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Etting family collection

 Collection
Identifier: P-143
Abstract

Contains the personal papers, including correspondence and documents, of Elijah Etting, his sons, Solomon and Reuben, and his three grandchildren, Samuel Etting, Kitty (Etting) Cohen, and Elijah Gratz Etting (frequently referred to as Gratz Etting).

Dates: undated, 1755-1769, 1787-1830, 1836, 1913

Eugene Leoni family papers

 Collection — Container: Consolidated Box P17, Folder: P-623
Identifier: P-623
Abstract

This collection contains the correspondence, official documents, and the German passports of Eugene and Cecilia Leoni. The passport documents the addition of their Jewish names, and their efforts to leave Austria after the Nazi occupation. Collection also includes their son Leon's school report cards, textbooks, exercise books from Vienna, and a school certificate from Havana, Cuba. One of the report cards indicates that Leon was transferred to another school for Jewish children in 1938, and the exercise books also reflect Hitler's occupation.

Dates: 1928-1962

Everett P. Wheeler papers

 Collection — Box: CB-P8, Folder: P-288
Identifier: P-288
Abstract

Consists of letters written to Wheeler on various matters by the following individuals: Samuel Greenbaum and David Levintritt, New York State Supreme Court judges; Jonathan J. Freedman, New York State Superior Court judge; Simon Adler, majority leader of the New York State Assembly (1915-1926); Henry Morgenthau, Felix M. Warburg, and Julius Mayer, judge of the New York State District Court.

Dates: 1907-1921

Ewenczyk Family Genealogy Collection

 Collection — Container: Consolidated Box P14, Folder: Collection P-514
Identifier: P-514
Abstract

Contains the Evenchik newsletter, with charts of the family history.

Dates: 1982

Executive Functions Records in the Hadassah Archives

 Collection
Identifier: I-578/RG 13
Abstract

This record group includes documents created and maintained by the Office of the President, the Office of the Executive Director and the Chair of the Division Coordinators/Directors Committee. Prominent is the Henrietta Szold series, containing correspondence by and to Szold as well as printed materials written by and about her. The files in this record group were created by a national president or executive director, or for their use, or maintained in their office during their years in office. Included are correspondence, minutes, memos, publications, reports and subject files on topics with which these individuals were involved.

Dates: 1875, 1877-2011, 2015; Majority of material found within 1910 - 2000

Ezekiel Leavitt Papers

 Collection — Container: Consolidated Box P13, Folder: Collection P-445
Identifier: P-445
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence with A.N. Marquis & Co. regarding Leavitt's entry in the 1910-1911 edition of "Who's Who in America".

Dates: 1909-1910

Factor family genealogical charts

 Collection
Identifier: P-722
Abstract

Genealogy of Fischel Factor and his descendants.

Dates: undated

Fairview Country Club 100th Anniversary Bulletin

 Collection — Container: Consolidated Box I8, Folder: Collection I-468
Identifier: I-468
Abstract

This collection consists of one item, a souvenir journal commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Fairview Country Club.

Dates: 2004

Family history newsletter collection

 Collection
Identifier: P-766
Abstract

Collection includes the following newsletters: Abravanel Family Newsletter 1987-1998; Berman Reunion, A Family Chronicle 1988; Breakstone World 1930; Family Chronicles 1987-2000 (Budnitzky/Glanz-Chafets/Knoppow families); Gamsu Family 1991; Gimpel-Wnuk Family 1987-1993; Grad Family 1995-1999; Indianer Mishpoche 1988-1999; Klein Klippings 1995-1998, 2004; Meyers Mishpoche 1989-1996; Minovitz Minutes 1996-2001, 2012; Mischpacha Memo 1999-1994 (Uknown family); Mishpocheh 1990-1994 (Friedberg-Buten-Zipnick families); Pasenker Family 1992-2006; The Pearl 1985-1996 (Gradsonossky family); Relatively Speaking 1987-2000 (Birkenwald/Langsdorf/Rosenstock/Weinberg families); Rock Candy Gazette 1994-1997 (Zuckerkandel family); SaroNewS 1987-1988 (Saron Family); Ser-Charlap Family Newsletter 1989-1999; The Stein Family 1988; Straus Historical Society, Inc. Newsletter 1999-2000; Wholedamfam 1993-1996 (Straus family); Wirtshafters World 1990-1991.

Dates: 1929-1930, 1985-2006, 2012

Family Location Service collection

 Collection
Identifier: I-360
Abstract

This collection consists of annual reports, name change announcements, invitations, programs for miscellaneous events, and general informational pamphlets.

Dates: 1924, 1942-1964

Fannie Hurst papers

 Collection — Container: Consolidated Box P12, Folder: P-411
Identifier: P-411
Abstract

Contains printer's proof of Hurst's entry in Who's Who in America, 1920-1921; two letters to Louis Wiley, business manager of the New York times, regarding personal matters; a signed typescript of a story entitled "Quicksand;" and a program for her play, "Back Pay."

Dates: 1919, 1933

Fannie Levy Letter

 Collection — Container: Consolidated Box P13, Folder: Collection P-450
Identifier: P-450
Abstract

This collection consists of a letter to a Mr. Simons regarding personal matters. In her letter, Levy notes the condition of Savannah after the Civil War.

Dates: 1866

Faye Weinstein Campbell genealogical chart and wedding photograph

 Collection — Container: Consolidated Box P20, Folder: P-695
Identifier: P-695
Abstract

Collection lists the descendants of Julius and Millie Pashalinsky (c. 1810, Russia), Joe Lomberg, Fanny Goldberg, and Alex Weinstein. It also includes an alphabetical index of descendants of the Pashalinsky and Weinstein families; a kinship index for Faye Weinstein Campbell; and a photograph taken at Faye Weinstein Campbell's 1926 wedding in New Haven, CT, where the family lived, depicting Faye's parents, Hyman and Ida Weinstein, and her brothers, sisters, and sister-in-law. Accompanying the photograph is an historical summary of Hyman and Ida Weinstein's family.

Dates: 1926, 2000

Feibelmann Family Genealogical Charts

 Collection
Identifier: P-546
Abstract

Consists of the family tree for the Feibelmann family who originated in Rulzheim, Pfalz, Germany; the charts indicate where family members came from and where they are now located.

Dates: undated

Felix Adler correspondence

 Collection — Container: Consolidated Box P12, Folder: P-401
Identifier: P-401
Abstract

The collection contains three letters of a routine nature.

Dates: undated, 1882-1888

Felix Frankfurter Papers

 Collection — Container: Consolidated Box P12, Folder: Collection P-430
Identifier: P-430
Abstract

The collection consists of five letters and six articles. Of special interest is a letter to "Mr. Filene" (probably E.A. Filene), regarding a proposed mass meeting to be held in Boston in support of the nomination of Louis D. Brandeis for associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1916?).

Dates: 1916-1958

Fern family papers

 Collection
Identifier: P-780
Abstract

A 1997 family tree and family directory, and a directory and family trees of 5 branches of the Fern Family (added April 2000).

Dates: 1997, 2000

Fidanque family genealogy

 Collection — Box: CB-P8, Folder: P-260
Identifier: P-260
Abstract

A printed genealogy and a short family history prepared by Elias Alvin Fidanque and J.M.L. Maduro.

Dates: 1951

First Baltimore Hebrew Guards letter

 Collection — Container: Consolidated Box I-1, Folder: I-134
Identifier: I-134
Abstract

Contains a letter written by Thomas Karroll, captain of the First Baltimore Hebrew Guards, to William Marcy, Secretary of War, offering the services of the Guards during the Mexican War.

Dates: 1846

First Radomer Congregation (New York, N.Y.) Minute Books

 Collection
Identifier: I-124
Abstract

This collection contains the minute books, in Yiddish, of the meetings of the congregation for the years 1944 to 1969, describing its activities, finances, and information about the membership. Includes information on the synagogue's assistance given to refugees in Europe during World War II and aid to Israel. Of special interest are the activities carried out with Radomer landsleit in Montreal, Toronto, Baltimore, Washington, and Chile.

Dates: 1944-1969

Fisher Family Papers

 Collection — Container: Consolidated Box P16, Folder: P-596
Identifier: P-596
Abstract

Contains ethical wills of Max Fisher and Jennie Marcus Fisher from Kalamazoo, Michigan. Also includes a newspaper article (photocopy) about their 50th wedding anniversary, and a photograph (photocopy) of their family.

Dates: undated, ca. 1925-1928

Fleischer Family Papers

 Collection — Container: Consolidated Box P28, Folder: P-958
Identifier: P-958
Abstract

The Fleischer Family papers document the family of Simon and Lilly (née Hammerschlag) Fleischer. Simon and Lilly emigrated from Poland to New York City in the early 1920s and married in 1928. They became naturalized United States citizens in the late 1960s. The Fleischers had two sons, Martin and Bernard. The Fleischers owned Fleischer Brothers Butchers in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, as well as Fleischer’s New Star Mountain Hotel in the Catskills area of Monticello, NY. The collection contains correspondence, passports, marriage records, naturalization records, some business documents, and many family photographs dating from the 1890s to the 1950s.

Dates: Undated, 1899-1963; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1959

Florence Lowenstein Marshall (1873-1916) Diaries, 1890-1916; 2019

 Collection
Identifier: P-1046
Abstract

The personal and social engagement diaries of Florence Lowenstein Marshall (1873-1916), wife of Constitution and civil rights attorney Louis Marshall and mother of lawyer James and conservationists Robert and George Marshall and daughter Ruth, span the years of 1894 until her death in 1916 of cancer. Her diaries record the events of her life—without the benefit of commentary on them—regarding social and family gatherings, theatre and music performances, her children's activities (including illnesses and vaccinations), her philantrophic meetings, and a meticulous recording of Louis's life as a leader.

Dates: 1894 - 1916; Publication: 2019

Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P-317
Abstract

The collection consists of Jack Cohen and Mosco Tzechoval’s papers relating to their involvement at the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York, 1944-1946. Materials include correspondence, sermons, minutes, reports, notes, clippings, and photographs.

Dates: 1944-1947, 1960, 1975

Frank Brodsky Papers

 Collection
Identifier: P-957
Abstract

The papers of Frank Brodsky reflect his work as co-chairman of the Soviet Jewry Council of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Philadelphia. The collection includes two reports by Mr. Brodsky on trips to the U.S.S.R. that he and several other members of the Philadelphia Jewish community took in 1985 and 1987, in order to deliver material aid and moral support to the Soviet Jewish Refuseniks. Also included are two calendar books with forewords by Mr. Brodsky, featuring photographs, profiles, contact information of, and updates on, Soviet Jewish Refuseniks. The books also contain photos and articles on the Soviet Jewry movement rallies, lectures and other related events in Greater Philadelphia.

Dates: 1985-1987

Frankel Brothers (Rochester, N.Y.) Death Notices Collection

 Collection — Container: Consolidated Box I5, Folder: Collection I-292
Identifier: I-292
Abstract

This collection consists of death notices, as well as acknowledgement cards and notes for condolences offered by the firm of Frankel Brothers, on the occasion of a death in the family of a business contact, and announcements of memorials and funeral services. Contains information of Jewish businesses across the United States.

Dates: undated, 1906-1934

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Letters

 Collection — Container: Consolidated Box P15, Folder: P-558
Identifier: P-558
Abstract

Consists of signed letters to Max L. Hollander (undated), Maurice Rodesk of the New York journal (1931), Irving B. Feinson (1936).

Dates: undated, 1931, 1936

Franklin J. Moses Papers

 Collection — Container: Consolidated Box P14, Folder: Collection P-495
Identifier: P-495
Abstract

Contains a receipt for a payment and two letters on legal matters.

Dates: 1847, 1849, 1873

Franks Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: P-142
Abstract

Originally from England, the Franks family were colonial merchants who settled in New York City in the 1700s. This collection documents parts of their life through correspondence, legal documents, and financial records. The correspondence is primarily written by Abigail Franks in New York to her son, Naphtali, in England. Also included in the collection are the notes and correspondence of Dr. Leo Hershkowitz, who co-edited a book on the letters of the family entitled the Lee Max Friedman Collection of American Jewish Colonial Correspondence: Letters of the Franks Family (1733-1748), written with Isadore S. Meyer in 1968.

Dates: 1711-1821, [1965-1968]

Franks family research collection

 Collection
Identifier: P-619
Abstract

Collection consists of research notes, transcriptions, photostats, correspondence, and similar materials compiled by Friedman during the course of his research on the Franks family of London, New York, and Philadelphia.

Dates: undated, 1710-1948

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