Moses Wahrhaftig papers, 1848-1967.

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Moses Wahrhaftig papers, 1848-1967.

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Volumes of professional correspondence (1903-1906), including letters to Jacob Voorsanger, Jacob Nieto, Samuel Dinkelspiel, and others concerning the successes and failures of the agricultural settlement of Jews from Kishinev near Colusa, Calif; land deeds and titles; photographs of Moses and Irma Wahrhaftig; a history of Mosaic Law Congregation, Sacramento; a book of caricatures of Sacramento personalities; and the transcript of an interview between Felix S. Wahrhaftig and Norton Stern, which took place on 22 July 1967.

1 carton and 1 box (1.4 linear feet)

Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, Rabbi Morris Goldstein Library

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Bancroft Library. Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.

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Wahrhaftig, Moses, 1857-1930

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In 1882, Moses Wahrhaftig emigrated to the United States from Russia. He worked as a printer in California and Oregon, before being admitted to the California bar in 1897. He was the first Russian Jew to become an attorney on the West Coast and he practiced law in Sacramento. He also helped found the Mosaic Law Congregation and he served as a secretary-treasurer of Sacramento's Hebrew Free Loan Society. In addition, the Wahrhaftig family had strong ties, through friendship and marriage, to David...

Nieto, Jacob, 1863-1930

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Before serving as rabbi of San Francisco's Congregation Sherith Israel (1893-1930), Jacob Nieto was first a rabbi in Sheffield, England (1889-1892). Nieto was widely recognized as an impassioned and spellbinding orator and a champion of humanitarian causes and controversial issues, as well as a supporter of the Spanish-American War and manifest destiny. He served as a president of the Anti-Capital Punishment League and as president of the San Francisco branch of the National Industr...

Wahrhaftig, Felix S.

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Stern, Norton B.

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Biography The Western States Jewish History Association, originally named the Western States Jewish Historical Society, began as an offshoot of the Southern California Jewish Historical Society, a local branch of the American Jewish Historical Society. The Association's founder, Norton Stern, and was appointed to create and publish a journal, The Western State Jewish History Quarterly in 1968. Norton Stern was closely affiliated w...

Online Archive of California

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Western Jewish History Center

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The Western Jewish History Center (WJHC), a research center based around a library and large archive, was founded in 1967. It is part of the Judah L. Magnes Museum, located in Berkeley, Calif. Its mission is to collect and preserve materials documenting the history of the Jewish community in the western United States. To that end, it has collected a large number of organizational records; personal papers and correspondence; audiotapes; and photographs, graphic art, and motion picture films. It h...

Judah L. Magnes Museum

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Mosaic Law Congregation (Sacramento, Calif.)

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Founded in 1900 by seven families; Moses Wahrhaftig was one of the founders of the congregation. From the description of Mosaic Law Congregation records, 1970-1991. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 236104644 ...

Dinkelspiel, Samuel

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Voorsanger, Jacob, 1852-1908

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