Papers, 1877-1924.

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Papers, 1877-1924.

Correspondence, 1877-1924, concerning activities as journalist, including as editor of JEWISH EXPONENT (Philadelphia) rabbi, and communal worker; invitations and greetings, 1890-1924; examinations and notice for Ladies' Bible Study class at Congregation Pincus Elijah, New York City, 1916-1917; typescript with corrections for Morais' book, THE JEWS OF Philadelphia; sermon on war; bills and receipts from businesses and organizations, 1893-1924; and picture of father, Sabato Morais. Also includes copies of correpondence of Jacob Ezekiel with Rep. James A. Seddon and Sen. John S. Caskie regarding Swiss treaty affair, 1851-1852. Correspondents include Cyrus Adler, Philip Cowen, David de Sola Pool, Bernard Drachman, Jacob Ezekiel, Charles Hoffman, Isaac Husik, Marcus Jastrow, Albert Lucas, Louis Marshall, Henry P. Mendes, Isaac M. Wise, and Arthur Dembitz.

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Morais, Henry Samuel, 1860-1924

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Henry Samuel Morais was born on May 13, 1860, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the son of the Reverend Sabato Morais, a well-known national Jewish leader, Rabbi of Congregation Mikveh Israel of Philadelphia, and founder of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. Morais attended different private and public schools for his secular education, while he received a traditional religious education from his father. After his schooling he taught for twelve years in the schools of the Hebrew Ed...

Morais, Sabato, 1823-1897

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Sabato Morais (1823 -1897) was an Italian-born Sephardic teacher and cantor, the minister of Philadelphia's Spanish and Portuguese Congregation Mikveh Israel for nearly half a century, a politically active republican and opponent of slavery, a master Hebraist and pioneer of Italian and Sephardic Jewish Studies in the United States, and the founder of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City....

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...

Seddon, James A. (James Alexander), 1815-1880

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Representative from Virginia; Confederate Secretary of War. From the description of Autograph letter in pencil signed : [n.p.], to R.J. Walker, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270633277 Confederate Secretary of War. From the description of Letter to Dr. [Lewis] [manuscript], 1853 November 9. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647986794 From the description of Papers, 1862-1865. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20313944 ...

Asche, Meyer.

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Wise, Isaac Mayer, 1819-1900

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Rabbi and pioneer of the Reform Jewish movement in America, of Cincinnati, Ohio. From the description of Papers, 1850-1899. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960628 ...

Drachman, Bernard, 1861-1945

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Reich, Leo Martin, 1938-

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Jastrow, Marcus, 1829-1903

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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...

Lucas, Albertine

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Gittelson, Samuel.

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Dembitz, Arthur Aaron.

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Friedman, Max, -1964

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Ezekiel, Jacob, 1812-1899

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Communal leader b. in Philadelphia, Pa.; moved to Baltimore, Md., in 1833; the next year moved to Richmond, Va., and entered the dry goods business; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1869 and served as secretary to the Hebrew Union College Board of Governors (1876-1896). From the description of Papers, 1817-1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70952644 ...

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...

Jacobi, A. (Abraham), 1830-1919

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Jacobi, a specialist in diseases of infants and children, was a professor (1865-1902) in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. From the description of A. Jacobi papers, 1794-1936 (bulk 1880-1919) (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 177443888 Abraham Jacobi is referred to as the father of pediatrics, having opened the first children's clinic at the New York Medical College in 1860, and the first children's ward at Mount Sinai Hospital....

Hoffman, Charles Isaiah, 1864-1945.

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Lawyer, journalist, Conservative rabbi. From the description of Charles Isaiah Hoffman and Fanny Binswager Hoffman papers, 1852-1964, 1886-1948 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83142327 ...

Congregation Pincus Elijah (New York, N.Y.). Ladies's Bible Study Class.

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Chumaceiru, Joseph H.

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Husik, Isaac, 1876-1939

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Pool, David de Sola, 1885-1970

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A leading figure in American Jewish life during the 20th century, Reverend Dr. David de Sola Pool was minister of Congregation Shearith Israel (the first Jewish congregation to be established in North America) in New York City and President of the Union of Sephardic Congregations. Rev. Dr. de Sola Pool married Tamar Hirschensohn (1890-1981) in 1917. Tamar H. de Sola Pool was National President of Hadassah (1939-1943) and active in the National Council of Jewish Women and World Zionist Organizati...

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...

Caskie, John Samuels, 1821-1869

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