Isaac Abraham Alcalay photographs and other materials 1942 - 1978.

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Isaac Abraham Alcalay photographs and other materials 1942 - 1978.

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The bulk of the collection consists of photographs from Alcalay's period as Chief Rabbi of the Central Sephardic Communities in America. Highlights are numerous photographs of Rabbi Alcalay at dinners honoring Israeli Prime Ministers David Ben Gurion and Golda Meir, and at an event in honor of Justice Felix Frankfurter. The collection also contains an essay of Alcalay's recollections regarding the founding of a Brooklyn, N.Y. residential facility for the elderly and disabled under Sephardic auspices, in which he was instrumental and was a resident of for the last ten years of his life. Materials from Alcalay's trips to Latin America, and a report of his visit to Argentina in the 1940s on behalf of the World Jewish Congress are important resources on these Jewish communities. Other items in the collection include bulletins of the Association of Yugoslav Jews in the United States, which Alcalay was instrumental in founding, copies of a souvenir journal issued by the Association in 1971 in honor of his 90th birthday, as well as a six page report written in June, 1945 entitled The Position of Yugoslav Jews, which describes the destruction of Yugoslavia's Jewish community by the Nazis.

2 linear feet 2 record cartons of unprocessed material.

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Yeshiva University

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Sephardic Home (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)

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Association of Yugoslav Jews in the United States

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Alcalay, Isaac A. (Isaac Abraham)

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Rabbi Dr. Isaac Abraham Alcalay (1882-1978) served as the Chief Rabbi of Yugoslavia from 1923-1941 and then of the Central Sephardic Communities in America fom 1943-1968. As Chief Rabbi and as a member of Yugoslavia's government-in-exile, Alcalay also assisted American Sephardim and Sephardic refugees in locating relatives during and following the Holocaust. From the description of Isaac Abraham Alcalay photographs and other materials 1942 - 1978. (Yeshiva University). WorldCat recor...

World Jewish Congress.

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According to their own constitution, the World Jewish Congress is a voluntary association of representative Jewish bodies, communities and organisations throughout the world, organised to assure the survival and to foster the unity of the Jewish people. Its origins lie in the immediate aftermath of World War I in the cooperative efforts by Jewish communities around the world in religious, legal, political and relief matters. In the aftermath of World War II the World Jewish Congress played a cen...