National Association of Jewish Social Workers records

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National Association of Jewish Social Workers records

undated, 1908, 1911-1917

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Contains programs and papers read at the Annual Meetings of 1915-1916, the resolution passed at a special meeting in 1915 re the founding the School for Jewish Communal Work, the pension plan proposals, and correspondence re the Summer School for Social Work held jointly with the Jewish Chautauqua Society. Includes correspondence with the American Jewish Committee, National Americanization Committee, National Conference of Jewish Charities, New York City Board of Education, and the U.S. Dept. of Labor Immigration Bureau relating to the work of the association. Contains also the correspondence of Cyrus Adler, Ludwig Bernstein, Louis d. Brandeis, Lee K. Frankel, Israel Friedlander, Oscar Leonard, Louis Levin, Irving Lipsitch, Minnie F. Low, Louis Marshall, Belle Moskowitz, Milton Reizenstein, H.L. Sabsovich, Philip Seman, and Morris D. Waldman.

1 linear foot (2 manuscript boxes)

eng,

American Jewish Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6345592

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Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940

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Cyrus Adler graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1883. He later received the first American Ph.D. in Semitics from Johns Hopkins University. He taught Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins from 1884 to 1893. In 1877 he was appointed assistant curator of the section of Oriental antiquities in the United States National Museum, and had charge of an exhibit of biblical archaeology at the centennial exposition of the Ohio valley in 1888. He was a commissioner for the world's Columbian ex...

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Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941

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Louis Brandeis (b. November 13, 1856, Louisville, Kentucky – d. October 5, 1941, Washington D.C.) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from 1916 until 1939. Brandeis was the Court’s 67th justice and its first Jewish-American justice. He was the son of immigrants from Bohemia, who came to Kentucky from Prague, then part of the Austrian Empire. He received his LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1877, and before becoming a judge, served as a lawyer at Warren & B...

Levin, Louis H. 1866-1923

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National Association of Jewish Social Workers

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Leonard, Oscar, 1881-

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New York (City). School for Jewish Communal Work

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Filene, Lincoln, 1865-

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Seman, Philip L. (Philip Louis), 1881-1957

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National Americanization Committee.

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Filene's (Department Store)

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American Jewish Committee

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Founded in 1906 to safeguard the rights of Jews and to alleviate the consequences of persecution or disaster affecting them at home or abroad. ...

Jewish Chautauqua Society

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Moskowitz, Belle Israels, 1877-

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Bressler, David M.

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Bernstein, Ludwig B., 1870-

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Waldman, Morris D.

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Frankel, Lee K. (Lee Kaufer), 1867-1931

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Filene's Sons Co.

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Sabsovich, Hirsch Leib, 1860-1915

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Federation of Jewish Charities.

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Friedlaender, Israe͏̈l, 1876-1920

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Semiticist, professor of Bible at Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA). From the description of Papers, 1888-1977, 1903-1920 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86160689 ...

New York (N.Y.). Board of Education

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Marshall, Louis, 1856-1929

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American Jewish communal leader, lawyer. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1900-1929]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122516821 Lawyer, civic and communal leader, civil rights advocate, labor union meditator, and philanthropist, of New York, N.Y. From the description of Papers, 1891-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70925069 Prominent Jewish-American lawyer and philanthropist. From the description of Correspondence, 1916-1929 [microform...