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Alois A.F. Marcus Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 25297

Overview This collection consists of family and education documents, correspondence and genealogical materials, such as passports, report cards, burial plots and confirmation speeches.

Dates: 1806-1941; Majority of material found within 1908-1941

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alpha Delta Epsilon

Collection

Identifier: I-342

Overview The collection contains the following publication: Bamagram (1940).

Dates: 1940

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

Alpha Epsilon Phi

Collection

Identifier: I-489

Dates: March 1947

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

Overview The collection contains miscellaneous correspondence, announcements of those killed in the service, directories of national officers and alumnae chapters and alphabetical and geographical rosters of members. Also included is the following publications: Alumni News (1934-1956).

Dates: 1934-1956

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

Alpha Omega collection

Collection

Identifier: I-343

Overview This collection is comprised of invitations, programs, fliers, and reports. The documents in this collection describe annual conventions, the Boston Chapter's various events, award and annual dinners and memorial services. Also included is a report of the National Council meeting and a fiftieth Anniversary celebration program.

Dates: 1947-1970

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

Alsace and Lorraine; Jewish Communities Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 2863 / MF 509 / MF 438 / MF 220 / MF 356

Overview Records of the Consistoire Central des Israélites de France, as well as of the local consistories for the departments of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin (Alsace) and Moselle and Meurthe-et-Moselle (Lorraine), in Strasbourg, Colmar, Metz and Nancy, including minutes, tax-lists, lists of rabbis, cantors, and notables, censuses of Jewish communities, and correspondence.

Dates: 1809-2000

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alten Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 7198

Overview This collection contains materials about Kurt Alten, his parents Emil Aron and Selma Aron-Alten, and the family of his sister, Elli Loewenthal. The bulk consists of restitution files for Kurt Alten and Selma Aron-Alten. Other materials include documents about Kurt Alten and his family. Most of these are of an administrative or official nature. There are also documents about Alten's extended family and some genealogical information about the Aron and Cohn families. There is little personal material in this collection.

Dates: 1882-1967; Majority of material found within 1943-1967

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Altschüler Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 3801

Overview The collection contains a family tree of the Altschüler family of Grünstadt from 1760 to 1969, including birth, death, marriage, and emigration dates and locations. The family tree is accompanied by related correspondence. Also included is a certificate in memory of Henry Altschuler's work with the Jüdischen Jugendverein Ludwigshafen am Rhein.

Dates: 1920-1972

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Altschuler and Weinberger Families Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 25333

Overview The Altschuler and Weinberger Families Collection includes materials related to the history of these families prior to World War II as well as materials that shed light on the fate of various members of the Altschuler and Weinberger families during the Holocaust. The collection consists of correspondence, printed materials, documents, photographs, genealogical materials such as charts and family trees, stammbuch (most likely belonging to Helen Altschuler), and a handwritten cookbook.

Dates: 1884-2007

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America collection

Collection

Identifier: I-330

Overview Contains almanacs, programs, newsletters, pamphlets and local and regional publications issued by the clothing workers union. Includes material relating to the union's conventions, insurance fund, cultural activities, cooperative housing, and health and welfare programs.

Dates: undated, 1923-1964

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

America-Israel Society records

Collection

Identifier: I-272

Overview Consists of secretary's minute book with copy of by laws, official minutes of meetings, reports, meeting agendas, proxies, correspondence and publications pertaining to non-sectarian sponsorship of educational and cultural projects both in Israel and the United States.

Dates: 1957-1966

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

American Academic Association for Peace in the Middle East (N.Y.) collection

Collection

Identifier: I-321

Overview Collection contains publications relating to research and statements made by scholars responding to the Israeli-Arab conflict. Publications include articles, papers, pamphlets, posters, reports, newsletters, bulletins, fact sheets, public statements, and the first annual conference proceeding.

Dates: undated, 1967-1984

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

American Academy for Jewish Research, records

Collection

Identifier: I-508

Overview Consists of correspondence from the formative years of the American Academy for Jewish Research from 1930 to 1936, fellows files and correspondence, ledgers and notebooks of membership dues and fellowship grants, minutes of the various committee meetings, Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, and photographs. Correspondents include Salo Baron, Isaac E. Barzilay, Robert Chazan, Louis Finkelstein, Louis Ginsberg, David Weiss-Halivni, Arthur Hyman, Saul Lieberman, Alexander Marx, Harry Orlinsky, and Harry Austrin Wolfson.

Dates: undated, 1928-2001; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1999

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

American Association for Ethiopian Jews (AAEJ), records

Collection

Identifier: I-503

Overview Founded in 1969, the American Association for Ethiopian Jews (AAEJ) was instrumental in the international effort to promote recognition of the Beta Israel (known among non-Jewish Ethiopians as "Falashas") by Israeli authorities, and to assist Jewish emigration from Ethiopia to Israel. The extensive files of the AAEJ include case work files, research materials and Jewish artifacts collected in Ethiopia by AAEJ workers. In the wake of the successful evacuation of Ethiopian Jewry to Israel in 1993, the AAEJ decided to disband and voted to deposit its records at the American Jewish Historical Society. Included are correspondence, office files, photographs, slides, videotapes, audiocassettes and other materials which pertain to AAEJ's efforts to raise the consciousness of the American Jewish community about this unique Jewish subculture. The organization's papers supplement those of its founder, Graenum Berger, which are also held at the American Jewish Historical Society.

Dates: undated, 1960-1961, 1963, 1965-1968, 1970-1995, 2001-2002

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

American Association of Former European Jurists Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 6546

Overview The collection contains correspondence, circular letters, reports, and lectures of the American Association of Former European Jurists. The materials are from the files of member Hans Teutsch.

Dates: 1945-1977

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

American Council for Judaism collection

Collection

Identifier: I-344

Overview This collection is comprised of correspondence, invitations, programs, fliers, pamphlets, reports, memorandum, membership applications and a directory of publications. The documents in this collection describe resolutions and reports concerning organizational issues, reports concerning reaction to ACJ from other organizations and general promotional materials. Of special interest to researchers will be the correspondence that addresses the 1963 60 Minutes television program "A Tyranny of Minorities." Another topic discussed in the correspondence is David Ben Gurion's visit to Boston in 1967 on behalf of the United Jewish Appeal. Included in the collection are the following publications: Brief (1958), The Council News (1949-1957), Education In Judaism (1967), Information Bulletin (1943-1967), Issues (1966-1991), News (1947-1967), and Blueprint (I & II).

Dates: undated, 1943-1991

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

American Economic Committee for Palestine records

Collection

Identifier: I-288

Overview Newsletters, pamphlets and fact sheets published by an organization devoted to the economic development of Jewish industries in Palestine.

Dates: 1933-1938

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

American Federation of Jews from Central Europe Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 4420

Overview This collection consists mainly of responses to a 1944 questionnaire sent by the American Federation of Jews from Central Europe to collect information on the communal property owned by Jewish communities in Germany prior to November 1938. Materials include completed questionnaires, correspondence, lists of reporting congregations, addresses, charts of data collected, and a final report. A small amount of materials related to other functions of the Federation is also included.

Dates: 1942-2005; Majority of material found within 1944-1947

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

American Financial and Development Corporation for Israel collection

Collection

Identifier: I-322

Overview Contains incorporation and bylaws, financial statements, memorandum, minutes, newsletters, promotional pamphlets and brochures, bond receipts and certificates, security registration statements and prospectus relating to the corporation's work in marketing and selling bonds for Israel.

Dates: undated, 1950-1977

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

American Friends of the Hebrew University collection

Collection

Identifier: I-339

Overview Contains annual reports, catalogs, pamphlets, brochures, newsletters and bulletins concerning the Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 1938-1993. Also includes fundraising brochures, correspondence, activity information and press releases outlining the work of American Friends of the Hebrew University.

Dates: undated, 1938-1996

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

American-Israel Pavilion, New York World's Fair (1964-1965) Collection

Collection

Identifier: I-585

Overview The records of the World’s Fair American-Israel Pavilion consists of materials relating to the American-Israel Pavilion at the 1964 World’s Fair. The collection contains numerous pictures of the Pavilion, both while it was under construction and while it was in use during the Fair, as well as newspaper articles. The collection also contains a souvenir guide and press releases from the opening. The collection also details the disagreement between the American-Israeli World’s Fair Corporation and the Jordanian Pavilion regarding an inflammatory mural through correspondence, press releases, and articles from various sources.

Dates: 1961-1965

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

American Jewish Alternatives to Zionism (New York, New York) Records

Collection

Identifier: I-326

Overview The American Jewish Alternatives to Zionism Collection consists of correspondence, articles, pamphlets, speeches, lectures, and reports issued by the organization lobbying its stance on Jewish anti-Zionism as a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict from 1959 to 1988.

Dates: 1959-1988

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

American Jewish Committe, San Francisco Collection Committee records

Collection

Identifier: I-86

Overview Contains the records of donations made throughout New York State to assist in the rebuilding of schools and synagogues destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake. Includes the membership lists of the New York Board of Rabbis, Rabbis in New York State, and of congregations in New York State.

Dates: undated

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

American Jewish Committee Records, Domestic and Geographic Files

Collection

Identifier: RG 347.17.13

Overview The American Jewish Committee Records, Domestic and Geographic Files consists of materials created by executive offices, departments, local offices and chapters of the committee concerning a variety of matters, primarily Jewish civil and religious rights, integration, Jewish communal organizations and communal issues. However, materials found in this collection encompass other civil, racial, and religious minority groups as well. The records consist of briefs, conference proceedings, correspondence, legal documents, memoranda, minutes of meetings, printed materials, reports, resolutions, statements, studies, and surveys.

Dates: 1921, 1941-1962, 1995

Found in: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

American Jewish Committee Records, Subject Files

Collection

Identifier: RG 347.17.10

Overview The collection documents American Jewish Committee’s efforts to combat all forms of discrimination against the Jews in the United States. Additionally, there are materials pertaining to AJC’s work regarding other minority groups in the United States. The collection offers researchers a unique chance to see how and what was done prior to the changes in public opinion and civic and legal laws. The American Jewish Committee Records, Subject Files consists of materials created by executive offices, departments, local offices and chapters of the Committee concerning a variety of matters; foremost Jewish civil and religious rights, immigration, and the Holocaust.

Dates: 1930-1973

Found in: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

American Jewish Conference, records

Collection

Identifier: I-67

Overview The collection contains background materials pertaining to the formation of the Conference and the election of delegates, financial records, memoranda, reports, and incomplete minutes of the Conference and its committees. It also includes extensive correspondence of the Administrative Secretary Jesse B. Calmenson, for March-December, 1943. The major portion of the collection consists of transcripts of the 1^st-4^th sessions (1943-1947) of the Plenum and committees of the Conference. The published material in the collection includes the Bulletin of the activities and Digest of the press.

Dates: undated, 1943-1949

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

American Jewish Congress, records

Collection

Identifier: I-77

Overview The records of the American Jewish Congress, a national Jewish agency, concerned primarily with Jewish and other minority civil rights, include the constitution, by-laws, and minutes of the Administrative and Executive Committees and Governing Council of the Congress. The collection has materials generated by the National Biennial Conventions, Executive Directors, including Phil Baum and Henry Siegman, and the General Counsel files of Will Maslow, Commissions and the Jerusalem Conferences of Mayors, Regional Chapters, National Women's Division, Business and Professional Chapters, Public Relations, and miscellaneous activities conducted by American Jewish Congress.

Dates: undated, 1916-2006; Majority of material found within 1949-2003

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

American Jewish Historical Exhibition, records

Collection

Identifier: I-21

Overview Contains the minutes, reports, and financial records of the Executive Committee for the American Jewish Historical Exhibition pertaining to the planning and execution of the Exhibition, as well as printed material and member correspondence, arranged alphabetically; also includes also a collection of printed material relating to the International Exposition at St. Louis, in 1904.

Dates: undated, 1888-1889, 1900-1905

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

American Jewish Historical Society; Pre-1851, Post-1850, and Miscellaneous Newspapers, Collection

Collection

Identifier: I-531; I-531A; I-531B

Overview This collection contains newspapers designated as Pre-1851 (I-531), Post-1850 (I-531A) and Miscellaneous (I-531B) Newspaper Collections. The newspapers are primarily from cities within the United States with some from world locales such as London, Grenada, Barbados, Curacao, Mexico, Montreal and Toronto. A few newspapers are from the Jewish press, though the greater majority of newspapers are not Jewish in origin but contain articles, references, advertisements, or other printed matter regarding Jews. The collection has a downloadable article index that can be used to pinpoint material in the first portion of the collection (Pre-1851) designated as I-531.

Dates: undated, 1760-1948; Majority of material found within 1800-1899

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

American Jewish Historical Society Records

Collection

Identifier: I-1

Overview The records of the American Jewish Historical Society, the oldest national ethnic historical organization in the United States, include correspondence of officers and staff as well as inter-office memos, multiple versions of the constitution and by-laws of the society, meeting minutes of administrative branches and committees, membership and financial records, reports, exhibit materials, records relating to the society’s library and archival holdings, press releases and newspaper clippings, and publications and newsletters created by the society. There are also materials from various programs, such as meetings and conferences, tours, lectures, awards and dinners, films, and educational programs.

Dates: 1883-2003; Majority of material found within 1892-2000

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

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Alois A.F. Marcus Family Collection

Alpha Delta Epsilon

Alpha Epsilon Phi

Alpha Epsilon Pi collection

Alpha Omega collection

Alsace and Lorraine; Jewish Communities Collection

Alten Family Collection

Altschüler Family Collection

Altschuler and Weinberger Families Collection

Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America collection

America-Israel Society records

American Academic Association for Peace in the Middle East (N.Y.) collection

American Academy for Jewish Research, records

American Association for Ethiopian Jews (AAEJ), records

American Association of Former European Jurists Collection

American Council for Judaism collection

American Economic Committee for Palestine records

American Federation of Jews from Central Europe Collection

American Financial and Development Corporation for Israel collection

American Friends of the Hebrew University collection

American-Israel Pavilion, New York World's Fair (1964-1965) Collection

American Jewish Alternatives to Zionism (New York, New York) Records

American Jewish Committe, San Francisco Collection Committee records

American Jewish Committee Records, Domestic and Geographic Files

American Jewish Committee Records, Subject Files

American Jewish Conference, records

American Jewish Congress, records

American Jewish Historical Exhibition, records

American Jewish Historical Society; Pre-1851, Post-1850, and Miscellaneous Newspapers, Collection

American Jewish Historical Society Records

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