Brandeis collection, 1915-1942.

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Brandeis collection, 1915-1942.

Correspondence with Louis Brandeis by Hadassah leaders, including Zip Szold, Jessie Sampter, Rose Jacobs, Hortense Levy Amram, Tamar de Sola Pool, Judith Epstein, Jeanette Leibel, Sundel Doniger, and Mania Shohet, concerning United Palestine Appeal, Zionist affairs, Youth Aliyah, Hadassah medical work, and Arab-Jewish relations, 1920, 1927-1941; correspondence concerning Brandeis birthdays, 1935-1942, Brandeis memorial forest, 1936-1938, and regarding memorial for Brandeis, including letters by Felix Frankfurter, and Bernard Flexner, 1941-1942; proceedings of memorial meetings for Brandeis in Palestine and the United States, 1941; articles by and about Brandeis, 1915-1941; and copy of Brandeis' will.

.6 linear ft.

Related Entities

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Hadassah Medical Organization

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Organized 1918 as American Zionist Medical Unit and became Hadassah Medical Organization in 1921. From the description of Records, 1918-1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155472377 ...

Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America

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Established in 1912 by Henrietta Szold to raise the standard of health in Palestine, to encourage the development of Jewish life in America, and to foster the Jewish ideal. From the description of Records, 1914-1960 [microform]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960639 ...

Jacobs, Rose G., 1888-

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Rose Gell Jacobs was a prominent American Zionist who was instrumental in the founding of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America and served that organization in many capacities including as President. From the description of Collection, 1896-1966. (Brandeis University Library). WorldCat record id: 276297445 President of Hadassah. From the description of Papers, 1910-1940, 1929-1940 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155472613 ...

Szold, Zip Falk, 1888-1979

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Sampter, Jessie E. (Jessie Ethel), 1883-1938

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Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965

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Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an American lawyer, professor, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Frankfurter served on the Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962 and was a noted advocate of judicial restraint in the judgments of the Court. Frankfurter was born in Vienna, Austria, and immigrated to New York City at the age of 12. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Frankfurter worked for Secretary of War Henry ...

United Palestine Appeal (U.S.)

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Epstein, Judith G., 1895-

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Flexner, Bernard, 1865-1945

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Bernard Flexner, a lawyer, philanthropist and Zionist leader, was an early supporter of the juvenile court movement. From 1917 he lived in New York, devoting himself to various Zionist movements and organizations to aid Palestine. From the guide to the Bernard Flexner Papers, 1882-1946, 1917-1943, (Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections) Flexner, a lawyer, philanthropist and Zionist leader, was an early supporter of the juvenile court move...

Lourie, Jeanette Leibel.

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Doniger, Sundel.

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Pool, Tamar Hirshenson de Sola, 1893-

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Shohet, Mania.

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Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941

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Louis Brandeis (b. November 13, 1856, Louisville, Kentucky – d. October 5, 1941, Washington D.C.) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from 1916 until 1939. Brandeis was the Court’s 67th justice and its first Jewish-American justice. He was the son of immigrants from Bohemia, who came to Kentucky from Prague, then part of the Austrian Empire. He received his LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1877, and before becoming a judge, served as a lawyer at Warren & B...

Jewish Agency for Palestine. Youth Aliyah Dept.

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Amram, Hortense Levy.

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