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Creator:  Union of American Hebrew Congregations.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Union of American Hebrew Congregations souvenir of dinner  
 Dates:  1911 
 Call No:  1991.006 
 Abstract:  The Union of American Hebrew Congregations, an association of mostly Reform synagogues, was founded in 1873 by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise in Cincinatti, Ohio. The collection consists of a dinner souvenir given to delegates to the 22nd Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, which was held on January 18, 1911 at the Hotel Astor in New York City. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Reform Judaism -- United States -- History -- 20th century 
Creator:  Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada resolution  
 Dates:  1905 
 Call No:  1986.058 
 Abstract:  The Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada was founded in 1901, making it one of the oldest ultra-Orthodox rabbinic organizations in North America. The collection consists of a denunciation by the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada of the Zion Wurst Factory, New York, as producing non-kosher meat (1906). 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Kosher food industry -- New York (State) -- New York 
Creator:  United Cloth Hat and Cap Makers of North America. Local 7 (Boston, Mass.)Requires cookie*
 Title:  United Cloth, Hat and Cap Makers Union of North America. Local 7 (Boston, Massachusetts) minutes  
 Dates:  1906-1908 
 Call No:  1993.004 
 Abstract:  The collection consists of meeting minutes of the Union of the United Cloth, Hat and Cap Makers Union of North America, Local 7 based in Boston, Massachusetts (November 1906-October 1908). The minutes are written in Yiddish. 
 Size:  1 bound book 
 Subjects:  Hatters -- labor unions -- Massachusetts -- Boston | Jewish labor unions -- Massachusetts -- Boston | Jews -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History | Labor union locals -- Massachusetts -- Boston 
Creator:  United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near EastRequires cookie*
 Title:  United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East reports  
 Dates:  1972-1977 
 Call No:  1991.009 
 Abstract:  The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine Refugees in the Near East was established in 1950 to provide services to displaced Palestinians after the Arab-Israeli Conflict of 1948. These reports detail the services that the UNRWA provided and include statistics regarding issues such as health care and education which show what the situation was for those refugees. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Middle East -- Politics and government | Refugees, Palestinian Arab 
Creator:  United Service for New AmericansRequires cookie*
 Title:  United Service for New Americans publications  
 Dates:  1949-1951 
 Call No:  1995.003 
 Abstract:  The United Service for New Americans (USNA) was established in 1946 in order to help persons displaced by the Holocaust settle in the United States. The USNA helped these Displaced Persons (DPs) in finding jobs, integrating into communities, learning English, and becoming naturalized American citizens. The collection consists of five items published by the USNA relating to the organization's activities and describing its services. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Holocaust survivors | Jews -- United States -- Charities | Refugees, Jewish | United States -- Emigration and immigration | United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953 | World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees 
Creator:  United States. Office of Strategic ServicesRequires cookie*
 Title:  OSS Reports on Revisionist Zionists  
 Dates:  1944-1945, 1982; Bulk Dates: 1944-1945 
 Call No:  1985.003 
 Abstract:  The collection includes three reports by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), predecessor organization to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), concerning the activities of Peter Bergson and his Revisionist Zionist organization. The "Bergson Group" Revisionists publicized the horrors experienced by European Jewry under the Nazis to arouse public concern and to pressure the United States government into allowing rescue missions of Nazi victims. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | Jews -- United States -- Politics and government | Revisionist Zionists | World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue | Zionists -- United States