Records, 1903-1972 ; 1930s-1972, (bulk).

Warburg, Frieda Schiff, 1876-1958

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Frieda Schiff Warburg was born on February 3, 1876, in New York City, New York. A member of New York City's German Jewish elite, her father was a preeminent Jewish communal leader and head of the banking firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and her maternal grandfather was a founder of the banking firm. She had an opulent private education, although her formal education ended after she graduated from the Brearley School. Warburg was a philanthropist and patron of the arts. She was active in the Young Women...

Sulzberger, Arthur Hays, 1891-1968

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Arthur Hays Sulzberger (September 12, 1891 – December 11, 1968) was the publisher of The New York Times from 1935 to 1961. He was born in New York City and graduated from Columbia College in 1913; he married Iphigene Bertha Ochs in 1917. In 1918 he began working at the Times, and became publisher when his father-in-law, Adolph Ochs, the previous Times publisher, died in 1935. Sulzberger broadened the Times’ use of background reporting, pictures, and feature articles, and expanded its sections. ...

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...

Schechter, Solomon, 1847-1915

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Solomon Schechter was born in Focşani, Moldavia. In 1890 he was appointed to the faculty at Cambridge University, serving as a lecturer in Talmudics and reader in Rabbinics. His greatest academic fame came from his excavation in 1896 of the papers of the Cairo Geniza, an extraordinary collection of over 100,000 pages of rare Hebrew religious manuscripts and medieval Jewish texts that were preserved at an Egyptian synagogue. The find revolutionized the study of Medieval Judaism. Schechter serv...

Rosenbach, A.S.W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952

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Levy, Lester Samuel 1924-

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American collector and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Pikesville, Md., 7 June 1974, to Jim [Fuld], 1974 June 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873515 Businessman, collector of American sheet music, and philanthropist, of Baltimore, Md.; b. 1896; d. 1989. From the description of Family papers, 1867-2001. (Jewish Historical Society of Maryland Library). WorldCat record id: 70970891 Businessman, civic leader, and author,...

Streit, Saul S.

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Stroock, Alan M.

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Blickman, Saul.

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Oppenheimer, Arthur

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Rifkind, Simon H. (Simon Hirsch), 1901-

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Lawyer. Rifkind was an alumnus of City College, Class of 1922. From the description of Memorabilia, [ca. 1947-1975] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155503633 ...

Pleet, David H.

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Rosenbloom, Charles J., 1898-1973

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Epstein, Louis M., 1887-1949

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Lehman, Irving G. (Irving George), 1900-1983

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Irving Lehman (1900-1983) was an American Jewish painter, sculptor, engraver, and designer. Born in Kiev in Russia, Lehman studied at Cooper Union and the National Academy of Art and spent much of his working life in New York City. Part of the Abstract Expressionist school, he worked in oil and watercolor as a painter and in metal and steel as a sculptor; his works have been shown in galleries in England, France, Italy, Israel and Japan, and were included in an international traveling exhibition...

Lang, Leon S., 1898-

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Fischman, William.

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Solis-Cohen, J.

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Friedenwald, Harry, 1864-1950

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Ophthamologist, Zionist activist from Baltimore, Md. From the description of Papers, 1907-1943. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122569092 Baltimore ophthalmologist; president of the Federation of American Zionists, 1904-1918; and author of works on Jewish medical history. From the description of Personal correspondence, 1856-1953 [microform]. (Brandeis University Library). WorldCat record id: 47827624 ...

Gutman, Jacob, 1922-

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Krasne, Abraham.

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Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Board of Directors.

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The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, located in New York, was founded in 1886 and reorganized in 1902 under the leadership of Solomon Schechter. The Seminary, considered the fountainhead of the Conservative Movement in Judaism, consists of a rabbinical school and graduate and undergraduate programs in Jewish studies. During the early decades of the century it also included a Jewish teachers training institute. The Seminary's heads have been: Sabato Morais (1886-1897), Solomon Schechter (1...

Goldman, Solomon, 1893-1953

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Nathan, Edgar J.

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Schneierson, Samuel S.

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Hendricks, Henry S.

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President of Congregation Shearith Israel, 1927-1930, 1934-1935, 1939-1951. From the description of Papers, 1887-1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155471115 ...

Strauss, Lewis L

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Secretary to Herbert Hoover, 1917-1919; chairman, United States Atomic Energy Commission, 1953-1958; secretary of commerce, 1958-1959. From the description of Lewis L. Strauss miscellaneous papers, 1918-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868921 Government executive, financier. From the description of Reminiscences of Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss : oral history, 1973. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86158380 Executive...

Drob, Max

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