Miller archives, 1902-1963. [ca. 1902-1963]

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Miller archives, 1902-1963. [ca. 1902-1963]

Personal papers, correspondence, and other items belonging to Leon H. Miller (1880-1939) and Ada Holender Miller of Buffalo, New York ; both Millers were strongly active Zionists both before and after the founding of the State of Israel, and Mrs. Miller was founding president of the Buffalo chapter of Hadassah. The archives include correspondence with Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Henrietta Szold, and other Zionists ; materials on Jewish settlement in British Palestine and in Israel ; financial materials advertising State of Israel bonds and Israeli stock offerings ; materials relating to Hadassah and to the Zionist Organization of America ; and family photographs, jewelry, etc.

2 ft. (5 file boxes) : ill., photos., ports. ; 27 (or 33) x 39 x 13 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7647966

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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 ...

Zionist Organization of America

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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...

Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. Buffalo Chapter

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Szold, Henrietta, 1680-1945

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Henrietta Szold, Zionist leader, was born in Baltimore of Hungarian-Jewish parentage. She taught school at the Misses Adams School in Baltimore, and was the founder of a night school for Russian immigrants in Baltimore in 1889. From 1892-1915 Szold was the secretary of the Jewish Publication Society of America. A trip to Palestine in 1909 was the turning point in her life. She became an enthusiastic Zionist, became the Secretary of the Federation of American Zionists and founder and first Presid...

Miller, Leon H. (Leon Hillel), 1880-1939.

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Miller family history

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Miller, Ada H. (Ada Holender)

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