Philip CowenPapers undated, 1873-1935

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Philip CowenPapers undated, 1873-1935

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Philip Cowen (1853-1943), was a Conservative Jew whogrew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Though he only studied for oneyear at the City College of New York, the literary-minded Cowen became thefounder (with Rev. Dr. Frederic de Sola Mendes) and editor of the ConservativeJewish publication, the from itsinception in 1879 until his resignation in 1906. In 1905, Cowen was appointedby President Theodore Roosevelt to the Ellis Island positions of ImmigrationInspector on the Board of Special Inquiry, determining the fitness of émigrésto the United States, and later advanced to Inspector-In-Charge of the Divisionof Information for Employment and the Discharging and Information Division. Inaddition, Cowen was a member of the Young Men's Hebrew Association, was afounder of the society, a secretaryfor B'nai B'rith, and published an autobiography entitled (1932). Documents includewritings and material on immigration, surveys of American leaders andintellectuals on Anti-Semitism, and background materials for articles writtenin the . The collection containscorrespondence, articles, documents, official reports, telegrams, clippings,pamphlets, photographs, and handwritten notes. American Hebrew The Judeans Memoirs of an American Jew American Hebrew

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