Louis Brandeis letter, 1916 Mar. 29.

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Louis Brandeis letter, 1916 Mar. 29.

Letter from Brandeis to Bernard G. Richards regarding the Jewish Congress movement.

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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...

American Jewish congress

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The American Jewish Congress was founded originally in 1918 by a group of Jewish American leaders as an umbrella structure for Jewish organizations to represent the American Jewish interests at the Peace Conference following the end of World War I. It was seen as a national parliamentary assembly representing all American Jews. Representatives to the Congress were selected by all major national Jewish organizations and delegates representing local communities were elected by some 35...

Richards, Bernard G.

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Jewish leader and author. From the description of Reminiscences of Bernard G. Richards : oral history, 1960. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309723632 Journalist and Jewish communal leader. Richards was founder of the Jewish Information Bureau of Greater New York. From the description of Papers, 1903-1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122633596 ...