New York (N.Y.)

Minutes, 1953-1968 (German, English). Financial records, 1937-1977. Membership list, 1968. Seal.

Minutes, 1946-1966. Ketubah (marriage contract) of the secretary of the society, 1908.

Certificate of incorporation. Minutes, 1930-1974 (German). Financial records, 1957-1966. Cemetery records. Correspondence. Meeting notices. Dissolution ballots.

The Esther Milich Family Collection holds documents about the immigration of Esther Milich and her brother Nathan Berkowicz in 1939 and about other members of the Berkowicz and Milich families, including the fate of Berkowicz family members left behind in Europe. The collection also contains documentation on the restitution claims filed by Esther and her brother. This collection includes official, legal, and personal family correspondence; official and legal documents; personal family papers; and a few photographs and newspaper clippings.

The collection contains play manuscripts, programs, playbills, posters, photographs, correspondence, agreements, scrapbooks, clippings, printed ephemera, and memorabilia relating to Yiddish theater primarily in the early twentieth century, especially the interwar period. Also included are items of printed ephemera related to Yiddish film, Hebrew theater, and a broad range of Jewish performers, including cantors, singers and dancers. Geographically, the materials originate predominantly in Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe, including parts of the Russian Empire and, later, the Soviet Union; and, to a lesser extent, the United States, especially New York City. Also included are materials from Western Europe, Palestine (Eretz Israel), South America, and other regions around the world. Among the theater personalities represented in the collection with significant amounts of material are Herz Grossbard, David Herman, Joseph Winogradoff, Rudolf Zaslavsky, Zygmunt Turkow, Jonas Turkow, Moyshe Lipman, Ida Kaminska, and Esther Rachel Kaminska. The theater groups best represented include the Varshever Yidisher Kunst-Teater (VYKT; Warsaw Yiddish Art Theater), founded by Zygmunt Turkow and Ida Kaminska; the Vilna Troupe; Yung Teater / Nay Teater (Warsaw; Vilna), under the direction of Michael Weichert; the Moscow State Yiddish Theater (known by its Russian acronym "GOSET"); Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theatre, of New York; and the Hebrew theater "Habimah." A wide variety of other professional as well as amateur theater groups are represented with smaller amounts of material.

This collection contains the papers of the Ettinger family originally of Fulda, Germany, and related families. Materials include personal papers, official and legal papers, photographs, and some personal correspondence and ephemera. The collection reflects the experience of some family members in internment and forced labor camps in France, their later immigration to the United States, and their restitution claims. The photographs are either formal portraits or depict leisure activities from the late 19th century through the 1930s.

This collection documents the family of Eugen Rosenberg and Frida Giglio Saenger Rosenberg née Magnus, in particular two of their sons, actor Hans-Karl Rosenberg (stage name Hans-Karl Magnus) and electrician Herbert Rosenberg. It includes a large amount of correspondence between Frida, Hans-Karl, and Herbert Rosenberg during World War Two.

The Eva and Peter Frank collection is comprised of personal family materials. The bulk of the collection are family photographs and correspondence between Eva and Peter while he was serving in WWII.

This collection holds the personal documents and written works of Eva Dukes, an Austrian Jew who escaped Nazi persecution and immigrated to the United States. In her later years, Eva wrote extensively about her early life in Austria, her family, and her experiences facing the rise of Naziism in Europe. Along with her writings, this collection includes photographs, official documents, correspondence, restitution papers, and other materials pertaining to the life of Eva Dukes.

The collection consists of private correspondence, personal documents and writings of Eva Heilberg Schäffer, her parents, her husband Hans Schäffer, her daughters and other relatives and friends.

Series I includes correspondence with friends in Germany in the mid-1930s; and with personal relations, 1930s-1960s and 1987.

Series II holds photographs and albums from pre-war Europe, some with captions (circa 1929-1935), as well as albums of travel and leisure, 1950s-1960s. Also included is documentation of a year Eva spent in Bavaria in 1975/1976 as an educator at a boarding school; this album is oversized and housed with oversized materials.

This record group includes documents created and maintained by the Office of the President, the Office of the Executive Director and the Chair of the Division Coordinators/Directors Committee. Prominent is the Henrietta Szold series, containing correspondence by and to Szold as well as printed materials written by and about her. The files in this record group were created by a national president or executive director, or for their use, or maintained in their office during their years in office. Included are correspondence, minutes, memos, publications, reports and subject files on topics with which these individuals were involved.

This collection consists of the correspondence between various members of the Falbel / Pulgram family during and after World War Two. It includes letters between Gerda Falbel née Pulgram and her husband Isaak Falbel dating between 1939 and 1940, while he was in the Kitchener Camp in England and she emigrated from Vienna to New York. Additional correspondence includes letters between Karl Pulgram in Haifa and his daughter Gerda Falbel and son-in-law Isaak Falbel. The collection also includes correspondence between Gerda Falbel and various other family members, including her mother Eugenie Pulgram and her sister Gise, who stayed in Vienna and were murdered in the Holocaust.

The collection contains documents, correspondence, unpublished writings, sketches, photos, and various flyers, postcards, posters, and a substantial amount of family documents.

This collection consists mostly of correspondence between the Fein family and Fein & Co. relating to the Fein family's immigration to the U.S. There are also letters and documents about the death of Sigmund Fein and the return of Anselm Feuerbach's painting Maedchenkopf

The collection contains documents pertaining to Felix Schuster's service in World War I; the restitution claims of Felix Schuster and his wife Frieda Schuster née Wolf; and family photographs.

Constitution. Minutes, 1968-1971. Memorial journal, United Austiler Relief Committee, 1948. Theater programs from Ustilug, pre-World War II.

Constitutions. Financial records, 1922-1975 (German, English). Materials pertaining to burial. Correspondence. Materials pertaining to 60th anniversary celebration and to dissolution. Seal. Stamps.

Constitution. Minutes, 1929-1942. Financial records, 1969-1972, 1977. Relief work records, 1940-1962. Membership applications. Bulletins, 1949-1979. Correspondence. Memorial book, 1960. Photographs.

Souvenir journals, 1925, 1937. Film of last banquet, 1960. Photograph.

Constitution. Minutes, 1915-1920. Minutes of relief fund, 1944. Membership dues records, 1925-1942. Membership loan information, 1927-1944. Financial materials. Gavel.

Minutes, 1933-1936, 1938-1944. Financial and membership records, 1930s-1950s. Gavel.

By-laws. Minutes, 1932-1977. Financial records, 1936-1970s. Materials pertaining to old age and loan funds. Golden book (record of deaths of members). Membership records. Materials pertaining to cemetery and burial. Seal, stamp.

Cemetery deed. Constitution (Yiddish). Minutes (English), 1961-1972. Financial records. Correspondence, 1966-1970.

Amendments to constitution, 1950. Minutes, 1939-1943. Dues records, 1925-1932.

Constitution. Minutes, 1915-1925. Financial records, 1950s-1970s. Anniversary journal. Meeting announcements. Photograph. Gavel.

Constitution. Membership record book, and oversize bound volume presented to the society by the Dzuriner Sick Benevolent Association, 1930. Grave plot reservation receipts.

Minutes, 1918-1950s (German, Yiddish). Minutes of the First Mikulinzer Lodge, 1910-1928 (German). Record book of the burial committee, 1920s. Financial records, 1940s-1950s, including membership dues book, 1924-1931. Correspondence.

Minutes, 1964-1972. Financial records, 1961-1972.

Certificate of incorporation, 1904. Constitution. Minutes, 1911, 1946-1953. Financial records, 1948-1976. Materials pertaining to burial, 1904-1977. Souvenir journals. Meeting announcements. Photographs.