Showing Collections: 1 - 4 of 4
Bernhard Felsenthal papers
This Collection consists primarily of English, German, Hebrew, and French language correspondence concerning Reform Judaism, Zionism; the founding of the American Jewish Historical Society; the Jewish Publication Society; B'nai B'rith; the legal position of Jews in England and the United States with particular reference to the Naturalization Acts; the religious and social life and the history of Jews in Russia and Poland; Bible readings in public schools; the study of Jesus in Jewish Sabbath Schools; anti-slavery issues in the Fremont Campaign in 1856; and other correspondence pertaining to his numerous activities.
Joseph Isaac Bluestone (1860-1934) Collection
Contains the memoirs and scrapbooks of Bluestone, concerning his numerous communal activities, especially those in the Zionist movement. A description of the collection was published by Hyman B. Grinstein in Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, no. 35 (1939), and a detailed inventory was prepared by Harry Bluestone (n.d.).
Richard James Horatio Gottheil family papers
Consists of a diary (92 pages) kept by Richard J.H. Gottheil, September 28, 1897-March 21, 1899, containing notations relating to his Zionist activities, the Jewish Religious School Union (organized ca. 1897), the Jewish encyclopedia and Helpful Thoughts, a Jewish monthly for children of which he was co-editor, and to his correspondence and association with Stephen S. Wise, Bernard C. Ehrenreich, Henry Pereira Mendes and Julia Richman. Also contains a manuscript notebook of poems transcribed by his wife, Emma L. Gottheil, and a manuscript copy of the Book of Job.
Stephen Wise papers
The collection has been arranged according to the following broad subject areas: personal affairs; speeches, sermons, and articles, both manuscript and published; the Free Synagogue in New York City; the Jewish Institute of Religion; American Jewish affairs; relations between the Jewish and non-Jewish communities; New York City affairs; United States affairs; the press (both Jewish and non-Jewish); world affairs; the American Jewish Congress and World Jewish Congress; refugees; Zionism; Palestine and Israel; arts and letters; and individual corrspondence of a general nature.
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Clippings (information artifacts) 2
- Correspondence 2
- Jewish question 2
- United States 2
- Zionism 2
- Zionism -- United States 2
- Antisemitism -- United States 1
- Articles 1
- Books 1
- Charities -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Charities -- United States 1
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- Cincinnati (Ohio) 1
- Circumcision 1
- Civil rights 1
- Cremation 1
- Education -- New York (State) 1
- Education -- United States 1
- Ephemera (general object genre) 1
- Euthanasia 1 + ∧ less
- Language
- Hebrew 3
- Yiddish 2
- French 1
- German 1
- Names
- Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949 3
- American Jewish Congress 2
- Kohut, George Alexander, 1874-1933 2
- Szold, Henrietta, 1860-1945 2
- Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940 1
- Adler, Felix, 1851-1933 1
- American Jewish Alliance 1
- American Jewish Historical Society 1
- B'nai B'rith 1
- Bar-Ilan, Meir, 1880-1949 1
- Barondess, Joseph, 1867-1928 1
- Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973 1
- Beth Israel Medical Center (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Bien, Julius, 1826-1909 1
- Bluestone family 1
- Bluestone, Joseph Isaac, 1860-1934 1
- Bnai Zion (Organization) 1
- Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941 1
- Bureau of Jewish Education (New York, N.Y.) 1 + ∧ less