Aaron David Burack papers 1894-1958 1922-1958

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Aaron David Burack papers 1894-1958 1922-1958

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The bulk of the collection is comprised of Rabbi Burack's speech notes from 1916 to the 1950s, which cover a variety of topics, and often were delivered on behalf of various Jewish communal organizations, such as the Jewish National Fund, the United Jewish Appeal, and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Also included are drafts of eulogies given by Burack for Rabbi Insulbuch, Rabbi Eliezer Meir Preil, Nathan Straus and Efraim Kaplan of the Tageblatt (1930s-1940s). Among his personal papers is Rabbi Burack's certificate of semikha, a last will and testament written by Rabbi Burack before surgery in 1924, his letters to Rabbi Elyah Meir Bloch, Rabbi Yosef Yehudah Leb Bloch and Dr. Pinkhos Churgin, and from his father in law, Rabbi Eliyahu Inselbuch, and Rabbi Reuven Katz, the chief rabbi of Petah-Tikva (1954), and several diaries recording his trips to Israel between 1927-1958. The collection also contains two binders of manuscripts of Volumes I and III of Pirhe Aharon. Burack's work on Jewish law and homiletics, as well as lecture notes by Rabbi Burack on Jewish topics and halakhic material by other scholars such as Rabbi Yehuda Leb Bloch and Rabbi Eliyah Meir Bloch.

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Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (1880-1909)

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Katz, Reuven, 1880-1963

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Jewish National Fund

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The Pittsburgh Jewish National Fund was founded in 1924 with the mission of raising funds to purchase land in what was originally Palestine, to facilitate the settlement of Jews there, and to make the land more usable by draining swamps and forestation. From the description of Jewish National Fund photographs 1959-1981. (Historical Society of W Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 48860205 From the description of Jewish National Fund records 1945-1987. (Historical Society of W...

Preil, Eliezer Meir.

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Rabbi Isaac Elchanan theological seminary

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Churgin, Pinkhos, 1894-1957

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Inselbuch, Eliyahu.

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Gordin, Yehudah Leyb ben Meʼir Avraham Aba

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Burack, Aaron D. (Aaron David), 1892-1960

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Rabbi Aaron David Burack (1892-1960) was a Lithuanian-born rabbi and scholar. He was a leading rosh yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) and a central figure in the Orthodox Rabbinate and the Mizrachi movement. He studied under a number of prominent Talmudic scholars in the Eastern European yeshivas of Telshe and Slobodka. After emigrating to the United States in 1913, he received his rabbinic ordination from RIETS. He served as rabbi of Congregation Ohel Moshe Chevra Thi...

Straus, Nathan, 1848-1931

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Nathan Straus (1848-1931) was a German-born New York City businessman and philanthropist. After making his fortune as a partner in the New York department stores Abraham and Straus and R.H. Macy and Co., Straus, with his wife Lina Gutherz Straus, turned to philanthropy. He advocated milk pasteurization to check the spread of tuberculosis, opening the Nathan Straus Pasteurized Milk Laboratory in New York in 1892; founded the Tuberculosis Preventorium for Children in New Jersey in 1909; supported ...

United Jewish Appeal

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Bloch, Elijah Meyer, approximately 1894-1955

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Bloch, Joseph Leib, 1860-1930

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Kaplan, Efraim.

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