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Creator:  Central Orthodox CommitteeSave to cart
 Title:  Central Orthodox Committee Collection  
 Dates:  1942, 1945-1953; Bulk Dates: 1947-1950 
 Call No:  1963.098 
 Abstract:  Correspondence, financial records, reports, and other material concerning relief work with displaced persons following World War II. Includes correspondence and reports of European Directors Samuel L. Sar, Rabbi Solomon Shapiro, and Rabbi Manuel Laderman, and Treasurer A.M. Stavsky; and material concerning relations with Joint Distribution Committee, Vaad Hatzala, United Service for New Americans, and United States government agencies, as well as Jewish Central Orthodox Committee commission to Europe. 
 Size:  5.5 linear feet 
 Subjects:  International relief -- Europe | Jews -- Charities | Jews -- Europe | Orthodox Judaism | Refugees, Jewish -- Europe | United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century 
Creator:  Wiernik, Peter, 1865-1936Save to cart
 Title:  Peter Wiernik and Bertha Wiernik Collection  
 Dates:  1886-1950; Bulk Dates: 1920-1935 
 Call No:  1966.098 
 Abstract:  Peter Wiernik was a prominent Yiddish journalist active in many Jewish organizations. The collection contains his records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, with which he was involved, as well as records of other organizations he participated in. It also contains his personal papers, including correspondence from the 1920s and 1930s in the areas of Jewish belles-lettres, philanthropy and Yiddish journalism. His notes, drafts of articles, and newspaper clippings reflect his interest in Jewish political issues, history, bibliography and literature. The papers of his sister, Bertha Wiernik, contain correspondence and several plays she wrote in the 1930s and 1940s. 
 Size:  13.5 linear feet 
 Subjects:  Children -- Europe | International relief -- Europe | Jewish Courier (Chicago) | Jewish Morning Journal | Jewish journalists | Jewish learning and scholarship | Jewish property -- Germany | Jews -- Charities | Jews -- Education | Jews -- Europe | Jews -- History | Jews -- New York (State) -- New York | Jews --United States -- Politics and government | Journalism -- United States | Morgen Zshurnal | Orthodox Judaism | Real property -- Germany | Reconstruction (1914-1939) -- Europe | Sabbath (Jewish law) | Sabbath legislation -- New York (State) | Women dramatists | Women poets | World War, 1914-1918 -- Germany -- Reparations | Yiddish newspapers -- New York (State) -- New York | Zionism