Papers, 1919-1923.

National Jewish Welfare Board

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Origins of the National Jewish Welfare Board (1913-1919) Organized in 1917 to meet the needs of Jewish servicemen in the Armed Forces, the National Jewish Welfare Board (JWB) became a national federation of local agencies and social service institutions dedicated to meeting the social, cultural, intellectual, physical and spiritual needs of the American Jewish community. The roots of JWB can be traced to the founding of the Council of Young Men's Hebrew and Kindred Associations (YMHA-KA) ...

B'nai B'rith

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The Jewish Central Information Office was founded by Alfred Wiener, a German Jew who worked for the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith ( Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens ). In 1933 he fled to Amsterdam where he founded the agency along with David Cohen. The JCIO produced reports to spread word of the activities that were occurring in Nazi Germany. In 1939 the office was moved to London, where it became known as the Wiener Library. ...

Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924

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Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) was President of the American Federation of Labor and a member of the President's First Industrial Conference in 1919. He was a member of the President's Unemployment Conference in 1921. ...

Calisch, Edward N. (Edward Nathaniel), 1865-1946

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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...

Wise, Jonah Bondi, 1881-1959

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Reform rabbi, communal worker, and editor, of Cincinnati, Ohio. From the description of Papers, 1919-1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960601 ...

Elbogen, Ismar, 1874-1943

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Born in Schildberg (now Ostrzeszow, Poland) on September 1, 1874, Elbogen studied at the University of Breslau and the Juedisch-theologisches Seminar, Breslau, receiving his doctorate in 1898 and rabbinical ordination the following year. He taught at the Collegio Rabbinico Italiano, Florence, from 1899 to 1902 and at the Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums, Berlin from 1902 to 1938, when he emigrated to the United States. He died in New York City on August 1, 1943. From th...

Landman, Isaac, 1880-1946

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Jewish Chautauqua Society

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Society in United States and Canada that promotes the understanding of Jews and Judaism, headquartered in New York, NY. From the description of Minutes, 1907-1939 [microform]. (Brandeis University Library). WorldCat record id: 43800759 ...

Feldman, Abraham J. (Abraham Jehiel), 1893-1977

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Curator, Dearborn Historical Museum. From the description of Papers, 1950. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70943809 Reform rabbi and civic leader, of Hartford, Conn. From the description of Papers, 1906-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70924903 ...

Hurwitz, Henry, 1886-1961

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Chancellor and founder of the Intercollegiate Menorah Association. From the description of Menorah Association Memorial Collection, 1911-1963 [microform]. (Brandeis University Library). WorldCat record id: 47758426 ...

Wise, Leo

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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 ...

Oko, Adolph S. (Adolph Sigmund), 1883-1944

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Correspondence to Lewis and Sophia Mumford from Adolph S. Oko and his wife, Dorothy Oko. From the description of Letters, 1940-1946, to Lewis and Sophia Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155874033 Librarian of Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio. From the description of Adolph Oko-Gebhardt correspondence, [ca. 1905]-1941. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 472459711 Librarian, scholar, a...

Jewish Publication Society of America.

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Mann, Louis L. (Louis Leopold), 1890-

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Isserman, Ferdinand M. (Ferdinand Myron), 1898-1972

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Epithet: Rabbi of the Congregation Temple Israel St Louis British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x000069 Reform rabbi; d. 1972. From the description of Papers, 1870-1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960776 ...

Enelow, H. G. (Hyman Gerson), 1877-1934

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Hyman Gerson Enelow was born in Kovno, Lithuania, October 26, 1877, the son of Leopold and Matilda Marver Enelow. In 1893 Enelow's father emigrated to the United States and settled in Chicago, where he operated a small tobacco manufacturing business. At first, Enelow planned to remain in Europe in order to attend the University of Heidelberg. These plans changed and Enelow followed his father to Chicago a short time later. With the help of Rabbis Emil G. Hirsch and Josep...

Englander, Henry, 1877-1950

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Rabbi and biblical and medieval Jewish scholar at Hebrew Union College. From the description of Papers, 1902-1951. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960620 ...

Freehof, Solomon Bennett, 1892-1990

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Dr. Solomon B. Freehof was born in London in 1892 and at the age of eleven came to America. He settled in Cincinnati and was ordained in 1915. He settled in Pittsburgh in 1934 and was rabbi for the Rodef Shalom Congregation in Squirrel Hill. From the description of Solomon B. Freehof papers 1931-1986. (Historical Society of W Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 48861300 Rabbi who spent the bulk of his career at Rodef Shalom Temple in Pittsburgh, Pa.; author of Jewish responsa...

Morgenstern, Julian, 1881-1976

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Rabbi and president of Hebrew Union College. From the description of Papers, 1900-1974 (bulk 1940s-1974). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960626 ...

Wise, Stephen Samuel, 1874-1949

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Stephen Samuel Wise was born in Budapest, Hungary, and came to the United States the following year. He graduated with honors from Columbia University and in 1893 he was ordained in Austria "The People's Rabbi," as Wise would later be known, developed his deep concern for the less fortunate at an early age. Wise fought for housing projects, the abolition of child labor, the improvement of working conditions, securing rights for female workers and equal rights for African Americans. He founded th...