Hebrew Free Loan Association records, 1906-1979.

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Hebrew Free Loan Association records, 1906-1979.

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Histories; the organization's constitution and by-laws; reports; fundraising letters; membership information; ballots; programs for HFLA events, including one for a charity bazaar and international fair (1909) that has photographs of officers and volunteer workers and congratulatory advertisements from many Jewish businesses, and clippings; and a copy of Myer J. Heppner's 1929 survey of the Petaluma borrowers from the Abraham Haas Loan Fund and Heppner's supplemental report regarding Haas Fund borrowers from other locations.

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Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, Rabbi Morris Goldstein Library

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Abraham Haas Loan Fund

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Hebrew Free Loan Association (San Francisco, Calif.)

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In 1897, San Francisco's Hebrew Free Loan Association (HFLA) was organized to make interest free loans. In 1910, it turned over its membership of nearly 1,000 people to the newly formed Federation of Jewish Charities. Before the Great Depression, many applications were received from Eastern European emigrants. During the Great Depression, Eastern European immigrants, many of whom were farmers in Petaluma and Sebastopol, Calif., were aided by the HFLA, the Jewish Agricultural Society, and the Abr...

Heppner, Myer J. (Myer John), 1899-1986

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