An Inventory to the Records of the Central Relief Committee,
Volume II, 1919-1958
Collection Overview | |
| Creator: | Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War |
| Title: | Records of the Central Relief Committee, Volume II |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1914-1958 |
| Bulk Dates: | 1919-1950 |
| Size: | 107 linear feet |
| Number of Boxes: | 171 manuscript boxes, 4 record cartons, and 17 flat storage boxes |
| Abstract: | Orthodox Jewish overseas relief organization affiliated with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Established in October, 1914 to help Jews suffering as a result of the outbreak of World War I. After the war, the Central Relief Committee shifted its attention from providing economic relief to Orthodox Jewry overseas to preserving its religious and cultural identity. CRC supported hundreds of yeshivot in Europe and Palestine through 1950, when its affiliation with the JDC ceased. The Federated Council of Israel Institutions succeeded the CRC. |
| Languages: | Approximately half of the collection is in English; the remainder is mainly in Yiddish and Hebrew, with occasional correspondence in other languages. |
| Call No: | 1963.099 |
| Note: | The organization's full title is the "Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering through the War." It is more commonly known as the "Central Relief Committee." |
Drafts of various portions of this inventory were prepared by Shulamith Z. Berger, Dr. Roger S. Kohn, Barbara Martin, Ben-Zion Niderberg, and Stephen Weinstein.
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World War I was the catalyst for the formation of several relief organizations with a common goal: to help Jews in Europe and Palestine whose lives were endangered by the war. The Central Relief Committee (CRC) was founded by the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations (OU) in October 1914. The OU was joined in its appeal for support for the fledgling organization by the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada (UOR, also known as the Agudat Harabonim), the Mizrachi, and the Central Committee for Palestine Institutions. [1] By the time October was over, the American Jewish Relief Committee (AJRC) had been created by members of the liberal Jewish community, who were closely aligned with the American Jewish Committee (AJC). In November 1914, the CRC and the AJRC established the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to coordinate their relief efforts. The following year, the JDC invited the People's Relief Committee (PRC), an organization that served a socialist constituency, to join its network. Thus, while remaining independent entities, the CRC, the AJRC, and the PRC, coordinated their activities under the aegis of the JDC. The history and activities of the CRC during World War I are described in the "Organizational History" section of Records of the Central Relief Committee, Volume I, 1914-1919.
The European Jewish community continued to be in danger even after the armistice was signed and outright hostilities ceased. In the aftermath of the First World War, Europe remained in chaos. Pogroms were perpetrated against the Jewish population and famine reigned rampant. The CRC and the JDC continued to focus their efforts, as they had during the war years, on palliative relief work: "bread for the living and shrouds for the dead." [2] In order to guide the relief efforts, the CRC dispatched representatives on fact-finding missions to Europe during 1919 and 1920. Among them were Leon Kamaiky, chairman of the CRC and publisher of the Jewish Daily News (Yidishes Tageblatt); Morris Engelman, an insurance agent who also served as secretary of the OU and financial secretary of the CRC; Rev. Dr. Moses Hyamson, acting chief rabbi of England, 1911-1913, rabbi of Congregation Orach Chaim on New York's Upper East Side, and vice-president of the OU; Ephraim Caplan, a prominent Yiddish journalist; Rabbi Israel Rosenberg, a member of the presidium of the Agudat Harabanim between 1926 and 1939, vice-chairman of the CRC from 1914 to 1936, and chairman from 1936 on; and Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, secretary of the CRC.
The CRC's emissaries realized that European Jewry was in the throes of a spiritual crisis. The chairman of the CRC, Leon Kamaiky, stated: "... temporary relief is not as important as to help the Jews in Europe to maintain their cultural institutions and the traditions of learning and Judaism... the situation in Europe today is `to be or not to be.' If the American Jews will not give them a helping hand to maintain their schools and Talmud Torah, Judaism will disappear in Europe that always was the fountain of Judaism the world over, including America." [3] Thus in 1920, when conditions began to improve in most parts of Europe, the CRC reexamined its role and shifted the focus of its relief efforts from providing for European Jewry's physical needs to helping European Jewry maintain its religious and cultural identity.
From the CRC's inception in 1914 until late 1920, most of the funds it collected, as well as those raised by the other constituent agencies of the JDC, were channeled directly to the JDC which distributed them. Cultural disbursements were treated as part of the overall relief effort, and critics of the JDC charged that cultural work was neglected, or at best, treated in a partisan manner.
The Committee on Cultural Affairs (CAC) was formed by the JDC in the summer of 1920 to insure equitable distribution of funds for religious and educational purposes. The CAC was comprised of representatives of the three original constituent committees, the CRC, the PRC, and the AJRC. Since the AJRC was no longer active, members of the JDC served as representatives of the AJRC. Rabbi Meir Berlin (Bar-Ilan) and Mr. Peter Wiernik represented the CRC; Messrs. Alexander Kahn and Meyer Gillis spoke for the PRC; and Dr. Nathan Krass and Dr. Cyrus Adler acted on behalf of the AJRC. Dr. Adler was also chairman of the CAC. One of the leading public figures of American Jewry in the first half of the twentieth century, Dr. Adler was president of both Dropsie College in Philadelphia and the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, and assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Meir Berlin and Peter Wiernik were both vice-chairmen of the CRC. Berlin is best known as a leader of the Mizrachi organization. Bar-Ilan University was named in his honor. Wiernik was the editor of the Jewish Morning Journal (Morgen Zshurnal) and served on several JDC committees. He was chairman of the CRC from 1929 until his death in 1936.
The CRC's leaders supported the formation of the CAC. They believed that participation in the CAC would enable Orthodox Jewry to play an active role in assuring the future of yeshivot and Talmud Torahs in Eastern Europe and Palestine. Each constituent member of the CAC was responsible for a particular domain in Jewish education. The CRC defined its role as support for Talmud Torahs, yeshivot and other religious institutions. The PRC and the AJRC maintained other types of Jewish schools, such as socialist and Yiddishist ones.
After the organization of the CAC, the JDC, the CRC, and the PRC reached a financial agreement in which the CRC and the PRC were to solicit funds from their respective constituencies on behalf of the JDC. The JDC in turn promised to allocate a percentage (the percentage varied over time) of the funds collected by each constituent committee to cultural work. Each member of the CAC would be able to designate the institutions it wished to support directly, according to its cultural mandate, without requiring the approval or intervention of the JDC's European director. [4]
The shift in the CRC's mission after World War I from emergency relief to cultural work mandated changes in its fundraising strategy. The CRC was originally created to deal with a temporary emergency situation of all-out war. Its founders never envisioned that financial help would still be needed during peacetime. The organization's post-war challenge on the home front was to make the American Jewish community aware that its ongoing financial support was vital to the spiritual future of European Jewry and to the resurgence of Jewish educational centers in Palestine.
The CRC launched its domestic outreach effort with a national conference held at the Central Jewish Institute in New York City on January 7, 1923. The main objective of this inaugural event was to spark interest in the organization's newly defined goal of rebuilding educational institutions. Conference delegates received a pamphlet with detailed information on the CRC's fundraising and cultural activities from its inception in October 1914, through December 15, 1922. The CRC's officers emphasized in their reports that although people had contributed generously during the war years, donations had dropped to "almost nothing" since then. In the words of Leon Kamaiky, "this conference has been called to sound the sentiment of American Jewry, whether they are satisfied to let things go, or whether they will exert the little extra vigor necessary to help maintain and to strengthen Judaism in Europe, which will also strengthen Judaism in America." [5]
The conference provided the impetus for the CRC to initiate an unprecedented fundraising drive. The CRC invited world-renowned rabbis to visit the United States and Canada and speak on behalf of the CRC's work. The rabbinic delegation consisted of Abraham Isaac Kook, chief rabbi of Palestine, Abraham Duber Cahana Shapiro, chief rabbi of Kovno and president of the Agudat ha-Rabanim of Lithuania, and Moses Mordecai Epstein, head of the Slobodka Yeshiva. Receptions for the delegation were held in Jewish neighborhoods in New York City and in Jewish communities throughout the rest of the of United States and Canada. The delegation's fundraising campaign lasted from March to November 1924. A goal of $1,000,000 was set for this Torah fund campaign and although only about $400,000 was actually raised, the campaign returned the CRC to the American Jewish agenda, and served as "a remarkable demonstration for the honor of Torah and for yeshivas wherever the delegation went." [6]
The CRC marked its tenth anniversary with a conference on September 9, 1924, at the Central Jewish Institute. One hundred fifty representatives from all corners of the United States attended. The rabbinic delegation was still in the country and agreed to extend its stay for an additional two months. Each member of the delegation addressed the Conference, and expressed appreciation for the CRC's work. Among the resolutions adopted at the conference were the following: "to extend the life of Central Relief for a period covering the next three years at the very least," "to organize collections for Central Relief in all synagogues of America during the coming holidays, and to request the Agudat Harabanim to give precedence to the Central Relief appeal over all others during the named period." [7]
Despite the rabbinic delegation's tour, the CRC never again galvanized the Jewish community as it had during World War I. Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, secretary of the CRC during the 1920s, stressed the need to strengthen and rejuvenate the organization. In 1924, Teitelbaum was joined in his work by Abraham Horowitz, who later succeeded Teitelbaum as secretary of the CRC. Horowitz, born in Jerusalem in 1900, received his education at yeshivot and at the Mizrachi Teachers Institute. He edited and published manuscripts about the geography of Palestine written by his father, Rabbi Israel Wolf Horowitz. Abraham Horowitz remained at the helm of the CRC until its dissolution in 1950. He died in New York in 1957.
During the 1930s Abraham Horowitz, secretary of the CRC, also served as the CRC's representative to the CAC. At this time, the CAC distributed its funds according to a formula that provided 55 percent to the CRC, 27.5 percent to the AJRC and 17.5 percent to the PRC. The CAC was chaired by Dr. Cyrus Adler, and in addition to Abraham Horowitz, its members included Rabbi Leo Jung, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, Morris Engelman of the CRC, and Alexander Kahn, the PRC's representative. Leo Jung, rabbi of the Jewish Center in New York City and a professor at Yeshiva College, was an influential figure in the Orthodox Jewish community. Rabbi Goldstein, son-in-law of CRC treasurer Harry Fischel, founded the Institutional Synagogue in Harlem.
The rise of Adolf Hitler to power in Germany forced the JDC to channel its resources to the German Jewish community in the 1930s. As a result the JDC reduced the CAC's and hence the CRC's budget. The CRC stopped supporting Talmud Torahs (Jewish elementary schools) and directed its limited resources to institutions at the high school level and above. The decrease in funding ignited a conflict that had been brewing for some time between the CAC and the Paris office of the JDC, competitors for cultural dollars. A January 1930 report, prepared by the JDC's Committee on Budget and Scope, supported Dr. Bernhard Kahn, head of the JDC's Paris office. The report recommended that to insure a uniform system of remittances the JDC make cultural allotments overseas directly, rather than through the constituent members of the CAC. The CAC objected to the primary authority that the JDC's European office wielded over cultural and religious activities in Europe. Dr. Kahn's office often distributed more money than the CAC and, according to the CAC, distributed it inequitably. Dr. Adler argued that if the CAC in New York could not direct Dr. Kahn's expenditures it should disband, and threatened to resign his chairmanship of the CAC if the issue was not resolved.
Fundraising and the allocation of funds remained major areas of concern for the CRC and the CAC throughout the 1930s. In 1937, for instance, CAC members were dismayed when European yeshivot conducted their own fundraising appeals in the United States. However, these yeshivot solicited independently because the JDC's aid was insufficient. Dr. Adler's frustration over the CAC's inferior status in the JDC's decision-making procedures on cultural spending grew in 1937 when the CAC's funding sunk to less than 5 percent of the JDC's total expenditures. Indeed, at no time during the interwar period did the CAC receive even 10 percent of the JDC's annual budget.
Despite the CRC's financial limitations, yeshivot in Europe and Palestine still turned to Abraham Horowitz and the CRC with their concerns. In 1936, for example, the CRC conducted a survey on shehitah in the United States at the request of rabbis in Europe where ritual slaughter was in danger of being banned.
When the German army invaded Poland in September 1939, the CRC tried to help refugee rabbis and students fleeing to Lithuania. In 1940 the CRC was still able to send funds to yeshivot in Lithuania and Hungary. The CRC's final relief effort in Europe during the Second World War reverted back to the organization's original emergency mandate of World War I with the shipment of aspirin and kosher food in 1942 to a group from the Yeshiva Beth Joseph (Bialystok) which had reached Kazakhstan in the Soviet Union. As war raged in Europe, the CRC shifted its funding to institutions in Palestine and by 1945 over 90 percent of the CRC's resources went to aid schools there.
After the end of the Second World War in 1945, the CAC responded to the religious needs of the surviving remnants of European Jewry by supplying tefillin (phylacteries) and religious books, and continuing a Torah scroll campaign begun in 1944. Congregations from the United States and Canada answered the appeal and ultimately about 600 Torah scrolls were collected for shipment overseas. Abraham Horowitz agreed to supervise the campaigns on behalf of the CAC. He set aside space in the CRC office - at times the volume was so great that five rooms were needed - and hired sofrim (ritual scribes) to refurbish the scrolls and insure that they were fit for ritual use. All expenses were paid by the JDC. Approximately 450 of the scrolls were sent to Jewish communities in Europe, about 150 were shipped to Israel, and 7 were donated to communities in Central and South America. [8]
With the exception of its role in the Torah scroll campaign of the CAC, the CRC ended its European operations after World War II, and directed its funds and resources to Jewish institutions in Palestine. In 1947, the JDC and the Agudat Harabanim established the Central Orthodox Committee (COC), an organization to advise the JDC on the religious needs of Orthodox displaced persons in Europe. The COC was essentially a successor organization to the CRC in Europe. Abraham Horowitz, executive secretary of the CRC, also served as the executive director of the COC; Rabbi Israel Rosenberg, a member of the presidium of the Agudat Harabanim was chairman of the CRC and the COC, and both organizations maintained offices at 38 Park Row, New York City.
Despite its limited financial resources the CRC served as a vital force in the world of Orthodox Jewish education in Eastern Europe between the two world wars, and in Palestine from the end of World War I through 1950. The CRC corresponded with the institutions it assisted in order to collect background information and statistical data on the schools such as their curricula, student bodies, facilities, and other sources of income. The CRC distributed funds to yeshivot and Orthodox teachers' seminaries in an impartial manner. The size and the needs of the institutions were taken into account and the monies were distributed proportionally. Important exceptions, however, were the Beth Jacob schools for girls sponsored by the Agudat Israel and the Agudat Israel institutions in Palestine, which received funds directly from the JDC without the mediation of the CRC. In addition to its work overseas, the CRC office in New York served as the JDC's advisory board on Orthodox matters and CRC staff was called on to translate Hebrew letters the JDC received from Eastern Europe and Palestine.
The CRC underwent a major transformation in 1948 when Dr. Bernhard Kahn, then a member of the CAC, recommended that the committee abandon its bookkeeping function in favor of an advisory and policy-making role on cultural and religious affairs. Stripped of its official role in the CAC and replaced in Europe by the newly formed Central Orthodox Committee, the CRC closed its operations in 1950. The CRC had disbursed a total of $3,534,112.26 to institutions in sixteen countries during the post-World War I period of its existence. [9]
FOOTNOTES
The Central Relief Committee Collection (CRC) is divided into three units:
I. 1914-1918
II. 1919-1929
III. 1930-1958 (bulk 1930-1950)
The records of each chronological period were processed as individual units. CRC 1914-1918 was completed first and a published guide, Records of the Central Relief Committee, Volume I, 1914-1919 is available. This inventory covers the final two periods, 1919-1929 and 1930-1958.
The CRC ceased to exist in 1950. The post-1950 material in the Collection consists of the legal files of David Winograd, attorney for the Federated Council of Israel (Palestine) Institutions, a successor organization to the CRC.
The Central Orthodox Committee (COC), an offshoot of the CRC created in 1947 to advise the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) on the religious needs of displaced persons in Europe, essentially took the place of the CRC in Europe after World War II. Therefore, the latest European material in the CRC Collection is from 1941, with the exception of several letters from institutions and individuals in Romania and Switzerland from 1946 and 1947.
The records of the Central Relief Committee, 1919-1958, provide valuable information for the historian of Orthodox Jewish communities in the United States and Canada, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Middle East.
The CRC files, particularly correspondence with the JDC and internal correspondence, depict the relationship between the Orthodox CRC and its parent organization, the JDC. The fundraising files record the CRC's participation in fundraising activities organized by the JDC, such as the United Jewish Appeal (UJA) and the United Palestine Appeal. They serve as an additional source for exploring the CRC's position in the world of the JDC and document how various Jewish organizations interacted. The fundraising records are useful for researchers of the early history of the UJA as well. These papers also provide researchers of the North American Jewish community with a unique view of individuals in the United States and Canada, mainly Orthodox Jews, who assisted their brethren overseas. The fundraising files, for example, include lists of names of donors, potential donors, speakers, rabbis, and congregations which participated in CRC's fundraising campaigns and its post-war Sefer Torah and Tefillin drives.
The importance of the CRC collection lies primarily in its documentary evidence and statistical information: questionnaires, reports, visa applications, receipts, and surveys included in the correspondence with yeshivot, institutions, and individuals in Europe and Palestine. The ravages of World War I weakened the traditional Jewish communal structure in Eastern Europe and the Jewish educational system faced new challenges. Although traditional yeshivot continued to exist, new Orthodox schools emerged which introduced secular studies and modern pedagogical methods. The CRC supported all Orthodox educational endeavors, regardless of political leanings or religious orientation. The correspondence with the rabbis and educators who led these institutions, and the detailed questionnaires they completed are invaluable resources for the researcher of Orthodox Jewish education and society in Central and Eastern Europe during the inter-war period. The questionnaires, which often include lists of students, are also of value to genealogists. The correspondence from 1939 through 1941 is especially informative since it documents the demise of these institutions, and the fate of their leaders and students. Some of the correspondents escaped Europe to safer locations, primarily Shanghai, Palestine, and the United States. The Collection includes several letters that reached the CRC office from Japan and Shanghai and describe the situation of the Jewish refugees there.
Some of the rabbis and educators who reached Palestine after World War II reestablished the institutions they had headed in Europe or founded new ones. They approached the CRC for aid. The CRC's correspondence with these fledgling institutions, in addition to the yeshivot and schools which the CRC was already supporting in Palestine, paint a picture of the revival and renewal of Torah study and the hardships encountered during this historic period of the rebirth of the Jewish community in Palestine. This correspondence and the statistical information in these files are significant primary source material for historians of Orthodox Jewish education in pre-state Israel on the high school level and above. The Universal Yeshiva (Merkaz HaRav) in Jerusalem, founded by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, is particularly well represented.
Aaron Teitelbaum and Abraham Horowitz, secretaries of the CRC, were both tireless workers on behalf of Jewish communal activities and Zionist endeavors. 38 Park Row (New York City) housed the offices of the CRC in addition to those of several other Jewish organizations with which Teitelbaum and Horowitz were affiliated. The records of some of these organizations were preserved together with the CRC collection. The American office of the Universal Yeshiva and the Publication Fund for the Works of the Chief Rabbi A. I. Kook (Mosad HaRav Kook), for example, were located at 38 Park Row and Abraham Horowitz, secretary of the CRC, was also secretary of the publication fund. Records of the American Palestine Promoting and Financing Co., which encouraged American business and building ventures in Palestine during the 1920s are extant in the Collection because of Aaron Teitelbaum's involvement in the company. Other noteworthy organizations documented in the Collection are the Jewish National Fund, Mizrachi, the Talpioth Palestine Investment Agency, and the Harry Fischel Foundation.
CRC 1919-1958 encompasses 102 linear feet, and consists of minutes, reports, handwritten and typed correspondence, broadsides, lists, questionnaires, blueprints, receipts and remittances, press releases, newspaper clippings, ephemera, and photographs.
Approximately 50% of the collection is in English; the remainder is mainly in Yiddish and Hebrew, with occasional correspondence in other languages. About one-quarter of the entire Collection suffered water damage prior to its arrival at the Archives. Four l.f. are in extremely poor condition. During the course of processing CRC 1930-1958, 12 l.f. of additional material from the teens and twenties were discovered. A container list entitled "CRC Addendum" was prepared for these records and is the last series for CRC 1919-1929.
Volume II of the collection consists of two subgroups, CRC 1919-1929 and CRC 1930-1958. They have been arranged according to the same series structure as CRC Volume 1, 1914-1918.
This collection has been indexed under the following terms:
Persons:
The Central Relief Committee Collection was given to Yeshiva University on November 5, 1963, by Rabbi N. Waxman of the Federated Council of Israel Institutions, an organization created out of the Central Relief Committee.
The two subgroups in this inventory were processed separately.
A small amount of materials relating to CRC 1919-1929 was not identified until the later subgroup was processed. These materials are arranged together in Series L - Addendum.
The 1930-1958 section of the collection was processed with the help of a grant from the New York State Documentary Heritage Program.
Available to researchers deemed to be qualified by the Archivist.
Fragile or damaged items in the collection may only be examined on microfilm. Other restrictions may apply concerning the use, photoduplication, or publication of materials in this collection. Please contact the Curator of Special Collections for information regarding Yeshiva University's reproduction policies and fees.
Materials from this collection are available on microfilm. Users may be requested to view microfilm instead of handling original materials.
A suggested form for citing the collection is as follows:
Minutes, CRC, July 17, 1917, Box 1, Folder 5, Central Relief Committee Collection, Yeshiva University Archives, New York, New York.
Subgroup I: Central Relief Committee, Volume II, Part I, 1919-1929 | |||||||||||||
| Series A: Minutes, 1919-1930. 2 boxes, 1 linear foot | |||||||||||||
| Arrangement: This series includes the following subseries:
1. Central Relief Committee
2. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
3. Campaign Coordination with Other Organizations
4. Other Organizations
The minutes within each subseries are arranged by date. | |||||||||||||
| Series Description: The files in this series contain items related to the meetings and committee business, such as reports, letters and other exhibits presented to the committees, memoranda circulated to committee members, agendas for meetings, and correspondence. In addition to the broad range of JDC activities, these records also focus on specific areas of cooperation and conflict between the CRC and the JDC. Subseries 1. Few minutes of the Central Relief Committee are in the Collection, despite other evidence of numerous meetings. The earliest minutes are dated August 10, 1920; the latest are those of February 17, 1930. Most of the minutes are handwritten in Hebrew. The CRC's advocacy of Orthodox interests within the JDC is documented by the presentation of a resolution of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States (Agudat Harabanim) urging the JDC to set aside large sums of money for religious work abroad (101/2), the emphasis on kosher food in Morris Engelman's report on refugees of May 22, 1919 (101/6), and the CRC's determination to include delegates sympathetic to Orthodox needs in JDC missions abroad. Subseries 2. Minutes of the JDC and its committees constitute the bulk of the series. A bound volume of minutes of the Executive Committee (1924-1926), includes reports and correspondence presented to the committee, as well as an index to the volume (102/1). Reports to the committees on JDC activities in Europe describe the condition of European Jewry and plans for future JDC relief work. Material on Russia includes reports of Drs. Boris Bogen and Joseph Rosen on JDC relief and reconstruction work, 1922-1923 (101/11), and a translation of a letter from Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn (1880-1950), Chairman of the Executive Committee for Religious Affairs in Soviet Russia, February 2, 1927 (102/4). Subseries 3. Campaign coordination minutes document fundraising campaigns conducted jointly by the constituent committees of the JDC, as well as joint campaigns of the JDC, the United Palestine Appeal and the Jewish Agency, instituted in 1929. Subseries 4. The final subseries consists of minutes of other organizations which were peripherally affiliated with either the CRC or the JDC. For example, the Committee of Thirteen was an offshoot of the Chicago branch of the CRC and the Zionist Commission cooperated with the JDC in Palestine. | |||||||||||||
| Subseries 1: Central Relief Committee, 1919-1930 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 101/1 | Minutes, 1/13/19 | ||||||||||||
| 101/2 | Minutes, General Committee, Cultural Committee, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 101/3 | Minutes of the Executive Committee of CRC, Resolutions of the Special Committee of CRC appointed to confer with the Chicago branch, 1/8/[23]; 1/9/[23] | ||||||||||||
| 101/4 | Minutes, 7/17/24 | ||||||||||||
| 101/5 | Minutes, (handwritten in Hebrew) 1925-1930 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 2: Joint Distribution Committee, 1919-1930 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 101/6 | Minutes of the Joint Distribution Committee (Special Meetings), Minutes of the Executive Committee of the JDC, Minutes of the Committee on Constructive Relief, Minutes of the Sub-Committee on Palestine, Reports to Executive Committee of Standing Committees [subcommittees], 1919; 1919; 1/23/19; 12/4/19; January-August 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 101/7 | Minutes of the JDC, Minutes of the Executive Committee of JDC, Minutes of the Committee on Plan and Scope, Report of Committee on Cultural Activities, 8/17/20; 1920; undated; 11/18/20 | ||||||||||||
| 101/8 | Minutes of the Executive Committee of JDC, Minutes of the Reconstruction Committee, 1922; 9/19/22 | ||||||||||||
| 101/9 | Minutes of the Committee on Cultural Activities, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 101/10 | Correction to minutes of meeting of Committee on Refugees, 12/2/22-12/28/22 | ||||||||||||
| 101/11 | Minutes of the Committee on Medical Affairs, the Executive Committee, and the Reconstruction Committee, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 101/12 | Minutes of the Committee on Cultural Activities, 1923-1924 | ||||||||||||
| 102/1 | Minutes of the Executive Committee of JDC, (bound volume with index) 1924-1926 | ||||||||||||
| 102/2 | Minutes of the Reconstruction Committee, Minutes of the Finance Committee, 12/27/25, 4/23/26 | ||||||||||||
| 102/3 | Minutes of the Committee on Cultural Activities, 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 102/4 | Minutes of the Executive Committee, Minutes of the Committee on Cultural Activities, 7/1/27; 1927-1929 | ||||||||||||
| 102/5 | Minutes and report of the Sub-Committee of the Budget & Scope Committee, 1929-1930 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 3: Campaign Coordination with Other Organizations, 1919-1929 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 102/6 | Minutes and correspondence of the Committee on Campaign Coordination, 1919-1925 | ||||||||||||
| 102/7 | Minutes of the Special Committee of the New York City Campaign, Minutes of meeting of Grand Lodge Masters and Executive Committee Men for Jewish War Sufferers Campaign, 3/7/20; 3/17/20 | ||||||||||||
| 102/8 | Minutes of the Board of Directors of the United Palestine Appeal, 1929 | ||||||||||||
| 102/9 | Minutes of joint meetings of the campaign committees of JDC and the Jewish Agency, December 1929-January 1930 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 4: Other Organizations, 1919-1928 | |||||||||||||
| Zionist Commission | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 102/10 | Minutes of the meetings of the Zionist Commission with Rabbi Teitelbaum, representing JDC, for planning relief policy in Palestine, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| Committee of Thirteen [Keren Ha-Torah] | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 102/11 | Minutes of the Committee of Thirteen in Chicago to plan Keren ha-Torah, [4/7/24] | ||||||||||||
| American Joint Reconstruction Foundation | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 102/12 | Summary of agenda for the council meeting of the American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, [11/5/24] | ||||||||||||
| Mizrachi | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 102/13 | Minutes of the Finance Committee of the Mizrachi, 1928 | ||||||||||||
| Series B: Reports, [1914]-1930. Boxes 103-105 and Oversize Box 201, 3.10 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| Arrangement: The series is divided into three subseries:
1. CRC reports
2. JDC reports
3. Financial reports
Material is arranged chronologically within each subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Series Description: The reports document the activities of the representatives of the CRC, JDC, and AJRC who traveled to Europe and the Middle East after World War I. The representatives reported on the economic and cultural conditions of the Jews in these areas. Their observations were used by the committees to determine reconstruction policies. In addition to reports, the series includes related correspondence, newspaper clippings, and lists describing the findings of the representatives. Subseries 1. The CRC subseries focuses on the CRC's special commission, composed of Rev. Dr. Moses Hyamson, Ephraim Caplan, and Rabbi Israel Rosenberg. These delegates traveled to Poland and Lithuania in the summer of 1920. Their eyewitness accounts helped the CRC determine how to reconstruct Orthodox Jewish life in Eastern Europe. In addition to the commission's reports, items of note in this subseries include a statement by Harry Fischel on the organization of the Palestine Development Corp., undated (103/2), and correspondence regarding loans made to the Bukharan Congregation in Jerusalem, 1922 (103/2). Subseries 2. Reports in the JDC subseries portray economic, social, cultural, educational and religious conditions of Jewish communities in the Middle East and Europe. Material on the Middle East includes Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum's reports during his tenure as American Relief Commissioner for the Near East, and reports submitted to him in that capacity by Red Cross officials (103/4-103/9). Rabbi Teitelbaum's firsthand description of the 1927 Jerusalem earthquake is in 103/9. The Jewish situation in Europe immediately after the end of World War I is documented in a 230 page memorandum dated January 23, 1919 (103/10) which includes maps, statistics, lists of local organizations, and pogroms and fires which occurred between 1914 and 1918. Correspondence and reports from the Vladivostok Auxiliary Branch of the JDC from 1920 describe the plight of Jewish prisoners of war incarcerated in Western Siberia (103/16). A report by Rabbi Isaac Rubinstein (1880-1945) on the various Tachkemony schools and educational programs in Poland (undated) is in 103/16; a letter from Solomon Joseph Zevin (1890-1978), rabbi of Novozybkov, Ukraine, (May 1926), on the religious needs of Russian Jews and Jewish colonization in Russia is in 104/10. The League of Small and Subject Nationalities is discussed in Emanuel M. Beckerman's correspondence (1918) in 103/13. Subseries 3. The Financial Reports subseries contains budgets and cultural appropriations of the CRC and accounting ledgers which record the CRC's disbursements to the institutions it aided. Non-financial CRC material in this series includes resolutions on the death of Louis Marshall, December 23, 1929 (104/10), press releases on the appointment of Peter Wiernik as chairman of CRC in 1929 (104/10), and a flyer from the Women's Proclamation Committee of CRC describing its work, undated (103/9). | |||||||||||||
| Subseries 1: Central Relief Committee, 1919-1930 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 103/1 | Resolution appointing Rabbi Israel Rosenberg, Samuel Rottenberg, and Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum to report on plan for reconstruction of Eastern Europe, 1920, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 103/2 | Reports on economic and cultural conditions of Orthodox Jewry in Eastern Europe and Palestine 1919-1930 | ||||||||||||
| 103/3 | "Report on Cultural Conditions" in Eastern and Central Europe and Palestine, 1922-1923 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 2: Joint Distribution Committee, [1915]-1929 | |||||||||||||
| Middle East | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 103/4 | Reports on general conditions in Palestine, Syria, Constantinople and Beirut by Aaron Teitelbaum; lists of allocations, [1915], 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 103/5 | "Some Adventures in Palestine," submitted by Edmund B. Chaffee, Captain, Red Cross, March 8, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 103/6 | "Report on Syrian Orphanage [in Jerusalem]," submitted by Captain in Charge, American Red Cross, April 5, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 103/7 | "General Report for Rabbi Teitelbaum" on the American Red Cross in Palestine, by Edward B. Reed, Major, Deputy Commissioner, Jerusalem, report on JDC Dept. for the Care of Jewish War Orphans, May 14, 1919; 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 103/8 | Abstract of the report of the American Zionist Medical Unit in Palestine, December [1919] | ||||||||||||
| 103/9 | Report by David de Sola Pool, regional director, Zionist Commission to Palestine, on the economic situation in Palestine, 1920-1928 | ||||||||||||
| Eastern Europe and the Middle East | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 103/10 | "Draft of a Memorandum on Constructive Relief in the Eastern War Zones," submitted to the Committee on Constructive Relief of JDC (230 p., includes index), January 23, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 103/11 | Report of Dr. Boris Bogen on relief shipments to Poland, November 13, 1919, 1917-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 103/12 | Reports on Jewish economic situation in Poland, [1918-1920] | ||||||||||||
| 103/13 | Report of Dr. Julius Goldman and Leon Wechsler on their trip to Czechoslovakia, report of problems of Jewish relief in Lithuania by Felix M. Warburg and James Becker, reports of activities of JDC branch in Poland concerning relief and reconstruction, 1920; 1920; 1918-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 103/14 | Reports on JDC activities in Poland and Romania and Jewish social and economic conditions, 1919-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 103/15 | Reports of JDC Commission to the Ukraine and Germany, January-March 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 103/16 | Reports on JDC activities in Eastern Europe, May-November, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 103/17 | Reports on relief work in Palestine and Eastern Europe, September 1920 - January 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 103/18 | Reports on cultural activities of the JDC in Eastern Europe, October 1920 - March 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 103/19 | Reports on cultural activities of JDC and factions of Orthodoxy in Poland, December 1920 - [February 1921] | ||||||||||||
| 103/20 | Report of Dr. Theodore F. Foster, district physician in Kiev, part of a report on kassas, April 28, 1922; 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 103/21 | "Activities of Refugee Department AJDC in Europe during the years 1921, 1922, 1923," prepared by Joseph Van Gelder, May 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 103/22 | Statistics on Jewish colonies in Russia, 1924-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 103/23 | Report of Dr. Bernhard Kahn, European Director of JDC, on Jewish life in Eastern Europe, 1925-1926 | ||||||||||||
| 104/1 | Report of [?] Neustadt of Warsaw, working with the Orphans Department of the Joint, on the cost of education and schools in Poland (in Hebrew), 1926? | ||||||||||||
| 104/2 | "Report on Jewish Educational Institutions in Eastern and Central Europe and Palestine submitted to Dr. Cyrus Adler, Chairman of the Cultural Committee of the JDC by Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum," correspondence of Aaron Teitelbaum with the Jewish Agency, January 27, 1927; 1929 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 3: Financial Reports, [1914]-1929 | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 104/3 | Appropriations of the JDC, 1914-1919 | ||||||||||||
| 104/4 | List of pledges made to CRC, [1920] | ||||||||||||
| 104/5 | List of contributions from the YWHA, 31 W. 110th St., [October 1922] | ||||||||||||
| 104/6 | Lists of cultural appropriations and budgets, [1914]-1926 | ||||||||||||
| 104/7 | Lists of cultural appropriations and budgets, December 1921 - February 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 104/8 | Lists of cultural appropriations and correspondence with the State Bank of New York, February - July 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 104/9 | Lists of cultural budgets, 1925-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 104/10 | Financial reports of cultural appropriations, correspondence with Felix M. Warburg; CRC press releases, December 31, 1925; 1926-1929 | ||||||||||||
| 104/11 | Cultural Budget #3 for 1927, April 7, 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 104/12 | Statements of cash receipts and disbursements for cultural activities, December 1, 1920 - December 31, 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 104/13 | Statement of cash receipts and disbursements, December 31, 1925 - December 31, 1926 | ||||||||||||
| OversizeBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 201/1 | Statistics and budget reports of yeshivot in Europe financed by CRC, 1922, 1929, 1936, 1938-1940 | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 104/14 | Check stubs from the State Bank for CRC disbursements and expenses, 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 104/15 | Lists of budgets and appropriations, 1928-1929 | ||||||||||||
| 105/1 | Account book listing appropriations to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs in Austria, Belgium, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Ecuador, Germany, Hungary, Latvia and Letgalia, Lithuania, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Yugoslavia, 1920-1940 | ||||||||||||
| OversizeBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 201/2 | Ledger book of CRC (?) disbursements to yeshivot in Europe, 1922-1923 | ||||||||||||
| 201/3 | Chart indicating the amount of loans expected to be repaid; JDC (?), 1927-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 201/4 | Chart recording the number of students, salaries, etc., [poor condition] undated | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 105/2 | AJRC lists of cultural appropriations to New York, Palestine, and Eastern Europe given through CRC and JDC, 1929 | ||||||||||||
| 105/3 | Passover 1919 Matzoth Account (JDC in account with the Zionist Commission to Palestine), 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 105/4 | Chart of JDC loan arrangements with ORT for educational and vocational purposes in Eastern Europe, Greece, and Palestine, 1921-1922 | ||||||||||||
| 105/5 | HIAS Annual Report, 1926-1930 | ||||||||||||
| Series C: Correspondence with the Joint Distribution Committee and Affiliates, 1919-1940. Boxes 106-112, 3.5 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| Arrangement: The series is divided into subseries as follows:
1. Correspondence with the Joint Distribution Committee
2. Correspondence with the American Jewish Relief Committee
3. Correspondence with the People's Relief Committee
4. Correspondence with United Campaign Organizations
5. Internal Correspondence
6. Form Letters and Meeting Notices
The arrangement within each subseries is chronological. The JDC subseries is further arranged by correspondents according to their position within the JDC hierarchy, beginning with the chairman, followed by subcommittee chairmen and JDC members, general staff, and departmental directors and staff. | |||||||||||||
| Series Description: This series documents the organizational relationships of the CRC with the JDC and its other constituent relief organizations, the AJRC and the PRC. The series also contains the internal correspondence, form letters and meeting notices of the CRC. Subseries 1: Correspondence with the JDC constitutes the largest subseries. It covers both the fundraising and relief aspects of the relationship between the CRC and the JDC. Matters discussed range from routine matters such as financial details, forwarding correspondence, and requests for translations of foreign correspondence, to more substantive issues such as conditions and needs of communities and institutions abroad, relief policies, priorities and practices of the two organizations, and the division of responsibilities and resources between them. The most frequent JDC correspondents are Albert Lucas, Secretary, William J. Mack, Acting Secretary, Joseph C. Hyman, Secretary, and Evelyn Morrissey, Office Manager. Correspondence with Hyman for the years 1925 to 1928 reflects his dual roles as Secretary of the JDC and Executive Secretary of the United Jewish Campaign. Prior to 1923, most correspondence at the CRC was handled by Stanley Bero, General Manager, and by Isaac Sharlin. After that date, Corresponding and Executive Secretary Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum and Abraham Horowitz (who later succeeded Teitelbaum as Secretary) were responsible for the CRC's correspondence. Other correspondents at the JDC include Executive Directors Boris D. Bogen and Frank F. Rosenblatt, Treasurer Paul Baerwald, directors and staff of individual departments such as Transmission, War Orphans, Landsmanschaften, and Accounting. Committee and subcommittee chairmen Felix Warburg, Herbert Lehman, James Rosenberg, Howard S. Gans, Henry J. Bernheim, Lewis L. Strauss, and Dr. Cyrus Adler are also represented. Items of particular interest in the JDC subseries include a memo (8 p.) on reconstruction by the Lithuanian Ministry of Jewish Affairs Economic Department, Spring 1920 (106/5); a request from the Hamburg Orthodox community requesting matzoh flour for Passover, December 10, 1920 (107/5); and a letter from David de Sola Pool, JDC Regional Director in Jerusalem, discussing the organization of the Misrad Harabanut as the supreme Jewish religious authority in Palestine, February 28, 1921 (107/6). Subseries 2: Correspondence of the CRC with the AJRC is primarily with National Director Henry Rosenfelt. The letters document the leadership role of the AJRC in the organization of joint fundraising campaigns, as well as special cooperation between the two organizations in supporting similar educational institutions in Eastern Europe and Palestine. Subseries 3: The CRC's correspondence with the PRC is chiefly regarding routine matters of cooperation between the two organizations, such as forwarding of misaddressed correspondence and contributions, and resolution of minor fundraising disputes. The correspondents at the PRC were General Manager Baruch Zuckerman and Assistant Manager Isadore Garelick. Subseries 4: Correspondence with United Campaign Organizations includes correspondence with offices which coordinated fundraising among the three relief committees. Organizations represented are the New York Campaign for Jewish War Sufferers, the New York Campaign and National Appeal of 1922, and the United Jewish Campaign, a forerunner of the United Jewish Appeal. Intems of interest in this subseries include a list of Orthodox congregations in New York City and shohatim (ritual slaughterers) in New York City and Brooklyn dated March 1922 (111/7). Subseries 5: Internal Correspondence contains correspondence with the Treasurer of CRC, Harry Fischel, from the years 1927 to 1940, as well as incidental correspondence with Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum and Rev. Dr. H. Pereira Mendes from 1920. This subseries also includes letters, press releases, programs, and resolutions passed at the CRC conference of January 7, 1923, and a summary of the proceedings of the CRC's Tenth Annual Conference held on September 9, 1924. Subseries 6: Form Letters and Meeting Notices consists of day-to-day communications within the CRC and with cooperating branches and individuals. There is some overlap with form letters found in the series "Press Releases and Publicity," especially those concerning fundraising. In addition to these routine items, folder 112/7 contains lists of rabbis in the New York area, congregations in Ohio, and resolutions on the death of Albert Lucas in 1923. | |||||||||||||
| Subseries 1: Correspondence with the Joint Distribution Committee, 1919-1930 | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 106/1 | Correspondence from Albert Lucas, Secretary, JDC; and from Felix Warburg, January - February, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 106/2 | Meeting notices of committees, November - December, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 106/3 | Correspondence with Felix Warburg, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 106/4 | Cables and correspondence concerning the deaths of JDC emissaries Prof. Israel Friedlaender and Dr. Bernard Cantor, July 13-16, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 106/5 | General correspondence with Paul Baerwald, Dr. Boris Bogen and others of JDC, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 106/6 | Correspondence between Stanley Bero and Charles Zunser, Executive Director, JDC Committee on War Orphans, concerning the establishment of the Orphans Bureau, October - November 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 106/7 | Correspondence with Albert Lucas, January 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 106/8 | Correspondence with Albert Lucas, February 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 106/9 | Correspondence with Albert Lucas, March 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 106/10 | Correspondence with Albert Lucas and Frank F. Rosenblatt, Director, JDC Bureau of Information and Records, April 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 106/11 | Correspondence with Albert Lucas, May 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 106/12 | Correspondence with Albert Lucas, June 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 106/13 | Correspondence with Albert Lucas, July - October 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 106/14 | Correspondence with Albert Lucas, October - December 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 106/15 | Correspondence with Albert Lucas, November 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 106/16 | Correspondence with Albert Lucas concerning relief work in Eastern Europe, December 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 107/1 | Correspondence of Rabbi A. Teitelbaum with Charles Zunser, of the War Orphans Department, December 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 107/2 | Correspondence with Felix M. Warburg, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 107/3 | Letter of Stanley Bero to Herbert Lehman, Chairman, JDC Reconstruction Committee, protesting scheduling a meeting for late Friday afternoon, December 23, 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 107/4 | Correspondence with Dr. Frank Rosenblatt, Executive Director, JDC, August - October 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 107/5 | Correspondence with Albert Lucas, January 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 107/6 | Correspondence with Albert Lucas and assistant secretary Mary Horr, February - April 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 107/7 | Correspondence with Albert Lucas and Mary Horr concerning specifics of relief work in Europe and Palestine, March - December 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 107/8 | Correspondence between Stanley Bero and Paul Baerwald, Treasurer, JDC, (poor condition) 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 107/9 | Correspondence with Isidore Speiser, Accountant in Charge, JDC, April - December 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 107/10 | Correspondence of Stanley Bero with I. M. Naishtut, Director, JDC Landsmanschaften Department, January - July 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 108/1 | Correspondence with Ethel G. Troper, Director, JDC Transmission Bureau, January - June 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 108/2 | Correspondence with Ethel G. Troper, Director, JDC Transmission Bureau and Russian Food Remittance Bureau, June - December 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 108/3 | Correspondence of Stanley Bero with Jessie Bogen, JDC War Orphans Department, February - August 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 108/4 | Correspondence with the War Orphans Bureau, August - December 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 108/5 | General correspondence with Dr. Boris Bogen and other staff members of the New York and Paris offices of JDC, 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 108/6 | Correspondence with Albert Lucas, November 1921 - March 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 108/7 | Correspondence with Albert Lucas, January - May 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 108/8 | Correspondence with William J. Mack, Acting Secretary, JDC, June - December 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 108/9 | General correspondence with secretaries and office staff of JDC, January - September 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 108/10 | Correspondence with Boris D. Bogen, report of Theodore F. Foster, District Physician, on the medical work of the American Relief Administration in the Kiev District, January - March, July 1922; April 28, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 108/11 | Correspondence with Howard S. Gans, Chairman, JDC Administrative Committee, concerning representation on the JDC Administrative Committee and campaign fund distribution, January - February 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 108/12 | Correspondence between Stanley Bero and Howard S. Gans concerning special requests for aid, March - April 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 108/13 | Correspondence with Henry J. Bernheim of the JDC Cultural and Administrative Committees concerning reporting of CRC disbursements and expenditures to JDC Cultural Committee, June - August 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 108/14 | Correspondence between CRC, Lewis Strauss, Acting Chairman, JDC Committee on Russia, and the American Relief Administration, March - November 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 108/15 | Letters of Joseph C. Hyman, Assistant to Chairman, JDC Reconstruction Committee, concerning special assistance for fire reconstruction in Grodno, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 108/16 | Correspondence between Stanley Bero and Isidore Speiser, Accountant in Charge, JDC, January - October 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 108/17 | Correspondence with I. B. Block, Chief Accountant, JDC, November 1922 - January 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 108/18 | Correspondence with the Transmission Bureau and Russian Food Remittance Bureau of JDC, January - September 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 108/19 | Correspondence with the JDC Food Packaging Dept., March - May 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 108/20 | Correspondence with the JDC War Orphans Bureau, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 108/21 | Correspondence with JDC Landsmanschaften Bureau, March - September 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 109/1 | Correspondence with Felix Warburg, January - March 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 109/2 | Letter from Aaron Teitelbaum to James Rosenberg, March 6, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 109/3 | Correspondence between Aaron Teitelbaum and Joseph Hyman, Assistant to Chairman, JDC Reconstruction Committee, February - April 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 109/4 | Correspondence between Aaron Teitelbaum and Paul Baerwald, January - April 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 109/5 | Correspondence with Albert Lucas, March - November 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 109/6 | Correspondence of Aaron Teitelbaum with I. B. Block, January - February 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 109/7 | Correspondence of Aaron Teitelbaum with I. B. Block, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 109/8 | Correspondence with Evelyn Morrissey, Secretary, JDC Committee on Russia, March - December 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 109/9 | Appeals for aid forwarded by Abraham Shohan, JDC-Vienna, through CRC to Ezras Torah, May 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 109/10 | Correspondence with I. M. Naishtut, Director, JDC Landsmanschaften Bureau, February - August 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 109/11 | Correspondence with I. M. Naishtut covering receipts for food packages sent to Yeshiva Hafez Hayyim, January, April and December 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 109/12 | Correspondence with Etta Deutsch, Director, JDC Transmission Bureau concerning an unacknowledged private remittance, July, September 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 109/13 | Correspondence of Rabbi A. Teitelbaum with Augusta Kottler, Director, JDC War Orphans' Bureau, January - November 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 109/14 | JDC requests for translations of Hebrew and Yiddish correspondence, January - September 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 109/15 | Correspondence with CRC members regarding Russian relief, reconstruction in Poland and the War Orphans Committee, January 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 109/16 | Fragments of two letters of Rabbi A. Teitelbaum, January 14, 1924 and April 16, 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 109/17 | Correspondence with Dr. Cyrus Adler concerning cultural relief work, 1925 | ||||||||||||
| 109/18 | Correspondence between Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum and Joseph C. Hyman, Secretary of JDC and Executive Secretary of the United Jewish Campaign, concerning JDC funding of CRC and CRC participation in UJC, 1925 | ||||||||||||
| 109/19 | Correspondence of Rabbi A. Teitelbaum with Evelyn Morrissey [JDC Office Manager] and others, (poor condition) 1925 | ||||||||||||
| 110/1 | Correspondence of CRC with Evelyn M. Morrissey and others concerning cultural activities and appropriations of both CRC and JDC, 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 110/2 | Correspondence between Rabbi A. Teitelbaum and Paul Baerwald concerning cultural allocations, July 1926 - May 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 110/3 | Correspondence of Rabbi A. Teitelbaum with Joseph C. Hyman of JDC and UJC concerning cultural activities and appropriations, 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 110/4 | Correspondence of Rabbi A. Teitelbaum with Joseph C. Hyman of JDC and UJC, and the JDC Accounting Department, 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 110/5 | Correspondence with Dr. Cyrus Adler concerning cultural allocations, 1928-1929 | ||||||||||||
| 110/6 | Correspondence of Rabbi A. Teitelbaum and Abraham Horowitz with Evelyn Morrissey concerning overseas relief work, 1928-1930 | ||||||||||||
| 110/7 | Correspondence with Joseph C. Hyman, 1929 | ||||||||||||
| 110/8 | Rabbi Teitelbaum's Verbatim Statement at the Office of the JDC, July 11th, 1929 | ||||||||||||
| 110/9 | Copy of the telegram sent by Rabbi A. Teitelbaum to Mrs. B. Bogen after the death of her husband, July 1929 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 2: Correspondence with the American Jewish Relief Committee, 1921-1923 | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 111/1 | Correspondence with Henry Rosenfelt, National Director, and others of AJRC concerning fundraising campaign coordination and cultural work, 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 111/2 | Correspondence with Henry Rosenfelt, National Director, and others of AJRC concerning fundraising campaign coordination and cultural work, January - July 1923 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 3: Correspondence with the People's Relief Committee, 1921-1922 | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 111/3 | Correspondence of Stanley Bero with Baruch Zuckerman, General Manager, and Isadore Garelick, Assistant Manager, PRC, February - December 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 111/4 | Correspondence of Stanley Bero with Baruch Zuckerman, General Manager, and Isadore Garelick, Assistant Manager, PRC, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 4: Correspondence with United Campaign Organizations, 1921-1922 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 111/5 | Correspondence of the New York Campaign for Jewish War Sufferers with CRC and men's organizations, February 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 111/6 | Correspondence between Stanley Bero and Judge Otto A. Rosalsky Chairman, Greater New York Fund, (1873-1936), March - October 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 111/7 | Correspondence with officials of the New York Campaign and National Appeal of 1922, November 1921 - March 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 111/8 | Correspondence between Stanley Bero and Benjamin Simon, accountant in charge, New York Campaign for Jewish War Sufferers, October 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 111/9 | Correspondence with and printed publicity materials of the United Jewish Campaign, 1925-1926, May 1929 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 5: Internal Correspondence of the Central Relief Committee, 1920-1940 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 111/10 | Correspondence of Stanley Bero with Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum and Rev. Dr. H. Pereira Mendes, June - October 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 111/11 | Correspondence concerning CRC conference of January 7, 1923; and 10th Annual Conference of September 9, 1924, December 1922 - September 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 111/12 | Correspondence concerning CRC conference of January 7, 1923, December 1922 - January 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 112/1 | Correspondence concerning CRC conference of January 7, 1923, December 1922 - January 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 112/2 | Correspondence concerning CRC conference of January 7, 1923, December 1922 - January 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 112/3 | Correspondence of Abraham Horowitz and others of the CRC with Harry Fischel, CRC Treasurer, concerning CRC appropriations, activities; publications of Machon Harry Fischel; and private scholarly and charitable concerns, 1927-1940 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 6: Form Letters and Meeting Notices, 1920-1930 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 112/4 | Convocations to meetings of various committees of the CRC, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 112/5 | Fundraising form letters, undated; July 22, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 112/6 | Meeting convocations and form letters and telegrams of the CRC, 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 112/7 | Letters of recommendation and meeting notices, May - December 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 112/8 | Convocations to meetings of the CRC and the CRC Executive Committee, 1929-1930 | ||||||||||||
| Series D: Correspondence with Other Organizations and Individuals in the United States, 1919-1924. Box 113, .5 linear foot | |||||||||||||
| Arrangement: This series is divided into four subseries
Subseries 1. Correspondence with United States Department of State, Bureau of Accounts
Subseries 2. Correspondence with National Jewish Organizations
Subseries 3. Correspondence with Jewish Newspapers
Subseries 4. Correspondence with Banks
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| Series Description: This series includes correspondence with Jewish and general organizations. Letters in the first subseries, Correspondence with United States Department of State, Bureau of Accounts, are mainly with Bureau Chief William McNeir regarding CRC's overseas transactions. The second subseries, Correspondence with National Jewish Organizations, is comprised of correspondence from the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), Keren Hayesod, and the Zionist Organization. Items of note in this subseries are a press release denying rumors regarding the impending liquidation of the CRC, August 1923 (113/7) and a letter dated March 17, 1922, from B. Feiwel of the Keren Hayesod office in London complaining that Jiddische Leben, an Agudat Israel publication in Lithuania which received funds from the CRC, was attacking Keren Hayesod (113/9). Correspondence with Jewish Newspapers is the third subseries. The newspapers represented are chiefly Yiddish newspapers in New York. The majority of the correspondence discuss the CRC's requests for publicity in the Yiddish press. The final subseries, Correspondence with Banks, deal with financial matters. It includes a letter dated April 11, 1924, from Bernard Horwich, Chairman of the Chicago Joint Relief Committee, to Aaron Teitelbaum about funds collected for matzoh flour (113/20). | |||||||||||||
| Subseries 1: Correspondence with United States Department of State - Bureau of Accounts, 1920-1924 | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 113/1 | Correspondence of William McNeir, Chief, Bureau of Accounts, State Department, with Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum concerning transmission of funds to Palestine, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 113/2 | Letters of Stanley Bero to William McNeir, August 11 and September 21, 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 113/3 | Letter from William McNeir to the CRC enclosing list of receipts covering payments made from a November 29, 1915 deposit, June 6, 1924 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 2: Correspondence with National Jewish Organizations, 1920-1923 | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 113/4 | Correspondence of Stanley Bero with HIAS concerning transmission of funds to individuals and institutions in Eastern Europe, June - November 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 113/5 | Correspondence with HIAS concerning misaddressed donations and specific inquiries and requests regarding immigration of individuals, 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 113/6 | Correspondence of Stanley Bero and others with Isaac L. Asofsky, General Manager, and others of HIAS, concerning transmission of funds and correspondence to and from Eastern Europe, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 113/7 | General correspondence with HIAS, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 113/8 | Correspondence of Stanley Bero with the Keren Hayesod concerning cooperation to avoid clashes in fundraising, August - December 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 113/9 | Correspondence of Stanley Bero and Rabbi Meir Berlin with the Keren Hayesod, January - October 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 113/10 | Correspondence with the Keren Hayesod, April - October 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 113/11 | Transfer of check intended for the Zionist Organization, October 22-23, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 3: Correspondence with Jewish Newspapers, 1921-1923 | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 113/12 | Correspondence with Yiddish-language newspapers, (poor condition) February - December 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 113/13 | Correspondence of Rabbi Teitelbaum with Yiddish-language newspapers, 1922-1923 | ||||||||||||
| 113/14 | Correspondence of Rabbi Teitelbaum with Yiddish-language newspapers, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 4: Correspondence with Banks, 1919-1924 | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 113/15 | Correspondence with the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, October 31, 1919; 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 113/16 | Correspondence with the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 113/17 | Correspondence with the Harriman National Bank, January 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 113/18 | Exchange of letters with the State Bank, April 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 113/19 | Exchange of letters with the State Bank, May 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 113/20 | Exchange of letters with the State Bank, (poor condition) April - July 1924 | ||||||||||||
| Series E: Correspondence with Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East, 1919 - 1932. Boxes 114-126, Oversize Boxes 201 & 203, Map Box 207, 12.5 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| Arrangement: The series is divided into three subseries:
Subseries 1. Correspondence with communities, institutions and individuals in Central and Eastern Europe, 1919-1932 (boxes 114-122). This subseries is further divided into three sections.
1A. General Correspondence with communities, institutions and individuals in Eastern Europe
1B. Correspondence of the JDC with communities, institutions, and individuals in the Soviet Union
1C. Questionnaires and financial disclosure forms from institutions in Eastern Europe
Subseries 2. Correspondence with institutions and individuals in Palestine, Syria, and Turkey, 1919-1930 (boxes 123-125). This subseries consists of two parts.
2A. General correspondence
2B. Records of the Universal Yeshiva (Merkaz HaRav)
Subseries 3. Correspondence with institutions and individuals in other foreign countries, 1919-1926 (box 126)
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| Series Description: This series documents the critical state of Orthodox Jewish society and culture in much of Central and Eastern Europe and Palestine in the aftermath of the First World War, and the CRC's efforts to redress the situation through support of educational and religious institutions. Subseries 1A. "General correspondence with communities, institutions and individuals in Eastern Europe" includes letters of appeal from central agencies and governing bodies of Jewish communities; religious, cultural, and educational institutions; and individuals. These appeals date primarily from 1920 and 1921, when the CRC began to disburse cultural funds directly rather than through the JDC. The majority of the requests for aid are from Orthodox Jewish educational institutions at all instructional levels. Many of the appeals include budgets, student lists, and curricula. There are detailed statistical reports from local charitable and educational organizations, and kehillas or gemeindes (semi-autonomous self-governing bodies of Jewish communities) which administered CRC relief funds for their localities or regions. Among them are the Orthodox Gemeinde of Bratislava (114/9-11), Merkaz Yavneh and the Agudat ha-Rabanim of Lithuania (114/24), the kehillah of Grodno, Poland (115/7), "Mi-tsiyon Tetse Torah" of Lvov, Galicia, known by its acronym "Mitet" (116/2; 116/10), and the kehillah of Vilna (116/15-16). Other appeals stressed the need for funds for rabbis and other religious functionaries (114/27; 116/23), and the desire to rebuild synagogues and ritual baths (116/20-116/22; 117/3-117/5) destroyed during the war. Personal appeals, mainly from poor widows, rabbis, ritual slaughterers and teachers, appear throughout the series. The correspondence also contains descriptions of the plight of various Jewish communities. A letter of appeal from Siniawka, Poland, dated January 25, 1921 (115/8), relates a litany of hardship, destruction and exile; the border town of Maciejow, Poland, was "buffeted by every ill wind to blow in troubled times," (115/2, January 5, 1921). Nearly all the appeals from 1919 to 1921 refer to the economic impoverishment and physical devastation caused by World War I which forced the correspondents to turn abroad for assistance. Correspondents in this subseries include prominent yeshiva deans and rabbis. Among them are Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn (1880-1950) of Leningrad, leader of the Habad hassidic movement (117/14, 117/21-22), Rabbi Joseph Kahaneman of Ponevezh, Lithuania (117/12), Rabbi Eliezer Judah Finkel (1879-1965) of Mir, Poland (117/12), Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz (1866-1939) of Vilna and Kamenets (117/12), Rabbi Joseph Judah Leib Bloch (1860-1930) of Telz, Lithuania (114/22-23, 117/11), Rabbi Elijah Lopian (1876-1970) of Kelm, Lithuania (114/23), Rabbi Abraham Duber Cahana Shapiro (1870-1943) of Kovno, Lithuania (114/23), Rabbi Simeon Judah Shkop (1860-1940) of Grodno, Poland (115/7), Rabbi Hayyim Ozer Grodzinski (1863-1940) of Vilna (116/16, 116/19), Rabbi Isaac Alcalay (1882-1978), chief rabbi of Serbia and, later, Yugoslavia (117/1), Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer (1870-1953) of Slutsk, USSR (117/11), and Rabbi Aaron Kotler (1892-1962) of Kletsk, Poland (117/11). Additional rabbinic correspondence is located in the personal correspondence of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum. Not all the correspondence in the subseries is addressed directly to CRC. Many of the letters from institutions and individuals are directed to regional intermediary organizations, such as the Bratislava Orthodox Gemeinde (114/7-8), Shelome Emune Yisra'el (114/26, 115/1-2, 115/4), Ezrat Torah in Poland (114/27), and "Mitet" of Lvov in Galicia (115/13-116/10). Other items intended for the CRC were mistakenly addressed to other organizations in the United States, such as Ezras Torah (not to be confused with Ezrat Torah of Warsaw, above), an organization dedicated to the support of rabbis, the JDC, and the PRC (114/2, 114/18, 114/22, 114/26, 115/1, 117/10, 117/14). This correspondence was forwarded to the CRC. Noteworthy items in this subseries include: an "Outline of relief activities and needs of the Jews of Hungary" by the Pester [Budapest] Hebrew Kehillah, Nov. 1920 (114/18); a program for the opening of the Yavneh girls' high school in Telz, Dec. 12, 1920 (114/21); material on the founding of the Agudat ha-Shohatim of Lithuania, 1920 (114/22); detailed information on the Torat Hesed yeshiva in Baranowicze, 1921? (115/9); an unsigned note concerning Dr. [Joseph] Rosen and secret distribution of funds to rabbis in Moscow and Odessa, undated (117/9); minutes of a meeting of a rescue committee in Lvov with Aaron Teitelbaum, undated (117/13); a letter from the Mapu library in Kovno asking for funds, Nov. 4, 1926 (117/13); and an undated draft of a translation of a memo from J. Billikopf to C[yrus] Adler, describing a meeting with Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn about Judaica libraries in the Soviet Union (117/15). The majority of the correspondence is from Poland, the remainder is from Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, the Baltic states, and the Soviet Union. Some regions are listed separately, such as Slovakia within Czechoslovakia, Galicia within Poland, and Bessarabia within Romania. Galician material however, is not always identified separately and sometimes appears together with other records from Poland. Subcarpathian Ruthenia and Bessarabia are listed with the countries in which they were included for most or all of the period 1919-1929, those being Czechoslovakia and Romania, respectively. The same is true for many cities then in Poland and subsequently in the Soviet Union. Subseries 1B. "Correspondence of the JDC with communities, institutions and individuals in the Soviet Union" depicts the disintegration of Jewish communal life under Communist rule, documents the efforts of Jewish leadership to cope with the situation, and describes the work of the JDC. Correspondents include Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn in his capacity as chairman of a committee of rabbis supervising religious affairs in the Soviet Union (117/21), Rabbi Solomon Joseph Zevin (1890-1978), then rabbi of Novozybkov, Ukraine (117/22), and Dr. Joseph Rosen, JDC representative in the Soviet Union (117/22). Subseries 1C. "Questionnaires and financial disclosure forms from institutions in Eastern Europe" are surveys of educational institutions which received CRC funding. These forms were completed in the years 1922 to 1923 and 1926 to 1928 and contain information on budget and finances, faculty, curriculum, enrollment, organization, physical plant, hygiene and nutrition, and the general educational situation in the locality. The later versions of the questionnaire also provide space for the respondents to add their own comments, which typically described the particular difficulties and/or educational missions of the schools. The questionnaires provide a wealth of data for analysis of Orthodox Jewish education during this period in Poland, Slovakia and Bessarabia. They highlight the similarities and differences between the educational systems and cultural situations in those areas. Poland, for example, supported a variety of Orthodox schools, while Bessarabian schools were generally large, coeducational, government-controlled institutions which offered only minimal religious instruction. Subseries 2A. "General correspondence with institutions and individuals in Palestine, Syria, and Turkey, 1919-1930" includes correspondence, telegrams, receipts, and reports. The general correspondence files are mainly requests for financial assistance. Several folders contain information on the development of Palestine and relief work conducted in the Middle East. Subseries 2B. "Records of the Universal Yeshiva (Merkaz Harav)" constitute the bulk of the series. Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook called for the establishment of the Universal Yeshiva in Jerusalem during a visit to the United States in 1924; the material here documents the efforts of the American Jewish community to raise funds for this institution. Included are letters, telegrams, press releases, financial records, and printed material. Of special note are: a telegram sent by Rabbi Teitelbaum to Rabbi Kook advising him not to make a statement about Rabbi Stephen Wise, December 28, 1925 (124/2); a prayer composed by Rabbi Kook for the Independent Order Brith Sholem of United States, October 20, 1927 (124/8), correspondence with Harry Fischel, and correspondence from Nathan Strauss concerning donation of a plot of land near Rachel's tomb, December 1925 - April 1926 (125/3). Subseries 3. "Correspondence with institutions and individuals in other foreign countries, 1919-1926" is arranged in alphabetical order by country. It records the CRC's fundraising efforts in South America, and various matters the CRC dealt with in Western Europe. | |||||||||||||
| Subseries 1: Correspondence with Communities, Institutions and Individuals in Eastern and Central Europe, 1919-1932. Boxes 114-122, 4.5 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Each section in this subseries is arranged by country, where applicable, and then chronologically. In addition to geographically arranged material, the end of the first section contains material which is mixed geographically and is arranged in chronological order and listed under the heading ALL COUNTRIES in the container list. | |||||||||||||
| Section 1A: General Correspondence | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Austria | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 114/1 | Correspondence concerning complaints regarding distribution of funds to Austrian Jews, August-December, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 114/2 | Correspondence with Vienna school organizations, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 114/3 | Letter of appeal and report of a kosher soup-kitchen in Vienna, April 27, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| Czechoslovakia | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 114/4 | List of 141 recipients of funds in Czechoslovakia, undated | ||||||||||||
| 114/5 | Correspondence with Samuel Bettelheim in Bratislava and Jacob Sauber in Laszco, concerning distribution of food and funds in Czechoslovakia, Germany, and Vienna, December 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 114/6 | Letter of appeal from the Jewish community of Vysny-Svidnik, Slovakia, forwarded by JDC, July 3, 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 114/7 | Questionnaires to Slovakian communities of Bardiov (sic), Kezmarok and Komorn (Kamarno) concerning their Talmud Torahs, November - December 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 114/8 | Questionnaires to various Slovakian communities concerning their Talmud Torahs, November 1922 - January 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 114/9 | Ledger of the Centralbureau of the Orthodox Gemeinde in Bratislava detailing distribution of funds to educational institutions in Slovakia during September and November 1922, January 30, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 114/10 | Letters of acknowledgment and appeal from Sebeskelemes, Slovakia, and Tjacova, Subcarpathian Ruthenia, November 12, 1922; February 2, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 114/11 | Ledger of the Centralbureau of the Orthodox Gemeinde in Bratislava for September through December 1923; receipts, February - April 1924, April 15, 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 114/12 | Letter of appeal, addressed to JDC, from the Kultusgemeinde of Nizna-Studena, Subcarpathian Ruthenia, for rebuilding of the synagogue and school, December 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 114/13 | Letter from Samu Schlesinger, rabbi of Zlate Moravce acknowledging a transfer, June 15, 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 114/14 | Ledger of distribution of funds to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs in Subcarpathian Ruthenia, 1929-1931 | ||||||||||||
| Germany | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 114/15 | Correspondence concerning the Breslau Seminary, the "Talmud Thora" of Burgpreppach, and the Yavneh gymnasium of Cologne, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| Greece | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 114/16 | Letter of appeal from Ben-Zion Meir Hai Ouziel, Chief Rabbi of Salonika, March 13, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| Hungary | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 114/17 | English translation of German letter from Adolph Frankel in Budapest concerning activities of the American Society for the Relief of Children, December 15, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 114/18 | Correspondence with Jewish communities and individuals in Hungary, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 114/19 | Ledgers of recipients of aid through Abraham Freudiger of Budapest, 1928-1930 | ||||||||||||
| Latvia | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 114/20 | Statistical survey of elementary schools in Latvia, (very poor condition) undated | ||||||||||||
| Lithuania | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 114/21 | Correspondence from educational institutions and umbrella organizations in Kovno and Telz to Ezras Torah and Rabbi Israel Rosenberg, 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 114/22 | Letters of appeal and acknowledgment from Jewish communities and educational institutions in Lithuania, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 114/23 | Correspondence from Kovno, Telz, and Kelm, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 114/24 | Memoranda and financial reports from Javne [Yavneh] teachers' institute of Telz (formerly of Kovno), Merkaz Javne [Yavneh] and Agudat ha-Rabanim of Lithuania for 1921-1923; list of Javne [Yavneh] schools in Lithuania, [March 1924] | ||||||||||||
| Poland | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 114/25 | Letters of appeal from educational institutions in Poland, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 114/26 | Letters of appeal for educational and religious assistance, primarily from the vicinities of Piotrkow, Plock, Radom and Kalisz, December 1920 - March 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 114/27 | Letters of appeal from rabbis, Jewish communal organizations and educational institutions in Poland and Galicia, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 115/1 | Letters of appeal from Jewish communities and educational institutions in Poland to CRC, JDC and Ezras Torah, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 115/2 | Correspondence concerning religious and educational needs of Jewish communities in Poland and the Ukraine, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 115/3 | Letter of appeal from Grodek-Jagiellonski and community questionnaire from Malogoszcz, Poland, 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 115/4 | Letters of appeal from individuals in Poland, January - November 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 115/5 | Personal appeals from rabbis in Bialystok and Slonim, November 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 115/6 | Correspondence with Bialystok-Grodno and Suwalki area communities, schools and rabbis, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 115/7 | Correspondence with Bialystok-Grodno area communities, schools and rabbis, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 115/8 | Correspondence with Baranowicze and Nowogrodek area communities upon the opening of direct cultural disbursements by CRC, January 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 115/9 | Letters of appeal from Baranowicze, Nowogrodek and vicinity; description of instructors, plant and purposes of "Torath Hesed" yeshiva of Baranowicze, [before November 3, 1921], 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 115/10 | Correspondence concerning educational institutions in Poland, mainly in general vicinity of Kalisz, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 115/11 | Letters of appeal from Jewish communities and educational institutions in the extended vicinity of Lomza, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 115/12 | List of local chapters and committee members of "Mitet" organization of Lvov, and table of towns, schools and educational statistics, undated | ||||||||||||
| 115/13 | Appeals of Galician communities to CRC through "Mitet"-Lvov, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 115/14 | Questionnaires and letters of appeal to "Mitet"-Lvov, mainly from communities in Galicia, (towns beginning with Hebrew letters "alef" through "gimmel"), January - May 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 115/15 | Questionnaires and letters of appeal to "Mitet"-Lvov, mainly from communities in Galicia, ("dalet through "zayin"), January - June 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 116/1 | Questionnaires and letters of appeal to "Mitet"-Lvov, mainly from communities in Galicia, ("dalet", "resh" and "shin"), January - April 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 116/2 | Questionnaires and letters of appeal to "Mitet"-Lvov, mainly from communities in Galicia, (Witkow Nowy, and towns beginning with Hebrew letter "yod"), March - July 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 116/3 | Questionnaires and letters of appeal to "Mitet"-Lvov, mainly from communities in Galicia, ("het" and "lamed"), January - May 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 116/4 | Questionnaires and letters of appeal to "Mitet"-Lvov, mainly from communities in Galicia, ("mem" and "nun"), February - April 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 116/5 | Questionnaires and letters of appeal to "Mitet"-Lvov, mainly from communities in Galicia, ("samekh"), February - May 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 116/6 | Questionnaires and letters of appeal to "Mitet"-Lvov, mainly from communities in Galicia, ("kof"), March - May 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 116/7 | Letters of appeal and acknowledgment of subventions to "Mitet"-Lvov and CRC from local rabbis and "Mitet" chapters in Galicia, March - June 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 116/8 | Letters of appeal and acknowledgment of subventions to "Mitet"-Lvov and CRC from local rabbis and "Mitet" chapters in Galicia, June 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 116/9 | Letters of appeal and acknowledgment from local rabbis and "Mitet" chapters in Galicia and Kalisz, August - September 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 116/10 | Ledgers of the "Mitet" organization of Lvov detailing distribution of funds for support of educational institutions in Eastern Galicia, 1922-1923 | ||||||||||||
| 116/11 | Letter of appeal on behalf of religious schools of Ostrowiec, January 4, 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 116/12 | Letters of appeal from communities and educational institutions in the vicinity of Piotrkow, January - February 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 116/13 | Letter of appeal on behalf of religious schools of Rowne (Rovno), January 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 116/14 | Appeals for aid from Vilna, June - December 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 116/15 | Correspondence of the regional relief organization in Vilna with CRC and with constituent educational institutions, March - April 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 116/16 | Correspondence of Rabbi Hayyim Ozer Grodzinski on behalf of the Vilna relief organization, 1921-1922 | ||||||||||||
| 116/17 | Financial reports of Vilna relief organization, financial report and student list of Talmud Torah of Lomza, 1922-1923; [October/November 1923] | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 207a/4 | Appeal to relief committees in the United States signed by participants in a rabbinic conference in Vilna, including the Hafez Hayyim and Rabbi Hayyim Ozer Grodzinski, November 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 207/5 | Facsimile and translation of an appeal to the CRC signed by the Hafez Hayyim, Rabbi Hayyim Ozer Grodzinski, and others, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 116/18 | Correspondence with Shelomei Emunei Yisrael and Isidore Hershfield of JDC in Warsaw, October - December 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 116/19 | Receipts for telegrams, May - August 1924 | ||||||||||||
| Romania | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 116/20 | Appeal for funds to rebuild houses in Romania, June 11, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 116/21 | Plans and cost projections for reconstruction of synagogues in Gura Humorului, Romania, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| Oversize | Description | ||||||||||||
| 203/1 | Blueprint of "Grossen Synagoge" in Gura Humorului, [after 1919] undated | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 207/1 | Blueprint labeled "prjekt rekonstrukyi domo, Jeshiwy," 1922 | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 116/22 | Plans and cost projections for construction of a bathhouse and mikvah for Gura Humorului, Romania, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 116/23 | Correspondence from Jewish communities, educational institutions and individuals in Romania, February - November 1921 | ||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 117/1 | Correspondence between Stanley Bero, Manager of CRC, and Rabbi I. Alcalay, Chief Rabbi of Serbia, January - July 1919 | ||||||||||||
| All Countries | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 117/2 | List of addresses of rabbis and educational institutions in Poland and Lithuania, undated | ||||||||||||
| 117/3 | Appeals from Poland, Galicia, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, and Siberia, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 117/4 | Appeals from Poland, Galicia, Hungary, Romania and Czechoslovakia; community questionnaires from Poland, January - July 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 117/5 | Appeals from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, Hungary and Romania; floor plan for Talmud Torah in Skolem, Poland, January - July 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 117/6 | Appeals from Poland and Austria; list of yeshivot and Talmud Torahs in Hungary, March - June 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 117/7 | Letters of appeal from institutions and individuals in Poland, Galicia, Estonia, Moravia and Slovakia, 1920-1922 | ||||||||||||
| 117/8 | Correspondence with Poland, Romania, Latvia, Czechoslovakia, and Germany, 1921-1922 | ||||||||||||
| 117/9 | Correspondence with Austria, Estonia, and the Soviet Union, March - July 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 117/10 | Correspondence from Eastern Europe forwarded to CRC by JDC and Ezras Torah, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 117/11 | Correspondence with yeshiva deans and others in Poland and USSR, November - December 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 117/12 | Letters from yeshiva deans in Poland and Lithuania forwarded to CRC by Harry Fischel, November 1922 - February 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 117/13 | Correspondence from institutions and individuals in Poland, Galicia and Lithuania, 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 207/1 | "Entwurf eines Arbeitsplanes fur die Esra-Gruppen," fundraising flyer of the Lvov Rescue Committee, undated; 1926 | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 117/14 | Correspondence from institutions and individuals in Poland, Hungary, Soviet Union and Lithuania, 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 117/15 | Abstracts of correspondence and translation of letters, mostly of appeal to JDC received from organizations and individuals in Canada, Greece, Palestine, Poland, and the Soviet Union, 1927, undated | ||||||||||||
| 117/16 | Letters of appeal from Poland, Romania and Lithuania, May - July 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 117/17 | Abstracts of correspondence and translation of letters, primarily appeals to JDC received from cultural organizations and individuals in Austria, Lithuania, Palestine, Poland, Romania, United States and the USSR, [1928]-1932 | ||||||||||||
| 117/18 | Letters to Rabbi Teitelbaum from Germany, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania and the Ukraine received after his emigration to Palestine and answered by Abraham Horowitz, 1929-1930 | ||||||||||||
| Section 1B: Correspondence of the Joint Distribution Committee with Communities, Institutions and Individuals in the Soviet Union, 1923 - 1927 | |||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 207/2 | Map of Jewish areas in Russia, [1920s] | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 117/19 | Translation of letters received from organizations and individuals in Russia and the Ukraine, July 1923 - January 1924, undated | ||||||||||||
| 117/20 | Translation of letters received from organizations and individuals in Russia and the Ukraine, 1926-1927, undated | ||||||||||||
| 117/21 | Correspondence from organizations and individuals in Russia and the Ukraine to JDC, 1925-1926 | ||||||||||||
| 117/22 | Correspondence from organizations and individuals in Russia and the Ukraine to Dr. Joseph Rosen, JDC representative in USSR, and to the JDC, 1925-1926 | ||||||||||||
| 117/23 | Correspondence from Horodnyia [Gorodnya] and Minsk, USSR, to the leadership of the Jewish community in Moscow, March 1926 | ||||||||||||
| Section 1C: Questionnaires and Financial Disclosure Forms from Institutions in Eastern Europe, 1922-1928 | |||||||||||||
| Czechoslovakia | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 118/1 | Questionnaires from educational institutions in Slovakia, March - July 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 118/2 | Questionnaires from educational institutions in Slovakia (mostly duplicates of above), | ||||||||||||
| 118/3 | Questionnaires from educational institutions in Slovakia, 1927-1928 | ||||||||||||
| Latvia | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 118/4 | Monthly financial disclosure forms for educational institutions in Latvia, (poor condition) 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 118/5 | Questionnaires from educational institutions in Latvia, August - December 1927 | ||||||||||||
| Lithuania | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 118/6 | Statistical information forms for institutions under the supervision of Agudat ha-Rabanim, and monthly financial disclosure forms, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 118/7 | Statistical information forms for institutions under the supervision of Agudat ha-Rabanim, and monthly financial disclosure forms, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| Poland | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 118/8 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland (towns beginning with the Hebrew letter "alef"), April - June 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 118/9 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland (towns beginning with the Hebrew letter "alef"), April - November 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 118/10 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, (towns beginning with the Hebrew letters "alef" through "gimmel"), May - October 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 119/1 | Monthly financial disclosure forms from schools in Brzesc (Brest-Litovsk, now Brest), April - June 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 119/2 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland (towns beginning with the Hebrew letters "bet" through "waw"), April - December 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 119/3 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("zayin" through "tet"), March - November 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 119/4 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("tet", "yod" and "lamed"), April - November 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 119/5 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("lamed" and "mem"), April - November 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 119/6 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("mem" and "nun"), April - October 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 119/7 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("nun" and "samekh"), April - June 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 119/8 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("samekh"), April - June 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 119/9 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("samekh" and "pe"), April - November 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 119/10 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("pe"), April - June 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 119/11 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("pe" through "kof"), April - December 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 119/12 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("kof"), April - June 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 119/13 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("kof"), April - June 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 120/1 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("kof"), June 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 120/2 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("kof"), July - September 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 120/3 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("kof" through "shin"), April - June 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 120/4 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("resh"), April - June 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 120/5 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("resh" and "shin"), May - September 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 120/6 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("shin"), April - June 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 120/7 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("alef" through "gimmel" and "samekh" through "pe"), April - July 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 120/8 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("alef through "mem"), April - June 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 120/9 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("alef" through "shin"), April - July 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 120/10 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, April - August 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 120/11 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("mem" through "samekh"), April - May 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 120/12 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("pe" through "shin"), April - June 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 120/13 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("shin"), April - June 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 121/1 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("alef", "bet", "waw", and "zayin"), November 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 121/2 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("alef" through "tet"), November - December 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 121/3 | Questionnaires from educational institutions in Poland, primarily the Cracow area, (towns beginning with the Hebrew letters "alef" through "resh"), November - December 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 121/4 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("gimmel" through "lamed"), October - December 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 121/5 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("lamed" through "samekh"), October - December 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 121/6 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("pe" through "kof"), November - December 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 121/7 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("pe" and "resh"), November 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 121/8 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("resh" and "shin"), November - December 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 122/1 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("aleph" through "waw"), 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 122/2 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("waw" through "samekh"), November 1926 - February 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 122/3 | Questionnaires and monthly financial disclosure forms from educational institutions in Poland, ("samekh" through "resh"), November 1926 - February 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 122/4-5 | Questionnaires from educational institutions in Galicia, January - April 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 122/6 | Questionnaires from educational institutions in Galicia, February - November 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 122/7 | Questionnaires from educational institutions in Poland, March - May 1927 | ||||||||||||
| Romania | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 122/8 | Questionnaires from educational institutions in Bessarabia, February - April 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 122/9 | Questionnaires from educational institutions in Galicia, February - April 1927 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 2: Correspondence with Institutions and Individuals in Palestine, Syria and Turkey, 1919-1930. 3 boxes, 1.5 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| Section 2A: General Correspondence, 1919-1930 | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 123/1 | Handwritten notes on land in Palestine, undated | ||||||||||||
| 123/2 | Appeals for aid from various institutions in Palestine and letters of remittances, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 123/3 | Correspondence concerning funds sent to Jews in Syria and Turkey, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 123/4 | Cable from Turkey regarding conditions, December 14, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 123/5 | Request for aid for erection of school in Tireh, Smyrna, [Turkey], July 7, 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 123/6 | Form letter of the Echud Hamlamdim (Teachers Union for Fostering Traditional Jewish Education) Jerusalem, to members of CRC requesting financial assistance, July 16, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 123/7 | Letters from institutions in Palestine requesting aid, 1922-1923 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| Box 207a/6 | Statistical information on CRC activities in Palestine, June 1923 | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 123/8 | Correspondence of M. Eliash concerning land surveys he conducted in Palestine, 1922-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 123/9 | Correspondence concerning the Menorah Palestine Building Corp.; appeals for funds, 1926-1929 | ||||||||||||
| 123/10 | Correspondence concerning disbursement of funds, 1926-1930 | ||||||||||||
| 123/11 | Correspondence concerning disbursement of funds, 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 123/12 | Report on Moshav Kfar Hitim with lists of members and summaries of reports on activities, July 19, 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 123/13 | Appeals for aid from individual rabbis, 1927-1930 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| Box 207/7 | Broadside issued by Mifleget Poale Erets-Yisrael about a British government proclamation, undated | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 123/14 | Agreement between Otto Warburg of Berlin and Tiberias Improvement Co., Inc. regarding sale of land in Palestine for development, February 10, 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 123/15 | Cables appealing for aid for yeshivot, 1929-1930 | ||||||||||||
| Section 2B: The Universal Yeshiva (Merkaz ha-Rav, Central Jewish Theological Academy at Jerusalem), 1922-1929 | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Correspondence on the Establishment and Construction of the Yeshiva, 1922-1929 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 124/1 | Minutes of meeting called by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Chief Rabbi of Palestine, concerning establishment of the Universal Yeshiva, publicity releases, November 6, 1924; 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 124/2 | Letters of Rabbi Kook to Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, 1922, 1925 | ||||||||||||
| 124/3 | Telegrams exchanged between Rabbi Kook and Rabbi Teitelbaum, 1925 | ||||||||||||
| 124/4 | Telegrams exchanged between Rabbi Kook and Rabbi Teitelbaum, 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 124/5 | Letters of Rabbi Kook and I. S. Rabinowitz-Teomim, secretary of the Yeshiva, to Meyer Vesell, treasurer of the Yeshiva, and Rabbi Teitelbaum, 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 124/6 | Letters of Rabbi Teitelbaum to Rabbi Kook and I. S. Rabinowitz-Teomim, 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 124/7 | Letters of Rabbi Kook to Rabbi Teitelbaum, 1926, 1929, undated | ||||||||||||
| 124/8 | Correspondence of Rabbi Kook, I. S. Rabinowitz-Teomim, and Rabbi Teitelbaum, 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 124/9 | Letters of consulting engineers, Hecker and Yellin, submitting plans for the building of the Yeshiva, 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 124/10 | Letter to New Palestine magazine asking for copies of article about the Universal Yeshiva, January 7, 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 124/11 | Drafts of article about the Universal Yeshiva, 1926, undated | ||||||||||||
| 124/12 | Correspondence of Rabbi Kook, I. S. Rabinowitz-Teomim, and Rabbi Teitelbaum, 1928 | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence on Fundraising, 1925-1928 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 125/1 | "B" - "G", 1925-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 125/2 | "H" - "L", 1925-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 125/3 | "M" - "W", 1925-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 125/4 | CANADA, Montreal - WEST VIRGINIA, Charleston, 1926-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 125/5 | Correspondence with Rabbi Moshe Shapiro and others of the Atlantic City [New Jersey] Committee of the Universal Yeshiva of Jerusalem, 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 125/6 | Correspondence with Jacob Rudick, chairman of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, office of the Universal Yeshiva of Jerusalem, 1926-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 125/7 | Correspondence with Samuel Rottenberg regarding his appointment as Director of the American Committee of the Universal Yeshiva of Jerusalem, 1927 | ||||||||||||
| Financial Records, 1925-1928 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 125/8 | Correspondence with Joseph Polstein and financial statements concerning expenditures of the Yeshiva, 1925-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 125/9 | Correspondence with Meyer Vesell, treasurer, and financial statements concerning expenditures of the Yeshiva, 1925-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 125/10 | Correspondence with Jewish newspapers about advertising, 1925-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 125/11 | Invoices for New York office rental and supplies, 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 125/12 | Correspondence with the State Bank and Trust Company of New York concerning Universal Yeshiva's account, 1926-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 125/13 | Statement of income and disbursement, November 1, 1925 - November 30, 1928 | ||||||||||||
| Printed Materials, 1921-1929 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 125/14 | Appeal for funds and commemorative stamps of Rabbi Abraham I. Kook, undated | ||||||||||||
| OversizeBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 201/5 | Fundraising broadside issued by the Universal Yeshiva, undated | ||||||||||||
| 201/6 | Newspaper clippings, stock certificate, and several broadsides relating to Rabbi Kook, 1922-1928 | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 125/15 | Pamphlets about the founding of the Yeshiva, written by Rabbi Kook: | ||||||||||||
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- Din ve-Heshbon shel Merkaz Ha-Rav, (Jerusalem, 1921)
- Kri'at ha-Kodesh le-yisud ha-Yeshivah ha-Merkazit ha-`Olamit bi-Yerushalayim (1922)
- The Central Jewish Theological Academy at Jerusalem (The Universal Yeshiva) (in Hebrew and English, New York, 1924
- issue of Hadoar,
November 11, 1927, with an article on the Hebrew University
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| 125/16 | Jewish Tribune and Hebrew Standard, p.6,, November 1, 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 125/17 | Pamphlet, The Universal Yeshiva, written by Rabbi Kook; New Year's greeting card with photograph of students and faculty of the school, undated 1929 | ||||||||||||
| OversizeBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 201/7 | Financial lists of Universal Yeshiva, 1926-1929 | ||||||||||||
| 201/8 | Broadsides in English and Yiddish describing the Universal Yeshiva and asking for contributions, 1929, undated | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 3: Correspondence with Institutions and Individuals in other Foreign Countries, 1919-1927. 1 box | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 126/1 | Correspondence concerning appeals and receipt of funds in Argentina, June - December, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 126/2 | Correspondence about funds received from Jews in Brazil, February - December, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 126/3 | Letter about fundraising in Chile, March 26, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 126/4 | Correspondence from Haim A. Soloveitchik concerning request for aid for Talmud Torah in Harbin, China, 1925, 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 126/5 | Letter about fundraising in Cuba, April, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 126/6 | Letter about fundraising in Cuba, February 13, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 126/7 | Correspondence from the Havana Talmud Torah Committee and Merchant Marine Y.M.C.A. concerning requests for assistance in Cuba, 1924-1925 | ||||||||||||
| 126/8 | Letter to Israel Zangwill in England, about "Our Own," Zangwill's poem used by CRC at fundraising appeals, October 24, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 126/9 | Cable from Rabbi Teitelbaum to Dr. [?] Motzkin in France about CRC activities, November 28, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 126/10 | Correspondence about appeal for funds in Germany, August - December 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 126/11 | Correspondence concerning distribution of food and money in Holland, July - October 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 126/12 | Letter to individual in Genoa, Italy about aid requested, July 23, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 126/13 | Correspondence concerning appeals and receipt of funds in Mexico, January - September 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 126/14 | Correspondence concerning appeals and receipt of funds in Mexico, March - October 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 126/15 | Correspondence with Beis Seifer Hibri de Mexico concerning appeals for aid, January - December 1925 | ||||||||||||
| 126/16 | Correspondence with Beis Seifer Hibri de Mexico concerning appeals for aid, 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 126/17 | Appeals for aid in Panama, May - June 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 126/18 | Appeals for aid in Puerto Rico, February 11, 1925 | ||||||||||||
| 126/19 | Correspondence with Zentral-Bureau der "Agudas Jisroel" [Agudat Israel] in Zurich, June - November 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 126/20 | Letter sent by A [?], of Neuchatel to M. H. Landau, of Vienna regarding relief effort in the Soviet Union, August 24, 1925 | ||||||||||||
| Series F: Correspondence of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum [1915]-1935. Boxes 127-131, Oversize Boxes 201-203, and Map Box 207, 11 linear feet | |||||||||||||
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Biographical Note of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum (1890-1950)
: Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum was born in Jerusalem in 1890 and died there in 1950. Ordained by Rabbis Chaim Berlin and Abraham Isaac Kook in 1911, Teitelbaum went to the United States the following year at Rabbi Berlin's request to raise funds for the Vaad ha-Kelali Keneset Yisra'el, the Ashkenazic community in Jerusalem. He was still in the United States when the Central Relief Committee was formed in 1914, and Rabbi Teitelbaum was chosen to be its secretary, a position he held until 1930. He remained a member of the CRC's executive committee until 1936. Rabbi Teitelbaum was instrumental in keeping CRC alive after the formation of the JDC and played an important role representing Orthodox Jewish interests as a member of the Executive and Cultural Committees of the Joint. After World War I, he was appointed by the JDC as the only Jewish member of the non-sectarian Near East Relief Commission, under the leadership of Herbert Hoover. Teitelbaum was awarded the rank of major by the government and spent eleven months in the Middle East, several of them in Palestine, in the service of the Commission. Teitelbaum traveled overseas to investigate educational institutions in Eastern Europe and Palestine in 1926 on behalf of the CRC. This trip strengthened his personal relationships with the leaders of these institutions, who pleaded with him to remain at the helm of the CRC in the late 1920s when Teitelbaum wanted to return to Jerusalem, a plea to which he temporarily acquiesced. In addition to his work with the CRC and the JDC, Teitelbaum was active in the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada (Agudat Harabanim), and the Mizrachi Organization of America and the World Mizrachi Organization. In 1922 he served as the executive director of the membership campaign committee of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS). He was also rabbi of Congregation Anshe Sfard in Brooklyn from 1922 to 1929. Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum's devotion to Jewish settlement and development of the Land of Israel is reflected in his work for Mizrachi and for the American Palestine Promoting and Financing Company, a company which encouraged American investment in Palestine. He was also a director of the Palestine Trust Company and a member of the executive committee of Keren Hayesod. In the 1930s, Teitelbaum achieved his lifelong dream of moving back to Jerusalem. He returned to the United States several times for extended stays during the 1930s and 1940s when his expertise was needed on behalf of relief efforts. Teitelbaum's work during this period is described in CRC Part 3, 1930-1958 in the series "Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, 1929-1949." | |||||||||||||
| Arrangement: The papers of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum have been divided into subseries as follows:
1. General correspondence
2. JDC correspondence
3. CRC correspondence
4. Correspondence with other organizations
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| Series Description: These divisions reflect the bulk of the correspondence in each section. Teitelbaum was involved in a myriad of different organizations and fields of activity and some overlap exists between the various subseries. Series 1, General correspondence, contains letters, telegrams, invoices, and three small games for children (127/2). Most of the letters were written by Rabbi Teitelbaum in a personal rather than an official capacity. In addition to personal matters, the correspondence discusses individual requests for visas or employment. The subseries also includes correspondence with institutions and individuals in the United States, Europe, and Palestine. Teitelbaum's correspondence with individuals in Europe covers a variety of topics. A letter from the Tachkemony school in Poland of Jan. 24, 1926, requested Teitelbaum's advice on whether or not to include English in the school's rabbinical program in order to prepare students for the rabbinate in the United States. Teitelbaum advised against it in his reply of May 12 (127/2). Additional European correspondents are: Rabbi Abraham Duber Cahana Shapiro (127/6); Rabbi Moses Mordecai Epstein (1866-1933), (127/4); Dr. L[eo] Deutschlander (1888-1935) on the Beth Jacob Schools in Poland (127/7); and Rabbi Joseph Szuw of Vilna about politics in religious Jewish education in Poland (127/7). A letter from Rabbi Hayyim Ozer Grodzinski (5/6/27) mentions the health of the Hafez Hayyim (127/6). Material from Palestine in the subseries includes correspondence and a map from the Bait Wegan Co-operative Society (127/2, 4-6), correspondence with Rabbi Jacob Joseph Slonim (1881-1931), Chief Rabbi of Hebron (127/4), correspondence to and from Rabbi I. S. Rabinowitz-Teomim (127/3), and correspondence with Yeshiva Torath Haim and Yeshiva Etz Hayim, both in Jerusalem (127/4). Teitelbaum's letter to Rabbi Jehiel Michel Tucatzinsky (1871-1955) of Yeshiva Etz Hayim (12/9/25) discusses Rabbi A. I. Kook's view of "Torat Erets Yisrael" and "Torah of the Diaspora." In addition to his efforts on behalf of Judaism overseas, Teitelbaum was an active participant in promoting Orthodoxy in America. This is reflected in his 1927 correspondence with State Senator Philip Kleinfeld on behalf of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis (Agudat Harabanim) regarding effective enforcement of the Kosher Food Bill (127/3). Series 2, JDC correspondence, contains letters, reports, lists, invoices, and blueprints. This material is from Rabbi Teitelbaum's tour of duty in the Middle East in 1919 as the American Relief Commissioner for the Near East. Teitelbaum's official reports as Commissioner are located in Series II, REPORTS. Examples of items of interest are: a letter from Teitelbaum to Israel Levy, Chief Rabbi of France, discussing the low level of teachers' religious observance at Alliance Israelite Universelle schools (in French, dated September 19, 1919); printed material of the Palestine Silicate Company, Ltd., 1921 - 1922; a flyer describing the work of the Pro Jerusalem Society, 1928?; a brochure with a detailed itinerary of the "Palestine Pilgrimage," a trip organized for American Jews, 1923 (128/4); and a list of recipients of food from the Nathan Strauss Relief Station in Jerusalem, February-April, 1920 (128/5). Additional reports and letters concerning the JDC's relief work in Eastern Europe are located in folder 129/15. Series 3, CRC correspondence includes the appeals Rabbi Teitelbaum received from individuals and institutions in Eastern Europe and Palestine seeking aid. On July 3, 1926, Rabbi Teitelbaum traveled overseas in his capacity as Executive Secretary of the CRC to survey educational institutions in Europe and Palestine. Although he did not officially represent the JDC on this trip, he was asked to submit a report of his findings to the Cultural Committee on his return. Requests for help were sent to both his home and office, others were addressed to him in Berlin while on his tour. The material all dates from 1926 and 1927. Letters from Palestine and Eastern Europe are together in the folders. Noteworthy items in Teitelbaum's CRC correspondence are: letters from Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn (summer 1926) which mention discussions with government officials about the practice of religion [presumably in the Soviet Union] (129/2); copies of letters to Felix Warburg of JDC on Agrojoint reports, February-May, 1926 (129/6); a letter from Louis Ginzberg of the Jewish Theological Seminary to Rabbi Teitelbaum concerning Ginzberg's alma mater, the Telz yeshiva, December 17, 1926 (129/4), and correspondence and posters issued by the Society Torah and Derech-Erez in Jerusalem, 1926? (129/7). Printed items of note in the subseries are two multi-color Rosh Hashana greetings, produced in Warsaw and Jerusalem, respectively (129/1); a poster announcing the decisions of a rabbinical conference in Slovakia about Zionism and the nature of the Orthodox community, March 9, 1926 (129/7); and a poster issued by Keren Hayesod inviting people to the ceremony celebrating the donation of three Torah scrolls and an ark by workers in the factory of L. Shershevski in Poland to the Rabbi Judah he-Hasid Synagogue (the "Hurvah") in Jerusalem, Oct. 14, 1926 (129/5). Series 4, Correspondence with other organizations highlights Rabbi Teitelbaum's work with the American Palestine Promoting and Financing Company, Mizrachi, RIETS, the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, and the United Palestine Appeal. Correspondence of the American Palestine Promoting and Financing Company includes letters of the North American Trading Company and other companies directed by Rabbi Teitelbaum and Gregory B. Stolberg located at 100 5th Avenue, New York, New York. It incorporated the American Palestine Trading Bank, the American Oriental Manufacturing and Trading Corp., the Palestine Construction and Home Building Company, and the American Palestine Modern Hotel Company. Its purpose was to encourage trade between Palestine and the United States which would yield financial returns to shareholders and at the same time build Palestine up economically and industrially. Additional correspondence relating to the Anglo-Palestine Building Company and the North American Trading Company (1921) is in folder 128/5. Rabbi Teitelbaum's correspondence with Rabbi Meir Berlin, chairman of the Mizrachi World Organization and a leader of religious Zionism, and various shareholders in the financial and economic institutions the Mizrachi established, contains letters, cables, bank statements and receipts concerning bank shares and the Mizrachi school system in Palestine. The international nature of Mizrachi's activities is reflected in a list of members and a letter from Shalom Gabay, secretary of Mizrachi ha-Tsa'ir in Cairo, Jan. 17, 1929 (131/2). Items of particular interest in this subseries relating to the American Jewish community include: a letter to Louis Marshall asking why Orthodox rabbis were not selected as members of the Jewish Agency, June 21, 1929 (131/12); a list of members of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis (Agudat Harabanim), 1928? (131/12); and a Yiddish fundraising flyer for RIETS, 1922? (129/15). | |||||||||||||
| Subseries 1. General Correspondence, 1919-1930 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 127/1 | 1919-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 127/2 | 1923-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 127/3 | 1925-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 127/4 | 1925-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 127/5 | 1925-1930 | ||||||||||||
| 127/6 | 1926-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 127/7 | 1927-1930 | ||||||||||||
| 127/8 | 1928-1929 | ||||||||||||
| 127/9 | 1929-1930 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 2: JDC Correspondence, [1915]-1922 | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 128/1 | Correspondence on progress made in economic conditions in Damascus and Constantinople; letters from Harry Fischel about etrogim in Palestine; and translations of appeal by rabbis in Palestine, [1915]-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 128/2 | Lists of relief expenses for the Jewish populations of the Turkish empire, 1917-1919 | ||||||||||||
| 128/3 | Correspondence with individuals and institutions in Palestine and Damascus concerning relief work, 1919-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 128/4 | Correspondence with individuals and institutions in Palestine and Turkey concerning relief work, 1919-1922 | ||||||||||||
| 128/5 | Correspondence with individuals about JDC relief work in the Middle East, 1919-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 128/6 | Correspondence while on tour of Middle East, 1919-1922 | ||||||||||||
| 128/7 | List of Palestine relief recipients of American funds, report on Palestine Department, signed by Jacob de Haas, 1920-1921; January 14, 1921 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 3: CRC Correspondence, 1926-1927 | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 129/1 | 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 129/2 | 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 129/3 | 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 129/4 | 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 129/5 | 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 129/6 | 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 129/7 | 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 129/8 | 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 129/9 | 1927 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 4: Correspondence with Other Organizations, 1919-1935 | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| American Palestine Promoting and Financing Company, 1920-1924 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 129/10 | Blueprints of villa to be built by the Menorah Building Corp. in Haifa, undated | ||||||||||||
| 129/11 | Prospectus of the American Palestine Promoting and Financing Company, signed by Aaron Teitelbaum and Gregory B. Stolberg, 1921, undated | ||||||||||||
| 129/12 | Letters from the Food Export Corporation of America and the Anglo-Palestine Co., Ltd., 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 129/13 | Correspondence with institutions in Palestine and the United States concerning investments and imports, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 129/14 | Correspondence with institutions in Palestine and the United States concerning investments and imports, 1920-1922 | ||||||||||||
| 129/15 | Correspondence with institutions in Palestine and the United States concerning investments and imports, 1921-1922 | ||||||||||||
| 129/16 | Letters from Abraham Crespin, maritime agent, and the Anglo-Palestine Co., Ltd., 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 130/1 | Correspondence with exporting company in Germany, 1921-1922 | ||||||||||||
| 130/2 | Correspondence concerning the incorporation of the North American Trading Company with the American Promoting and Financing Company, February 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 130/3 | Correspondence concerning interests of the North American Trading Company, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 130/4 | Invoices and catalogues addressed to the American Promoting and Financing Company, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| OversizeBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 201/9 | Blueprint of 5 room villa to be built by Menorah Building Corp. in Haifa, undated | ||||||||||||
| 201/10 | Map of Bait Vegan and environs, by Palestine Land Development Corp., Jerusalem, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 207/8 | Broadside of Menorah Palestine Landselling Co., (poor condition) [1923?] | ||||||||||||
| OversizeBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 202/1 | Agreement of sale [blank], Blueprints of sites in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Tel-Aviv, Herzliya, and Haifa undated | ||||||||||||
| 201/12 | Street plan, Petah Tikvah, [poor condition] undated | ||||||||||||
| 201/13 | Blueprint of the Foundation Company for Chattaugany, Ore. and Iron Co., October 13, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 203/2 | Street plan of Kiryat Shmuel, undated | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 207a/3 | Two maps, one labeled [Admat Gefen Aderet, Jerusalem] and another labeled [admat ha-Minzar ha-Armeni, Jerusalem] (poor condition), 1924 | ||||||||||||
| ha-Bitahon ha-Hadadi, 1924-1927 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 130/5 | Correspondence and publications concerning insurance society in Jerusalem, 1924-1927 | ||||||||||||
| Mizrachi World Organization; Mizrachi Organization; Mizrachi Bank, 1919-1935 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 130/6 | Letter to Rabbi Meir Berlin about educational interests of Baron Edmund D. Rothschild, December 26, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 130/7 | Cables appealing for aid for yeshivot in Mir (Poland) and Jerusalem, August 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 130/8 | Correspondence, minutes, and resolutions of the Mizrachi World Organization Central Bureau and Mizrachi Organization of America, 1925-1931 | ||||||||||||
| 130/9 | Correspondence, minutes, and resolutions of the Mizrachi World Organization Central Bureau and Mizrachi Organization of America, and correspondence with Polish and Austrian branches, 1925-1926 | ||||||||||||
| 130/10 | Correspondence, minutes, and resolutions of the Mizrachi World Organization Central Bureau and Mizrachi Organization of America, 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 130/11 | Correspondence, minutes, and resolutions of the Mizrachi World Organization Central Bureau and Mizrachi Organization of America, 1929 | ||||||||||||
| 130/12 | Correspondence and lists of the Mizrachi Bank Jerusalem Ltd. with Mizrachi Organization of America concerning sold or missing bank shares, 1925-1935 | ||||||||||||
| 130/13 | Correspondence and lists of the Mizrachi Bank Jerusalem Ltd. with Mizrachi Organization of America concerning sold or missing bank shares, 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 130/14 | Correspondence and lists of the Mizrachi Bank Jerusalem Ltd. with Mizrachi Organization of America concerning sold or missing bank shares, 1927-1934 | ||||||||||||
| 130/15 | Correspondence and lists of the Mizrachi Bank Jerusalem Ltd. with Mizrachi Organization of America concerning sold or missing bank shares, 1929 | ||||||||||||
| 130/16-22 | Correspondence of the Mizrachi Organization of America with American bank shareholders, 1926-1929 | ||||||||||||
| 131/1 | Correspondence of Rabbi Berlin with bank shareholders and contributors, 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 131/2 | Correspondence of Rabbi Berlin with bank shareholders and contributors, 1928-1931 | ||||||||||||
| 131/3 | Correspondence of a farm settlement in Palestine with the Mizrachi Organization of America, 1927-1929 | ||||||||||||
| 131/4 | Letter from I. S. Rabinowitz-Teomim [?] about Mizrachi organization of Palestine, July 20, 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 131/5 | Correspondence of Mizrachi Organization of America with Zionist Organization of America and the United Palestine Appeal, minutes of UPA, 1928-1929; March 20, 1929 | ||||||||||||
| 131/6 | Correspondence of Rabbi Teitelbaum with Rabbi Berlin, 1928-1929 | ||||||||||||
| 131/7 | Correspondence of Rabbi Teitelbaum with Rabbi Berlin, 1928-1929 | ||||||||||||
| 131/8 | Telegrams of Rabbis Teitelbaum and Berlin, 1929 | ||||||||||||
| 131/9 | Telegrams of Rabbis Horowitz and Teitelbaum, 1929 | ||||||||||||
| 131/10 | Report by E. N. Mohl to Rabbi Berlin, Palestine Zionist Executive, about Reconstruction Fund for Palestine, October 13, 1929 | ||||||||||||
| OversizeBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 201/14 | Records of shares from the Mizrachi Bank, undated | ||||||||||||
| Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, 1922 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 131/11 | Correspondence of Rabbi Teitelbaum, executive director of the membership campaign committee, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| Union of Orthodox Rabbis (Agudat Harabanim), 1928-1929 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 131/12 | Correspondence with insurance company concerning aims of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, 1928-1929 | ||||||||||||
| United Palestine Appeal, 1929 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 131/13 | Report of I. M. Rubinow, executive director, United Palestine Appeal, to Aaron Teitelbaum, on a trip through the Middle West, May 5, 1929 | ||||||||||||
| Series G: Remittances and Receipts, 1918-1932. Boxes 132-138, 3.5 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| Arrangement: This series is divided into three subseries:
Subseries 1. Remittances - Palestine
Subseries 2. Receipts - Palestine
Subseries 3. Receipts - Eastern Europe
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| Series Description: The CRC kept records in the form of remittances for individuals and institutions in Palestine which received funds through its representatives. Lists of remittances are arranged for Palestine; there are no remittances for Eastern Europe. Receipts are extant for both Palestine and Eastern Europe. The lists of remittances for Palestine include recapitulation sheets of funds forwarded through the United States Department of State, the Anglo-Palestine Company, Ltd. in Jerusalem, and the Jewish Colonial Trust in London. Items of interest in this series include a list of supplies for furnishing a bathhouse in Jaffa, undated (132/1) and letters to Israel Zangwill discussing fundraising for the CRC, 1919-1922 (132/3-4). Receipts for all remittances received by individuals and institutions in both Palestine and Eastern Europe are arranged in numerical and chronological order. Eastern European receipts are in Hebrew and Yiddish. Palestinian receipts remitted through the Banque Imperiale Ottomane (133/3, 133/5) are in French; those disbursed through the Anglo-Palestine Company and by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Chief Rabbi of Palestine, are in Hebrew. The latter include cover letters by Rabbi Kook. An item of note is a photograph of a memorial to American contributors, undated (133/6). | |||||||||||||
| Subseries 1: Lists of Palestine Remittances, 1919-1932 | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 132/1 | Lists of funds transmitted through the American Consul to institutions in Palestine; cables about funds, 1932, undated | ||||||||||||
| 132/2 | Lists of remittances and recapitulation sheets, # 61-63, 68-69, 1919-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 132/3 | Lists of institutions and individuals who received funds through the Anglo-Palestine Company, Ltd. in Jerusalem and the Jewish Colonial Trust in London, on lists #49, 55, 58-64, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 132/4 | Lists of institutions and individuals who received funds through the Anglo-Palestine Company, Ltd. in Jerusalem and the Jewish Colonial Trust in London, on lists #65-71, 73, 1920-1922 | ||||||||||||
| 132/5 | Lists of individual recipients of support from CRC through religious institutions in Palestine, January 15 - July 15 [1921] | ||||||||||||
| 132/6 | Lists of individual recipients of support from CRC through religious institutions in Palestine, July 15 - October 15, 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 132/7 | Lists of disbursements to individuals through various yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, April - October 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 132/8 | Lists of yeshivot and Talmud Torahs which received funds through CRC, September - December 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 132/9 | Lists of institutions and individuals which received funds through CRC, March - November 1926, 1928 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 2: Receipts of Remittances received by Institutions and Individuals in Palestine, 1919-1930 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 133/1 | Receipts for remittances sent to individuals in Palestine from CRC, January - February 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 133/2 | Receipts for remittances sent to individuals in Palestine and receipts for same from the Anglo-Palestine Company, February - July 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 133/3 | Receipts from Banque Imperiale Ottomane for individuals in Palestine, March - April 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 133/4 | Receipts from the Banque Imperiale Ottomane for individuals in Hebron, March and November 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 133/5 | Receipts from Banque Imperiale Ottomane for individuals in Jaffa, November 8, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 133/6 | Receipts and lists of individuals who received aid from CRC, 1923-1925 | ||||||||||||
| 133/7 | Receipts for CRC funds disbursed by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Chief Rabbi of Palestine, to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, appropriations for 1926 and 1927, March 1926 - December 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 133/8 | Receipts for CRC funds disbursed by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Chief Rabbi of Palestine, to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, appropriations #2-4 for 1927, April - September 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 133/9 | Receipts for CRC funds disbursed by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Chief Rabbi of Palestine, to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, September 1927 - December 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 133/10 | Receipts for CRC funds disbursed by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Chief Rabbi of Palestine, to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, March - June 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 133/11 | Receipts for CRC funds disbursed by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Chief Rabbi of Palestine, to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, 1928-1929 | ||||||||||||
| 133/12 | Receipts for CRC funds disbursed by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Chief Rabbi of Palestine, to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, 1928-1929 | ||||||||||||
| 133/13 | Receipts for CRC funds disbursed by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Chief Rabbi of Palestine, to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, 1929-1930 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 3: Receipts of Remittances received by Institutions and Individuals in Eastern Europe, 1920-1930 | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 133/14 | List of Polish and Russian payees' receipts from the State Bank Foreign Department, October 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 133/15 | Receipts and postcards from the Russian Commercial Bank and the American Relief Administration for transfers of funds and foods to the Soviet Union, 1924 | ||||||||||||
| Czechoslovakia | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 133/16 | Receipts from CRC branch in Bratislava for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 133/17 | Receipts from CRC branch in Bratislava for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, 1920-1922 | ||||||||||||
| 134/1-3 | Receipts from CRC branch in Bratislava for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, 1922-1924 | ||||||||||||
| 134/4 | Receipts from CRC branch in Bratislava for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, 1923-1924 | ||||||||||||
| 134/5 | Receipts from CRC branch in Bratislava for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, 1923-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 134/6 | Receipts from CRC branch in Bratislava for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, 1929-1930 | ||||||||||||
| Hungary | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 134/7 | Receipts from the office of the Chief Rabbi of Beregszasz for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 134/8 | Receipts from the office of the Chief Rabbi of Beregszasz for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 134/9 | Receipts from the office of the Chief Rabbi of Beregszasz for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, 1922-1924 | ||||||||||||
| 134/10 | Receipts from the office of the Chief Rabbi of Beregszasz for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, 1923-1924 | ||||||||||||
| 134/11 | Receipts from the office of the Chief Rabbi of Beregszasz for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, 1929-1930 | ||||||||||||
| Lithuania | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 135/1 | Receipts from the Lithuanian Bank of Commerce and the State Bank of New York for individuals in Kovno, 1923-1924 | ||||||||||||
| 135/2 | Receipts from the Bank of Commerce in Kovno for remittances to institutions, 1924 | ||||||||||||
| Poland | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 135/3 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Bialystok for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, 1927-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 135/4 | Receipts and appropriations from the CRC branch in Cracow for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, April - May 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 135/5 | Receipts and appropriations from the CRC branch in Cracow for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, May 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 135/6 | Receipts and appropriations from the CRC branch in Cracow for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, May - June 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 135/7 | Receipts and appropriations from the CRC branch in Cracow for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, August - September 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 135/8 | Receipts and appropriations from the CRC branch in Cracow for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, September - October 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 135/9 | Receipts and appropriations from the CRC branch in Cracow for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, January - December 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 135/10 | Receipts and appropriations from the CRC branch in Cracow for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, February 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 135/11 | Receipts and appropriations from the CRC branch in Cracow for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, (Warsaw) September 1927, December 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 135/12 | Receipts and appropriations from the CRC branch in Cracow for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, April - May 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 135/13 | Receipts and appropriations from the CRC branch in Cracow for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, September 1928, January 1929, October 1929 | ||||||||||||
| 135/14 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Lvov for yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, (poor condition), 1920(?) | ||||||||||||
| 136/1 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Lvov for yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, appropriation #4 for 1928, June, 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 136/2 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Lvov for yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, July - September 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 136/3 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Lvov for yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, October - November 1929 | ||||||||||||
| 136/4 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Vilna for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, appropriations for 1927, March 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 136/5 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Vilna for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, June - November 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 136/6 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Vilna for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, May - October 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 136/7 | Receipts for funds for yeshivot and Talmud Torahs distributed through the Tachkemony Committee in Vilna for the CRC, April - June 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 136/8 | Receipts from the Warsaw branches of the Bank of New York and the State Bank remittances in Poland, 1923-1924 | ||||||||||||
| 137/1 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Warsaw for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, April - June 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 137/2 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Warsaw for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, April - June 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 137/3 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Warsaw for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, June - September 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 137/4 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Warsaw for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, August - September 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 137/5 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Warsaw for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, September 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 137/6 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Warsaw for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, September 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 137/7 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Warsaw for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, December 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 137/8 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Warsaw for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, April 1928 - November 1929 | ||||||||||||
| 137/9 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Warsaw for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, March 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 137/10 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Warsaw for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, February - April 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 137/11 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Warsaw for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, May - June 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 137/12 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Warsaw for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, July - August 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 137/13 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Warsaw for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, March - July 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 137/14 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Warsaw for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, March 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 138/1 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Warsaw for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, March 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 138/2 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Warsaw for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, July 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 138/3 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Warsaw for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, July 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 138/4 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Warsaw for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, July 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 138/5 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Warsaw for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, July 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 138/6 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Warsaw for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, July 1928 - October 1929 | ||||||||||||
| 138/7 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Warsaw for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, September - October 1929 | ||||||||||||
| 138/8 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Warsaw for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, September - October 1929 | ||||||||||||
| 138/9 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Warsaw for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, September - October 1929 | ||||||||||||
| 138/10 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Warsaw for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, April - June 1929 | ||||||||||||
| Romania | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 138/11 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Bistritz, Transylvania for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, appropriations #3 and 4 for 1927, nos. 1-97, May - July 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 138/12 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Bistritz, Transylvania for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, March - May 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 138/13 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Bistritz, Transylvania for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, July - October 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 138/14 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Bistritz, Transylvania for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, September - December 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 138/15 | Receipts from the CRC branch in Bistritz, Transylvania for aid to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, March - July 1929 | ||||||||||||
| General Receipts, 1918-1922 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 138/16 | Receipts for interest on Liberty Bond coupons, 1918-1922 | ||||||||||||
| 138/17 | Receipts for contributions to the General Fund, 1921 | ||||||||||||
| Series H: Fundraising, [1914]-1929. Boxes 139-196, 29 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Fundraising is divided into the following subseries:
Subseries 1. Campaigns (box 139)
Subseries 2. Rabbinical Delegation (boxes 140-141)
Subseries 3. General Fund files (boxes 142-196)
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| Series Description: Subseries 1: The Campaigns subseries contains correspondence, reports, lists, and press releases concerning CRC fundraising drives. The New York, Mid-West, and Montreal branches of the CRC are best represented in this subseries. The headquarters of the Middle Western Bureau, established in 1920, were in Chicago. The Chicago office was run by chairman Bernard Horwich and executive field director Samuel Neveleff. The creation of local branches of the CRC increased donations in those areas. Individual items of note in the subseries include a pamphlet entitled "Report of Cultural Activities in War Suffering Lands," November 1920 - August 31, 1923 (139/11) and a letter from Samuel Sar of RIETS concerning the sale of fundraising stamps, October 15, 1923 (139/12). Subseries 2: One of the CRC's most dramatic fundraising efforts was the Rabbinical Delegation's visit in 1924. Rabbis Abraham Isaac Kook, Chief Rabbi of Palestine and founder of the Universal Yeshiva (Merkaz Harav), Abraham Duber Cahana Shapiro, Chief Rabbi of Kovno and president of the Agudat ha-Rabanim of Lithuania, and Moses Mordecai Epstein, Dean of the Slobodka Yeshiva, toured the United States and Canada from April to November 1924 on behalf of the CRC. Receptions in honor of the delegation were held in Jewish neighborhoods in New York City and in Jewish communities throughout the rest of the United States and Canada. Engraved invitations to receptions for the delegation at the Hotel Astor are in 140/11-12. President Calvin Coolidge joined the Jewish community in welcoming the delegation and expressed his interest in the work of the CRC in a letter to Leon Kamaiky dated April 1, 1924 (140/6): "I feel a profound interest in every effort to enlist and properly direct American charitable impulses, with the view to the alleviation of suffering throughout the world." Congressman Samuel Dickstein expressed regret at his inability attend the opening reception for the rabbinical delegation because of the pressing need to deal with the Immigration Bill: "Much as I would like to attend, my duties in Washington seem to be at this moment, far greater, on behalf of the millions of suffering people who would be unable to come in under the proposed law." (letter of March 29, 1924, 141/7). Rabbi Samuel L. (Sholem Eliezer) Rogozin criticized the CRC, the Mizrachi, and Rabbis Israel Rosenberg and Rabbi Meir Berlin (140/3) in Yiddish and English circulars he issued in 1924. Aaron Teitelbaum responded to the accusations (140/3), and Rogozin later retracted his statements (192/7). Subseries 3: General Fund files contain correspondence with individuals regarding contributions, arranged chronologically and then according to city and state. Correspondence from New York is in chronological order and in alphabetical order within each time period by the names of individuals, congregations, and organizations. Applications for funds from rabbis and heads of yeshivas in Europe who were on fundraising trips in the United States are interspersed with the General Fund material. Examples include letters from Rabbi Abraham Kalmanowitz (March 14, 1926, May 2, 1926, 195/24) to the CRC concerning educational institutions in Poland and the plight of yeshiva students who had fled from the Soviet Union; correspondence between Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum and Rabbi Meir Dan Plotzki of Ostrova addressing complaints by the Keren Hatorah of Agudat Israel of Poland that the CRC favored Mizrachi institutions (196/1); and requests from Rabbis Joseph Leib Bloch of Telz and Meir Shapira, head of Yeshivat Hakhme Lublin, in 1927 (195/23, 196/2) to assist their institutions. Other items of interest include: bills of lading for Talmudic texts sent to Vienna, Austria, February 18, 1921 (168/1); correspondence from Rabbi Meir Berlin of the Mizrachi Organization criticizing the lack of Orthodox representation in the JDC's distribution of funds sent to the Loan Association in Jerusalem, January-February, 1923 (182/7); correspondence with Rev. Dr. David de Sola Pool of the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue about organizing new schools in Salonika, November 1923 (182/11); and correspondence with Samuel Levy of Yeshiva College regarding the erection of a new building for the Teachers' Institute to be called the "Rabbi M. S. Margolies Teachers' Institute," February - March 1927 (196/2). A unique fundraising method is documented in the General Fund files. Cantor Josef (Yossele) Rosenblatt earmarked a portion of his royalties from the Columbia Phonograph Co., Inc., to the CRC. The earnings were transferred to the CRC quarterly by Columbia's accountant (195/23). The United Jewish Campaign (UJC) was established in September 1925 in order to raise funds for the JDC. As a constituent organization of the JDC, the CRC ended its independent fundraising campaign, and encouraged its donors to contribute to the UJC. Thus fundraising files decrease significantly post-1925, and correspondence from 1926 and 1927 focuses on the UJC. | |||||||||||||
| Subseries 1: Campaigns, [1914]-1929 | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 139/1 | Correspondence of Samuel Neveleff, Harris L. Selig, and Stanley Bero concerning resolutions adopted by CRC, JDC, and AJRC, 1917-1922 | ||||||||||||
| 139/2 | Correspondence of Samuel Neveleff with Harris L. Selig and Stanley Bero concerning Chicago Joint Relief Committee and his various tours, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 139/3 | Correspondence of Samuel Neveleff with Harris L. Selig and Stanley Bero concerning Chicago Joint Relief Committee and his various tours, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 139/4 | Correspondence of Samuel Neveleff with Harris L. Selig and Stanley Bero concerning Chicago Joint Relief Committee and his various tours, [1914]-1922 | ||||||||||||
| 139/5 | Correspondence with Bernard Horwich, chairman of the Chicago Joint Relief Committee, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 139/6 | Correspondence of Harris L. Selig, Executive Director of the Montreal Central Relief Committee, 1919-1920 | ||||||||||||
| 139/7 | Lists of rabbis in the New York area, undated | ||||||||||||
| 139/8 | Lists of synagogue sisterhoods in the United States, undated | ||||||||||||
| 139/9 | "Tentative Plan of Campaign for Greater New York" submitted by Harris L. Selig and Julian Leavitt to Committees on Campaign Coordination, November 13, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 139/10 | Correspondence with David M. Bressler of the New York Campaign for Jewish War Sufferers, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 139/11 | Correspondence with Leon Kamaiky regarding fundraising appeals in New York, 1922-1923 | ||||||||||||
| 139/12 | Correspondence concerning various fundraising campaigns in New York and New Jersey, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 139/13 | Orders for CRC stamps, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 139/14 | Orders for CRC stamps, 1924-1929 | ||||||||||||
| 139/15 | Letters concerning reports by Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum and Henry D. Weil and their impressions of European Jewry, 1926, undated | ||||||||||||
| 139/16 | Form letters and press releases about general and congregational appeals, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 139/17 | Form letters about stamp campaign for synagogue tickets, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 2: Rabbinical Delegation and Fundraising Appeals, 1922-1925 | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Correspondence Concerning Visit of the Rabbinical Delegation and Fundraising Appeals, 1922-1924 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 140/1 | Correspondence with and about Rabbis Abraham I. Kook, Abraham Duber Cahana Shapiro, and Moses M. Epstein, concerning their visit to the US, January 1923 - October 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 140/2 | Cables about the visit, December 1922 - January 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 140/3 | Correspondence discussing the redemption of pledges for One Million Dollar Education Fund, January 1924 - August 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 140/4 | Correspondence discussing the redemption of pledges for One Million Dollar Education Fund, September - December 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 140/5 | Letter to William J. Mack of the JDC from Rabbi Teitelbaum, inviting him to join a committee in formation for reception of the Rabbinical Delegation, March 6, 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 140/6 | Correspondence with United States and British government officials concerning meetings with Rabbi Kook, March - July 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 140/7 | Press release concerning visit of Rabbi Kook with President Calvin Coolidge, April 14, [1924] | ||||||||||||
| United States Fundraising Campaigns and Receptions for the Rabbinical Delegation, 1923-1925 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 140/8 | Lists of rabbis and laymen contacted for reception, undated | ||||||||||||
| 140/9 | Correspondence of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum and Bernard Horwich, January - March 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 140/10 | Correspondence of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum and Bernard Horwich, April - May 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 140/11 | Correspondence of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum and Bernard Horwich, June - December 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 140/12 | Correspondence of various New York Reception Committees for the Rabbinical Delegation and fundraising form letters of the CRC and the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, March - May 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 140/13 | Correspondence of various New York Reception Committees for the Rabbinical Delegation and fundraising form letters of the CRC and the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, June - September 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 140/14 | Correspondence and lists concerning fundraising appeals for the One Million Dollar Education Fund by the Bensonhurst [NY] Reception Committee, April - May 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 141/1 | Correspondence and lists concerning fundraising appeals for the One Million Dollar Education Fund by the Bensonhurst [NY] Reception Committee, Brownsville and East New York [NY] Reception Committee, May - July 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 141/2 | Correspondence and lists concerning fundraising appeals for the One Million Dollar Education Fund by the Bensonhurst [NY] Reception Committee, East Side [NY] Reception Committee, April - July 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 141/3 | Correspondence of the East Side [NY] Reception Committee with United States Congressman Nathan Pearlman concerning Rabbi Kook's arrival and visas for the Morgenstern family of Vienna, March - June 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 141/4 | Correspondence concerning fundraising appeals by the Harlem and Yorkville [NY] Reception Committee, June 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 141/5 | Cables about reception for the Rabbinical Delegation at Hotel Astor [NY], August 1, 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 141/6 | Cables from the Rabbinical Delegation to individuals soliciting funds, September - November 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 141/7 | Correspondence concerning receptions for the Rabbinical Delegation in Washington, DC, February - December 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 141/8 | Solicitation letters sent after the departure of the Rabbinical Delegation, January - March 1925 | ||||||||||||
| 141/9 | Solicitation letters sent after the departure of the Rabbinical Delegation, April 1925 | ||||||||||||
| Canadian Fundraising Campaigns and Receptions for the Rabbinical Delegation, 1924 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 141/10 | Correspondence of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum and Rabbi H. Cohen, chairman of the Montreal Council of Orthodox Rabbis, February - April 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 141/11 | Correspondence and telegrams with individuals in Montreal concerning the visit, March - November 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 141/12 | Correspondence of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum and Moses Levine, CRC representative, concerning fundraising appeals in synagogues, April - July 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 141/13 | Correspondence with individuals in Niagara Falls, September - December 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 141/14 | Correspondence of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum with Rabbi Max J. Mintz of Ottawa, June - August 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 141/15 | Correspondence with individuals in Regina, May - September 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 141/16 | Correspondence of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum and Moses Levine concerning Toronto appeals, May - September 1924 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 3: General Fund, 1919-1927 | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| 1919 | |||||||||||||
| Box | Description | ||||||||||||
| 142 | Alexander City, Alabama, - London, Canada | ||||||||||||
| 143 | Toronto, Canada - Moodus, Connecticut | ||||||||||||
| 144 | Mystic, Connecticut - West Palm Beach, Florida | ||||||||||||
| 145 | Alma, Georgia - Casey, Illinois | ||||||||||||
| 146 | Chicago, Illinois - Des Moines, Iowa | ||||||||||||
| 147 | Dubuque, Iowa - Shreveport, Louisiana | ||||||||||||
| 148 | Auburn, Maine - Malden, Massachusetts | ||||||||||||
| 149 | Mattapan, Massachusetts - Hibbing, Minnesota | ||||||||||||
| 150 | International Falls, Minnesota - Springfield, Missouri | ||||||||||||
| 151 | Billings, Montana - Rosenhayn, New Jersey | ||||||||||||
| 152 | Rutherford, New Jersey - Kingston, New York | ||||||||||||
| 153 | Lake Placid, New York - Yonkers, New York | ||||||||||||
| 154 | Albemarle, North Carolina - Cincinnati, Ohio | ||||||||||||
| 155 | Circleville, Ohio - Salem, Oregon | ||||||||||||
| 156 | Allentown - Meyersdale, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||
| 1920 | |||||||||||||
| Box | Description | ||||||||||||
| 157 | Anniston, Alabama - Montreal, Canada | ||||||||||||
| 158 | Moose Jaw, Canada - New Haven, Connecticut | ||||||||||||
| 159 | New London, Connecticut - Midville, Georgia | ||||||||||||
| 160 | Milledgeville, Georgia - Waukegan, Illinois | ||||||||||||
| 161 | Columbia City, Indiana - Shreveport, Louisiana | ||||||||||||
| 162 | Ashland, Maine - Milford, Massachusetts | ||||||||||||
| 163 | Millis, Massachusetts - Kinney, Minnesota | ||||||||||||
| 164 | Minneapolis, Minnesota - Hoboken, New Jersey | ||||||||||||
| 1921 | |||||||||||||
| Box | Description | ||||||||||||
| 165 | Keyport, New Jersey - Brooklyn (A-L), New York | ||||||||||||
| 166 | Brooklyn (M), New York - Haverstraw, New York | ||||||||||||
| 167 | Hobart, New York, - New York (F), New York | ||||||||||||
| 168 | New York (G) - (L), New York | ||||||||||||
| 169 | New York (M-S), New York | ||||||||||||
| 170 | New York (T-V), New York - Tannersville, New York | ||||||||||||
| 171 | Tarrytown, New York - Cincinnati, Ohio | ||||||||||||
| 172 | Circleville, Ohio - Hawley, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||
| 173 | Hazleton - York Haven, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||
| 174 | Arctic, Rhode Island - Wichita Falls, Texas | ||||||||||||
| 175 | Ogden, Utah - Torrington, Wyoming | ||||||||||||
| 1922 | |||||||||||||
| Box | Description | ||||||||||||
| 176 | Anniston, Alabama - Idaho | ||||||||||||
| 177 | Belleville, Illinois - Maynard, Massachusetts | ||||||||||||
| 178 | Midway, Massachusetts - New York (D-F), New York | ||||||||||||
| 179 | New York (G-I), New York - New York (Congregations), New York | ||||||||||||
| 1923 | |||||||||||||
| Box | Description | ||||||||||||
| 180 | Mobile, Alabama - New Orleans, Louisiana | ||||||||||||
| 181 | Bangor, Maine - Woodbine, New Jersey | ||||||||||||
| 182 | Albany, New York - New York (P-S), New York | ||||||||||||
| 183 | New York (T-Z) (Congregations), New York - Philadelphia (Congregations), Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||
| 184 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Huntley, Wyoming | ||||||||||||
| 1924 | |||||||||||||
| Box | Description | ||||||||||||
| 185 | Birmingham, Alabama - Louisville, Kentucky | ||||||||||||
| 186 | New Orleans, Louisiana - Montana | ||||||||||||
| 187 | Omaha, Nebraska - Brooklyn (F-J), New York | ||||||||||||
| 188 | Brooklyn (K-N) - Congregations, Brooklyn, New York | ||||||||||||
| 189 | Congregations, Brooklyn, New York - Newport, Rhode Island | ||||||||||||
| 1925 | |||||||||||||
| Box | Description | ||||||||||||
| 190 | Athens, Alabama - Cumberland, Maryland | ||||||||||||
| 191 | Attleboro, Massachusetts - Brooklyn (A-F), New York | ||||||||||||
| 192 | Brooklyn (G-K), New York - New York (K-L), New York | ||||||||||||
| 193 | New York (R) (Congregations), New York - Ranesville, Ohio | ||||||||||||
| 194 | Hartshoren, Oklahoma - Milwaukee, Wisconsin | ||||||||||||
| 1926-1927 | |||||||||||||
| Box | Description | ||||||||||||
| 195 | San Francisco, California - New York (G-K), New York | ||||||||||||
| 196 | New York (L-R), New York - Cheyenne, Wyoming | ||||||||||||
| Series I: Press Releases and Publicity, 1920-1928. Boxes 197-198, 1 linear foot | |||||||||||||
| Series Description: The Press Releases and Publicity Series includes material from the JDC, the Jewish War Sufferers Relief Campaign, the Palestine Economic Corporation, and the Jewish Correspondence Bureau, in addition to CRC material. The CRC material in the series contains press releases, convocations to meetings and letters of acknowledgment for contributions. Other items of interest in the series includes minutes of the National Executive Committee of the UOJCA, Dec. 28, 1919 (197/3); minutes of a meeting of the General Committee of CRC, Sept. 30, 1920 (197/6); a list of congregations in several states with names and addresses of presidents (197/18); a draft of a letter to newspaper editors denying political motivation in Rabbi Kook's visit to the US, undated (198/3); a 29 page list of towns where pogroms took place between November 1918 and October 1920, including statistical information (198/9); and personal testimony of children orphaned in the pogroms, 1920 (198/9). | |||||||||||||
| Central Relief Committee, 1919-1926 | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 197/1 | Form letters, press releases and publicity materials, 1919-1920 | ||||||||||||
| 197/2 | Press releases, form letters and bulletins; convocations to meetings and letters of acknowledgment for contributions received, 1919-1920 | ||||||||||||
| 197/3 | Form letters, press releases and publicity materials, December 1919 - October 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 197/4 | Press releases, bulletins, and form letters; convocations to meetings, February - June 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 197/5 | Press releases and form letters; convocations to meetings and letters of acknowledgment for contributions received, July - September 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 197/6 | Form letters, press releases and publicity materials; convocations to meetings; letters of acknowledgment for contributions received; minutes of meeting of the General Committee of CRC, September - November 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 197/7 | Form letters, press releases and publicity materials; convocations to meetings; letters of acknowledgment for contributions received, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 197/8 | Form letters, publicity materials and press releases, (in poor condition) April - July | ||||||||||||
| 197/9 | Tables of CRC distributions of Passover flour and cultural aid [May - August 1921] | ||||||||||||
| 197/10 | Press releases concerning fundraising efforts in America and needs of Jews in Eastern Europe, [1919-1920] | ||||||||||||
| 197/11 | Press releases and bulletins concerning CRC plans for relief activities in various countries, ongoing relief activities of CRC and JDC, the situation of Polish and Lithuanian Jews, the founding of local relief committees in Poland, and fundraising efforts in the United States, June 11, 1920, undated | ||||||||||||
| 197/12 | Press releases, publicity items, and articles for publication concerning Jewish needs in Eastern Europe, fundraising efforts in the United States, and the need for Orthodox solidarity and leadership, [1920] | ||||||||||||
| 197/13 | Press release urging subscriptions to the Torah Fund, undated | ||||||||||||
| 197/14 | Press releases concerning local Torah Fund drive in Connecticut and the state of yeshivot in Eastern European, undated | ||||||||||||
| 197/15 | Press releases concerning CRC work in Palestine, and fundraising activity in Cleveland and Philadelphia, (very poor condition) undated | ||||||||||||
| 197/16 | Press releases on the need for continuing cultural relief to preserve the Jewish heritage, and the priority of Palestine among CRC concerns, undated | ||||||||||||
| 197/17 | Press releases including report of David Brown from Europe, success of $14 million campaign, and appeal for upcoming High Holiday drive, [Summer 1922] | ||||||||||||
| 197/18 | Press releases, articles, and form letters concerning $500,000 education campaign, holiday appeals, and the CRC National Conference of January 7, 1923, January - August 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 197/19 | Press releases and form letters of CRC and the UOR concerning the need for educational/cultural aid in Europe and holiday appeals, August - October 1923, undated | ||||||||||||
| Article entitled "An Interview with Rabbi Israel Herbert Levinthal" | |||||||||||||
| 198/1 | Press releases concerning local activities for the CRC, local receptions for the Rabbinical Delegation, messages of the Rabbinical Delegation and the UOR to American and Canadian Jewry, and CRC activities in Palestine, [April - July, 1924]; undated | ||||||||||||
| 198/2 | Press releases concerning receptions for the Rabbinical Delegation in large Jewish communities, CRC fundraising, reports from yeshivot and Jewish communities in Eastern Europe, and a denial by Rabbi A. I. Kook that he had advocated revenge in a murder case, [June - July, 1924], undated | ||||||||||||
| 198/3 | Press releases concerning participation in the Torah Fund by synagogues and local communities, conditions in Eastern European yeshivot, the visit of the Rabbinical Delegation, planned CRC High Holiday appeals, and preparations for the CRC National Conference of September 9, 1924, [May - October 1924], undated | ||||||||||||
| 198/4 | Press releases concerning need for educational and cultural aid in Europe, CRC holiday and general appeals, proceedings of the UOR conference with the participation of the Rabbinical Delegation from abroad, and proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference of CRC, held September 9, 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 198/5 | Lists of congregations with sums of money raised, for newspaper publication, September - November 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 198/6 | Press releases concerning departure of Rabbinical Delegation, need for funds in Europe, and CRC fundraising, [May - December 1924], undated | ||||||||||||
| 198/7 | Lists of congregational and private donors for publication, press releases, and a form letter to rabbis in Philadelphia, January - May 1925 | ||||||||||||
| 198/8 | Press release concerning history and activities of the CRC, February 26, 1926 | ||||||||||||
| American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, [1920] | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 198/9 | Press releases and articles for publication concerning Jewish suffering in Eastern Europe and American relief efforts, [1920] | ||||||||||||
| Jewish War Sufferers Relief Campaign, [1921] | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 198/10 | Press release announcing success of campaign and lauding the generosity of American Jews, March 13, [1921] | ||||||||||||
| Palestine Economic Corporation, 1928 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 198/11 | Statement to the press concerning budget for future activities, review of the past and outline for the future, December 10, 1928 | ||||||||||||
| Jewish Correspondence Bureau Cable Dispatches, 1920, 1923 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 198/12 | Daily digests of cable dispatches, weekly digests of the Yiddish and Hebrew press, July 29 - September 27, 1920; August - September 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 198/13 | Daily digests of cable dispatches, weekly digest of the Yiddish and Hebrew press, September 23 - November 17, 1920; October 15, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 198/14 | Daily News Bulletin issued by the Jewish Correspondence Bureau and Jewish Telegraphic Agency, (incomplete) February 15 - March 16, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| Series J: Printed Materials, 1918-1932. Box 199 and Oversized Boxes 203-206, 7 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| Series Description: The publications in this series were issued by Zionist organizations and organizations in Palestine. The main exceptions are the CRC Bulletin and the JDC Information Service Letter. The Information Service Letter began as a press release to Anglo-Jewish weeklies throughout the country. It presented all phases of the work of the JDC in various countries abroad. | |||||||||||||
| CRC, 1918-1920 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 199/1 | Bulletin, June 11, 1920; July 1, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 199/2 | Supplement to the Bulletin, sample sheet of signed receipts from Lithuania, March 1919; [March 1918] | ||||||||||||
| JDC, 1919-1920 | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 199/3 | Information Service Letter | ||||||||||||
|
Letters no. 1-8 December 1919
Letters no. 9-11 January 1920
Letters no. 9-12 September - October 1920 (printed)
| |||||||||||||
| 199/4 | Digest of news in Yiddish press of interest to the JDC, March 12-19, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| Other, 1924-1926 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 199/5 | Jewish Daily Bulletin, (scattered issues) 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 199/6 | Jewish Telegraphic Agency Bulletin, p. 3, March 22, 1924 | ||||||||||||
| Books and Pamphlets, 1923-1932 | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 199/7 | Keren Kayemeth materials | ||||||||||||
| Pamphlets and calendar published by Keren Kayemeth for fundraising, 1926 - 1927, undated; | |||||||||||||
| The Emek: Tenth Anniversary of Redemption of Emek Jezreel, Jerusalem: 1930, 32 p. | |||||||||||||
| 199/7 | Pamphlets of other organizations 1923-1932 | ||||||||||||
|
The Development of Palestine: Plans for the founding of a Palestine Development Corporation, New York: Palestine Development Corp., undated, 8 pages. Pinkus Keren Hayesod, Brooklyn, New York: Keren Hayesod,1923, 105 pages. Financial Statement of the Keren Hayesod of Jersey City, New Jersey, January 1st to September 30th, 1924,New Jersey, Keren Hayesod, 1924, 19 pages. B. S. Binah, Industrial Palestine: A Survey of Recent Undertakings and Future Possibilities, London: W. Speaight and Sons, 1924. Annual Report of the General Bikur Cholim Hospitals, Jerusalem, June 1926 - July 1927, 30 pages. The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, A Message to Every Jew, [1927], 16 pages. Campaign Closes December 31, 1929, New York, United Jewish Campaign, 1929, 7 pages. Herbert Solow, The Realities of Zionism, New York, Menorah, Journal, 1930, 32 pages. National Conference on Palestine, New York, American Palestine Campaign, 1932, 11 pages. | |||||||||||||
| Periodicals, 1927-1929 | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 199/8 | Periodicals, 1927-1929 | ||||||||||||
|
Ha-Tor, September 2, 1927
New Palestine, September 23, 1927
Ha-Olam, February 10, 1928; April 19, 1929
| |||||||||||||
| Newspaper Clippings, 1926-1928 | |||||||||||||
| Note: See Addendum for additional materials in this subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 199/9 | Clippings from the Yiddish press concerning Palestine, 1927-1928 | ||||||||||||
| OversizeBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 203/3 | Newspaper clippings, in Yiddish and English, (unprocessed, poor condition) 1919-1923 | ||||||||||||
| 203/4 | Newspaper clippings, in Yiddish and English, (unprocessed, poor condition) 1919-1923 | ||||||||||||
| 203/5 | Newspaper clippings, in Yiddish and English, (unprocessed, poor condition) 1919-1923 | ||||||||||||
| 204/1 | Newspaper clippings, Yiddish and English, (unprocessed, poor condition) 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 204/2 | Newspaper clippings, Yiddish and English, (unprocessed, poor condition) 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 204/3 | Newspaper clippings from Yiddish newspapers referring mainly to the Rabbinical Delegation of 1924, (unprocessed) May - July 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 205/1 | Newspaper clippings from Yiddish newspapers referring mainly to the Rabbinical Delegation of 1924, (unprocessed) May - July 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 205/2 | Newspaper clippings from Yiddish newspapers referring mainly to the Rabbinical Delegation of 1924, July - August 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 206/1 | Newspaper clippings from Yiddish and English newspapers referring mainly to the Rabbinical Delegation of 1924, (unprocessed, poor condition) 1923-1924 | ||||||||||||
| 206/2 | Newspaper clippings from Yiddish and English newspapers referring mainly to the Rabbinical Delegation of 1924, (unprocessed, poor condition) May - June 1924 | ||||||||||||
| Series K: Photographs, undated. Box 200 and Oversized Box 201, 2 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 200/1 | Postcard photograph of Batya Horowitz, niece of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum | ||||||||||||
| OversizeBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 201/15 | Glass plates used for photography, undated | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 200/1 | Workers of the Palestine Silicate Company, Ltd., Jaffa, Palestine, Building in Palestine, undated; undated | ||||||||||||
| Series L: Central Relief Committee, Addendum 1919-1929. Boxes 269-280, Map Box 281, Oversized Box 282, 12.5 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| Series Description: This series contains materials that were found when processing CRC Part 3, but that belong with the earlier section of the collection. | |||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Materials in the Addendum are arranged in accordance with the earlier series. Only the series for which materials apply are represented. | |||||||||||||
| Series B: Reports | |||||||||||||
| Subseries 2: Joint Distribution Committee | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 269/1 | Report on Jewish schools in Poland (typescript, 37 p.), 1923 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 3: Financial Reports | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 269/2 | JDC in account with Zionist Commission to Palestine, 36 pages, 6/30/19 | ||||||||||||
| 269/3 | JDC Financial report (4 p.), 1928-1929 | ||||||||||||
| 269/4 | CRC Financial reports, 1925 | ||||||||||||
| Series C: Correspondence with the Joint Distribution Committee and Affiliates | |||||||||||||
| Subseries 1: Joint Distribution Committee | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 269/5 | Correspondence with Cyrus Adler, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 269/6 | Correspondence with Cyrus Adler, 1925-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 269/7 | Budget proposal re religious needs in Russia (from Rabbi I. Schneersohn in Riga to Cyrus Adler), 1928-1929 | ||||||||||||
| 269/8 | "Tentative Plan of Campaign for Greater New York" by Harris L. Selig and Julian Leavitt, Nov. 13, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 269/9 | Correspondence regarding remittances for individuals in Europe, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 269/10 | Correspondence with the Transmission Bureau, Nov. 1919 - May 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 269/11 | Correspondence with the Transmission Bureau, June-Dec. 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 269/12 | Fundraising correspondence with Paul Baerwald, 1923-1924 | ||||||||||||
| 269/13 | Fundraising correspondence with the JDC, 1923-1924 | ||||||||||||
| 269/14 | "Memorandum on Problem of Deserted Wives in Europe" from the Polish Rabbis Association (Agudat ha-Rabanim of Poland) to David Bressler, chairman of JDC Immigration Committee (3 p.), June 24, 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 269/15 | Telegrams, 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 269/16 | Correspondence with the JDC re translation of documents by CRC staff, 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 269/17 | Correspondence with the JDC re translation of documents by CRC staff, 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 2: American Jewish Relief Committee | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 269/18 | Correspondence with Henry Rosenfelt, National Director of the AJRC, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 269/19 | Correspondence with Henry Rosenfelt, National Director of the AJRC, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 269/20 | Correspondence with David A. Brown, Chairman, National Appeal, 1921-1922 | ||||||||||||
| 269/21 | Financial correspondence, 1928 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 3: Jewish People's Relief Committee | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 269/22 | Financial correspondence, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 269/23 | Report of JPRC convention, Sept. 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 269/24 | Correspondence on an organization in Dvinsk, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| Series D: Correspondence with other Organizations and Individuals in the United States | |||||||||||||
| Subseries 1: U.S. Department of State | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 270/1 | Correspondence re visas, 1926 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 2: National Jewish Organizations | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 270/2 | Ezras Achim Lodge no. 155, re maot hitim, 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 270/3 | Ezras Torah, 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 270/4 | Ezras Torah, 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 281/1 | Ezras Torah broadside, pre-1933 (?) | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 270/5 | HIAS, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 270/6 | HIAS, 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 270/7 | Keren Hayesod, 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 270/8 | Keren Hayesod, financial report (8 p.), 1929 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 281/2 | Keren Hayesod, chart with financial information, 1921-1923 | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 270/9 | Union of Orthodox Rabbis, Talmud Publication Fund, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 270/10 | Talmud Publication Fund flyer, (fragment) undated | ||||||||||||
| 270/11 | Union of Orthodox Rabbis, 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 270/12 | Zionist Organization of America, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 3: Jewish Newspapers | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 270/13 | Correspondence with Yiddish newspapers in New York City, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 270/14 | Correspondence with Yiddish newspapers in New York City, 1924 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 4: Banks | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 270/15 | Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, 1919-1920 | ||||||||||||
| 270/16 | Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, Anglo-Palestine Bank, 1920; 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 270/17 | Markel Bros. Bank, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| Series E: Correspondence with Central and Eastern Europe, and the Middle East | |||||||||||||
| Subseries 1A: General Correspondence with Communities, Institutions, and Individuals in Eastern and Central Europe | |||||||||||||
| Austria | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 270/18 | Summaries of meetings of Jewish communal organizations in Vienna re building a mikvah, Memorandum über Arbeiten und Ziele des Keren HaTorah," Vienna, 1904-1925; "1926 | ||||||||||||
| 270/19 | General correspondence, 1923-1929 | ||||||||||||
| Latvia | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 270/20 | Correspondence with Shmaryahu Guraryeh and Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn in Riga, Latvia, 1929 | ||||||||||||
| Lithuania | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 270/21 | General correspondence, 1924-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 270/22 | Kolel Beis Isroel, Kovno, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 270/23 | Telz Yeshiva, 1923-1924 | ||||||||||||
| Poland | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 270/24 | General correspondence, 1919-1922 | ||||||||||||
| 270/25 | General correspondence, 1924-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 270/26 | Letters of appeal gathered by the Chorev Organization in Vilna from schools in Poland, forwarded to the CRC for publication in Yiddish newspapers, Dec. 1928-Jan. 1929 | ||||||||||||
| 270/27 | Mesywta [Mesivta], Warsaw, 1924-1925 | ||||||||||||
| 270/28 | Vaad Ezras Torah, Warsaw, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 270/29 | Wlodawa (questionnaire), 1921 | ||||||||||||
| All Countries | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 271/15 | General correspondence, mainly with Aaron Teitelbaum, (bulk Poland and Lithuania), 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 271/16 | General correspondence, mainly with Aaron Teitelbaum, 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 271/17 | General correspondence, mainly with Aaron Teitelbaum, 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 271/18 | General correspondence, mainly with Aaron Teitelbaum, [1923], 1925-1926 | ||||||||||||
| 271/19 | General correspondence, mainly with Aaron Teitelbaum, 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 271/20 | General correspondence, mainly with Aaron Teitelbaum, 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 271/21 | General correspondence, mainly with Aaron Teitelbaum, 1929 | ||||||||||||
| 271/22 | General correspondence, mainly with Aaron Teitelbaum, 1928-1929 | ||||||||||||
| 271/23 | General correspondence, mainly with Aaron Teitelbaum, 1926-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 271/24 | General correspondence, mainly with Aaron Teitelbaum, 1927-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 272/1 | Hotel bills for Aaron Teitelbaum from Europe and Palestine, 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 272/2 | Letters from individuals seeking relatives, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 2A: General Correspondence with Institutions and Individuals in Palestine, Syria and Turkey | |||||||||||||
| Palestine | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 271/1 | General Correspondence, 1926-1930 | ||||||||||||
| 271/2 | General Correspondence, 1926, undated | ||||||||||||
| 271/3 | Hebron Yeshiva, 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 271/4 | Vaad Hadati, Ets Hayim Yeshiva, 1923; 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 271/5 | Correspondence with Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, 1919-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 271/6 | Receipts made out to Aaron Teitelbaum, 1926, undated | ||||||||||||
| Egypt and Turkey | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 271/14 | Telegrams, General correspondence, 1919-1926 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 2B: Universal Yeshiva (Merkaz Ha-Rav) | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 271/7 | Correspondence of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Israel S. Rabinowitz-Teomim (Secretary of the Universal Yeshiva) with Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, 1925 | ||||||||||||
| 271/8 | Correspondence between Aaron Teitelbaum and I. S. Rabinowitz-Teomim, 1925 | ||||||||||||
| 271/9 | Correspondence of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Rabbi Samuel Weber with Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, 1925-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 271/10 | Pamphlets, 1920-1921, undated | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 281/3 | Broadside re founding of Universal Yeshiva, Feb. 1925 | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 271/11 | HaHed, with articles on the Universal Yeshiva July/Aug. 1927, March/April 1929, | ||||||||||||
| 271/12 | American Committee for the Universal Yeshiva, fundraising correspondence, 1925-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 271/13 | American Committee for the Universal Yeshiva, form letters, press releases, 1926 | ||||||||||||
| Series F: Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum | |||||||||||||
| Subseries 1: Joint Distribution Committee Correspondence | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 272/3 | General correspondence, 1922-1923 | ||||||||||||
| 272/4 | Correspondence with Herbert H. Lehman, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 272/5 | Correspondence with Albert Lucas, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 272/6 | Correspondence with Dr. Solomon Lowenstein, Chairman, Orphan Committee, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 272/7 | Correspondence with Felix M. Warburg, 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 3: Central Relief Committee Correspondence | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 272/8 | Correspondence with Harry Fischel, Treasurer, General correspondence, 1925-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 272/9 | Fundraising correspondence, 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 272/10 | Correspondence with Jacob Maniloff, CRC Fundraiser, 1925 | ||||||||||||
| 272/11 | General correspondence, 1919-1929 | ||||||||||||
| 272/12 | General correspondence, 1925-1928, undated | ||||||||||||
| 272/13 | General correspondence, 1926-1929 | ||||||||||||
| 272/14 | Visa request for Morris Engelman; general correspondence, 1923-1928 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 4: Other Organizations' Correspondence | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 272/15 | American Palestine Promoting and Financing Co. correspondence, A-E, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 272/16 | American Palestine Promoting and Financing Co. correspondence, F-I, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 272/17 | American Palestine Promoting and Financing Co. correspondence, J-M, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 272/18 | American Palestine Promoting and Financing Co. correspondence, N-R, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 272/19 | American Palestine Promoting and Financing Co. correspondence, S-Z, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
| 273/1 | Bills, 1921 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 281a/4 | American Zion Commonwealth of Palestine Land Development Co., map of Balfouria, 1923? | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 273/2 | Geographical and Historical Encyclopedia of Palestine Publication Committee correspondence, 192-? | ||||||||||||
| 273/3 | Jewish National Fund, invitations to Board meetings and minutes, 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 273/4 | Menorah Palestine Land Selling Co., general correspondence and ephemera, 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 273/5 | Menorah Palestine Land Selling Co., correspondence with Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg of Montreal, 1927-1930 | ||||||||||||
| 273/6 | Menorah Co., maps of Gefen Aderet, Jerusalem, undated | ||||||||||||
| 273/7 | Mizrachi correspondence, 1922-1929 | ||||||||||||
| 273/8 | United Jewish Campaign - correspondence, lists, receipts, 1925-1926 | ||||||||||||
| 273/9 | United Jewish Campaign, fundraising correspondence, 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 273/10 | United Jewish Campaign, correspondence with David Bressler, 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 273/11 | United Jewish Campaign, correspondence regarding Orthodox rabbis who could serve as fundraisers, 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 273/12 | United Jewish Campaign, form letters, invitations to meetings, 1926-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 273/13 | Correspondence with David A. Brown, National Chairman, 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 273/14 | Correspondence with Ben L. Simon, Executive Secretary, 1928-1930 | ||||||||||||
| 273/15 | Personal correspondence, 1923-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 273/16 | Personal correspondence, 1928 | ||||||||||||
| Series G: Remittances | |||||||||||||
| Subseries 1: Palestine Remittances | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 273/17 | Lists and receipts, #60, 2/21/19 | ||||||||||||
| 273/18 | Lists and receipts, #61, 4/7/19 | ||||||||||||
| 273/19 | Lists and receipts, #61, 4/7/19 | ||||||||||||
| 273/20 | Lists and receipts, #62, 63, 64, 6/16/19; #9/22/19; #12/18/19 | ||||||||||||
| 273/21 | Lists and receipts, #64, 12/18/19 | ||||||||||||
| 273/22 | Lists and receipts, list #65, 4/2/20 | ||||||||||||
| 273/23 | Receipts of American Relief Committee for Jerusalem Jews, 1919-1920 | ||||||||||||
| 273/24 | Lists of appropriations, 1925-1927 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 3: Eastern Europe Remittances | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 274/1 | Receipts for funds for yeshivot sent from the CRC branch in Budapest, Hungary, fall 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 274/2 | Receipts for funds for yeshivot sent from the CRC branch in Cracow, Poland, 1927-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 274/3 | Receipts for funds for yeshivot sent from the CRC branch in Cracow, Poland, 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 274/4 | Receipts for funds for yeshivot sent from the CRC branch in Vilna, Poland, 1927-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 274/5 | Receipts for funds for yeshivot sent from the CRC branch in Warsaw, Poland, spring 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 274/6 | Receipts for funds for yeshivot sent from the CRC branch in Warsaw, Poland, spring 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 274/7 | Receipts for funds for yeshivot sent from the CRC branch in Warsaw, Poland, spring 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 274/8 | Receipts for funds for yeshivot sent from the CRC branch in Warsaw, Poland, summer 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 274/9 | Receipts for funds for yeshivot sent from the CRC branch in Warsaw, Poland, summer 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 275/1 | Receipts for funds for yeshivot sent from the CRC branch in Warsaw, Poland, nos. 5-7, 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 275/2 | Receipts for funds for yeshivot sent from the CRC branch in Warsaw, Poland, nos. 8-9, 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 275/3 | Receipts for funds for yeshivot sent from the CRC branch in Warsaw, Poland, 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 275/4 | Receipts for funds for yeshivot sent from the CRC branch in Warsaw, Poland, 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 275/5 | Receipts for funds for yeshivot sent from the CRC branch in Warsaw, Poland, nos. 1-4, 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 275/6 | Receipts for funds for yeshivot sent from the CRC branch in Warsaw, Poland, nos. 5-8, 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 275/7 | Receipts for funds for yeshivot sent from the CRC branch in Bistritch, Romania, 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 275/8 | Receipts for funds for yeshivot sent from the CRC branch in 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 275/9 | Receipts for funds for yeshivot sent from the CRC branch in 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 275/10 | Receipts for funds for yeshivot sent from the CRC branch in 1927-1928 | ||||||||||||
| Series H: Fundraising Files | |||||||||||||
| Subseries 1: Campaigns | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 276/1 | Fundraising material, 1922-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 276/3 | Correspondence of Middle Western Bureau, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 276/4 | Correspondence of Jacob Maniloff, re fundraising in Cleveland, Ohio, 1923-1925 | ||||||||||||
| 276/5 | Correspondence with professional fundraisers re campaigns in Maryland and Pennsylvania, 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 276/6 | Fundraising correspondence, Philadelphia, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 276/7 | Fundraising correspondence, Philadelphia, 1925 | ||||||||||||
| 276/8 | Fundraising correspondence, Iowa, Maryland, Virginia, Wisconsin, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 276/9 | Correspondence with lay leaders outside New York City re fundraising, 1919-1925 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 2: Rabbinical Delegation | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 276/2 | Fundraising material on the Rabbinical Delegation, 1924 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 3: General Fund | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 276/10 | Correspondence and receipts, Florida, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 276/11 | Correspondence and receipts, Georgia, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 276/12 | Correspondence and receipts, Illinois, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 276/13 | Correspondence and receipts, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 276/14 | Correspondence and receipts, Brooklyn, NY, 1922-1923 | ||||||||||||
| 276/15 | Correspondence and receipts, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 276/16 | Correspondence and receipts, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 276/17 | Correspondence and receipts, Catskill Mountains, NY, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 276/18 | Correspondence and receipts, Corona, Queens, NY, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 276/19 | Correspondence and receipts, Edgemere, Long Island, NY, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 276/20 | Correspondence and receipts, Elmira, NY, 1925 | ||||||||||||
| 276/21 | Correspondence and receipts, Far Rockaway, NY, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 276/22 | Correspondence and receipts, 1924-1925 | ||||||||||||
| 276/23 | Correspondence and receipts, Hurleyville, NY 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 276/24 | Correspondence and receipts, New York, NY, 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 276/25 | Correspondence and receipts, Staten Island, NY, 1925 | ||||||||||||
| 276/26 | Correspondence and receipts, Ohio, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 276/27 | Receipts for donations received through ads in Yiddish newspapers, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| Carton | Description | ||||||||||||
| 284 | Correspondence and receipts, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Washington, West Virginia, remittances to individuals in Palestine, clippings re trial of Fritz Kuhn, (extremely poor condition) 1922; Sept. 13, 1918; 1938-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 285 | Correspondence and receipts, Nebraska, New Jersey, N. Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, S. Carolina, Utah, Vermont, (extremely poor condition) 1922 | ||||||||||||
| Series I: Press Releases | |||||||||||||
| Central Relief Committee | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 277/1 | Yiddish press releases, 1923-1924 | ||||||||||||
| 277/2 | Press releases on fundraising for Torah Fund, (torn) undated | ||||||||||||
| American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 277/3 | Yiddish press releases, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| 277/4 | "A Full Outline of the Work Carried On Abroad," undated | ||||||||||||
| Series J: Printed Materials | |||||||||||||
| JDC | |||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 281a/5 | Certificate of participation, Greater New York Fund, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 277/5 | Hekhsher for meat and matzohs, signed by Rev. Dr. Philip Klein, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 277/6 | Invitation to luncheon in honor of Bernard Horwich, Statement on the Situation in Lithuania" by Rabbi Dr. Moses Hyamson (flyer), 1919; "1919 | ||||||||||||
| 277/7 | Public relations and fundraising material, 1919-1920 | ||||||||||||
| 277/8 | Pamphlet on plans for the future of CRC, Constructive Relief and the Central Relief Committee" by Harris L. Selig, undated; "undated | ||||||||||||
| 277/9 | National Conference of the Central Relief Committee, (extremely fragile) Jan. 7, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| 277/10 | Pamphlets, receipts, stamps, 1920-1925, undated | ||||||||||||
| 277/11 | Pamphlets, receipts, stamps, 1924-1926 | ||||||||||||
| Pamphlets, Periodicals, and Posters | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 278/1 | Bayit Vegan: Agudah hadadit be-eravon mugbal. Yafo, Erets-Yisrael. Account of fifth general meeting Sept. 23 - Oct. 1, 1924. | ||||||||||||
| 278/2 | Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities and Brooklyn Jewish War Relief Committee, membership booklet, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| 278/3 | Proceedings of the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society. Jerusalem, (very fragile) 1925 | ||||||||||||
| 278/4 | Judea Industrial Corporation. Report. April, 1929 | ||||||||||||
| 278/5 | "In Memoriam: Reverend Dr. and Mrs. Philip [Julie Hirsch] Klein." Copyright by Morris Engelman, 1926. | ||||||||||||
| 278/6 | Menorah Palestine Building Co. Pamphlet on Hod HaCarmel, Haifa. (16 p., Hebrew), 192-? | ||||||||||||
| 278/7 | Menorah. Printed material, public relations material, undated, 1924-1925 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 281/6 | Migdal Garden Villa, Tiberias. Map and contract, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 278/8 | HaTor (Mizrachi publication, Jerusalem, ed. by Y.L. HaKohen Fishman) Sept. 2, 1927 | ||||||||||||
| 278/9 | Unzer Shtime (Mizrachi publication), New York, Jan. 28, 1927 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 281a/7 | Nachlath Zion Corp. Certificate of ownership, 1922. | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 278/10 | Official Gazette of the Government of Palestine. No. 212, (Hebrew), No. 230 June 1, 1928 (March 1, 1929) | ||||||||||||
| 278/11 | HaOlam, 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 278/12 | Palestine and Near East Economics Magazine. Special issue on the Palestine Citrus Industry. August, 1928 | ||||||||||||
| 278/13 | "Power and Irrigation Development in Palestine." Reprinted from Engineering News-Record, v. 88, no. 25 (June 22, 1922) | ||||||||||||
| 278/14 | Zionist Organization of America. Report of Proceedings of the 24th Annual Convention. Cleveland, (184 p.) June 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 278/15 | Poster declaring a day of happiness because Zionism and nationalism were destroyed. Jerusalem, undated | ||||||||||||
| Newspaper Clippings | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 279/1 | Clippings from Yiddish newspapers, on Menorah Palestine Land Selling Co. and general topics dealing with Palestine 1922-1927, | ||||||||||||
| OversizeBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 282 | Clippings from Yiddish newspapers on Menorah Palestine Land Selling Co. and general topics dealing with Palestine, (extremely brittle, formerly 279/2) 1923-1926 | ||||||||||||
| 282 | Clippings from Yiddish newspapers on Menorah Palestine Land Selling Co. and general topics dealing with Palestine, (extremely brittle, formerly 279/3) 1921-1927 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 281a/8 | Clippings from Yiddish newspapers on Menorah Palestine Land Selling Co. and general topics dealing with Palestine, 1921 | ||||||||||||
| OversizeBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 279/4 | Clippings from Yiddish newspapers on Menorah Palestine Land Selling Co. and general topics dealing with Palestine, and drafts of articles on Menorah, 1924, undated | ||||||||||||
| Box 282 | Clippings from Yiddish newspapers on Menorah Palestine Land Selling Co. and general topics dealing with Palestine, (extremely brittle, formerly 279/5) 1924-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 282 | Clippings from Yiddish newspapers on Menorah Palestine Land Selling Co. and general topics dealing with Palestine,(extremely brittle, formerly 279/6) 1924-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 282 | Clippings from Yiddish newspapers on Menorah Palestine Land Selling Co. and general topics dealing with Palestine, (extremely brittle, formerly 279/7) 1925-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 282 | Clippings concerning Palestine, (extremely brittle, formerly 279/8) 1924-1927 | ||||||||||||
| 282 | Clippings concerning Palestine, (extremely brittle, formerly 279/9) 1927-1928 | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 280/1 | Bound scrapbook of English clippings on Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook's visit to America, July 1923 - May 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 280/2 | Loose clippings on Rabbi Kook's visit, 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 280/3 | Loose clippings on Rabbi Kook's visit, 1922-1924 | ||||||||||||
| OversizeBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 282 | Yiddish and English clippings on JDC and CRC activities, (extremely brittle, formerly 280/4) [1916] 1919-1921 | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 280/5 | Yiddish and English clippings on the American Jewish Relief Committee, 1924 | ||||||||||||
| 280/6 | Jewish Daily Bulletin (scattered issues), 1925-1928 | ||||||||||||
| 280/7 | Unsorted fragments, printed, typescript, and ms., 1920s, undated | ||||||||||||
Subgroup II: Central Relief Committee Volume II, Part II 1930-1958 | |||||||||||||
| Series A: Minutes and Agendas, 1930-1949. Box 208, .5 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| Series Description: This series consists primarily of the minutes and agendas of the CRC and its financial link to the JDC, the CAC. Zionist organizations, such as the Mizrachi Organization of America, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, the United Palestine Appeal and the Conference on Palestine are represented here as well. Minutes of only twelve meetings of the Executive Committee of the CRC convened between 1933 and 1940 (208/1) are in the Collection, despite evidence that additional meetings took place. Topics include the problems facing Orthodox communities in Berlin and Frankfurt in 1933, fundraising policies from 1936 to 1939, and the suffering of Polish Jews after the start of World War II in 1939. All of the minutes are in Hebrew except those of a single meeting in May 1936. The handwritten minutes were prepared by Abraham Horowitz, secretary of the CRC. Minutes and agendas of forty-five monthly meetings of the Cultural Affairs Committee of the Joint Distribution Committee held from 1930 to 1949 with an emphasis on the post-World War II period (208/5-6) are in this series. Also included are minutes and agendas of subcommittees of the Cultural Affairs Committee: Personnel, Books, Allocations, and Role and Scope. The location of this material in the CRC collection can be attributed to Abraham Horowitz's participation in the Committee on Cultural Affairs, and to the committee's importance as the sole financial source for CRC subventions to yeshivot in Eastern Europe and Palestine. Minutes of meetings held during the 1930s by the JDC's Cultural Affairs Committee disclose organizational problems. Relegated to dispensing specific sums to well-established institutions, the CAC and, in effect, the CRC, became accounting bodies. The CAC's monthly meetings discussed how much money should be granted to each institution, reviewed applications for subventions to meet deficits of the yeshivot and to complete building repairs. Other topics included distributing kosher meat to Orthodox Jews in Eastern Europe, educating Orthodox school children, and the committee's need for additional funds from the JDC. Although individual committee members expressed frustration with the committee's subordinate role to the JDC's European office in the allocation of funding to Eastern European yeshivot, the CAC rejected any separate fundraising programs and accepted its role within the JDC. There are extensive gaps in the collection of minutes of the CAC, most notably during 1942 and 1944. Minutes of the CAC during World War II record the committee's aid to yeshivot in Palestine, and to Jewish refugees in Central and South America, particularly in the Dominican Republic. After World War II ended, the CAC's minutes describe intense efforts to restore the religious life of European Jewry. Discussion of the CAC's Sifre Torah Campaign, the Ezras Torah Fund and the purchase of religious books and articles dominate the meetings. Dr. Bernhard Kahn, the former director of the JDC's Paris office, joined the CAC during World War II, and in a November 1948 meeting he recommended a complete reorientation of the committee (208/6). Dr. Kahn argued that the CAC's preoccupation with allocating money to scores of religious organizations caused its detachment from the actual cultural-religious programs endorsed by the JDC. Kahn sought an advisory role for the CAC, one that would enable it to formulate policy on cultural-religious affairs. He recommended that local, on-site personnel determine the precise allocation to each institution. This plan brought the CAC's functions closer to those of other committees within the JDC, and in practice ended the CRC's official role within the CAC and eliminated its work. | |||||||||||||
| Central Relief Committee, 1933-1940 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 208/1 | Minutes, 1933-1940 | ||||||||||||
| Joint Distribution Committee, 1930-1949 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 208/2 | Minutes, agendas of the Executive Committee of the JDC, 1930-1931 | ||||||||||||
| 208/3 | Minutes, agendas of the Executive Committee of the JDC, 1934-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 208/4 | Minutes of the Board of Directors of the JDC, 1937-1943 | ||||||||||||
| 208/5 | Minutes, agendas of the Cultural Affairs Committee of the JDC, 1922, 1932-1947 | ||||||||||||
| 208/6 | Minutes, agendas of the Cultural Affairs Committee of the JDC, 1948-1949 | ||||||||||||
| Other Organizations, 1930-1939 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 208/7 | Minutes of the Conference on Palestine, 1939 | ||||||||||||
| 208/8 | Same, 1939 | ||||||||||||
| 208/9 | Minutes of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 208/10 | Minutes of the Administrative Committee of the Mizrachi organization, 1930, 1939 | ||||||||||||
| 208/11 | Minutes of the semi-annual convention of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis (Agudat Harabanim), 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 208/12 | Minutes of the Board of Directors of the United Palestine Appeal, 1930 | ||||||||||||
| Series B: Reports, 1928-1949. Boxes 209-211 and Oversized Box 266, 3 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| Arrangement: This series has been arranged into three subseries:
Subseries 1: CRC Reports
Subseries 2: JDC Reports
Subseries 3: Reports of other organizations
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| Series Description: Series 1. The CRC's reports provide financial and statistical information on institutions which received funding. These reports are complemented by the CRC's financial audits, prepared by the JDC's accounting firm of Loeb and Troper for the years 1928 through 1949 (209/2-9, 210/1-7). The CRC's reports on Eastern European yeshivot are arranged separately from its financial audits within the subseries. The CRC prepared financial tables of educational institutions that received support from the Cultural Affairs Committee for the years 1937-1938, 1941-1942, and 1944 (209/1). In 1938, the CRC and JDC transmitted completed questionnaires to the Council of Jewish Federation and Welfare Funds regarding the cultural-religious institutions of Eastern Europe. A copy of this questionnaire provides statistical information on central school organizations, such as Yavneh in Poland and Lithuania, Chorev in Poland, and on thirty-five individual yeshivot. The CRC received income and wage statements, information on the person in charge, the number of students and teachers, the year that the school was organized, and whether or not the school maintained a kitchen. Thus, this study summarized the financial condition of various yeshivot and seminaries in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Palestine that received funds from the CRC. A report by Abraham Horowitz lists the names and locations of yeshivot receiving aid from the JDC, and includes a statistical analysis of the student body by age group in 1938. Finally, a 1944 report examined the yeshivot and Talmud Torahs in Palestine and Latin America -- the size of the student body and faculty, and the amount of the JDC subsidy in relation to the institutions' total expenses and income. Series 2. JDC Reports. Under the leadership of Dr. Bernhard Kahn, the JDC's European office chronicled the deteriorating social and economic condition of Jews in Eastern and Central Europe, and the JDC's response. Of particular interest among the reports of the prewar period are those by David M. Bressler, the Chairman of the JDC's Budget and Scope Committee, describing fundraising in 1932, and one by James Rosenberg, chairman of the JDC's national council, revealing legislative attempts to impoverish Jews in several Eastern European nations in 1938. In addition, a 1939 statistical chart depicts the current Jewish population of Germany and Austria by age groups (210/9-10). There are no research reports in the collection for the years 1940, 1942 or 1944. The JDC reports available for the war years demonstrate its efforts to ship packages of food and clothing to refugees in the Balkans, Switzerland, the Middle East, North Africa and Asiatic Russia. Post-war reports highlight the JDC's role in providing kosher meat to the displaced persons camps in American-occupied Germany, and its sponsorship of relief agencies such as the Aide aux Israelites Victims De La Guerre (AIVG) in Belgium. Reports prepared in 1947 by the JDC's directors for Poland, Switzerland, Italy, France and the American zone in Germany describe local conditions and the Joint's role in alleviating hardships (210/10). Two undated reports prepared by the JDC's Jerusalem office provide a census of survivors of particular concentration camps by nationality and list an individual's name, date of birth or current age, and pre-war residence (210/10). Series 3. Of interest among the reports by other organizations are a lengthy statement by Chaim Weizmann on behalf of the Jewish Agency for Palestine in 1939 in response to the British government's White Paper on Palestine, and the proceedings of the 1935 National Council on Jewish Welfare Conference that contains essays by leading Jewish intellectuals on contemporary religious, cultural and relief issues facing Jews in America and overseas (211/3). | |||||||||||||
| Subseries 1: Central Relief Committee, 1932-1949 | |||||||||||||
| OversizeBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 266/3 | Statistical, financial report of individual yeshivot, 1935-1936 | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 209/1 | Statistical, research, and financial reports, 1937-1938, 1945 | ||||||||||||
| 209/2 | Financial audit, 1928-1932 | ||||||||||||
| 209/3 | Financial audit, 1932-1936 | ||||||||||||
| 209/4 | Financial audit, 1937 | ||||||||||||
| 209/5 | Financial audit, 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 209/6 | Financial audit, 1939 | ||||||||||||
| 209/7 | Financial audit, 1940 | ||||||||||||
| 209/8 | Financial audit, 1941 | ||||||||||||
| 209/9 | Financial audit, 1942 | ||||||||||||
| 210/1 | Financial audit, 1943 | ||||||||||||
| 210/2 | Financial audit, 1944 | ||||||||||||
| 210/3 | Financial audit, 1945 | ||||||||||||
| 210/4 | Financial audit, 1946 | ||||||||||||
| 210/5 | Financial audit, 1947 | ||||||||||||
| 210/6 | Financial audit, 1948 | ||||||||||||
| 210/7 | Financial audit, 1949 | ||||||||||||
| 210/8 | Bank statements, 1949 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 2: Joint Distribution Committee, 1930-1948 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 210/9 | Research reports, JDC, 1930-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 210/10 | Research reports, JDC, 1939-1948 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 3: Other Organizations | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 211/1 | AJC Annual Report, 1943 | ||||||||||||
| 211/2 | HIAS Annual Reports, 1931-1935 | ||||||||||||
| 211/3 | Various reports A - Z, 1935, 1939, 1947 | ||||||||||||
| Series C: Internal Correspondence, 1928-1950. Boxes 211-212, Map Box 265 and Oversized Box 267, 6 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| Arrangement: This series is divided into two subseries:
Subseries 1: General correspondence
Subseries 2: Financial records
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| Series Description: Subseries 1: The internal correspondence of the CRC covers the years 1930 to 1948 and contains exchanges of letters and cables among officers Abraham Horowitz, Peter Wiernik, Harry Fischel, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum and Rabbi Israel Rosenberg (211/5-7). The cables found in this series date from 1930 and 1939 to 1940. The latter primarily discuss the CRC's potential purchase of kosher beef for European Jews and the urgent need to aid Polish yeshivot (211/4). About 25 percent of the general correspondence consists of announcements of upcoming meetings, form letters used for fundraising drives, and memorials for the deaths of the first generation of the CRC's and JDC's leaders: Peter Wiernik (1936), Felix Warburg (1937), Reverend Dr. H. Pereira Mendes (1937), Dr. Cyrus Alder (1940) and Morris Engelman (1948). Correspondence that illuminates the CRC's role within the JDC is rare, but a letter from CAC member Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein to Rabbi Israel Rosenberg, executive chairman of the CRC, expressed the committee's frustrations. Rabbi Goldstein strongly disagreed with the JDC's distribution of funds for cultural-religious affairs and suggested to Rabbi Rosenberg that: somebody from the United States, with determination, should be sent to Paris and there fight it out with Dr. Kahn concerning these periodic, unjust allotments made in Europe. In these tragic days, we should not sit idly by and allow Orthodox Jewish interests to be treated with such little regard. (March 9, 1939, 211/6).Ironically, several months later, the CRC proposed a reorganization in order to strengthen its fundraising mechanisms for the good of the JDC. Subseries 2: The financial records are from the period of 1930 to 1950 and consist of charts and tables illustrating the annual distribution of funds from the CAC to the CRC for eventual donation to yeshivot in Eastern Europe and Palestine. There are annual reports for each year and occasional quarterly and monthly reports (211/8, 212/1-3). These reports delineate the CRC's allocations by country, name of educational institution and amount of money received. In addition, Abraham Horowitz compiled data for specific reports, such as one demonstrating the sources of income for fifty yeshivot and seminaries in Poland, Lithuania and Palestine for 1936. Orthodox congregations in the United States often relied on the CRC for accurate statistical information regarding the yeshivot of Eastern Europe and Palestine, since it was the sole central source of reliable data. | |||||||||||||
| Subseries 1: General Correspondence, 1928-1949 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 211/4 | Cables, 1930, 1935-1936, 1939-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 211/5 | CRC Internal correspondence, 1934-1937 | ||||||||||||
| 211/6 | CRC Internal correspondence, 1938-1941, 1943-1944 | ||||||||||||
| 211/7 | CRC Internal correspondence, 1946, 1948-1949 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265a/25 | Death notice of Leon Kamaiky, 1928 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 2: Financial Records, 1930-1950 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 211/8 | Financial records, distributions, 1930-1931 | ||||||||||||
| 212/1 | Financial records, distributions, 1932-1936 | ||||||||||||
| 212/2 | Financial records, distributions, 1937-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 212/3 | Financial records, distributions, 1943-1945, 1947-1950 | ||||||||||||
| OversizeBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 267/1 | General ledger, (poor condition) 1932-1935 | ||||||||||||
| Series D: Correspondence with the JDC, 1930-1949. Boxes 212-214, 1.25 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| Series Description: This series contains correspondence between the CRC and the JDC from 1930 to 1949. Approximately half of the correspondence consists of routine exchanges of notices regarding future meetings and acknowledgments by the CRC of funds it received from the JDC through the CAC. The bulk of the correspondence covers the years 1937 to 1938 and 1947 to 1949. There is a paucity of correspondence for the war years 1941 through 1945. Correspondence between the CRC and the JDC included frequent exchanges of statistical information. During the 1930s, Abraham Horowitz compiled several surveys of yeshivot in Eastern Europe that cataloged their location, size and funding requests. Dr. Bernhard Kahn, the director of the JDC's European office in Paris, prepared extensive reports on the allocation of the JDC's funds. As the conscience of Orthodox Jewry, the CRC persistently pressed the JDC for additional funds. Moreover, it demanded that the CAC receive a greater proportion of the total amount spent on cultural-religious affairs in Europe. Yet, this financial correspondence provides only brief glimpses into the debate over funding policy decisions. The JDC tried to allocate its budgeted funds equitably, but its plans were frequently derailed by financial exigencies at home and emergencies abroad. When the level of donations dropped precipitously during the worst years of the economic depression of the 1930s, spending was curtailed. Moreover, in the midst of the JDC's 1933 campaign for Eastern Europe, Hitler and the Nazi party rose to power in Germany and the JDC rushed to allocate funds for the Jewish community there. During the late 1930s, CRC and JDC correspondence frequently discussed the deteriorating economic and social conditions in Poland. A comprehensive February 1936 report by Dr. Bernhard Kahn demonstrated that yeshiva students in Poland depended on their yeshivot to provide food and shelter (213/1). In response, the CRC pressed the JDC to provide sufficient aid. The CRC and the JDC also exchanged correspondence about the ramifications of the 1936 United British Appeal for Poland. When pogroms in Brest-Litovsk in May 1937 damaged local yeshivot and Talmud Torahs, appeals for aid flooded the CRC and JDC offices. Correspondence between Horowitz and Kahn outlines the response each organization formulated. The CRC adamantly felt that the JDC could have contributed more to Orthodox Jewry than it did (213/2). The CRC was sensitive to the perception that Orthodox donations from the United States supported Zionist causes at the expense of local or national JDC-sponsored fundraising campaigns. Correspondence between Horowitz and Morris Troper of the JDC's fundraising board in 1938 discussed a CRC plan to canvass New York City synagogues to raise additional funds (213/4-5). Concomitantly, correspondence between Horowitz and Joseph C. Hyman, secretary of the JDC, disclosed both the JDC's shortage of funds and its rejection of the CRC's appeal for a meeting to discuss increased allocations. A highlight of this series is correspondence relating to the CRC-sponsored matzoh campaign for Jews living in China, in which the B. Manischewitz Co. donated 2,000 packages to Shanghai for Passover in 1938 (213/4). Post-World War II correspondence between the CRC and the JDC focuses on aid for the surviving Jews of Europe and the reconstruction of Orthodox Jewish life in the newly-established State of Israel. | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 212/4 | General and financial correspondence, 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 212/5 | General and financial correspondence, 1931 | ||||||||||||
| 212/6 | General and financial correspondence, 1932 | ||||||||||||
| 212/7 | General and financial correspondence, 1933 | ||||||||||||
| 212/8 | General and financial correspondence, 1934 | ||||||||||||
| 212/9 | General and financial correspondence, 1935 | ||||||||||||
| 213/1 | General and financial correspondence, 1936 | ||||||||||||
| 213/2 | General and financial correspondence, January 1937 - May 1937 | ||||||||||||
| 213/3 | General and financial correspondence, June 1937 - December 1937 | ||||||||||||
| 213/4 | General and financial correspondence, January 1938 - June 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 213/5 | General and financial correspondence, July 1938 - December 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 213/6 | General and financial correspondence, 1939 | ||||||||||||
| 214/1 | General and financial correspondence, 1940 | ||||||||||||
| 214/2 | General and financial correspondence, 1941 | ||||||||||||
| 214/3 | General and financial correspondence, 1942-1943 | ||||||||||||
| 214/4 | General and financial correspondence, 1944-1946 | ||||||||||||
| 214/5 | General and financial correspondence, 1947 | ||||||||||||
| 214/6 | General and financial correspondence, 1948 | ||||||||||||
| 214/7 | General and financial correspondence, 1949 | ||||||||||||
| Series E: Correspondence with Other Organizations and Individuals in the United States, Canada, and Central and South America, 1925, 1930-1958. Boxes 215-223 and Map Box 265, 8 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| Arrangement: The correspondence is divided into the following subseries:
Subseries 1: CRC Correspondence with Institutions and Individuals in the United States and Canada
Subseries 2: CRC Correspondence with Institutions and Individuals in Other Countries
Subseries 3: Financial Correspondence and Records of the Talpioth Palestine Investment Agency
Subseries 4: Federated Council of Palestine (Israel) Institutions
Subseries 5: Manufacturers Trust Company
Subseries 6: Hatzofe Publication Co. and Talmud Publishing Ltd.
Subseries 7: Harry Fischel Foundation
Subseries 8: Personal Correspondence of Abraham Horowitz
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| Series Description: Correspondence addressed to the CRC was answered by its secretary, Abraham Horowitz. The series consists primarily of correspondence between the CRC and institutions or individuals within the United States and Canada from 1930 to 1948. It also includes the financial records and general correspondence of several satellite organizations within the Orthodox orbit located in the same office building as the CRC, at 38 Park Row, New York City. Subseries 1: The CRC's institutional correspondents shared a common goal -- to aid Orthodox Jewry. Examples of correspondents include: US based offices of institutions located in Europe or Palestine, relief societies which dealt with Orthodox interests in Eastern Europe and Palestine, organizations seeking information regarding CRC-sponsored programs, and Zionist organizations. As the parent body to new welfare associations like the Federated Council of Palestine Institutions, and the scion of national bodies such as the Union of Orthodox Rabbis (Agudat Harabanim), the CRC also maintained contact with these groups. CRC officers Aaron Teitelbaum, Israel Rosenberg, and Abraham Horowitz held executive or honorary positions with these affiliated groups. Much of the material in this series illustrates Orthodox responses to the cataclysmic events that disrupted Eastern European yeshivot in the late 1930s. Resolutions of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis (Agudat Harabanim) in November 1939 and a letter from Rabbi S. Wasserman to Abraham Horowitz in December 1939 describe the origins and organizational plans of the Vaad Hatzala, the Emergency Committee to Aid War-Torn Yeshivot (216/16). Similarly, the Tomche Torah Society, established under the auspices of Rabbi Leo Jung and the Jewish Center (New York City) supported yeshivot and Talmud Torahs in Central and Eastern Europe. The Society prepared lists of Hungarian yeshivot that it supported between 1938 and 1941 (216/8). These lists cite the location of the yeshivot by city, and give the name of the rabbi at the head of the yeshiva and the size of the student body. Members of the CRC worked with the National Refugee Service (NRS) to rescue individual refugees from highly dangerous areas of Europe. Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum received NRS monthly reports from 1939-1940, four of which are included here (215/24). The relocation of yeshivot to Palestine after 1940 shifted the focus of relief efforts to the Middle East, and the CRC and the Union of Orthodox Rabbis (Agudat Harabanim) formed the Federated Council of Palestine (later Israel) Institutions (FCPI) in 1940 to aid the more than 130 institutions that did not receive funds from Zionist organizations. A memo from Henrietta K. Buchman to Joseph Hyman, secretary of the JDC, discusses the FCPI's aims in 1940 (215/14). Of special note within this series is the plight of one group of seventy-three refugee rabbis and students from the Yeshiva Beth Joseph, formerly of Bialystok. Forced to flee the war zone, the refugees settled in Kazakhstan, deep within the Soviet Union. In July, 1942, the CRC shipped aid packages containing kosher meat, vegetable fat, coffee, tea, soap, and aspirin to these refugees. The available correspondence between the refugees, the CRC, and the shipping agent is in the Modern Tours and Yeshiva Beth Joseph folders (215/7,23). The Bureau of Jewish Social Research prepared a series of brief histories of the following nine yeshivot between 1927 and 1934 (215/9): the General Etz Chaim [Ets Hayim] of Bobov, Poland; the American Beth Jacob Committee and Beth Jacob Schools; the Hafez Hayyim Yeshiva; the Grand Rabbinical College of Mir; the Lomza Yeshiva of Poland; the Volozhin Yeshiva; the Yeshiva Beth Israel of Romania; the Slobodka Yeshiva of Lithuania [Kneseth Israel]; and the Kollel Kovno. Other highlights in the subseries include CRC surveys of shehitah in the US and Europe in 1936, conducted because kosher slaughtering had been banned in Germany and was seriously threatened in Poland (216/7). The fundraising compaigns conducted by individual yeshivot utilized attractively designed stamps (216/12, 15). Posters issued by the Jewish National Fund extolling the prospect of agricultural settlement in Palestine during the 1930s are in located in 254/2. Correspondence within this subseries contains signed letters from United States Congressman Sol Bloom and Kings County District Attorney (later Mayor of New York City) William O'Dwyer (215/8, 22). Subseries 2: Letters and brochures concerning the Sosua agricultural development for refugees in the Dominican Republic, 1939-1943, can be found in the subseries of CRC correspondence with individuals and institutions in other countries (216/20). Sosua was an outgrowth of the Evian Conference on Refugees (1938) and represented the first concrete offer by any government to deal with the refugee crisis. Agro-Joint, a JDC subsidiary devoted to promoting Jewish agriculture in the Soviet Union established Sosua's operating agency, the Dominican Republic Settlement Association (DORSA) in 1939. Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo, the ex-premier of the Dominican Republic, donated a 26,600-acre tract for the settlement, whose plans called for 100,000 inhabitants. Correspondence in this subseries describes the early expectations of the settlement's organizers and the creation of a Jewish Public Library in the Dominican Republic in 1943. Abraham Horowitz prepared a list of books for the library, which was to be funded by the JDC's Cultural Affairs Committee. This subseries also contains correspondence between Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum and the Tamar Kosher Meat Company in Havana, Cuba, regarding the potential provision of kosher food for European Jews, and the fledgling Jewish communities in Chile and Ecuador in the 1930s. Subseries 3: The Talpioth Palestine Investment Agency (TPIA) was one of a number of organizations which shared the CRC's New York address at 38 Park Row. Their papers thus became part of the CRC collection. Shemariah Cohen Margolis was secretary of the TPIA and in Margolis' absence, Abraham Horowitz answered the organization's correspondence (217-220). Sole United States agent for the Mizrachi Bank of Palestine, the TPIA sold bank shares to Americans, and bought and sold real estate in Palestine during the 1930s. The TPIA's correspondence demonstrates its ability to tap into a widespread network of Orthodox Jews active in Zionist causes. Correspondents lived in all corners of the United States and Canada, in cities large and small. This subseries also includes the banking records and financial papers of the TPIA from 1935-1936. Subseries 4: Another occupant of 38 Park Row, the FCPl, hired attorney David Winograd, who had also served as the CRC's secretary for several years prior to its closing in 1950, to administer the wills of individuals contributing to a variety of Israeli institutions between 1949 and 1958. Winograd's legal papers comprise an additional subseries. Foremost among the institutions receiving aid were the General Israel Orphans' Home for Girls, the Universal Yeshiva of Jerusalem and the Bikkur Holim Hospital of Jerusalem. Subseries 5: CRC financial correspondence with the Manufacturers Trust Company of New York. Subseries 6: Rabbi Meir Berlin, one-time CRC officer and president of the Mizrachi World Organization, also operated several Palestine-based publishing firms, including the Hatzofe Publishing Company and the Talmud Publishing Company. These companies maintained New York offices at 38 Park Row. Subseries 7: Harry Fischel, treasurer of the CRC, established the Harry Fischel Foundation for research in the Talmud in 1932 in Palestine. The rules and regulations and some of the foundation's correspondence are in this series as well (223/4). Subseries 8: The final subseries consists of Abraham Horowitz's personal correspondence, primarily letters from his family in Palestine (223/5). | |||||||||||||
| Subseries 1: United States and Canada, 1930-1950 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 215/1 | A - F | ||||||||||||
| 215/2 | Agudath Sholom Congregation, Lynchburg, Virginia | ||||||||||||
| 215/3 | Agudat Israel | ||||||||||||
| 215/4 | American Beth Jacob | ||||||||||||
| 215/5 | Rabbi Meir Berlin, South Africa, 1931 visit, newspaper clippings | ||||||||||||
| 215/6 | Rabbi Meir Berlin | ||||||||||||
| 215/7 | Yeshiva Beth Joseph (Bialystok) | ||||||||||||
| 215/8 | Congressman Sol Bloom | ||||||||||||
| 215/9 | Bureau of Jewish Social Research | ||||||||||||
| 215/10 | Great Charity "Chaye Olam" Institutions of Jerusalem | ||||||||||||
| 215/11 | Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim [Hafez Hayyim] (Radun) | ||||||||||||
| 215/12 | Rabbinical College "Etz Chaim" [Ets Hayim] (Telz) | ||||||||||||
| 215/13 | Ezras Torah Fund | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265a/18 | Ezras Torah Fund Broadsides | ||||||||||||
| (3 copies) | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 215/14 | Federated Council of Palestine Institutions | ||||||||||||
| 215/15 | G - J | ||||||||||||
| 215/16 | Guaranty Trust Company (New York) | ||||||||||||
| 215/17 | Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog of Palestine | ||||||||||||
| 215/18 | Institutional Synagogue, New York | ||||||||||||
| 215/19 | Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung (Jewish Center) | ||||||||||||
| 215/20 | Jewish newspapers (New York, Chicago) | ||||||||||||
| 215/21 | Jewish National Fund "Nachlath Herzog" | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265/2 | "Nachlath Herzog" Posters (2) | ||||||||||||
| 20" × 26" | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 215/22 | K - P | ||||||||||||
| 215/23 | Modern Tours Inc. | ||||||||||||
| 215/24 | National Refugee Service | ||||||||||||
| 216/1 | New York City (various) | ||||||||||||
| 216/2 | Old Hungary, yeshiva alumni | ||||||||||||
| 216/3 | R - T | ||||||||||||
| 216/4 | Rabbi S. A. Pardes (Hapardes) | ||||||||||||
| 216/5 | Refugee Rabbis in Palestine | ||||||||||||
| 216/6 | Refugee Rabbis in Palestine | ||||||||||||
| 216/7 | Shehitah Survey | ||||||||||||
| 216/8 | Tomche Torah Society | ||||||||||||
| 216/9 | Tarbut Schools | ||||||||||||
| 216/10 | Torah Endowment Fund | ||||||||||||
| 216/11 | Yeshiva "Torath Emeth" of Jerusalem | ||||||||||||
| 216/12 | Yeshiva Torah U'Melacha (Academy for Jewish Studies and Trades) | ||||||||||||
| 216/13 | U - Z | ||||||||||||
| 216/14 | Union of Orthodox Rabbis (Agudat Harabanim) | ||||||||||||
| 216/15 | United Charity Institutions of Jerusalem | ||||||||||||
| 216/16 | Vaad Hatzala | ||||||||||||
| 216/17 | "Yavneh" institutions in Poland | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 2: Other Countries, 1939-1944 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 216/18 | Chile, 1940 | ||||||||||||
| 216/19 | Cuba, 1939-1941, 1944 | ||||||||||||
| 216/20 | Dominican Republic (Sosua), 1939-1943 | ||||||||||||
| 216/21 | Ecuador, 1937, 1939, 1943 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 3: Talpioth Palestine Investment Company, 1925, 1931-1945 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 217/1 | Alabama, 1935-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 217/2 | Arizona, 1935-1937 | ||||||||||||
| 217/3 | California (non-Los Angeles), 1935-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 217/4 | California (Los Angeles), 1934-1935 | ||||||||||||
| 217/5 | Canada (non-Toronto, Montreal), 1935-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 217/6 | Canada (Montreal), 1931-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 217/7 | Canada (Montreal), 1940-1943 | ||||||||||||
| 217/8 | Canada (Toronto), 1934-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 217/9 | Colorado, 1935, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||||
| 217/10 | Connecticut (non-Hartford, Waterbury), 1935-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 217/11 | Connecticut (Hartford), 1936-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 217/12 | Connecticut (Waterbury), 1940-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 218/1 | Florida, 1940-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 218/2 | Georgia (Atlanta), 1935-1937 | ||||||||||||
| 218/3 | Georgia, 1934-1935 | ||||||||||||
| 218/4 | Hawaii, 1937 | ||||||||||||
| 218/5 | Illinois (Chicago), 1925, 1931, 1934 - May 1935 | ||||||||||||
| 218/6 | Illinois (Chicago), June 1935 - December 1935 | ||||||||||||
| 218/7 | Illinois (Chicago), 1936-1937 | ||||||||||||
| 218/8 | Illinois (Chicago), 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 218/9 | Illinois (Chicago), January 1939 - September 1939 | ||||||||||||
| 218/10 | Illinois (Chicago), October 1939 - December 1939 | ||||||||||||
| 218/11 | Illinois (Chicago), 1940 | ||||||||||||
| 218/12 | Illinois (Chicago), 1941 | ||||||||||||
| 218/13 | Illinois (Chicago), 1942-1944 | ||||||||||||
| 219/1 | Indiana, 1935-1938 | ||||||||||||
| 219/2 | Iowa, 1940-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 219/3 | Kentucky, 1937-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 219/4 | Louisiana, 1935-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 219/5 | Maine, 1935-1943 | ||||||||||||
| 219/6 | New York, 1934-1937 | ||||||||||||
| 219/7 | Washington DC, 1934-1935 | ||||||||||||
| 219/8 | Tel Aviv, 1936 | ||||||||||||
| 220/1 | Financial Statement, 1935 | ||||||||||||
| 220/2 | Bank Statements, 1935-1936 | ||||||||||||
| 220/3 | Bank Statements, 1935-1936 | ||||||||||||
| 220/4 | Bank Checks, 1936 | ||||||||||||
| 220/5 | Daily Accounts, 1936 | ||||||||||||
| 220/6 | Land Development: Kfar Naaman, 1936 | ||||||||||||
| 220/7 | Articles of Incorporation, 1936 | ||||||||||||
| 220/8 | Stock and Transfer Ledger (Blank), undated | ||||||||||||
| 220/9 | Stock Certificates Ledger (Blank), undated | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 4: Federated Council of Palestine (Israel) Institutions, 1949-1958 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 221/1 | David Winograd legal correspondence: Wills, 1951-1954 | ||||||||||||
| 221/2 | David Winograd legal correspondence: Wills, 1949-1954 | ||||||||||||
| 221/3 | David Winograd legal correspondence: Wills, 1952-1956 | ||||||||||||
| 221/4 | David Winograd legal correspondence: Wills, 1956-1958 | ||||||||||||
| 221/5 | David Winograd legal correspondence: Wills, 1955-1956 | ||||||||||||
| 221/6 | David Winograd legal correspondence: Wills, 1956-1957 | ||||||||||||
| 221/7 | David Winograd legal correspondence: Wills, 1955-1958 | ||||||||||||
| 222/1 | David Winograd legal correspondence: Wills, 1951-1957 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 5: Manufacturers Trust Company, 1943-1949 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 222/2 | Financial Correspondence: lists of yeshivot in Palestine, 1943 | ||||||||||||
| 222/3 | Financial Correspondence: lists of yeshivot in Palestine, 1943-1944 | ||||||||||||
| 222/4 | Financial Correspondence: lists of yeshivot in Palestine, 1945 | ||||||||||||
| 222/5 | Financial Correspondence: lists of yeshivot in Palestine, 1944-1946 | ||||||||||||
| 222/6 | Financial Correspondence: lists of yeshivot in Palestine, 1946-1947 | ||||||||||||
| 222/7 | Financial Correspondence: lists of yeshivot in Palestine, 1948-1949 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 6: Hatzofe Publication Company, Talmud Publishing Ltd., 1938-1943 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 223/1 | Hatzofe Financial Correspondence, 1938-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 223/2 | Hatzofe Financial Correspondence, 1938-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 223/3 | Talmud Publishing Limited, Financial Correspondence, 1943 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 7: Harry Fischel Foundation, 1931-1944 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 223/4 | General Correspondence, 1931, 1932, 1940, 1944 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 8: Abraham Horowitz, 1930-1949 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 223/5 | General Correspondence, 1930-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 223/6 | Personal Correspondence, 1935-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 223/7 | Los Angeles Sanitarium, 1939-1940 | ||||||||||||
| Series F: Correspondence with Europe, the Far East and Palestine/Israel, 1929-1951. Boxes 224-244 & 246, Index Card Box 245, Map Box 265, and Oversized Box 267, 16 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| Arrangement: This series is divided into two subseries:
Subseries 1: Correspondence with Yeshivot, Institutions and Individuals in Europe and the Far East, 1929-1947
Subseries 2: Correspondence with Yeshivot, Institutions and Individuals in Palestine/Israel, 1930-1951
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| Series Description: The correspondence in this series documents how the CRC carried out its mission of providing aid to yeshivot and other Orthodox Jewish educational institutions on a high school level and above in Europe and Palestine in a non-partisan manner. The CRC's assistance is illustrated in the questionnaires, lists, correspondence, receipts, broadsides, and pamphlets which were exchanged between the institutions overseas and Abraham Horowitz, secretary of the CRC, in New York City. In order to fulfill its mandate as a relief agency, the CRC functioned as a data-gathering agency as well. The CRC collected statistical information on the institutions it aided in order to determine how to distribute its limited funds most effectively, how to justify those decisions to its parent organization, the JDC, and how to prevail upon the JDC to increase its funding. Subseries 1: Correspondence with Yeshivot, Institutions and Individuals in Europe and the Far East, 1929-1947 This subseries consists of seven legal size Hollinger boxes (224-230, 265, 267) and some oversize items in flat storage and map boxes. Material is in Hebrew, Yiddish, German, and English. Statistical information in this subseries includes lists of students from yeshivot in Eastern European countries with biographical information such as age and hometown. These lists are most complete for Hungary and for the Bobov institutions in Poland for 1930. Questionnaires from institutions in Czechoslovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania for 1935-1939 and the accompanying correspondence constitute the bulk of the statistical information in the series. The questionnaires itemize the income and expenditures of the institutions, and the number of students and instructors. Lists of yeshivot and their students were compiled in 1939 and 1940 for Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, and in 1941 for Hungary. No statistical material is extant for the period 1931 to 1934. The questionnaires and lists from the European portion of this subseries are arranged the way they were collected, in chronological order. Within each year the material is arranged in alphabetical order by location and within each location by the name of the institution. During the early 1930s, the CRC maintained central distribution centers in Central and Eastern Europe. These regional offices were run by individual rabbis. The CRC sent funds to these offices, which then distributed the money locally according to the CRC's instructions. Each individual institution sent receipts to the central office, which forwarded them together as a group to the CRC in New York. In the mid-1930s, the CRC revised its distribution methods and sent funds directly to the individual institutions. The precise date in the shift was not the same in every country. This correspondence is arranged alphabetically by country, city, and then by name of the individual institution. Contents of the correspondence vary, depending on the particular school involved. Some institutions simply sent receipts to the CRC to acknowledge funds received, while administrators at other institutions exchanged extensive correspondence with the CRC and developed personal relationships with Abraham Horowitz. These administrators often sent brochures, broadsides, and sample curricula to bolster the cause of their institutions. In the European correspondence, Poland is represented by the largest volume of material, particularly for the period 1936-1939. Other countries which are well-represented are: Czechoslovakia, 1930-1941; Hungary, 1938-1941; Lithuania, 1938-1940; and Romania, 1930-1941. A few institutions from Austria, Belgium, England, and Yugoslavia corresponded with the CRC as well. The only European correspondence that postdates the Second World War is with Rabbi Solomon Rabinovici in Bucharest, Romania, and the Ets Hayim Yeshiva in Montreux, Switzerland, during 1946-1947 (230/10). Major Polish correspondents include:
Beth Joseph schools all over Poland.
The Chorev Organization was the educational arm of Agudat Israel. It was founded in 1929 and functioned as an umbrella organization for yeshivot in Congress Poland and Galicia. The subseries includes correspondence with Rabbis Joseph Szuw of the Vilna office (228/2), Alexander Zisha Frydman (1897-1943) of the Warsaw office (228/16), and with Rabbi Frydman on behalf of Agudat Israel's teachers' seminary, the Mausod Limchanchim [Mosad le-Mehankhim], in Warsaw (228/19).
Rabbi Hayyim Ozer Grodzinski of the Vaad ha-Yeshivot in Vilna (228/6-9). Rabbi Grodzinski founded the Vaad, the umbrella organization for yeshivot in the eastern border provinces of Poland in 1924.
Vaad ha-Ezra le-Yeshivot Ketanot, Warsaw (229/1-4), includes correspondence with Rabbi Solomon David Kahana (1869-1953), a founder and member of the presidium of the Agudat ha-Rabanim of Poland.
The Yavneh Organization in Warsaw, founded in 1930, was the educational arm of Mizrachi. Folder 229/5-6 includes correspondence with the Bet Shmuel Yeshiva run by the Mizrachi as well as correspondence with Dr. Shmuel Zanwil Kahana, 1905- (son of Solomon David). Dr. Kahana moved from Warsaw to Vilna after Warsaw was captured by the German army in September, 1939. In Vilna he worked with the Tachkemony Organization, an affiliate of Yavneh. Folder 228/4 includes correspondence with the Tachkemony in Vilna and the teachers' seminary there. Prior to Dr. Kahana's arrival in Vilna the Tachkemony correspondence was with Rabbi Isaac Rubinstein. Correspondence with other Mizrachi affiliates such as the Tachkemony institutions in Bialystok (226/19), Brisk (226/22), and Warsaw (228/22) is also in this subseries.
Hafez Hayyim Yeshiva in Radun (227/16-17). Abraham Horowitz became personally involved in investigating a dispute between the head of the yeshiva, Rabbi Leb HaKohen Poupko, son of the Hafez Hayyim, (Rabbi Israel Meir Ha-Kohen) and his stepmother, Mrs. Fryda Kagan, widow of the Hafez Hayyim, over her pension in 1935.
Yeshivat Hakhme Lublin (227/2-4; 265/1) records include pamphlets and printed material for the celebration of the 2nd Siyum ha-Shas (completion of studying the Talmud), June 27, 1938.
Other European countries are not as well documented as Poland, which was the primary focus of the CRC's work. The correspondence from Lithuania is mainly from 1938 to 1941. Prominent Lithuanian yeshivot such as those in Kelm, Ponevezh, Slobodka, and Telz are represented in this correspondence. The Tiferet Bahurim organization, the Va'ad ha-Yeshivot ha-Tikhonot veha-Ketanot be-Lita, and the Yavneh Organization of Lithuania are represented here as well. Czechoslovakian material consists chiefly of receipts collected by CRC's central distribution bureaus in Berehovo (1930-1937) and Bratislava (1930-1939). Similarly, the Romanian material is mainly receipts sent to CRC's central distribution offices in Bistritch (1930-1935), and Kluzh (1935-1940). The Hungarian correspondence dates from 1938-1941, and includes receipts gathered by the CRC central office in Budapest (1938-1940). Form letters from Abraham Horowitz to Hungarian institutions in 1940 informed them that they would now receive their subsidies directly, rather than through the office in Budapest. There are two folders of correspondence from individual Hungarian yeshivot with Abraham Horowitz (225/21-22). Folder 225/22 includes two photographs of the yeshiva of Rabbi Samuel Grosz in Nagykaroly in 1941. European correspondence from the late 1930s depicts a community in crisis. Pleas for help to rebuild came from the Tachkemony and Torath Chesed institutions in Brisk following a pogrom in May 1937 (226/22). Telegrams from communal leaders in Vilna arrived at the CRC office almost daily in November 1939 (230/7) with desperate cries for help to deal with students from Polish yeshivot who were flooding Vilna en masse seeking refuge. Folder 224/18 contains descriptions of these yeshivot and lists of refugee students and their wives and children. In July 1940 the CRC suggested to some Lithuanian yeshivot that they relocate to the United States, but the rapid deterioration of the situation in Europe prevented these plans from coming to fruition. Some individuals and institutions were fortunate enough to escape German-occupied Lithuania for the Far East. The CRC received a letter from Rabbis Elijah Meyer Bloch and Hayim Mordekhai Katz of the Telz Yeshiva after their arrival in Yokohoma in October 1940 (226/1), and a letter (April 28, 1941) and a Rosh HaShanah greeting (Sept. 1941) from Rabbi Chayim Leb Shmuelowitz of the Mir Yeshiva during his sojourn in Kobe and Shanghai (227/8, 237/6). Additional information about the Mir Yeshiva in Shanghai is in reports Rabbi Eliezer Yehudah Finkel received in Palestine. Rabbi Finkel's modest stationery testifies eloquently regarding the yeshiva's situation: 1941 - "temporarily in Tel-Aviv, Palestine;" 1942 - "temporarily in Jerusalem, Palestine;" and finally, 1945 - "Jerusalem, Palestine." Subseries 2: Correspondence with Yeshivot, Institutions, and Individuals in Palestine/Israel, 1930-1951 This subseries contains sixteen legal size Hollinger boxes (231-246). Some oversize items are stored in map box no. 265. Records in this subseries are mainly in Hebrew, Yiddish, and English. Much of the material in this subseries is in poor condition. It is fragile and water damaged, and portions of many items are illegible. Since generally only a part of any given document is damaged, the contents of the document can usually be determined. Statistical material for institutions in Palestine is much less extensive than for those in the European section of the subseries. There are only two folders of questionnaires (244/12-13) covering the years 1935 to 1940 and one list of students (index card box 245). Funds were distributed in a manner similar to the distribution process in Europe. The CRC representative in Palestine was Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. The CRC sent funds to Rabbi Kook, who distributed them according to the CRC's instructions. After Rabbi Kook's death in 1935 the CRC sent the funds to each institution individually. The material from 1930 to 1935 is arranged in chronological order, and then alphabetically by name of institution within each year. The post-1935 correspondence is arranged alphabetically by city, and within each city alphabetically by name of institution. In contrast to the desperate situation of European Jewry in the 1930s, the Jewish community in Palestine was in a period of growth and rebirth, despite setbacks and hardships caused by poverty, natural disaster, British Mandatory rule, Arab uprisings, and the need to provide for refugees both before and after World War II. This background provides the setting for the needs of the institutions and the issues discussed in the correspondence in this subseries. In some cases, the Palestine correspondence is a continuation of the European correspondence. The Mir Yeshiva correspondence is one such example. Some European yeshivot and individuals succeeded to flee from Europe and relocate to Palestine during the early stages of World War II and the CRC continued to support them in Palestine as it had done earlier in Europe. The CRC received several telegrams from Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog (Herzog succeeded Kook in the post) in March 1940 requesting guarantees for support for refugee students from Poland trying to reach Palestine (246/7). Rabbi Solomon David Kahana, for example, escaped Warsaw in 1940 and made his way to Palestine. He wrote to Abraham Horowitz from Trieste during his journey to Palestine and again after his arrival (246/8). Rabbi Kahana was appointed Chief Rabbi of the Old City of Jerusalem where he established the Kollel Achiezer (236/7). Kollel Achiezer, together with other institutions in the Old City, was forced to move to the New City of Jerusalem after the Old City was captured by Jordanian forces in 1948. The scope of the material in the Palestine correspondence is broader than that of the European correspondence. This subseries includes correspondence with various non-educational charitable organizations trying to solicit funds from the CRC, such as homes for the aged and free loan societies. Records of Sephardic yeshivot, among them Porat Yosef (239/6) and Rehoboth Hanahar (239/8-9) are also unique to this series. Folder 246/9 contains letters from Chief Rabbi Ben-Zion Meir Hai Ouziel on behalf of several Sephardic institutions. In addition, the CRC helped organizations in Palestine devoted to education. One such organization was the Koheleth Foundation (Keren Haramat Limmud haTorah), founded in honor of the late Chief Rabbi Kook in 1938(?). The purpose of the foundation was to help yeshivot and needy yeshiva students who excelled in their studies. Koheleth Foundation files include correspondence from Rabbi Meir Berlin, chairman of the organization, and publicity material (236/3-5, 265/19). Abraham Horowitz of the CRC also corresponded with officials of the Alumah (Agudah le-Mada' ha-Yahadut) Association for Jewish Studies. The association sponsored lectures, an annual journal, and the Alumah Yeshivah, which offered secular and religious studies (232/8-9). Yeshivot appealed to the CRC for help after the War of Independence in 1948. Institutions in Jerusalem were particularly hard hit. Many suffered damage, and those in the Old City were compelled to find new homes in the New City. A letter (9/21/48) from Dr. Eliyahu Katzenelenbogen of the Mizrachi Teachers' Seminary in Jerusalem described the gravity of the situation: two of the Seminary's best teachers were killed on their way to Hadassah, another teacher and three students were killed fighting, and others were captured by Jordanian troops. The school building and the dormitory were demolished by explosions. Dr. Katzenelenbogen himself was wounded but had recovered and returned to work (238/1) by the time he wrote the letter. Activities of the CRC in Palestine ended in 1950 when the organization was disbanded as a result of changes in the administrative structure of the Joint Distribution Committee. | |||||||||||||
| Subseries 1: Europe and the Far East, 1930-1947 | |||||||||||||
| Questionnaires and Lists | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 224/1 | Czechoslovakia, 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 224/2 | Hungary, 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 224/3 | Ets Hayim of Bobov (school network), Poland, 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 224/4 | Poland, undated | ||||||||||||
| 224/5 | USSR, undated (1930?) | ||||||||||||
| 224/6 | Austria, 1935-1936 | ||||||||||||
| 224/7 | Czechoslovakia, 1935-1936 | ||||||||||||
| 224/8 | Czechoslovakia, 1935-1936 | ||||||||||||
| 224/9 | Beth Joseph, Dvinsk, Latvia, 1935-1936 | ||||||||||||
| 224/10 | Lithuania, 1935-1936 | ||||||||||||
| 224/11 | Poland, 1935-1936 | ||||||||||||
| 224/12 | Va'ad ha-yeshivot, Vilna, Poland, 1936-1937 | ||||||||||||
| 224/13 | Romania, 1936-1937 | ||||||||||||
| 224/14 | Romania, 1936-1938 | ||||||||||||
| 224/15 | Belgium, Lithuania and Romania, 1938-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 224/16 | Beth Joseph, Dvinsk, Latvia, 1939-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 224/17 | Latvia and Lithuania, undated (1939?) | ||||||||||||
| 224/18 | Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, 1939-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 224/19 | Hungary, 1941 | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence and Receipts | |||||||||||||
| Austria | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 225/1 | Beth Jakob Schools, Vienna, 1936 | ||||||||||||
| 225/2 | Keren Hatorah (organization), Vienna, 1936 | ||||||||||||
| 225/3 | General correspondence, 1937, undated | ||||||||||||
| Belgium | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 225/4 | Etz Chaim [Ets Hayim] of Heide (Antwerp), 1939 | ||||||||||||
| Czechoslovakia | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 225/5 | Berehovo, 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 225/6 | Berehovo, 1930-1938 | ||||||||||||
| 225/7 | Berehovo, 1934-1937 | ||||||||||||
| 225/8 | Berehovo, 1937 | ||||||||||||
| 225/9 | Bratislava, 1930-1931 | ||||||||||||
| 225/10 | Bratislava, 1930-1931, undated | ||||||||||||
| 225/11 | Bratislava, 1936-1937 | ||||||||||||
| 225/12 | Bratislava, 1937 | ||||||||||||
| 225/13 | Bratislava, 1937 | ||||||||||||
| 225/14 | Bratislava, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||||
| 225/15 | Bratislava, 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 225/16 | Keren Hazalah, Bratislava, 1939 | ||||||||||||
| 225/17 | Mahzike ha-yeshivot, Czechoslovakia, 1933-1934 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265a/4 | Mukacevo, (newsclipping), 1935 | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 225/18 | General correspondence, 1939-1941 | ||||||||||||
| England | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 225/19 | Talmudical College "Law of Truth," London, 1941 | ||||||||||||
| Hungary | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 225/20 | Budapest, 1938-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 225/21 | Nograd - Berczel, 1932, 1936 | ||||||||||||
| 225/22 | General correspondence, 1939-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 225/23 | General correspondence, 1940 | ||||||||||||
| 225/24 | General correspondence, 1941 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265a/5 | Newsclipping, undated | ||||||||||||
| Japan | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 226/1 | Yokohama, 1940 | ||||||||||||
| Lithuania | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 226/2 | Tiferet Bahurim (organization), Lithuania, 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 226/3 | Bet Talmud, Kelm, 1940-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 226/4 | Kolel Kovno/Kolel Bet Yisra'el, Kovno, 1939 | ||||||||||||
| 226/5 | Va'ad ha-yeshivot ha-tikhonot veha-ketanot be-Lita, Kovno, 1938-1941, undated | ||||||||||||
| 226/6 | Yavneh (organization), Kovno and Telz, 1940 | ||||||||||||
| 226/7 | Ponevezh Yeshiva, Ponevezh, 1940 | ||||||||||||
| 226/8 | Kneses Isroel [Kneseth Israel], Slobodka, 1939-1940, undated | ||||||||||||
| 226/9 | Telz Yeshiva, Telz, 1933, 1940-1941 | ||||||||||||
| Poland | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 226/10 | General correspondence, undated | ||||||||||||
| 226/11 | Ohel Torah, Baranowicze, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 226/12 | Torat Hesed, Baranowicze, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 226/13 | Torat Hesed, Baranowicze, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||||
| 226/14 | Torat Hesed, Baranowicze, 1938-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 226/15 | Torat Hesed, Baranowicze, 1939 | ||||||||||||
| 226/16 | Beth Meir, Bialystok, 1937-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 226/17 | Bet Ulpana le-Rabanim, Bialystok, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 226/18 | Beth Joseph, Bialystok, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 226/19 | Tachkemony, Bialystok, 1933, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 226/20 | Ets Hayim, Bobov, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 226/21 | Bet Ya'akov, Brisk, 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 226/22 | Tachkemony, Torath Chesed, Brisk, 1937; 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265a/16 | Torath Chesed Yeshiva, Brisk, undated | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 226/23 | Yahadut (organization), Brisk, 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 226/24 | Eyshishok Yeshiva, Eyshishok, 1935-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 226/25 | Shaar ha-Torah, Grodno, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 226/26 | Bet ha-yetomim le-ne'arim, Kaliszu, 1937 | ||||||||||||
| 226/27 | Kneseth Beth Isaac, Kamenets, 1931, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 226/28 | Etz Chaim [Ets Hayim], Kletsk, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 226/29 | Kobriner Yeshiva, Kobryn, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 226/30 | Or Tora, Korzec, (later of Rovno) 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 227/1 | Lomza Yeshiva, Lomza, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 227/2 | Hakhme Lublin, Lublin, 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 227/3 | Hakhme Lublin, Lublin, 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 227/4 | Hakhme Lublin, Lublin, 1938 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265/1 | Hakhme Lublin, Lublin, 1938 | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 227/5 | Beth Joseph, Lutsk, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265a/24 | Or Israel, Luninetz, undated | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 227/6 | Beth Joseph, Miedzyrzec Podlaski, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 227/7 | Same, 1941 | ||||||||||||
| 227/8 | Mir Yeshiva, Mir, 1930, 1936-1939, 1941 | ||||||||||||
| 227/9 | Gminy Zydowskiej, Narewka, 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 227/10 | Beth Joseph, Novogrudok, 1939-1941 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265a/7 | Beth Joseph, Novogrudok, 1935-1936 | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 227/11 | Maharsho Yeshiva, Ostrog n. Hor, 1935-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 227/12 | Beth Joseph, Ostrowiec-Kiel, 1938-1939 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265/17 | Beth Joseph, Ostrowiec-Kiel, 1939 | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 227/13 | Beth Joseph, Ostrow-Mazowieck, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 227/14 | Beth Joseph, Pinsk, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 227/15 | Or Yisra'el, Pinsk, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 227/16 | Chofetz Chaim [Hafez Hayyim] Yeshiva, Radun, 1935-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 227/17 | Correspondence re Mrs. Fryda Kagan, widow of the Hafez Hayyim, 1935 | ||||||||||||
| 227/18 | Sod Yesharim, Radzyn-Podlaski, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265/14 | Sod Yesharim, Radzyn-Podlaski, undated | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 227/19 | Or Tora, Rovno, (formerly of Korzec) 1939 | ||||||||||||
| 227/20 | Slonim Yeshiva, Slonim, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 227/21 | Bet Israel, Sokolow, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 227/22 | Bet Isroel, Stolin, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 227/23 | Beth Joseph, Tomaszow-Mazowiecki, 1939 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265/12 | Beth Joseph, Tomaszow-Mazowiecki, 1939 | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 227/24 | Degel Hatora, Turka n/Stryjem, 1937 | ||||||||||||
| 227/25 | Zarzad Zydowskiej Gminy Wyznaniowej, Uchanie, 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 228/1 | Central Educational Committee, Vilna, 1934 | ||||||||||||
| 228/2 | Chorev (organization), Vilna, 1935-1939 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265a/3 | Chorev (organization), Vilna, undated | ||||||||||||
| 265a/23 | Chorev (organization), Vilna, undated | ||||||||||||
| 265a/28 | Chorev (organization), Vilna, 1937-1939 | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 228/3 | Hevrat ma'akhal kasher, Vilna, undated | ||||||||||||
| 228/4 | Mizrachi Teachers School; Tachkemoni Organization, Vilna, 1930, 1937-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 228/5 | Va'ad ha-ezrah le-mosdot ha-datiyim vela-rabanim be-Lita, Vilna, undated | ||||||||||||
| 228/6 | Va'ad ha-yeshivot, Vilna, 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 228/7 | Va'ad ha-yeshivot, Vilna, 1933, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 228/8 | Va'ad ha-yeshivot, Vilna, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||||
| 228/9 | Va'ad ha-yeshivot, Vilna, 1935-1939 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265a/22 | Va'ad ha-yeshivot, Vilna, undated | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 228/10 | Ets Hayim, Volozhin, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 228/11 | Ets Hayim, Volozhin, 1940 | ||||||||||||
| 228/12 | Warsaw, 1929-1930 | ||||||||||||
| 228/13 | Warsaw, 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 228/14 | Bet Aharon, Warsaw, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||||
| 228/15 | Beth Joseph, Warsaw, 1936-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 228/16 | Chorev (organization), Warsaw, 1937-1938, undated | ||||||||||||
| 228/17 | Keser Elimelech Yeshiva, Warsaw, 1937-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 228/18 | Kolel Avrechim Ohel Yosef, Warsaw, 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 228/19 | Mausod Limchanchim [Mosad le-Mehankhim] (of Chorev), Warsaw, 1936-1939, undated | ||||||||||||
| 228/20 | Mesywta [Mesivta], Warsaw, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 228/21 | Netsakh Yisra'el, Warsaw, 1939 | ||||||||||||
| 228/22 | Bet Midrash le-Rabanim "Tachkemoni" (of Mizrachi), Warsaw, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 228/23 | Talmud Tora Ogolna (Centrala), Warsaw, 1930-1933 | ||||||||||||
| 228/24 | Tomchei-Tmimim Lubavitz, Warsaw-Otwock, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265/20 | Tomchei-Tmimim Lubavitz, Warsaw-Otwock, undated | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 228/25 | Torath Chaim, Warsaw, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 229/1 | Va'ad ha-'zra le-yeshivot ketanot, Warsaw, 1930-1931 | ||||||||||||
| 229/2 | Va'ad ha-'zra le-yeshivot ketanot, Warsaw, 1931-1932 | ||||||||||||
| 229/3 | Va'ad ha-'zra le-yeshivot ketanot, Warsaw, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 229/4 | Va'ad ha-'zra le-yeshivot ketanot, Warsaw, 1937-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 229/5 | Yavneh (organization), Warsaw, 1934-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 229/6 | Yavneh (organization), Warsaw, 1937 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265a/10 | Yavneh (organization), Warsaw, 1936 | ||||||||||||
| 265/11 | Yavneh (organization), Warsaw, 1937 | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 229/7 | Bet Aharon, Zgierz, 1938-1939 | ||||||||||||
| Romania | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 229/8 | General correspondence, 1932-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 229/9 | Bistritch, 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 229/10 | Bistritch, 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 229/11 | Bistritch, 1930-1932 | ||||||||||||
| 229/12 | Bistritch, 1933 | ||||||||||||
| 229/13 | Bistritch, 1934-1935 | ||||||||||||
| 229/14 | Or Hadash, Iasi, 1939-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 230/1 | Kluzh, 1935-1936 | ||||||||||||
| 230/2 | Kluzh, 1936 | ||||||||||||
| 230/3 | Kluzh, 1936-1937 | ||||||||||||
| 230/4 | Kluzh, 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 230/5 | Kluzh, 1940 | ||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 230/6 | Stara Kanjiza, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||||
| Various Countries | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 230/7 | Cables, 1938-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 230/8 | Correspondence from individuals, 1938-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 230/9 | Correspondence from European yeshivot re: Felix Warburg's death, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||||
| 230/10 | Romania and Switzerland, 1946-1947 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 2: Palestine | |||||||||||||
| Correspondence and Receipts | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 231/1 | Palestine, 1930-1931 | ||||||||||||
| 231/2 | Palestine, 1931 | ||||||||||||
| 231/3 | Palestine, 1931 | ||||||||||||
| 231/4 | Palestine, 1931 | ||||||||||||
| 231/5 | Palestine, 1931 | ||||||||||||
| 231/6 | Palestine, 1932 | ||||||||||||
| 231/7 | Palestine, 1932 | ||||||||||||
| 231/8 | Palestine, 1933 | ||||||||||||
| 231/9 | Palestine, 1933-1934 | ||||||||||||
| 231/10 | Palestine, 1934-1935 | ||||||||||||
| 231/11 | Palestine, 1934-1935 | ||||||||||||
| 231/12 | Palestine, 1935 | ||||||||||||
| 231/13 | Palestine, 1936 | ||||||||||||
| Bnei Brak | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 231/14 | Kolel Avreichim, 1944-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 231/15 | Beth Joseph, 1940-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 231/16 | Hakhme Lublin Zikhron Meir, 1949-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 231/17 | Ponevezh Yeshiva, 1944-1948 | ||||||||||||
| 231/18 | Ponevezh Yeshiva, 1949-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 232/1 | Kneseth Israel of Slobodka, 1949 | ||||||||||||
| 232/2 | Tifereth Zion, 1940-1950 | ||||||||||||
| Haifa | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 232/3 | Tifereth Israel, 1936-1945 | ||||||||||||
| Holon | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 232/4 | Or Zion, 1945 | ||||||||||||
| Jerusalem | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 232/5 | Agudat Ahvah, 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 232/6 | Agudat Hafazat Torah, 1945 | ||||||||||||
| 232/7 | Agudat Israel, 1938-1947 | ||||||||||||
| 232/8 | "Alumah" Association for Jewish Studies, 1940-1944 | ||||||||||||
| 232/9 | "Alumah" Association for Jewish Studies, 1944-1947 | ||||||||||||
| 232/10 | Anshei Maamad, 1941-1947 | ||||||||||||
| 232/11 | Anshei Maamad, 1945-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 232/12 | Yeshivat Bahurim u-vet ha-tavshil Torah VeYirah, 1939-1946 | ||||||||||||
| 232/13 | Yeshivat Bahurim u-vet ha-tavshil Torah VeYirah, 1945-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 233/1 | Beth Abraham, 1943-1947 | ||||||||||||
| 233/2 | Beth Abraham, 1947-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 233/3 | Beit Chinuch Torah Umlachah, 1948-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 233/4 | Beth Joseph, 1940-1947 | ||||||||||||
| 233/5 | Beth Joseph, 1947-1948 | ||||||||||||
| 233/6 | Beth Joseph, 1948-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 233/7 | Beth Joseph Zvi, 1940-1941, 1945 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265/31 | Beth Joseph Zvi, 1947 | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 233/8 | Beth Midrash L'Torah, 1938-1948 | ||||||||||||
| 233/9 | Beth Zvul, 1945-1947 | ||||||||||||
| 233/10 | Beth Zvul, 1947-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 233/11 | Bnei Tsiyon, 1945 | ||||||||||||
| 233/12 | Central Committee of Eretz Israel for Family Purity, 1946 | ||||||||||||
| 233/13 | Chachme Jerusalem (Yeshivath Rabenu Chaim Auzer), 1940 | ||||||||||||
| 233/14 | Yeshivath Rabbi Chaim Joseph, 1944-1951 | ||||||||||||
| 233/15 | Chaside Breslov (Or Hanelam), 1943-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 234/1 | Chatam Sofer - Ketav Sofer of Kolel Shomre ha-homot, 1940-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 234/2 | Chaye Olam, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 234/3 | Chaye Olam, 1939-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 234/4 | Chaye Olam, 1940-1948 | ||||||||||||
| 234/5 | Chaye Olam, 1948-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 234/6 | Diskin Orphan Home, 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 234/7 | Diskin Orphan Home, 1949-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 234/8 | Divre Hayim, 1945-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 234/9 | Eshel Hatorah, 1938, 1943-1945, undated | ||||||||||||
| 234/10 | Etz Hayim [Ets Hayim], 1931, 1936-1940, undated | ||||||||||||
| 234/11 | Etz Hayim [Ets Hayim], 1939-1944 | ||||||||||||
| 234/12 | Etz Hayim [Ets Hayim], 1944-1947 | ||||||||||||
| 234/13 | Etz Hayim [Ets Hayim], 1947-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 235/1 | Etz Joseph, 1940-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 235/2 | H. Hafez Haim [Hafez Hayyim] Orphanage, 1943-1944 | ||||||||||||
| 235/3 | Hebron Yeshiva (Kneseth Israel), 1936-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 235/4 | Hebron Yeshiva (Kneseth Israel), 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 235/5 | Hebron Yeshiva (Kneseth Israel), 1940-1947 | ||||||||||||
| 235/6 | Hebron Yeshiva (Kneseth Israel), 1947-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 235/7 | Hechal Hatorah, 1940-1945 | ||||||||||||
| 235/8 | Hechal Hatorah, 1946-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 235/9 | Horeb School, 1944-1946 | ||||||||||||
| 235/10 | Irgun Olei Osweinzin and Buchenwald, 1946-1947 | ||||||||||||
| 235/11 | Jewish Agency, 1931, 1936-1938 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265/30 | Jewish Agency, undated | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 235/12 | Jewish National Fund, 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 235/13 | Karlin Stolin, Beth Aron V'Israel, 1943-1950 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265a/6 | Keren Hayesod, 1929-1930 | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 235/14 | Knesseth Beth Isaac (Kamenets), 1940-1946 | ||||||||||||
| 235/15 | Knesseth Beth Isaac (Kamenets), 1946-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 235/16 | Kneset Bnei Hagola, 1947-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 236/1 | Kneseth Israel of Slobodka, 1945-1946 | ||||||||||||
| 236/2 | Kohav Miyaacov, 1947-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 236/3 | Koheleth (Keren Haramath Limmud Torah), 1933, 1938-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 236/4 | Koheleth (Keren Haramath Limmud Torah), 1940 | ||||||||||||
| 236/5 | Koheleth (Keren Haramath Limmud Torah), 1947-1949 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265a/19 | Koheleth (Keren Haramath Limmud Torah), 1939 | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 236/6 | Kol Tora, 1940-1947 | ||||||||||||
| 236/7 | Kolel Achiezer, 1943-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 236/8 | Kolel Brisk, 1945-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 236/9 | Makhon Leheker Halakhah, 1945-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 236/10 | Maor HaTorah (Yeshivat Avrekhim), 1942-1946 | ||||||||||||
| 236/11 | Meah Shearim Yeshiva, 1931, 1936-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 236/12 | Meah Shearim Yeshiva, 1940-1946 | ||||||||||||
| 236/13 | Meah Shearim Yeshiva, 1947-1950 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265a/13 | Meah Shearim Yeshiva, undated | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 236/14 | "Mekabtsiel" Agudat Bnei Torah Sefardim, 1947 | ||||||||||||
| 236/15 | Mekor Hayim, 1940-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 236/16 | "Mesivta," 1940 | ||||||||||||
| 237/1 | Mesivta d'Jerusalem "Torath Chesed," 1944-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 237/2 | Midrash Bnai Zion, 1939-1945 | ||||||||||||
| 237/3 | Midrash Bnai Zion, 1945-1947 | ||||||||||||
| 237/4 | Midrash Bnai Zion, 1947-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 237/5 | Mifal HaTorah, 1943-1947 | ||||||||||||
| 237/6 | Mir Yeshiva, 1941-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 237/7 | Mizrachi, 1929, undated | ||||||||||||
| 238/1 | Mizrachi - Bet ha-midrash le-morim, 1939-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 238/2 | Mizrachi - Bet ha-midrash le-morot ve-gananot, 1939-1947 | ||||||||||||
| 238/3 | Mizrachi - Bet ha-midrash le-morot ve-gananot, 1947-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 238/4 | Ohel Moshe, 1940-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 238/5 | Ohel Torah, Beth David Institute of Rabbinical Studies, 1939-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 238/6 | Ohel Torah, Beth David Institute of Rabbinical Studies, 1940-1945 | ||||||||||||
| 238/7 | Ohel Torah, Beth David Institute of Rabbinical Studies, 1945-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 239/1 | Or Chodosh, 1936-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 239/2 | Or Chodosh, 1940 | ||||||||||||
| 239/3 | Orthodox Education Centre (Merkaz ha-hinukh ha-haredi be-Erets Yisra'el), 1930-1931 | ||||||||||||
| 239/4 | Orthodox Teacher's Seminary (Bet Ulpana li-melamdim u-morim haredim), 1945-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 239/5 | Ozar Hachessed Keren Samuel Free Loan Fund, 1940 | ||||||||||||
| 239/6 | Porat Yosef, 1935, 1944-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 239/7 | Rabbi Maier Baal Haness, 1939 | ||||||||||||
| 239/8 | Rehoboth Hanahar, 1939-1945 | ||||||||||||
| 239/9 | Rehoboth Hanahar, 1942, 1946 | ||||||||||||
| 239/10 | Refugee Rabbis from Europe, 1937, 1940-1941, 1949 | ||||||||||||
| 239/11 | Sfath Emeth, 1936-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 239/12 | Sfath Emeth, 1940-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 239/13 | Shaar Hashamaim, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 239/14 | Shaar Hashamaim, 1940-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 239/15 | Shaarei Chesed Free Loan Society, 1938-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 240/1 | Shaare Zion, 1942-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 240/2 | Shahgath [Sha'agat] Aryeh, 1947-1948 | ||||||||||||
| 240/3 | Shevet Sofer, 1943-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 240/4 | Succath Shalem, 1940-1942 | ||||||||||||
| 240/5 | Tel Talpioth - Torath Jerusalem, 1943-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 240/6 | Tifereth Zvi, 1938-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 240/7 | Tomche Torah, 1940 | ||||||||||||
| 240/8 | Torah Vachesed, 1939-1946 | ||||||||||||
| 240/9 | Torath Emeth, 1936-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 240/10 | Torath Emeth, 1940-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 241/1 | Torath Hayim, 1927, 1936-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 241/2 | Torath Hayim, 1936-1937 | ||||||||||||
| 241/3 | Torath Hayim, 1939-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 241/4 | Torath Jerusalem, 1937-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 241/5 | Torath Jerusalem, 1940-1943 | ||||||||||||
| 241/6 | Torath Jerusalem, 1943-1946 | ||||||||||||
| 241/7 | Torath Jerusalem, 1945-1946 | ||||||||||||
| 241/8 | United Aged Home Moshav Sekenim, 1940 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265a/27 | United Rabbinical Board, undated | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 241/9 | Vaad Ha-ir Haashkenazi, 1947 | ||||||||||||
| 241/10 | Yetev Lev d'Satmar, 1945-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 241/11 | Yeshivath Zion, 1940-1947 | ||||||||||||
| 241/12 | Zion Orphanage, 1944 | ||||||||||||
| 241/13 | Other institutions (Jerusalem), A - Z, 1938-1946 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265a/26 | Other institutions (Jerusalem), A - Z, undated | ||||||||||||
| Kfar Avraham | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 242/1 | Or Hamizrach Ve-Tora Umelacha, 1945-1949 | ||||||||||||
| Kfar Ganim | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 242/2 | Rabbi Ben Zion Zwik, 1941, 1943 | ||||||||||||
| Kfar ha-Roeh | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 242/3 | Yeshivath Bnei Akivah, 1940-1950 | ||||||||||||
| Kfar Saba | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 242/4 | Chofetz Chaim [Hafez Hayyim], 1946-1950 | ||||||||||||
| Magdiel | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 242/5 | Chofetz Chaim [Hafez Hayyim], 1942 | ||||||||||||
| Neweh Jacob | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 242/6 | Kol Jacob, 1942-1945 | ||||||||||||
| Pardes Hanna | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 242/7 | Midrashiath Noam, 1948-1949 | ||||||||||||
| Petah Tikvah | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 242/8 | Beth Midrash Letorath Eretz Israel, 1940-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 242/9 | Or Israel, 1944-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 242/10 | Yeshivath Petah Tikvah, 1940-1950 | ||||||||||||
| Ramat Gan | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 242/11 | Slonim Yeshiva, 1941-1950 | ||||||||||||
| Rehovot | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 242/12 | Klezker Yeshiva, 1944-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 242/13 | Porat Yosef, 1940-1944 | ||||||||||||
| 242/14 | Porat Yosef, 1945-1950 | ||||||||||||
| Safed | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 242/15 | Chasam Soffer Ridvas, 1939-1946 | ||||||||||||
| Tel Aviv | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 243/1 | Achei Temimim and Tomchei Temimim (Lubavitch), 1946-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 243/2 | Atereth Joseph, 1940-1950 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265a/15 | Beth Israel, undated | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 243/3 | Beth Israel V'Damesek Eliezer, 1947 | ||||||||||||
| 243/4 | Beth Joseph, 1940-1946 | ||||||||||||
| 243/5 | Beth Joseph, 1946-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 243/6 | Bnei Akivah, 1945 | ||||||||||||
| 243/7 | Bnei David Association, 1937 | ||||||||||||
| 243/8 | Centre of Torah Education in Palestine (Merkaz hinukh ha-Torah be-Erets Yisra'el), 1936-1937, 1940, 1945 | ||||||||||||
| 243/9 | Geonei Volozhin, 1940-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 243/10 | Haichal Ha Talmud, 1937-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 243/11 | Yeshivath Hayishuv Hehadash of the Mizrachi, 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 243/12 | Yeshivath Hayishuv Hehadash of the Mizrachi, 1940-1946 | ||||||||||||
| 243/13 | Yeshivath Hayishuv Hehadash of the Mizrachi, 1946-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 243/14 | Organization of Jewish Laborities, 1934 | ||||||||||||
| 244/1 | Shaare Tora, 1939-1947 | ||||||||||||
| 244/2 | Shaare Tora, 1947-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 244/3 | Tachkemony School, 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 244/4 | Haside Wizniz, 1944 | ||||||||||||
| 244/5 | Yavneh World Organization, 1940-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 244/6 | Yeshivat Tel Aviv; Yeshivat Haharedim, 1940-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 244/7 | Yesode Ha-Torah, 1929 | ||||||||||||
| Tiberias | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 244/8 | Or Torah, 1934, 1940-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 244/9 | Other institutions (outside Jerusalem), A - Z, 1940-1947 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265/29 | Other institutions (outside Jerusalem), A - Z, undated | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 244/10 | Receipts for sets of Talmud sent by the CRC to yeshivot, A - Z, 1945 | ||||||||||||
| 244/11 | Cables, 1930, 1938-1945 | ||||||||||||
| 244/12 | Questionnaires, Yeshivot, Alef - Tav, 1935-1937 | ||||||||||||
| 244/13 | Questionnaires, Yeshivot, Alef - Tav, 1938-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 245 | List of students and teachers in yeshivot in Palestine (index card box) | ||||||||||||
| 246/1 | Form letters from Abraham Horowitz, 1936-1937 | ||||||||||||
| 246/2 | Form letters from Abraham Horowitz, 1939 | ||||||||||||
| 246/3 | Form letters from Abraham Horowitz, 1943 | ||||||||||||
| 246/4 | Form letters from Abraham Horowitz, 1946-1948 | ||||||||||||
| 246/5 | Individuals (chronological), 1940-1948 | ||||||||||||
| 246/6 | Rabbi Zvi Pesach Frank, 1942 | ||||||||||||
| 246/7 | Rabbi Isaac Herzog, 1939-1945 | ||||||||||||
| 246/8 | Rabbi Shlomo David Kahane, 1940-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 246/9 | Rabbi Ben-Zion Meir Hai Ouziel, 1944-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 246/10 | Samuel Wilson, 1932-1933 | ||||||||||||
| Series G: The Universal Yeshiva of Jerusalem, 1928-1950. Boxes 247-252, Map Box 265, and Oversized Box 266, 8 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| Arrangement: This series has been arranged into the following five subseries:
Subseries 1. Correspondence of the American Office
Subseries 2. Fundraising Material
Subseries 3. Financial Records
Subseries 4. Printed Material
Subseries 5. Publication Fund for the Works of Chief Rabbi A. I. Kook (ultimately better known as Mosad Harav Kook).
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| Series Description: The Universal Yeshiva (Merkaz HaRav) was founded by the Chief Rabbi of Palestine, Abraham Isaac Kook, in Jerusalem in 1921. The Universal Yeshiva and the CRC enjoyed a close relationship, since Rabbi Kook was the CRC's representative in Palestine and had been a member of the CRC's rabbinic delegation to the United States in 1924. The Universal Yeshiva opened an American fundraising office in New York in 1930. The Yeshiva's need for funds increased at this time because Rabbi A.I. Kook had succeeded in bringing students from the Soviet Union who were being persecuted by the government to study at the Universal Yeshiva. Abraham Horowitz of the CRC was instrumental in helping the Universal Yeshiva set up the New York office and served on its executive committee. Other officers of the American office were Rabbi Bernard L. Levinthal of Philadelphia, president, Harry Fischel, treasurer, and Rabbis Moses S. Margolies, Israel Rosenberg, and Aaron Teitelbaum who served on the administrative committee. The office of the Universal Yeshiva was located at 38 Park Row, as was the CRC, and the yeshiva's papers constitute part of the CRC collection. The secretary of the American office, Shemariah Cohen Margolis, corresponded extensively with Rabbi Dov Kook (brother of Abraham Isaac) during his two trips to the United States (June 1930 - Jan. 1931; Oct. 1931 - May 1932) in order to raise money for the yeshiva. Cohen Margolis also corresponded with Rabbis Jacob Moses Harlap (1883-1951) and Shalom Nathan Ra'anan-Kook (1900-1972), leaders of the yeshiva after the death of Rabbi A. I. Kook. Much of this correspondence discusses a lack of coordination and gaps in communication between the yeshiva's offices in New York and Jerusalem. A letter from Abraham Horowitz (Nov. 24, 1936; 247/10) summarizes a meeting of the Board of the American office about these problems and cites as an example the negative impression created by a fundraising circular (located in 250/5) signed by Reize Rivkah Kook, widow of Rabbi A. I. Kook, issued and distributed by the Jerusalem office. Horowitz reported that the Union of Orthodox Rabbis (Agudat Harabanim) objected to the circular, and Harry Fischel deemed it unseemly. The fundraising material consists mainly of copies of form letters sent to potential donors. The financial records were prepared for the Universal Yeshiva by its accountant, Solomon Telushkin. Following Rabbi A. I. Kook's death, the Mizrachi established the Publication Fund for the Works of the Chief Rabbi A. I. Kook (Mosad Harav Kook) to gather and publish his unpublished manuscripts. The officers of the New York office of the Publication Fund were: Abraham Horowitz, secretary; Harry Fischel, chairman; Hirsch Manischewitz, treasurer. The role of the New York office of the Publication Fund was to muster subscribers for the books the fund planned to publish. The correspondence and financial records of this fund, from 1936-1943, are included here. The records in this series are in Hebrew and English. Much of the material was water damaged and is in poor condition. | |||||||||||||
| Subseries 1: Correspondence of the American Office, 1928-1946 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 247/1 | Correspondence of S. Cohen-Margolis, Secretary, October - December 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 247/2 | Correspondence of S. Cohen-Margolis, Secretary, January - March 1931 | ||||||||||||
| 247/3 | Correspondence of S. Cohen-Margolis, Secretary, March - December 1931 | ||||||||||||
| 247/4 | Correspondence of S. Cohen-Margolis, Secretary, with Rabbi Dov Kook re fundraising trip to the US, May 1930 - December 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 247/5 | Correspondence of S. Cohen-Margolis, Secretary, 1931-1932 | ||||||||||||
| 247/6 | List of donors in Manhattan and the Bronx, 1928-1931 | ||||||||||||
| 247/7 | Cables, 1931-1932 | ||||||||||||
| 247/8 | Correspondence of S. Cohen-Margolis, 1932 | ||||||||||||
| 247/9 | Correspondence of S. Cohen-Margolis with Rabbi Joshua Schwartz, Universal Yeshiva fundraiser, 1933, 1937 | ||||||||||||
| 247/10 | Correspondence of S. Cohen-Margolis, 1933-1936 | ||||||||||||
| 248/1 | Correspondence of S. Cohen-Margolis, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||||
| 248/2 | Correspondence of S. Cohen-Margolis, 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 248/3 | Correspondence of S. Cohen-Margolis, 1939 | ||||||||||||
| 248/4 | Correspondence of S. Cohen-Margolis, 1940 | ||||||||||||
| 248/5 | Correspondence of S. Cohen-Margolis, 1940-1942 | ||||||||||||
| 248/6 | Correspondence of S. Cohen-Margolis, 1943-1944 | ||||||||||||
| 248/7 | Correspondence of S. Cohen-Margolis, 1944-1946 | ||||||||||||
| 248/8 | Correspondence of S. Cohen-Margolis with local Jewish Welfare Funds in the US, 1930-1936 | ||||||||||||
| 248/9 | Correspondence and legal documents re bequests, 1934-1936 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 2: Fundraising Material, 1930-1948 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 249/1 | Fundraising letters signed by Rabbi A. I. Kook or Rabbis Charlap and Raanan - Kook, 1930, 1932, 1937 | ||||||||||||
| 249/2 | Typed and handwritten items fundraising material, undated | ||||||||||||
| 249/3 | Fundraising correspondence of Rabbi Dov Kook while in the US, 1931, undated | ||||||||||||
| 249/4 | Form letters, 1925, 1930-1931 | ||||||||||||
| 249/5 | Form letters, 1932-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 249/6 | Form letters and printed material, undated | ||||||||||||
| 249/7 | Form letters and printed material, undated | ||||||||||||
| 249/8 | Form letters and printed material, undated | ||||||||||||
| 249/9 | Form letters and printed material, undated | ||||||||||||
| 249/10 | Form letters and printed material, undated | ||||||||||||
| 249/11 | Blank receipts, 1948? | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 3: Financial Records, 1931-1936 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 250/1 | Financial statements, 1931 | ||||||||||||
| 250/2 | Financial statements, 1933-1936 | ||||||||||||
| 250/3 | Office expenses, 1930-1934 | ||||||||||||
| 250/4 | Check stubs, 1930-1931 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 4: Printed Material, 1929-1936 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 250/5 | Broadsides, 1930s | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265a/9 | Broadside, undated | ||||||||||||
| 265a/21 | Broadside, undated | ||||||||||||
| OversizeBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 266/1 | Broadsides, undated | ||||||||||||
| 266/2 | Broadsides, undated | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 250/6 | Newspaper clippings, 1929-1936 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 5: Publication Fund for the Works of Chief Rabbi, A. I. Kook, 1936-1943 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 251/1 | Correspondence of officers of the Publication Fund, 1936, 1940 | ||||||||||||
| 251/2 | Correspondence of Harry Fischel, chairman, urging people to buy books, Abrahamson - Inselbuch, 1936-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 251/3 | Correspondence of Harry Fischel, chairman, urging people to buy books, Irom - Yeshiva College, 1936-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 251/4 | Correspondence of Harry Fischel, chairman, urging people to buy books (not sent?), January, 1937 | ||||||||||||
| 251/5 | Correspondence of Abraham Horowitz, Secretary, with Rabbi S. Strauss, solicitor for the Publication Fund, 1938-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 251/6 | Correspondence of Abraham Horowitz, Secretary, with U.S. Customs, Manufacturers Trust Co., 1938-1940; 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 251/7 | Correspondence of Abraham Horowitz, Secretary, acknowledgments of donations, 1938-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 251/8 | Correspondence of Abraham Horowitz, Secretary, 1939-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 251/9 | Reminders to pay, 1939-1942 | ||||||||||||
| 251/10 | Accounting records, 1938-1943 | ||||||||||||
| 251/11 | Accounting records, 1938-1943 | ||||||||||||
| 251/12 | Pamphlet, 1938 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265a/33 | Broadside, undated | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 252/1 | Correspondence of Universal Yeshiva administrators regarding the American office of the Publication Fund, and about a dispute with Rabbi Isaac Arieli, 1928-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 252/2 | Receipts and financial correspondence, 1936-1937 | ||||||||||||
| 252/3 | Receipts and financial correspondence, 1938-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 252/4 | Receipts and financial correspondence, 1940-1943 | ||||||||||||
| 252/5 | Receipts and financial correspondence, 1943-1945 | ||||||||||||
| 252/6 | Receipts and financial correspondence, 1946-1948 | ||||||||||||
| 252/7 | Receipts and financial correspondence, 1948-1950 | ||||||||||||
| Series H: Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, 1929-1949. Boxes 253-255 and Map Box 265, 4.5 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| Arrangement: This series is arranged in three subseries:
Subseries 1: Mizrachi Correspondence
Subseries 2: Visa Applications
Subseries 3: Personal Correspondence
The material within each subseries is arranged chronologically. | |||||||||||||
| Series Description: A biography of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum for the period prior to 1929 is in the "Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum" series in the CRC 1919-1929 section of this inventory. Rabbi Teitelbaum moved to Palestine in 1933 and his role within the CRC was chiefly symbolic after that date. Most of his correspondence between 1930 and 1933 dealt with Zionist and Mizrachi themes. After World War II started in 1939, he prepared affidavits of support and visa applications for refugees and rabbinical students stranded in Eastern and Central Europe and Asia. This series consists of material gathered by Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum during the years 1930 to 1933, 1939 to 1941, and 1949. More than 75 percent of the Mizrachi correspondence is in Hebrew, but the affidavits are entirely in English. The material within each subseries is arranged chronologically. Subseries 1. Mizrachi correspondence is concentrated in the years immediately prior to Rabbi Teitelbaum's departure for Palestine (1929-1933). Actively engaged in promoting Mizrachi causes, he delivered speeches at conferences in the United States and in Europe and helped coordinate Mizrachi policy. Correspondents include the Mizrachi World Organization, the Mizrachi Organization of America, Keren Hayesod, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, the Zionist Organization of America, the United Palestine Appeal, the Mizrachi Bank of Jerusalem and the Young Poale Zion of America. This subseries also contains scattered financial records of the Mizrachi Organization of America, including a budget for 1930-1931. Some of this material is extremely brittle. Subseries 2. Rabbi Teitelbaum helped coordinate visa requests for 988 rabbinical students and faculty in Eastern Europe and Asia in 1940 and 1941. He corresponded with United States State Department officials in Washington, DC regarding the emigration of rabbinical scholars from twenty-nine yeshivot, nearly all of whom had fled to Lithuania following Germany's invasion of Poland. In the winter of 1940-1941, the plight of these scholars grew precarious when Soviet authorities extended their power to Vilna. Lists of the scholars at these transplanted yeshivot are in this subseries. Of particular interest are lists and visa applications of rabbinical students from the yeshivot of Mir, Lublin, Radun, and Kollel Kovno, who proceeded to Japan (254/2-7). Additional material on the students and faculty from the Yeshiva Beth Joseph of Bialystok is in the series "Correspondence with other organizations and individuals in the United States, Canada, and Central and South America." Some of these students later fled to Kazakhstan in the Soviet Union, where the CRC shipped them packages of foodstuffs and medicine in 1943. Included in this subseries are approximately 100 affidavits of support for visas that American relatives and friends prepared for post-graduate rabbinical students living in Lithuania, Russia, and Japan. Between January and March, 1941 Rabbi Teitelbaum sent these affidavits to the United States Department of State in Washington, DC. The sponsors of these affidavits, most of whom lived in New York, had to demonstrate their ability to support their relatives or friends who were seeking to emigrate to the United States. As a result, sponsors attached copies of their income tax returns, Dun and Bradstreet Inc. company reports, life insurance policies, and personal letters testifying to their credit worthiness. Sponsors worked in a variety of businesses, most notably in the garment industry, and in the medical and legal professions. Sponsors included well-known businessmen and philanthropists such as Irving M. Bunim, Morris Bienenfeld and Morris Steinberg, as well as a host of otherwise anonymous Americans who did what they could to save Jewish lives (254/10; 255/2). One affidavit of note contained a job offer by the Congregation Beth Aaron Anshe Sfard of Brooklyn, New York to Rabbi Chaskel Taub (254/8). In addition to illustrating the intricacies of applying for visas prior to World War II, these affidavits offer a window into the economic and business life of one group of New York Jews in the pre-war period. Subseries 3. Personal correspondence. This subseries includes Yiddish press releases and biographical sketches of Rabbi Teitelbaum and his father, Yaakov Yitshak ha-Levi Teitelbaum (undated), and correspondence with Rabbi Abraham Duber Cahana Shapiro, Chief Rabbi of Kovno (1930-1932). | |||||||||||||
| Subseries 1: Mizrachi, 1929-1949 | |||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265a/8 | Declaration of Mizrachi World Central Office - 17th Zionist Congress, undated | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 253/1 | Correspondence, undated | ||||||||||||
| 253/2 | Correspondence, May, September - December 1929 | ||||||||||||
| 253/3 | Correspondence, January - March 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 253/4 | Correspondence, April - June 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 253/5 | Correspondence, July - September 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 253/6 | Correspondence, October - December 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 253/7 | Correspondence, January - June 1931 | ||||||||||||
| 253/8 | Correspondence, July - December 1931 | ||||||||||||
| 253/9 | Correspondence, 1932 | ||||||||||||
| 253/10 | Correspondence, 1933-1949 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 2: Visas, 1940-1941 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 254/1 | Visa correspondence, September 1940 - May 1941 | ||||||||||||
| 254/2 | Lists of visa applicants, 1940-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 254/3 | Lists of visa applicants, 1940-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 254/4 | Lists of visa applicants, 1940-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 254/5 | Lists of visa applicants, 1940-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 254/6 | Lists of visa applicants, 1940-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 254/7 | Lists of visa applicants, 1940-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 254/8 | Visa, Affidavits, 1941 | ||||||||||||
| 254/9 | Visa, Affidavits, 1941 | ||||||||||||
| 254/10 | Visa, Affidavits, 1941 | ||||||||||||
| 255/1 | Visa, Affidavits, 1941 | ||||||||||||
| 255/2 | Visa, Affidavits, 1941 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 3: Personal Correspondence | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 255/3 | Personal correspondence, 1929-1933; 1939-1941 | ||||||||||||
| Series I: Fundraising, 1929-1950. Boxes 255-259, 2.5 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| Arrangement: This series is divided into two subseries:
Subseries 1: Annual Campaigns
Subseries 2: Torah Scroll and SOS Tefillin drives
Correspondence within each subseries has been arranged chronologically. | |||||||||||||
| Series Description: Subseries 1. The annual campaigns subseries contains correspondence, brochures and promotional material for the JDC's annual fundraising appeals. After 1930 the CRC no longer conducted independent fundraising drives and forwarded all the funds it raised in the Orthodox community to the JDC. The JDC joined its appeals with other independent relief agencies to create centralized fundraising bodies such as the United Palestine Appeal (UPA) and the United Jewish Appeal (UJA). The six million dollar Allied Jewish Campaign (AJC) of 1930 represented the first attempt to unite the major fundraising organizations of American Jewry. The JDC and the Jewish Agency for Palestine, the parent agency of Keren Hayesod, Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization and the Mizrachi Organization of America among others, agreed to divide the receipts of this drive as follows: $3.5 million to the JDC and $2.5 to the Jewish Agency. Later campaigns continued this inequitable rationing -- a system that provoked controversy between the JDC and the UPA. Of special interest here are a thirty-eight page list of "preferred prospects" of New York-based Jews who could be expected to donate $1,000 or more to the 1930 campaign and a three page report listing those Orthodox rabbis volunteering to speak on behalf of the drive. This series also contains brochures and pamphlets promoting the campaign and a resolution outlining the drive's major aims and the JDC's past accomplishments. Nearly two-thirds of the correspondence dealing with the annual drives refer to the 1930, 1938 and 1939 drives. Of particular merit is a discussion between Paul Baerwald, chairman of the JDC, and Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, chairman of the United Palestine Appeal (UPA), in 1941 in which Rabbi Silver expressed his displeasure at the continuation of the unequal distribution of money that had characterized the United Jewish Appeal of 1940. Those two organizations had combined their fundraising efforts to create the UJA, but the UPA pulled out of the 1941 campaign and each organization administered its own appeal. Subseries 2. The JDC and the CRC organized and administered independent non-monetary programs such as the post-war Torah Scroll and SOS Tefillin drives. These campaigns appealed to synagogues and individuals in the United States and Canada to donate Torah scrolls and tefillin to the JDC to ship to DP camps and communities in Europe and in Israel. Nearly 600 synagogues responded to the call and donated Torah scrolls to the JDC. This series contains meticulous lists of the names and addresses of donors and descriptions of the physical condition of the scrolls. Most scrolls required cleaning and reconditioning prior to shipment and the CRC's expenses for this and other requirements are detailed here. Similar, though smaller, campaigns included the SOS Tefillin and Book Accounts that extended from 1946-1950 and shipped religious books and articles to locations around the world. The accounts and correspondence of these projects are likewise included within this series. Approximately 50 percent of the Torah scroll campaign correspondence is extremely brittle and nearly unintelligible. Exchanges between Abraham Horowitz and Henrietta K. Buchman, secretary of the Cultural Affairs Committee of the JDC that coordinated the program, constitutes most of the usable material--primarily an accounting of gifts and acknowledgments between 1945 and 1950. | |||||||||||||
| Subseries 1: Annual Campaigns, 1929-1946 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 255/4 | Fundraising form letters, 1929-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 255/5 | Correspondence: Allied Jewish Campaign, 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 255/6 | Correspondence: Allied Jewish Campaign, 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 255/7 | Brochures Allied Jewish Campaign, 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 255/8 | Correspondence, 1937 UJA 1934, | ||||||||||||
| 255/9 | Correspondence: 1938 JDC Campaign, January - June 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 255/10 | Correspondence: 1938 JDC Campaign, July - December 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 256/1 | Correspondence: 1939 UJA December 1938 - April 1939 | ||||||||||||
| 256/2 | Correspondence: 1939 JDC Campaign, May - December 1939 | ||||||||||||
| 256/3 | Correspondence: JDC with UPA, General 1941 | ||||||||||||
| 256/4 | Correspondence: JDC with UPA, General, 1943-1944 | ||||||||||||
| 256/5 | Correspondence: JDC with UPA, General, 1945 | ||||||||||||
| 256/6 | Correspondence: JDC with UPA, General, 1946 | ||||||||||||
| Subseries 2: Torah Scroll and SOS Tefillin Drives, 1944-1950 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 256/7 | Correspondence, Receipts, December 1944 - August 1945 | ||||||||||||
| 256/8 | Correspondence, Receipts, September - October 1945 | ||||||||||||
| 256/9 | Correspondence, Receipts, November - December 1945 | ||||||||||||
| 257/1 | Correspondence, Receipts, January - February 1946 | ||||||||||||
| 257/2 | Correspondence, Receipts, March - June 1946 | ||||||||||||
| 257/3 | Correspondence, Receipts, July - December 1946 | ||||||||||||
| 257/4 | Correspondence, Receipts, 1947-1948 | ||||||||||||
| 257/5 | Correspondence, Receipts, 1949-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 257/6 | Packing labels, 1944-1947 | ||||||||||||
| 257/7 | Accounts, 1945-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 257/8 | Contributors (unsorted), 1945-1948 | ||||||||||||
| 258/1 | Unsorted correspondence (poor condition), 1945-1947 | ||||||||||||
| 258/2 | Unsorted correspondence (poor condition), 1946-1947 | ||||||||||||
| 258/3 | Unsorted correspondence (poor condition), 1945-1948 | ||||||||||||
| 258/4 | Unsorted correspondence (poor condition), 1946-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 259/1 | Book Account correspondence (unsorted), 1947-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 259/2 | Book Account correspondence (unsorted), 1946-1948 | ||||||||||||
| 259/3 | SOS Tefillin Correspondence (unsorted), 1947-1950 | ||||||||||||
| 259/4 | SOS Tefillin Correspondence (unsorted), 1948-1949 | ||||||||||||
| Series J: Bank Receipts, 1936-1949. Record Carton 260 and Manuscript Boxes 261-262, 2.25 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| Series Description: This series consists of bank receipts that the Manufacturers Trust Company of New York issued to the CRC for its financial transactions with yeshivot in Eastern Europe and Palestine between 1937 and 1950. The bulk of the receipts date from 1940 to 1944. Also included are receipts issued by the United States Postal Service to the CRC that list the destination of individual packages shipped to rabbis and yeshivot in Eastern Europe between 1936 and 1939. This material is in English. Much of the material is brittle. A complicated network of banks administered the CRC's distribution of funds in Eastern Europe and Palestine. First, the CRC deposited money into its account with Manufacturers Trust in New York. Next, Manufacturers Trust's foreign department cabled funds to banks overseas, such as the Anglo-Palestine Bank in Tel Aviv, which then transmitted the funds to individual institutions. A growing proportion of the CRC's aid went to yeshivot in Palestine when World War II began. This geographical shift is reflected in the receipts after 1940. | |||||||||||||
| Arrangement: The bank receipts have been arranged in alphabetical order according to the country of destination. | |||||||||||||
| Carton | Description | ||||||||||||
| 260/1-1 | Payments to yeshivot in Palestine/Israel, 1940-1948 | ||||||||||||
| 260/1-2 | Payments to yeshivot in Palestine/Israel | ||||||||||||
| 260/2-1 | Payments to yeshivot in Palestine, 1940-1946 | ||||||||||||
| 260/2-2 | Payments to yeshivot in Palestine | ||||||||||||
| 260/3-1 | Payments to yeshivot in Palestine, 1940-1942 | ||||||||||||
| 260/3-2 | Payments to yeshivot in Palestine, 1940-1942 | ||||||||||||
| 260/4-1 | Payments to yeshivot in Palestine, 1944-1946 | ||||||||||||
| 260/4-2 | Payments to yeshivot in Palestine, 1944-1946 | ||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 261/1-1 | Payments to yeshivot in Palestine, 1940-1942 | ||||||||||||
| 261/1-2 | Payments to yeshivot in Palestine, 1940-1942 | ||||||||||||
| 261/2-1 | Payments to yeshivot in Palestine, June 1943 - January 1944 | ||||||||||||
| 261/2-2 | Payments to yeshivot in Palestine, June 1943 - January 1944 | ||||||||||||
| 261/3 | Payments to yeshivot in Palestine, March, May 1944 | ||||||||||||
| 261/4 | Payments to yeshivot in Palestine, June 1944 - December 1944 | ||||||||||||
| 261/5 | Payments to yeshivot in Palestine, January 1945 - July 1945 | ||||||||||||
| 261/6 | Payments to yeshivot in Palestine, September 1945 - December 1945 | ||||||||||||
| 261/7 | Payments to yeshivot in Palestine, January 1946 - September 1946 | ||||||||||||
| 262/1 | Payments to yeshivot in Israel, 1948-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 262/2 | Payments to yeshivot in Israel, 1948-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 262/3-1 | Payments to yeshivot in Eastern Europe, 1937-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 262/3-2 | Payments to yeshivot in Eastern Europe, 1937-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 262/3-3 | Payments to yeshivot in Eastern Europe, 1937-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 262/3-4 | Payments to yeshivot in Eastern Europe, 1937-1939 | ||||||||||||
| 262/4 | Payments to yeshivot in Hungary, October 1940 | ||||||||||||
| 262/5 | Payments to yeshivot in Hungary, 1940-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 262/6 | Payments to yeshivot in Lithuania, 1940 | ||||||||||||
| 262/7 | Payments to yeshivot in Romania, 1941 | ||||||||||||
| 262/8 | US Postal receipts, 1936-1937, 1939 | ||||||||||||
| Series K: Printed Materials and Photographs, [1919], 1928-1947. Box 263, Oversized Box 264, and Map Box 265, 5.75 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| Series Description: This series consists of the newspapers, newspaper clippings, periodicals, and pamphlets (1919-1947), that the CRC collected on a variety of matters pertinent to the Orthodox community. Included are eight issues of the Jewish Daily Bulletin from 1930, two copies of The New Palestine (October 3, 1930; December 29, 1939) and a single issue of The New Judea (October 1930), as well as newspaper clippings from the Hebrew and Yiddish press of North America between 1919 and 1950 including those dealing specifically with the CRC from 1938 to 1940. The series also contains pamphlets printed by the JDC, such as one in Hebrew entitled Help for Jews on the Other Side of the Ocean (1941) and the JDC Digest (December 1945; December 1947) | |||||||||||||
| Newspapers, [1919]-1950 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 263/1 | Yiddish newspaper clippings, [1919], 1940, 1950 | ||||||||||||
| 263/2 | Yiddish newspaper clippings, 1938-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 263/3 | New Palestine Newsweekly | ||||||||||||
| 263/4 | Jewish Daily Forward (brittle), 1940s | ||||||||||||
| OversizeBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 264/1 | Newspapers, newspaper clippings, in Yiddish and Hebrew (very brittle), 1930-1939 | ||||||||||||
| MapBox | Description | ||||||||||||
| 265a/32 | Der Mizrachi Weg, July 3, 1936 | ||||||||||||
| Pamphlets, 1929-1947 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 263/5 | Various pamphlets, 1936-1945 | ||||||||||||
| 263/6 | Various pamphlets, 1931, 1936, 1948 | ||||||||||||
| 263/7 | Various pamphlets, 1929-1941 | ||||||||||||
| 263/8 | Brochures, newsletters, journals, 1930-1947 | ||||||||||||
| 263/9 | Calendars, 1934-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 263/10 | Price list - Hebrew books, undated | ||||||||||||
| Photographs, 1948 | |||||||||||||
| Box-Folder | Description | ||||||||||||
| 263/11 | Rosh Hashanah service - Children's home, 1948 | ||||||||||||
| 263/12 | Yeshivot in Eastern Europe (3), undated | ||||||||||||