Papers of Alice L. Seligsberg and Rose G. Jacobs, 1910-1960.

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Papers of Alice L. Seligsberg and Rose G. Jacobs, 1910-1960.

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Seligsberg papers, 1917-1942, contain correspondence, notes, and reports, concerning the American Zionist Medical Unit, 1918-1923, work with orphans in Palestine, including Palestine War Orphans Commission, 1920-1923, and Palestine Orphans Committee of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1917-1928, and the Institute for the Blind, 1919-1921; essays and correspondence with Henrietta Szold and others on Judaism, Zionism, Hadassah, political issues such as the Russian revolution, social work, Zionist Organization of America, and other topics. Correspondents include David de Sola Pool, Sophia Berger, Nellie Straus Mochenson, Haym Peretz, Jessie Sampter, and Rose Jacobs.

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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