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Jewish Family Service Association (Cleveland, Ohio). Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland records, series II, 1922-1976 1930-1960s).

Title: Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland records, series II, 1922-1976 1930-1960s).

Consists primarily of correspondence, reports, minutes, and publicity brochures and booklets.

ArchivalResource: 2.8 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43626056 View

Janowitz, Hans. Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1944-1945.

Title: Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1944-1945.

3 items mainly concern Janowitz's request for a message from Franz Werfel which could be read at a benefit concert being held in New York City for the assistance of Jewish refugees from the Nazi regime residing in Spain and Turkey; Werfel supplied a text which was read by the actor Oscar Karlweis. Janowitz also reports on his current life. The last item is a condolence letter to Alma Mahler upon the death of Werfel.

ArchivalResource: 4 items (4 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155863557 View

Louis Lipsky papers, 1898-1976

Title: Louis Lipsky papers

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.

ArchivalResource: 22 Boxes (10.5 linear feet)

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=109190 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

Guskin, Reuben, 1887-1951. Reuben Guskin papers, 1926-1942.

Title: Reuben Guskin papers, 1926-1942.

Mainly correspondence, the papers represent Guskin's management of the Hebrew Actors Union in New York City and his involvement in local causes both Jewish and Socialist.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70963372 View

Mazirer and Vicinity Relief Committee (U.S.). Philadelphia Branch. Records, 1916-1952.

Title: Records, 1916-1952.

Correspondence, minute book, executive committee minutes, bulletins, pamphlets, cash book, dues book, receipt book, and newsclippings pertaining to the United Brahiner and Vicinity Relief Committee of Philadelphia (1916-1929) and to the Mazirer and Vicinity Relief Committee of Philadelphia (1945-1952). Includes material relating to the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.

ArchivalResource: .8 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70947240 View

Jacobson, Gaynor I. Gaynor I. Jacobson collection Records relating to the life and career of Gaynor I. Jacobson correspondence articles letters reports photographs.

Title: Gaynor I. Jacobson collection Records relating to the life and career of Gaynor I. Jacobson correspondence articles letters reports photographs.

Consists of various materials relating to the life and career of Gaynor I. Jacobson. Among the materials are letters concerning Jacobson's work in Hungary after World War II, magazine articles concerning refugees and emigration to Palestine, photographs documenting Jacobson's career with HIAS - the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society, and a biographical sketch of Jacobson. See USHMMA record group list for titles for RG-34.001*01 through RG-34.001*26.

ArchivalResource: 5 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122515631 View

Weiner, Robert H. The Words of Our Mouths: Our Family's Heritage as told by members of the Beer-Lasner, Goss-Kaufman, Katz-Rosenstein, Ribak-Weiner Families family history.

Title: The Words of Our Mouths: Our Family's Heritage as told by members of the Beer-Lasner, Goss-Kaufman, Katz-Rosenstein, Ribak-Weiner Families family history.

Includes of a copy of "The Words of our Mouths ..." written by Robert h. Weiner. It concerns the family heritage of the Weiner family and other related families of American Jews. The work includes information about Jewish emigration in the 19th century, the assimilation of immigrant Jews into American Society, and European History. Weiner uses quotes of family members and quotes from family correspondence in order to illustrate the family's story in both Europe and the United States. Special "Who's Who" segments, used alongside photographs, help trace the family tree. Also included is an essay entitled "The Bequest of letters by Robert Dalberg: An accidental discovery" by Herbert Engemann. It describes a collection of letters discovered hidden inside a wall in the home of Nathan Rosenberg. The letters and other papers relate to the Robert Dalberg family.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122515618 View

Abraham Alpert Papers

Title: Abraham Alpert Papers

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 collection 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.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear feet (1 manuscript box and 4 OS Folders)

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United Restitution Organization. Rundschreiben from thr Frankfurt am Main office of the United Restitution Organization circular letters.

Title: Rundschreiben from thr Frankfurt am Main office of the United Restitution Organization circular letters.

Collection consist of thermofax and mimeograph copies of United Restitution Organization (URO) Rundschreiben from the Frankfurt am Main office, 1961-1970; miscellaneous printed and mimeograph memorandums, statistical reports, etc. some are from the URO office in Berlin. *Not available on microform.

ArchivalResource: 3 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122291861 View

Georgia Farm School and Resettlement Bureau. Georgia Farm School and Resettlement Bureau records, 1936-1948 (bulk 1939-1941).

Title: Georgia Farm School and Resettlement Bureau records, 1936-1948 (bulk 1939-1941).

The collection consists of records of the Georgia Farm School and Resettlement Bureau from 1936-1948. The records include correspondence, articles of incorporation, board and committee membership lists, financial records, minutes, affidavit information, immigration records, and committee reports. The collection also includes material relating to the Bureau's work with other organizations such as the National Council of Jewish Women, National Refugee Service, Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, and Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society. This collection documents Jewish relief activities, immigration efforts during the early years of World War II, and the resettlement and assimilation of Jewish refugees in the South.

ArchivalResource: 1.4 linear ft.

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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.)

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Countries collection: Czechoslovakia files, 1919-1970.

Title: Countries collection: Czechoslovakia files, 1919-1970.

Correspondence, reports, memoranda, printed matter, and other material concerning American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee activities in Czechoslovakia, including aid to child care, cultural, and religious organization; relief, reconstruction (including vocational schools, cooperatives), and medical aid; and assistance with emigration. Also contains records of aid to Jews in Theresienstadt (Terezin) Ghetto, 1943-1948, including lists submitted by Federation of Czechoslovakian Jews, Self Help of Emigres from Central Europe, Czechoslovakia Jewish Representative Committee, and Agudat Israel. Other organizations represented include American Relief Administration, Children's Fund Mission to Czechoslovakia, 1919-1920, HICEM, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, and Jewish Colonization Association.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155467226 View

US Holocaust Memorial Council. American Gathering Conference collection Czechoslovakia A-J testimonies letters.

Title: American Gathering Conference collection Czechoslovakia A-J testimonies letters.

Includes several survivor testimonies of Czechoslovakian victims. The testimonies describe episodes of escape, hiding, liberation, persecution, separation from family, and assuming false identity. In some cases, correspondence regarding donation is attached to the individual testimonies.

ArchivalResource: .5 in.

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Guide to the American Labor Conference on International Affairs Records, 1939-1950

Title: Guide to the American Labor Conference on International Affairs Records, 1939-1950

The American Labor Conference on International Affairs (ALCIA) was organized in February 1943 by several labor leaders from the American Federation of Labor, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and the Railway Brotherhoods. The membership of ALCIA included American labor leaders, American and European scholars, and representatives of the European labor movement who lived in the United States. ALCIA studied political, economic, labor, and educational problems arising from World War II. It published reports, the quarterly "International Postwar Problems," the biweekly, "A.L.C. News Letter," and the monthly, "Modern Review." The ALCIA also participated in labor conferences. The records consist of correspondence, resolutions, constitutions and bylaws, reports, conference papers, press releases, speeches, minutes, memoranda, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, drafts of articles, and form letters. There is considerable information about American policy toward France and Charles DeGaulle, the postwar objectives of organized labor, the reconstruction of Germany, postwar European problems, and American policy toward Asia. Information about numerous conferences is included as well as drafts for articles, reports, and editorials. Note: Series 1-3 have been microfilmed (R-7124, reels 19-26) and patrons must use the microfilm copy of these series.

ArchivalResource: 17 Linear Feet in 34 manuscript boxes

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_038/tam_038.html View

Guide to the American Labor Conference on International Affairs Records, 1939-1950

Title: Guide to the American Labor Conference on International Affairs Records, 1939-1950

The American Labor Conference on International Affairs (ALCIA) was organized in February 1943 by several labor leaders from the American Federation of Labor, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and the Railway Brotherhoods. The membership of ALCIA included American labor leaders, American and European scholars, and representatives of the European labor movement who lived in the United States. ALCIA studied political, economic, labor, and educational problems arising from World War II. It published reports, the quarterly "International Postwar Problems," the biweekly, "A.L.C. News Letter," and the monthly, "Modern Review." The ALCIA also participated in labor conferences. The records consist of correspondence, resolutions, constitutions and bylaws, reports, conference papers, press releases, speeches, minutes, memoranda, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, drafts of articles, and form letters. There is considerable information about American policy toward France and Charles DeGaulle, the postwar objectives of organized labor, the reconstruction of Germany, postwar European problems, and American policy toward Asia. Information about numerous conferences is included as well as drafts for articles, reports, and editorials. Note: Series 1-3 have been microfilmed (R-7124, reels 19-26) and patrons must use the microfilm copy of these series.

ArchivalResource: 17 Linear Feet in 34 manuscript boxes

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_038/tam_038.html View

Jewish Family Service Association (Cleveland, Ohio). Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland records, 1895-1974.

Title: Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland records, 1895-1974.

Consists of minutes, reports, correpondence, financial records, case files, speeches, research papers, and statistics of the Association; minutes, reports, and correspondence of agencies working with the Association; and thirty-eight theses submitted to the Western Reserve University School of Applied Social Sciences.

ArchivalResource: 20.3 linear ft.

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US Holocaust Memorial Council. American Gathering Conference collection Poland Bj-Bz testimonies passports identification cards transcript.

Title: American Gathering Conference collection Poland Bj-Bz testimonies passports identification cards transcript.

Includes several testimonies by Polish survivors of the Holocaust. The testimonies describe life in the ghettos, Jews assuming the identities of Christians in order to avoid capture, genealogy of Jewish families, the mass murder of children in the Lodz ghetto, and life in hiding. One particular testimony was written in the form of an interview as a child of a survivor asks questions of her father, a survivor of Dachau. In some cases, the testimonies include copyprints of original family photographs taken before the Holocaust.

ArchivalResource: .5 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122456585 View

Marshall, Louis, 1856-1929. Papers, 1891-1930.

Title: Papers, 1891-1930.

Personal and business correspondence; letters and reports relating to Palestine, anti-Semitism, politics, and Zionism; legal opinions; and printed matter concerning Marshall's participation in public affairs. Correspondence deals with the American Bar Association, (1926-1927), the American Jewish Committee (1899-1926), the American Jewish Relief Committee (1915-1924), the Council of the Y.M.H.A. (1898-1924), the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, of New York (1917-1918), the HIAS (1908-1929), the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1923-1928), the Immigration Commission of the State of New York (1907-1912), the Jewish Welfare Board (1917-1922), the Kehillah of New York City (1908-1922), the Palestine Economic Corporation (1920-1929), the Romanian question (1916-1919), Alliance Israelite Universelle (1899-1929), American Jewish Congress (1902-1925), American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (1894-1929), American Red Cross (1917-1921), Central Conference of American Rabbis (1899-1928), Council of Jewish Communal Institutions (1908-1915), Council of Jewish Women (1908-1922), Educational Alliance (1891-1929), Federation of American Zionists (1899-1909), Intercollegiate Menorah Association (1914-1921), Jewish Chautauqua Society (1894-1924), Jewish Theological Seminary of America (1899-1939), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1919-1929), and Union of American Hebrew Congregations (1894-1929). Correspondents include Michael Aaronsohn, Cyrus Adler, Felix Adler, Max Adler, Simon Adler, Paul Baerwals, Newton D. Baker, Joseph Barondess, Bernard M. Baruch, James M. Beck, James H. Becker, Nissim Behar, Mendel Beilis, Samson, Benderly, Henry Berkowitz, Meyer Berlin, Isaac W. Bernheim, Herman Bernstein, Samuel Bettelheim, Jacob Billikopf, David Blaustein, Franz Boas, Boris D. Bogen, William E. Borah, Louis D. Brandeis, David M. Bressler, David A. Brown, Fulton Bryslawski, Abraham Cahan, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Emanuel Celler, Henry Cohen, S. Solis Cohen, Calvin Coolidge, Philip S. Cowen, Abraham Cronbach, Harry Cutler, Gotthard Deutsch, Samuel Dickstein, Max Drob, Abram I. Elkus, Nathaniel A. Elsberg; Hyman G. Enelow, Jacob Epstein, Wilhelm Felderman, Bernard Flexner, Henry Ford, Lee K. Frankel, Felix Frankfurter, Harry Friedenwald, Herbert Friedenwald, Israel Friedlaender, Louis Friedman, Henry M. Goldfogle, Richard J.H. Gottheil, Samuel Greenbaum, Daniel Guggenheim, Simon Guggenheim, Samuel B. Hamburger, Max Heller, Maurice B. Hexter, Herbert C. Hoover, Charles Evans Hughes, Mordecai Kaplan, Frances Kellor, Kaufmann Kohler, Max J. Kohler, Nathan Krass, Adolf J. Kraus, Isaac Landman, Albert D. Lacker, Herbert H. Lehman, Irving Lehman, David Leventritt, Adolph Lewisohn, David Lubin, Albert Lucas, Julian W. Mack, Judah L. Magnes, Mendes H. Pereira, Nathan J. Miller, Henry Morgenthau, Adoph S. Ochs, and David De Sola Pool. Additional correspondents include James N. Rosenberg, Julius Rosenwald, Adolph Joachim Sabath, Herbert Samuel, Solomon Schechter, Jacob H. Schiff, Mortimer L. Schiff, Alfred E. Smith, Benjamin Stolz, Harlan F. Stone, Isidor Straus, Oscar S. Straus, Mayer Sulzberger, Cyrus L. Sulzberger, Henrietta Szold, William H. Taft, Henry M. Toch, Samuel Untermyer, Lillian D. Wald, Morris David Waldman, Felix M. Warburg, Paul M. Warburg, A. Leo Weil, Chaim Weizmann, Louis Wiley, Leo Wise, Stephen S. Wise, Simon Wolf, David Yellin, Israel Zangwill, and William Zukerman.

ArchivalResource: 50.4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70925069 View

Papers of Cecilia Razovsky, undated, 1913-1971

Title: Papers of Cecilia Razovsky, undated, 1913-1971

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.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear feet + 1 Oversized folder

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=109184 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.

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Papers, 1900-1940.

Title: Papers, 1900-1940.

Citizenship and travel documents; correspondence, minutes, reports, speeches, and photographs concerning Fischel's activities in New York City politics and Jewish communal affairs, and his support of Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, Yeshiva University, Beth Israel Hospital, Joint Distribution Committee, and the Kehilla (New York Jewish Community). Correspondents include Judah Magnes and Louis Marshall.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155487426 View

Records, 1946-1952.

Title: Records, 1946-1952.

Records consist primarily of ca. 2,800 numbered case files concerning the tracing and resettlement of refugees, 1945-1952. Files contain correspondence between the International Refugee Organization (IRO), its predecessor, the Inter-Governmental Committee on Refugees, families of refugees and displaced persons, refugees and displaced persons, and various benevolent organizations concerned with their welfare. These include the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society, American Christian Aid for Refugees, the American Friends Service Committee, and other organizations, many of them Jewish, in the United States and Canada. Included are forms, such as "Claims for expenses of stateless refugees," that refugees were required to file with the IRO. Also included are alphabetical name indexes of resettlement and tracing cases, and miscellaneous reports and printed documents including IRO telephone directory, 1951; IRO staff list, n.d.; IRO personnel regulations, 1951; an extract from the history of the IRO; and "Preparatory documents concerning the adoption of an identity and travel document for refugees coming within the mandate of the Inter-Governmental Committee on Refugees", 1946.

ArchivalResource: 13.5 cubic ft. (11.3 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155486262 View

Jewish Family Service Association (Cleveland, Ohio). Jewish Family Service Association records, series III, 1980-1992.

Title: Jewish Family Service Association records, series III, 1980-1992.

Consists of materials relating to the organization's Soviet Jewish resettlement efforts. Included are Board of Trustee minutes, correspondence with other agencies and organizations involved in the resettlement process, newsletters, newspaper clippings, program descriptions, and publications.

ArchivalResource: .6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43980123 View

Bitton, Isaac. Isaac Bitton papers Photographs of arrivals of Jewish refugees in Lisbon, Portugal, and their departures to various destinations, 1941-1943 photographs.

Title: Isaac Bitton papers Photographs of arrivals of Jewish refugees in Lisbon, Portugal, and their departures to various destinations, 1941-1943 photographs.

Contains twelve black and white copyprints of Jewish refugees upon arrival in Lisbon, Portugal, and of Jewish refugees at the time of their departure from Lisbon to various destinations.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122397199 View