| Creator: | Jacobs, Harold | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Harold M. Jacobs papers | | | | Dates: | 1888-1994; Bulk Dates: 1950-1994 | | | | Call No: | 1995.006 | | | | Abstract: | The Harold M. Jacobs Papers document the lifetime and activities of Harold Milton Jacobs (1912-1995), an important Jewish lay leader and businessman. The Papers largely document his career in communal service, both in the Jewish and general non-profit realms. The collection contains correspondence, reports, photographs and other material from Jacobs' numerous affiliations such as the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations, the National Council of Young Israel, and the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York, as well as correspondence documenting his relationships with many prominent local, national, and international politicians and leaders. | | | | Size: | 18.5 Linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Jewish businesspeople -- New York (State) -- New York | Jewish day schools | Jews -- Education -- New York (State) -- New York | Jews -- New York (State) -- New York | Jews -- United States -- Charities | Jews -- United States -- Politics and government | Judaism and politics | New York (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs | Orthodox Judaism -- New York (State) -- New York | Religious Zionism | Religious institutions -- New York (State) -- New York | Sabbath legislation -- New York (State) | Synagogues -- New York (State) -- New York | Universities and colleges -- New York (State) -- New York | Zionism | |
| Creator: | Singer, Harry | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Harry Singer papers | | | | Dates: | 1981 | | | | Call No: | 1984.003 | | | | Abstract: | Harry Singer was a Jewish businessman. In 1982 Mr. Singer, together with his wife Anna, set up the Anna and Harry Singer Endowed Fund for Yiddish Studies at Yeshiva University. The fund was designed to support Yiddish courses and cultural programs at Yeshiva College and Stern College for Women. The collection contains greeting cards to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Singer (one of which is an anniversary card written in Yiddish) and a color photograph taken at a dinner. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | |
| Creator: | Moche, Hasday | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Hasday Moche papers | | | | Dates: | 1924-1945, 1970-1988; Bulk Dates: 1924-1945 | | | | Call No: | 1999.007 | | | | Abstract: | The collection primarily consists of correspondence of Hasday Moche, born in Salonika (Thessaloníki), Greece, and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, with family members and friends dispersed among Athens and Salonika, Greece, Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt, New York, and Yugoslavia. There are also numerous certificates, memorabilia, correspondence and photographs from Moche's army career, where he served in France, as well as his daughter Dulce's correspondence with her father's former acquaintances and her research materials on Salonika Jewry. | | | | Size: | 6.0 Linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Alexandria (Egypt) -- Ethnic relations | Athens (Greece) -- Ethnic relations | Cairo (Egypt) -- Ethnic relations | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Greece | Sephardim -- Balkan Peninsula -- Social life and customs | Sephardim -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- Social life and customs | Sephardim -- Egypt -- Cairo -- Social life and customs | Sephardim -- Genealogy | Sephardim -- Greece -- Athens -- Social life and customs | Sephardim -- Greece -- Thessalonike -- History | Sephardim -- Greece -- Thessalonike -- Social life and customs | Sephardim -- Palestine -- Social life and customs | Sephardim -- United States -- Social life and customs | Thessalonike¯ (Greece) -- Ethnic relations | United States -- Ethnic relations | World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish | |
| Creator: | Plitt, Henry G. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Henry G. Plitt papers | | | | Dates: | 1945- 1989; Bulk Dates: 1989 | | | | Call No: | 2000.028 | | | | Abstract: | The collection contains the papers of Henry G. Plitt, a Brigadier General in the United States Army during World War II and Chairman of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. The collection includes letters signed by Chaim Herzog, President of the State of Israel (April 18, 1989), and Yitzchak Rabin, then Minister of Defense (March 23, 1989), regarding Friends of the IDF. Also included are photocopies of articles from the New York Times regarding Plitt's capture of Nazi war criminal Julius Streicher (May 24, 1945). | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Jewish soldiers -- United States | War criminals -- Germany | Zionists -- United States | |
| Creator: | Gutterman, Henry | Requires cookie* | | | 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 | |
| Creator: | Fischel, Rebecca
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Goldstein, Herbert Samuel, 1890-1970 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Herbert S. Goldstein & Rebecca (Fischel) Goldstein family papers | | | | Dates: | 1887-1997; Bulk Dates: 1925-1988 | | | | Call No: | 2004.099 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists primarily of materials arising from the professional and organizational activities of Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein and of his wife, Rebecca (Fischel) Goldstein. Herbert Goldstein founded the Institutional Synagogue in Harlem in 1917, and occupied leadership positions in numerous Jewish organizations. Rebecca (Fischel) Goldstein, daughter of the philanthropist Harry Fischel, was an active communal leader as well. Also included are papers relating to the rabbinic activities of their son-in-law O. Asher Reichel, materials relating to Harry Fischel, and records of several institutions with which the overall family was connected. | | | | Size: | 13.5 Linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Children -- Institutional care -- Israel | Fasts and feasts -- Judaism | Fish as food | Harlem (New York, N.Y.) | High holiday sermons | Hunter (N.Y.) | Israel | Jerusalem | Jewish religious education | Jewish religious education of children -- United States | Jewish sermons, American | Jewish soldiers | Jewish soldiers--Religious life | Jews -- Charities | Jews -- Dietary laws | Jews -- New York (State) -- New York | Judaism -- Customs and practices | Kosher food | Kosher food industry -- New York (State) -- New York | Orthodox Judaism -- New York (State) -- New York | Palestine -- Description and travel | Rabbis -- New York (State) -- New York | Rabbis -- United States | Rabbis' spouses -- New York (State) -- New York | Revivals--United States--History--20th century. | Sturgeons | Synagogues -- New York (State) -- Hunter | Synagogues -- New York (State) -- New York | Upper West Side (New York, N.Y.) | World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish | World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees | Zionism and Judaism | |
| Creator: | Tenzer, Herbert | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Herbert Tenzer Keren Yaldenu collection | | | | Dates: | 1960-1971 | | | | Call No: | 1986.027 | | | | Abstract: | Keren Yaldenu (Our Children's Fund) was a non-political child welfare organization located in Jerusalem, Israel. Herbert Tenzer was active on behalf of Keren Yaldenu and sought to raise money for the organization through American donations. The collection includes Tenzer's correspondence, photographs, and printed material related to the organization. | | | | Size: | 2 folders | | | | Subjects: | Israel -- Social conditions | Jewish children -- Israel | |
| Creator: | Burkhard, Hugo | Requires cookie* | | | 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) | |
| Creator: | Harris, Hyman H. (Hyman Hirsch), b. 1882 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Hyman H. Harris business card | | | | Dates: | undated | | | | Call No: | 1992.006 | | | | Abstract: | Hyman Hirsch Harris was born in Granov, Russia in 1882, and he moved to the United States in 1913. He was a pharmacist and also a lecturer and author on Jewish music and other Jewish topics. The collection consists of a business card of Hyman Hirsch Harris, P.D., with a note handwritten on it in Hebrew to Dr. Azriel concerning the former's book "Toldot ha-neginah veha-chazanuth be-Yisrael". | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Jews -- Music | Toldot ha-neginah ṿeha-ḥazanut be-Yiśraʻel | |
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