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Fraternal organizations -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Landsmanshaftn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: I-332
Abstract

The bulk of this collection consists of anniversary or souvenir journals for approximately ninety landsmanshaftn benevolent organizations.

Dates: undated, 1899-1971, 1991

Papers of Gustave Eisner

 Collection
Identifier: RG 316
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1905 - 1938

Records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Landsmanshaftn Department

 Collection
Identifier: RG 335.7
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1926-1950; Majority of material found within 1937-1939; Majority of material found within 1945-1949