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American Jewish Press Association records
Collection
Identifier: I-62
Abstract
Collection contains primarily the papers created during the administration of Philip Slomovitz (president of the Association, 1945-1954), including: printed copies of the by-laws, typescripts of the minutes of meetings (1945-47), membership bulletins, press releases, general correspondence relating to the activities of the Association (dealing in part with unethical advertising practices of newspapers, 1951-1961), correspondence and reports of meetings with spokesmen for national Jewish organizations (1945-46), and correspondence concerning conventions of the Association (in 1949, commemorating the centennial of the Anglo-Jewish Press in America, containing correspondence with President Truman; in 1953, marking the 300th anniversary of the settlement of the Jews in America).
Dates:
1944-1961, 1986-1988, 1992
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
American Jewish Tercentenary Celebration Collection
Collection
Identifier: I-11
Abstract
This collection documents the administrative planning, research, publicity, and activities surrounding the American Jewish Tercentenary celebration from its inception in 1948 to its closing in 1955. The collection includes a representation of materials used in planning and presenting the event, including: correspondence, programs, minutes, proposals, reports, clippings, press releases, filmstrips, photo reproductions of illustrations, and a photograph.
Dates:
undated, 1949-1956
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
American Society for Jewish Farm Settlements in Russia Investor's Records
Collection — translation missing: en.enumerations.container_type.container: Consolidated Box I1, Folder: I-129
Identifier: I-129
Abstract
This collection contains a statement of account and stock certificates issued to Charles Mayer, who was an investor in the American Society for Jewish Farm Settlements in Russia, Inc.
Dates:
1929-1930
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
American Soviet Jewry Movement Oral Histories Collection
Collection
Identifier: I-548
Abstract
The collection contains audio and video interviews with activists of the American Soviet Jewry Movement, former Refuseniks and Prisoners of Conscience.
Dates:
2008-2011, 2013-2014
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
American Soviet Jewry Movement Photographs Collection
Collection
Identifier: I-495
Abstract
This is an artificial collection that contains digitized photographs and slides selected from various collections in the Archives of the American Soviet Jewry Movement, and other related collections at the American Jewish Historical Society. The physical part of the collection consists of one manuscript box containing 415 photographs that were separated from their parent collections.
Dates:
undated, 1969-1991
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
American Soviet Jewry Movement Posters and Ephemera Collection
Collection
Identifier: I-566
Abstract
This is an artificial collection that contains digitized posters and ephemera selected from various collections in the Archives of the American Soviet Jewry Movement at the American Jewish Historical Society.
Dates:
undated, 1970-1991
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
AMIT, records
Collection
Identifier: I-521
Abstract
The AMIT records contain correspondence, periodicals, program, project, and subject files, films, reports, convention and chapter material and photographs that document the organizational activities, educational and humanitarian achievements in Israel, and fundraising efforts of this American Jewish Zionist volunteer organization from 1933-2005. The AMIT Records were donated to the American Jewish Historical Society in 2010. The donation, while incomplete, represents the most complete set of documents, to date, related to the projects and achievements of AMIT and its history as the American Mizrachi Women's Organization.
Dates:
undated, 1933-2005
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Ann Polunsky Papers
Collection — translation missing: en.enumerations.container_type.container: Consolidated Box P26, Folder: P-886
Identifier: P-886
Abstract
The papers of the president of Arizona Action for Soviet Jewry Ann Polunsky contain audio recordings documenting activism on behalf of Soviet Jews in the Greater Phoenix, AZ.
Dates:
undated, 1980
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Anna and David Schloss Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25282 / MF 906
Abstract
Documents and correspondence pertaining to the emigration of Anna and David Schloss from Sugenheim, Germany, and the restitution for their cattle dealership
Dates:
1902-1995
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Anna Erlanger Rotenberg Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25576
Abstract
This collection contains documents, photographs, and manuscripts by and about Anne Lisa (Anneliese) Rotenberg née Erlanger (1925, Ichenhausen, Germany - 2013, New York) and her family.
Dates:
1890s-2006
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Anna Herzfeld Woog Family Collection.
Collection
Identifier: AR 10847 / MF 604
Abstract
The collection contains original and photocopied documents about the Meinungen, Herzfeld and associated families as well as marriage contracts and divorce papers for Anna and Julius Woog.
Dates:
1794-1952
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Anna Margarete Lessel Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25226 / MF 916
Abstract
Collection of clippings, flyers and other materials related to the Saarland: It also contains correspondence with the ‘Saar-Verein’ / ‘Verein der Saarlaender’ in both Germany and New York, concerning the occupation of the area by Britain and France after World War I, and the return of the area officially to Germany in 1935.
Dates:
1920-1936
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Anna Schneider Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: AR 25715
Abstract
The Anna Schneider Correspondence contains a large body of correspondence between 1939 and 1945, plus a small amount of genealogical information gathered in 1993.
Dates:
1939-1947, 1993; Majority of material found in 1939-1941
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Anna Sten Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25477
Abstract
The Anna Sten Collection documents the life of Anna Sten, a Psychotherapist in New York, who survived the Holocaust in a Romanian concentration camp. The collection contains personal and professional papers, as well as creative writings by Anna Sten. In the first folder most of the papers are correspondence and notebooks. The second folder contains essays about psychotherapy and child development and some short-stories written for the general public.
Dates:
1886-1992; Majority of material found within 1970s-1990s
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Anne Fischer Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 10519
Abstract
This collection contains the correspondence and personal papers of Anne Fischer. The bulk of the material consists of nearly five decades of continuous correspondence between Anne Fischer and Hermann Simon. In addition, there is a very small amount of official documents of family members and a few photographs.
Dates:
1884-1982; Majority of material found within 1930-1978
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Anne Ratkowski-Wanger Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 6326
Abstract
Much of this collection consists of Arthur Segal's correspondence and his unpublished manuscript poem Cosmogenie. Other materials include photographs and some of Anne Ratkowski-Wanger's correspondence.
Dates:
1920-1994
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Anneliese Riess Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 10019
Abstract
This collection documents the life of Anneliese Riess and her family. The bulk of the collection contains correspondence that reflects the impact of fascism and anti-Semitic policies on her personal life and on her immediate family.
Dates:
1882-2001; Majority of material found in 1933-1948
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Annemarie and Ellen Walter Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 11964
Abstract
This collection contains letters of reference and educational records for the sisters Annemarie and Ellen Walter.
Dates:
1912-1955
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Anni Krantz Collection.
Collection
Identifier: AR 11284
Abstract
This collection contains objects reflecting the social and home life of Anni Krantz, a woman from Krumbach, Bavaria, Germany. There is a poetry book, with many poems handwritten by friends and family of Anni Krantz, along with their photographs. The majority of these poems were written in late October 1938, shortly before Reichskristallnacht. There is also a cookbook handwritten in 1938 by her mother; a flyer entited Staats-Zeitung und Herold of March 1943 with recipes (in German, along with the submitters' names); and a program for the memorial of the Jewish community in Krumbach/Hürben.
Dates:
1938-1998
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Annie Heim Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 6142
Abstract
The collection consists primarily of correspondence to Annie Heim from her brother Ernst Bernstein regarding his efforts to emigrate with his wife. There also also documents and correspondence pertaining to the composer Rudolf Senger.
Dates:
1938-1973
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Annual and Mid-Winter National Conventions Records in the Hadassah Archives
Collection
Identifier: I-578/RG 3
Abstract
The Annual and Mid-Winter National Conventions Records document the proceedings and outcomes of the conventions and conferences attended by Hadassah’s National Board as well as by convention delegates from the various regions of Hadassah. The conventions in particular are where local and regional leaders meet with each other and the National Board and learn about Hadassah’s various projects and committees. This record group also includes annual reports from 1926-2001.
Dates:
1914-2011
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Anny Bernstein Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 10411
Abstract
The collection holds Anny Bernstein’s correspondence, which she received from her family in Vienna, Austria and other places, while living in New York. Also included is an offprint with an article about Ann’s husband Frank Zwillinger (1909-1989).
Dates:
1916-1996; Majority of material found in 1939-1941
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Anselm Marum and Sara Marcus Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 6318
Abstract
43 original, handwritten letters in Judeo-German, written by Anselm Marum mostly in Sobernheim to Sara Marcus in Kreuznach and in Hüffelsheim during their long courtship, 1828 to 1842.
Dates:
1828-1842
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Anti-Defamation League John Birch Society Collection
Collection
Identifier: I-510
Abstract
The records consist of documentation of the Anti-Defamation League efforts to track and counter activities of the John Birch Society from its founding in 1958 through the mid-1970s. The material was organized by the ADL New England regional office and consists of correspondence, including copies of internal JBS material, memoranda, a large volume of newspaper clippings, as well as pamphlets, publications and reports.
Dates:
undated, 1928-1980; Majority of material found within 1958 - 1975
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith
Collection
Identifier: I-346
Abstract
This collection consists of pamphlets about Palestine, policy statements, programs concerning a memorial exhibition for Ze'ev Jabotinsky, a petition concerning a mass meeting honoring Chaim Weizmann, and miscellaneous regional materials for New England. Of special interest to researchers will be protest statements against the "White Papers" published in the New York Times (1943). The collection also includes the following publications: Herut News (1973), and Newsletter (1962-1966).
Dates:
1948
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Antisemitic Literature Collection
File
Identifier: P-701
Abstract
The Anti-Semitic Literature Collection documents journalistic source materials (newspapers, newsletters, and illustrations) regarding views of anti-Semitism in the United States during the 20th-century. A few items from the 19th-century are included, particularly illustrations from Puck, Vanity Fair, and The Judge. Items are from various periodicals (i.e., The Dearborn Independent, Common Sense, The Crusader, The White American), organizations (i.e., American Nazi Party, the Christian Educational Association, and the White Party of America), and by many different authors (i.e., Father C.E. Coughlin, Benjamin Freedman, Otto H.F. Vollbehr). Additionally, this collection contains responses by American organizations to American and European anti-Semitism as well as documentation on the reaction of anti-Semitism in Canada.
Dates:
undated, 1869-1993, 2017
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Antoinette Kahler Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 3095
Abstract
Works by and about the writer Antoinette von Kahler.
Dates:
1896-1988
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Anton Finkelstein Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25536
Abstract
The Anton Finkelstein Collection documents some of the written work of Anton Finkelstein in philosophy, politics and literature. It contains unpublished manuscripts on assorted topics within these fields as well as his discussions via correspondence with Hanns Fischer. A few letters by others and typescripts by Fischer are also included.
Dates:
1923-1965; Majority of material found within 1943-1956
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Arab Blacklist collection
Collection
Identifier: I-187
Abstract
Contains the names of the international companies on the Arab boycott list from 1971 through 1976, including the privately published Arab Boycott Office master list and government listings of Kuwait, Bahrain and Lebanon. Also includes a history of the boycott and analysis of the U.S. anti-boycott and analysis of the U.S. anti-boycott movement by Edward Hotaling.
Dates:
1971-1977
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Architectural Records in the Hadassah Archives
Collection
Identifier: I-578/RG 21
Abstract
The materials in the record group mostly consist of reproductions of building plans of the Hadassah hospitals on Mount Scopus and Ein Kerem from the 1920s to the 2000s. Other properties documented in the record group include buildings managed by Youth Aliyah, Hadassah Youth Services, Young Judaea, Hadassah Israel Education Services, the National Office, and the Hadassah Medical Organization. These records document a core Hadassah function, the building of medical and social service facilities in Palestine/Israel.
Dates:
1927-2009
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
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