| Creator: | Caro, Joseph H. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Caro family genealogy chart | | | | Dates: | 1962 | | | | Call No: | 1986.035 | | | | Abstract: | The first person with the name Caro was a 2nd century Tanna, Rabbi Haninah Caro. Many of his descendents became rabbis, including his most famous descendent, Rabbi Joseph Caro, the author of the
Shulchan Aruch. This genealogical chart gives names and biographical information about many of the members of the Caro family, up until 1962. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Jews -- Genealogy | |
| Creator: | Central Orthodox Committee | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Central Orthodox Committee Collection | | | | Dates: | 1942, 1945-1953; Bulk Dates: 1947-1950 | | | | Call No: | 1963.098 | | | | Abstract: | Correspondence, financial records, reports, and other material concerning relief work with displaced persons following World War II. Includes correspondence and reports of European Directors Samuel L. Sar, Rabbi Solomon Shapiro, and Rabbi Manuel Laderman, and Treasurer A.M. Stavsky; and material concerning relations with Joint Distribution Committee, Vaad Hatzala, United Service for New Americans, and United States government agencies, as well as Jewish Central Orthodox Committee commission to Europe. | | | | Size: | 5.5 linear feet | | | | Subjects: | International relief -- Europe | Jews -- Charities | Jews -- Europe | Orthodox Judaism | Refugees, Jewish -- Europe | United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century | |
| Creator: | Rubinstein, Charles | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Charles Rubinstein papers | | | | Dates: | Bulk Dates:1938-1943; Bulk Dates: 1938-1943; 1938-1959 | | | | Call No: | 1985.013 | | | | Abstract: | Charles Rubinstein was a Jewish businessman and an active participant in Jewish communal life. During World War II he worked to obtain immigration rights for Jewish refugees. The collection contains Charles Rubinstein's correspondence to important officials concerning immigrants and refugees, including Representative James M. Fitzpatrick, John K. Davis, the American Consul General in Warsaw, and Senator Robert F. Wagner. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Europe | Jews -- Europe -- Migrations | Refugees, Jewish -- Europe | |
| | | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Chavrusa | | | | Dates: | 1956-2019, with gaps | | | | Call No: | YU.1996.015 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of issues of
Chavrusa, the alumni magazine of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, from 1956 through 2019, with gaps. | | | | Size: | 1 Linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Rabbis | |
| Creator: | Zeldis, Chayym, 1927- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Chayym Zeldis short story typescripts | | | | Dates: | 1958-1972 | | | | Call No: | 1991.007 | | | | Abstract: | Chayym Zeldis is an American-born writer and lecturer. He has written poetry, short stories and novels on Jewish and general subjects. The collection contains typescripts of a novel "Like unto Dreamers" and a collection of short stories entitled "Far from Where?" (1972). Also included are photocopies of various short stories by Zeldis, published in various periodicals between 1958-1971. | | | | Size: | 0.5 linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Jewish literature | |
| Creator: | Yeshiva University. Center for the Jewish Future | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The CJF Report | | | | Dates: | 2009-2013 | | | | Call No: | YU.2013.160 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of issues of an illustrated report highlighting the activities and accomplishments of Yeshiva University's Center for the Jewish Future, its community service arm, for the 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2012-13 academic years. | | | | Size: | 1 Item | |
| | | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Cluj (Romania) photocopy of broadside | | | | Dates: | 1923 | | | | Call No: | 1994.032 | | | | Abstract: | The Cluj (Romania) Photocopy of Broadside relates to a religious conflict that existed between the established Orthodox community of Cluj and the newer Khal Adat Sefardim. The broadside is signed by various Romanian rabbis in support for
Kahal Adat Sefaradim declaring that the established Orthodox community of Cluj, (Klausenberg, Kolozsvar) Romania had lost its legitimacy as an Orthodox institution. | | | | Size: | 1 item | | | | Subjects: | Jews -- Romania -- Cluj-Napoca | Rabbis -- Romania | |
| Creator: | Rood, Coen, 1917- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Coen Rood War Documentation Center (Netherlands) report | | | | Dates: | 1945-1949 | | | | Call No: | 2000.006 | | | | Abstract: | The collection contains a report by Coen Rood, a Dutch Jewish tailor, written during the period 1945-1949 for the War Documentation Center of the Netherlands. The report, titled "Report 1942 to 1945," recounts Rood's experiences as a prisoner in 11 forced labor camps during that period and includes detailed recollections of death marches and his time spent in Camp Conrad in the Netherlands, Flossenburg in Germany, and Gleiwitz-Steigern in Poland, as well as a number of other camps. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Death marches -- Germany | Flossenbürg (Concentration camp) | Gleiwitz II (Concentration camp) | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Netherlands -- Personal narratives | Jews -- Netherlands | Jews -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- Biography | World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews | |
| | | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Commentary on Talmud Tractate Gittin 90a-b | | | | Dates: | 1772 | | | | Call No: | 1994.049 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of a manuscript fragment of a commentary on Tractate Gittin of the Babylonian Talmud, pages 90a and 90b, written on all sides of a signle folded sheet. One part of the fragment has the Hebrew date 3 Adar Sheni 5532 (corresponding to March 8, 1772), and mentions the names Josef Kats and Mordekhai ben Josef Kats. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Talmud. Gittin -- Commentaries | |
| Creator: | Congregation Beth Hillel-Beth Israel (New York, N.Y.) | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Congregation Beth Hillel-Beth Israel (New York, N.Y.) records | | | | Dates: | 1940s-1990 | | | | Call No: | 2001.001 | | | | Abstract: | Congregations Beth Hillel and Beth Israel of Washington Heights, both of German-Jewish origin, merged in 1980. Beth Hillel, founded in 1939, had been a Conservative congregation, while Congregation Beth Israel had been established in 1949 under Orthodox auspices. The collection contains bulletins, newsletters, correspondence, dinner journals and other printed material relating to Congregation Beth Hillel & Beth Israel. | | | | Size: | 4.5 Linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Jews, German -- New York (State) -- New York | Music -- manuscripts | New York (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs | Refuseniks | Religious institutions -- New York (State) -- New York | Synagogue music -- High Holiday services | Synagogues -- New York (State) -- New York | Washington Heights (New York, N.Y.) | |
| | | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Correspondence to Richard Gottheil from European publishers | | | | Dates: | 1887-1893 | | | | Call No: | 1995.007 | | | | Abstract: | Richard Gottheil was born in Manchester, England in 1862, and moved to the United States in 1873. He became the first professor of Semitic studies at Columbia College after 1886, and he published works in Hebrew and Arabic in his field. The collection contains correspondence with him between 1887 and 1893 from publishers in London, Leiden, and Leipzig regarding the cost of printing his manuscripts. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Jewish scholars | Scholarly publishing -- Europe | |
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