Papers, [ca. 1289]-1968.

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Papers, [ca. 1289]-1968.

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Collection primarily relates to Bernstein's research on history of Jews in Germany and other countries. Contains original German-Jewish documents, as well as photocopies and transcriptions of original documents, including edicts, circulars, notices, rabbinic and secular legal documents, contracts, amulets, letters, and sermons, from the 13th century to Holocaust period; correspondence with German libraries and archives and with YIVO, 1930-1968; inventories, lists, and catalogs of Jewish material in German archives; correspondence, minutes, reports, and other material concerning displaced persons' camps in Germany, 1945-1951, including Zionist activity, and Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Bavaria. Also contains documents concerning Jews in Argentina, 1904-1961; material concerning research into Yiddish language, 1937-1957; original documents concerning JEWISH DAILY FORWARD, New York, 1903-1904, 1945; personal correspondence, 1949-1961, including with American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and Jewish Restitution Successor Organization; and manuscripts, notes, articles, and lectures on Eastern European, German, and Argentine Jewry.

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Jewish Restitution Successor Organization

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Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Bavaria

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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...

Yiṿo in Argenṭine.

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Yivo Archives

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Bernstein, Mordechai Wolf, 1905-1966

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Jewish historian and Yiddish cultural activist in Poland, Argentina, and United States. Bernstein was Secretary of Yivo in Buenos Aires. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1289]-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122574894 ...