Baron de Hirsch Foundation Microforms
Scope and Content Note
Microfilms with copies from the Hirsch Collection at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
Dates
- 1855-1901
Language of Materials
This collection is in English, French, German and Yiddish.
Use Restrictions
There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org
Biographical Note
The Jewish Colonization Association (ICA) was a philanthropic association to assist Jews in depressed economic circumstances or countries of persecution to emigrate and settle elsewhere in productive employment; it was founded by Baron Moritz de Hirsch in 1891. The focus was on East European Jews. Convinced that modern secular education could ameliorate the lot of them, Baron de Hirsch hoped to regenerate them into a class of independent farmers.
Extent
5 Reels
Abstract
Microfilms with copies from the Hirsch Collection at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
Microfilm
Collection is available on 5 reels of microfilm (MF 73, MF 122). (Note: MF 122 is also duplicated on MF 123.)
- MF 73 Reel 1
- MF 73 Reel 2
- MF 73 Reel 3
- MF 73 Reel 4
- MF 122
Bibliography
Norman, Theodore, An outstretched arm; a history of the JCA, London, RKP, 1985. (DS 143 N68)
- Abrahams, Edward W.
- Archival materials
- Argentina
- Baron de Hirsch Fund
- Cemeteries
- Economic history
- Emanuel, Lewis
- Emigration and immigration
- Hirsch, Maurice de, baron, 1831-1896
- Hospitals
- Jewish Colonization Association
- Lehmann, Leonee
- Loeb, Isidore, 1839-1892
- Loewenthal, Wilhelm, 1850-1894
- Marriage
- Public welfare
- Wechsler, Theophile
- Wills
- Title
- Guide to the Baron de Hirsch Foundation Microforms, 1855-1901 MF 73 / MF 122
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by LBI Staff
- Date
- © 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
