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Abraham Aaron Roback papers, 1909-1965.

Title: Abraham Aaron Roback papers

Papers of Abraham Aaron Roback (1890-1965), the Polish-born, American psychologist, philologist, folklorist, and educator.

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes (12.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01944/catalog View

War Emergency Council on Student Christian Work. War Emergency Council on Student Christian Work records, 1941-1945 (inclusive).

Title: War Emergency Council on Student Christian Work records, 1941-1945 (inclusive).

Material documents the effect of war time emergency measures on student religious work on college and university campuses throughout the United States during the years 1942 to 1944.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear feet (13 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702148491 View

George Sarton additional papers, 1901-1956

Title: George Sarton additional papers

Primarily correspondence of historian of science and Harvard professor George Sarton with professional colleagues about the journal Isis.

ArchivalResource: 45 boxes (23 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01643/catalog View

Lerner, Max, 1902-2001. Max Lerner papers, 1927-1992 (inclusive).

Title: Max Lerner papers, 1927-1992 (inclusive).

The papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings, and other papers (including research and teaching materials, photographs, memorabilia, newspaper and periodical clippings, books, and radio and television tapes) of Max Lerner, an American educator, author, lecturer, historian, and political scientist. The papers focus on Lerner's public life and career with very little material on his personal or family life. The papers document Lerner's close association with Justice Felix Frankfurter and Harold J. Laski, his controversial writings on homosexuality, his work with the Democratic Party during Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaigns, his work on behalf of Jewish causes and Zionism, and his activities during the "red scare" of the 1950s.

ArchivalResource: 96.50 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702154142 View

Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Records, 1873-1985.

Title: Records, 1873-1985.

Correspondence, minutes, annual reports, Executive Board meeting transcripts, financial records, committee records, clippings, and nearprint materials. Persons represented include Lewis Abraham, Isaac W. Bernheim, Edward N. Calisch, Louis I. Egelson, Maurice N. Eisendrath, Hyman G. Enelow, Sadie Frank, J. Walter Freiberg, Alfred Godshaw, Maurice Henry Harris, Edward L. Heinsheimer, Max H. Heller, Emil G. Hirsch, Kivie Kaplan, Kaufmann Kohler, George A. Kohut, Joseph Krauskopf, Isaac Landman, Irving Lehman, Leo N. Levi, Lee Joseph Levinger, David Levintritt, Lipman Levy, Sara Lewinson, Louis Marshall, Henry Pereira Mendes, Adolph S. Ochs, Max Reichler, William Rosenau, Julius Rosenwald, Abram L. Sachar, Solomon Schechter, Jacob H. Schiff, Joseph Stolz, Ludwig Vogelstein, Isaac M. Wise, Stephen S. Wise, Simon Wolf, Samuel Woolner, and George Zepin.

ArchivalResource: 20 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70960755 View

Brandeis University. Library. Office of the President, 1948-2010.

Title: Office of the President, 1948-2010.

Collection files were created from 1948 through 2007 and are contained in 16 document boxes, 2 record center boxes, 1 object box and 2 flat files. Language of the collection is English and Hebrew and the collection was donated by the Office of the President.

ArchivalResource: 8.0 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/780700355 View

George Sarton additional papers, 1901-1956

Title: George Sarton additional papers

Primarily correspondence of historian of science and Harvard professor George Sarton with professional colleagues about the journal Isis.

ArchivalResource: 45 boxes (23 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01643/catalog View

Archives of the War Emergency Council on Student Christian Work, 1941-1945

Title: Archives of the WarEmergency Council on Student Christian Work, 1941-1945

The records document the effect of war timeemergency measures on student religious work on college and university campusesthroughout the United States during the years 1942 to 1944. The War EmergencyCouncil on Student Christian Work was established in 1942 to deal with thereadjustments made necessary by the impact of World War II on college anduniversity campuses. The Council collected and disseminated information,arranged regional consultative conferences, and worked as an intermediarybetween the United States military establishment and student religiousmovements.

ArchivalResource: Totalarchival boxes 13; total linear footage 5'

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/divinity.099 View

Papers, 1892-1990

Title: Papers, 1892-1990

Correspondence, reports, oral histories, photographs, etc., of Justine Polier Wise, judge and authority on juvenile justice.

ArchivalResource: 48 file boxes, 1 1/2 file box, 1 folio folder, 1 folio+ folder

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00238/catalog View

Newlander, Rachel Pia. Thelma Sachar [videorecording] : a documentary / produced, directed and edited by Rachel Pia Newlander.

Title: Thelma Sachar [videorecording] : a documentary / produced, directed and edited by Rachel Pia Newlander. 1996.

Documentary on Thelma Sachar, wife of Abram Sachar, founding president of Brandeis University. Includes interviews with current Brandeis President Jehuda Reinharz, Professors Jerry Cohen and Henry Felt, student Pamela Isaacson, and Thelma Sachar herself.

ArchivalResource: 1 videocassette, 16 min. : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36752255 View

Harlow, S. Ralph (Samuel Ralph), 1885-1972. Papers. 1862-1970.

Title: Papers. 1862-1970.

In part, transcripts (typewritten) and photocopies. Congregational clergyman, missionary to the Near East, and professor of religion and Biblical literature, Smith College, Northampton, Mass. Chiefly correspondence (ca. 3800 items), and diaries, sermons, poems, prayers, mss. of Harlow's books, other writings, scrapbooks, and other papers, mainly relating to Harlow's interest in the afterlife and paranormal phenomena, and his book entitled A Life After Death (1961). Other subjects include Harlow family, Smith College and other schools, Christian religious publications, International College at Smyrna (Turkey) (later in Beirut, Lebanon), Pierce College at Athens (Greece) (later in Ellinikos, Greece), Arab countries, Zionism and Israel, American Jewry, NAACP, Afro-Americans and race relations, social action, pacifism, political topics, Massachusetts history, Abraham Lincoln, and other historical subjects, and Harlow's travels. Includes scrapbook of clippings on the Spanish-American War, pasted over a letter book kept by Harlow's grandfather, Roland Greene Usher, while a U.S. Army paymaster during the Civil War. Correspondents include Marian Anderson, James L. Barton, Herbert Roswell Bates, Harold J. Berman, Ruth (Harlow) Berman, Roland B. Gittelsohn, Catherine Harlow, Elizabeth Harlow, Harold C. Harlow, Jr., John Stafford Harlow, Evan Hill, John Haynes Holmes, John F. Kennedy, Phyllis Monteleone, Rose Morse, Florence W. Pell, James Perkins, Linda Carol Harlow Robinson, Abram L. Sacher, Ian Stephenson, Kenneth A. Taylor, Norman Thomas, Jack Van, Carl Herman Voss, and Anna Whitworth.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft. 19 Boxes and 1 OS box. ca. 3, 800 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19532605 View

Greater Boston Committee of the Massachusetts Observance of the American Jewish Tercentenary Records

Title: Greater Boston Committee of the Massachusetts Observance of the American Jewish Tercentenary Records

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."

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear feet (3 manuscript boxes)

https://jewishheritagecenter.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/250 View

Van Waters, Miriam, 1887-1974. Papers, 1861-1971

Title: Papers of Miriam Van Waters, 1861-1971

Correspondence, diaries, case studies, etc., of penologist Miriam Van Waters.

ArchivalResource: 51 file boxes, 3 half file boxes, 2 oversize folders, 1 folio+ folder, 15 folders of photographs, 14 reels phonotape, 1 reel microfilm, 1 reel motion picture film

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00204/catalog View

Kaplan, Harry. Harry Kaplan papers, 1924-1970.

Title: Harry Kaplan papers

Correspondence, newsclippings, sermons, lectures, and nearprint material covering Rabbi Kaplan's relationship with his former teacher Stephen S. Wise, his work as the rabbi of Temple Anshe Anonim, Pittsfield, Mass. (1926-1935), and as Ohio State University Hillel director (1935-1969).

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0054/ms0054.html View

Zigmond, Maurice L. Papers, 1909-1980.

Title: Papers, 1909-1980.

Collection includes correspondence, clippings, certificates, sermons, writings, and photographs, mostly pertaining to Zigmond's tenure as Director of the New England Regional Office of B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation. Includes material relating to Zigmond's involvement in the peace movement of the 1960's and support of student protests against the Vietnam War. Correspondents include Abram L. Sachar.

ArchivalResource: .8 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70944236 View

Polier, Justine Wise, 1903-1987. Papers, 1892-1990 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1892-1990 (inclusive).

This collection of personal and professional papers is arranged in seven series and documents Polier's commitment to juvenile justice and the welfare of children of all races and religions. The personal papers consist of photographs, clippings, oral histories, and tributes. The professional papers include correspondence and reports describing her labor activism and early career as a labor lawyer. Court records, correspondence, reports, opinions, decisions, etc., document her work as judge of the Family Court, and speeches, conference agendas, etc., attest to the national focus of her work as director of the Juvenile Justice Division of the Children's Defense Fund. Also included are her unpublished and published writings and speeches, and records of her service on the boards of many New York State and City task forces, commissions, and organizations relating to child welfare and juvenile justice.

ArchivalResource: 24.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006786 View

Eleanor Roosevelt oral history project, 1977-1980.

Title: Eleanor Roosevelt oral history project, 1977-1980.

Sixty-eight interviews with people who knew Eleanor Roosevelt intimately including family members, employees, and people who knew her primarily through some shared work. People interviewed include Otto Berge, cabinetmaker at the Val-Kill Shop, 1927-1936; Gilbert Calhoun, employee at Roosevelt Historic Site, 1946-1960; Maureen Corr, secretary to Eleanor Roosevelt, 1961-1962; Helen Gahagan Douglas, friend and Democratic politician; Marguerite Entrup, cook at Val-Kill Cottage, 1957-1962; May Thompson Evans, Asst. Director of the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee, 1937-1940; Nina Roosevelt Gibson, Eleanor Roosevelt's granddaughter; James Frederick Green, advisor to Eleanor Roosevelt on the United Nations Committee Three, 1950-1952; Diana Hopkins Halsted, daughter of Harry Hopkins; W. Averell Harriman, New Deal official and New York State Governor; Estelle Linzer, United Nations official, 1942-1962; Henry Morgenthau III, who worked with Eleanor Roosevelt on her radio programs in the 1940s; Pauli Murray, lawyer, educator, and friend; Justine Wise Polier on her own and Eleanor Roosevelt's work with various social movements; Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., founding member of Americans for Democratic Action, 1947-1957; Abram L. Sachar, President of Brandeis University, 1948-1968; Marietta Tree on civil and human rights activism; and Rexford G. and Grace F. Tugwell on New Deal politics.

ArchivalResource: 68 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155522715 View

Philip Lax, papers, undated, 1915, 1917, 1944-2003, 2005-2008 (bulk 1970s-1980s)

Title: Philip Lax, papers undated, 1915, 1917, 1944-2003, 2005-2008 (bulk 1970s-1980s)

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.

ArchivalResource: 9.5 linear feet (19 manuscript boxes, 1 OS1F folder, 1 OS2F folder)

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=1326568 View

Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity Records, 1912-1969

Title: Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity Records 1912-1969

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, financial records, floor plans, manuals, and directories.

ArchivalResource: 28 linear feet (51 manuscript boxes, 3 half-size manuscript boxes, 1 oversized box [OS1])

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=365445 View

Max Lerner papers, 1927-1998

Title: Max Lerner papers 1927-1998

The papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings, and other papers, (including research and teaching materials, photographs, memorabilia, newspaper and periodical clippings, books, and radio and television tapes) of Max Lerner, an American educator, author, lecturer, historian, and political scientist. The papers focus on Lerner's public life and career with very little material on his personal or family life. The papers document Lerner's close association with Justice Felix Frankfurter and Harold J. Laski, his controversial writings on homosexuality, his work with the Democratic Party during Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaigns, his work on behalf of Jewish causes and Zionism, and his activities during the "red scare" of the 1950s.

ArchivalResource: 102.79 linear feet (185 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0322 View

Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions, and Boards. 1893 - 2008. Photographs and Sound Recordings

Title: Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions, and Boards. 1893 - 2008. Photographs and Sound Recordings

ArchivalResource:

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/3416383 View

John Mason Brown papers, 1922-1967.

Title: John Mason Brown papers

Papers of American author and drama critic John Mason Brown.

ArchivalResource: 144 boxes (36 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00655/catalog View

Van Waters, Miriam, 1887-1974. Papers, 1861-1971

Title: Papers of Miriam Van Waters, 1861-1971

Correspondence, diaries, case studies, etc., of penologist Miriam Van Waters.

ArchivalResource: 51 file boxes, 3 half file boxes, 2 oversize folders, 1 folio+ folder, 15 folders of photographs, 14 reels phonotape, 1 reel microfilm, 1 reel motion picture film

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00204/catalog View

Brandeis University. Letters, 1952-1970 : to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letters, 1952-1970 : to Lewis Mumford.

Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from various administrators of Brandeis University.

ArchivalResource: 7 items : (7 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155879138 View

New York (State). Select Committee on the Future of Private and Independent Higher Education in the State of New York. Records, 1967-1968.

Title: Records, 1967-1968.

Collection represents correspondence, staff papers, and reports retained by George Griffiths, who was involved in the day-to-day activities of the Select Committee appointed by Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Chancellor Edgar W. Cooper. The Committee included McGeorge Bundy, chairman, Dr. James Conant, Dr. John Hannah, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, and Dr. Abram Sachar. Correspondence is primarily between Bundy and various university presidents and between Bundy and Rockefeller. Staff papers relate to the day-to-day operation of the Committee including inter-office memoranda, meeting minutes and interim reports, and drafts of the completed report, 1968.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155532407 View

Paul A. Freund papers

Title: Paul A. Freund papers

The Papers of Paul Freund consist of materials related to his work as government lawyer, author, teacher, authority on Constitutional Law, and as a member of numerous organizations, such as the American Association of Arts and Sciences.

ArchivalResource: 242 boxes and 17 Paige boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00164/catalog View

Philip W. Lown Papers

Title: Philip W. Lown Papers

Philip W. Lown was a businessman, philanthropist, and leading figure in the Jewish Community. In 1926, he became a joint owner of the Pilgrim Shoe Company in Auburn, Maine, and later president of Penobscot Shoe Company and Lown Shoes Inc. Starting in 1937 and up to his death, Lown worked philanthropically within the Jewish community, most notably in Jewish education. He served on such boards as the American Association for Jewish Education, the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundations, and the World Council on Jewish Education. He also founded the Lown School of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and the Graduate Center for Contemporary Jewish Studies at Brandeis University. This collection contains Lown’s autobiographical and biographical memoirs, writings, speeches, notes, personal correspondence, honors, photographs, and news clippings.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot (2 manuscript boxes)

https://jewishheritagecenter.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/212 View

David K. Niles Papers. 1909 - 1983. General Files

Title: David K. Niles Papers. 1909 - 1983. General Files

ArchivalResource:

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1741424 View

Maurice L. Zigmond Papers

Title: Maurice L. Zigmond Papers

Rabbi Maurice L. Zigmond, or “Ziggy” as he was known to friends and colleagues, was born in Denver, Colorado on March 5, 1904. Rabbi Zigmond taught Anthropology at Yale from 1948-1961, but he began his career as a counselor for Jewish college students in 1935, and was a staunch advocate of Hillel establishing and directing several Hillels throughout his professional career. In 1941, he established the Hillel Foundations at both Yale and the University of Connecticut, and from 1955-1956 he served as the Director of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. From 1947-1968 he was the Hillel Director at Harvard and Radcliffe, and in 1950-1969, he was the New England Regional Director of B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundations. This collection contains correspondence, program and financial reports, and information pertaining to the activities of a variety of organizations and Hillel foundations. The bulk of the material reflects Rabbi Zigmond’s tenure as the Hillel Director at Harvard and Radcliffe (1947-1969) and the New England Regional Director of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundations (1950-1969).

ArchivalResource: 6.5 linear feet (13 Manuscript boxes and 2 OS Folders)

https://jewishheritagecenter.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/50 View