Fraternal organizations -- United States
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Landsmanshaftn Collection
The bulk of this collection consists of anniversary or souvenir journals for approximately ninety landsmanshaftn benevolent organizations.
Papers of Gustave Eisner
The collection consists of:
1. Materials relating to the PPS (Polska Partia Socjalistyczna - Polish Socialist Party), including trial records and proclamations, 1905-1912
2. Proclamations by the Socialist-Zionist Party (SS) and the Bund, 1905 and 1934
3. Correspondence: family (1912-1938) and general (1911-1938, including a number of letters from Yiddish writers)
4. Records pertaining to the activities of various Łódź landsmanshaftn in the U.S.
5. Manuscripts, notes, printed articles, and personal documents of Gustav Eisner
6. Photographs taken in Poland, some during World War I
7. Records of the Gustave Eisner Travel Bureau, 1930s
Records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Landsmanshaftn Department
This collection contains mainly correspondence between staff of the JDC Landsmanshaftn Department and members of various landsmanshaftn, benevolent organizations of immigrants originally from the same communities, as well as between the Landsmanshaftn Department and the interest-free loan associations (gmilas khesed societies) and heads of the various Jewish communities, mostly in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.