Baruch Korff papers 1914-1991

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Baruch Korff papers 1914-1991

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This collection contains the catalogue and index of the Exhibition of the Rabbi Baruch Korff Archives at Brown University, 1985-1986; the full inventory of the papers; and a microfilm of the exhibition of the papers.The materials in the exhibit included materials that focused on the three aspects of Korff's life that are most documented: the rescue of European Jews during the Holocaust, the founding of the State of Israel, and the defense of President Nixon during the Watergate era (found in the catalogue of the exhibition, found in the collection).

1 box; (0.5 linear ft.)

eng,

L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994

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Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, Nixon previously served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, having risen to national prominence as a representative and senator from California. After five years in the White House that saw the conclusion to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, and the establishment of the Environm...

Korff, Baruch, 1914-

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Baruch Korff (1914-1995) was a Ukraine native who was a rabbi. Born in Ukraine in 1914, Baruch Korff became the seventy-second generation of rabbis in his family. Following a pogrom in 1919, during which his mother was killed before his eyes, he fled to Poland. He earned his Smicha (Yoreh, Yoreh) in Poland in 1933, and his advanced Smicha (Yadin, Yadin) in Palestine in 1935. Emigrating to the United States, he served as headmaster of Yeshiva Torath Emeth, Bro...

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In 1917 the university established the Brown War Records Bureau, whose intention was to "collect and preserve a record of all Brown men who are serving in the present war". Brown faculty, students and alumni who were in the military were asked to fill out a small card called "Are you in the war?" and to send original letters, clippings or photographs which "have any bearing on the service of Brown men in the war." This collection is partly a result of that effort. From the guide to t...