Samuel and Irene Lipman family papers, 1851-1970.

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Samuel and Irene Lipman family papers, 1851-1970.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/743435312

The collection consists of materials relating to the Lipman, Harris, Lesser, Hirshfeld, Bibo, Levy, and Salmonson families, including the following: a booklet written by Rowena Lipman, "The Family of Isaac and Rebecca Harris," that has information about the family history and genealogy and some photographs; ketubot and marriage licenses for Morris Lipman and Rosalia Hirshfeld, Samuel Lipman and Irene Lesser (1901), and possibly for Isaac and Rebecca Harris (1851); programs; an invitation to Samuel Lipman's 1889 bar mitzvah at Sherith Israel in San Francisco; Samuel's Lipman's handwritten bar mitzvah speech; a resolution from the First Hebrew Ladies Mutual Benefit Association consoling the family after the murder of Isaac Harris in 1879; and a program (1910) from the first entertainment and dance that was held by the Menorah Club, an auxiliary of the Willing Workers of San Francisco's Congregation Ohabai Shalome. The collection also includes photographic portraits of members of the Harris, Lesser, Lipman, Hirshfeld, Bibo, Levy, and Salmonson families, including photographs of the Bibo storefront in San Francisco and a family home in Seattle, Washington.

1 box (.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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Harris, Isaac, -1879

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Levy family.

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Judah L. Magnes Museum

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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...

Lesser, Irene, b. 1879.

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Congregation Sherith Israel (San Francisco, Calif.)

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Organizational History San Francisco's Congregation Sherith Israel has its roots in the Gold Rush era immigration and migration of Jews from Prussia, Bavaria, England, France and the East Coast of the United States. By the end of 1850, these Jewish San Franciscans had founded two benevolent societies, established a cemetery, worshipped together on the High Holidays, and were considering creating a formal congregation. They managed to come tog...

Lipman, Samuel, 1876-1931.

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Samuel Lipman married Irene Lesser in San Francisco in 1901. Irene was the daughter of Jacob Lesser (1853-1910) and Julia Harris (1861-1924). Julia's parents, Isaac Harris and Rebecca Brodek, married in London in 1851 and Isaac came to San Francisco shortly thereafter (his wife and daughter followed later, though the child died during the journey). Isaac established himself as a tailor on Davis Street in San Francisco and was naturalized in 1866. Isaac and Rebecca had six children in San Francis...

Bibo, Solomon, 1853-1934

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Lipman family.

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Harris family.

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Lipman, Rowena

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