Manuscript collection, [ca. 1683-1970].

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Manuscript collection, [ca. 1683-1970].

ca. 1683-1970

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Miscellaneous wills, petitions, deeds, letters, receipts, maps, certificates, contracts, reports, resolutions, brochures, pamphlets, and other material concerning Congregation Shearith Israel, its members, clergy, liturgy and services, and property, and other Jewish subjects. Items of interest include inventory of estate of Asser Levy, 1683; letters by Rabbi Gershom Seixas concerning employment and conditions at synagogue, 1783-1784; responsa concerning moving of graves, 1791; letter by Aaron Daniels concerning Jews in New Orleans, 1829; scrapbooks on Shearith Israel activities, 1895-1945, and on Seligman affair (financier Joseph Seligman was barred from a Catskills hotel because he was Jewish), 1877; and records of circumcisions, 1866-1878; and marriages, 1906-1918, performed by Rabbi Abraham Nieto.

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Congregation Shearith Israel (New York, N.Y.)

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Congregation Shearith Israel (New York, N.Y.)

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Seligman, Joseph, 1819-1880

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Nieto, Abraham Ḥayyim, 1837-1919.

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Levy, Asser, -1681

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