in the midst of religious hostility. He succeeded in abolishing corporal punishment in the Navy and is credited for preserving Thomas Jefferson's estate, Monticello. His papers consist of correspondence, financial and legal records, publications, papers, newspaper articles, a notebook, and a book.

The collection is in English with some Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-869

The papers and the oral history of Leah Lieberman reflect the creation and the early activities of the Brooklyn Coalition for Soviet Jewry. Materials include minutes, memorandums, correspondence, photos and a DVD.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-636

This collection contains speeches and lectures in both draft and final form.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-346

Head of the Department of Information and Statistics, from 1921-27 under th Jewish Social Research Bureau, and from 1927-32 the American Jewish Committee; Director of the Jewish Statistical Bureau, 1932- ) Linfield served as "special agent" for Jewish data for the United States Bureau of the Census in the Decennial Censuses of Religious Bodies in 1926, 1936 and 1946. The majority of the collection contains the original materials related to gathering census information about Jews and original materials which are to be used in compiling a Jewish directory that Linfield planned to publish but never did. These materials are filed together and arranged alphabetically by state, with a section on New York City at the end. Also includes census information on homes for the aged, hospitals, state hospital admissions, federations, orphan homes and national organizations.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-631

The Davidson/Borison family connection, a genealogy saga. Part I -- Davidson -- Borison (Datz-Kowsky Borishnikov; v. I -- Mauerberger/Mayerberg; v. II -- Mauerberger/Mayerberg Komisarsky family; v. III part A--Nathan family v. III part B--Nathan family v. III part B--Nathan family. v. IV Wistenetzky family; v. V--Miller family. v. VI--Capin family. v. VII--Lipshitz/Konheym family. v. VIII--Aron Wistenetzky family.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-858

The Lipsky Family Papers reflect the professional and personal activities of Eleazar Lipsky (1911-1993), his father, Zionist leader Louis Lipsky (1876-1963), and his mother, Charlotte Lipsky (1879-1959), as well as other family members. Eleazar Lipsky was a lawyer, novelist, Zionist and the head of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in the early 1960s. While working on a multi-part family novel, Eleazar Lipsky gathered and arranged much of the family material in this collection. In addition to family history, the collection contains information on the American Zionist movement, Bernard Richards's role in the Committee of Jewish Delegations at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, and various legal battles involving such parties as the Jewish Week, the American Examiner, Doubleday, Philip Hochstein and Lillie Shultz. The materials include correspondence, an unfinished manuscript, legal transcripts, clippings, speeches, research materials, financial documents, miscellaneous writings and a few photographs.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-672

Louis Lipsky (1876-1963) was a noted Zionist leader, journalist and writer. The collection contains personal correspondence, memoranda, speeches, magazine and newspaper articles, manuscripts, drafts of books, and organizational materials concerning the Zionist movement and various Jewish organizations.

The collection is in English, Yiddish, Hebrew and German.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-138

Contains a typescript of memoirs (some sections in several drafts) covering the period until 1907 and describing Lisan's youth in Russia, his journey to America, his early years in Philadelphia, and his travels throughout Pennsylvania. The memoirs also relate in some detail Lisan's Zionist activities in Russia and America and his reaction to world Jewish events. Includes also correspondence covering the years 1902-1969 dealing with Lisan's Zionist activities, as well as announcements (1909-1910) of the Maccabean Zionist Society in Philadelphia and receipts and a Land Certificate from the American Zion Commonwealth and a share certificate from the Jewish Colonial Trust.

The collection is predominantly in English, with some Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-46

Referred to as a predecessor of today's female rabbis, Litman held a dual career as a journalist and a preacher. Her papers consist of correspondence, speeches, sermons, papers, articles, poems, programs, an autograph book, and a scrapbook.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-921

The collection contains a family member-written biographical and narrative genealogy of the Loewentheil and Brevda families entitled, , documenting the family slightly before their arrival in America prior to 1906 to approximately to 2003. The text is 125 pages long and includes family historical narrative and color photograph pages. The author is Stephen Loewentheil. Photograph pages include family members, death certificates, transcripts, correspondence, and ephemera. The narrative weaves the Loewentheil's and Brevda's family history from the viewpoint of an immi grant family in America.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-347

Contains the research notes and writings relating to London's works on early American Jewish portraits, miniatures, and silhouettes, which includes family histories of the subjects of the artwork, biographical information on the artists, and information about the works themselves. Also includes items relating to London's personal life, such as her genealogy and a notebook of letters written by her son Robert who was killed in action in World War II during his service in the army. Contains notes, manuscripts, published and unpublished articles and poetry, art catalogs, legal documents, lantern slides, photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, genealogical charts, handwritten sheet music, military medals, sound recordings, a theater program, a scrapbook, and a binder that contained correspondence.

The collection is in English, with one item in Spanish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-11

Aaron Lopez (1731-1782) was a Jew of the Converso (converted) community of Portugal. In order to freely practice Judaism, he and his family left Portugal and relocated to British North America settling in Newport, Rhode Island and later, Massachusetts. He began a successful mercantile business and eventually became a key supplier of the American revolutionary forces. The collection contains numerous shipping records along with correspondence and accounts with merchants, mercantile families and firms including Henry Lloyd of Boston, Henry Cruger of Bristol, George Hayley of London, William Stead of Sheffield and New Bedford whaler Joseph Rotch. The collection contains manifests, mercantile accounts, notations, correspondence and inventories of estates for several of the children of Aaron Lopez.

The collection is in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French and some Hebrew/Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-210

The Louisa May Alcott Club was established in November of 1895 at 9 Rochester Street in Boston, Massachusetts. It operated as a self-governing club with 11-17 year old girls. A constitution was set in place that ensured the girls would each pay five cents a week towards the club, but only while they were working. The participating girls were all immigrants or children of immigrants, and classes were held at the building to teach the girls English, cooking and sewing. In 1896/1897 the club moved to a building at 17 Oswego Street. This collection includes a typescript of a description of the club, written by someone with the initials M.M.R.
Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-140

The collection contains correspondence, journals, diaries, documents, photographs, memorabilia and printed materials relating to the life, writings, Zionist activities and relief work on behalf of German Jewry of Marvin Lowenthal. Includes material on his youth, school work and college years as well as autobiographical writings and family correspondence containing information on Horace Kallen and early 20th century Zionist activities. The more important of his later correspondence was conducted with Jacob Billikopf, Jerome Frank, Horace M. Kallen, Elmer Rice, Eugene C. Taylor and Stephen S. Wise.

The collection is in English, French, German, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-386

This collection is comprised of catalogs, invitations and programs to conventions and dinners, correspondence "Letters From the Rebbe,” information on the Chai Foundation concerning promotional posters in the New York subway and promotional material concerning the Jewish Children's Exposition. Of special interest to researchers will be the anti-Lubavitch literature contained in the collection. Also found in the collection are the following publications: Beis Chabad (undated), L'chaim Moshiach (undated), Lubavitch Digest (1980-1982), Lubavitch Minnesota (1991-1994), Lubavitch News (1971-1977), Lubavitch News Service (1976-1981), Lubavitch Times (1987-1993), Lubavitch of Vermont (1987-1988), Tzivos Hashem Children's Newsletter (1985-1993), Tzivos Hashem Update (1986-1988), miscellaneous Hebrew publications and miscellaneous individual publications (A-Z).

This collection is in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-73

The Lynn Hebrew Young Men's Aid Association was founded in 1903 by a group of Lynn men who wanted to assist new Jewish immigrants. In the 1940s, Lynn was no longer a community of immigrants, and the focus of the organization began to change. Now members utilized the club for various medical and insurance benefits, as well as for socializing. By January 1970 the Jewish community in Lynn had dwindled and the organization voted to dissolve the organization. This collection includes financial and membership ledgers, by-laws in Yiddish and English, and membership forms and cards.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-15

Jacques Judah Lyons, hazzan, rabbi and community leader, was born in Surinam and emigrated to Philadelphia in the early 1800s. Minister of the New York Congregation Shearith Israel for 38 years, he gathered extensive materials on early Jewish history in the United States, Canada and the West Indies. His papers include manuscripts, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, notebooks, photographs and a Sansom ship's log book. Contains material relating to Jews in North and South America generally and more specifically to Congregation Shearith Israel and the Jews in New York, the Touro Synagogue and cemetery and the Jews in Newport, Rhode Island, Philadelphia and the West Indies. Also contains material relating to Jews in the wars of the United States, correspondence of the Jews with George Washington and items relating to Haym Salomon. Collection consists of manuscript material and five notebooks and three scrapbooks of Lyons. Contains also material not listed in calendar consisting of sermons by Lyons, a manuscript prayer book used in Surinam and a guide for religious ceremonies at Congregation Shearith Israel, as well as letters written during the Civil War period and correspondence relating to the personal life and career of Lyons.

The collection is in English, Dutch, Hebrew, Spanish, and Portuguese.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-6

Contains correspondence and various legal and business documents in Yiddish and in English including letters from Solomon Lyons' brother Isaace Solomon in Kremzier (Austria), Lyons' wills (1802, 1804), documents relating to Catherine Gordon of Philadelphia, one of which contains signatures of E. Cohen and Abigail Delyon (1800), a document of protest against Elkin Solomin, broker in Baltimore (1788), bond of Barnet Joseph to Lyons (1793), and a document signed by Leonard Jacoby in Philadelphia (1800).

The collection is in English and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-501

The MACHAL, the acronym for “Mitnadvei Hutz LaAretz” ("Volunteers from Abroad"), consisted of about 3500 men and women from over 40 countries from a variety of social and religious backgrounds who volunteered to fight for the establishment of Israel. This collection is unique in that it deals specifically with the experience of MACHAL and Aliyah Bet volunteers from Canada and the United States and others living in the United States. The collections consists of files on 500 volunteers, over 2000 original and reproduction photographs, numerous audio-visual material, books, manuscripts, and memoirs.

The collection is in English, French, and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-47

The collection consists primarily of portraits and photographs of American Jews in the 18th to 20th centuries and materials related to Markens' book on Abraham Lincoln.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-24

Louis Marshall, a leader in American Judaism, was born in Syracuse, New York. He moved to New York City and graduated from Columbia Law School in 1877; in 1894, he joined the law firm of Guggenheimer and Untermyer, later becoming a partner in the firm. Marshall was a Reform Jew; president and stragetist of the American Jewish Committee; Chairman of the Commission of Immigration in New York state; and led the opposition concerning the establishment of literacy tests for new immigrants. Marshall was a defender of Leo Frank, a negotiator in the Peace Conference of 1919, and attempted to block Henry Ford's publication, the Dearborn Independent, due to anti-Semitic rhetoric. Though Marshall was a somewhat controversial figure in American Judaism, he nonetheless worked diligently on issues regarding Jewish immigration and rights. The collection contains correspondence, memoranda, pamphlets, minutes, reports, and copies of Congressional bills.

The collection is primarily in English with some Yiddish news clippings.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-56 and I-56A

The Massachusetts Board of Rabbis was founded in 1938 as the Rabbinical Association of Greater Boston by Rabbis Herman Rubenovitz, Louis Epstein, Joshua Loth Lieberman, Beryl D. Cohen, and Sam Abrams. During the 1970s the Board focused on its chaplaincy work in hospitals as well as timely topics, such as social action, chevruta, and health insurance for Rabbis. This collection contains minutes, correspondence and statements regarding the Board's work around hospital chaplaincy, kashruth, Israel, intermarriage, and the Vietnam War.

Please Note:This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-559

The collection consists of playbills of "Rookwood" (1864?) and "La Juive" (undated); letters to "Dear Brother Ed" (1862), Henry Francis Keenan (1862) and J.C. Hotten (1868); two photograph Cartes De Visite and a photograph and negative of Menken with Algernon C. Swinburne.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-23

An important figure in the social welfare movement, Menken devoted much of her life to working with women in the penal system. The collection contains publications about social reform by Menken and others. Personal materials include scrapbooks and travel notebooks. Also includes correspondence, reports, etc. relating to activities with the Society of New York State Women, Jewish Welfare Board, Jewish Protectory and Aid Society (later called Jewish Board of Guardians), New York City Woman's Night Court, Hudson State Training School, New York State Reformatory for Women, Society for Political Study, Daughters of American Revolution, Progressive Party, Mayor's Committee of Women on National Defense, New York, Congregation Shearith Israel, Florence Crittendon League, Committee of Fourteen and the Inwood House; includes also journals, diaries and other material relating to personal life, and a biographical sketch submitted to the Jewish Biographical Bureau, and copies of published and manuscript articles. Contains a "Survey of Reformatory and Correctional Institutions and Agencies As Related To The Problem of Commercialized Vice" in manuscript, submitted in August 1919 and also material relating to program and activities of New York Training.

The collection is in English, French, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-217

The Boston Meretz Relief Association (Boston MRA) was founded by the Jewish immigrants of the town of Meretz, Lithuania, Russia. Officially incorporated in 1893, the Boston MRA was an association that celebrated their Meretz identity and heritage, as well as a humanitarian association dedicated to assist all Meretzers in need, whether in Boston or in Israel. This collection contains constitutions, meeting minutes, financial reports, correspondence, photographs (including photos of the Lithuanian town of Meretz and its inhabitants between the two World Wars), and miscellaneous historical information.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-587

The collection documents three generations of a Jewish American family: the Metz, Greene, and Stone families. The collection contains correspondence between family members, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, baby, confirmation, and wedding photo albums, and ephemera.

The collection is in English and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-3

Contains 23 procesos (transcripts of trials) of individuals accused of Judaizing. 8 of the procesos are originals; 15 are typed transcriptions from the Inquisition Records of the Archivo General de la Naciâon (Mexico). Two of the transcriptions are also translated into English. The trials range in date from 1572 to 1768. The collection also includes correspondence of Cyrus Adler, Samuel Oppenheim, and E. Nott Anable relating to Mexican Inquisition records.

The collection is in English and Spanish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-905

Isidore Meyer was an editor (1940-1968), librarian (1940-1962) and archivist (1940-1968) at the American Jewish Historical Society and a rabbi at the Jewish Center of Bay Shore, Long Island (1937-1943). Also a historian, Meyer wrote and spoke on the use, study and impact of Hebrew language and texts during the colonial period in the United States. The collection documents his AJHS career, historical writing and research, rabbinical work, teaching experience and general professional activities. Materials include correspondence, manuscripts, notes, photostats, clippings, printed materials , photograp hs, slides and negatives.

The collection is in English, Hebrew, German and Yiddish, with a few items in Dutch, French, Italian and Spanish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-808

The Michaelson family papers include early family correspondence, documents, and ephemera; genealogical research conducted by Ms. Appleby, Anna's granddaughter; copies of New York City marriage certificates kept by Louis/Lewis B. Michaelson, Rabbi, between 1906-1907; and Anna Michaelson's copies of original birth records that she kept as midwife in the Lower East Side in New York City between 1892-1916. The collection is valuable for researchers interested in the Lower East Side between 1890-1920, Russian immigration to the United States, acculturation of immigrant families to America, midwives, the Jewish communities in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Trenton, New Jersey, the Boys Institute in the Lower East Side, and the National Committee for Relief of Sufferers by Russian Massacres. In addition, this collection is rich in genealogy material, for researchers interested in the Michaelson family, births in the Lower East Side between 1892-1916, and marriages in New York City between 1907-1909. The collection contains correspondence, a family tree, birth certificates, memo pads, marriage certificates, meeting minutes, photographs, and a prescription pad.

The collection is predominantly in English, with some Hebrew, Russian, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-901

This collection contains the papers of Ernest W. Michel, Holocaust Survivor Journalist and public speaker, including clippings of newspaper articles written by and about Michel, correspondence between Michel and many important Jewish and political figures and autograph files, which Michel collected. Many of these files concern Michel’s Holocaust experiences, speaking engagements, the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, and Michel's work with the United Jewish Appeal.

English, Hebrew, Yiddish, German, French, Polish, Romanian, Danish

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-885

This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Goldie Milgram, including articles written by and about her, liturgical and teaching materials, correspondence, schoolwork and essays written by Milgram as well as schoolwork that was submitted to her as a teacher, clippings, and personal papers belonging to her and to her family members. These materials reflect her participation with the Jewish Renewal movement as well as her work teaching about Jewish spiritual practices.

English, Hebrew, Russian, Dutch

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-553

The Milontaler family were second- and third- generation Jewish immigrants from Roxbury, Massachusetts. Louis Millionthaler immigrated from what was then Suwalki, Poland to the North End of Boston in the late 19th century. His son Maurice Milontaler was a shop owner and amateur writer who wrote a memoir about Jewish life in the North End. The majority of this collection includes Maurice Milontaler's notes for his memoir, as well as the finished product. Photographs, correspondence and course notebooks from Harold Milontaler's years at Harvard University are also included. Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-387

This collection consists of the following publications: Individual publications: Miscellaneous A-Z, Key (1973), The Truth Center (1958), and miscellaneous publications of Jewish response to the Jesus Movement. Periodicals: American Messianic Jewish Quarterly (1975-1979), Besorat Shalom (undated), Bible Light (1972-1975), Bible Light Star (1976-1981), Chosen People (1966-1974), The Creator(1929-1943), Deeper Life (1978), Forward Day By Day (1990), Genesis Chapter Three (1993), Hear O Israel (undated), Ha'Or (undated), Hebrew Christian Alliance Quarterly (1939), The Interpreter (1963), Israel for Christ (1973), Israelite (1964-1965), Israel's Heritage (1961), Israel's Light to the Israelites (vol.1, no.4), Issues (undated), Jews and Christians (1932), Jews in the News (1949-1950), The Jews and Palestine News (1943), The Jewish Hope (1943, 1947, 1949), Mediator (1938-1946), Message to Israel (1949), The Morning Star (vol.1, no.1), The New World (1970-1979), News! (undated), News Sheet (1936-1950), The Peculiar People (undated), Present Issues (undated), Shabbat Shalom (1986-1994), The Shepherd of Israel (1925-1980), The Shepherd of Israel: The Trumpet Call (no. 11 & 12), The Watchman of Israel (1918), The Worlds Greatest Book (1968-1970), and *World Movement (1931-1934). *This publication can be found in an oversized box OS1 in the shared folders.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-116

Consists of the papers of the following members of the Mordecai family: Moses Mordecai (1707-1781), a bill of exchange (1771), and letters of administration signed by Elizabeth Mordecai (1744-1804), Isaac Moses, and Barnard Gratz, and inventory of his estate, and the accounts of his administratrix (1781-1782); Jacob Mordecai (1762-1838), a discourse delivered at the consecration of Congregation Beth Shalome, Richmond, Virginia (1822); George Washington Mordecai (1801-1871), a stock certificate signed by him as president of the Bank of North Carolina (1863); Alfred Mordecai (1804-1887), four letters on military matters (1838-1859); Alfred Mordecai, Jr. (1840-1920), a commission as captain in the Ordnance Department, signed by President Abraham Lincoln (1864), and a letter of condolence (1870); Rosa Mordecai (1839-1936), three letters to Rosa Mordecai concerning Rebecca Gratz, who apparently served as the model for the Rebecca in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe (1898-1905); Laura Mordecai (1837-1927), letters to her sister, Miriam, and brother, Alfred, about the Chicago World's Fair (1892-3); and Miriam Mordecai (1843-1923), letters to her sister, Laura, about a trip to San Francisco and Seattle for the wedding of their niece (1901), and about her trip to Europe (1907). Also includes a letter of recommendation written by Winfield Scott (1786-1866) on behalf of Capt. Alfred Mordecai, who was on his way to Paris on business.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-70

Consists of a commonplace book containing 102 manuscript poems (and 22 illustrations) apparently by contemporary poets, the majority of which are dedicated to Miss Sarah Ann Hays, including the work of Charles Fenno Hoffmann, Charlotte Meade Graham, and William Keating, an original water color of a view of Major Stephen Long's expedition party crossing the lower falls of the Winnipeg River by Samuel Seymour and other illustrative material; contains also 17 individual items among which are 3 original sketches, a pith drawing by Charlotte Meade Graham and a copy of an 1830 edition of Flora's dictionary.

The collection is in English, French, and Latin.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-178

Mosaic was an academic journal of literature, art, politics and opinion, published by students of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Society of the B'nai B'rith. Its contributing authors consisted of both students and faculty. The exact founding date of the journal is unknown, possibly 1959 or 1960, but it is certain that its last publication was spring of 1971. This collection contains correspondence, financial records and two ledgers, reviews of the publication, and copies of subscription forms, a packing slip and fliers. One of the financial ledgers is fragile and should be handled with care. Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-1

The collection contains business, legal, official, and personal papers and correspondence of the following members of the Moses family: Isaac Moses (1742-1818), Moses Levy Moses (1773-1843), Solomon Moses (1774-1857), Simon G. Moses (1813-1897), Joshua Moses (1780-1837), Isaac Moses (1807-1847), Isaac Moses, Jr. (1819-1889), Israel Moses (1821-1870), Lionel Moses (1825-1895).

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-14

Contains newspaper clippings of Jewish interest from years 1840-1895, primarily from Philadelphia and New York newspapers. Clippings deal extensively with social and domestic affairs in Philadelphia and New York, the persecution of Jews in Russia and Roumania and relief efforts on their behalf by American Jewry and Baron Moritz de Hirsch, religious and cultural efforts and trends, noted Jewish personalities, the history of the Jewish communities in Philadelphia, New York, and elsewhere. Volume 12 contains clippings pertaining to the Philadelphia Board of Governors of the Poor, of which Moss was a member from 1882-1884.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-453

Mount Scopus Lodge in Malden, Massachusetts was a Masonic Lodge established in 1930 by Bertram E. Green and George Kramer. Named for the mountain from which Roman legions and crusaders conducted their assaults on Jerusalem, the Lodge had a strong following in the first ten years of their existence. This collection contains by-laws, concert programs, and a booklet with a historical sketch.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-37

Mt. Sinai Hospital was founded in 1852 as Jews' Hospital, and changed its name to Mt. Sinai Hospital in 1866. The collection includes the minutes of the Board of Directors, annual reports, and other printed material relating to early activities and functions of the Hospital.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-41

Contains constitution, resolutions, minutes, reports, correspondence, etc., relating to the activities of the association which was established by the professional staff of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations of America.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-88

Contains programs and papers read at the Annual Meetings of 1915-1916, the resolution passed at a special meeting in 1915 re the founding the School for Jewish Communal Work, the pension plan proposals, and correspondence re the Summer School for Social Work held jointly with the Jewish Chautauqua Society. Includes correspondence with the American Jewish Committee, National Americanization Committee, National Conference of Jewish Charities, New York City Board of Education, and the U.S. Dept. of Labor Immigration Bureau relating to the work of the association. Contains also the correspondence of Cyrus Adler, Ludwig Bernstein, Louis d. Brandeis, Lee K. Frankel, Israel Friedlander, Oscar Leonard, Louis Levin, Irving Lipsitch, Minnie F. Low, Louis Marshall, Belle Moskowitz, Milton Reizenstein, H.L. Sabsovich, Philip Seman, and Morris D. Waldman.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-526

Contains records on the formation, mission, vision, and activities of the National Center for the Hebrew Language, as reflected in organizational documents (including minutes), event programs and announcements, publications (including the NCHL newsletter, Ivrit Now), photographs, promotional literature (including press releases), media coverage, and the NCHL website.

The collection is in English and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-177

Contains information pertaining to the founding, activities on behalf of President Richard Nixon, correspondence, tape recordings and publications. Includes also the financial records of the National Citizens' Committee.

The collection is in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-181 and I-181A

The collection contains the records of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, the largest and most influential organization created by the American Jews to coordinate efforts on behalf of Soviet Jews, which survives today as NCSJ: Advocates on Behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States & Eurasia. The bulk of the collection covers the activities from the early 1970s through late 1980s. The collection includes minutes of meetings, memoranda, correspondence, newsletters and publications of the NCSJ and its precursor, the American Jewish Committee on Soviet Jewry (1964-1971). Among other materials are individual files Refuseniks, prisoners of conscience and Jewish émigrés. The collection also includes a considerable number of reports from the visits to the USSR by Soviet Jewry Movement activists and other. Significant part of the collection is represented by the audio recordings that include 13 minute programs on the WEVD Radio dedicated to Soviet Jewry topics and recordings of phone conversations with Refuseniks. There is also a considerable number of photographs, posters and publications, several film strips and VHS tapes.

The collection is in English, with some Dutch, French, Georgian, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-469

The records of the National Council of Jewish Women, New York Section document the organization’s community service, advocacy, and supportive administrative, fundraising, membership, and public relations activities from the Section’s early years to the present. Included is a large amount of material from the National Organization in relation to the New York Section. This material is dated from 1896 to 1999 and consists of administrative, events, and advocacy matters. The New York Section’s community services files include its work on aging, child care, consumer telephone referrals, counseling support, crime prevention, the disabled, domestic violence, early child education, feminism, homelessness, hunger, immigrants, Israel, Jewish education and promotion, literacy, probation, the sick, summer recreation for children and the elderly, and war relief. The Section’s advocacy files consist of lobbying efforts for the rights of children, the disabled, the elderly, families, the homeless, immigrants, Israel, and women. The collection is primarily in English, with some Hebrew, Yiddish, German, Greek, Spanish, Chinese, and Italian. Among the types of material are audio tapes, blueprints, correspondence, minutes, photographs, publications, scrapbooks, and scripts.

The collection is in English, with some Hebrew, Yiddish, German, Greek, Spanish, Chinese and Italian.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-249

The collection contains minutes and reports of the Commission on Jewish Chaplaincy, as well as other materials and correspondence.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-172

This collection documents the activities, administrative, planning, proceedings, and correspondence of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council from its founding in 1944 to 1994. The collection includes correspondence, programs, minutes, proposals, reports, clippings, press releases, and publications.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-254

The collection consists of the "Opinions and Attitudes" portion of the questionnaires of the Study sponsored by the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds and directed by Alvin Chenkin and Fred Massarik, as well as detailed maps, population charts and other material related to the Study's sample design directed by Bernard Lazerwitz.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-180

The collection consists mainly of minutes, surveys, reports, photographs and correspondence of both JWB personnel and U.S. military chaplains, directed toward or concerns with the Jewish men in the Armed Forces. The material covers such topics as arrangements for holidays (primarily the High Holy Days and Passover)--special food needs, services, furloughs, prayerbooks; budgeting and staffing; registration and marking of Jewish graves; anti-Semitism in the military; the general problems of Kashruth; communication between the men and their families; and general recreation and entertainment.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-337

The collection documents the National Jewish Welfare Board's (JWB) evolution from an organization founded in 1917 to provide support for soldiers in times of war to an agency involved in all aspects of Jewish life both in the United States and abroad. In 1990 JWB recreated itself as the Jewish Community Centers Association of North America.

The collection is in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, Spanish, French, Italian, Swedish, German, Latin, Hungarian and Afrikaans.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-52

The Bureau of War Records include approximately 85,000 individual service files and 320,000 surrogate index cards collected by the BWR and the Greater New York War Records Committee on behalf of Jewish soldiers and sailors who served in World War II. The BWR also conducted surveys of Jewish doctors, dentists, farmers and refugees who served in the United States Armed Forces and compiled population studies for cities containing Jewish populations greater than 25,000, among them Trenton, N.J. and New York City. The individual service files typically provide a soldier's name, age, rank, serial number, service branch, home address, civilian occupation, next of kin, awards and casualties. These files contain supporting documentation culled from newspapers, telephone conversations, and correspondence exchanged among BWR staff and volunteers, service personnel and their families, and representatives of the United States Armed Forces. The alphabetical master cards series serves as an abbreviated, annotated index for the more substantial individual service files of Jewish service personnel who won awards or suffered casualties during the war. The Bureau maintained correspondence files for permanent staff members including Salo Baron, Edward Burnstein, Louis Dublin, Elisha Friedman, Dr. Maurice Hexter, Rabbi Edward Israel, Samuel Kohs, Louis Kraft, Samuel Leff, Harry Lurie, Herbert Marks, Benjamin Rabinowitz, Philip Schiff, Selma Schnaper, Jerome Seidman, David Turtletaub, Frank Weil, Milton Weill, Arthur Weyne, and Joseph Zubin. The Bureau also preserved correspondence with representatives of local war records committees, religious and community service organizations including the United Service Organization, Jewish Community Centers, Hebrew Associations, and the National Refugee Service, as well as publishers, alumni associations, and military personnel from the offices of United States Army, Navy, and Quartermaster General's office. It retained copies of published and printed materials including studies, lists, guides, forms, and cards. Among the vital records are charts depicting the BWR administrative hierarchy; personnel and staff records; lists of volunteers and field representatives employed throughout the United States; minutes of meetings; annual, quarterly, and special reports; budget materials; and policies and procedures implemented during the war records program.

The collection is predominantly in English, with some French, German, and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-298

Majority of collection consists of National Jewish Welfare Board surveys of U.S. Jewish communities. Collection also contains general administrative material, publications, press releases, community service material, conference proceedings, and several boxes of correspondence of National Jewish Welfare Board president Frank Weil and field secretary Harry Schatz.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-12

Contains minutes, resolutions, correspondence, news releases and press clippings of the National Committee for the Maimonides Octocentennial relating to its activities in planning and promoting the octocentennial of the birth of Moses Maimonides throughtout the United States in synagogues, local institutions and universities, and primarily in administrating the one held in New York (April 14, 1935). Among the participants were Albert Einstein, Louis Finkelstein, Henry Solomon Hendricks, Leo Jung, Henry Pereira Mendes, Abba Hillel Silver, Solomon Marcus Stroock, James Joseph Walsh, and Harry Austryn Wolfson. Includes also roster of available speakers and participating organizations, as well as material (poems, plays, pamphlets, books and articles) on the life and works of Moses Maimonides.

The collection is in English, German, Hebrew, and Spanish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-92

Contains the correspondence and published materials of the NRS for the years 1935-1947. The manuscript material contains correspondence pertaining to various aspects of the immigration problem and quota correspondence with primarily Jewish institutions in cities throughout many of the states, as well as correspondence of several of the Divisions of the NRS. Of special interest is the correspondence dealing with the Shomre Hadath (employment service for religious immigrants), correspondence with President Truman, Secy. of State Dean Acheson, and Attorney General Francis B. Biddle. This latter correspondence deals with Ellis Island, the plan to resettle immigrants in Oswego, New York, and concerning the refugee ship, the St. Louis.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-18

The Near East Crisis collection contains letters and newspaper/journal articles relating to the Near East crisis between 1967 and 1968.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-95

On January 1, 1900, a group of lawyers and doctors gathered at a meeting called by Jacob J. Silverman to discuss the advantages of living in Boston with its many surrounding institutions of higher learning, and how they could increase their cultural knowledge. They also wanted to learn from each other the basic principals of their various professions. The members of the club eventually consisted of lawyers, optometrists, physicians, scientists, and members of a variety of other professions as well. This collection contains scrapbooks, photographs, news clippings and correspondence.Please note: This collectino is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-158

The New England Jewish Free Press (NEJFP) started as a project by students at the Harvard Hillel Graduate Society, and it soon expanded and collaborated with other universities and organizations. Despite its expansion, it remained an independent student facilitated organization. NEJFP produced two main publications: Jewish Boston: a Guide and New England Jewry. I. This collection contains the original statement of purpose, correspondence, meeting notes, volunteer applications, financial records, and various ephemera (button, bumper stickers.) Please note that the volunteer applications are restricted. Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-237

This collection consists of the New England Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry’s correspondence, articles, public awareness materials, membership lists and financial statements from 1970-1975. Included are letters to and from government officials and Rabbis who supported the cause. Notices and flyers are comprised of membership meetings, protests, and lectures. Memorabilia, such as bumper stickers and a protest flag (made of paper) are also included in the collection.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-328

The Jewish Center of New Haven, Connecticut was first founded as a branch of the Young Men's Hebrew Association in 1913. It would later join with the Young Women's Hebrew Association and would remain the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association until 1938, when it merged with the Hebrew Institute to form the Jewish Center of New Haven. The Center provided vocational guidance, exercise programs, a day camp, and educational activities for the Jewish community of New Haven.
Please Note: This record is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-236

Contains Board of Directors and Executive Committee Minutes (1940), Educational Fund Minutes (1940-1941), Reports (1940-1944), Budgets (1940-1942), Studies of the Academy (1940-1943), "Study of Child Caring Agencies, 1940-1941" (issued with Jewish Board of Guardians), a scrapbook of Association activities, and Association publications.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-506

The New York Board of Rabbis is a cross-denominational Jewish organization for rabbis that seeks to foster fellowship, provide educational enrichment, and rise above theological differences to strengthen and defend the Jewish community advancing its’ educational, religious, and social values. The collection documents the governance of the Board and its activities in serving the Jewish community of New York and at large.

The collection is in English and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-483

Collection consists of sixteen street maps that were originally part of the Altas of the City of New York and other sources. Maps include street blocks for the Lower East Side (Wards 7, 11, 13 and Section 1 and 2) and the Upper West Side (Ward 22 and Sections 4 and 7).

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-154

This collection consists of legal filings made by approximately 10,000 Jewish-related not-for-profit organizations incorporated in New York County. The organizations include fraternal societies, political clubs, professional associations, synagogues, landsmanschaften, benevolent organizations, social clubs, burial societies, charities, and neighborhood facilities. The filings are very similar to modern corporate filings and include original certificates of incorporation, consolidation or change of corporate name. Each certificate of incorporation includes the name of the organization, the purposes or objects for which it was formed, the principal office or territory of principal operation (for example, the "Borough of Manhattan"), the names and addresses of the initial directors or trustees or officers, and the names of the incoporators.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-151 to I-154

Collection I-151, Selected Briefs, consists of handwritten pleadings and other court papers filed in civil lawsuits in the Mayor’s Court of the City of New York, also known at various times as the High Court of Chancery, the New York Inns (of Court) and the Marine Court of New York City. The handwriting is often difficult to decipher. The court papers include summons, complaints, surety bonds, affidavits, warrants, jury lists, and briefs.

Collection I-152, Naturalization Certificates, consists of an alphabetical set of Declarations of Intention or Affidavits of Intention filed with the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of New York or with the New York Superior Court from 1829-1845 and Reports of Aliens made to the Clerk of the Court from 1816-1828. The only genealogically relevant information contained in the later Declarations and Affidavits is the identification of the particular “foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty” to which further allegiance is renounced, for example, the “Grand Duke of Hesse Cappell: or the Authorities of the Free City of Frankfurt.” This reference will identify the prior citizenship and, by implication, the place of birth or prior residence of such person. The majority of the declarants came from various Germanic states, other central European countries such as Switzerland or Roumiana, or from England. The very small number of earlier Reports of Aliens from the period 1816-1828 specifically list name, sex, place of birth, age, nation and allegiance, place from whence migrated, occupation and place of actual or intended settlement.

Collection I-153, Insolvent Debtors Cases, consists of documents filed with Supreme Court of the State of New York for the City and County of New York in insolvency cases. The bulk of the documents consist of Insolvent Assignments each of which, like a modern bankruptcy, involves a discharge of the debtor’s debts and an assignment of his assets to be sold or managed for the benefit of his creditors. The documents sometimes contain a reference to a legal notice published in a newspaper or schedule of creditors. A small number contain an inventory of the debtor’s assets.

Collection I-154, Incorporation Papers, consists of legal filings made by Jewish-related not-for-profit organizations incorporated in New York County. Please refer to the collection's separate database under New York Court Records. Selected Incorporation Papers. The names in this database are from the following miscellaneous filings: List of Peddlers, 1843-1844 lists 12 names; Marriage licenses for 1830, 1838, 1849-1850 lists 7 names.

The collections are in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-542

Max Nigrosh was the President of the Jewish National Fund of Greater Boston and a leader in the Zionist movement in the early to mid-20th century.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-186

The Noah Benevolent Society (1849-1980), named after Judge Mordechai M. Noah, provided mutual relief for members, their wives and orphans, and helped with internment costs and burial plots at Cypress Hills and other New York cemeteries. The Society also provided relief for Jews in Morocco and Jerusalem and donated funds to several Jewish charitable institutions as well as the Association for the Advancement of Blind Children. The Society disbanded in 1980 due to dwindling membership. The records of the Noah Benevolent Society contain membership minutes and books, donation and financial records, constitutions and by-laws, newsletters, memorabilia, and photographs.

The collection is in German and English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-75

Contains legal documents pertaining to Noah's official duties as surveyor of the port of New York (1830-1831) and correspondence relating to Noah's political career. Also includes personal correspondence, a scrapbook, published material on Noah's journalistic career and personal life, articles and correspondence relating to the City of Ararat, and political documents. Collection also contains the Isaac Goldberg collection of Mordecai Manuel Noah letters, which consists of 28 letters from Noah to his wife Rebecca.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-5

Contains materials from David B. Nones (1783-1837), Benjamin Nones (1757-1826), and Joseph B. Nones (1797-1887). Materials of David Nones are three letters, dated 1810, to his parents, in which David asks for approval of his marriage to a non-Jew, promises her conversion and describes his cargo's seizure in Cophenhagen; one letter, dated 1825, to David's son, Joseph, offerng fatherly advice, two letters, dated 1824, from David's sister Esther and Solomon Jacobs of Richmond, Va., recommending the health spa at Whiter Sulphur Springs; two letters in Spanish, dated 1824 and 1829, from David's brother-in-law, Felix C. Rossi of Cadiz, and a nephew, Chinaud, in Cuba discussing the heavy emigration from Europe to America and their own projected trips to Cuba and the U.S.; and three letters, dated 1829, describing David's settlement of claims against the French from Napoloenic times and U.S. legislation. Materials of Benjamin Nones are three legal documents signed by Nones as a notary public in Philadelphia, and photocopies of letters from Nones to his son, Joseph, and from Joseph to his mother regarding his marriage to Eveline DeLeon. Legal documents are dated 1803-1823; letters are dated 1822-1823. Materials of Joseph Nones include a manuscript biography of experiences in the U.S. Navy during which time Nones served as private secretary to Henry Clay at the negotiations of the Treaty of Ghent. Also includes biographies of Albert Gallatin, Jonathan Russell, and John Lawrence.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-338 and I-338A

The records of the North American Jewish Students Appeal (NAJSA or APPEAL) contains documents on two levels of concern: those documents dealing with the NAJSA as a student-run organization promoting Jewish identity among college-aged youth; and those documents dealing with the APPEAL as a fundraising organization for several well-known student constituent organizations. The Constituents were: the Jewish Student Press Service, Lights in Action, the North American Jewish Students Network, the Progressive Zionist Caucus, Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review, Yavneh Religious Students Organization, and Yugntruf Youth for Yiddish. Documents include correspondence, financial records, minutes, press releases, information on grants awarded to student organizations for programming and publishing, student journals and newspapers, photographs, and ephemera.

The collection is in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-141

The collection contains correspondence, documents and newspaper clippings relating to the life and activities of Obermayer in national, local and Jewish organizations. Contains also correspondence and other materials concerning the Board of Public Education of Philadelphia on which he served as member and then president 1955-1961 (of special interest are the papers pertaining to communism in the schools, educational television -WHYY, and the problems of minority students); the American Jewish Historical Society of which he served as a member, president and chairman of the Exec. Council (of special interest is the material pertaining to the litigation over the Society's move to Waltham); the Symphony Club (1959-1966); the Penn. Advisory Committee, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (1958-1960); the Penn. Alcoholic Beverage Study (1961-1967); the Heart Association of Southeastern Penn. (1964-1965); the National Committee on Employment of Youth (1965-1968); the American Bar Association Special Committee on Investigation, Solicitation and Handling of Personal Injury Claims (1957-1959); the Committee on Legal Ethics and Grievances (1961-1969); the Penn. Prison Society (1964-1969); the Phila. YM & YWHA (1925-1940, 1967-1968); the Hebrew Sunday School Society (1919-1970); the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, with special reference to Edmond Cahn's opposition to the establishment of Reform Jewish day schools (1964-1965); the Hebrew Union College (1964-1968); B'nai B'rith (1957-1967) and the Philadelphia Bar Assoc. (1937-1977).

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-255

This collection documents the research of Jewish historian Samuel Oppenheim (1857-1928) concerning the lives of colonial Jews in the Americas and in the early history of the United States. Included in the collection are his notes, transcripts of original works, photocopies of the records of the Dutch West India Company, correspondence relating to his research, his writings, and original documents from the Mayor’s Court of the City of New York that date from 1653-1760.

The collection is in English, Dutch, French, Portuguese, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-882

Papers of Rabbi Shaul Osadchey cover the period from the late 1960's to the early 1990's and reflect the activities of Houston Action for Soviet Jewry, co-founded by Rabbi Osadchey. The collection also contains print and near print materials from various American and European Soviet Jewry Movement organizations, and background information on the situation of Jews in the Soviet Union during that period. The documents include correspondence, memos, minutes, publications, news clippings, pins, stickers and a kippah.

The collection is in English and Russian.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-436

The Ostro Hebrew Marshoe Society was the overseer of the Ostro Hebrew Marshoe Cemetery, located on Baker Street in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. In 1984, it merged with the Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts, which is now responsible for the care of the cemetery. This series contains by-laws of the Society and its Cemetery Association.
Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-195

Contains primarily papers of Benjamin Franklin Peixotto, including addresses to Constitution Grand Lodge of B'nai B'rith and to YMHA; letter by Ulysses S. Grant appointing Peixotto as U.S. Consul-General to Romania; and correspondence during Peixotto's residency as Consul in Bucharest and Lyons. Also contains estate papers of Moses Levy Maduro Peixotto.

The collection is in English and French.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-13

Collection includes official correspondence (ca. 55,000 items) and scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and printed promotional literature pertaining to the activities of the People's Relief Committee. The international, national and intra-committee correspondence, in Yiddish and English, is arranged geographically and relates to the plight of Eastern European Jewry during the years 1915-1924 and relief efforts on their behalf. Scrapbooks contain clippings from U.S. and Canadian Yiddish and English newspapers for the years 1916-1924.

The collection is in English and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-654

Consists of Perlman's compilations of descriptive information on Jewish emigration from Hungary to New York City and Cleveland between 1870 and 1914.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-66

Contains correspondence, judicial opinions, addresses and speeches, newspaper clippings and published material relating to Perlman's legal career as a judge in various municipal courts of the city of New York (1935-1952), and political career as a New York State Assemblyman (1915-1917) and a member of the United States House of Representatives (1920-1927) and as an unsuccessful candidate for New York State office. Also contains published material relating to his activities on behalf of the Jewish community, especially the American Jewish Congress (1942-1946), where he served as chairman of its National Executive Committee. Approximately one half of the collection consists of the official minutes, memoranda, administrative and investigatory reports and correspondence of the Mayor's Committee on Unity established by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1944, of which Perlman served as a member on the subcommittees on Housing, City Services and the Timone Investigation.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-76

The Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity, active between 1904 and 1970 with a predominantly Jewish membership, was established in New York City and eventually opened at least 48 chapters on college campuses across the U.S. and one in Canada. The bulk of the records in this collection were generated, received and collected by the national fraternity officers between 1912 and the late 1950s. Topics represented include black-Jewish relations, military service in WWI and WWII, educational, housing and occupational discrimination, and WWII refugee aid. Materials consist of correspondence, reports, minutes, clippings, serial publications, photographs, pins, financi al records, floor plans, manuals, and directories.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-17

Contains personal papers, correspondence, and other material relating to the Phillips family, 1733-1954. Papers center about the following members of the family: Jonas Phillips, 1733-1802, including his copy of a book on the laws and practice of shehita, printed in Wandsbeck, Germany (1733), and a document by Moses Lindo (1773); Naphtali Phillips, 1815-1868, including letters relating to Cong. Shearith Israel, the Tammany Society and the National advocate, of which he was publisher, and documents signed by Myer Moses (1831) and David G. Seixas (1818); Joseph Phillips, 1811; Rebecca Hart Phillips, 1812; Joshua Phillips, 1852-1858; Isaac Phillips, 1830-1884, including correspondence relating to Cong. Shearith Israel, Masonic activities, and his position as Appraiser of Merchandise for the Port of New York; Roslie Solomons Phillips, 1872-1945, including correspondence and other material relating to her political activities, her work on behalf of various Jewish institutions, Cong. Shearith Israel and the Solomons family, and letters from Eleanor Roosevelt; and Naphtali Taylor Phillips, 1895-1954, including correspondence, published material, newspaper clippings and notes relating to American Jewish history and correspondence and other material relating to Cong. Shearith Israel, the Touro Synagogue, the Federation of American Zionists, the National Conference of Jewish Charities (Committee on Palestinian Charities) and Adolphus S. Solomons. Collection also contains published material of the Masons and political memorabilia, and a letter from George Mifflin Dallas to an unidentified member of the Phillips family, 1856.

The collection is predominantly in English, with some Yiddish and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-202

Contains printed and manuscript letters, written primarily in English, Yiddish and Hebrew, requesting funds, addressed to Emily Phillips from the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, private individuals and private institutions. Of special interest are a printed announcement of the investiture of Jacob Saul ben Eliezer Elyasher as Haham Bashi, and a series of letters in which Simon Muhr, acting on Miss Phillips' behalf, undertook to discover, through inquiries of Lazard Freres, France, whether the claims of a petitioner were correct. Includes also a printed New Year's greeting to Miss Phillips signed by a petitioner.

The collection is in English, with French, German, Hebrew, Italian, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-38

This collection comprises the papers of the Yiddish actress and entertainer Molly Picon. The papers consist of extensive manuscripts of Yiddish and non-Yiddish plays, numerous radio and television scripts, programs and announcements for Picon’s performances, and personal material such as correspondence and photographs. Also included is a large amount of musical material such as songbooks, handwritten lyrics, and sheet music, much of it in Yiddish.

The collection is in English, Yiddish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-873

Papers of Elaine Pittell cover the period from mid-1970?s to early 1990's and document her and her husband's Robert Pittell's activities as the Chair of the Jewish Federation of South Broward's Soviet Jewry Committee. The documents include correspondence, memos, minutes, publications, news clippings, audio cassettes, video cassette, disc negatives and pins.

The collection is in English, Russian and Finnish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-572

This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Shad Polier, including legal files from cases with which Polier was involved, particularly those concerning adoptions and civil liberties, articles and speeches by Polier, correspondence, and materials from several of the organizations with which Polier was affiliated, including the American Jewish Congress, the World Jewish Congress and the NAACP. These materials reflect his widespread participation with the civil liberties movement, equal rights and anti-discrimination law.

English, Yiddish, Hebrew, French

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-933

The papers of Colonel Seymour Jacob Pomrenze (1916-2011) contain materials relating to his role as the first director of the Offenbach Archival Depot (OAD) in early 1946, as well as documentation of his career as a records management and archives consultant for the American Jewish cultural sector. It also includes a small amount of biographical material.

The collection is in English, with a small amount of Dutch, German, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-795

The Papers of Riv-Ellen Prell contain research, fieldwork, and correspondence she conducted to fulfill her graduate work in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. The papers primarily encompass the field notes and interviews she engaged in while observing the Westwood Free Minyan in Los Angeles.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-95

Contains the correspondence and personal diaries of Samuel Price. The latter describes events of a general nature and particularly life in the Jewish community in great detail in Newark (1913) and Springfield, Mass. (1913-1962). Of special interest are his extended comments on American politics, labor strikes, religion in the public schools, American military incursions in Mexico, World War I, and the Irish War of Independence.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-20

Contains two minute books for the years 1871-1892 and 1896-1906 of the activities of the Association including the constitution, by-laws and amendments, and a list of members, and also a scrapbook of correspondence containing information on charitable disbursements. Contains also a 1866 Purim Ball Program (scroll) and miscellaneous documents.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-502

This is a collection of the records of Rabbi Salamon Faber, Chair of the Queens Bet Din or Rabbinic Court, concerning the gittin (plural of get, Jewish religious divorces) that the Queens Bet Din granted between 1947 and 1992. These records include Rabbi’s Faber’s personal notes about the gittin, correspondence with the husband and wife and with any other concerned parties, copies of civil and religious marriage and divorce documents, divorce contracts signed by the husband, and copies of conversion certificates.

English, Hebrew, French, Arabic, German

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-471

Spanning from its inception and incorporation in 1925 to its culmination in 2002, the Queens Jewish Center collection highlights this congregation's wide-range of religiously oriented and secular educational activities, ceremonies, developments, events, and programs. Predominant in this collection are the reports, bulletins, financial, legal and property records, and meeting minutes. In addition, books, clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, programs, publications, negatives photographs are also contained with in this collections.

The collection is in English, Hebrew, Russian and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-153

A Boston lawyer, Hebrew scholar and Yiddish orator, Benjamin Rabalsky was involved in the local Zionist movement. A member of the American Jewish Congress, American Zion Commonwealth, Boston West End Jewish Liberty Loan Committee, Zion Association of Greater Boston and New England Zionist Region, he dedicated much of his time to Zionist causes. This collection contains a small amount of business correspondence and family correspondence.
Please note: Located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-679

Contains biographical materials, correspondence, press releases, newspaper clippings, photographs, motion picture film, video recordings, phonograph records, oral history audio cassettes, a scrapbook and photo album documenting the family life, community activities of the Goldberg, Rabb, and Rabinovitz families. Also documents the growth and development of Stop & Shop, Inc. from its inception as Economy Grocery Stores.

Please note: Located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-58

Contains correspondence, reports, and other material relating to his work with the Jewish welfare federations of Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Chicago, and as a field representative of the Jewish Welfare Board in Texas during the First World War. Also includes correspondence, etc., from the professional social work groups which he served in various capacities. Of these the largest volume of materials relates to the National Social Welfare Assembly of which he was the Assistant Director, and the National Conference of Jewish Communal Service of which he was the director of the New York Training Bureau. Includes extensive material on the Australian Jewish Community, where he served as a Fulbright Lecturer in the Dept. of Social Studies of the University of Queensland in 1962, and as a consultant to the Australian National Red Cross. Contains also diaries, speeches, published material, reports, and general correspondence.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-367

Contains photocopies of four Hebrew letters endorsing Rabbi Rabinovitz, three of which were written by Rabbis Jacob Widrewitz, Ph. Klein and Joshua Siegel in New York in 1907. One is specifically addressed to Cong. Tzemach Tzedek and Agudas Achim of Chelsea, Mass. Also includes the photocopy of a Hebrew contract signed by ca. 50 members of the congregation in 1907, photocopies of two requests for funds from Poland, a photograph of Rabinovitz, an announcement of his son's wedding in 1925, and a special Resolution issued by the Board of Aldermen of Chelsea at his death. Also includes photograph of Rabinovitz & correspondence with Hannah Schiffres re: donation of materials (1981).
Please note: Located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-257

Rabbi David Meir Rabinowitz was born c. 1863 and died in 1943. This collection contains a conversion certificate in Hebrew.
Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-586

Abraham Captain Ratshesky (1864-1943) was a banker by profession who founded the U.S. Trust Company with his brother Israel in 1895, and also served in a variety of political positions, including the Massachusetts State Senate from 1892-1895, delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1892, 1904, 1908, 1916, and 1924, Assistant Food Administrator for Massachusetts during World War I, and most importantly, United States Minister to Czechoslovakia from 1930-1932. In 1933, Ratshesky was honored with the Order of the White Lion First Class, Czechoslovakia’s highest honor. A noted philanthropist, Ratshesky was involved in relief efforts for the 1917 Halifax Disaster, the donation of the building used for the American Red Cross headquarters in Boston, and the 1925 “Pennies Campaign” to restore the U.S.S. Constitution. He also founded the A.C. Ratshesky Charity Foundation in 1916, still in operation. This collection contains personal and professional photographs of family, friends and trips to Czechoslovakia, reports on actions as U.S. Minister, diaries, films, and letters from new First Lady Coolidge following the death of President Harding.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-290

The papers consist of correspondence and reports of Cecelia Razovsky (married name: Davidson), noted social worker specializing in immigration and resettlement of refugees. The collection includes information about her work with the National Council of Jewish Women in the 1920's, and with the National Refugee Service (and predecessor organizations) in the 1930's. Information is included about her work as a Resettlement Supervisor in the post-World War II Displaced Persons camps in Europe, and as a field worker in the southwestern U.S. for the United Service for New Americans in 1950. The collection contains reports and correspondence from her trips to South America, primarily Brazil: to explore possibilities of refugee settlement in 1937 and 1946; as a representative for United HIAS Service to aid in settling Egyptian and Hungarian refugees in 1957-1958; and as a pleasure trip and evaluation of the changes in the Jewish community of the country in 1963. Also included in the collection are many of Razovsky's articles, plays, and pamphlets.

The collection is in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Yiddish, and Russian.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-256

Rehabilitation Services of Boston, Massachusetts was sponsored by the Jewish community to assist prisoners in Massachusetts correctional facilities, and focused on developing services for Jewish inmates. The organization was concerned with problems in correctional programs, available rehabilitation services, and general care for Jewish inmates. This collection contains a list of Jewish inmates in three correctional facilities, correspondence pertaining to inmates, their care, parole and preparation for parole, reports and minutes from meetings. Please note that folder 1, Correspondence, and folder 5, Names of Jewish Inmates, contain inmate details a nd are restricted.

The collection is in English and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-400

This collection primarily includes material prior to the merger of the two organizations and contains documents concerning their sub-entities and affiliates. Information regarding Mizrachi’s Youth and Education Department, National Education Committee, and Education and Expansion Fund are also available. Types of materials encompass souvenir journals, publications (Yiddish and English), youth leader’s guides, cultural guides, manuals, newsletters, pamphlets, brochures, activity and annual reports, plays, press releases, convention and event invitations, a musical score, and a children’s Hebrew primer. Of interest is the issue of New Horizons, published by the National Committee for Unity of Religious Zionism that describes the merger. Also of appeal is a 1952 souvenir program for the Hapoel Hamizrachi of Boston that honors and includes an address by Jerusalem Mayor S.Z. Shragai.

This collection is in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew.

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Identification number: I-314

The Records of Richard Cohen Associates, Inc. contain papers concerning the firm and its clients, as well as personal papers and writings of Richard Cohen and his wife, Aphrodite Clamar-Cohen. The collection consists of extensive press releases and newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, articles, publications, books, computer disks, and other formats. Topics featured include various issues pertaining to the American Jewish community, as well as those which concerned Israel and Russia. Prominent organizations in this collection include the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, the Committee for the Economic Growth of Israel, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, as well as many others. Some of the numerous subjects documented in this collection include Soviet Jewry, Arab/Palestinian relations with Israel, Orthodox feminism, homosexual rights, Holocaust remembrance, and African-American and Christian relations with Jews.

The collection is in English, and a little Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-868

The collection contains Bernard G. Richards personal and official correspondence, papers from his involvement with the American Jewish Congress and Jewish Information Bureau, published and unpublished writings, publications collected by Richards, articles about Richards and his activities, correspondence and articles from testimonial dinners in honor of Richards, and photographs. Significant correspondents include Joseph Barondess, Louis D. Brandeis, Vladimir Jabotinsky, J.L. Magnes, Louis Marshall, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jacob H. Schiff , Philip Slomovitz, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Morris Winchovsky, and Stephen S. Wise.

The collection is in English, with some Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Yiddish.

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Identification number: P-678

Robison family papers reflect various activities of Adolf C. and Ann Green Robison in civic organizations, Jewish communal life, Jewish national and international affairs, and individually in the arts. Contains information on the origins of the United Nations and on aid to Israel before, during, and after the War of Independence. The materials include correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, financial documents, newspaper clippings, photographs, diaries, scrapbooks, musical scores, and play scripts.

The collection is predominantly in English, with some French, German, Hebrew, Iranian, Korean, Spanish, Swedish, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-712

The Shloyme Rosenberg Collection contains manuscripts and newspaper columns written by Rosenberg. Also included are some personal materials such as correspondence, certificates, and international documentation. Newspaper columns comprise the majority of the collection and are written under a variety of pseudonyms, including S.R. Berg, A. Prashker, I. Prashker, S. Prashker, Reb Shloyme, and Shrage. The manuscript and newspaper and journal publications series are divided into works written under Shloyme Rosenberg's own name and works written under any of his pseudonyms. A majority of the material is written in Yiddish, with some manuscripts translated into English and some articles in Hebrew. Yiddish titles have been transliterated and are arranged according to transliterated title.

The collection is predominantly in Yiddish, with some English, French, and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-327

Rabbi William F. Rosenblum was head rabbi of the reform congregation at Temple Israel in New York City from 1930 through 1963, and he was an active leader in a number of Jewish social welfare and religious organizations. In addition to broadly documenting his rabbinical career and organizational activities, the William F. Rosenblum Papers reflect Rosenblum's interests in military chaplaincy, relations between Catholicism and Judaism, the media, race relations, post-WWII Europe, and the Vietnam War. Materials include correspondence, scrapbooks, sermons, speeches, notes, radio transcripts, clippings, photographs, audiotapes and film.

The collection is in English, with a small amount of material in Yiddish, German, French, Italian and Hebrew.

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Identification number: P-922

This collection contains letters and typescript postcards from the novelist Henry Roth to fellow novelist and essayist Marie Syrkin from a period of 1976-1988. Ms. Syrkin's responses are not included. The scope of the letters are wide ranging, but mostly confined to correspondence between friends and contemporaries and discusses different topics such as Mr. Roth's reviews of Mrs. Syrkin's essays as well as the progress of his own writings. The correspondence also highlights Roth's views on events in Israel and the United States during the presidency of Jimmy Carter, events in the life of Roth, travel plans, political opinions and remarks on literature in general. The photographs consist of three items: one color photograph of Roth standing with the help of canes, presumably on a New Mexico roadside (September 1979); one black and white photograph of Roth and his wife Muriel (1981), and one color photograph of the couple presumably in their New Mexico house, with Roth seated and Muriel standing by his side (1983).

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-694

The Henry Roth Collection contains papers pertinent to Henry Roth's writing, but collected and donated by other individuals. The items consist of early drafts, revisions, and bound volumes of his Mercy of a Rude Stream series, with notes by Roth and his editor, Robert Weil. In addition to these manuscripts, the collection includes Roth's Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, which contains a list of words hand-written and defined by Roth. Other items in the collection consist of awards and a booklet from Roth's son, Hugh Roth, given to his parents.

The collection is in English and Italian.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-702

This collection contains personal papers of the writer Henry Roth. It is comprised of extensive correspondence, journals and notebooks of his writing, and published and unpublished manuscripts of his work. There are also papers concerning Roth's interests in Israel, Judaism, and Leftist politics, publications by and about him, and volumes of his works. In addition, the papers also include a postcard and art print collection, photographs, biographical material, and a list of monographs once housed in Roth’s personal library.

This collection is in English, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, and Yiddish.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-917

This collection contains the papers of Sallyann Amdur Sack, “The Godmother” of Jewish Genealogy. In 1980, Sack founded the Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington (JGSGW); in 1984, she organized the First International Seminar on Jewish Genealogy in Jerusalem, Israel; and in 1985, she co-founded AVOTAYNU: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy, known as “The Voice” of Jewish Genealogy research. These papers chronicle Dr. Sack’s groundbreaking work, which ranges from the early 1980s through 2007. The collection contains correspondence, conference and seminar materials, plan ning and research papers, as well as photographs and audio/visual material.

The collection is in English with some material in French, German, Hebrew, Lithuanian, Russian, Swedish and Yiddish.

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Identification number: P-35

Primarily material relating to activities of the Synagogue Council of America including correspondence, reports, addresses, official minutes, memoranda, etc.; includes also similar material of the Rabbinical Assembly of America, the Wartime Emergency Commission for Conservative Judaism, the Boy Scouts of America, the Jewish Education Committee, the American Child Guidance Foundation, Religion in American Life, the Valley Forge Foundation, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and the National Community Relations Advisory Council; contains material relating to the G ... Bible Case, reports of a 1953 tour of Germany concerning the status and future of German Jewry and material relating to the ceremony held at the issuing of the postage stamp "In G-d We Trust"; includes also school composition books, manuscript and printed essays, sermons and speeches in Hebrew and English when Rabbi of Shaarey Tefila Congregation and of later periods, and material relating to legal work and Zionist activities. In the correspondence are letters from Mordecai Kaplan.

The collection is in English and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-41

Contains a number of original manuscripts of Haym Salomon including his marriage contract with Rachel Franks (1777), a bank note signed by Francis Hopkinson, Treasurer of Loans (1780), 2 bank drafts in French (1784), a letter book containing both personal and business correspondence (1781-1783), a letter from Abraham I. Abrahams (1783), documents relating to estate of Barnet Levy (1784) and several sales lists (1784). Also contains a family record kept by his son, Haym Moses Salomon; a set of Bibles sold to H.M. Salomon by Ephraim Hart, and given to his son David Salomon, which contains family records and lists of children of Haym Salomon and Haym M. Salomon; several prayer books belonging to the Salomon family; several letters of Ezekiel Salomon (1819) and a petition of Rachel Helborne, widow of Haym Salomon, to Orphan's Court, Philadelphia (1787), requesting appointment of guardians for children.

The collection is in English and French.

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Identification number: P-872

The collection contains papers of Joel Sandberg and Adele Sandberg, the co-founders of the South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry. It covers the period from the mid-1970's to the early 1990's and document the Sandbergs' activities as the leaders of the Soviet Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry, as well as their individual efforts in the American Soviet Jewry Movement. The documents include correspondence, memos, minutes, and news clippings.

The collection is in English and Russian.

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Identification number: P-889

Papers of Margery Sanford cover the period from the early 1970s to the late 1980s and document her activities as the Documentation Committee chairperson of South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry, as well as her individual efforts in the American Soviet Jewry Movement. The documents include correspondence, notes, memos, minutes, publications, news clippings, photographs, stickers and a flag.

The collection is in English, Russian, and Hebrew.

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Identification number: P-870

The collection contains papers of Carolyn W. Sanger, seventh and last President of the Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry/Greater Washington Committee for Post-Soviet Jewry. Carolyn W. Sanger presided over the Committee from the early 1990's until its disbandment in 2001. Carolyn Sanger's papers are comprised of documents spanning the entire thirty-three years of the Committee's existence. The Carolyn Sanger Papers include materials from the mid-1960s through 2001, and the bulk of the collection is dated 1970s-1980s. The documents include correspondence, memoranda, publications, news clippings, photographs, slides, ephemera, audio and video recordings and 3-D objects.

The collection is in English, Russian, Hebrew, Yiddish, and French.

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Identification number: P-923

Papers of the Soviet Jewry movement activist Leslie Schaffer of Reno, Nevada document her trip to the Soviet Union to visit Soviet Jewish Refuseniks in Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev in March of 1982. The collection includes trip reports notes and photographs, correspondence, biographies of the Refuseniks, travel documents and receipts and background materials on the U.S.S.R.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: P-906

Papers of Morey Schapira reflect the work of the prominent activist of the American Soviet Jewry movement in the years 1965-1993. The collection includes details on Mr. Schapira’s leadership role with organizations Action for Soviet Jewry, the Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry, the New England Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, and the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews. The collection contains files on many other groups, individuals and topics.

The collection is in English, Russian, Spanish, and French.

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Identification number: P-57

Morris U. Schappes (1907-2004), self-taught historian of American Jewry, author, teacher and editor of Jewish Currents across four decades, is also known as a victim of hearings conducted in 1941 by the Rapp-Coudert Committee, a New York legislative committee investigating Communist activities in the state educational system. His collection is comprised of materials related to the Rapp-Coudert proceedings and his subsequent imprisonment and of materials generated in the following decades. Topics represented include academic freedom, Communism in the U.S., the roles of Jews in U.S. history, and Emma Lazarus. The formats primarily present in the collection are research notes, manuscripts, clippings and correspondence.

The collection is in English, with some materials in Yiddish. A few items are in Russian, Hebrew, German, and French.

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Identification number: P-716

Albert and Bertha Schoolman (married in 1922) were pioneers in American Jewish education as teachers, administrators, and authors; devoted Zionists and active supporters of the State of Israel. Dr. Albert P. Schoolman (1894-1980) was the director of the Central Jewish Institute (CJI), and established the CJI summer camp offshoot, Camp Cejwin, located in Port Jervis, NY. Bertha Schoolman (1887-1974) served as a Chairperson in Hadassah positions including National Secretary and Vice-President, and the Youth Aliyah Management Committee from 1947-1953. Bertha was presented with the State of Israel Fighters Award for her work in Israel and both of the Schoolmans were active participants in Reconstructionist Judaism. Correspondents in the collection include Dr. Alexander Dushkin, Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, Henrietta Szold, and Otto Frank. The collection contains information on Camp Cejwin, Hadassah, Jewish education, and Reconstructionist Judaism; among the materials included in the collection are: correspondence, camp memorabilia and records, articles and books, scrapbooks, photographs, film and audio tapes.

The collection is in English, Hebrew, Yiddish and German.

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Identification number: P-909

This collection documents the life and activities of dancer and activist Ronya Schwaab. The collection contains material related to her activities advocating for Soviet Jews, lecturing on various topics, her trips abroad, and writing reviews for numerous books. It also includes correspondence with family, friends, and various officials in both the public and non-profit spheres of politics and business. The collection contains numerous photographs and certificates that further document her activities and accomplishments.

The collection is in English and Russian.

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Identification number: I-507

The Seattle Action for Soviet Jewry records documenting the activities of a human rights non-governmental organization on behalf of Soviet Jewry. The records date from 1972-1997 with the bulk in the late 1970s through 1980s. The collection includes administrative files, documents pertaining to various local and national institutions, programs and activities related to the Soviet Jewry movement, reports of trips to visit Jews in the U.S.S.R., information on U.S.-U.S.S.R. trade relations, Soviet laws and Soviet Antisemitism, information on Seattle’s sister city Tashkent. Besides the series with the general materials the collection features a series with files concerning Soviet Jewish Prisoners of Conscience, and Refuseniks and an audio-visual series with photographs of Soviet Jews and local and national coverage of the events related to Soviet Jewry.

The collection is in English and Russian.

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Identification number: P-797

Meyer Seifert was the Cantor of Congregation Adath Jeshurun on Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury, Massachusetts. This collection contains a poem, written in Hebrew, titled, "Song for the Celebration of the Opening of the University."
Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in Hebrew.

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Identification number: P-60

Contains published and manuscript material relating to the activities and administration of the congregation and its subsidiary organizations including reports and weekly bulletins, early financial records and lists of those honored at religious services, copies of resolutions and forms of service and prayers for various occasions in manuscript form. Contains also material relating to the cemetery, the Hebra Hased Va-Amet (the congregational burial society) and to later clergy in the congregation, Henry Pereira Mendes, David de Sola Pool and Louis Coleman Gerstein including published copies of their sermons.

This collection is in English, Hebrew, and French.

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Identification number: I-6

The Society was named after "Papa" Seligman Solomon (1822-1884), an immigrant from Germany who accumulated wealth in New York real estate. Retiring at age 38, Solomon devoted his time to works of charity, particularly in the care of orphans at the Hebrew Orphans Asylum (HOA) in New York. When Solomon died, a group of alumni from the HOA formed the Society to carry on Solomon's work. The group perpetuated Solomon's memory, helped orphans, and performed charitable works. Members included Louis Fruend, Max Kaufman, Charles Herman, Edward Lauterbach, and bandleader Edwin Franko Goldman. The Society eventually merged with another group of alumni, The Academy Alumni, to form the HOA Association in 1956. The collection includes correspondence from Jewish World War I soldiers as well as other correspondence, Society member lists, photographs, a Souvenir Journal, and minutes.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: I-401

This collection contains annual reports, pamphlets, brochures, a dedication booklet, and a silver anniversary program. Also included is the following publication: The Sephardic Home for the Aged News (1950-1994).

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: P-913

This collection documents the time Judah J. Shapiro spent as writer and broadcaster of the radio show “Highlights and Background of the Jewish News” on WEVD in New York City. He wrote and broadcast the show from 1971 until his death in 1980. The bulk of the collection is transcripts of the radio show. The show focused mainly on the politics and current affairs of the state of Israel.

The collection is in English, with some Yiddish.

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Identification number: P-929

Leopold (Leo) Shapiro was born in Paris, France, in 1907 and emigrated with his parents and brother, Jacques, to Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, when he was 8 years old. Shapiro began his career with the Boston Globe as a copy boy on the night shift. By 1928, Shapiro was reporting on education topics in Boston. Through much of his career, from the 1940s through the 1970s, Shapiro wrote about the Jewish community in Boston and abroad. Although he covered many other topics, most of the articles were about Israel, Jewish life in Boston and abroad, and the local Jewish community. Between 1946 and 1969, Shapiro wrote the column “Local Lines,” which documented and publicized the activities of and programs within the Boston Jewish community. This collection contains newspaper articles written by Leo Shapiro from much of his 52-year career with the Boston Globe. The collection of articles contains works on education, politics, sports, civil right, Boston life, the arts, and the Jewish community in Boston, Israel, and abroad. Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: P-893

This collection is primarily made up of correspondence and other records of the American Association for Ethiopian Jews (AAEJ) that remained in the possession of its president (from 1982-1993), Nate Shapiro, after the organization dissolved in 1993. The AAEJ worked from 1974-1993 to assist Ethiopian Jews immigrate to Israel. The collection also includes Shapiro's personal papers. The Shapiro Papers fall under the broader AAEJ collection.

The collection is in English, with a few items in Hebrew.

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Identification number: P-622

Contains the genealogical research of Suzanne Shapiro regarding the Sachs and Herzel families. The collection includes biographical information, a family tree, and a naturalization certificate for George Herzel.
Please note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: P-165

The collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the activities of Louis E. Shecter, a Baltimore advertising executive, art collector, and former president of the local branch of the American Jewish Congress. It includes several articles written by him, as well as the replies of 10 U.S. Senators, 1 Representative, and 2 Maryland government officials to Shecter's request that they describe their impression of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in a one-sentence statement.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: P-12

The Mordecai Sheftall collection consists of family papers and business records of the American Revolution patriot, Mordecai Sheftall and the Sheftall family of Savannah, Georgia from 1761-1873 and a large collection of American Revolution provision returns (1777-1778) and some correspondence for the Continental Army and Navy of Georgia and South Carolina. The collection includes an original Works Progress Administration Guide to the materials.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: P-884

Under the employ of the New York Kehillah, detective Abraham Shoenfeld (1891-1977) infiltrated and documented Jewish crime rings, prostitution houses and gambling establishments from 1912 to 1917. For the American Jewish Committee from 1938 to 1964, he investigated anti-Semitic organizations and individuals. He also authored a controversial book about the New York crime world, The Joy Peddler, and he was at work on other pieces of fiction and his memoirs. The bulk of his papers consist of investigative reports and research for the American Jewish Committee, his manuscripts, and his collection of anti-Semitic literature.

The collection is in English. A few items are in German, Yiddish and French.

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Identification number: P-754

This collection contains transcripts of letters Grace Cohen Shohet wrote to her children prior to her death in 1954. The transcripts were prepared by Shohet’s sister. Also included is a prayer composed by Shohet in honor of the dedication of a museum affiliated with Temple Israel of Boston, Massachusetts.
Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: P-881

The Joseph Shubow Collection documents the life and professional activities of Joseph Shubow, military Chaplain, leader of the Congregation B’nai Moshe, Boston, MA and a prominent American Zionist leader. The collection includes correspondence, documents, lists, writings, speeches and sermons notes, photographs, and printed materials. Materials constituting the collection reflect various aspects of Joseph Shubow’s personal and professional life, religious leadership and writings in the fields of Judaism and Jewish history.

The collection is in English with some German, Yiddish, and Hebrew.

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Identification number: P-395

Leo Shubow was a Boston Rabbi who founded Temple Emanuel in Newton, Massachusetts. Prior to becoming a Rabbi he served as a Yeoman with the International Ice Patrol and wrote frequently about his experiences as well as what happened on the Titanic. This collection contains articles, speeches, and correspondence with Stephen Wise, as well as news clippings and broadsides.
Please note: Located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: P-33

Primarly correspondence with the United States War Department (1917-1919) and the Jewish Welfare Board (later The National Jewish Welfare Board) regarding personnel and especially Jewish personnel in the Armed Forces, including letters from John J. Pershing and Franklin D. Roosevelt; also includes correspondence relating to immigration, among which are letters from Louis Marshall; and letters on the observance of Flag Day and Lincoln's Birthday. Also, a paper on "The Jews in China" in manuscript, and copies of published articles and a radio address.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: P-149

The collection contains personal correspondence, manuscript and printed copies of articles and speeches, photographs and newspaper clippings pertaining to the education and social welfare activities of Silver. A large part of the correspondence is with Maurice J. Karpf, Kurt Peiser and I.M. Rubinow and concerns Silver's studies at the Training School for Jewish Social Work (1925-1934) and his early work in Cincinnati and Detroit Jewish welfare organizations (1930-1934). Subsequent correspondence pertains to Silver's work for the Israel Ministry of Social Welfare (1961-1966).

The collection is predominantly in English, with some Hebrew.

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Identification number: P-518

The collection consists of material relating to Simon's personal life and education from elementary school through college, and newspaper and other articles he wrote while in college. Of interest are the items pertaining to Simon's burning of his draft card as a protest to the war in Vietnam and the subsequent court proceedings arising from this.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: P-908

The papers of Myrtle Sitowitz reflect her work on behalf of Jews in the U.S.S.R. Based in Los Angeles, CA, Mrs. Sitowitz was active in The 35's—The Women’s Campaign for Soviet Jewry, an international organization with members throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and New Zealand. Myrtle Sitowitz’s collection contains correspondence, newspaper articles, a children’s guide to Soviet Jewry, profiles and case histories of the Refuseniks and Prisoners of Conscience, community planning information. The materials include notes, memos, correspondence, publications, news clippings and a bumper sticker.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: P-84

Newspaper editor and publisher Philip Slomovitz also was an active member of the Detroit Jewish community and of the Zionist movement. Throughout the more than 40 years as head of The Jewish News, the Detroit-based newspaper he founded, Slomovitz addressed issues of concern to the American Jewish community, and was a relentless campaigner against instances of discrimination and anti-Semitism.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: P-135

Contains 1969 and 1971-73 issues of The South End, Wayne State University student paper, as well as correspondence, public statements, petitions and a tape-recording relating to controversies generated by the printing of alleged anti-Zionist/anti-Semitic articles in the newspaper. The correspondence consists for the most part of an exchange of letters between university officials, Jewish community leaders and Leonard N. Simons, a Detroit advertising executive, during the 1969 controversy, and correspondence with Philip Slomovitz, editor of the Detroit Jewish news, in 1972-73. The tape recording is of a February 2, 1969 interview with John Watson, editor of the South end.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: P-588

This collection contains materials pertaining to the life and career of Boris Smolar, a journalist and editor-in-chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and author of children's books. Includes his major newspaper columns: "Between the Lines," "Between You and Me," etc. (1934-1985), and English, Hebrew, and Yiddish articles that appeared in various journals and newspapers. The collection also contains personal documents, addresses, literary writings in Yiddish, Yiddish children's books, manuscripts in English and Yiddish, background information on the Council of Jewish Federations' Smolar Award for Jewish Journalism, and various subjects (Albert Einstein, the Anti-Defamation League's book The troublemakers, and Jews in various countries).

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: P-876

The collection encompasses the personal papers of Virginia Snitow, especially during her active years in the Women's Division of the American Jewish Congress and an organization she founded, US / Israel Women to Women. Papers contain correspondence, writings and voluminous notes with both fiction, and non-fiction writings on racial, gender and class equality. Also included are family stories and diaries chronicling Snitow's time spent in her summer home in Granada.

The collection is in English, with some French.

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Identification number: I-70

Contains materials relating to the various activities of the SAJ, yearbooks, anniversary albums, the correspondence of Mordecai M. Kaplan, Ira Eisenstein, & Jack J. Cohen, newspaper clippings, and photographs. Materials found in the five scrapbooks (1923-1957) include announcements and programs of events, letters to the Board of Directors, songbooks, newspaper clippings, and materials relating to the career of Mordecai M. Kaplan. Also includes the SAJ Bulletin for 1928-1970.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: P-554

The collection consists of minutes and reports, articles, studies, newspaper clippings, records, correspondence, certificates, citations and photographs pertaining primarily to the activities and careers of several members of the Solender family: Samuel Solomon Solender, minutes of staff meetings and case reports (1924-1926) from Levindale - a children's institution in Baltimore; minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors of the Washington Heights YM-YWHA (1935-1960). Sanford Lewis Solender's education and work as a social worker at the Bronx House (1936-1939) and the Madison House (1940-1941); Executive director of the Council Educational Alliance in Cleveland, Ohio (1942-1948); an executive in the National Jewish Welfare Board (1948-1969); Mt. Vernon Board of Education (1958-1964); Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York (1970-1982); and Oral memoirs (1982); and material relating to Sanford Solender's children: Stephen, Susan, Peter and Ellen (1946-1989); and grandfather (1890).

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: P-642

Family papers of the American Sephardic Solis and Cohen families, composed of materials primarily from the American Civil War to the 1930s, with some additional materials prior to and after the time period. Contains correspondence, diaries, journals, medical papers, and eulogies of the family; materials relating to Zionist and Jewish organizations in the United States and abroad; genealogical research and correspondence of several famous Jewish personas; and artifacts, art work and other ephemera.

The collection is in English and Hebrew.

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Identification number: P-28

Included in this collection are papers which reflect Solomon's personal life and his involvement in communal and civic affairs. Approximately half of the collection consists of correspondence with Clara Barton and others relating to the organization and activities of the American Red Cross, and Solomons' role in its initial organization. Various cards, ribbons, and other American Red Cross memorabilia are included. Among his personal papers are school documents and family correspondence; of special interest is an engraving of a photograph of Abraham Lincoln taken at Philp & Solomons Metropolitan Gallery shortly before his death (1865), and a leter from Josephine Phillips to Solomons describing the reaction of New Yorkers to the death of Abraham Lincoln and this engraving (1865), and two tickets of admission to the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson printed by the firm of Philp & Solomons (1868). Also included are typed copies of sermonettes given by Solomons to his family (1876-96). Of interest in his general papers is a letter to Dr. Wheeler regarding memorial services in Congress for Samuel F.B. Morse (1872); correspondence with several dictionary editors regarding the definition of "Jew" (1872-1874); and a letter from John Davis of the U.S. State Department regarding American Jews in Jerusalem. Clippings of newspaper articles by Solomons, tributes, memorial notices, and memorial sermons in honor or memory of Solomons are also included (1870-1910).

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: I-532

The Springfield Jewish Federation is a charitable organization supporting educational and social service programs for both the local and world-wide Jewish community. The Federation was founded on May 6, 1941, to aid in the resettlement of Jews fleeing the war in Europe. Assisting Jews in need has remained an important part of Federation activities. The organization took an active part in the American Soviet Jewry movement by coordinating fund raising, community-wide programming, social services and educational activities to help Jews emigrate from the U.S.S.R. and to resettle them in Springfield, IL. The Federation a rranged housing, health care, coordinated schools and jobs placement and provided a general orientation to American life for the newly arrived Soviet Jewish immigrants.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: P-525

Myer Starr was born in Dmitrovka in the Ukraine, which was then part of Russia. As a child he was apprenticed to a tailor and later a bakery before he began work at a dry goods store at the age of 11. After his mother died, Starr and his younger brother crossed the border into Germany and then immigrated to the United States. Starr and his brother sailed on the "Kleist" into New York in February 1913. From there, they traveled to a sister's house in Malden, Massachusetts. Myer later married and had two sons, graduates of Harvard College and Tufts University.
Please note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: P-369

The Milton Steinberg (1903-1950) Papers documents the personal and intellectual life of the American author, philosopher, rabbi, teacher, and theologian. The collection contains correspondence, writings, photographs, audio recordings, and memorabilia. In addition to numerous articles he authored several books including, The Making of the Modern Jew (1934), As A Driven Leaf (1939), A Partisan Guide to the Jewish Problem (1945), Basic Judaism (1947), A Believing Jew (1951), Anatomy of Faith (1960), and A Prophet's Wife (2010). In a professional career that lasted a little over twenty years he served as rabbi at three synagogues, mainly at the Park Avenue Synagogue. In addition he was active in the community at large working with many Jewish community and civic organizations. As a disciple of Mordecai Kaplan, he and others helped to establish the Reconstructionist movement of American Jewry.

The collection is in English with some Hebrew.

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Identification number: P-875

Oscar and Celia Sterman immigrated to the United States in 1916 and settled in Brookline, Massachusetts, where they raised a family and became increasingly involved in the establishment of the State of Israel. The Stermans donated funds for the construction of several buildings in Beersheba and Eilat, Israel, including a library, sports center, youth center, and also provided funding for the addition of the Electro Mechanic Department to the Max Pine Trade Center. This collection documents both their family life as well as their considerable contributions to Israel, as well as their travels to the country.
Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English and Yiddish.

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Identification number: P-715

This collection is mainly composed of correspondence between Ms. Stern and Mrs. Roosevelt, spanning the years from their first acquaintance in 1941 to Mrs. Roosevelt's decease in 1962. Letters that hold particular interest concern Ms. Stern's experience at the Summer Student Leadership Institute, and the White House.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: P-529

Contains papers and photos including correspondence and other materials relating to work as Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (and Israel), as National Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, as a leading campaigner for Israel Bonds, and as co-founder of and Chairman of the Board of the Weizmann Institute of Science; 2 texts of radio broadcasts made in 1948 informing America about the Israeli war for independence and the new Israeli republic; a list of military equipment supplied by Mr. Stone to Israel in 1948; letters and biographical material relating both to pressure applied by Mr. Stone and others on Pres. Truman to recognize and support the new Jewish state and to Mr. Stone's financial support of Truman's campaign and the Democratic Party in 1948; materials on associations with Boston University (including the dedication of the Dewey D. and Harry K. Stone Science Building), and the Truman Library; tributes and awards; biographical material; memorials; misc. speeches, presentations, and essays; misc. press clippings; and various photographs. Among the correspondents are: Chaim Weizmann, Vera Weizmann, Abba Eban, David Ben Gurion, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, the Rothschilds, Hubert Humphrey, Adlai E. Stevenson II, Teddy Kollek, Golda Meir, Richard Cardinal Cushing, Jacob Fine, Henry Ford II, Solomon Goldman, John M. McCormack, Meyer Weisgal, and Stephen S. Wise.

This collection also contains a number of items relating to Dr. Chaim Weizmann's career as a statesman and as the first President of the State of Israel. Also consists of Ann Stone's personal correspondence including letters for medical assistance with Lord Marcus J. Sieff of London.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English, French, German, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

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Identification number: P-555

Materials pertaining to Stone's Zionist activities include organizational speeches and essays prepared by Stone; materials relating to the Palestine Resolution introduced by Stone into the Massachusetts Legislature and materials relating to the Lodge-Fish Resolution, including a partial account of Stone's role in the passing of the resolution as well as correspondence with Henry Cabot Lodge; correspondence from Stone's tenure as President of the New England Zionist Region; correspondence in his association with the World Zionist Organization, the Zionist Organization of America, the Jewish National Fund, and Keren Heyesod. The collection also includes speeches and writings of Louis Lipsky and speeches given by Henry Cabot Lodge, Colonel Josiah Wedgewood, Congressman John C. McCormack, Governor Frank G. Allen, and an address given by an unidentified Knesset member (probably Abba Eban) before the Mass. Legislature (1949).

Materials pertaining to Stone's political activities include the following: election campaign materials; correspondence written in support of other candidates; resolutions sponsored by Stone as a state representative; correspondence written as a state representative and as Assistant U.S. District Attorney.

Please note: Located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English, German, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

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Identification number: P-939

Adolphus Strassman (alias Rich) was born in 1850 in Hungary, which was at that time part of the Austria-Hungary Empire. As a child, he immigrated with his family to the United States. They settled in Fall River, Massachusetts, where he lived with his mother, Rosa, stepfather Harry Strassman, and two half-siblings, Etta and Harry. From 1863-1865, he served in the Union Army. He served as a Private in the 2nd Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Company I, under Captain John D. Parker Junior. His diary includes information about the Battle of Wyse Fork (South West Creek). The collection includes pension and discharge certificates, cor respondence, a medallion, wallet with calling cards, photographs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Commendation for services rendered (fragile, restricted), and a diary (1865).

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: P-632

This collection is comprised of papers pertaining to Admiral Louis Lichtenstein Strauss, his career, community activities, and organizations to which he belonged, including the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Temple Emanu-El in New York, the American Jewish Committee, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the Jewish Agricultural Society, and the Union of Hebrew Congregations. Papers include extensive correspondence, organizational and institutional records, photographs, and publications that document his personal and public life as well as American Jewish issues that he was involved with such as relief efforts for Jewish refugees from Central Europe, interest and involvement in the Reform movement, and endeavors to combat anti-Semitism, especially as propagated by Father Charles E. Coughlin and Henry Ford.

The collection is in English, German, French, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

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Identification number: I-493

The Student Coalition for Soviet Jewry (SCSJ) was founded in 1977 in response to the arrest of Anatoly B. Shcharansky. Thirteen students from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts went to Washington, D.C. to lobby Congress about the problems faced by Jews in the Soviet Union. The numbers of students involved continued to grow, and expanded to include students from other colleges and universities in the United States. The Washington Lobby, which was held every February, provided opportunities for students to meet with members of Congress to educate them on the plight of Soviet Jews and urge them to get involved, either in letter writing campaigns or the adoption of Refuseniks. Students also participated in silent vigils in front of the Soviet embassy and met with representatives of the Soviet Affairs desk at the State Department. This collection includes correspondence, news clippings, newsletters, photographs, informational sourcebooks, and congressional monitoring reports.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

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Identification number: I-424

Collection encompasses an extensive variety of organizations, subjects, and formats and is most useful for genealogists and researchers interested in general information. Researchers looking for a particular publication will also find this collection helpful. Arranged into fourteen series: Series I: Miscellaneous organizations; Series II: Bicentennial celebrations; Series III: Black/Jewish Relations; Series IV: Broadsides; Series V: Business: Jewish Involvement; Series VI: Entertainment/Media; Series VII: Holocaust; Series VIII: Interfaith Relations; Series IX: Invitations and Programs for Special Events; Series X: Politics: Jewish Involvement; Series XI: Religious and Civil Contracts, Certificates, and Prayers; Series XII: Schools; Series XIII: Soviet Jewry; and Series XIV: Synagogues.

The collection is in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

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Identification number: P-633

Speeches, articles and other writings from Sugarman's career as a prominent Washington tax attorney, who served as Assistant Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service between August 1952 and December 1954.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-94

The Surinam Jewish community collection contains manuscript and printed material in English and Dutch relating to the Jews of Surinam.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-68

The Records of the Synagogue Council of America (SCA) documents the lifespan (1926-1982, with a few documents from 1990-1992; the organization disbanded in 1994) and activities of the joint Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox Jewish communities' efforts in coordinating Jewish life and activities in America. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, and ephemera including photographs of Martin Luther King, Jr., Edward Kennedy, and Presidents Eisenhower, Truman, and Johnson, along with Eleanor Roosevelt. Of particular interest is correspondence and photographs documenting the removal, reconsecration, or burial of ritual Synagogue items for repatriation from Europe to the U.S. and South America after WWII; also contains information on damaged synagogues in France.

The collection is in English, Yiddish, and French.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-819

Collection consists of advertisements, articles, books, lithographs, magazine covers, posters, and stamps that Szyk illustrated between 1931, 1941-1955. Additional items contain exhibit promotions and articles about Szyk's work. Szyk's artwork includes sartoric images of Adolf Hitler and Nazi leaders; patriotic images of President George Washington, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, and American ideals; depictions of Eastern European Jewry, Israel's independence, prophets, and sages; and advertisements promoting Asbestos Limited, Casco, Nescafe, North American Aviation, United States Steel, and Utah Radio Products Company. Two Time magazine covers dated from 1941 display Szyk's portraits of Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard and Director of Economic Affairs Hubertus J. van Mook.

The collection is in English and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-213

The Taylor-Tatelbaum Family resided in the Boston area. These papers include those of Barney and Jennie Tatelbaum, Harry and Fannie Cohen, and Alan Taylor (nee Abraham Tatelbaum.) The collection includes genealogical information, photographs, college papers, yearbooks, correspondence, plaques, naturalization certificates and vital records.

Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: P-891

Papers of Rabbi Pinchas Mordechai Teitz (1908-1995) cover the period from the late 1960s to the early 1980s and document his activities related to Soviet Jews. The collection contains correspondence related to Soviet Jews, documentation of Rabbi Teitz' trips to the USSR, his articles on Soviet Jews, the Russian-Hebrew religious books published for Russian-speaking Jews by the enterprise MOHIR, established by Teitz, records of shipments of books and religious items to the Soviet Union, a sound recording reflecting the visit of the Chief Rabbi of Moscow to the USA in 1968, and photographs related to Rabbi Teitz' Soviet Jewry activities in the USA and the USSR. The documents include articles, correspondence, notes, prayer books, publications, news clippings, a trip report, photographs and a vinyl record.

The collection is in English, Russian, and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-111

The collection contains a file of the Temple bulletin (scattered issues 1927-33, 1941-42, complete 1935-41, 1942-44, 1949- ); various pamphlets on its history; the Temple Beth El dedication issue of The Jewish American (Sept. 18, 1903); programs, brochures and publications on the Woodward-Gladstone Street Synagogue and materials on the relocation to Birmingham, Mich. Also includes the Rabbi Leo M. Franklin Jubilee issue of The Jewish chronicle (July 24, 1919); sermons and materials relating to Rabbis B. Benedict Glazer, Richard C. Hertz and Morton M. Kanter; incomplete sets of programs of confirmation services (1905-74); material on the Beth El College of Jewish Studies (1926-50); the Beth El annual-religious school yearbook (1953-66, 1969, 1971); Temple Yearbooks (1911-15, 1917-18, 1920-22, 1924-45); congregational by-laws (1942, 1966), Annual reports (1944-66); programs for special temple services and music festivals and miscellaneous material on other synagogue activities.

The collection is in English and Hebrew.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-470

he records of Temple Beth El offer a valuable insight into a small town Southern Jewish community. The community members, composed mainly of German Jews devoted to the Reform movement, participated actively in charity work and mutual benefit societies, and maintained a close relationship with Jewish communities throughout the South. Temple Beth El was one of the first members of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Its history reflects the struggles a small town Jewish community experienced in maintaining their Jewish identity as well as the cooperation and acceptance of their non-Jewish neighbors. A significant part of the collection concerns the activities of women in the Helena Jewish community, who were a tight knit group that conducted extensive charity work. The Sisterhood took an active role as member of the Mississippi-Arkansas Federation of Temple Sisterhoods. The records also include minute books for the B'nai B'rith Esther Lodge. The collection contains correspondence, real estate deeds, financial ledgers, minute meetings, news clippings, a scrapbook, and photographs.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-460

In 1916, the Jewish community of Boston established Beth Israel Temple Beth-El, located on the East Side of Providence, dates back to 1849, with the creation of the group "Sons of Israel." On September 10, 1849, Solomon Pareira, Leonard Gavitts and Morris Steinberg were granted an acre of land along the New London Turnpike (now Reservoir Avenue) to establish a cemetery. In 1854, the Congregation of the Sons of Israel and David was established, leading to president Solomon Pareira's deeding of the cemetery land in 1857 for the sole utilization of the congregation. This collection contains programs, sermons and newsletters. Although the congregation was originally Orthodox, it affiliated with the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (Union for Reform Judaism) in 1877.

The collection is in English.

From the collections of AJHS

Identification number: I-102

Temple B'nai Jacob was an Orthodox synagogue on Sylvia Street in Lexington, Massachusetts. Their first service was held on Passover, 1916. Although this congregation is no longer operational, two synagogues in Lexington -- Temple Emunah (Conservative) and Temple Isaiah (Reform) -- have their roots in Temple B'nai Jacob. This collection contains one financial ledger in English and Yiddish for Temple B'nai Jacob.
Please Note: This collection is located at AJHS, Boston, MA.

The collection is in English and Yiddish.