Simon Wolf, papers undated, 1868-1925

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Simon Wolf, papers undated, 1868-1925

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Primarily correspondence with members of Congress and government officials concerning anti-Semitism in the United States and abroad and the treaty with Russia. Includes also correspondence with prominent American Jews, among which are Benjamin F. Peixotto, Jacob Henry Schiff, Oscar Solomon Straus, and Leo N. Levi, and manuscript copies of speeches and articles, published in revised form in Selected addresses and papers (Cincinnati : Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1926).

1 linear feet (2 manuscript boxes)

eng,

American Jewish Historical Society

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

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Simon Wolf, 1836-1923

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"American jurist, publicist, and philanthropist; born at Hinzweiler, Bavaria, October 28, 1836; emigrated to the United States in 1848 and settled as a merchant at Ulrichsville, Ohio. He studied law at the Ohio Law College, Cleveland, and was admitted to the bar at Mount Vernon, Ohio, in 1861. He practised law at New Philadelphia, in the same state, for a year, and then moved to Washington, where he opened an office. From 1869 to 1878 he was recorder of the District of Columbia. Pre...