Adler, Selig, 1909-1984

The Adler Family Collection contains papers of various members of the Adler family. Most of the collection consists of correspondence, but there are also folders with family papers such as wedding memorabilia, vaccination certificates, visiting cards, telegrams, a notebook, a family tree for one branch of the family and a clipping on Selig Adler.

Consists of two directories of Jewish Organizations of Buffalo (1938, 1939); papers of the Buffalo Council of Jewish Congregations, including a photostat of its Certificate of Incorporation, correspondence, memos, news clippings, and printed matter pertaining to the supervision of kashruth in the community (1925-1941); newspaper articles about Rabbi Joshua S. Zambrowski and Max M. Yellen, both actively associated with the Council (1939-1972); a copy of an unexecuted Certificate of Incorporation of the Buffalo Unit of Orthodox Congregations, Inc. (1932); papers, documents, and a photograph of Congregation Brith Sholem, a list, in Hebrew, of the officers and members of the Congregation at the time, that was placed in the cornerstone of the synagogue building constructed in 1893, and some correspondence and scattered minutes of meetings in Hebrew and Yiddish (1882-1943); documents pertaining to the Buffalo Hebrew School (1936-1940); copies of the Last wills and testaments of Israel Swados, 1862-1936, and Mary Saperston, d. 1935, bequeathing part of their estates to several Jewish Institutions in Buffalo, and legal documents and correspondence pertaining thereto (1929-1940).

Contains articles and published material by Adler of a Jewish and non-Jewish nature.