Papers, 1875-1923.

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Papers, 1875-1923.

Collection consists of correspondence, addresses, sermons, reports, notes, poems, newsclippings, and other papers. Topics covered relate to the Balfour Declaration, opposition against Palestine as the Jewish homeland, and literary, personal, and rabbinical matters. Subjects include Berkowitz's campaign to influence the Paris Peace Conference (1919), anti-zionism, Haggadah, Hebrew Union College, international relief, Poland, prejudice, sabbath observance, women's rights, and zionism. Persons represented include Flora Berkowitz, Jacob Billikopf, Rudolph Blankenburg, Gotthard Deutsch, Ephraim Frisch, David Philipson, Henrietta Szold, Felix Warburg, and Louis Wolsey.

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Warburg, Felix Moritz, 1871-1937

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Felix M. Warburg was a prominent investment banker and philanthropist. Born in Hamburg, Germany, Warburg came to the United States in 1894. From 1896 he was with the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, New York. Warburg was an active supporter of various charities, including the New York Foundation, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee the Jewish Welfare Board, Institute of Musical Art, Teachers College, and the Jewish Theological Seminary. Warburg founded the American Friends of the Hebre...

Berkowitz, Henry, 1857-1924

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Rabbi, of Mobile, Ala., Kansas City, Mo., and Philadelphia, Pa. From the description of Papers, 1875-1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70958904 ...

Deutsch, Gotthard, 1859-1921

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Rabbi and professor of history at Hebrew Union College; b. in the village of Dolne Kounice (Kaintz), Moravia, then a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. From the description of Papers, 1859-1921 (bulk 1900-1920). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70922436 Gotthard Deutsch was born on January 31, 1859 in the village of Dolne Kounice (Kaintz), Moravia, then a province of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Descended from a line of scholars and teachers, Deutsch receive...

Blankenburg, Rudolph, 1843-1918

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Philadelphia reform leader and Mayor, 1911-1915. From the description of Papers, 1881-1913. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122632986 ...

Wolsey, Louis, 1877-1953

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Rabbi, Reform Jewish leader, and anti-Zionist. From the description of Papers, 1866-1948 (bulk 1942-1948). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70962546 ...

Hebrew Union College

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First Reform rabbinic school in the United States, founded in 1875 in Cincinnati, Ohio, by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise; 1950 merged with Jewish Institute of Religion (founded in 1922 in New York, N.Y.) to become Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. From the description of Records, 1875-1948 (bulk 1920-1947). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960622 ...

Berkowitz, Flora

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Philipson, David, 1862-1949

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American rabbi, author and communal leader. From the description of Collection, 1823-1949 [microform]. (Brandeis University Library). WorldCat record id: 47834796 Rabbi at Bene Israel and historian of Reform Judaism at Hebrew Union College, of Cincinnati, Ohio. From the description of Papers, 1883-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960599 ...

Paris Peace Conference 1919-1920

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Billikopf, Jacob, 1883-1950

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Leader in Jewish philanthropy, social legislation, and labor management relations; b. in Russia; emigrated to the U.S. in 1896. From the description of Papers, 1900-1951. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70958905 Leader in Jewish philanthropy, social legislation, and labor management relations; b. in Russia; emigrated to the U.S. in 1896. He died in Philadelphia, Pa. From the description of Jacob Billikopf will, 1950 Dec. 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71748493...

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...

Frisch, Ephraim, 1880-1957

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Rabbi. From the description of Papers, 1905-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70946491 ...