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Aschkenazy-Willdorff Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25066
Overview
This collection contains the papers of the Aschkenazy Family as well as those of Erich Willdorff, who was married to Elfriede (Effy) Aschkenazy. Prominent topics are emigration and immigration as well as Erich Willdorff's watch and clock shop. The papers in this collection include a few photographs, some correspondence and personal papers. The bulk of the collection comprises official and commercial documents.
Dates:
1895-1959; Majority of material found within 1920s-1950s
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Asher Levy Papers
Collection — Container: Consolidated Box P4, Folder: P-125
Identifier: P-125
Overview
An entry of merchandise imported by Asher Levy from Surinam to New York in 1807.
Dates:
1807
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Asher Marx import declarations
Collection — Container: Consolidated Box P5, Folder: P-190
Identifier: P-190
Overview
Contains lists of merchandise imported by Marx from Liverpool, England, on behalf of his firm, Marx and Linsley. Attached to the lists are Marx's signed oaths as consignee.
Dates:
1815
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Estate of Asser Levy papers
Collection
Identifier: P-639
Overview
Collection contains a variety of documents from a lawsuit filed by his widow and administrator, Miriam Levy, against the Van der Wilden brothers over a slaughterhouse owned by the Levy Estate.
Dates:
1682-1685
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Associates of Orthodox Jewish Teachers of the New York City Public Schools collection
Collection
Identifier: I-305
Overview
Collection contains AOJT newsletters as well as publicity and membership information. Formerly called the Association of Orthodox Jewish Teachers of the New York Board of Education.
Dates:
undated, 1966-1983
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Association for Free Distribution of Matsot to the Poor (New York, N.Y.) Records
Collection
Identifier: I-106
Overview
Contains accounts, lists, receipts, and reports of the committees appointed by the Jewish Community of New York for the years 1855 and 1858, to provide matzoth for Passover to the needy Jewish families of the city.
Dates:
1855-1858
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Association for the Relief of Jewish Widows and Orphans of New Orleans collection
Collection
Identifier: I-426
Overview
Collection consists of annual reports for the years 1857, 1859, and 1887. A golden Jubilee program dated January 1905 is also available.
Dates:
1857, 1859, 1887, 1905
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Association for the Sociological Study of Jewry records
Collection
Identifier: I-207
Overview
Includes the constitution and by-laws, membership lists, annual meeting materials (1973-1977), executive board minutes (1974-1977), assorted organizational matters and correspondence pertaining to the journal.
Dates:
1970-1993
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Association of Jewish Center Workers collection
Collection
Identifier: I-347
Overview
This collection is comprised of lists of officers and committee members, position papers, proceedings, and programs. The documents in this collection describe the Sixtieth Anniversary History Project and the Silver Anniversary Jubilee celebration. Of special interest to researchers will be the association's position paper that discusses the relationship of the Association with the Conference of Jewish Communal Services. The following publications can also be found in this collection: Newsletter (1946), Related Research Reporter (1968).
Dates:
1941-1980
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Association of Jewish Community Organization Personnel (AJCOP), records
Collection
Identifier: I-290
Overview
The records of the Association of Jewish Community Organization Personnel (AJCOP) cover the years 1969 to 1990 (although there is less material for the fiscal year 1989/1990). Though the collection does not preserve the total volume of papers produced by AJCOP, it is valuable to researchers studying the Jewish Community Center movement, especially in the area of the growing professionalization of Jewish community work.
Dates:
undated, 1950-1952, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1962-1963, 1965, 1968-1990 (bulk 1968-1990)
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
A.S.W. Rosenbach collection
Collection
Identifier: P-748
Overview
The collection consists of 8 items relating to A.S.W. Rosenbach's work as a collector and dealer of rare books and manuscripts, and in managing the Rosenbach Company with his brother, an art and antique dealer. Contains a 1913 catalog of an exhibition organized for the Association of American Etchers, a reprint from Rosenbach's 1927 book entitled "Books and Bidders", and an exhibit of the Free Library of Philadelphia on the history of the Republican Party in celebration of the 1936 Republican National Convention, which featured items from Rosenbach's collection. Also contains programs from a 1935 meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America at which Rosenbach presided, and a program from a 1947 event at the Free Library of Philadelphia in recognition of Rosenbach's presentation of a collection on early American children's literature. A brochure from the current Rosenbach Foundation Museum in Philadelphia is also included.
Dates:
1876-1952
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Audio and Moving Images Materials in the Hadassah Archives
Collection
Identifier: I-578/RG 25
Overview
This record group is made up of mostly audio and moving images materials, including ¼-inch open audio reels, 16mm film, filmstrips, cassette tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, LPs, 3.5 inch floppy disks, and other media, dating from the 1920s up to 2010. The films and audio recordings document Hadassah's efforts to publicize themselves to their members and those outside of Hadassah, by raising awareness of their history, fundraising efforts, and projects in United States and Israel, especially the Hadassah Medical Organization and Youth Aliyah projects and programs. Hadassah also used recordings to document important proceedings, including departmental and board meetings, Midwinter Conferences, and National Conventions.
Dates:
1920s-2010; Majority of material found within 1945 - 2010
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Auerbach Rivers Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25758
Overview
This collection contains materials of genealogical research from six different families. They include: genealogical information, photographs, birth, death and naturalization records, family sheets listing basic biographical information as well as census records and passenger manifests.
Dates:
1905-2014
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Aufhaeuser Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 10292 / MF 619
Overview
The following families are mentioned in this collection:
Dates:
1985-1996
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
August Bondi papers
Collection
Identifier: P-178
Overview
Collection contains a typescript in five parts, with handwritten corrections, plus a handwritten supplement of Bondi's autobiography covering all phases of his life, including his connections with John Brown (1855-1857), and his experiences during the Civil War.
Dates:
1883-1906
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Augusta and Emil Mane Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 6835
Overview
This collection contains the personal papers of Augusta (1905-2000) and Emil Mane (1900-1991) of Philippsburg, Baden, Germany. They were forced to sell their iron works business Gebrüder Gutmann in 1938 and, after Emil’s imprisonment in Dachau and time in an English refugee camp, they immigrated to the United States. The collection includes personal correspondence, emigration and restitution materials, recipes, photographs, a family tree, and a list of what happened to the Jews of Philippsburg during or after World War II.
Dates:
1915-ca 1997, 2013; Majority of material found within 1937-1945
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Augusta Ellis Johnson, papers
Collection — Container: Consolidated Box P2, Folder: P-98
Identifier: P-98
Overview
Contains the correspondence between Mrs. Augusta Ellis Johnson, a Jewish American citizen living in Lima, Peru, and General Alvin P. Horey, United States Minister to Peru. In this correspondence, Ellis Johnson asks Gen. Horey for help securing the release of her 14 year old son, Joseph who was forcibly baptized on October 27, 1868 by Dr. Jose Jesus Aylbon--curat of St. Marcelo--and abducted by the Spanish friars of the Convent of the Descalzos. The dispensation of the incident is not known.
Dates:
1869
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Augustus E. Cohen Deed of Sale
Collection
Identifier: P-424
Abstract
This collection contains a deed of sale for a piece of property in Charleston, South Carolina. It is witnessed by Augustus E. Cohen, Notary Public.
Dates:
1863
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Ausland-Absatz nach Ländern und Büchern.
Collection
Identifier: AR 25852
Overview
17 small folders, each containing 1-5 handwritten charts (copies reduced in size), representing export statistics of books from the Schocken publishing house. Also included is a chart pertaining to the Jewish training farm on the Schocken estate Gut-Winkel.
Dates:
1931-1938
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Authorization for messenger of get
Collection
Identifier: I-438
Overview
Consists of two items, authorizations for the messengers of a get (religious divorce document).
Dates:
1957
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland
Collection
Identifier: RG 4
Overview
The collection consists of more than 300 autobiographies and supplementary biographical materials, such as correspondence, diaries, and documents collected by YIVO in the interest of Jewish youth research. The autobiographies were assembled through public competitions in 1932, 1934, and 1939 directed at Jewish youth aged 16-22. The collection also contains records of the contest, including lists of the contestants, correspondence with them, reports and clippings.
Dates:
1905-1940; Majority of material found within 1932-1939
Found in:
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Autographs collection
Collection
Identifier: P-750
Overview
Original autographs separated from AJHS collections and/or bought or donated to the Society. The collection is arranged in alphabetical order.
Dates:
undated
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Autographs collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 3588
Overview
The collection contains a wide assortment of correspondence and photographs from actors, authors, musicians and others.
Dates:
1861-1940
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Axelrad Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25003 / MF 872
Overview
The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence and photos. The voluminous correspondence saved by the Axelrads mostly deals with professional elaborations between former colleagues and friends, who had scattered to the farthest corners of the globe to escape the Hitler regime and so we have letters (to or from) Australia, South-America, Palestine, and of course the United States. In some instances we gain a faithly accurate picture of the living conditions in the countries of exile. Remarkably well drawn are the descriptions of Marseille, Cuba (both by Alice Laqueur), of Palestine, and most noteworthy, the odyssee of Leontine Axelrad.
Dates:
1903-1997
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Axis Victims League Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 7219 / MF 501
Overview
Correspondence, clippings, reports, memos and other office papers
Dates:
1942-1966
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
B. Manischewitz Company records
Collection
Identifier: I-283
Overview
Pamphlets and printed materials and photos concerning the activities of the Kosher food manufacturing company founded by Rabbi Dov Ber Manischewitz in Cincinnati in 1888. Includes product information and recipes for holiday meals, as well as copies of presentations at a 1956 symposium on "Jewish Life as Reflected in Jewish Foods.".
Dates:
1947-1992
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Babette B. Buch Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25217 / MF 1031
Overview
The Babette B. Buch Collection documents the life, philosophies, and literary career of the writer Babette B. Buch. Included in this collection are numerous unpublished manuscripts, some personal correspondence, and a small amount of clippings and photographs.
Dates:
1939-1982; Majority of material found within 1942-1966
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Babette Wampold Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-912
Overview
This collection contains the papers of Babette Wampold and the Alabama Council to Save Soviet Jews and documents their activities on behalf of the American Soviet Jewry Movement. The collection is comprised of correspondence, case files, clippings, newsletters, photographs, and trip reports.
Dates:
undated, 1969-2003; Majority of material found within 1976-1991
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
Baden Aargau, Switzerland
Collection
Identifier: AR 5925 / MF 842
Dates:
1988-2003
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
Baden; Jewish Community Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 138 / MF 1110
Overview
Government decrees, reports, manuscripts, clippings and other materials pertaining to Jewish communities in Baden (Germany)
Dates:
1809-2005
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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