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Creator:  First Independent Hebrew Congregation of Jamaica (Queens, New York, N.Y.)Requires cookie*
 Title:  First Independent Hebrew Congregation of Jamaica (Queens, N.Y.) records  
 Dates:  1952-1988 
 Call No:  2003.099 
 Abstract:  The First Independent Hebrew Congregation of Jamaica (Queens, N.Y.), also known as Congregation Ahavas Israel, was founded in 1900 and their synagogue building was built in 1905. The congregation fell into financial hardships in the mid-1970s, and sold their building in 1980 to the Bethany French Baptist Church. The collection consists of a minute book, cemetery records, legal documents, and financial records of the Congregation during the final years of its existence. 
 Size:  1.5 Linear feet 
 Subjects:  Jews -- New York (State) -- New York | Queens (New York, N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs | Synagogues -- New York (State) -- New York 
Creator:  Ershṭe Rumenish-Ameriḳanishe Ḳongregatsiyon "Shaarey Shomayim"Requires cookie*
 Title:  First Roumanian-American Congregation "Shaarey Shomayim" annual reports  
 Dates:  1915-1919 
 Call No:  1994.029 
 Abstract:  The collection consists of printed annual reports (1915-1919) of the First Roumanian-American Congregation on the Lower East Side. The First Roumanian-American Congregation, also known as the Congregation Shaarey Shamoyim or the Roumanische Shul, was founded in 1885 on the Lower East Side in New York City. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Financial statements | Synagogues -- New York (State) -- New York 
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 Title:  Frankfurt-Trager family genealogical collection  
 Dates:  1980-1981 
 Call No:  1985.008 
 Abstract:  The Frankfurt-Trager family had its roots in Germany as far back as the eleventh century, stemming from prominent Jewish scholars such as Rashi (1040-1096), the Yalkut Shimoni (12th century), and the Beer Heteiv of Frankfurt (1730-1770). Members of the Trager family settled in the United States prior to the Civil War. The collection contains genealogical charts, letters and an essay. 
 Size:  1 Folder 
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 Title:  French Consistorial Collection  
 Dates:  1809-1939 
 Call No:  1987.012 
 Abstract:  Consistories were created by Napoleon I in 1808 to administer Jewish religious matters and facilitate the acculturation of French Jews. This collection contains diverse materials relating to Jewish communal life in nineteenth-century France, and includes personal and official correspondence, drafts, engravings, essays, community and organization records, accounts and financial records, petitions, demographical statistics, reports and membership lists. The Consistorial system was dissolved in 1905, after which some Consistories regrouped into Consistorial associations ("Associations consistoriales"). 
 Size:  4.75 linear feet 
 Subjects:  Antisemitism -- France | France -- Religious life and customs | Jewish law | Jewish religious education of children -- France | Jews -- France -- History -- 19th century | Jews -- France -- Politics and government | Judaism -- France | Rabbis -- France 
Creator:  Schlesinger familyRequires cookie*
 Title:  Gabriel Schlesinger correspondence and family papers  
 Dates:  1868-1964; Bulk Dates: 1930-1940 
 Call No:  2009.004 
 Abstract:  The collection contains a variety of materials belonging to the Schlesinger family, including correspondence, notes and official documents. It contains many letters and documents pertaining to Hachalutz Hamizrachi, a Zionist organization in Hungary, and also many personal documents including birth and marriage certificates, and certificates of Rabbinic ordination. 
 Size:  .25 Linear feet 
 Subjects:  Hungary -- Ethnic relations | Jewish youth -- Hungary -- Societies and clubs | Jews -- Hungary -- History | Rabbis -- Hungary | Religious Zionism -- Hungary 
Creator:  Hirschler, GertrudeRequires cookie*
 Title:  Gertrude Hirschler papers  
 Dates:  1929-1994 
 Call No:  1994.007 
 Abstract:  Gertrude Hirschler was a translator and editor of literary works, and was the leading translator of the works of the nineteenth century German rabbi, Samson Raphael Hirsch. The collection primarily consists of materials relating to Hirschler's publishing career, containing her publishing correspondence, as well as manuscripts, articles and miscellaneous writings by other authors that were sent to Hirschler for editing or translating. There is also a small amount of personal materials and original writings by Hirschler. 
 Size:  8 linear feet 
 Subjects:  Jewish authors -- Manuscripts | Jewish religious literature -- Germany | Translators -- United States -- Correspondence 
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 Title:  Gesher  
 Dates:  1963-1985 
 Call No:  YU.2013.120 
 Abstract:  The collection consists of issues of this student journal that served as a forum for integrating Torah knowledge and secular knowledge. 
 Size:  .5 linear feet 
 Subjects:  Judaism -- Periodicals | Orthodox Judaism -- Periodicals 
Creator:  Gitelson familyRequires cookie*
 Title:  Gitelson family microfilm and bookplates collection  
 Dates:  undated, 1962-1965 
 Call No:  1984.099 
 Abstract:  The Gitelson family were prominent New York City business owners and bibliophiles, who established many library collections. Moses Leo Gitelson undertook various projects to microfilm library collections, and published a scholarly journal, The Chronicle, with his daughter Susan. The collection consists of 23 microfilm reels of some of their projects, as well as films of their journal. There are also two bound copies of bookplates for various Gitelson library collections. 
 Size:   
 Subjects:  American periodicals | Bible -- Pictorial illustrations | Bookplates, American | Chronicle (Gitelson-Kamaiko Foundation) | Europe -- History -- 16th century -- Pamphlets | Europe -- History -- 17th century -- Pamphlets | Europe -- History -- 18th century -- Pamphlets | Incunabula | Jewish bookplates | Jews -- Genealogy | Jews -- United States -- Periodicals | Library bookplates | Painting | Scholarly publishing -- United States | Tarbuth Chrestomathy of the Gitelson Kamaiko Foundation | United States -- History -- 17th century -- Pamphlets | United States -- History -- 18th century -- Pamphlets 
Creator:  Graduate School for Jewish Social Work (New York, N.Y.).Requires cookie*
 Title:  Graduate School for Jewish Social Work records  
 Dates:  circa 1925-1944 
 Call No:  1985.098 
 Abstract:  The goal of the Graduate School for Jewish Social Work was to train new social workers, give additional training to workers already in the field, and to build a library on Jewish social work and Jewish communities. The collection contains correspondence with universities, local Jewish federations and communities, as well as financial reports, a student register (1925-1939), minutes from the Board of Trustees, and the papers of Rabbi George W. Rabinoff (1929-1940). 
 Size:  11.5 linear feet 
 Subjects:  Accreditation (Education) | Educational fund raising | Rabbis -- New York (State) -- New York | Social work education 
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 Title:  Jane Fischel memorial volumes  
 Dates:  circa 1930s 
 Call No:  1992.011 
 Abstract:  Jane Fischel was born in Eishyshok, Russia, in 1865 to a wealthy businessman. She emigrated to America in the early 1880s and married Harry Fischel in 1887. She, along with her husband, became an important Jewish philanthropist and a large donor to Yeshiva University. The two memorial volumes in the collection document her life and record various tributes given her following her death. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Jewish women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography | Orthodox Judaism -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography 
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 Title:  Jewish greeting card collection  
 Dates:  circa 1970s 
 Call No:  2000.024 
 Abstract:  The collection consists of a scrapbook of greeting cards for Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year), Passover, and other occasions. Most of the cards are blank and do not contain any personal messages. However, there are a few that contain personal notes. The cards are of varying sizes, and seem to have been bought from a store, rather than handmade. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Fast and feasts -- Judaism -- Pictorial works | Jews -- Social life and customs | Rosh ha-Shanah cards 
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 Title:  Hamevaser  
 Dates:  Bulk Dates:1962-2002; Bulk Dates: 1962-2002; 1944-45, 1951, 1962-2002 
 Call No:  YU.1984.099 
 Abstract:  The collection consists of issues of Hamevaser, a student newspaper published by the Jewish Studies programs of Yeshiva University, from 1962-2002, with gaps. 
 Size:  4.5 Linear feet 
 Subjects:  College student newspapers and periodicals -- New York (State) -- New York | Jewish Law -- Periodicals | Jewish ethics -- Periodicals | Judaism -- Periodicals | Kol Hamevaser | Orthodox Judaism -- Periodicals | ha-Mashḳif 
Creator:  Jacobs, HaroldRequires cookie*
 Title:  Harold M. Jacobs papers  
 Dates:  1888-1994; Bulk Dates: 1950-1994 
 Call No:  1995.006 
 Abstract:  The Harold M. Jacobs Papers document the lifetime and activities of Harold Milton Jacobs (1912-1995), an important Jewish lay leader and businessman. The Papers largely document his career in communal service, both in the Jewish and general non-profit realms. The collection contains correspondence, reports, photographs and other material from Jacobs' numerous affiliations such as the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations, the National Council of Young Israel, and the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York, as well as correspondence documenting his relationships with many prominent local, national, and international politicians and leaders. 
 Size:  18.5 Linear feet 
 Subjects:  Jewish businesspeople -- New York (State) -- New York | Jewish day schools | Jews -- Education -- New York (State) -- New York | Jews -- New York (State) -- New York | Jews -- United States -- Charities | Jews -- United States -- Politics and government | Judaism and politics | New York (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs | Orthodox Judaism -- New York (State) -- New York | Religious Zionism | Religious institutions -- New York (State) -- New York | Sabbath legislation -- New York (State) | Synagogues -- New York (State) -- New York | Universities and colleges -- New York (State) -- New York | Zionism 
Creator:  Singer, HarryRequires cookie*
 Title:  Harry Singer papers  
 Dates:  1981 
 Call No:  1984.003 
 Abstract:  Harry Singer was a Jewish businessman. In 1982 Mr. Singer, together with his wife Anna, set up the Anna and Harry Singer Endowed Fund for Yiddish Studies at Yeshiva University. The fund was designed to support Yiddish courses and cultural programs at Yeshiva College and Stern College for Women. The collection contains greeting cards to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Singer (one of which is an anniversary card written in Yiddish) and a color photograph taken at a dinner. 
 Size:  1 folder 
Creator:  Moche, HasdayRequires cookie*
 Title:  Hasday Moche papers  
 Dates:  1924-1945, 1970-1988; Bulk Dates: 1924-1945 
 Call No:  1999.007 
 Abstract:  The collection primarily consists of correspondence of Hasday Moche, born in Salonika (Thessaloníki), Greece, and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, with family members and friends dispersed among Athens and Salonika, Greece, Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt, New York, and Yugoslavia. There are also numerous certificates, memorabilia, correspondence and photographs from Moche's army career, where he served in France, as well as his daughter Dulce's correspondence with her father's former acquaintances and her research materials on Salonika Jewry. 
 Size:  6.0 Linear feet 
 Subjects:  Alexandria (Egypt) -- Ethnic relations | Athens (Greece) -- Ethnic relations | Cairo (Egypt) -- Ethnic relations | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Greece | Sephardim -- Balkan Peninsula -- Social life and customs | Sephardim -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- Social life and customs | Sephardim -- Egypt -- Cairo -- Social life and customs | Sephardim -- Genealogy | Sephardim -- Greece -- Athens -- Social life and customs | Sephardim -- Greece -- Thessalonike -- History | Sephardim -- Greece -- Thessalonike -- Social life and customs | Sephardim -- Palestine -- Social life and customs | Sephardim -- United States -- Social life and customs | Thessalonike¯ (Greece) -- Ethnic relations | United States -- Ethnic relations | World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish 
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 Title:  Hebrew Institute High School yearbook "The Crown"  
 Dates:  1963 
 Call No:  1994.066 
 Abstract:  The collection consists of a yearbook called "The Crown" from the Hebrew Institute High School in Far Rockaway, NY, from 1963. The yearbook contains pictures of the faculty, the 24 graduating seniors, and all of the underclassmen as well. Also included in the yearbook are some literary works by the students, a letter from the principal, and a number of pages of advertisements in the back. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Far Rockaway (New York, N.Y.) -- Education (Secondary) | High school students -- New York (State) -- Queens County | Jewish day schools -- New York (State) -- Queens County 
Creator:  Hebrew Old Age Society of Bensonhurst (Brooklyn, N.Y.).Requires cookie*
 Title:  Hebrew Old Age Society of Bensonhurst (Brooklyn, N.Y.) certificate of incorporation  
 Dates:  February 23, 1934 
 Call No:  2004.096 
 Abstract:  The collection consists of the Certificate of Incorporation for the Hebrew Old Age Society of Bensonhurst (Brooklyn, N.Y.), issued on February 23, 1934. 
 Size:  1 item 
 Subjects:  Bensonhurst (New York, N.Y.) -- Societies, etc. | Certificates of Incorporation -- New York (State) -- New York | Fraternal organizations -- New York (State) -- New York | Jews -- New York (State) -- Kings County | Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Charities | Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Societies, etc. 
Creator:  Lederer, Helene Karo FriedmanRequires cookie*
 Title:  Helene Karo Friedman Lederer oral history collection  
 Dates:  1987 
 Call No:  1987.011 
 Abstract:  Helene Karo Friedman Lederer is a French-born Jewish educator. After World War II she was adopted by the Friedman family of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, through the Rescue Children, Inc. adoption program. The collection contains a sixty minute cassette tape and summary of an interview with Helene Lederer as well as some original photographs. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Holocaust survivors | Jewish children in the Holocaust -- France | World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue 
Creator:  Gutterman, HenryRequires cookie*
 Title:  Henry Gutterman papers  
 Dates:  1916-1958 
 Call No:  1985.027 
 Abstract:  Rabbi Henry Gutterman was born in 1883 in Kalvaria, Lithuania, and he received rabbinic ordination from the Slobodka Yeshiva in 1903, and then again from Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1908. He emigrated to the United States and in 1910 he moved to Scranton, PA to become a community rabbi there. He died in 1966. The collection consists of correspondence, clippings, notes, and stamps which he wrote and collected. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Divorce (Jewish law) -- Cases | Jewish learning and scholarship | Rabbis 
Creator:  Illoway, Henry, Dr., 1848-1932Requires cookie*
 Title:  Henry Illoway papers  
 Dates:  1894-1950 
 Call No:  1985.035 
 Abstract:  Dr. Henry Illoway was a prominent Jewish physician and writer. In addition to being a specialist in children's diseases, he wrote regularly on Biblical and Talmudic subjects. He lived in New York City and belonged to the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue, Congregation Shearith Israel. The collection includes a medical log, some notes, a letter, and a handwritten poem. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Jewish sermons, American | Medicine -- New York (State) -- New York -- Practice | New York (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs | Piyutim 
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