Papers, 1932-1953.

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Papers, 1932-1953.

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Papers concern Levine's activities in Jewish Council for Russian War Relief, Independent Order B'rith Shalom, Yeshiva University, and American Jewish Congress, as well as his real estate business. Jewish Council for Russian War Relief (later American Jewish Council to Aid Russian Rehabilitation) records, 1943-1947, include correspondence concerning relations with local committees, Ukrainian and other landsmanshaftn, American Society for Russian Relief, Workmen's Circle, and other organizations, as well as fund raising, clothing, book, and food drives, relief work in the Soviet Union, annual conferences and other events, and other matters; financial records including paid bills, budgets, bank statements, and donation records; lists of Jewish survivors in certain Soviet cities; press releases; staff reports; and personnel records. Other material includes miscellaneous correspondence, minutes, journals, convention programs, and reports from national Independent Order B'rith Abraham and Royal Lodge, 1940-1947; correspondence and minutes of Board of Directors, 1942-1949, of Yeshiva University; correspondence and reports of American Jewish Congress and World Jewish Congress, 1944-1946; and correspondence, legal and financial documents, leases, and building plans concerning real estate and contracting business, 1932-1953.

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