United Brisker Relief Records
Scope and Contents
Statistics and official reports, including data gathered in Brisk. Correspondence: from organizations, institutions in Brisk, 1919-1939; with members, committees, affiliated groups, 1920-1965; with national Jewish organizations, 1919-1973; regarding activities in Palestine/Israel, 1947-1973. Meeting notices, 1916-1978. Scrapbook including photgraphs of relief activities in Brisk. Historical memoirs. Materials pertaining to publication of memorial book. Memorial book, 1954. Records of affiliated organizations: Brisker and Vicinity Aid Society of Los Angeles, Agudas Achim Aid Society.
Dates
- Creation: 1916 - 1978
Creator
- United Brisker Relief (Organization)
Biographical / Historical
Established in 1915 by a group of Brisker societies to aid the war-stricken community of Brisk (Brest-Litovsk in Byelorussian and Brzesc nad Bugiem in Polish), Byelorussia. Undertook large-scale relief and rehabilitation work between World War I and World War II. Located and sent relief to refugees and survivors of World War II. Supported the Palestine *yishuv* (settlement) and institutions in the State of Israel. Maintained branches in Newark, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles. Active until 1978.
Extent
1.3 Linear Feet (2 5"lgl;2 3"ovr)
Language of Materials
English
Subject
- Brisker and Vicinity Aid Society of Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) (Organization)
- Agudas Achim Aid Society (New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Brisker Untershtitzung Verein (New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Brisker Shul-Tepheres Israel (New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- International Workers Order. Brisker-Ciechanowcer Branch 15 (New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Independent Brisker Young Men (New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- United Brisker Society (New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Brisker Old Age Home Society (New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Brisker Orphans' Home Society (New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Independent Order Bʼrith Abraham. Brisker Lodge No. 682 (New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Independent Order Bʼrith Abraham. Brisk-de-Lite Lodge (New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Workmen's Circle (U.S.). Brisker Branch 286 (New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Jewish Council for Russian War Relief (Organization)
- Independent Order Bʼrith Sholom. Brisker Lodge No. 337 (New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- World ORT Union (Organization)
- United Jewish Appeal (Organization)
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (Organization)
- People's Relief Committee for Jewish War Sufferers (U.S.) (Organization)
- Federation of Polish Jews in America (Organization)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Brest (Belarus)
- Brest (Belarus) -- Social conditions
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs
- New York (N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
Topical
- Fraternal organizations
- Fraternal organizations -- New York (State) -- New York
- Fraternal organizations -- United States
- Immigrants -- United States
- International relief
- International relief -- Israel
- International relief -- Palestine
- International relief -- Soviet Union
- Jewish fraternal organizations -- New York (State) -- New York
- Jewish old age homes
- Jewish orphanages
- Jewish orphans
- Jews -- Belarus
- Jews -- California -- Los Angeles -- Societies, etc.
- Jews -- Charities
- Jews -- Charities -- New York (State) -- New York
- Jews -- Israel
- Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Societies, etc.
- Jews -- Palestine
- Jews -- United States -- Societies, etc.
- Labor Zionists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Societies, etc.
- Landsmanshaftn
- Landsmanshaftn -- New York (State) -- New York
- Older Jews
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Repository
