Boris David Bogen family papers and photographs, 1895-1940.

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Boris David Bogen family papers and photographs, 1895-1940.

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The collection consists of genealogies, correspondence (from the early 1920s); materials from Boris Bogen's relief work in Europe with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the American Relief Administration after World War I; a substantial number of family photographs; and some drawings and other works on paper. The correspondence includes both correspondence with family and with colleagues involved in post-war European relief work. Correspondents include: M.A. Shoan, Elizabeth Bogen, I. Rubinstein, Colonel Herbert Lehman, M.B. Hexter, A. Lucas, Jessie Bogen, S. J. Rosenblatt, Max Senior, H.S. Gans, Morris Lewis, I. Irving, Alex A. Landesco, M.E. Boynton, M. D. Waldman, I. Prince, J.N. Rosenberg, I. M. Kowalsky, H.H. Rosenfelt, S.H. golter, Joseph Rosen, Colonel William R. Grove, J. Hyman, Colonel William Haskell, M.J. Rosenau, L. Rabinovich, C.G. Grey, S.A. Goldsmith, and J.J. Golub. The photographs, which date from circa 1895 until 1940, include images of the Bogen, Scholtz, Bromberg, Kochman, Shohan, and Mayers families mainly in Russia and in Arcadia, California. Among these family photographs are portraits and photographs of cinematographer Abe Scholtz, including one of Abe Scholtz with actor Douglas Fairbanks on the set of the 1927 film The Gaucho. There are particularly fine images of the Bogen family home (called Amawaga) in Arcadia, California during the 1920s and 1930s.

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Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, Rabbi Morris Goldstein Library

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Educator and social worker. From the description of Papers, 1891-1929. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70958906 Jewish educator and social worker. From the description of Papers, 1895-1929. (Brandeis University Library). WorldCat record id: 48039758 Boris D. Bogen was born in 1869 in Russia. He was an educator and social worker. He channeled his efforts into Jewish social work and served as the superintendent of local Jewish social service agencies. He wo...