Saul Bernstein papers of the Jastrow and Alexandra Lee Levin collection, 1893-1985.

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Saul Bernstein papers of the Jastrow and Alexandra Lee Levin collection, 1893-1985.

Personal papers (1893-1967 and undated) consists of primary source documents such as exhibition catalogs of Saul Bernstein's works, photographs of him and his work, newspaper clippings about him, letters from Henrietta Szold to Jenny Bernstein and others concerning Saul Bernstein's art career, ownership lists for his paintings, sales receipts, and a poem written by Bernstein while in Paris. Research materials (1964-1985 and undated) consists of materials created by Levin while researching the life and career of Saul Bernstein including her research notes, correspondence with research contacts, and copies of two papers she wrote about Bernstein.

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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...

Levin, Alexandra Lee, 1912-

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Author, member of the Baltimore Emergency Relief Commission, Baltimore, Md., nursery school worker, and board member of the Fairmount Improvement Association; b. Alexandra Lee; d. Feb. 20, 1997, in Pikesville, Md. From the description of Saul Bernstein papers of the Jastrow and Alexandra Lee Levin collection, 1893-1985. (Jewish Historical Society of Maryland Library). WorldCat record id: 70966732 ...

Bernstein, Jeanetta Abel

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Bernstein, Saul, 1872-1905

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Born in Posvol, Lithuania; immigrated to the U.S. at age 17; between 1889 and 1896 was a peddler on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and in West Virginia and also owned a dry goods store; studied art at the Maryland Institute of Art and spent 1897 through 1903 traveling through Europe where he honed his artistic skills by studying at the Academy Julienne in Paris, living in an artist colony in Lauren, Holland, and spending time in Cracow and Warsaw, Poland; died at the age of 33 of an apparent suic...