| Creator: | Bunim, Irving M., 1901-1980 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Irving Bunim family papers | | | | Dates: | 1920-1992; Bulk Dates: 1945-1980 | | | | Call No: | 2007.004 | | | | Abstract: | Irving M. Bunim was a businessman, Jewish lay leader, and major figure in the Vaad Hatzala to help Jewish refugees. The collection contains photographs, telegrams, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other material chiefly related to the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School, Vaad Hatzala, Young Israel, and Bunim's book,
Ethics From Sinai. | | | | Size: | 2.0 Linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Jewish authors -- United States | Jewish businesspeople -- New York (State) -- New York | Jewish refugees -- United States | Jews -- Education -- New York (State) -- New York | Jews -- United States -- Charities | Orthodox Judaism -- New York (State) -- New York | Pictorial review [of] Vaad Hatzala, Germany, 1948 | Rabbis -- United States | World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue | |
| Creator: | Bunim, Irving M., 1901-1980 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Irving Bunim oral history collection | | | | Dates: | 1976-1978 | | | | Call No: | 1985.014 | | | | Abstract: | Irving Bunim was a businessman, Jewish lay leader, and major figure in the Vaad Hatzala to help Jewish refugees. The Vaad Hatzala, an Orthodox Jewish relief organization established in 1939, provided funds for rabbis and religious students in war-torn Europe and worked for their emigration. The collection contains a photocopy of a transcript of an interview with Irving Bunim by Rabbi Moshe Kolodny of the Agudath Israel of America Orthodox Jewish Archives concerning the work of the Vaad Hatzala during World War II. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | Refugees, Jewish | World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue | |
| Creator: | Spektor, Isaac Elhanan, Rabbi | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Isaac Elhanan Spektor ordination papers | | | | Dates: | 1883, 1964 | | | | Call No: | 1984.004 | | | | Abstract: | Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spektor (1817–1896) was a noted Talmudist, Jewish legal thinker and communal leader. Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), part of Yeshiva University, was established and named in his honor in 1896. The collection consists of a letter by Rabbi Yitzchak Blaser to Rabbi Spektor recommending an individual for ordination, an ordination certificate signed by Spektor from 1883, and an English translation of the letter (1964). | | | | Size: | 3 Items | | | | Subjects: | Rabbis -- Ordination | |
| Creator: | Loeb, Isidore, 1839-1892 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Isidor Loeb letter to Joseph Jacobs | | | | Dates: | 1889 | | | | Call No: | 1987.002 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of a manuscript letter from Isidore Loeb, a French rabbi and scholar, to Joseph Jacobs, an Australian-born folklore scholar who was also a historian of Jewish culture. In the letter, Loeb deciphers an Arabic seal. He acknowledges the assistance of Joseph Derenbourg, a French orientalist and educator. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Jewish scholars -- Correspondence | Orientalism | |
| Creator: | Winograd, Israel | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Israel Winograd desertion correspondence | | | | Dates: | 1922-1925 | | | | Call No: | 1992.017 | | | | Abstract: | The collection contains a letter of November 12, 1925, written in Yiddish, from Israel Winograd to Rabbi Sarasohn on behalf of his mother-in-law Frayde Zucker. Zucker had been abandoned by her husband, Yerahmiel Gedalyah Zucker, and Winograd had written to Rabbi Sarasohn for advice. Rabbi Gavriel Zeev Margaliyot is mentioned in the letter. Notes on the case in Yiddish are written on the back of a proclamation by the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada regarding kashruth and the "Kosher Bill", dated December 21, 1922. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Divorce (Jewish law) | |
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