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Collection, 1877-1908.

Title: Collection, 1877-1908.

Includes correspondence, sermons, addresses, organizational minutes, newsclippings and miscellaneous items which reflect Mendes' career. These items are from the scrapbooks kept by Eliza de Sola Mendes during the early years of the ministry of her son in New York.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel.

https://search.library.brandeis.edu/permalink/01BRAND_INST/nmaao4/alma999346820101921 View

Warburg, Felix M. (Felix Moritz), 1871-1937. Papers, 1895-1937.

Title: Papers, 1895-1937.

Correspondence, addresses, records, minutes of various committee meetings, and reports. A partial list of correspondents and organizations include Cyrus Adler, American Jewish Committee, American Jewish Congress, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, American Jewish Relief Committee, American Red Cross, American School of Oriental Research, Amos Society, Paul Baerwald, Jacob Billikopf, Boris D. Bogen, David M. Bressler, Bureau of Jewish Social Research, Educational Alliance, Albert Einstein, Abram I. Elkus, Hyman G. Enelow, Morris Engelman, Federation of Jewish Charities, Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City, Bernard Flexner, Lee K. Frankel, Felix Frankfurter, Julius Goldman, I.E. Goldwasser, Richard Gottheil, Hadassah, Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society, Hebrew Union College, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Alfred M. Heinsheimer, Henry Street Settlement, Maurice B. Hexter, Herbert C. Hoover, Jewish Agency for Palestine, Jewish Chautauqua Society, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Max J. Kohler, George Alexander Kohut, Isaac Landman, Neville J. Laski, Morris S. Lazaron, Herbert H. Lehman, Irving Lehman, Adolph Lewisohn, Julian W. Mack, Judah L. Magnes, Louis Marshall, H. Pereira Mendes, Henry Morgenthau, National Conference of Jewish Social Service, and National Coordinating Committee for Aid to Refugees and Emigrants Coming from Germany. Other correspondents and organizations include Palestine Economic Corporation, David de Sola Pool, James N. Rosenberg, Julius Rosenwald, Herbert Samuel, Jacob H. Schiff, Mortimer L. Schiff, Max Senior, Isidore Singer, Sol M. Stroock, Henrietta Szold, William H. Taft, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, United Jewish Appeal, Lillian D. Wald, Chaim Weizmann, World Jewish Congress, Young Men's Hebrew Association, Young Women's Hebrew Association, and Zionist Organization of America.

ArchivalResource: 9 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70960582 View

The Nation, records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk).

Title: The Nation records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk).

Records of the weekly magazine, The Nation, primarily during the editorship of Freda Kirchwey.

ArchivalResource: 34 boxes (42.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00189/catalog View

Papers, 1877-1924.

Title: Papers, 1877-1924.

Correspondence, 1877-1924, concerning activities as journalist, including as editor of JEWISH EXPONENT (Philadelphia) rabbi, and communal worker; invitations and greetings, 1890-1924; examinations and notice for Ladies' Bible Study class at Congregation Pincus Elijah, New York City, 1916-1917; typescript with corrections for Morais' book, THE JEWS OF Philadelphia; sermon on war; bills and receipts from businesses and organizations, 1893-1924; and picture of father, Sabato Morais. Also includes copies of correpondence of Jacob Ezekiel with Rep. James A. Seddon and Sen. John S. Caskie regarding Swiss treaty affair, 1851-1852. Correspondents include Cyrus Adler, Philip Cowen, David de Sola Pool, Bernard Drachman, Jacob Ezekiel, Charles Hoffman, Isaac Husik, Marcus Jastrow, Albert Lucas, Louis Marshall, Henry P. Mendes, Isaac M. Wise, and Arthur Dembitz.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122602632 View

Myer S. Isaacs, (1841-1904), Collection, undated, 1844, 1851-1925

Title: Myer S. Isaacs Collection (1841-1904) undated, 1844, 1851-1925

Real estate lawyer, judge,newspaper editor, and philanthropist Myer S. Isaacs was the eldest son of thesecond English-speaking Rabbi in the United States, the Rev. Dr. Samuel M.Isaacs (1804-1878). The Isaacs Family were founding members of the NewYork-based Jewish civil rights organization, the Board of Delegates of AmericanIsraelites (1859-1878), published the (1859-1902), and Myer was the first president of the Baron deHirsch Fund. The collection contains documents deriving from Myer and SamuelIssacs, 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 boroughPresident and New York City Councilman. Includes correspondence, clippings,commencement programs, invitations, souvenir and anniversary programs, electioncampaign materials, obituaries, funeral programs, and citizenshippapers. JewishMessenger

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http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=109199 View

Archive - Henry Pereira Mendes Papers

Title: Archive - Henry Pereira Mendes Papers

The Henry Pereira Mendes Papers consists of manuscripts of Bible for Homes and Schools in 5 typed parts, typed notes on Genesis and Exodus, a typed preface and introduction to the Bible, as well as a draft of the translation and page proof of Isaiah. There are several sermons and lectures, addresses, and speeches, typed and printed, that had been delivered by Mendes. The collection also contains letters from Cyrus Adler, Solomon Schechter, Meyer Sulzberger, The Henry Pereira Mendes Papers consists of manuscripts of Bible for Homes and Schools in 5 typed parts, typed notes on Genesis and Exodus, a typed preface and introduction to the Bible, as well as a draft of the translation and page proof of Isaiah. There are several sermons and lectures, addresses, and speeches, typed and printed, that had been delivered by Mendes. The collection also contains letters from Cyrus Adler, Solomon Schechter, Meyer Sulzberger, and a draft of Mendes' letter to the Editor of the Hebrew Standard regarding Solomon Schechter and Conservative Judaism. The personal material of the Papers consists of a list of passengers, including Mendes, onboard the ship by which Mendes came to the United States, congratulations from the Jewish Theological Seminary on Mendes' 50th anniversary of service at Shearit Israel, a booklet published by his congregation on the same occasion, invitations, New Years cards and others, as well as the Jewish Theological Seminary resolution and eulogy from 1937.

ArchivalResource: 0.84 Linear Feet (in 2 document boxes. )

https://archives.jtsa.edu/repositories/2/resources/50 View

Records, [ca. 1700-1985].

Title: Records, [ca. 1700-1985].

Central administrative and vital records of the congregation, including minutes of trustees, 1784-ca. 1985, and electors, 1790-ca. 1985; birth, 1891, 1899, 1912-1965, bar mitzvah, 1895-1896, 1912-1968, marriage, 1848-1972, and death, 1878-1971, records; family record sheets, 1906, 1933-1940; records of mitzvot (participation in services), 1865-1975, hashkavot (memorial prayers), 1718-ca. 1942, and nakhalot (anniversaries of deaths), 1862-1903; membership records, 1784-1969; financial records, 1751-1981; and miscellaneous record books, 1719-1946. Correspondence and subject files, 1806-1981, include material on clergy of congregation, property and buildings of synagogue, liturgy and services, Sisterhood and other congregational societies, congregational social events, cemeteries, relations with other congregations, including Congregation Jeshuat Israel - the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, Sephardic immigrants, social problems, including prohibition, and the Depression, and other matters. Correspondents include Shearith Israel Rabbis H. Pereira Mendes and David De Sola Pool, and clerk N. Taylor Phillips, and others, including Sir Moses Montefiore, Benjamin Cardozo, Louis Marshall, Herbert Lehman, Albert Einstein, Jacob Javits, and Robert F. Kennedy.

ArchivalResource: ca. 132 cubic ft.

https://nyst.sirsi.net/uhtbin/cgisirsi/?ps=wrJJJh4Acb/NYSL/X/9 View

Congregation Shearith Israel, Records, undated, 1755-1996

Title: Congregation Shearith Israel, Records undated, 1755-1996

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.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear feet (10 manuscript boxes); 2 oversized folders; 1 MAP folder

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=109158 View

Davidson, Thomas, 1840-1900. Thomas Davidson papers, 1857-1948 (inclusive), 1857-1902 (bulk).

Title: Thomas Davidson papers, 1857-1948 (inclusive), 1857-1902 (bulk).

Correspondence, lectures, articles, printed matter, clippings, and film relating to the career of Davidson who came to the U.S. in 1867 and was associated with the St. Louis and Concord schools of philosophy, the founding of the Fellowship of the New Life, and the establishment of the Breadwinners' College. From 1878 to 1884, he was in Italy studying the writings of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, about whom he published a study in 1882. The major portion of the papers is made up of correspondence, including letters from Henry Adams, John Dewey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William James, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Stuart Mill, and Stephen Samuel Wise. Only a few pages of his diary of 1858 survive. Also with the papers is material from Edward Endelman, a student of Davidson's. Of particular interest is Endelman's correspondence about Davidson with William T. Harris, a Hegelian philosopher who had been a close friend of Davidson's. In addition, two reels of microfilm collected by John Roemischer which contain letters and articles by Davidson in other repositories have been added to the papers.

ArchivalResource: 14.5 linear ft. (35 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153412 View

Cyrus Adler Papers

Title: Cyrus Adler Papers

Cyrus Adler was a prominent Jewish scholar and communal builder. Born in 1863, he had a tremendous role in shaping much of Jewish America by the time of his death in 1940. The collection contains Dr. Adler's business correspondence and personal papers and spans much of his multi-faceted career. It also contains many papers connected to the formation and day-to-day business of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.

ArchivalResource: 65 Linear feet (129 boxes)

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/pacscl/UPENN_CAJS_PUCJSARCMS26USUSUSPUCJS View

Congregation Shearith Israel, Records, undated, 1755-1996

Title: Congregation Shearith Israel, Records undated, 1755-1996

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.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear feet (10 manuscript boxes); 2 oversized folders; 1 MAP folder

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=109158 View

Papers, 1887-1962.

Title: Papers, 1887-1962.

Papers concern Hendricks' activities in Congregation Shearith Israel and other Jewish organizations. Includes correspondence, 1919, 1926-1948, and financial reports, 1945-1953, concerning Shearith Israel; correspondence, and financial and legal documents, 1927-1952, concerning H.P. Mendes Foundation, established to support Rabbi Mendes and Jewish education; correspondence, 1920-1937, primarily regarding legal and financial matters of the Sephardic Jewish Community of New York and predecessor organizations; correspondence, 1929-1945, concerning Jewish student activities at Columbia University; and miscellaneous pamphlets, clippings, brochures on Jewish history and customs, 1887-1932, 1962.

ArchivalResource: 1.8 cubic ft.

https://nyst.sirsi.net/uhtbin/cgisirsi/?ps=Kjre0BnO5j/NYSL/X/123 View

Records of the Industrial Removal Office, undated, 1899-1922

Title: Records of the Industrial Removal Office

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.

ArchivalResource: 74.25 Linear Feet (115 manuscript boxes, 10 oversized boxes (20.5x17x3), 1 oversized folder)

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=109188 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

National Organizing Committee for the Maimonides Octocentennial, records, undated, 1934-1935

Title: National Organizing Committee for the Maimonides Octocentennial, records undated, 1934-1935

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.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear feet (3 manuscript boxes)

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=365401 View

Contracts with clergy, 1831-1938.

Title: Contracts with clergy, 1831-1938.

Contracts between Congregation Shearith Israel and rabbis, cantors, sextons, and ritual slaughterers. Individuals include Isaac B. Seixas, 1831, David Phillips, 1835, 1836, Eleazer Matz, 1836, Jacques J. Lyons, 1839, 1855, Marcus Van Gelderen, 1860, Jacob D. Phillips, 1861, Levy J. Isaacs, 1864, Henry S. Jacobs, 1874-1876, Henry Pereira Mendes, 1885, Isaac A.H. de la Penha, 1903-1907, Isaac A. Hadad, 1911, and David de Sola Pool, 1906-1933.

ArchivalResource: 31 items.

https://nyst.sirsi.net/uhtbin/cgisirsi/?ps=1cAKaGXnJh/NYSL/X/9 View

Henry Illoway papers

Title: Henry Illoway papers

Medical log with records of diagnoses of patients and correspondence and diagrams from other physicians, 1894-1900; letter from Edward D. Coleman of the American Jewish Historical Society to Rabbi David de Sola Pool, 1932; notes by Rabbi H. Pereira Mendes and Felix Warburg; handwritten piyut; and sermon by Rabbi David de Sola Pool, 1950.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

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Thomas Davidson papers, 1857-1948, 1857-1902

Title: Thomas Davidson papers 1857-1948 1857-1902

Correspondence, lectures, articles, printed matter, clippings, and film relating to the career of Davidson who came to the U.S. in 1867 and was associated with the St. Louis and Concord schools of philosophy, the founding of the Fellowship of the New Life, and the establishment of the Breadwinners' College. From 1878 to 1884, he was in Italy studying the writings of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, about whom he published a study in 1882. The major portion of the papers is made up of correspondence, including letters from Henry Adams, John Dewey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William James, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Stuart Mill, and Stephen Samuel Wise. Only a few pages of his diary of 1858 survive. Also with the papers is material from Edward Endelman, a student of Davidson's. Of particular interest is Endelman's correspondence about Davidson with William T. Harris, a Hegelian philosopher who had been a close friend of Davidson's. In addition, two reels of microfilm collected by John Roemischer which contain letters and articles by Davidson in other repositories have been added to the papers.

ArchivalResource: 14.5 linear feet (35 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0169 View

Papers, 1874-1924.

Title: Papers, 1874-1924.

Correspondence concerning Jewish communal, and especially Orthodox, affairs in Philadelphia, New York, and elsewhere. Correspondents include H. Pereira Mendes, Cyrus Adler, Leo Jung, Louis Marshall, and Morais' sister Miriam. Also includes a scrapbook on Jewish and general themes, 1874-1878, belonging to Morais' father, Sabato Morais.

ArchivalResource: .4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155247607 View

Papers, 1877-1967.

Title: Papers, 1877-1967.

Correspondence to and from Mendes, 1877-1937, concerning his joining Shearith Israel, 1877, Jews of Morocco, 1906; his retirement, and other matters; greetings to Mendes on various birthdays, anniversaries, and other occasions, 1924-1937; clippings, ca. 1898-ca. 1935; sermons; notices, programs, photographs and other material concerning Shearith Israel activities; and correspondence of committee to plan celebration of Mendes' 25th anniversary at Shearith Israel, 1902. Also contains miscellaneous papers of Mendes' son Piza Mendes concerning Congregation Shearith Israel matters, 1949-1967.

ArchivalResource: 1 cubic ft.

https://nyst.sirsi.net/uhtbin/cgisirsi/?ps=vP7ab6vaFc/NYSL/X/9 View

Max James Kohler Papers, 1765-1963 (bulk 1888-1935)

Title: Max JamesKohler Papers 1765-1963 (bulk 1888-1935)

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 includemany of Kohler's contemporaries in the field of history and immigration lawincluding Cyrus Adler, William Taft, John Bassett Moore, Mortimer Schiff, DavidHunter Miller, Baron and Baroness de Hirsch, the Straus Family including OscarStraus; 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 , international treaties and the Peace Conference of 1919. Godin Freedom

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http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=109170 View

Papers of Seixas Family, undated, 1746-1911, 1926, 1939

Title: Papers of Seixas Family undated, 1746-1911, 1926, 1939

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.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. and 2 oversized folders

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=109167 View

Henry P. Mendes Papers

Title: Henry P. Mendes Papers

Correspondence, minutes, sermons, addresses, and nearprint concerning Mendes' rabbinic activities in Manchester, England and at New York's Congregation Shearith Israel along with his participation in the founding and support of numerous Jewish organizations and institutions.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 linear feet (3 Hollinger boxes)

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Klein, Philipp, 1849-1926. Correspondence-Henry Morais.

Title: Correspondence-Henry Morais. 1879-1924.

Letters and cards written to Henry Morais, son of Sabato Morais, a founder of the original Jewish Theological Seminary of America. There is also one letter to Sabato Morais. The letters to H. Morais deal with speaking engagements for Young Israel of the Lower East Side and Jersey City, employment as rabbi of the Sons of Israel Synagogue in Brooklyn, 1911-1914, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, a letter from Cyrus Adler concerning Sabato Morais' role in founding the JTSA and the purpose behind it, some correspondence concerning the history of Maimonides College (est. in Philadelphia in 1867; closed 1873), etc. Much of the correspondence is of a personal nature, inquiring about Morais' health, etc. There are also several letters from Dr. H.P. Mendes of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, and a page written on the stationery of Rabbi Dr. Philip Hillel Klein, consisting of Hebrew notes on a Talmudic topic.

ArchivalResource: ca. 175 leaves ; 13-28 cm. + 35 cards and postcards (6-11 cm.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155241322 View

Records of the Industrial Removal Office, undated, 1899-1922

Title: Records of the Industrial Removal Office

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.

ArchivalResource: 74.25 Linear Feet (115 manuscript boxes, 10 oversized boxes (20.5x17x3), 1 oversized folder)

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=109188 View

Records, 1840-[ca. 1979], 1895-[ca. 1979] (bulk)

Title: Records, 1840-[ca. 1979], 1895-[ca. 1979] (bulk)

Bound volumes consist of records of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (including also Yeshivat Etz Chayim and Rabbinical College of America), including minutes, 1901-1921, of various committees, financial records, 1910-1929, fund raising records, 1909-1932, Building Fund records, 1915-1920; minutes and other records of Ladies Branch, 1910-1931; Yeshiva College, including financial records, 1909-1937, fund raising records, 1920-1934, journals and ledgers of Building Fund, 1924-1930, cash book of Dormitory Fund, 1925-1930, and maintenance receipt book, 1947; Teachers' Institute cash balance, 1920-1921; and miscellaneous material including student grades, dormitory and tuition records, and other material.

ArchivalResource: ca. 260 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83195908 View

Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

Hyman G. Enelow Papers., 1897-1933.

Title: Hyman G. Enelow Papers. 1897-1933.

The Hyman Gerson Enelow papers describe the activities and career of the Reform rabbi, scholar, and writer. Significant correspondents include Jacob Billikopf, Henry Hurwitz, Cyrus Adler, Herbert Lehman, Judah L. Magnes, Louis Marshall, Jacob H. Schiff, and Stephen S. Wise.

ArchivalResource: 15 linear feet; 36 Hollinger boxes

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/archives/ead/xOCAJA0011 View

Alice Davis Menken Papers, undated, 1882-1936

Title: Alice Davis Menken Papers undated, 1882-1936

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

ArchivalResource:

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=109181 View