| Creator: | Mauer, Leonard, 1929- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Leonard Mauer Palestine collection | | | | Dates: | undated, 1947-1948 | | | | Call No: | 2000.021 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of UN reports from 1947-48, the end of the period of the British Mandate in Palestine. There are maps of the proposed Partition Plan and the boundaries of Jerusalem. There are also maps of the Middle East and Asia Minor delineated with Roman provinces. Also included is a 1948 poster from the Lohame Herut Yisrael (Lehi), a militant Zionist organization, advocating freedom from Arab terror. | | | | Size: | 2 Linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Israel -- Politics and government | Palestine -- History -- Partition | Palestine -- Maps | |
| Creator: | Prins, Liepman Philip, 1835-1915
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Hirschler, Gertrude | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Liepman Philip Prins pamphlet "On Zionism" | | | | Dates: | 1904, 1991 | | | | Call No: | 1992.003 | | | | Abstract: | The collection contains an English translation of a pamphlet entitled "On Zionism". The pamphlet consists of one letter from Rabbi Liepman Philip Prins of Amsterdam to Rabbi Isaiah Silberstein of Weitzen, dated June 24, 1904. Gertrude Hirschler translated the letter from a German translation of the original Hebrew (now lost), and wrote the letter's introduction and commentary. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Zionism -- Europe | |
| Creator: | Bernstein, Louis, 1927- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Louis Bernstein papers | | | | Dates: | 1943-1995 | | | | Call No: | 2006.099 | | | | Abstract: | The collection contains materials arising from the rabbinic and public service career of Louis Bernstein, Rabbi of Young Israel of Windsor Park (Queens, N.Y.), his leadership of the Rabbinical Council of America, the Religious Zionists of America and his involvement in various other Jewish institutions and causes. Also includes correspondence from Heidelberg, Germany, where Bernstein served as an army chaplain in 1953-54. | | | | Size: | 9.5 Linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Jewish camps -- United States | Jews -- Education -- New York (State) -- New York | Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Chaplains | Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Participation, Jewish | Orthodox Judaism -- New York (State) -- New York | Rabbis -- New York (State) -- New York | Religion and state -- Israel | Religious Zionism | Synagogues -- New York (State) -- New York | Zionism | |
| Creator: | Levine, Louis | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Louis Levine papers | | | | Dates: | 1932-1953 | | | | Call No: | 1978.099 | | | | Abstract: | Louis Levine, and American businessman and Jewish communal leader, worked tirelessly for a variety of Jewish causes. Levine's papers relate to his activities in the Jewish Council for Russian War Relief, the Independent Order B'rith Shalom, Yeshiva University, and the American Jewish Congress. Other material includes correspondence, legal and financial documents, leases, and building plans concerning his real estate and contracting business (1932-1953). | | | | Size: | 53 linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Friendly societies -- Ukraine | Friendly societies -- United States | Fund raising -- New York (State) -- New York | Holocaust survivors -- Soviet Union | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | International relief -- Soviet Union | Jews -- Soviet Union | Jews -- United States -- Charities | Jews -- United States -- Societies, etc. | Real estate business -- United States | Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Soviet Union | Refugees, Jewish -- Soviet Union | |
| | | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Lubavitch ephemera collection | | | | Dates: | 1989-1991 | | | | Call No: | 1994.013 | | | | Abstract: | Collection consists of newsletters, pamphlets, and announcements produced by the Habad/Lubavitch movement, a Hasidic movement founded in the late 1700s, relating to preparations for the coming of the Messiah and a proclamation of Menachem M. Schneerson declaring Israel safe for travel during the Gulf War. Also included is a video about Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, and a program guide to the Jewish Children's Expo in 1989 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City. | | | | Size: | 1 manuscript box and 1 oversized item | | | | Subjects: | Chabad in America | Habad -- United States | Messiah -- Judaism | Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Israel | |
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