| Creator: | Bernstein, Louis, 1927- | Save to cart | | | Title: | Louis Bernstein papers | | | | Dates: | 1943-1995 | | | | Call No: | 2006.099 | | | | Abstract: | The collection contains materials arising from the rabbinic and public service career of Louis Bernstein, Rabbi of Young Israel of Windsor Park (Queens, N.Y.), his leadership of the Rabbinical Council of America, the Religious Zionists of America and his involvement in various other Jewish institutions and causes. Also includes correspondence from Heidelberg, Germany, where Bernstein served as an army chaplain in 1953-54. | | | | Size: | 9.5 Linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Jewish camps -- United States | Jews -- Education -- New York (State) -- New York | Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Chaplains | Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Participation, Jewish | Orthodox Judaism -- New York (State) -- New York | Rabbis -- New York (State) -- New York | Religion and state -- Israel | Religious Zionism | Synagogues -- New York (State) -- New York | Zionism | |
| Creator: | Bernstein, Mordechai Wolf, 1905-1966 | Save to cart | | | Title: | Mordechai Bernstein collection | | | | Dates: | 1605-1965 | | | | Call No: | 1966.099 | | | | Abstract: | Mordechai Bernstein was a Jewish historian and Yiddish cultural activist who lived in Poland, Argentina, and the United States. The collection contains unique documents on Jewish life in Germany since the seventeenth century, on Displaced Persons camps in Germany after World War II, and Jewish life in Argentina in the 1950s, as well as transcripts, photocopies and descriptions of numerous original documents and publications maintained in Germany and on German Jewry. Bernstein's personal papers are also included in the collection. | | | | Size: | 30 Linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Archives -- Germany | Forṿerṭs | Holocaust survivors | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | Jewish Daily Forward (New York, N.Y.) | Jewish learning and scholarship | Jewish sermons | Jews -- Argentina | Jews -- Europe, Eastern | Jews -- Germany -- History | Jews -- History | Jews -- Poland | Jews -- United States | Libraries -- Germany | Refugee camps -- Germany | Refugees, Jewish -- Germany | Yiddish language | Yiddish periodicals | Zionism | |
| Creator: | Binder, Edwin A. | Save to cart | | | Title: | Edwin A. Binder correspondence | | | | Dates: | 1934-1960 | | | | Call No: | 1991.002 | | | | Abstract: | Edwin A. Binder was a Swiss-American and a senior partner in Corn Schwartz and Co., cotton and commodities brokers, who dealt substantially with Europe. He tried to obtain United States visas for his Jewish contacts as the status of Jews deteriorated in Nazi Europe. The collection contains the correspondence of Edwin A. Binder with, or regarding, business contacts and other individuals in Europe. | | | | Size: | 0.5 linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Emigration and immigration | World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Czechoslovakia. | |
| Creator: | Blum, A. K. | Save to cart | | | Title: | A. K. Blum letter to Chaim Morris Yud | | | | Dates: | 1925 | | | | Call No: | 1994.042 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of a letter to Rabbi Chaim Morris Yud (Jood) and his wife Dina in Brooklyn, New York, from A.K. Blum of Wysokie-Litewskie, Poland, congratulating him on his new position and discussing personal matters. The letter fills the front and back of a page of regular lined notebook paper, and is written in reasonably hard to decipher Hebrew. Included with the letter is the envelope in which it came. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Jews -- Belarus -- Brest | |
| Creator: | Board of Jewish Education (New York, N.Y.) | Save to cart | | | Title: | Board of Jewish Education self-study report | | | | Dates: | 1972 | | | | Call No: | 1994.062 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of a book called "The Self-Study Report," published by the Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York. It describes the structure and activities of the Board of Jewish Education, and recommends ways for further organizational growth. The Board's purpose was to enable Jewish education in New York by training teachers, providing job placement, operating schools, and developing curricula. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | |
| Creator: | Bunim, Irving M., 1901-1980 | Save to cart | | | Title: | Irving Bunim family papers | | | | Dates: | 1920-1992; Bulk Dates: 1945-1980 | | | | Call No: | 2007.004 | | | | Abstract: | Irving M. Bunim was a businessman, Jewish lay leader, and major figure in the Vaad Hatzala to help Jewish refugees. The collection contains photographs, telegrams, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other material chiefly related to the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School, Vaad Hatzala, Young Israel, and Bunim's book,
Ethics From Sinai. | | | | Size: | 2.0 Linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Jewish authors -- United States | Jewish businesspeople -- New York (State) -- New York | Jewish refugees -- United States | Jews -- Education -- New York (State) -- New York | Jews -- United States -- Charities | Orthodox Judaism -- New York (State) -- New York | Pictorial review [of] Vaad Hatzala, Germany, 1948 | Rabbis -- United States | World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue | |
| Creator: | Bunim, Irving M., 1901-1980 | Save to cart | | | Title: | Irving Bunim oral history collection | | | | Dates: | 1976-1978 | | | | Call No: | 1985.014 | | | | Abstract: | Irving Bunim was a businessman, Jewish lay leader, and major figure in the Vaad Hatzala to help Jewish refugees. The Vaad Hatzala, an Orthodox Jewish relief organization established in 1939, provided funds for rabbis and religious students in war-torn Europe and worked for their emigration. The collection contains a photocopy of a transcript of an interview with Irving Bunim by Rabbi Moshe Kolodny of the Agudath Israel of America Orthodox Jewish Archives concerning the work of the Vaad Hatzala during World War II. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | Refugees, Jewish | World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue | |
| Creator: | Burkhard, Hugo | Save to cart | | | Title: | Hugo Burkhard collection | | | | Dates: | 1940-1972 | | | | Call No: | 1993.012 | | | | Abstract: | The collection contains materials related to Hugo Burkhard's life after the Holocaust. Hugo Burkhard (1899-1971) survived Dachau and Buchenwald and served as a leader in the post-World War II Jewish community of Nuremberg, Germany. Included are photocopies of Hugo Burkhard's obituary, a written memorial about his life, correspondence between Burkhard and Dr. Curt Metzger of Bradford, Pennsylvania. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Dachau (Concentration camp) | Holocaust survivors -- Germany | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | |
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