Bookseller's financial records, 1910-1927.

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Bookseller's financial records, 1910-1927.

The collection is comprised of some fragmentary financial records from this Philadelphia Jewish bookseller and educator. The 21 cashbooks describe transactions between Greenstone and his suppliers and customers including Dropsie College, Gratz College, the Hebrew Education Society, and the Beth Israel School. The records document the types of materials sold and their costs.

0.8 cubic ft. (2 boxes; 21 v.).

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Gratz College (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning

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As the first state-accredited Ph.D. program of its kind, Dropsie College is the world's founding institution of modern academic Jewish Studies. In the course of its nearly eighty years of existence, from 1907 through 1986, the College awarded more than 200 doctoral degrees and became a major training center for the country's Judaic scholars. It was the publisher of the Jewish Quarterly Review, the oldest continuously published English-language journal of Jewish Studies. From the desc...

Beth Israel School (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Hebrew Education Society (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Greenstone, Julius H. (Julius Hillel), 1873-1955

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Jewish educator, writer, and bookseller of English and foreign books on 13th St., Phila. From the description of Bookseller's financial records, 1910-1927. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122468217 Rabbi Julious Hillel Greenstone was born in Mariampole, Lithuania in 1873. He graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary and City College of NY and later served as a lecturer at the Mikveh Israel Congregation in Philadelphia and as a teacher at Gratz College...