Central Relief Committee records, 1914-1958, 1914-1950 (bulk).

Rosenblatt, Josef, 1882-1933

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Yossele Rosenblatt was born on May 9, 1882, in Bila Tserkva, Russian Empire. The scion of a long line of cantors, Rosenblatt's devoutly religious upbringing prevented him from receiving formal musical training at any of the great academies of his day. He began his career as a member of the local synagogue choir. At the age of 7, he moved with his family to Sadigora, Bukovina (Austria). When he was 17 years old, Rosenblatt went to Vienna for several months, during which he officiated in the large...

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...

HIAS (Agency)

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Kamaiky, Leon.

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Bar-Ilan, Meir, 1880-1949

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United States. Consulate (Istanbul, Turkey)

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Grodzinski, Ḥayyim Ozer, 1863-1940.

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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...

Fischel, Harry, 1865-1948

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Lucas, Albert, 1859-1923

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American Jewish Relief Committee for Sufferers from the War

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Federated Council of Israel Institutions.

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Talpioth Palestine Investment Agency.

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Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War

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Orthodox Jewish overseas relief organization affiliated with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Established at a meeting convened by the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations and the Union of Orthodox Rabbis in Oct. 1914 to help Jews suffering as a result of the outbreak of World War I. After the war, the Central Relief Committee shifted its attention from providing economic relief to Orthodox Jewry overseas to preserving its religious and cultural identity. CRC supported hundred...

Finkel, Eliezer Judah, 1879-1965.

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Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America

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In 1898 Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes of Shearith Israel and representatives of fifty Orthodox congregations founded the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (UOJCA), also widely known as the Orthodox Union (OU). The organization’s founding mission was to perpetuate and preserve Modern Orthodox Judaism and to unify Jewish immigrant populations by connecting and strengthening Orthodox synagogue congregations across the United States, as well as Canada. The UOJCA steadily gr...

Bloch, Elijah Meyer, approximately 1894-1955

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Rabbi Isaac Elchanan theological seminary

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Shapira, Avraham Duber Kahana, 1870-1943

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Frydman, A. Zisha, 1897-1943

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Mekhon Hari Fishel (Jerusalem)

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Kahana, Solomon David, 1869-1953.

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Kahana, Sh. Z.

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Engelman, Morris, 1872-1948

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Teitelbaum, Aaron, 1890-

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Finkel, Eliezer Judah

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American Jewish joint distribution committee

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The American Joint Distribution Committee was founded on November 27, 1914 when the American Jewish Relief Committee (AJRC) and the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews (CCRJ) joined forces under the name of the Joint Distribution Committee of American Funds for the Relief of Jewish War Sufferers. Although JDC reflected the diversity of the American Jewish Community, the Reform-oriented American Jewish Committee faction dominated its early leadership. Conceived as a temporary agency to relie...

Masliansky, Zvi Hirsch, 1856-1943

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Jewish national orator. From the description of Diary, 1891-1892 [microform]. (Brandeis University Library). WorldCat record id: 47965341 ...

Shemuʼelevits, Ḥayim, 1901-1979

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president, served 1901-1909. From the description of DS, 1904 March 1. : Washington, D.C. Homestead Certificate. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 15210791 26th president of the United States, 1901-1909. From the description of Theodore Roosevelt letters, 1917, 1918. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 213408920 Roosevelt was then Governor of New York. Chapman was one of the founders of the New York St...

Drachman, Bernard, 1861-1945

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United States. Consulate (Damascus, Syria)

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Merkaz-ha-Rav (Jerusalem). Yeshivah

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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...

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]. ...

Wiernik, Peter, 1865-1936

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Journalist, editor of JEWISH MORNING JOURNAL, New York, N.Y. From the description of Papers, 1890-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122435541 ...

Kook, Abraham Isaac, 1865-1935

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Abraham Isaac ha-Kohen Kook was born in Latvia in 1864. In 1904 he moved to Palestine and served as rabbi of the Jewish community in Jaffa. In 1919 he became rabbi of the Ashkenazi community of Jerusalem. In 1921, when the Chief rabbinate was established, he was appointed Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Palestine, a position he held until his death in 1935. In 1924 he established his own yeshiva in Jerusalem, known as the Universal Yeshiva or Merkaz ha-Rav. The yeshiva was unique at the time because of...

Bero, Stanley.

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United States. Consulate (Jerusalem)

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Israel Meir, ha-Kohen, 1838-1933

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Elkus, Abram I., 1867-1947

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Yiśraʼel, mi-Ṿiznitsa, 1860-1938

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Mizrachi

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The Mizrachi Organization was established by Rabbi Yaakov Reines in 1902 as a religious-nationalist party within the framework of the World Zionist Organization. It is dedicated to the establishment of the people of Israel in the Land of Israel in accordance with the precepts of the Torah. From the description of Posters, 1919-1937. (Yeshiva University). WorldCat record id: 122537970 ...

People's Relief Committee for Jewish War Sufferers (U.S.)

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Horowitz, Abraham.

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