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Board of Delegates of American Israelites Records, 1859-1881, 1887, 1932

Title: Board of Delegates of American IsraelitesRecords 1859-1881, 1887, 1932

The Records of the Board of Delegates ofAmerican Israelites (1859-1878) documents the life cycle of the Board of Delegates, a Jewishcivil rights organization located in New York City. The Board served primarily in a two-foldfunction: acting as a central organization for American Jews and working on behalf of Jewsabroad. To the latter end, the Delegates collaborated with the Committee of Deputies of BritishJews and the French Alliance Israélite Universelle to provide for the relief and aid, civil, andreligious rights of Jews throughout the Americas, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East,particularly Romania, Ottoman Palestine including Jerusalem, and Morocco. In the U.S., theDelegates were partially responsible for the appointment of the first Jewish Military Chaplainand surveyed member synagogues concerning the history and size of their congregation, the firstorganization to systematically record this type of information in the States. The Delegatesmerged with the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC) in 1878 and dissolved in 1925.Correspondents include Adolph Crémieux, Sir Moses Montefiore, Benjamin Franklin Peixotto, IsaacsS. Myer, the Rev. Dr. Arnold Fischel, and Maj. General Benjamin Butler. Documents includecorrespondence, minutes, committee reports, memorials, announcements, surveys, some printedmaterial including clippings, and a 1932 Rabbinical thesis on the Delegates by Allan Tarshish.

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Ferris, Isaac, 1798-1873. Letter : New York, to [Ulysses S. Grant], n.p., 1870 June 20.

Title: Letter : New York, to [Ulysses S. Grant], n.p., 1870 June 20.

Autograph letter signed. Supports the appointment of E. Delafield Smith as District Attorney for the United States at New York.

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