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Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 11350406 - 12041213

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

National Organizing Committee for the Maimonides Octocentennial Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-12
Abstract

Contains the minutes, resolutions, correspondence, news releases, and press clippings of the National Committee for the Maimonides Octocentennial. Items related to the Committee's activities in planning and promoting the octocentennial of the birth of Moses Maimonides throughout the United States, in synagogues, local institutions, universities, and the main event held in New York (April 14, 1935). Among the participants were Albert Einstein, Louis Finkelstein, Henry Solomon Hendricks, Leo Jung, Henry Pereira Mendes, Abba Hillel Silver, Solomon Marcus Stroock, James Joseph Walsh, and Harry Austryn Wolfson. Includes also roster of available speakers and participating organizations, as well as material (poems, plays, pamphlets, books, and articles) on the life and works of Moses Maimonides.

Dates: undated, 1934-1935
Found in: American Jewish Historical Society / National Organizing Committee for the Maimonides Octocentennial Records

Henry Victor Besso Collection

 Collection
Identifier: ASF AR-9
Abstract

The collection documents the work of Henry Besso and reflects various aspects of his professional life, personal research and writings in the field of Sephardic culture, Spanish language and linguistics, and Sephardic and Spanish history. Collection also documents Besso's involvement with Sephardic organizations and communities. Collection includes audio materials, brochures, booklets, clippings, conference procedures, correspondence, government publications, minutes, notes, photographs, printed matter, reports, speeches, and writings and translations by Henry Besso and others.

Dates: 1905-1992; Majority of material found in 1940-1976
Found in: American Sephardi Federation / Henry Victor Besso Collection

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