Gitelson family microfilm and bookplates collection, undated, 1962-1965.

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Gitelson family microfilm and bookplates collection, undated, 1962-1965.

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The collection consists of 22 reels of microfilm, many of which are copies of the Gitelson Kamaiko Foundation's projects to microfilm selections of published and unpublished holdings of various research libraries. The selections filmed include subject areas such as academic bookplates, incunabula, broadsides and pamphlets, genealogy, paintings, illustrations of the Bible, and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. There are also films of issues from 1962-1964 of The Chronicle, a scholarly journal published by the Foundation, also called A Tarbuth Chrestomathy of the Gitelson-Kamaiko Foundation. Each issue focused on a particular microfilming project undertaken by the Foundation. Also in the collection are also two bound copies of academic bookplates from library collections given by the Gitelson family to various institutions, as well as several bookplates used for their private collections.

24 Items 22 microfilm reels and 2 albums.

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Yeshiva University

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Yeshiva University

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Gitelson family.

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The Gitelson family were merchants in New York City. Nehemiah Gitelson bequeathed his large collection of Talmudic works to the Jewish Theological Seminary Library. Nehemiah and Bailey (Weiseiski) Gitelson's son Moses Leo was an ardent bibliophile, and through the Gitelson Library Foundation, he gave copies of rare books, manuscripts and other documents to many institutions and sponsored numerous library projects, with particular interest in microfilms. Through the Gitelson-Kamaiko Foundation, G...

Nehemiah Gitelson Foundation

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Gitelson, M. Leo (Moses Leo), 1896-1964

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Cotton merchant and philanthropist, of New York, N.Y. From the description of Papers, 1915-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70925046 Businessman, philanthropist. Gitelson was an alumnus of City College, Class of 1913. From the description of Papers, 1924-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155502734 ...

Gitelson, Susan Aurelia.

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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy of Brookline, Massachusetts. John Kennedy, the second of nine children, attended Choate Academy (1932-1935), Princeton University (1935-36), Harvard College (1936-40), and Stanford Business School (1941). In 1940, he published a book based on his senior thesis entitled "Why England Slept." The book criticized British policy of Appeasement. In 1941, Kennedy enlisted in the Navy. In August 1943, Kenn...