| Creator: | Makhon Gold (Jerusalem) | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Makhon Gold broadside | | | | Dates: | circa 1969 | | | | Call No: | 1994.047 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of a broadside in Hebrew issued by Makhon Gold, a post-high school learning institution in Jerusalem, describing its programs for 1969-1970. It lists the three different programs, and also provides the requirements for entrance, more specific information about the tracks of study, and contact information for further questions. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Jewish religious education of girls -- Israel | Religious Zionism -- Israel | |
| Creator: | Manhattan Day School (New York, N.Y.) | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Manhattan Day School yearbook "The Echo" | | | | Dates: | 1961 | | | | Call No: | 1994.067 | | | | Abstract: | The collection contains a 1961 yearbook called "The Echo" from the Manhattan Day School, a Modern Orthodox Jewish day school in New York City. The yearbook contains a letter from the principal, a list of faculty, a program from the commencement ceremony, pictures of the graduates, ads, and articles written by the students. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Jewish day schools | Jews -- New York (State) -- New York | |
| | | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Manuscript material on Torah and Talmudic topics | | | | Dates: | undated, circa 1920's | | | | Call No: | 1994.002 | | | | Abstract: | Collection includes manuscript material in an unknown hand on Tanakh, Talmudic, and Midrashic topics which may date from the 1920s. Among the issues dealt with in the collection are the importance of living in a proper religious environment, the importance of Torah study, and the pilgrimage made to the
Beit Hamikdash (Holy Temple). | | | | Size: | 3 folders | | | | Subjects: | Bible. O.T. -- Criticism, Interpretation, etc., Jewish | Talmud -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish | |
| Creator: | Enright, Maurice, 1905-1977 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Maurice Enright Papers | | | | Dates: | 1921-1978 | | | | Call No: | 1993.020 | | | | Abstract: | Maurice Enright was active in Jewish communal affairs, especially those affiliated with the Poale Agudath Israel. After the close of World War II, he traveled to Europe three times between 1946 and 1948 as a representative of the Vaad Hatzala and Rescue Children organizations. These post-war activities are the major focus of this collection, which consists of correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, and newspaper clippings. | | | | Size: | 2.25 linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Ba-Sha'ar | Custody of children -- Israel | France | Holocaust survivors -- France | Holocaust survivors -- Switzerland | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Europe | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal Narratives | Intercountry adoption | Israel | Jewish children in the Holocaust -- France | Jewish orphanages -- France | Jews -- Charities | Jews -- Migrations | Palestine | Refugees, Jewish | United States -- Emigration and immigration | World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps | |
| Creator: | Abelson, Meir | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Meir Abelson collection | | | | Dates: | 1977-1993 | | | | Call No: | 1987.014 | | | | Abstract: | Meir Abelson, a former surveyor living in Israel, has dedicated his life to charity work. Abelson serves on the board of directors of Keren Yaldenu (Our Child's Fund) in Jerusalem, Israel. The collection contains correspondence between Myer and Ruth Solomon of Williamsport, Pennsylvania and Meir Abelson of Israel. It also includes monthly newsletters from Abelson. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Israel -- Social conditions | Jewish children -- Israel | Jews -- Israel -- Charities | |
| Creator: | Higger, Michael | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Michael Higger typescript on the agunah issue in Jewish law | | | | Dates: | undated | | | | Call No: | 2000.032 | | | | Abstract: | Michael Higger was born in Regovo, Lithuania in 1898, where he received a traditional Jewish education before emigrating to the United States in 1915. He received rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and published many books and articles on the Talmud and Jewish law. The collection consists of a typescript with manuscript notes entitled "A Prolegomena to a Bibliography of the Aguna in Responsa" which he wrote, as well as a photocopy of the same document. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Agunahs | Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. (Jewish law) | |
| Creator: | Silberman, Mordecai | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Mordecai Silberman papers | | | | Dates: | 1921-1963 | | | | Call No: | 1986.019 | | | | Abstract: | The collection contains photo albums with photographs of Rabbi Silberman, his family, Karlsruhe and other subjects. It also includes a diary with poetry and some illustrations, dedicated to Fillie Silberman by her classmates (in German, 1921-1924), and an unidentified notebook, circa 1963, filled with notes on a variety of topics and drafts of sermons for several important occasions. | | | | Size: | 4 folders | | | | Subjects: | Jews -- Germany | Rabbis | |
| Creator: | Soltes, Mordecai, 1893-1957 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Mordecai Soltes papers | | | | Dates: | undated, 1942 | | | | Call No: | 1993.018 | | | | Abstract: | Moredecai Soltes (1893-1957) was a Jewish author and educator. The collection consists of Soltes' correspondence relating to the activities of the National Jewish Welfare Board (JWB), minutes of a JWB meeting, and two copies of a résumé. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Jewish community centers | Jews -- Education | |
| Creator: | Bernstein, Mordechai Wolf, 1905-1966 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Mordechai Bernstein collection | | | | Dates: | 1605-1965 | | | | Call No: | 1966.099 | | | | Abstract: | Mordechai Bernstein was a Jewish historian and Yiddish cultural activist who lived in Poland, Argentina, and the United States. The collection contains unique documents on Jewish life in Germany since the seventeenth century, on Displaced Persons camps in Germany after World War II, and Jewish life in Argentina in the 1950s, as well as transcripts, photocopies and descriptions of numerous original documents and publications maintained in Germany and on German Jewry. Bernstein's personal papers are also included in the collection. | | | | Size: | 30 Linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Archives -- Germany | Forṿerṭs | Holocaust survivors | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | Jewish Daily Forward (New York, N.Y.) | Jewish learning and scholarship | Jewish sermons | Jews -- Argentina | Jews -- Europe, Eastern | Jews -- Germany -- History | Jews -- History | Jews -- Poland | Jews -- United States | Libraries -- Germany | Refugee camps -- Germany | Refugees, Jewish -- Germany | Yiddish language | Yiddish periodicals | Zionism | |
| Creator: | Mosad ha-Rav Kuk. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Mosad HaRav Kook pamphlets | | | | Dates: | 1956 | | | | Call No: | 1994.064 | | | | Abstract: | Mosad HaRav Kook was founded in 1935 during the Zionist Congress at Lucerne. The idea for the institution came from Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon, the Mizrahi leader, who wanted to perpetuate Rav Kook's memory by creating an institution of Torah culture and learning in his honor. The collection consists of two pamphlets entitled "Mosad HaRav Kook, Achievements and Plans" about the Mosad Harav Kook and its publications, projects, and exhibits. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Jewish publishing | Judaism -- Bibliography | |
| Creator: | Fuchs, Moses | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Moses Fuchs synagogue songbook | | | | Dates: | undated | | | | Call No: | 1993.011 | | | | Abstract: | Moses Fuchs, a retired school teacher, lived in Morningside Heights in New York City. The bound book contains music and songs for Akdmaot-Shavuot, a wedding, Friday night services, and other Sabbath prayers. | | | | Size: | 1 bound book | | | | Subjects: | Synagogue music | |
| Creator: | Hyamson, Moses, 1863-1949 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Moses Hyamson collection | | | | Dates: | 1931-1937 | | | | Call No: | 1994.037 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of a pamphlet submitted by Rabbi Moses Hyamson (1862-1949) to the League of Nations on the issue of the world calendar reform, as well as a journal from a testimonial dinner given at the Plaza Hotel in New York City on the occasion of Hyamson's 75th birthday. A long-time dayan (judge) for the London Beth Din and rabbi in New York, Rabbi Hyamson spoke out against the calendar reform which would have resulted in the Jewish Sabbath no longer being on the seventh day of each week. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Calendar reform | Jewish calendar | Perpetual calendars | Rabbis -- New York (State) -- New York | |
| Creator: | Montefiore, Moses, Sir, 1784-1885 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Moses Montefiore letter (photocopy) to Henry Solomon | | | | Dates: | May 30, 1875 | | | | Call No: | 1986.047 | | | | Abstract: | Sir Moses Montefiore was a leading Anglo-Jewish philanthropist, communal leader and early Zionist. He was active on behalf of Jewish settlement and development of the Holy Land. The collection contains a photocopy of an autograph letter by Moses Montefiore to Henry Solomon thanking Solomon for having initiated the movement on behalf of the Holy Land in Savannah, Georgia. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Jews -- Charities | |
| Creator: | Carmilly, Moshe | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger papers | | | | Dates: | 1935-2009 | | | | Call No: | 2002.099 | | | | Abstract: | Dr. Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger (1908-2010) was Chief Rabbi of the Neolog community of Cluj-Kolozsvar in Northern Transylvania, a professor at Yeshiva University, and a prolific scholar of Jewish history, Hebrew literature, and art. The collection consists of his papers, including correspondence, research notes, typescripts, reprints, personal documents, and photographs. | | | | Size: | 33.25 Linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Art -- Censorship | Censorship -- Religious aspects -- Judaism | Censorship and Freedom of Expression in Jewish History | Hebrew poetry -- Hungary | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Hungary | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Romania -- Transylvania | Jewish historians | Jewish refugees -- Romania -- Transylvania | Jews -- Hungary -- Economic conditions | Jews -- Hungary -- History | Jews -- Romania -- Cluj-Napoca | Jews in art | Memorial books (Holocaust). Romania. Cluj-Napoca | Rabbinical seminaries -- Europe | Rabbis -- Romania -- Cluj Napoca | Studia Judaica (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) | Transylvania (Romania) -- Ethnic relations | World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Hungary | ספר וסייף : חופש הבטוי והמחשבה אצל עם ישראל | |
| | | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Moshe Kunitz photograph | | | | Dates: | undated | | | | Call No: | 1992.008 | | | | Abstract: | Rabbi Moshe Kunitz was born in Alt-Ofen, Hungary, and died on February 2, 1837. He served as the rabbi of Ofen and was a
dayan (adjudicator of Jewish law) in Budapest. He was also a pioneering member of the Jewish enlightenment and the Reform movement in Hungary. The collection consists of one photograph of Rabbi Moshe ben Menahem Kunitz. | | | | Size: | 1 item | | | | Subjects: | Rabbis -- Hungary -- Pictorial works | |
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