World War, 1914-1918 -- United States

This collection contains correspondence, documents, and newspaper clippings relating to the life and activities of Frankel in the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, as well as in other social welfare Jewish organizations. Includes biographic and bibliographic data; manuscript and printed copies of his writings; speeches on the subjects of health, insurance and Jewish affairs; and miscellaneous personal correspondence, particularly especially with Milton Rosenau.

Collection consists of: a typescript written by Grossbard while serving in the Signal Corps with the U.S. Expeditionary Forces in Siberia, 1918-1919, which critiques the attitudes and policies of the Allies towards Russia, the various political groups which led to the Allies' intervention in Siberia in 1918, and how these shared Russian attitudes toward each of the Allies and contributed to the final outcome of the Allies' venture in Russia. Grossbard also presents his views regarding the steps he thought the U.S. should have taken to have put in place a stable democratic Russian government.