Adele Solomons Jaffa and Myer E. Jaffa family papers, 1880-1968.

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Adele Solomons Jaffa and Myer E. Jaffa family papers, 1880-1968.

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The collection includes biographies; a few professional papers by Adele Solomons Jaffa; clippings; and photographs. The photographs include an 1893 portrait of Adele Solomons at her graduation from Hahnemann Medical College of the Pacific, a 1902 portrait of Adele Solomons Jaffa with her children, Edward and Aileen, a portrait of Myer E. Jaffa, a photograph of the interior of Madame Rabe Jaffa's home on Bush Street in San Francisco (circa 1880), and a photograph of Sarah and Michael Stein at the marriage of their son Allan to Yvonne Daunt in Paris in 1922 (also pictured are Yvonne Daunt and her mother). The collection also includes minutes (handwritten and typed) and a membership list for the California-based Committee for the Advance of Agricultural Research in Palestine, which was founded in 1934 and for which Aileen Jaffa Katzky (a poet and artist who was the head librarian of the Agricultural Library at the University of California, Berkeley) was secretary, and a copy of "Hither and Thither in California," a report of a trip around California organized by Myer E. Jaffa for the attendees of the 1899 annual convention of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations and the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists.

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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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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...

Online Archive of California

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Stein, Michael L.

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Stein, Allan T., 1924-

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Stein, Sarah Kisch

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Jaffa, Adele Solomons, 1868-1953

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Adele Solomons was born in San Francisco on November 7, 1868, the daughter of Seixus and Hannah Marks Solomons. She received an M.D. in homeopathy from Hahnemann Medical College of the Pacific. She married Myer Edward Jaffa, who was born in Sydney, Australia in 1857 and immigrated to California with his family in the mid 1860s. Dr. Adele Solomons Jaffa was a physician, lecturer in dietetics at UC Berkeley between 1912 and 1914, and child psychiatrist (on the staff of the Rockefeller Institute of...

Judah L. Magnes Museum

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Daunt, Yvonne

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Jaffa, Myer E. (Myer Edward), 1857-1931

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Professor of agricultural chemistry and nutrition at University of California, Berkeley, director of the State Food and Drug Lab (1908-1915, 1925-1931), and nutrition expert for the California State Board of Health. Jaffa played an instrumental role in passing the California Food and Drug Laws in 1906. From the description of Myer Edward Jaffa papers, 1857-1931. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 214986546 ...

Committee for the Advance of Agricultural Research in Palestine

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Jaffa, Aileen Raby, 1900-1988

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