Max JamesKohler Papers 1765-1963 (bulk 1888-1935)

B'nai B'rith

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The Jewish Central Information Office was founded by Alfred Wiener, a German Jew who worked for the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith ( Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens ). In 1933 he fled to Amsterdam where he founded the agency along with David Cohen. The JCIO produced reports to spread word of the activities that were occurring in Nazi Germany. In 1939 the office was moved to London, where it became known as the Wiener Library. ...

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...

Straus, Isidor, 1845-1912

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Isidor Straus (February 6, 1845 – April 15, 1912) was a Bavarian-born American Jewish businessman, politician and co-owner of Macy's department store with his brother Nathan. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented New York's 15th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 1894 until March 1895. He died with his wife, Ida, in the sinking of the passenger ship RMS Titanic. Born in Otterberg in the former Palatinate, then ruled by the Kingdom of Bavaria (n...

Razovsky, Cecilia, 1886-1968

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Cecila Davidson Razovsky (May 4, 1891 – September 27, 1968) was a Jewish American social worker and activist for immigrants in the US. Razovsky was born on May 4, 1891 to immigrant parents Jonas and Minna (Meyerson) Razovsky in St. Louis, Missouri. She worked several jobs in order to help support her family including sewing buttons on overalls in a factory at the age of 12 and working as salesgirl, waitress, laundress, stenographer, clerk, and secretary. At the age of 18 she began teaching im...

La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947

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Fiorello Henry La Guardia (born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia; December 11, 1882 – September 20, 1947) was an American attorney and politician who represented New York in the House of Representatives and served as the 99th Mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1945. Known for his irascible, energetic, and charismatic personality and diminutive stature, La Guardia is acclaimed as one of the greatest mayors in American history. Though a Republican, La Guardia was frequently cross-endorsed by other part...

United States. Congress. House

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U.S. House of Representatives is the lower house of Congress. From the guide to the Subscription lists, 1870, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) The first session of the Congress of the United States, under a resolution passed by the Congress of the Confederation, on September 13, 1788, was called to meet in New York City on March 4, 1789. On the appointed day only 13 Members of the House were present and, as this number did not constitute a quorum, the sessions...

Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965

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Frances Perkins (born Fannie Coralie Perkins; April 10, 1880 – May 14, 1965) was an American sociologist and workers-rights advocate who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition. She and Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes were the only original members of the Rooseve...

United States. Supreme Court

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Supreme Court of the United States, final court of appeal and final expositor of the Constitution of the United States. Within the framework of litigation, the Supreme Court marks the boundaries of authority between state and nation, state and state, and government and citizen. Scope And Jurisdiction The Supreme Court was created by the Constitutional Convention of 1787 as the head of a federal court system, though it was not formally established until Congress passed the Judiciary Act in 17...

United States. Department of State

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The Department of Foreign Affairs was established by an act of July 27, 1789 (1 Stat. 28) and redesignated the Department of State by an act of September 15, 1789 (1 Stat. 68). It was the agency of the United States created by law to assist the President in the formulation and execution of the Nation's foreign policy, and in the conduct of foreign affairs and of certain domestic affairs. The Department made plans for peace and security among all nations, participated in the United Nations and o...

Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944

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Alfred Emanuel Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was an American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1928. Smith was the foremost urban leader of the Efficiency Movement in the United States and was noted for achieving a wide range of reforms as governor in the 1920s. The son of an Irish-American mother and a Civil War veteran father, he was raised in the Lower East Side of Manhattan near the Brooklyn Bri...

American Jewish Historical Society

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Oppenheim, Samuel, 1857-1928

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Samuel Oppenheim, American lawyer and historian, was born in New York City on December 2, 1859 to Isaac and Melia Oppenheim. Educated at the College of the City of New York and Columbia Law School, he was admitted to the New York Bar in 1885. As a lawyer, he worked with noted attorneys Simon Sterne and Oscar S. Straus. Oppenheim served as secretary of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors from 1889-1891 and assistant general counsel from 1896-1901 for the Missouri, Kansa...

United States. Immigration and naturalization service

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A federal act of 1882 established procedures for recording immigrants arriving in the United States. The records maintained by federal immigration officials were often called immigration passenger lists of manifests. From the description of Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Savannah, Ga., 1906-1945. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 174142611 Ellis Island, an island in Upper New York Bay, is named for Samuel Ellis, who acquired land on the i...

Askowith, Dora, 1884-1958

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Straus, Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon), 1850-1926

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Secretary of the Department of Labor and Commerce, 1906-1909. From the description of Letter, 1906 Nov. 7, New York, to Lee M. Friedman, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 174212191 American ambassador and government official. From the description of Papers, 1869-1947. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122589779 Attorney, businessman, public official, diplomat, U.S. secretary of commerce and labor, and author...

Loeb, Louis, 1866-1909

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American Civil Liberties Union

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Founded in 1920 in New York City by Roger Baldwin and others; the ACLU was an outgrowth of the American Union Against Militarism's National Civil Liberties Bureau, which in 1920 changed its name to the American Civil Liberties Union. From the description of Collection, 1917- (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 42740878 The Southern Women's Rights Project (SWRP) located in Richmond is affiliated with the American Civil Liberties Union. The project deal...

Hartogensis, B. H. (Benjamin Henry), 1865-1939

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Szold, Henrietta, 1680-1945

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Henrietta Szold, Zionist leader, was born in Baltimore of Hungarian-Jewish parentage. She taught school at the Misses Adams School in Baltimore, and was the founder of a night school for Russian immigrants in Baltimore in 1889. From 1892-1915 Szold was the secretary of the Jewish Publication Society of America. A trip to Palestine in 1909 was the turning point in her life. She became an enthusiastic Zionist, became the Secretary of the Federation of American Zionists and founder and first Presid...

United States. Bureau of Immigration

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Chinese inspectors of the U.S. Immigration Service were charged with identifying and apprehending illegal Chinese immigrants in violation of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. The cases were tried before the Commissioner of the U.S. District Court, R.D. George. If found guilty, the U.S. Marshal Ben F. Daniels was responsible for their deportation. From the description of Record of proceedings in criminal cases, 1905-1907. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). World...

Franks, Rebecca

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Arbib-Costa, Alfonso, 1869-

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Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America

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Judah, G. F. (George Fortunatus)

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National Conference of Christians and Jews.

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The conference, founded as the National Conference of Jews and Christians, was formed to promote the religious ideals of brotherhood and justice. The conference name changed Nov. 28, 1938 to National Conference of Christians and Jews. From the description of National Conference of Christians and Jews records, 1927-1989. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63285851 The National Conference of Christians and Jews, was formed in 1928 to facilitate coopera...

Schiff, Mortimer L.

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Epithet: early Boy Scouts of America leader British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001039.0x00007b ...

Salomon, Haym, 1740-1785

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Haym Salomon was a Polish-born Jewish businessman and political financial broker who assisted the Superintendent of Finance, English-born Robert Morris, as the prime financier of the rebel American side during the American Revolutionary War against Great Britain. Having immigrated to New York City from Poland, Salomon aided the Continental Army during the period of the American Revolution and helped convert French loans into ready cash by selling bills of exchange for Morris, the superintende...

Coolidge, Mary Roberts, 1860-1945

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Dodd, William Edward, 1869-1940

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William Edward Dodd (1869-1940) was a historian and United States ambassador to Germany. From the guide to the William Edward Dodd Letters, ., 1911-1923, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Historian, diplomat, college professor. From the description of William Edward Dodd letter to Alfred Jackson Hanna [manuscript], 1895 December 2. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 502141954 Historian and ...

Seligman, Jesse, 1827-1894

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Jesse Seligman was one of the seven Seligman brothers who founded and operated the international banking firm J. & W. Seligman. He was also an investor and owner of railroads in the American West....

American, Sadie

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Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Director of Henry Street Settlement in New York City. Miss Wald retired from active directorship in 1932. From the guide to the Lillian D. Wald Papers, 1895-1936, (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Lillian D. Wald (1867-1940), a public health nurse and social worker in New York City on the Lower East Side, was a pioneer in American social work and public health. She founded the Henry Street Settlement and the Visiting Nurse Service of...

Morgenthau, Henry, 1856-1946

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Henry Morgenthau (b. April 26, 1856, Mannheim, German Confederation–d. November 25, 1946, New York City, NY) was born to wealthy parents in Mannheim German where his father had successful cigar factory in German. The family emigrated to the US in 1866. Morgenthau attended City College of New York and Columbia Law School. In the 1910s he became invovled in the Democratic party and donated handsomely to Woodrow Wilson's election campaign in 1912. He was appointed ambassador to Ottoman Empire (1913...

Gottheil, Richard J. H. (Richard James Horatio), 1862-1936

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Orientalist, Zionist, Professor of Semitics at Columbia University. Richard was the son of Gustav Gottheil. From the description of Papers, 1786-1934. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81886313 ...

Moore, John Bassett, 1860-1947

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Lawyer, educator, and jurist. From the description of Papers of John Bassett Moore, 1866-1949 (bulk 1885-1938). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455667 ...

Hollander, Jacob H. (Jacob Harry), 1871-1940

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Economist. From the description of Letter of Jacob Harry Hollander, 1905. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450975 Jacob Harry Hollander (1871-1940) was an economist active in social welfare and economic reform issues and a professor of economics at The Johns Hopkins University. He was a specialist in labor relations and the financial systems of Latin America. In 1900 he was named special commissioner to revise the laws on taxation in Puerto Rico, and President McKinley appoi...

Cowen, Philip.

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Publisher and managing editor of The American Hebrew. From the description of Papers, 1882-1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70925037 Philip Cowen was born on July 26, 1853, the second of eight children, on what he recalls the “Southeast corner of Walker and Mulberry Streets” 1 in the Lower East Side of New York. His parents, Raphael Isaac Keil and Julia Manasseh, were German immigrants who made their way to America via England. In England, Raphael Isaac chan...

Baron de Hirsch Fund

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Luzzati, Luigi, 1841-

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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. ...

Solomon, Hannah G. (Hannah Greenebaum), 1858-1942

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Civic leader and founder of the National Council of Jewish Women. From the description of Hannah G. Solomon papers, 1817-1986 (bulk 1892-1942). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983501 Philanthropist and president of the National Council of Jewish Women. From the description of Newsclippings, 1894-1939 [microform]. (Brandeis University Library). WorldCat record id: 48028678 Biographical Note ...

Board of Delegates on Civil Rights

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Schiff, Jacob H. (Jacob Henry), 1847-1920

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Banker; m. Theresa Loeb; member of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.; director of Central Trust Co., Western Union Telegraph Co., and Wells Fargo; president of Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids; founded Jewish Theological Seminary and Semitic Museum, Harvard Univ.). From the description of Jacob Henry Schiff papers, 1900-1920. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 436305005 Jewish-American banker and philanthropist. From the description of Correspondence ; 1914-1920 [microform]. ...

White, Arnold, 1848-1925

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Epithet: journalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001086.0x000382 ...

Foreign Language Information Service (U.S.)

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Davis, N. Darnell (Nicholas Darnell), 1846-1915

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Friedenwald, Herbert, 1870-1944

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Woldman, Albert A. (Albert Alexander), 1897-1971

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Alber A. Woldman was a Cleveland, Ohio, lawyer, author, teacher, speechwriter, administrator and judge who served in various state and local governmental positions during his professional career. Born in Vilna, Lithuania, his family emigrated from there in 1901 to Cleveland. After graduation from Ohio Northern University College of Law in 1919, Woldman began a private law practice and taught at John Marshall Law School. In 1941, he was appointed assistant law director for the city of Cleveland. ...

National Council on Naturalization and Citizenship (U.S.)

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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 ...

Industrial Removal Office (U.S.)

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Wolf, Lucien, 1857-1930

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Epithet: journalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x000313 ...

Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935

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The Dreyfus Affair was the controversy after the treason conviction (1894) of Captain Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), a French general staff officer, who was later acquitted. Fernand Labori was his lawyer. From the description of Correspondence and documents concerning the Dreyfus Affair, 1889-1931. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 78435080 Alfred Dreyfus was a French army officer, born October 19, 1859 in Mulhouse, France. Dreyfus was educated ...

Baron de Hirsch Agricultural School of Woodbine, NJ

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Proskauer, Joseph M. (Joseph Meyer), 1877-1971

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Naumburg's brother-in-law; judge on New York State's Supreme Court. From the description of Correspondence with Margaret Naumburg, 1959-1965. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 63585596 Judge. From the description of Reminiscences of Joseph M. Proskauer : oral history, 1961. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309723111 ...

Jewish colonization association

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United States. Bureau of Labor

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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...

Roth, Cecil, 1899-1970

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British historian. From the description of History of the Jews in England : Oxford, 1962-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82463340 From the description of History of the Jews in England : Oxford, 1962-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702146866 Epithet: Reader in Jewish Studies at Oxford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x000065 ...

Belmont, August, 1813-1890

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American banker and financier, U.S. minister to the Netherlands, and a leading Democratic political leader. At the outbreak of the American Civil War, he vigorously supported the Union and helped raise the first German regiment sent from New York City. Daniel Edgar Sickles was a U.S. Representative from the State of New York (1857-1861 and 1893-1895). From the description of August Belmont letter, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 711208279 Banker and diplomat. ...

Taft, William Howard, 1857-1930

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William Howard Taft (1857-1930) was an American politician who served as U.S. President (1908-1912) and Chief Justitce of the Supreme Court (1921-1930). 1857 Born in Cincinnati, Ohio on September 15th 1878 Graduated from Yale University 1880 Graduated from Cincinnati Law School ...

United States. Bureau of Naturalization

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Mack, Julian W. (Julian William), 1866-1943

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Lawyer, judge, and law professor at Northwestern University and University of Chicago. From the description of Papers, 1854-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70947183 ...

Miller, David Hunter, 1875-

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

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Cardozo, Benjamin N. (Benjamin Nathan), 1870-1938

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U.S. Supreme Court justice. From the description of Benjamin Cardozo letters, 1933-1938. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 502414571 From the description of Benjamin Cardozo letter, 1932 Jan. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 428736948 From the description of Benjamin Cardozo letter, 1931 Apr. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 428737456 United States Supreme Court Justice & Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. From the description of B...

National Conference of Jews and Christians (U.S.)

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Kohler family

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Mendes, H. Pereira (Henry Pereira), 1852-1937

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Rabbi at Congregation Shearith Israel, 1877-1920. From the description of Papers, 1877-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155471166 Orthodox Sephardic rabbi and communal leader. From the description of Collection, 1877-1908 [microform]. (Brandeis University Library). WorldCat record id: 47961736 Rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel, New York City; Orthodox and Zionist leader; co-founder of Jewish Theological Seminary of America. From the d...

Einhorn, David, 1809-1879

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Reform rabbi, of Baltimore, Md., and Philadelphia, Pa. From the description of Papers, 1855-1879. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960770 ...

Jacobs, Joseph, 1854-1916

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Tarshish, Allan, 1907-1982

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Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars

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Hirsch, Maurice de, baron, 1831-1896

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Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923

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Mayer Sulzberger was born in Heidelsheim, Baden, Germany on June 22, 1843. His family emigrated to the United States in 1849, and settled in Philadelphia. Sulzberger attended the Central High School of Philadelphia and Crittenden's. College, and later apprenticed in the law office of Moses Aaron Dropsie, a prominent Philadelphia attorney. Sulzberger was a member of Congregation Mikveh Israel, Philadelphia's oldest and most prestigious Jewish congregation. Sul...

Straus Family

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Seligman

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Kohler, Max J. (Max James), 1871-1934

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Max James Kohler (1871-1934) Judge Irving Lehman wrote of Max Kohler: "The general public can never know the full value of Mr. Kohler's work. He never sought or desired wide recognition. He did seek the satisfaction of work well done. He did value the respect and even admiration of his friends and fellow-workers. These he received and these were the only reward he desired." 1 In this paragraph written in memoriam to Kohler, Judge Lehman summed up Kohler's life, particula...

Temperley, Harold William Vazeille, 1879-1939

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Epithet: OBE; Master of Peterhouse 1938 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001151.0x000352 British historian. From the description of Harold William Vazeille Temperley correspondence, 1936, with Sir Stephen Gaselee. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867876 ...

Hühner, Leon, 1871-1957

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Wise, Stephen Samuel, 1874-1949

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Stephen Samuel Wise was born in Budapest, Hungary, and came to the United States the following year. He graduated with honors from Columbia University and in 1893 he was ordained in Austria "The People's Rabbi," as Wise would later be known, developed his deep concern for the less fortunate at an early age. Wise fought for housing projects, the abolition of child labor, the improvement of working conditions, securing rights for female workers and equal rights for African Americans. He founded th...

Loeb, Isidore, 1839-1892.

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Dropsie, Moses A. (Moses Aaron), 1821-1905

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Webster, Charles K. (Charles Kingsley), Sir, 1886-1961

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Born 1886; educated Merchant Taylors' School in Crosby and King's College, Cambridge; Professor of Modern History, Liverpool University, 1914-1922; served World War One as a Subaltern in the Royal Army Service Corps, 1915-1917 and on the General Staff of the War Office, 1917-1918; Secretary, Military Section, British Delegation to the Conference of Paris, 1918-1919; Wilson Professor of International Politics, University of Wales, 1922-1932; Ausserordentlich Professor, University of Vienna, 1926;...

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...

Franks, David, 1720-1794

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Littlefield, Walter, 1867-1948

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Friedenberg, Albert M. (Albert Marx), 1881-1942

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De Cordova, Phineas, 1819-1903

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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...

Ochs, Adolph S. (Adolph Simon), 1858-1935

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President of the New York Times. From the description of Letter, 1921 Sept. 12, New York, to Perry Walton, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 184904887 Publisher and President of the New York Times Company, 1894-1935. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1880-1940] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155540212 Newspaper publisher, of New York, N.Y. From the description of Papers, 1892-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960312 ...

Duschinsky, C. (Charles), 1878-1944

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National Council of Jewish Women

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Organized in 1893 as the Council of Jewish Women; name changed in 1923 to the National Council of Jewish Women. The two primary goals of the organization are social reform and the promotion of Judaism among women. From the description of Records of the National Council of Jewish Women, 1893-1989 (bulk 1940-1981). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79456414 The National Council members, in their Credo, stated that they "believe in the ideal of Peace." In their philosophy, they st...

Kohut, George Alexander, 1874-1933

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Scholar, educator, and editor. From the description of Papers, 1922-1929. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70925057 Educator, rabbi. George A. Kohut was son of Alexander Kohut. From the description of Papers, 1852-1933, 1898-1933 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122530598 ...

Kohler, Kaufmann, 1843-1926

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Rabbi and president of Hebrew Union College, of Cincinnati, Ohio. From the description of Papers, 1851-1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960625 Rabbi; president of Hebrew Union College. From the description of Kaufmann Kohler telegram, 1903 February 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 759218732 ...

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 ...

Elkus, Abram I., 1867-1947

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Wickersham, George W. (George Woodward), 1858-1936

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U.S. attorney general, public official, and lawyer. From the description of George W. Wickersham correspondence, 1917. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981363 ...