| Creator: | Berliant, Miriam, 1912-1991
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Berliant, Samuel, 1905-1972
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Kadosh, Sara | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Samuel and Miriam Berliant Papers | | | | Dates: | 1926-1995 | | | | Call No: | 2021.020 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of materials documenting Rabbi Samuel Berliant and Miriam Berliant's involvement in Orthodox Jewish communal life, both through local synagogues in which they served in Wilmington, DE and Queens, NY, as well as through national organizations such as the Rabbinical Council of America and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, among others. | | | | Size: | 8.5 Linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Jackson Heights (New York, N.Y.) | Kosher food | Kosher food industry -- United States | Military chaplains -- United States | Orthodox Judaism | Rabbis - Delaware - Wilmington | Rabbis - New York (State) - Jackson Heights | Synagogues -- Delaware -- Wilmington | Synagogues -- New York (State) -- New York | Wilmington (Del.) | |
| Creator: | Griliches, Josef | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Samuel Salman Griliches collection | | | | Dates: | 1982-1999 | | | | Call No: | 2000.025 | | | | Abstract: | Dr. Samuel Salman Griliches was born in 1890 in Kovno, then part of the Russian Empire, to a religious and prestigious middle class family. He was a prominent dentist before, during and after the war in Lithuania, in the concentration camps, and finally in the United States. The collection contains a speech about his life given by his son, some articles about his life, and a poem written by Griliches entitled "The March to Tirol." | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Holocaust survivors -- Biography | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poetry | Jewish dentists | |
| Creator: | Raskin, Saul, 1878-1966 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Saul Raskin collection | | | | Dates: | 1960-1966 | | | | Call No: | 1986.006 | | | | Abstract: | Saul Raskin was a Kiev-born painter who became was famous for his work on Jewish subjects. He painted biblical scenes, depictions of everyday life in Palestine, and surrealist cycles. His important work
Land of Palestine combined drawings, paintings, and short essays on the subject of daily life in the Holy Land. The collection contains cards, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and publicity forms related to Raskin. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | |
| Creator: | Zahler, Shalom, 1918- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Shalom Zahler manuscript | | | | Dates: | 1969 | | | | Call No: | 1995.005 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of a handwritten Yiddish manuscript of a novel entitled
Lang iz der veg: roman fun lebn in Yisroel, which is set in Israel. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Yiddish fiction | |
| Creator: | Zimiles, Shlomo | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Shlomo Zimiles summary of Tanach and autobiographical information | | | | Dates: | 1980-1981 | | | | Call No: | 1991.011 | | | | Abstract: | The collection contains one very large sheet of paper containing a summary of Tanach (the Hebrew Bible), in Hebrew, in the form of a wheel, drawn up by Shlomo Zimiles, as well as one smaller sheet of paper containing an autobiographical summary of the life of Shlomo Zimiles, also in the form of a wheel. Shlomo Zimiles, who was a tailor, drew up the above diagrams after his retirement. | | | | Size: | 1 oversize box | | | | Subjects: | Bible. O.T. -- Criticism, Interpretation, etc., Jewish | Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography | |
| | | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Shofar -
NewsBriefs from Yeshiva University | | | | Dates: | 2001-2003 | | | | Call No: | YU.2007.016 | | | | Abstract: | The Shofar was a newsletter published by Yeshiva University's Department of Communications and Public Affairs in association with the University's Comunications Task Force. It reported the "achievements, vents, and general news of faculty, students, and staff on all campuses of Yeshiva University". The first issue was published on March 8, 2001, and indicated that the newsletter would appear twice monthly. The collection consists of issues of
The Shofar, published between March 8, 2001 and July 18, 2003 (with gaps). | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Universities and colleges -- New York (State) -- New York | |
| Creator: | Loewenthal, Siegfried Fritz | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Siegfried Fritz Loewenthal papers | | | | Dates: | 1940-1941 | | | | Call No: | 1987.010 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of correspondence, affadadvits, and receipts of Siegfried Fritz Loewenthal, concerning his attempts to bring his relatives out of Nazi-occupied countries to the United States, Ecuador, Brazil, and Uruguay. One noted correspondent is Jacob Rosenheim, president of Agudas Israel World Organization. | | | | Size: | 3 folders | | | | Subjects: | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Europe | World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue | |
| Creator: | Guggenheim, Siegfried | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Siegfried Guggenheim papers | | | | Dates: | 1910-1960; Bulk Dates: 1946-1960 | | | | Call No: | 1985.001 | | | | Abstract: | Siegfried Guggenheim was a German-born lawyer, and chairman of the Jewish community of Offenbach before emigrating to the United States. The collection contains typescript changes for the second edition of the
Offenbacher Haggadah edited by Guggenheim, photographs, correspondence, and other materials. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Jews -- Migrations | Offenbacher Haggadah | Rabbis | |
| Creator: | Society for the Advancement of Judaism. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Society for the Advancement of Judaism provisional Sabbath prayerbook | | | | Dates: | undated | | | | Call No: | 1993.002 | | | | Abstract: | The Society for the Advancement of Judaism (SAJ) was founded in 1922 by Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism. Rabbi Kaplan developed his own prayerbook in 1945 which was first used at the SAJ. This prayerbook contains many traditional prayers in Hebrew and English, as well as readings and meditations in English. | | | | Size: | 1 item | |
| Creator: | Foster, Solomon, b. 1878 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Solomon Foster letter and article | | | | Dates: | 1904-1905 | | | | Call No: | 1992.009 | | | | Abstract: | Rabbi Solomon Foster was born in Americus, Georgia, in 1878. He became the rabbi of Congregation B'nai Jeshurun in Newark, NJ, in 1902, where he served until 1941. The collection consists of a handwritten letter from Rabbi Solomon Foster to a Mr. Lipsky, concerning Foster's article "Kings and Queens" from the American Hebrew of March 19, 1904, a photocopy of which is attached to the letter. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Rabbis -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Correspondence | |
| Creator: | Zeitlin, Solomon, 1886-1976 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Solomon Zeitlin research collection | | | | Dates: | 1928-1976 | | | | Call No: | 1990.003 | | | | Abstract: | Solomon Zeitlin (1886-1976), was a noted historian and post-biblical scholar at Dropsie University. The collection was to be used for a biography of Zeitlin, and includes his incoming correspondence from Louis Ginzberg (1932-1939), Saul Lieberman (1944-1965), Lubavitcher rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1968) and others, as well as articles and clippings regarding his scholarly work. | | | | Size: | .25 linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Jewish scholars -- Correspondence | |
| Creator: | Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry Records | | | | Dates: | 1956-2010, 2017; Bulk Dates: 1964-1991 | | | | Call No: | 1993.099 | | | | Abstract: | Grassroots national student organization formed by Jacob Birnbaum in 1964 to oppose the persecution of Soviet Jews and promote their right to emigrate freely from the Soviet Union. Collection contains correspondence, questionnaires and statistical information on refuseniks, administrative and financial records, press releases and publicity material, newsletters, clippings, photographs, publications, reports, reel-to-reel tapes, audiocassettes, videotapes, CDs, and buttons, bumper stickers, posters, uniforms and other ephemera. | | | | Size: | Approximately 266 linear feet (351 manuscript boxes, 10 record cartons, 1 map box, 17 flat storage boxes, 13 exhibit panels, and 42 artifact boxes.) | | | | Subjects: | Jews -- Persecutions -- Soviet Union | Jews -- Soviet Union -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century | Soviet Jewry Action Newsletter | Soviet Union -- Emigration and immigration | Student movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies | Students -- New York (State) -- New York -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies | |
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