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Creator:  Daily Express (London, England)Requires cookie*
 Title:  Daily Express (London, England) clipping "The Damnation of Trotsky"  
 Dates:  January 2, 1922 
 Call No:  1986.031 
 Abstract:  The collection consists of a newspaper clipping of an article from the front page of the Daily Express (London), entitled "The Damnation of Trotsky", in which an unnamed "Berlin correspondent" vividly describes the alleged excommunication of Leon Trotsky from the Jewish community in a Russian synagogue. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Dnipropetrovs'k (Ukraine) -- Religious life and customs | Foreign news -- London (England) | Jews -- Ukraine -- Dnipropetrovs'k 
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 Title:  Daniel Persky photograph  
 Dates:  circa 1930s 
 Call No:  1992.007 
 Abstract:  Daniel Persky was born in Minsk in 1887, settled in the United States in 1906, and died there in 1962. He was a Hebraist, educator, and journalist. He taught for many years at the Herzliah Hebrew Teachers' College in New York. The collection consists of one photograph of Daniel Persky. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Hebraists -- United States -- Pictorial works 
Creator:  Simmons, DanielRequires cookie*
 Title:  Daniel Simmons business correspondence  
 Dates:  1848-1851 
 Call No:  1986.029 
 Abstract:  Daniel Simmons was a blacksmith and axemaker based in upstate New York. He founded a prosperous business in Cohoes, New York. The collection includes correspondence with customers, and invoices for axes shipped from Cohoes, N.Y. to Cincinnati, Ohio, Richmond, Virginia, and St. Louis, Missouri. 
 Size:  6 folders 
 Subjects:  Axe industry -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources | Cohoes (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources | Industrialist -- New York (State) -- Cohoes 
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 Title:  David and Charlotte Landau postcard collection  
 Dates:  circa 1913-1939 
 Call No:  1994.030 
 Abstract:  The collection consists of approximately 1000 souvenir postcards from Europe, South America, Egypt/Palestine, and the United States collected by David and Charlotte Landau of Washington Heights, New York. 
 Size:  1.5 Linear feet 
 Subjects:  Europe -- Pictorial works | Landscape -- United States -- Pictorial works | Middle East -- Pictorial works | Middle Easterners -- Pictorial works | South America -- Pictorial works | United States -- Pictorial works 
Creator:  Cohen, David ; Cohen, Elias A.Requires cookie*
 Title:  David Cohen and Elias A. Cohen correspondence  
 Dates:  1905, 1919 
 Call No:  1994.004 
 Abstract:  The collection consists of a letter from David Cohen on September 11, 1905 addressed to Jacob H. Schiff, and pertains to the Uptown Talmud Torah Association. There is also a second letter from an Elias A. Cohen on July 29th, 1919 addressed to one Mrs. John P. Gilford, and pertains to buildings being demolished on William Street. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Buildings -- New York (State) -- New York | Jewish religious education -- New York (State) -- New York | Jewish religious schools -- New York (State) -- New York | Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Charities | Real estate business -- New York (State) -- New York 
Creator:  Morgan, David, 1913-Requires cookie*
 Title:  David Morgan oral history collection  
 Dates:  1987 
 Call No:  1987.008 
 Abstract:  David Morgan was an engineer and geologist. He was born in Goralice, Poland to a large Jewish family. He escaped the Holocaust by studying first in Belgium and then fleeing to the United States, where he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1938. The collection contains a tape recording of interview of David Morgan concerning his childhood in Gorlice, Poland and experiences in later years. 
 Size:  1 item 
 Subjects:  Gorlice (Poland) -- Biography 
Creator:  Lifshitz, David, 1907-Requires cookie*
 Title:  David R. Lifshitz papers  
 Dates:  1924, 1930, 1936-1991; Bulk Dates: 1941-1988 
 Call No:  2001.099 
 Abstract:  Rabbi David Lifshitz (1907-1993) was chief rabbi of Suwalk, Poland before World War II and, following the Holocaust, taught at The Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) for nearly fifty years. The collection documents his involvement with Suwalki Holocaust survivors, his career at RIETS, his leadership position in organizations such as Agudath Harabanim and Ezras Torah and in numerous other issues in the Jewish and Israeli political, rabbinic and communal world. It contains correspondence, some writings and speeches, copies of various publications he collected, and a small amount of personal and family materials. 
 Size:  11.5 Linear feet 
 Subjects:  Chief Rabbinate -- Israel | Elections -- Israel | Eulogies | Fraternal organizations -- New York (State) -- New York | Fund raising -- New York (State) -- New York | Holocaust survivors | Israel -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century | Israel -- Politics and government | Jewish law | Jewish refugees -- France | Jews -- Charities | Jews -- New York (State) -- New York | Jews, Algerian -- Israel | Judaism and state -- Israel | Orthodox Judaism -- Israel | Political parties -- Israel | Rabbis -- Correspondence | Rabbis -- New York (State) -- New York | Rabbis -- Poland -- Suwalki | Sabbath | Sefer Minḥat Yosef | Suwalki (Poland) | Talmud -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish | Washington Heights (New York, N.Y.) 
Creator:  Dewitt Clinton High School (New York, N.Y.).Requires cookie*
 Title:  De Witt Clinton High School yearbook "The Clintonian"  
 Dates:  1916 
 Call No:  1992.004 
 Abstract:  The collection contains the 1916 issue of The Clintonian, the 16th annual edition of the Dewitt Clinton High School yearbook. The yearbook includes a photograph of the Packard Commercial School at Lexington Ave. and 35th St. in New York City. This property currently houses Stern College for Women. 
 Size:  1 folder 
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 Title:  Dining Ville  
 Dates:  2007-2009 
 Call No:  YU.2007.021 
 Abstract:  The collection consists of issues of DiningVille, a newsletter published by Yeshiva University students containing articles on culinary and dining topics for the general and, in particular, kosher clientele. 
 Size:  1 Folder(s) 
 Subjects:  College student newspapers and periodicals -- New York (State) -- New York | Jews -- Food -- Periodicals | Kosher food industry -- United States -- Periodicals | Kosher restaurants -- Jerusalem -- Periodicals | Kosher restaurants -- New York (State) - New York -- Periodicals 
Creator:  Konovitz, Israel, 1871-Requires cookie*
 Title:  Downtown Talmud Torah curriculum  
 Dates:  1932-1933 
 Call No:  2000.012 
 Abstract:  Organized in 1892 by immigrants from Austria, the Downtown Talmud Torah offered instruction in religion, Jewish history, and ethics to poor boys living on the Lower East Side of New York. The collection consists of a curriculum for the Downtown Talmud Torah, designed by Israel Konovitz, principal of the Talmud Torah. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Jewish religious education -- New York (State) -- New York | Jewish religious schools -- New York (State) -- New York