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Barbara and Peter Rothholz Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25201
Abstract
The Barbara and Peter Rothholz Family Collection contains documents and photographs of the families of Peter Rothholz and his wife, Barbara Peters Rothholz (originally Baerbel Gruenpeter), along with papers of the extended family.
Dates:
1877-1969; Majority of material found within 1916-1937
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Baron Family Papers
Collection — translation missing: en.enumerations.container_type.container: Consolidated Box P14, Folder: Collection P-510
Identifier: P-510
Abstract
Contains a summary regarding the family history as well as a genealogical chart listing descendants of Z'av Yitshak and Ruth Baron (lived in Russia c. 1880).
Dates:
undated
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Baron Hirsch Foundation Microforms
Collection
Identifier: MF 73 / MF 122
Abstract
Microfilms with copies from the Hirsch Collection at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
Dates:
1875-1901
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Baron Horace (Naftali Herz) de Gunzburg Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 89
Abstract
Baron Horace (Naftali Herz) de Gunzburg Collection consists of diverse materials that pertain to the state of Jews in the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th century and to the philanthropic activities of Horace and Joseph Gunzburgs. Materials comprising the collection shed light on the Gunzburg family's involvement in improving Jewish education, civil rights movement, and their efforts to improve general well being of the Jews in the Russian Empire. Bulk of the collections consists of materials pertaining to the activities of the Hevrah Mefitsei Haskalah (Society for the Promotion of Culture Among the Jews of Russia, Rus. Обшество для Распространения Просвещения Между Евреями в России) and to the Committee for the Improvement of Daily Life of Jews in the North-West Region (Комиссия по Улучшению Повседневной Жизни Евреев в Северо-Западном Регионе)
Dates:
1850-1904
Found in:
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Barry Marks Papers
Collection — translation missing: en.enumerations.container_type.container: Consolidated Box P30, Folder: P-993
Identifier: P-993
Abstract
Personal papers of the Soviet Jewry Movement activist Rabbi Barry Marks, a spiritual leader of Temple Israel of Springfield, IL and a founder of the Greater Springfield Interfaith Association. The collection reflects Rabbi Marks' and the Springfield, IL Jewish community's involvement in the Soviet Jewry movement. The materials include clippings, correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, and speeches.
Dates:
1966, 1983-1987
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Baruch Cohen Family Memorial Book
Collection — translation missing: en.enumerations.container_type.container: Consolidated Box P23, Folder: P-811
Identifier: P-811
Abstract
Collection contains a copy of the published memorial book and its English translation. The first generation described in the book is Rabbi Yehuda, the son of Rabbi Eliezer Halevi Mintz, the Askenazi Rabbi in the city of Padua, Italy, who died in the Hebrew year 5269 [1509]. The book, which covers the years 1461-1920, was translated from Hebrew by S.J. Sacks.
Dates:
1953
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Baruch Treiger collection
Collection
Identifier: P-667
Abstract
Collection consists of a large scrapbook and annual reports for a conservative congregation re-organized by Rabbi Treiger in 1947, and led by him for at least the five following years.
Dates:
1947-1952
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Bauer Family Collection, Buttenwiesen
Collection
Identifier: AR 4029 / MF 583
Abstract
The collection consists of numerous 18th and 19th century documents regarding the administration of the Jewish community of Buttenwiesen, a detailed inventory is included in folder 1. Folder 2 contains letters written by Bauer family members. The sisters Adele (whom Klimt painted) and Therese, who later married the brothers Bloch and thus both took on the name Bloch-Bauer, stem from this Bavarian family.
Dates:
1781-1953
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Bauer-Gross Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25250
Abstract
The Bauer-Gross Family collection consists of family papers, various documents, and photographs. Prominent topics are emigration from Germany, the family history, and Meta Bauer. The collection comprises correspondence, immigration papers, an academic confirmation, newspapers, a report, a manuscript, medical documents, identification documents, military papers, a birth certificate, an award certificate, obituaries, and a prenuptial agreement.
Dates:
1877-1974; Majority of material found within 1930s
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Bavaria Jewish Community Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 991
Abstract
This collection contains diverse materials documenting Jewish life in Bavaria. Included are instructions issued by Staats Ministerium Munich for Jewish teachers (1828); copy of petition to Bavarian government against Augsburg Reform Jewish synod (1871); article about publication of Die jüdischen Friedhöfe in kriegshaber, Buttenwiesen und Binswangen by Louis Lamm (1912); typewritten list of Jews in Bayreuth with Schutzbriefe (letters of protection) listed by community and by date between 1709-1736 (circa 1920); notice (Bekanntmachung) of extra taxes levied on Jews (1936); handwritten history of Jews in Bavaria by Adolf Eckstein (circa 1912), which includes article excerpt about Munich Jewish communities in relation to government ministries, also circa 1912.
Dates:
1828-1936
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews and Bay Area Council for Jewish Rescue and Renewal records
Collection
Identifier: I-505, I-505A
Abstract
The collection documents the activities of a human rights non-government organization on behalf of Soviet Jewry and Jews in the Former Soviet Union. Organized by Harold Light in San Francisco in 1967, the group worked to bring the Soviet Jewry issue to national and international attention. The collection contains correspondence, minutes, case files, publications, newspaper clippings, card files of Refuseniks, subject files, audio/visual materials, and information on other Soviet Jewry and interreligious organizations. Also included are materials relating to Soviet Jewish emigration, Cold War relations, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and human rights conditions in Russia and the former Soviet republics.
Dates:
undated, 1952, 1954-1999
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Bayard Rustin Papers
Collection — translation missing: en.enumerations.container_type.container: Consolidated Box P30, Folder: P-1015
Identifier: P-1015
Abstract
The papers of Bayard Rustin, a prominent American civil rights leader, LGBT rights activist, and advocate for the Black-Jewish cooperation in the United States, that focus on his involvement in the American Soviet Jewry movement. The collection contains speeches and articles on Soviet Jewry by Bayard Rustin from 1960s-1980s. Also included are publications by the executive secretary of the Conference on the Status of Soviet Jews, Moshe Decter— Redemption! Jewish freedom letters from Russia with foreword by Rustin, and "Silence and Yearning: A Report and Analysis of the Status of Soviet Jewry" based on the findings of the Ad Hoc Commssion on the Rights of Soviet Jews, chaired by Rustin.
Dates:
undated, 1966, 1970-1972, 1982
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Becker-Hockenheimer Family Collection.
Collection
Identifier: AR 5091
Abstract
This collection consists of three separate print and handwritten volumes on the genealogies of various branches of the Becker-Hockenheimer families, as well as some photocopies and photographs.
Dates:
1650-1977
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Beer-Meyerbeer Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 3185
Abstract
Much of the collection consists of photocopies and reproductions of documents, photographs, and artworks pertaining to various branches of the Beer-Meyerbeer family. The collection also contains several family trees and histories going back as far as 1677.
Dates:
1667-1996
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Beiner Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 11129
Abstract
The collection contains documents of Ernst Beiner and his family, including documents pertaining to his studies and work in pharmacy and dentistry, family photographs, and a file of material regarding his restitution claim against Germany after World War II. Also included are documents of the family of Biener's wife Fanny Beiner née Karpf.
Dates:
1908-1999
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Belle Kaminer Oral History
Collection — translation missing: en.enumerations.container_type.container: Consolidated Box P25, Folder: P-846
Identifier: P-846
Abstract
Contains a DVD, printed transcripts, and a CD of transcript files. Belle Kaminer was born in New York to immigrants Charlie and Anna Kleinberg. She describes her life growing up in a railroad flat on Forsythe Street, her later move to the Bronx, and the early years of her marriage to Ikey Kaminer.
Dates:
1998
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Belmont family (New York, N.Y.) collection
Collection — translation missing: en.enumerations.container_type.container: Consolidated Box P6, Folder: P-207
Identifier: P-207
Abstract
The collection contains the following items pertaining to August Belmont, Sr.: three autograph manuscript items reflecting Belmont's financial connections with the Rothschild family (1841); an autograph letter of introduction to the firm of C.N. de Rothschild, Naples, Italy, on behalf of Charles A. Mann, former state Senator of New York (1852); a letter declining an invitation (1879); and an undated letter, addressed to the President of the United States (most probably Abraham Lincoln) with 17 signatures, among which is Belmont's, recommending John Henley Higbee for a military appointment.
Dates:
undated, 1841-1904, 1982
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Ben Gailing (1898-1999) Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-607
Abstract
This collection contains the records of Ben Gailing (1898-1999), a New York and Boston-based Yiddish theater actor and radio host. Collection includes two Yiddish playscripts, "Yo a Mame, Nit a Mame" by Ben Gailing, and "Oy iz dos a Yingel" by Hershel Glick; Gailing’s book, Git a Shmeykhl; Yiddish sheet music; Yiddish theater programs; and photographs of Ben and Frieda Gailing and other actors and actresses from the Yiddish theater.
Dates:
undated, 1924-1975
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Ben Shahn papers
Collection — translation missing: en.enumerations.container_type.container: Consolidated Box P8, Folder: P-284
Identifier: P-284
Abstract
Consists of four items pertaining to Shahn's work for Cecil Roth's Haggadah for Passover (Boston : Little, Brown, 1965). Of special interest is Shahn's pencil design of one of the Haggadah pages.
Dates:
undated, 1966
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Ben Zion Collection
Collection — translation missing: en.enumerations.container_type.container: Consolidated Box P14, Folder: P-521
Identifier: P-521
Abstract
This collection contains exhibition programs from galleries and museums displaying the art of Ben Zion. Most exhibitions are of biblical art, Zion's most common theme.
Dates:
undated, 1952, 1956, 1964, 1984
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Benario Family of Obernbreit Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 3397
Abstract
This collection contains family trees and other materials related to the Benario family history and genealogy.
Dates:
1921-1989
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Bendix (ben Ephraim) Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 10923
Abstract
This collection contains family trees, as well as photocopies of emigration documents, vital records, correspondence, photographs, and other materials pertaining to the whole Bendix family and some of their members.
Dates:
1810-2000
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Bendix Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 6138
Abstract
The collection contains documents relating to the Bendix family, particularly to Fritz Bendix and his wife, Johanna Bendix née Hahn. There are also many papers and photographs concerning the family company, a linen factory in Silesia.
Dates:
1873-1950
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Benedikt (Pinchas) Wolf Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 11553
Abstract
This collection consists of a memory book and letters to Dr. Pinckus Wolf of the Talmud Thora in Cologne. In 1936, on the eve of his departure for Erez, Israel, his students of the Talmud Torah of Cologne offered this Sepher ha-Zichronoth or book of memories. As the introduction to the book explains, the Talmud Torah of Cologne was founded by Pinchas father, Rabbi Ze'ev Wolf. Each student offered a verse from the bible, which he or she signed. Accompanying this book is a folder of letters written to Dr. Wolf, after his emigration, while he was in Erez. The letters convey a sense that learning has continued among the students, however they miss him and mention deteriorating conditions in Cologne. One letter says "Die Torah bewahren wir in unserem Herzen. Da kann sie niemand zerstören. Das bleibt!" (The Torah lives in our hearts. Because nobody can destroy it. That remains!).
Dates:
1936
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Benjamin Benedikt Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25152
Abstract
This collection contains materials about the education of Benjamin Benedikt and his professional work as a teacher in Vienna.
Dates:
1897-1940; Majority of material found within 1900-1919
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Benjamin Franklin Peixotto family papers
Collection — translation missing: en.enumerations.container_type.container: Consolidated Box P6, Folder: P-195
Identifier: P-195
Abstract
Contains primarily papers of Benjamin Franklin Peixotto, including: addresses to Constitution Grand Lodge of B'nai B'rith and to YMHA; a letter from Ulysses S. Grant appointing Peixotto as U.S. Consul-General to Romania; correspondence during Peixotto's residency as Consul in Bucharest and Lyons; and the estate papers of Moses Levy Maduro Peixotto.
Dates:
1828-1829, 1864, 1870, 1873, 1875-1876, 1881, 1884-1885, 1887
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Benjamin Frederick Reiner Diaries and Essays
Collection — translation missing: en.enumerations.container_type.container: Consolidated Box P25, Folder: P-847
Identifier: P-847
Abstract
The collection documents Reiner's life as a boy in Yugoslavia and his problems adjusting to his new life in America. Reiner attended public high school and later worked in various factories after graduation. His papers contain copies of typed diary entries and essays he wrote from ages 15-21, as well as a copy of his ship manifest. His writings touch on social activities and economic hardships of a young teenager, his improvement with the English language, his drift away from Orthodoxy, and his impression of labor movements.
Dates:
1928, 1930-1933, 1936
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Benjamin Jacobs Writ
Collection — translation missing: en.enumerations.container_type.container: Consolidated Box P13, Folder: Collection P-437
Identifier: P-437
Abstract
This collection contains a writ ordering the sheriff of New York City to produce Jacobs for a court appearance on November 9, 1784.
Dates:
1784
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Benjamin Mordecai Collection
Collection — translation missing: en.enumerations.container_type.container: Consolidated Box P14, Folder: P-497
Identifier: P-497
Abstract
Contains two bills of sale, documenting the purchase of a slave by Benjamin Mordecai on December 3, 1851, and the resale of the same slave by him on January 19, 1852. Also contains a letter from Christopher Gustavas Memminger (1803-1888), Secretary of the Treasury, referring to the case of B. Mordecai, probably Benjamin Mordecai.
Dates:
1851-1864
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Benjamin Roth Collection
Collection — translation missing: en.enumerations.container_type.container: Consolidated Box P16, Folder: P-603
Identifier: P-603
Abstract
Consists of an ethical letter written in German by Benjamin Roth to his son, Solomon, before he departed from Germany for the United States in 1854, and a copy of an article from the American Jewish archives journal describing the Roth family history with the translation of the ethical letter.
Dates:
undated, 1854, 1952-1969
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
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