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Creator:  Garber, AkivaSave to cart
 Title:  Akiva Garber Soviet Jewry collection  
 Dates:  1970-1990 
 Call No:  2007.005 
 Abstract:  Steve/Akiva Garber was active in the Yale University chapter of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) during the 1970s. After leaving Yale, he became active in the Israel Public Council for Soviet Jewry, which helped many Soviet Jews escape and resettle in Israel. The collection consists of reports, newspaper clippings, publications, correspondence, notes and sound recordings relating to the struggle for Soviet Jewry in the United States and Israel, and especially relating to the Yale chapter of the SSSJ. 
 Size:  2.0 Linear feet 
 Subjects:  Jews -- Persecutions -- Soviet Union | Jews -- Soviet Union | Refuseniks | Soviet Union -- Emigration and immigration | Soviet Union -- Ethnic relations | Students -- United States -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies 
Creator:  Gardi, Natan, 1901-Save to cart
 Title:  Natan Gardi letter to Joseph Dov Soloveitchik  
 Dates:  1974 
 Call No:  1994.046 
 Abstract:  Collection contains a letter from Natan Gardi (1901-) a member of the HaPoel HaMizrachi movement, sent to Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveichik (1903-1993), Rosh Yeshivah of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (1941-1993), and Honorary President of the Religious Zionists Organization of America (the American branch of World Mizrachi-HaPoel Hamizrachi), discussing the history of HaPoel HaMizrachi. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Religious Zionism -- Israel 
Creator:  Geller, Victor B.Save to cart
 Title:  Victor Geller papers  
 Dates:  Bulk Dates:1960-1979; Bulk Dates: 1960-1979; 1910-1984 
 Call No:  1999.002 
 Abstract:  Victor B. Geller is a Jewish communal leader and author. He has served in a number of important positions at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) and other Jewish institutions, and is the author of Orthodoxy Awakens: The Belkin Era and Yeshiva University. The collection contains material related to Yeshiva University, the Yeshiva Rabbi Dov Revel of Forest Hills, New York, the Yeshiva High School of Queens, and various other Jewish communal organizations. 
 Size:  3 Linear feet 
 Subjects:  High schools -- New York (State) -- New York | Jewish authors -- United States -- Biography | Jews -- Education -- New York (State) -- New York | Universities and colleges 
Creator:  Gezari, Temima, 1905-Save to cart
 Title:  Temima Gezari Papers  
 Dates:  1935-2000 
 Call No:  2003.096 
 Abstract:  Temami Gezari (1905-2009) was a painter, sculptor and muralist, and a renowned art educator. The collection consists of materials documenting her activities directing the Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York's Art Department from 1940 until 2002 and consists of files from numerous exhibits held in conjunction with art education programs at Jewish schools and community centers, and of administrative records and publications from the BJE's Art Department. It also contains personal files from Gezari's work as an artist and sculptor. 
 Size:  35.0 Linear feet 
 Subjects:  Art -- Study and teaching | Child artists | Children's art -- Israel -- Exhibitions | Children's art -- New York (State) -- New York | Children's art -- United States -- Exhibitions | Jewish art | Jewish children in the Holocaust | Jewish religious education -- Activity programs -- New York (State) -- New York | Jewish women artists -- New York (State) -- New York | Older artists -- United States -- Exhibitions | Women sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York 
Creator:  Gitelson familySave to cart
 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. 
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 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:  Gold, Henry RaphaelSave to cart
 Title:  Henry Raphael Gold writings  
 Dates:  1921-1965 
 Call No:  1988.003 
 Abstract:  Rabbi Dr. Henry Raphael Gold was a noted rabbi, psychiatrist, and Zionist leader. He held rabbinical positions in Memphis, Boston, New Orleans and Dallas. He served as president of Hapoel Hamizrachi, the labor Zionist organization, before it merged with Mizrachi to form the Religious Zionists of America. The collection contains reprints of articles, speeches and papers written by Rabbi Dr. Gold on psychiatry and Judaism. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Psychiatrists -- United States | Psychology and religion | Rabbis -- United States | Zionists -- United States 
Creator:  Goldish, SamSave to cart
 Title:  Sam Goldish reminiscences of Marietta, Ohio  
 Dates:  after 1900 
 Call No:  1993.016 
 Abstract:  The collection consists of a written reminiscence by Sam Goldish of life in Marietta, Ohio in the early twentieth century. It includes an account of the marriage of Rabbi Bernard Revel to Sarah Travis of Marietta. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Jews -- Ohio -- Marietta | Marietta (Ohio) -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes | Marietta (Ohio) --History --20th century 
Creator:  Goldshewsky, SimchaSave to cart
 Title:  Simcha Goldshewsky papers  
 Dates:  1933-1934 
 Call No:  2006.003 
 Abstract:  Collection contains various manuscript notes/letters in Hebrew and Yiddish composed by Rabbi Simcha Goldshewsky, rabbi of Congregation Shaarei Shalom, Allentown, Pennsylvania, as well as a printed copy of Sefer Toʻafot Reʼem, with an inscription by the author, Rabbi Avraham Moshe Vitkind, to Goldshewsky. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Manuscripts -- Hebrew | Manuscripts -- Yiddish | Rabbis -- Pennsylvania | Toʻafot Reʼem 
Creator:  Goren, ShlomoSave to cart
 Title:  Shlomo Goren responsum  
 Dates:  1981 
 Call No:  1984.002 
 Abstract:  Rabbi Shlomo Goren, former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel (1972-1983), wrote a number of halachic (Jewish legal) opinions on the subjects of war, science and technology. This collection consists of a responsum written by him on the question of a kohen (member of the priestly class) attending medical school. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Chief Rabbinate -- Israel | Israel -- Religious life and customs | Judaism -- Functionaries | Medicine -- Study and teaching | Responsa 
Creator:  Graduate School for Jewish Social Work (New York, N.Y.).Save to cart
 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 
Creator:  Grand, NaomiSave to cart
 Title:  Naomi Grand papers  
 Dates:  1945-1982 
 Call No:  2000.009 
 Abstract:  Naomi Grand worked as a librarian in Harrisburg for many years until she moved to New York City to work as a researcher for the American Jewish Committee. The collection contains her personal and professional correspondence. Included in the collection are resumes, work reports, research memoranda covering a variety of topics, letters, and a folder of undated photographs. 
 Size:  .5 Linear feet 
 Subjects:  Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc. | Mass media and culture -- United States | Neo-Nazism -- United States 
Creator:  Greenstone, Julius H., (Julius Hillel), 1873-1955Save to cart
 Title:  Julius Greenstone Reminiscences  
 Dates:  undated 
 Call No:  1992.016 
 Abstract:  Rabbi Julius Hillel Greenstone was a Lithuanian-born Jewish scholar and educator. He graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary and City College of New York and later served as a lecturer at the Mikveh Israel Congregation and Gratz College in Philadelphia. The collection contains a photocopy of a typewritten draft of "Reminiscences", an autobiographical memoir by Rabbi Julius Hillel Greenstone. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Jews -- Lithuania -- Biography | Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography 
Creator:  Griliches, JosefSave to cart
 Title:  Samuel Salman Griliches collection  
 Dates:  1982-1999 
 Call No:  2000.025 
 Abstract:  Dr. Samuel Salman Griliches was born in 1890 in Kovno, then part of the Russian Empire, to a religious and prestigious middle class family. He was a prominent dentist before, during and after the war in Lithuania, in the concentration camps, and finally in the United States. The collection contains a speech about his life given by his son, some articles about his life, and a poem written by Griliches entitled "The March to Tirol." 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Holocaust survivors -- Biography | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poetry | Jewish dentists 
Creator:  Guggenheim, SiegfriedSave to cart
 Title:  Siegfried Guggenheim papers  
 Dates:  1910-1960; Bulk Dates: 1946-1960 
 Call No:  1985.001 
 Abstract:  Siegfried Guggenheim was a German-born lawyer, and chairman of the Jewish community of Offenbach before emigrating to the United States. The collection contains typescript changes for the second edition of the Offenbacher Haggadah edited by Guggenheim, photographs, correspondence, and other materials. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Jews -- Migrations | Offenbacher Haggadah | Rabbis 
Creator:  Guth, Benjamin Baruch, b. 1856Save to cart
 Title:  Benjamin Guth papers  
 Dates:  1911-1929 
 Call No:  1986.099 
 Abstract:  Benjamin Baruch Guth was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, author, and Jewish communal leader. Born in Hungary, he served as rabbi of Congregation Chasam Sopher in New York City for many years. The collection contains correspondence, circulars, and other material concerning rabbinical issues, fundraising for Jewish institutions in New York and Palestine, the New York Kehillah, and other Jewish communal matters. 
 Size:  0.2 Linear feet 
 Subjects:  Fund raising -- New York (State) -- New York | Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Charities | Jews -- Palestine | New York (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs | Orthodox Judaism -- New York (State) -- New York | Religious institutions -- New York (State) -- New York 
Creator:  Gutterman, HenrySave to cart
 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