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Descriptive Summary
Creator:	Central Sephardic Jewish Community of America
Title:	Records of Central Sephardic Jewish Community of America
Dates:	undated, 1935-2000
Abstract:	The records of the CSJCA document the creation, functioning, and activities of the Community in the fields of social service, religious education, philanthropy and many others. The materials include correspondence, minutes of meetings, annual reports, budgets, publications and clippings, membership lists, financial papers and ledgers, and a few photographs.
Languages:	This collection is in English.
Quantity:	20.4 linear feet
Identification:	ASF AR-1
Repository:	American Sephardi Federation at the Center for Jewish History

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Historical Note

The Sephardi immigrants coming to the United States during the early part of the twentieth century developed a strong yearning for a central body along the lines of the communities they knew in their old hometowns. It took the arrival in 1941 of Dr. Nissim J. Ovadia, former Chief Rabbi of Paris, to unite all the societies under the sponsorship of a few businessmen who were impressed by Dr. Ovadia's energy and dedication. On June 29, 1942, the first meeting of delegates of societies and members at large of the Central Sephardic Jewish Community of America was held.

Upon the death of Dr. Ovadia on August 30, 1942, Dr. David J. Cardozo filled the gap as the leader for a short interval until he was called to serve Congregation Mikveh Israel of Philadelphia. Dr. Isaac Alcalay, the former Chief Rabbi of Yugoslavia, who had escaped from the Nazis, was in New York at the time and accepted the position of Chief Rabbi and leader. In 1943 Mrs. Mazel Ovadia founded the Woman's Division, which was the right arm of the Community for many years.

The Central Sephardic Jewish Community of America conducted a large number of social activities. In the field of philanthropy, the Community extended financial emergency help to many needy families. In the field of religion and Jewish education, the Community succeeded in uniting a number of Sephardi Talmud Torah in Brooklyn, and later in the Bronx, and subsidized education for a number of years. The Community helped in founding the Sephardic Jewish Center of the Bronx. In 1952, the Community engaged Dr. Moise Ventura as principal of schools and as a general director of Sephardi Jewish Education. The Community also organized rabbis in a central committee for the purpose of improving their religious services. The Community formed the Sephardic Youth League in the mid-1940s, consisting of over 1000 boys and girls distributed in several chapters covering the entire city, under the guidance of John J. Karpeles as director. The league carried on social and cultural activities and assisted young people in their higher studies with scholarships.

In matters of general Jewish interest the Community organized dinners and other functions for the benefit of the Federation of Jewish Charities and the United Jewish Appeal, and for the purchase of Israel bonds. The Community occasionally assisted Sephardi communities and institutions outside of the United States.

For many years the Community struggled with the problem of a home for the Sephardi aged, and as a result of a study requested by and paid for by the Community, the Board of Directors decided to build a home for the Sephardi aged. Money was raised with the substantial help of the Women's Division, and the Sephardi Home for the Aged opened its doors on May 20, 1951 in the Bronx.

In the field of public relations the Community acted as the representative body at many national and international conventions and meetings. The Community also, by means of the publication of The Sephardi from 1943 to 1957, kept the Sephardim of the United States and particularly the youth apprised of events of Jewish and Sephardi interest.

Another important service rendered by the Community was its work in locating relatives who had lost contact with each other, as a result of World War II.

By 1987 the men who stayed with the Community were only a few, and the organization's funds were dormant. It was decided that the Women's Division of the CSJCA would take over the organization. A meeting was held in 1989 in the Library of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue. It was suggested by Mrs. Emilie Levy to merge together with the men under the original name "Central Sephardic Jewish Community of America, Inc." All assets were merged, and Mrs. Irma Cardozo was elected as President of the new organization.

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Scope and Content Note

The records of the Central Sephardic Jewish Community of America (CSJCA) and its Women's Division are arranged in two separate subgroups: Records of the CSJCA and Records of the CSJCA's Woman's Division.

The records of the CSJCA subgroup, described here, document the creation, functioning, and activities of the Community. The materials of the collection span 1935-1993, with the bulk of the Community's records being from the 1940s through the 1960s. The majority of records are in English, with some documents in French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Ladino, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Most records in this subgroup are correspondence, although there is also a significant amount of minutes of meetings, annual reports, and financial records as well as materials on the organizations the Community and Women's Division assisted.

One theme that reoccurs throughout this subgroup is the assistance work provided by the Community, not only to its members but also to Sephardim in other communities. Series I: Assistance Services holds a large amount of material concerning social assistance provided by the Community, including such matters as aid with immigration, help in finding employment, location searches of individuals, and social service. The correspondence of Dr. Isaac Alcalay, located in Series IV: Correspondence, also contains information on aid given while Alcalay was Chief Rabbi of the Community. Details concerning financial assistance by the Community can be found in the Finance and Financial Committee folders in Series II: Committees as well as in Series V: Finances. Information pertaining specifically to the Community's Scholarship Fund can also be found in these same two series.

Many events sponsored by the Community and the Women's Division were planned to raise funds for the Community and for various projects. Material relating to Community events can be found in pertinent folders, such as the Dinner-Dance or Publicity Committee folders, in Series II as well as in Community Events folders in Series III. Information concerning events hosted by specific membership organizations belonging to the Community can be found in Series VII: Membership Organizations.

A large amount of materials in this subgroup pertains to the running and functioning of the Community. Series II: Committees includes the minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors and Executive Committees, as well as those of the Reorganization Committee. More information on the reorganization of the Community is also provided in Series III: Community. Correspondence with individual members of the Community can be found in Series VII: Membership Organizations as well as in Series III. Material concerning the activities of Sephardi youth within the Community is located in Series II in the Youth Activities Committee folder as well as in Series VIII: Sephardic Youth League.

Of special interest is the material concerning the Holocaust and World War II era. There are many papers from the 1940s and early 1950s that mention the plight of Sephardim abroad. A large amount of correspondence related to this subject is available in Series I: Assistance Services; material is located in all three subseries. More information can be found in folders of foreign correspondence in Series IV: Correspondence and in Series VI: General Subject Files. Series VI contains a list of survivors of the Holocaust in Europe, a list of the losses of the Jewish population in Greece after German persecution in 1943 and 1944, a photo album of the destroyed Jewish cemetery of Salonica, and a list of Spanish Jews arrested by the Nazis in 1944 in Greece.

The CSJCA subgroup does not contain any documents concerning the dissolution and liquidation of assets of the organization; these may be found in the Women's Division records. There is only a small amount of records dating from the 1970s and later.

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Arrangement

The CSJCA subgroup is organized in eight series:

• Series I: Assistance Services, 1944-1975
• Series II: Committees, undated, 1943-1987
• Series III: Community, 1942-1976
• Series IV: Correspondence, 1942-1976
• Series V: Finances, 1941-1986
• Series VI: General Subject Files, undated, 1935-1993
• Series VII: Membership Organizations, undated, 1941-1969
• Series VIII: Sephardic Youth League, undated, 1941-1953

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Open to researchers.

Use Restrictions

There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:
American Sephardi Federation
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011

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Related Material

For further information on the Women's Division of the CSJCA, See Guide to the Records of the Central Sephardic Jewish Community of America, Women's Division.

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Provenance

The American Sephardi Federation acquired the records by gift from Congregation Shearith Israel.

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Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:

Identification of item, date (if known); Records of the Central Sephardic Jewish Community of America; box number; folder title; American Sephardi Federation at the Center for Jewish History.

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Access points

• Subject organizations:

  • Central Sephardic Jewish Community of America

• Subject topics:

  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Human Services
  • Refugees, Jewish
  • Sephardim
  • Social work with immigrants

• Subject places:

  • New York (N.Y.)

• Document types:

  • Correspondence
  • Minutes
  • Reports

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Container List

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

Series I: Assistance Services, undated, 1943-1975 (bulk 1945-1953).
2.2 linear feet
Arrangement: Subseries 1: Assistance, General and Subseries 3: Social Service Cases are arranged alphabetically by folder title, then chronologically. Records for Subseries 2: Locations are arranged alphabetically by the last name of person sought.
Scope and Content: The assistance services series consists of three subseries: Assistance, General; Locations; and Social Service Cases.
Subseries 1: Assistance, General,  1944-1975.
Arrangement: Folders are arranged alphabetically, then chronologically.
Scope and Content: These records pertain to general social assistance provided by the Community to Sephardim. The bulk of the records are correspondence from the 1940s and 1950s. Correspondence includes letters of recommendation by Dr. Isaac Alcalay, Chief Rabbi of the Community; requests for monetary assistance from both individuals and other organizations and requests for assistance in finding employment or an employee. Other items of potential interest are records concerning immigration, including notes on a particular immigrant as well as correspondence between the Community and the immigrant or an organization that was aiding him/her. Much of these records on immigration are to and from immigrants in Displaced Persons camps, and most of the Community responses to these letters are by Dr. Alcalay. Folders labelled "Overseas Relief" document the Community's work in aiding Jews during and immediately following World War II. Most documents are in English, but there are also a few in Spanish, French, and Hebrew.
Box		Title	Date
1		Adoption Cases	1957
1		Certifications and Endorsements	1946-1959
1		Employment: New York Association For New Americans	1956
1		Employment: Requests of the Community	1944-1951
1		Immigration	1948-1949
1		Immigration: Inactive	1945-1947
1		Immigration: Inactive	1948
1		Letters of Recommendation	1958
1		Letters of Recommendation, Dr. Alcalay	1946-1951
1		Letters of Recommendation, Dr. Alcalay	1952-1953
1		Overseas Relief	1945
1		Overseas Relief	1946-1947
1		Overseas Relief	1948-1951
1		Overseas Relief, Africa: North Africa	1945-1946
1		Overseas Relief, Africa: Tripoli	1947-1948
1		Overseas Relief, Asia: China	1946
1		Overseas Relief, Asia: Palestine	1944-1948
1		Overseas Relief, Asia: Turkey	1947-1948
1		Overseas Relief, Europe: Austria	1946
1		Overseas Relief, Europe: Bulgaria	1945
1		Overseas Relief, Europe: France	1945-1946
1		Overseas Relief, Europe: Germany	1943-1947
1		Overseas Relief, Europe: Greece	1944-1947
1		Overseas Relief, Europe: Yugoslavia	1943-1947
1		Positions Sought by Employers	1958-1962
1		Positions Wanted by Applicants	1952
1		Positions Wanted by Applicants	undated, 1957-1959
1		Positions Wanted by Applicants	1961-1964
1		Positions Wanted by Applicants: Sephardic Rabbis	undated, 1960-1962
1		Record of Assistance Requests	1947-1949
1		Requests for Assistance, Dr. Alcalay Responses	1949-1950
1		Requests for Assistance from Other Organizations	1944-1949
1		Requests for Assistance from Other Organizations	1958
1		Requests for Assistance, Individuals	1945-1951
1		Requests for Assistance, Individuals	1956-1959, 1975
1		Scholarships	1954
1		Social Welfare	1957-1959
Subseries 2: Locations,  undated, 1943-1964.
Scope and Content: This subseries deals with searches for locations of individuals and contains correspondence and standardized forms that the Community used to perform location searches. The Community helped individuals and other organizations, most often HIAS or the National Refugee Service, locate missing persons or persons with whom the searcher had lost contact. Most are searches by people overseas for family members residing in the United States. Roughly one-quarter of the searches state that the searcher was recently released from a Displaced Persons camp, had recently come out of hiding, or mention stays in various concentration camps. Many of the original requests from those abroad are not in English. The bulk of the papers are from the 1940s through the 1950s, although a few papers are from the 1960s. The majority of papers are in English, with some documents in French, Spanish, Hebrew, Greek, and German.
Box		Title	Date
1		Forms for Locations	undated
1		Locations	undated, 1964
1		Locations: A	1945-1946
1		Locations: A	1947-1959
1		Locations: Active	1951-1953
1		Locations: B	1945-1947
1		Locations: B	1948-1959
1		Locations: C-D	1945-1946
1		Locations: C-D	1947-1957
1		Locations: Closed, A-D	1951-1954
1		Locations: Closed, E-K	1948-1954
1		Locations: Closed, M-Z	1950-1954
1		Locations: E-F	undated, 1945-1946
1		Locations: E-F	1947-1957
1		Locations: G-H	1945-1946
1		Locations: G-H	1947-1951
1		Locations: I-L	1943-1946
1		Locations: I-L	1947-1959
Box		Title	Date
2		Locations: M	1945-1946
2		Locations: M	1947-1956
2		Locations: N-R	1945-1946
2		Locations: N-R	1947-1959
2		Locations: S-Z	1943-1946
2		Locations: S-Z	1947-1964
Subseries 3: Social Service Cases,  1944-1957.
Scope and Content: This subseries contains papers on social assistance provided by the Community to individuals. The bulk of the papers come from the 1940s through the 1950s. In addition to correspondence, there are also many forms which detail the progress of specific cases, listing such actions taken as requests made, letters sent, and telephone calls made. The cases focus on many social issues, such as family and marital problems, financial assistance, mental illness, and help in securing employment or education; there are also a few prison cases. Many of the foreign social cases mention difficulties that arose out of persecution by the Nazis during World War II. In addition to English, there are also papers in German, Hebrew, French, and Spanish. There are some restrictions on specific social cases.
Box		Title	Date
2		Active	1953
2		A-Z	1944-1945
2		A-Z	1946
2		A-Z	1954-1955
2		A-Z	1956
2		A-Z	1957
2		Closed, A-B	1947-1952
2		Closed, C-G	1947-1952
2		Closed, H-K	1947-1952
2		Closed, L-O	1947-1952
2		Closed, P-Z	1947-1952
2		Closed, A-N	1948-1954
2		Closed, O-Z	1948-1954
2		Closed, A-E	1949-1950
2		Closed, J-Z	1949-1950
2		Foreign, A	1945-1950
2		Foreign, B-E	1945-1950
2		Foreign, H-L	1945-1950
2		Foreign, M-S	1945-1950
2		Foreign, V-Z	1945-1950
2		Index Cards
		Individuals: Alalouf, Jack (#389) CLOSED	1952
2		Individuals: Alalouf, Marcus (#338)	1950-1953
		Individuals: Aronesty, Lena (#206) CLOSED	1949-1952
2		Individuals: Aruty, Maurice (#404)	1952
2		Individuals: Azose, Lisa (#405)	1952
2		Individuals: Beniesh, Yashar (#395)	1952
2		Individuals: Jacob, Leon (#432)	1952
2		Individuals: Kakkis, Isak Emilios (#406)	1952
2		Individuals: Marizadeh, Edmon (#382)	1952
2		Individuals: Moshe, Harry and Romano, Yohana (#399)	1952
2		Individuals: Mosse, Albert (#254)	1950-1951
2		Individuals: Mushabac, Mrs. Julia (#393)	1952
2		Individuals: Naar, Leon (#390)	1952
2		Individuals: Negrin, Irving (#223)	1946-1952
2		Individuals: Platteis, Leonard (#430)	1952
2		Individuals: Sananes, Vida (#394)	1952
2		Individuals: Sasson, Albert (#414)	1952
2		Individuals: Sasson, Eddie	1952
2		Individuals: Shaffer, Laci (#338)	1952
2		Individuals: Schwartz, Alfred H. (#403)	1952
Box		Title	Date
3		Cases closed until 2010

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Series II: Committees, undated, 1943-1987(bulk 1940s-1960s).
1.5 linear feet
Arrangement: Folders are arranged alphabetically, then chronologically.
Scope and Content: Series II holds records of committees of the Community, mainly minutes and invitations to committee meetings. Folders of the Scholarship Fund and Social Welfare committees also contain letters from applicants for assistance. In addition, there are also lists of members of the committees. A large portion of material deals specifically with the Board of Directors and Executive Committee meetings, much of it minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors and Executive Committees.
Box		Title	Date
4		Board of Directors	1944-1951
4		Board of Directors	1952-1953
4		Board of Directors	1955-1956
		Board of Directors [see legal-sized box 23]	1957
4		Board of Directors	1958
4		Board of Directors	1959
4		Board of Directors	1960-1965
4		Board of Directors	1967-1974
4		Board of Directors	1975
4		Board of Directors	1976
4		Board of Directors	1982
4		Board of Directors	1983
4		Board of Directors	1984
Box		Title	Date
5		Board of Directors	undated, 1985-1988
5		Board of Directors: Minutes of Meetings	1950-1955
5		Board of Directors: Minutes of Meetings	1956-1957
5		Board of Directors: Minutes of Meetings	1958-1959
5		Board of Directors: Minutes of Meetings	1961-1965
5		Board of Directors: Minutes of Meetings	1975
5		Board of Directors: Minutes of Meetings	1982-1983
5		Board of Directors: Minutes of Meetings	1984-1987
5		Budget Committee	1949-1954
5		Building Fund Committee	1959
5		Campaign Committee	undated, 1949
5		Committee of Ten Volunteers	1955
5		Committee on Site Acquisition	1962
5		Community Committees, General	1942-1953
5		Cultural and Religious Committee	1949-1953
5		Dinner-Dance Committee	1957
5		Executive Committee	1947-1956
		Executive Committee [see legal-sized box 23]	1957
5		Executive Committee	1958-1966
5		Executive Committee: Minutes of Meetings	1952-1957
5		Executive Committee: Minutes of Meetings	1958-1965
5		Finance Committee	undated, 1955-1957
5		Financial Committee	undated, 1953
5		Joint Meeting of Men and Women's Boards	1983
5		Liaison Committee	1953
5		List of Committees and Committee Members	1943-1951
5		List of Executive Board Members, Trustees, Honorary Members, and Board of Directors	undated
5		Membership Committee	undated, 1944-1953
5		Nominating Committee	1958
		Old Age Home Committee	1942, 1944-1946
		Old Age Home Committee	1947
		Old Age Home Committee	1948-1950
5		Organization Committee	1953-1954
		Public Affairs Committee	1943-1944
5		Publications Committee, Mr. Simon S. Nessim, Chairman	1943-1952
5		Publications Committee	1956-1957
5		Publicity Committee	1953
5		Religious Activities Committee	1943-1947
5		Religious Activities Committee	1975
5		Religious Affairs Committee	1962
5		Religious and Education Committee	1957
5		Religious and Education Committee	1958-1959
		Religious and Education Committee	1960
5		Religious and Education Committee	1962
5		Reorganization Committee	1956
5		Reorganization Committee: Minutes of Meetings	1950-1956
5		Scholarship Fund Committee	1953
5		Scholarship Fund Committee	1956-1957
5		Scholarship Fund Committee	undated, 1959
5		Scholarship Fund Committee	1960-1961
5		Scholarship Fund Committee	1963-1965, 1967
5		Scholarship Fund Committee, Completed Cases	1961-1963
5		Scholarship Fund Committee, Mr. Morris Ezra, Chairman	1958
5		Social Committee	1957
5		Social and Entertainment Committee	1944-1950
5		Social Welfare Committee	1955-1956
5		Social Welfare Committee	1957
5		Youth Activities Committee	1945-1950
5		Youth Committee	1962

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Series III: Community, 1942-1976 (bulk 1940s-1960s).
2.1 linear feet
Arrangement: This series is arranged alphabetically by topic, then chronologically.
Scope and Content: The documents in this series pertain to issues concerning the Community as a whole. One prominent topic in this series is the community campaign. Most of the records on the community campaign are correspondence asking for pledges and contributions, and thank-you letters for contributions and membership dues. In addition, there are also lists of community members attending the campaign dinners. Another potential subject of interest in this series is the reorganization of the Community. This series contains extensive material on events conducted by the Community: administrative information on the Annual Dinner-Dance and its accompanying Journal, a major fund-raising event sponsored by both the Community and its Women's Division, drafts of programs, and lists of invitees to the Dinner-Dance. Other material of a general nature that concerned the Community includes correspondence with membership societies, with Sephardi organizations outside of the New York area, and a survey of religious and educational activities conducted by Sephardi synagogues in the New York area. There is also material following the death of Dr. Nissim J. Ovadia, including expressions of grief from Sephardi communities outside of the New York area and abroad, donations by the Community to Ovadia's wife, and correspondence concerning the original memorial service and funeral arrangements for Ovadia. Other material includes documents on the telephone campaign in 1948, election of delegates in the early years of the Community's existence, discussion of fund-raising strategies, a census of New York Sephardim, and the Community's response in 1947 to the United Nations Arab delegation that claimed Sephardi were not interested in Zionism, and many other topics. Almost all records are in English, but there are also a few in Hebrew and Spanish.
Box		Title	Date
6		Assembly of Delegates	1942-1949
		Assembly of Delegates: Reports and Minutes [see legal-sized box 23]	undated, 1945-1947
6		Attendance	1958
6		Attendance	1968-1969
6		Census of Community Sephardim	1945
6		Community Campaign	1943-1944
6		Community Campaign	1945-1946
6		Community Campaign	1947 January-June
6		Community Campaign	1947 July-December
6		Community Campaign	1948 January-June
6		Community Campaign	1948 July-December
6		Community Campaign	1949
6		Community Campaign	1950 January-March
6		Community Campaign	Apr-50
6		Community Campaign	1950 May-December
6		Community Campaign	1951
6		Community Campaign	1952 January-March
6		Community Campaign	1952 April-December
6		Community Campaign	1953
6		Community Campaign: Attendance Lists	1949
6		Community Campaign: Attendance Lists	1950
6		Community Campaign: Lists of Contributors and Prospects	1944
6		Community Campaign: Lists of Participants	1946
6		Community Campaign: Lists of Participants	1947
6		Community Campaign: Mailings, Assignment List	1949
6		Community Campaign: Mailings, Assignment List	1950
6		Communtiy Campaign: Proofs	1949
6		Community Events: Annual Dinner Dance	1953-1955
6		Community Events: Annual Dinner Dance	1957
6		Community Events: Annual Dinner Dance	1958
6		Community Events: Annual Dinner Dance Journal	1957
6		Community Events: Annual Dinner Dance Journal	1958
6		Community Events: Dinner for Dr. Isaac Alcalay	undated, 1943
Box		Title	Date
7		Community Events: Dinner for Rabbi Solomon David Sassoon	1956-1957
7		Community Events: Dinner for Rabbi Solomon David Sassoon: Bank Statements	1956
7		Community Events: Dinner for Rabbi Solomon David Sassoon: Expenses	1956
7		Community Events: Dinner for Rabbi Solomon David Sassoon: Ledger sheets	1956
		Community Events: Dinner for Rabbi Solomon David Sassoon: Report [see legal-sized box 23]	1956
7		Community Events: Dinner for Rabbi Solomon David Sassoon: Reservations	1956
7		Community Events: Invitations to Luncheons	undated, 1962-1963
7		Community Events: Israel Bonds Dinners	undated, 1959
7		Community Events: Memorial Service for John Hezekiah	1966
7		Community Events: Reception for Dr. Isaac Alcalay	1962-1963
7		Community Events: Reception for Dr. Salomon Gaon	undated, 1957
7		Community Events: Reception for Dr. Salomon Gaon	1962-1965
7		Community Events: Victory Celebration and Dance	1959
7		Community Events: Victory Celebration and Dance: Tickets	1959
7		Community, General	undated
7		Community, General	1941
7		Community, General	1942
7		Community, General	1943
7		Community, General	1944
7		Community, General	1945
7		Community, General	1946
7		Community, General	1947-1948
7		Community, General	1950-1953
7		Community, General	1954-1958
7		Community, General	1959
7		Community, General	1962-1966
		Community Lists: Member Organizations	1961-1966
		Community Lists: Rabbis and Congregations	1961-1964
		Community Lists: Committee Members	1961-1966
7		Community: Membership Dinner	1953
7		Community: Membership Dues Acknowledgements	1949-1955
7		Community: Membership Dues Acknowledgements: $5 and up	1953
7		Community: Membership Dues Acknowledgements: $50 and up	1953
7		Community President	1961-1966
		Community President [see legal-sized box 23]	1965-1966
7		Community President	1976
		Constitution [see legal-sized box 23]	1941-1956
		Constitution: Amendments [see legal-sized box 23]	1945
7		Constitution: Proposed Amendment	1956
7		Contribution Appeal	1946, 1960-1971
7		Contributions for Upkeep of Community	1961
7		Essay: History, Purposes, and Accomplishments of the Community	1965
7		Functions	undated
7		Functions	1947-1949
7		Functions	1950-1951
7		History of CSJCA	1946
7		Honorary Members	1961
7		Installation of Officers	1956
7		Installation of Officers	1958
7		Journal: Attendance Record	1958? February-May
7		Lists of Officers of Community	1958
7		Membership Campaign	1945 January-June
7		Membership Campaign	1945 July-December
7		Membership Campaign	1946
7		Officers' Meeting	n.d, 1967
7		Religious Council of the CSJCA	1949-1950
7		Reorganization of Community	1947-1949
7		Reorganization of Community	1950-1951
7		Reorganization of Community	1955
7		Scholarship Fund	1959-1961
7		Scholarship Fund	1962
7		Scholarship Fund: Bronx Social Meeting	1957
7		Social Welfare Fund of Community	1959
7		Survey of Proposed Home for the Aged for the CSJCA	1946
7		Survey of Religious and Educational Activities	1962-1963
7		Volume: Minutes of Meetings, Writings Concerning the CSJCA, and List of Delegates	1941-1948

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Series IV: Correspondence, 1942-1976 (bulk 1940s-1950s).
2 linear feet
Arrangement: Folders in this series are arranged alphabetically.
Scope and Content: This series contains Community correspondence. The bulk of the records are from the 1940s and 1950s. A large amount of material consists of letters to and from Dr. Alcalay, much of it letters of invitation to various events, as well as responses to requests and questions. The letters in Foreign Correspondence from the 1940s contain descriptions of life during and immediately following the Holocaust. General correspondence is from and to different members of the Community regarding meetings, events as well as various Sephardic groups and organiations. Although the majority of records are in English, other languages such as Spanish, Hebrew, French, Portuguese, Polish, and German can be found among the foreign correspondence.
Box		Title	Date
8		Alcalay, Isaac	1943
8		Alcalay, Isaac	1944
8		Alcalay, Isaac	1944 (cont.)
8		Alcalay, Isaac	1945
8		Alcalay, Isaac	1946
8		Alcalay, Isaac	1947
8		Alcalay, Isaac	1948
8		Alcalay, Isaac	1949
8		Alcalay, Isaac	1950-1951
8		Alcalay, Isaac	1952
8		Alcalay, Isaac	1953
8		Alcalay, Isaac	1954
8		Alcalay, Isaac	1955
8		Alcalay, Isaac	1956
8		Alcalay, Isaac	1957
8		Alcalay, Isaac	1958-1959
8		Circular letters	1961-1962
8		Circular letters	1963-1967
8		Congratulations and Condolences	1952-1953
8		Congratulations and Condolences	1954-1955
8		Congratulations and Condolences	1956
8		Congratulations and Condolences	1957-1958
8		Congratulations and Condolences	1959
8		Congratulations and Condolences	1961
8		Contributions, thank you letters	1942 January-June
8		Contributions, thank you letters	1942 July-December
8		Contributions, thank you letters	1943 January-June
8		Contributions, thank you letters	1943 July-December
8		Contributions, thank you letters	1944 January-May
8		Contributions, thank you letters	1944 June-December
8		Contributions, thank you letters	1945-1947
8		Contributions, thank you letters	1955-1956
8		Contributions, thank you letters	1957
8		Contributions, thank you letters	1958-1959
8		Foreign	1943-1948
8		Foreign	1948-1951
8		Foreign	1952-1953
8		Foreign	1957
8		Foreign	1958-1959
8		Foreign	1963-1965
8		Foreign	1963-1965 (cont.)
8		Form Letters	1950-1955
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