Board of Delegates of American IsraelitesRecords 1859-1881, 1887, 1932

Seligman, Isaac Newton, 1855-1917

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Isaac Newton Seligman (July 10, 1855 – September 30, 1917) was an American banker and communal worker. In 1878, after a two-year apprenticeship in the firm of Seligman & Hellman in New Orleans, he joined the New York branch, of which he became head in 1885, on the death of his father Joseph Seligman and his brother. He was connected with almost all the important social reform committees in New York. He was a trustee of institutions and societies, including the Munich Life Assurance Company, S...

Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872

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William Henry Seward was born in Florida, Orange County, New York, on May 16, 1801. He was the son of Samuel S. Seward and Mary (Jennings) Seward. He graduated from Union College in 1820, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1822. In 1823, he moved to Auburn, New York, where he entered Judge Elijah Miller's law office. He married Frances Adeline Miller, Judge Miller's daughter, in 1824. Seward was interested in politics early in his career and became actively involved in the Anti-Masonic m...

Halleck, Henry Wager, 1815-1872

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Halleck was born on a farm in Westernville, Oneida County, New York, third child of 14 of Joseph Halleck, a lieutenant who served in the War of 1812, and Catherine Wager Halleck. Young Henry detested the thought of an agricultural life and ran away from home at an early age to be raised by an uncle, David Wager of Utica. He attended Hudson Academy and Union College, then the United States Military Academy. He became a favorite of military theorist Dennis Hart Mahan and was allowed to teach class...

Evarts, William Maxwell, 1818-1901

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William Maxwell Evarts (February 6, 1818 – February 28, 1901) was an American lawyer and statesman from New York who served as U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator from New York. He was renowned for his skills as a litigator and was involved in three of the most important causes of American political jurisprudence in his day: the impeachment of a president, the Geneva arbitration and the contests before the electoral commission to settle the presidential election of 18...

Montefiore, Moses, Sir, 1784-1885

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Anglo-Jewish philanthropist, communal leader. From the description of Letters, 1858-1885. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122624776 English philanthropist and Zionist. From the description of Document signed : London, 1872 Feb. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874663 Philanthropist and communal leader knighted by Queen Victoria; acclaimed as the most prominent Anglo-Jew of the 19th century; involved in Jewish causes in Palestine and throughout the wo...

Fischel, Arnold

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American Jewish Publication Society

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Wolf, Simon, 1836-1923

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Washington lawyer and author. From the description of Letter : Washington, to Adam Badeau, 1869 Jan. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22919369 Lawyer and author. From the description of Simon Wolf correspondence, 1917 July 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981410 ...

Jews' Hospital in New York

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Board of Delegates of American Israelites

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Organized in 1859 with Jews from New York, N.Y., and twelve other cities to represent American Jews to the government in Washington, D.C., and defend Jewish rights; 1878 board gave up its separate existence to amalgamate with the Union of American Hebrew Congregations; 1925 the board, as part of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations was finally dissolved. From the description of Records, 1859-1873. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960638 Organized in 1859 with Jews from...

Committee for the Roumania Jews (Berlin)

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Union of American Hebrew congregations

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Founded in 1873 when delegates representing twenty-nine congregations basically from the Midwest and the South assembled in Cincinnati, Ohio. From the description of Records, 1873-1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960755 Organization which supports Reform Judaism in North America (including the United States). From the description of Union of American Hebrew Congregations records, 1996-2000. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756915881 ...

Spektor, Isaac Elhanan, 1817-1896

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Rabbi. From the description of Ordination papers, 1883-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155247589 From the description of Letters, [ca. 1896]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122520804 ...

Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Board of Delegates on Civil Rights

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Hay, John, 1838-1905

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Brown class of 1858. Secretary to Abraham Lincoln; Ambassador to Court of St. James; Secretary of State; author. From the description of Papers, 1829-1916. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122598680 American diplomat and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cleveland, to the editors of The Critic [Jeannette L. and Joseph B. Gilder], 1884 Aug. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 644640373 Statesman, poet, Secretary of State. ...

Fränkel, Jacob, b. 1814

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Tarshish, Allan, 1907-1982

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Crémieux, Adolphe, 1796-1880

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Crémieus was a French political figure. After the 1848 revolution, he served as minister of justice in the provisional government of 1848-49. From the description of Letter : Paris, France, to Monsieur le Président de la Cour de cassation, section criminelle, 1848 Feb 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79314985 From the description of Letter : Paris, France, to Monsieur le Président de la Cour de cassation, section criminelle, 1848 Feb 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 7...

Paryente, Me'ir Shelomoh (Pariente, Moses)

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Mount Sinai Hospital (New York, N.Y.)

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Mikveh Yi´sra'el (Israel)

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Leeser, Isaac, 1806-1868

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Isaac Leeser (December 12, 1806 – February 1, 1868) was an American Orthodox Jewish religious leader, teacher, scholar and publisher. He helped found the Jewish press of America, produced the first Jewish translation of the Bible into English, and helped organize various social and educational organizations. ...

Peixotto, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1834-1890

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Journalist, lawyer, communal leader, and diplomat; born in New York City; came to Cleveland at age 13 with his father; appointed American consul in Lyon, France. From the description of Benjamin F. Peixotto letter, 1858 Aug. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 742060232 ...

Community Lilly of Sharon of the American Jews in Jerusalum

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Alliance israélite universelle

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Solomons, Adolphus S. (Adolphus Simeon), 1826-1910

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Adolphus Simeon Solomons (b. 1826, New York City-d. 1910), helped establish the American Red Cross, organizing the first training school for nurses in Washington, D.C. and the Washington Night Lodging-House Association. He was an officer of the Provident Aid Society and the Emergency Hospital of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In New York, he helped organize Mt. Sinai Hospital and the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids. He was the founder of the Jewish Protectory and Aid ...

Levy, Jonas Phillips, 1807-1883

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Jonas Phillips Levy was born on January 14, 1807, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Michael Levy and Rachel Phillips. He was the youngest of ten children. Levy never finished his formal education, instead preferring to take various apprenticeships. He began his career as a seaman in 1823, when he signed on as cabin boy on the schooner Sygnet heading for New Orleans. Jonas worked various odd sailing jobs, on both steamboats and ocean vessels for the next few years, saving money, and ...

Israelitische Allianz zu Wien

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Hebrew Education Society (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818-1893

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Benjamin Franklin Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, the sixth and youngest child of John Butler and Charlotte Ellison Butler. His father served under General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 and later became a privateer, dying of yellow fever in the West Indies not long after Benjamin was born. He was named after Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. His elder brother, Andrew Jackson Butler (1815–1864), would serve as a colonel in the Union Army during t...

American Roumanian Society

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Maimonides College

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First educational institute for rabbinical and higher Hebrew learning in the United States; est. in Philadelphia, Pa., 1867; closed 1873. From the description of Records, 1864-1873. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960645 ...

Board of Deputies of British Jews

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Isaacs, Myer S. (Myer Samuel), 1841-1904

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Anglo-Jewish Association.

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The Anglo-Jewish Association was a British organisation originally founded for the protection of Jewish rights in developing countries by diplomatic means. Its objectives and activities were patterned after those of the Alliance Israelite Universelle. It was established in 1871 when its first president was Jacob Waley; five Jewish MPs were vice presidents. By 1900 it had 36 branches, 14 in British colonies. In 1871 it was instrumental in securing the creation of the Rumanian Committ...

Mortara, Pio, -1940

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Edgardo (Pio) Mortara (born Bologna, Italy, Aug. 27, 1851-Liège, in Belgium, Mar. 11, 1940) was a Jewish boy who became the center of an international controversy when he was kidnapped from his Jewish parents by authorities of the Papal States and raised as a Roman Catholic. He later became a Roman Catholic priest. The boy was seized after the Church authorities received a report that he had been given emergency baptism by a domestic servant during a serious infantile illness. From ...

Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society of the City of New York

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Smith, E. Delafield (Edward Delafield), 1826-1878

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