Kuhn, Marshall

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Educator, health worker, historian, and conservationist. He was also known for his leadership and service in and for the Jewish community. Committed to safeguarding the environment, he helped ensure the preservation of Sierra Club documents housed in the Bancroft Library of the University of California at Berkeley; won the John Muir Memorial Association conservation award; and served as the treasurer of the Strybing Arboretum Society in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. In addition, he was also a board member of the Campfire Girls, the Judah L. Magnes Museum, the American Cancer Society, and many other charities and social services; he was also the principal of the religious schools at San Mateo's Temple Beth El and at San Francisco's Congregation Emanu-El.

From the description of Marshall Kuhn papers, 1922-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84669164

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referencedIn Kagel, David,. "San Francisco Jews of Eastern European Origin, 1880-1940" collection, 1880-1973. Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, Rabbi Morris Goldstein Library
creatorOf Johnson, Myrtle Pipkin. Myrtle Pipkin Johnson geneological materials pertaining to James William Ramsey, bulk 1910-1975. UC Berkeley Libraries
creatorOf Kuhn, Marshall. Marshall Kuhn papers, 1922-1978. Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, Rabbi Morris Goldstein Library
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correspondedWith Angoff, Charles, 1902-1979 person
associatedWith Graebe, Fritz. person
associatedWith Jewish Community Relations Council (San Francisco, Calif.) corporateBody
associatedWith Johnson, Myrtle Pipkin. person
associatedWith Kuhn family. family
correspondedWith Nash, Ogden, 1902-1971 person
Place Name Admin Code Country
California
World War, 1939-1945
Germany
California--San Francisco
Subject
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Jews
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
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Conservationists
Jewish educators
Jewish historians
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Active 1922

Active 1978

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