MM1 .
Abzan, Moshe Itzak, of Hamburgh . Letter to Rabbi Chanoch HaCohen, 8th of Elul, 648. A scholarly talmudic discussion, signed by Moshe Itzak Abzan, Hamburgh.
Controlled Access Headings
Personal Name(s)
HaCohen, Chanoch, Rabbi -- Correspondence
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MM2 . News clipping.
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MM3 .
Posnanski, Samuel . Samuel Posnanski Manuscript Collection.
"Der Arabische Kommentar des Abu Zarahja Jahja (Jehuda b. Samuel) ibn Balam zu den XII Kleinen Propheten.".
"Neue Materialen zur Geschichte der Hebraische Sprach.".
"Ein Fihrist den Werke Saadjas".
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MM4 . Congregation Mikveh Israel.
Controlled Access Headings
Geographic Name(s)
Congregation Mikveh Israel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Printed pamphlets.
Scope and Contents note
1. "Constitution and By-Laws…" (1884) 2. Gratz Trust (1895) 3. Reports of the President, Treasurer and Committees (1921) 4.
Reports of the Officers and Committees (1924) 5. Service of Rededication (1954)
Manuscript copies and Blueprints.
Scope and Contents note
1. Copies of Lincoln letter (3) 2. Letter and transcription from Carvalho (?) re: school for Hebrew instruction 3. Response
from KKMI re Carvalho letter (and transcription) 4. Newspaper clipping describing KKMI repairs (1903) 5. Blueprints for KKMI
(3) 6. Transcription of Washington letter 7. Print of interior of MI building
Clippings.
Scope and Contents note
Various clippings, etc. relating to KKMI exhibits, occasions; List of occupants in the cemetery (9th and Spruce).
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MM5 .
Deutsch, Gotthard, 1859-1921 . Gotthard Deutsch Collection.
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MM6 . French and Arabic Mss.
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MM7 . Richard Vaux Collection.
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MM8 . Benjamin F. Peixotto Collection.
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MM9 . Rev. George Jacobs Scrapbook.
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Books offered for purchase by bookseller Eric Hayim Klein, 1992.
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10.1-10.2
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MM11 .
Benderly, Hemdah . Harry Friedenwald Collection, 1944-1946. 01 Linear feet.
Scope and Contents note
7 ll. - Letters from Mrs. Hemdah Benderly to Harry Friedenwald
Controlled Access Headings
Personal Name(s)
Friedenwald, Harry, 1864-1950 -- Correspondence
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MM12 .
Krauskopf, Joseph, 1858-1923 . Joseph Krauskopf Collection.
MM12-1 . Printed will of J. Krauskofp, news clippings, 1923. 1 folded will; 5 articles.
Controlled Access Headings
Personal Name(s)
Krauskopf, Joseph, 1858-1923
MM12-2 . Copy of a letter from Barnet Medoff to J. Krauskopf, 1907. 01 Linear feet (Hebrew letter with attached English translation).
MM12-2 .
Krauskopf, Joseph, 1858-1923 . "The Saturday and the Sunday Sabbath: A Sunday Lecture", April 29, 1888. 12 leaves.
MM12-3 .
Krauskopf, Joseph, 1858-1923 . "Let the Guiltless Cast the First Stone: A Discourse at Temple Keneseth Israel", April 13, 1913. 6 ll.
MM12-4 .
Krauskopf, Joseph, 1858-1923 . "Ruined by Success (I. Individuals)" AND "Ruined by Success (II. Nations), "12/6/1916 and 12/10/1916". 12 ll..
MM12-5 .
Krauskopf, Joseph, 1858-1923 . "Cured by War", 31-Dec-16. 6 ll..
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MM13 . Samuel Karafin Collection, 1913-1925.
Scope and Contents note
1. Postcard 2. Certificate of Rabbinic ordination 3. Certificate affirming ordination 4. Certificate confirming rabbinic authorization
5. Certificate authorizing Rabbi Karafin as Shohet (copy only; actual ms is missing).
Controlled Access Headings
Personal Name(s)
Karafin, Samuel -- Archives
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MM14 . Jacob Hoschander Collection, 1928. 2 folders.
Other Finding Aids note
See Hoschander file in the Cyrus Adler Collection, ARC MS 25, for more information.
Controlled Access Headings
Personal Name(s)
Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940 -- Correspondence
Hoschander, Jacob, 1874-1933 -- Correspondence
"Survey of Recent Biblical Literature", 1928. 51 leaves.
"Some Biblical Words in the Light of Cuneiform", 1928. 76 leaves. Includes note at beginning from Adler declining to publish
the article..
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MM15 .
Schwab, Moise, 1839-1918 . Moise Schwab Collection, ca. 1916.
Scope and Contents note
Holograph text "Un Peu de Linguistiques Comparees" Holograph translation into English (2 typescripts)
Cyrus Adler
See also related file in the Cyrus Adler Collection, ARC MS 25.
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MM16 .
Zolin, Joseph . Joseph Zolin Collection, ca. 1931.
Cyrus Adler Collection
See related file in Cyrus Adler Collection, ARC MS 25, for more information.
Scope and Contents note
Typescript of article entitled “The Holy Scriptures of the Jews.” 9 leaves.
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MM17 . H. M. Zippel Collection, 1940. 01 Linear feet (21 ll).
Related Collections
See Related Material in the Adler Collection, ARC MS 25: Box 119, Folder 16
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MM18 . James Lloyd Woodruff Collection, 1937-1941 . 01 Linear feet (51 leaves, bound in folder).
Controlled Access Headings
Personal Name(s)
Neuman, Abraham A., (Abraham Aaron), 1890- -- Correspondence
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MM19 .
Kennedy, John, Judge . Jno. Kennedy Collection, December 19, 1833. 01 Linear feet.
Scope and Contents note
Autograph letter to Frederick Watts from “Jno Kennedy”, with holograph annotation by Joshua I. Cohen; typed transcript of
Kennedy’s letter; and a photocopy of the accompanying letter of gift from George A. Kohut to Cyrus Adler.
Controlled Access Headings
Personal Name(s)
Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940 -- Administration
Kohut, George Alexander, 1874-1933 -- Administration
Watts, Frederick, 1801-1889 -- Correspondence
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MM20 .
Wolf, Abraham Simon, 1809-1880. Abraham Simon Wolf Correspondence, 1872. 01 Linear feet (3 leaves).
Biographical/Historical note
Abraham Simon Wolf was a Philadelphia merchant, who later speculated in coal lands and then worked in banking and insurance.
He was active in the Jewish community in Philadelphia, including the Hebrew Charity Association, the Hebrew Education Society,
the United Hebrew Beneficent Fuel Society, the Jewish Hospital Association, and the first Jewish Publication Society in America.
Scope and Contents note
On 10 October 1872 Harrison writes Wolf, asking for "a sketch of the origin, projects and present circumstances of the Jewish
Hospital." Wolf responds in an eight-page letter dated 12 December 1872.
Ownership and Custodial History
Sold at Historical Collectible Auctions, 2008.
Controlled Access Headings
Geographic Name(s)
Jewish Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Personal Name(s)
Harrison, George L., (George Leib), 1811-1885.
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MM21 .
Rubenstein, Frank Jay . Frank J. Rubenstein Collection, 1977. 01 Linear feet.
Existence and Location of Copies note
CAJS has five copies of the published version under LD1728.D58 R8 1977 (1 ref, 2 stacks, 2 archives)
Scope and Contents note
Typescript draft of Frank J. Rubenstein's "The Dropsie University: The Early Years: 1908-1919."
Controlled Access Headings
Geographic Name(s)
Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning
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MM22 . Aaron Lopez Collection, 1771. 01 Linear feet (1 leaf
Ship manifest of Aaron Lopez, dated at Newport, RI).
Controlled Access Headings
Personal Name(s)
Lopez, Aaron, 1731-1782 -- Administration
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MM23 .
Cohen, Joshua I., 1801-1870 . Joshua I. Cohen Collection, 1849-1860. 01 Linear feet (8 leaves + 2 notebooks).
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MM24 .
Montgomery, James A., (James Alan), 1866-1949. James A. Montgomery Collection, ca. 1930-1940. 02 Linear feet.
Scope and Contents note
Notes, correspondence, c.v. for C.H. Gordon, discussion of a union catalog for Philly libraries (via AHA); Translation of
unknown text (Mandias? )
Controlled Access Headings
Personal Name(s)
Gordon, Cyrus Herzl, 1908-2001 -- Administration
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MM25 . Misc. Yiddish Manuscripts, 19th century. 01 Linear feet (3 mss + contemporary letter).
Scope and Contents note
1. Letter from D. Goldenberg, requesting Dr. Sidney Fish to identify the below. 2. "A poem, composed of poorly quoted Hebrew
phrases, apparently written on the occasion of a cornerstone laying ceremony of a synagogue or some charitable institution
(Jewish Hospital?)" 3. "A brief funeral address for a departed friend, written in typical German-Jewish." 4. A Yiddish letter
from a mother to her son (Neuistadt), 1892
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MM26 .
Banks, Edgar James, 1866-1945 . Banks-Gimbel Correspondence, 6/1/1915. 01 Linear feet (2 ts letters, 1 envelope with pamphlet).
Contents
Pamphlet (in envelope) written by Banks about cuneiform 2 letters from Edgar J. Banks to Jacob Gimbel, offering him some ""genuine
Babylonian tablets"" which he was selling for "a European collector"
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MM27 . First Day Cover, May 15, 1992. 01 Linear feet (First day cover envelope, stamped and dated May 15, 1992, honoring the 500th
anniversary of the Jewish arrival in the Ottoman Empire following the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain).
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MM28 . Index of Talmudic Quotes. 01 Linear feet.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten index (removed from notebook) listing topics and Talmudic references to them.
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MM29 . Kineset Yisrael - Donations, 1918. 01 Linear feet.
Scope and Contents note
Lists of pledges (in shillings) for donations to Kineset Yisrael (congregation?) in Jerusalem
Controlled Access Headings
Geographic Name(s)
Synagogues--Israel--Jerusalem
Subject(s)
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MM30 .
United States--Bureau of the Census. U.S. Census - Jews, 12/1/1889. 01 Linear feet.
Scope and Contents note
Letter from the "Special Agent of Vital Statistics of Jews" requesting information for this section in the census.
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MM31 . Roman Jewish Relics in Arizona, 12/14/1925. 01 Linear feet.
Scope and Contents note
New York Times article regarding discovery of "Roman Jewish Relics" in Arizona (12/14/1925)
Controlled Access Headings
Personal Name(s)
Cummings, Byron, 1860-1954 -- History
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MM32 . Lincoln Club of Philadelphia, 2/11/1911. 01 Linear feet (1 bound book).
Controlled Access Headings
Personal Name(s)
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. -- History
Subject(s)
Lincoln Club of Philadelphia
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MM33 . Sermons by a Manchester Layman, 1862. 01 Linear feet.
Scope and Contents note
A Literary Curiosity: a Sermon in Words of One Syllable Only by A Manchester Layman. Title and date written in ink; text block
pasted from original book/article.
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MM34 . Edgar Mortara (Higgins), 1892. 01 Linear feet.
Scope and Contents note
Article from Donahue's Monthly Magazine (Boston), January 1892, Vol., xxvii, No.1, bound in boards.
Controlled Access Headings
Personal Name(s)
Mortara, Pio, d. 1940. -- History
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MM35 . Maimonides College Library Circulation Records, 1880-1898. 01 Linear feet (1 notebook).
Controlled Access Headings
Personal Name(s)
Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940 -- Archives
Dropsie, Moses A., (Moses Aaron), 1821-1905. -- Archives
Jastrow, Marcus, 1829-1903 -- Archives
Morais, Sabato, 1823-1897. -- Archives
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MM36 .
Gordon, Samuel, 1871-1927. Samuel Gordon Papers, c. 1916. 01 Linear feet.
Contents
TS (with corrections) for fictional narrative “Shepherd and Sheep” printed in God's Remnants: Stories of Israel Among the
Nations by Samuel Gordon (E.P. Dutton, 1916). Note in pencil reads "accepted for publication by Chambers."
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MM37 . Silverstein-Kimelhar Correspondence, 1928. 01 Linear feet (2 ll).
Contents
2 ll. correspondence between R' S. H. Silverstein of Toronto and R' Yekutiel Ari Kemelhar.
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A.K. Glover-- "The Jews of the Extreme Eastern Diaspora".
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Solomon Reinach Correspondence.
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J. Ennery Strasburg--Mesilait Yisrael--The Path of Israel.
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TS for Halkin/Cohen "Igeret Terman (BM594.M615 1952).
Scope and Contents note
TS for Moses Maimonides' "Epistle to Yemen"
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MM46 . Kestenbaum Newspaper and Ephemera Collection, 1771-1942. 01 Linear feet (17 items).
Provenance
Purchased from Kestenbaum and Company, December 18, 2008.
Jewish Exponent (10/1/1920): Death of Jacob H. Schiff.
OS 1 (MM)
46.1
Jewish Exponent September 2, 1932 – Solomon Solis-Cohen.
0S 1 (MM)
46.1
Jewish Exponent December 29, 1939 – Chaim Weizman and Cyrus Adler.
OS 1 (MM)
46.1
The Occident and American Jewish Advocate (July 13, 1859) - #16.
OS 1 (MM)
46.2
The Occident and American Jewish Advocate (February 23, 1860), #48.
OS 1 (MM)
46.2
Gazette of the United States (August 6, 1771) – Includes a poem entitled “Jewish Economy”.
OS 1 (MM)
46.3
The Independent (March 14, 1861).
OS 1 (MM)
46.4
Der Sturmer (December 3, 1942) – includes pictures of Jews as non-Aryans.
OS 1 (MM)
46.5
Social Justice (by Father Coughlin) 1938.
OS 1 (MM)
46.6
Social Justice by Father Coughlin, April-September, 1941.
OS 1 (MM)
46.6
New-York Tribune (October 24, 1897).
OS 1 (MM)
46.7
Dearborn Independent (February 3, 1923).
OS 1 (MM)
46.8
Niles’ Weekly Register (September 24, 1825).
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The Jewish World , Monday, July 13 – “Prominent Jews Discuss Zionist Problems (S. Solis-Cohen, H. Friedenwald, L. E. Levy).
OS 2 (MM)
46.1
La Libre Parole (June 17, 1937) – 48 Juifs Gouvernent la France.
OS 2 (MM)
46.11
The World (May 19, 1865).
OS 2 (MM)
46.12
The Des Moines Register (August 16, 1935 – “Crush Jewish ‘Power’ is Cry of Nazi Chief”).
OS 2 (MM)
46.13
MM47 . Marriage Certificate, August 14, 1938. 01 Linear feet (1 item).
Details
Marriage of Sol Kantor and Carolyn Rich
Provenance
Purchased from Kestenbaum and Company, December 18, 2008.
MM48 . Pension form. 01 Linear feet (1 item).
Details
Refers to William Aaronson, soldier from May 30, 1861-June 1, 1863
Provenance
Purchased from Kestenbaum and Company, December 18, 2008.
MM49 . Last Will and Testament, September 23, 1878. 01 Linear feet (1 item).
Details
For Rebecca Tobias naming Jacob Lazarus and Joshua Hendricks as executors
Provenance
Purchased from Kestenbaum and Company, December 18, 2008.
MM50 . Shareholder’s certificate, 1921. 01 Linear feet (1 item).
Details
American Zion Commonwealth Land Certificate Agreement
Provenance
Purchased from Kestenbaum and Company, December 18, 2008.
MM51 . Kol Kore to South African Jews. 01 Linear feet (1 item).
Details
Kol Kore requesting support for Yeshivah Beth-Joseph in Tel Aviv
Provenance
Purchased from Kestenbaum and Company, December 18, 2008.
MM42 . Communist Cartoons in Yiddish by William Gropper. 01 Linear feet (8 items).
Provenance
Purchased from Kestenbaum and Company, December 18, 2008.
MM43 . Woodcut of “Het Pascha der Jooden”, 1725. 01 Linear feet (1 item).
Details
This print is one of the Judaica prints made for 'Calmet's Dictionary': Ph. v. Gunst, 1725; 'Het Pascha der Jooden'.
Provenance
Purchased from Kestenbaum and Company, December 18, 2008.
MM44 . Memorial Notices, 1958. 01 Linear feet (3 items).
Details
MM44: 1 blank and 1 filled in memorial notice (“a remembrance from the United Aged home Moshav Sekenim Jerusalem” for Rivka
Shu'am b'Binyamin -– died in 1958)
Provenance
Purchased from Kestenbaum and Company, December 18, 2008.
MM45 . Posters, 1825, 1951, n.d. 01 Linear feet (3 posters).
Details
Notices for two plays: (1) “Hebrew Family; or, a Traveller’s Adventure” to be performed at Theatre Royal, Covent Garden on
April 8, 1825 and (2) The Trees Die Standing (Ida Kaminska – n.d.). (3) Poster for Jewish Book Month by Arthur Szyk (November
23-December 23 1951)
Provenance
Purchased from Kestenbaum and Company, December 18, 2008.
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Letter from R. Raphael Yom Tov Ashkenazi, 1862.
Scope and Contents note
Letter by Rabbi Raphael Yom-Tov Ashkenazi to printer Shlomo Belforti and his friends in Livorno.
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Sarah Feinstein.
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Three reproduced photographs:
1) HaRav Aaron Kotler, HaRav Yitzchok Meir Ben-Menachem,and HaRav Isser Zalmen Mektzer;
2) HaRav Shneur Kotler, HaRav Levi Yitzchok HaLevi Horowitz, and HaRav Eliezer Menachem Shach;
3) HaRav Yaakov HaLevi Ruderman, HaRav Shneur Kotler, and HaRav Boruch Sorotzkin.
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Ezekiel N. & Margaret Musleah.
Scope and Contents note
The folder contains a variety of material, much of which is related to Congregation Mikveh-Israel and Rabbi Leon Elmaleh:
invitations to the dedication of the new Mikve-Israel Synagogue (1909); Philadelphia Section, Council of Jewish Women,1899-1901,
list of members and their addresses; Congregation Mikveh Israel, Hours of Services for Rosh Hasahanah Kippur and Succot, 1933,
1942, 1944, 1951,1952, 1956, 1957, 1960-1963, 1966, 1968; The Women's Group of the Mikveh Israel Association, Garden Party,
1939; Letter signed Betty and Al Bendiner and a booklet signed by Bendiner; copies of
The Mikveh Israel Record , 1948 and 1953; copies of several WPEN radio broadcasts (1946, 1947) and WIP radio (1948); a copy of an article on Mikveh
Israel from
The Philadelphia Record , February 23, 1945; several talks delivered by Rabbi Leon Elmaleh; The American Jewish Historical Society by Isidore S. Meyer.
Journal of Jewish Bibliography , reprint, Vol. IV, No. 1-2; "Proceedings at the Unveiling of a Tablet Commemorating the Site of the First Synagogue After
the Resettlement (1657-1701), Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation, London," address by Rev. David Bueno de Mesquita, 20
May, 1928; "Report on the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue, Bevis Marks, London, contained in the
Survey of the Ancient and Historical Monument on London Volume IV, The City issued by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1929," published 1930; K.K. Mickve
Israel Annual Report of Joseph E. Sulzberger, 1906-1907; Poem "Old and New" by Mary M. Cohen, 1909; A letter from Rabbi Bertram
W. Korn to Rabbi Leon Elmaleh and one from Arthur Fleisher. Both are accompanied by a biography of Jacob Frankel; 1911 Program
for the Sisterhood of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of New York; copy of an address by Alfred Bendiner to a meeting
of the American Philosophical Society re: William Strickland's synagogue.
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Marcus Jastrow letter to Samuel Mendelsohn, 1899.
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Amateur Theater Ephemera.
Scope and Contents note
A hand-drawn handbill which lists the actors in the production "Poisoned" and 4 cyanotypes of several men.
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Star of David Coasters.
Scope and Contents note
Gift of Nathaniel Bender.
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"Hida Letter"-- Letter of Elijah ben Raphael Soloman Hallvi to Chaim Joseph David Azulai, 1790.
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Scholarly Notes Collection, 1928-1942.
Handwritten and typed notes.
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59.1
2 Notebooks with handwritten notes in English and Hebrew.
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59.2
Clippings and handwritten notes, 1929 July 1-1930 June 30.
Scope and Contents note
Scrapbook containing poetry, handwritten notes on a number of topics including antisemitism and slavery, and a 1942 article
from
The American Weekly about Dropsie professor Dr. Nathaniel Reich.
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59.3
Handwritten notes in English and Hebrew.
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59.4
Handwritten notes.
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Rebecca Gratz autograph, clippings and ephemera.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper and journal articles about Rebecca Gratz, 1938-1961, including the naming of a room at Philadelphia House (now known
as Hill House) at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Advertisement transcript Hebrew Women's Aid to Civil War Wounded.
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Benjamin Cardozo.
Scope and Contents note
Includes a handwritten poem titled "The Black Knight" and a copy of
Time magazine, Volume XXIV, No. 22, dated November 26, 1934.
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Erets Yisra'el (anonymous manuscript).
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JPS Notice for PAAJR, c. 1931.
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Misc. notes, etc.
Scope and Contents note
Includes notes from Skoss(?) on his physical condition(?)
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Book of House Accounts, 1832-1874.
Scope and Contents note
Lists those who worked as waiters and cooks and who lived with the householder and how much they paid or were owed in wages.
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Souvenir from the testimonial dinner for A.S. Friedus, 1917 May 1.
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Synagogue Plaque.
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Hebrew Discussion of the Identity of R'Yosef Porat Ba'al Ha-Yosafot.
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Anglo-Judaica Pamphlets, Broadsides.
Scope and Contents note
Includes 2 pamphlets: "'The Nazi War: Prayer or Supplication" to be Read every Sabbath and Festival after the Prayer for the
King and the Royal Family" in Hebrew and English (1938/1939);
"Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth" (1953) in Hebrew and English.
Also includes a broadside in Hebrew.
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JPS Translation.
Scope and Contents note
Notes for the translation are written on the stationery from the West End Hotel & Cottages in Long Branch, NJ from the 1890s.
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Pushkin, Lermontav and notes.
Scope and Contents note
Typed biographies of A.S. Pushkin and Lermontav. The file also contains a manila envelope and handwritten notes which mentions
the
Jewish Quarterly Review .
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Solomon Grayzel--Gratz College.
Scope and Contents note
Typescript about Gratz College, its history and place in the Philadelphia Jewish community.
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Letter to Solomon Grayzel from Isaac Husik, 1937.
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Letters to Rosa Mordecai re: Rebecca Gratz (3 letters), 1879-1887.
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Typed extract from Max Gunwald's "Portugiesengraeber auf Deutscher Erde" being a list of the congregation in Hamburg in 1656
(Hamburg, 1902).
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"Statement on the Primary Needs of the Intercollegiate Menorah Association," Submitted by the President of the Association,
Henry Hurwitz, of Harvard University, pre-1913.
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Frederick Augustus Klein papers-- certificate of ordination and diary, 1851-1898.
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Library of Congress Copyright for "10 Weeks Records--Pneumatic Treatment", 1887.
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Sefardica (1 published and 2 typescripts of articles), 1958.
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Shearith Israel, 1910-1961 (Bulk, 1950-1960) .
Scope and Contents note
Includes newspaper articles, programs, and events from the synagogue. The file also contains a history of the Mill Street
Synagogue (1730-1817) of the Congregation Shearith Israel by Rev. D. de Sola Pool (1930). The material may have come from
Emily Solis-Cohen.
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Samuel Wolff, M.D., 1840-1841.
Scope and Contents note
The leather journal appears to contain notes about medical matters and symptoms of patients, notes, books purchased, etc.
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Henrietta Szold letters (3), 1912-1931.
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Sefinat Yonah.
Scope and Contents note
Graphic image of a ship created from Hebrew words and lettering; signed Jacob Soffer.
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Maamar Lelamud oto Beravim.
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Haolam, 1946.
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Aba Kuvnar (Tel Aviv University).
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Tzeina vehe'ana (H. Tomianski).
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Dedication of Hechal Shlomo and announcement of the publication of the souvenir
Torah & Life in Modern Israel (published by W. Turnowsky & Son, 1958).
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Ha Moatza Hadatit Le-Tel-Aviv-Yafo va'adat Hachirum.
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Ha-Po'el ha-tsa'ir Mifleget Ha'avodah ha-Yis re'elit.
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Letter to Jacob Zausmer.
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Sefr Zicharon Yaachov Yosef (book cover only).
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Synagogue of Tiberias(?) broadside.
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JTS MS1398 photograph identification, 1984.
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Notes of of S. Molotin, Tekufat Yamei Ha-Beinayim.
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Hebrew Union College--Rules and Regulations, 1906.
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Jewish Exponent reprints (on Founder's Day at Dropsie, Jewish education, the Hebrew Education Society, and Judge Horace Stern's
message to the Federation of Jewish Charities), 1923-1925.
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Discussion des Croyances Fondamentales du Judaisme (broadside) by Don Isaac Abarbanel, 1883.
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1 leaf (Polish?).
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Dorothy Brown and Mildred Hopkins (two tests), 1935-1937.
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Horace Stern (2nd page of a letter on Mastbaum Brothers & Fleisher Real Estate stationery), 1917.
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E.N. Adler's "The Romance of Hebrew Printing." Lecture before the Union of Jewish Literary Societies at Ramsgate England,
August 22, 1904. Taken from
The Jewish Chronicle of August 26, 1904. (Several leaves are missing.), 1904.
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Songs for Purim, reprint of lyrics and music from Gratz College.
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Canceled check from Barclay's Bank to Dr. Benjamin M. Lewin, cashed in Jerusalem in 1944.
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Temple Emanu-el, education.
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Transportation in the Old Testament, Adler(?).
Scope and Contents note
Biblical quotations and typed and handwritten notes, some on United States National Museum stationery
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Notes on Ancient Israel/Old Text/Biblical Hebrew.
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Lashon Vasefer (published in Warsaw, Poland) cover and 5 leaves; Yaachov Pichman.
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109
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Sefer Hahuhim.
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Clipping--Professional Fighting.
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Responsa.
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Index cards--thieves--Margolis?.
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Photocopy.
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Miscellaneous unrelated pieces.
Scope and Contents note
Among the items in the folder are articles on Israel Friedlaender from
The Council Chronicle (1928) and several in
The Maccabaean (1920), an article from
The Jewish Chronicle on the Bombay Synagogue (1961), the 1982 obituary of Baroness Alix de Rothschild in
The Jewish Chronicle and a bill from a bookbinder in Breslau from 1903.
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Philo, Volume 3 clippings.
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The Late Dr. H.R. (Harry Reginald Holland) Hall, c.1932 .
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An empty folder for the late archaeologist Dr. Harry Reginald Holland Hall. On the back of the folder there are photographs
of two standing sculptures, one of which is an Egyptian figure.
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Sermons, 1879-1885.
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Liturgy--Shavuot.
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Genealogy.
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Clipping from
The Evening Sun, Baltimore , January 20, 1945 titled "Rabbi Drazin annotates Volume on Genealogy" and several pages of handwritten notes on genealogy
in Genesis and a biblical chronology in Hebrew.
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3 Bar Mitzvah invitations, 1947-1963.
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Program for a memorial service for Yitzhak Rabin and a newspaper article titled "Siporo Shel Shir Ha-aharon.".
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Photocopies: Al Shinei Pitmagim.
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photocopy of "Ki Mitzion Tetse Torah" article, 1925.
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Tefila Lema'an Yehude Rusia Vearev.
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Hatzofe (newspaper).
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Tfila LeShalom Hamedine.
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"Reports from London," Press Highlights of the Consultive Conference of Jewish Organizations, London, June 12-16, 1955., 1955.
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"History of the Jews of Philadelphia" by Moshe Itzak.
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Dr. Joseph Diamond Collection, 1948-1994.
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Letters and Notes found in author's copy of
Die Mathmatiker und Astronomen der Araber und ihre Werke . Von Heinrich Suter.
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typescript of F.M. Heichelheim, "On Nero's Privileges to the Forces".
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bound typescript of Mordche W. Rapaport's "Familien und Geschlechtsleben der Hebraer".
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Metatron by M. Cook.
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Ahavat Tzion--Rachel Alexander, handwritten notes.
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"The Last Night of Israel in Egypt" by Rev. Daniel Marsh, c.1870.
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This 1870 typescript contains notes faintly written in pencil at the top of the first page: "Subsequently reprinted in Dr.
Daniel Marsh's 'Myths of the Bible'" and :"[Reported by M_ L] when it was delivered."
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Solomon Schechter's article on Zunz and a 1916 postcard.
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Papers of Menachem Glenn.
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Leon Kahn Manuscript.
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Miscellaneous: February 22, 1963 edition of
Neighborhood Centre News and Photocopy of an article on Professor Boris Schatz, 1927-1963.
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National Farm School pamphlet.
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Envelope addressed by Hermann Strack to Alexander Marx.
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Pieces found in Amira Ezekiel's prayerbook (from Shraga collection).
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Article "Jewish Freedom in Poland" published in
The Nation , Vol. 109, No. 2826, August 30, 1919.
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Folder titled "The Athenaeum" and three typed pages containing some of the text from p. 357 of the March 27, 1852 edition.
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Letter of Alexander and Hanna Marx and a piece of an envelope with the handwritten names of 3 authors and books reviewed (Stephen
S. Wise on
Gabirol Ethik , A. Posnanski on Schiloh, and Steinschneider
Die Geschichtsliteratur der Juden ).
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Letters about Zeitlin article in JQR, 1950.
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"The Era of the Exodus in the Talmud" by B. Weitzel, 2 typed and edited copies, c.1938.
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Letter from Senator Joseph S. Clark to Rabbi Saul I. Wisemon, 1965.
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"Code --".
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Alexander Kohut, 1867-1876.
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"Manifesto" with writings of Elia Benamozegh and Guiseppe Mazzini (inscribed on the back of the pamphlet with Sabato Morais'
name and address);
front page of
The Press , Philadelphia, November 8, 1867;
"The Sarcophagus of the Palestinian Jews" by Alexander Kohut from
The Reform Advocate ;
a newspaper clipping about a child who was killed.
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S. Speier articles, 1900-1936.
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Articles from Der Israelit (1936) and a printer's galley proof of "Die Originalitat des neulich entdeckten hebraischen Sirachtertes"
(Bonn, 1900).
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Journal, 1937-1953.
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"The Jewish Past," Address at the Jewish Historical Society, London by Philip Guedalla (typed and edited), 1938.
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Golden Jubilee Jewish Hospital, scrapbook of newspaper articles, 1915 May 30.
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Typescript of Appendix 1: Paradigms for "An Introduction to Modern Arabic" by Farhat Jacob Ziadeh and R. Bayly Winder.
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"Luck in Life" manuscript, 20th century.
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"Bondi's(?) work".
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A.A. Dembitz--"Tannaite views of Egypt & Exodus Gleaned from Mekilta de Rabbi Ishmael" and notes on hieroglyphics.
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Translations of various Hebrew and Greek inscriptions.
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Three pages: p. 305 from a book in Hungarian, "Beilage: Literargeschichtliche Synopse zu Gen 11, 1-9 in Hebrew and German,
and a handwritten sheet in Hebrew and Yiddish.
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"Rashi der folks-lerer" typescript.
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Elsie Davis Collection: "Woman in the Midrash" typed draft for JQR with corrections by Cyrus Adler.
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Ignaz Zollschan Collection, 1914 January. .
"The Cultural Value of the Jewish Race".
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"The Significance of the Mixed Marriage", 1914 January.
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"Tendencies of Economic Development among the Jewish People", 1914 January.
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E. N. Carvalho/Mikveh Israel, 1815 May.
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The file includes a letter dated May 5, 1815 from Rev. Carvalho (and a typed copy) in which Carvalho informs Mikveh Israel
that he intends to establish a seminary and that he will also establish a class to teach indigents for free. There is also
a handwritten summation of a meeting of the Mikveh Israel Board on May 22, 1815 (and a typed copy) in which Carvalho's proposal
is discussed, as well as a letter from Leopold [Landman] at Mikveh Israel informing Cyrus Adler of the existence of Carvalho's
offer.
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Protocoll der Sitzung des Kuratoriums des Judischen Instituts fur technische Erziehung in Palastina, 1921 January 12.
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Versified rendering of Deuteronomy.
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Henry Darmstadter.
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Darmstadter family tree from 1794-1965
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Hakadma ledyvn al hanose : halanezim bemivhan hatikvas.
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Miscellaneous: advertisement, Reinhard-Boal deed, essays, postcards.
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Includes: advertisement for Dr. Henry Malter's "Saadia Gaon" to be published by the Jewish Publication Society; photograph
of a headless sculpture from a book; a postcard sent to Mayer Sulzberger by O.S.S, in 1913 and one sent to Cyrus Adler by
Samuel Edelman in 1913, notes in Hebrew on stationery for the American Academy for Jewish Research; a handwritten essay on
Jewish snobs and one on the value of travel; a deed dated August 19, 1872 between Michael Reinhard and James Boal.
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Bessie F. Liveright Teaching Certificate, 1909. Teaching Certificate for the city of Philadelphia signed by Simon Gratz and
Edwin Wolf.
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Will of Samuel Elkin, 1906-1907. Typed copy of will names various Philadelphia charities and Judge Sulzberger.
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Jennie C. Lyivall, 1910. A typescript ("The Rationalism of Maimonides"), handwritten notes ["Studien uber Indogermanish-Semitesche
Wurzelverwandschaft von Friedrich Delitzsch Leipzig 1873"] and a typed letter addressed to Judge Sulzberger..
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Scientific and medical translations and miscellaneous notes.
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A. K. Glover.
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Unknown manuscript (two handwritten pages).
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German Bombast on the Great Pyramid, 1912 January 24. The cover of the journal "The Sketch" shows the 1842 inscription over
the entrance to the Great Pyramid of Giza..
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"The Jang"/La Jeune Egypte/Misr Al-Fatat, 1911. Arabic newspaper from 1911..
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The Reporters Prior to the Time of George III, Alphabetically Arranged From Wallace's The Reporter by M.S. July [1885?]. Notes
from John William Wallace's "The Reporters.".
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Amendments to "The Cousinhood" (London, 1971). Typed list.
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A Sale of a Courtyard from Jeme (Kru 6) by Felix Freifelder, 1936 December. 2 versions of the introduction and 2 letters addressed
to Dr. Nathaniel Reich.
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"Der Gottes-Staat" by Dr. Adolf Jacobus, translated by Heinrich Rosenbaum. Typed translation of "Chapter 3: The Cult of the
One God" and the footnotes..
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The Jews of Germany. 5 pages of handwritten notes.
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"Of the Different kind of Obligations etc. according to their Subjects". Handwritten legal notes.
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De Haas--Friedlander controversy, 1916 September- November. Letters to and from Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen and Jacob deHaas.
There are also newspaper and journal articles..
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Sparger--Jewish Music. Letters and magazine articles on Jewish music.
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List of Papers. Typed sheet with lists of papers to be delivered with lantern slides, short papers and those needing more
than 20 minutes..
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Newspapers.
Ariel or, The London Puck , Vol. IV., No. 89, 1890 September 27.
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"The Pneumatic Resistance Valves" by Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen, Article in New York Medical Journal, pp. 625-627, 1887 December
3.
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Review of "Babylonishe Busspsalmen Umschrieben Ubersetzt Und Erklart" by Dr. Heinrich Zimmern published in
The American , Vol. XIV, No. 360., 1887 July 2.
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The Jewish Messenger , Vol. 53, No. 10, Highlighted item: "Cromwell, The Quaker and the Jew.", 1883 March 9.
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"Sir George Jessel,"
The Jewish Messenger , article on page 2.
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Die Deborah , Judisch-Americanische Familienzeitung, Highlighted item: "Cromwell, The Quaker and the Jew.", 1888 July 20. Year 32, No.
3.
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The Messenger--Supplement , pp. 9-10, 1887 December 16.
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Wohler legal documents, including Dietrich Niebuhr against Hermann Fortmann, 1717-1720.
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Zeitlin/ Basel Conference, 1928, pages 4 and 16 of the Draft Minutes.
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Rosenbach.
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Rebecca Rosenbach memorial booklet, written by Emily Solis-Cohen, (3 copies), reprinted from Publications of the American
Jewish Historical Society, No. 31, 1928.
"Early American Children's Books 1682-1840," The Private Collection of Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, On Exhibition at The New York
Public Library, 1927, booklet inscribed to Dr. S. Solis-Cohen by Rosenbach.
"Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society," Number XXXVIII, September, 1948, Part 1. Contains articles by Rosenbach
and Jacob Marcus.
"Eighty-ninth Annual Report," Hebrew Sunday School Society of Philadelphia, 1927. Contains an address by Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach
on "Early American Jewish School Books."
"A. S. W. Rosenbach 1876-1952 In Appreciation," Reprinted from Publication of the American Jewish Historical Society, Vol.
XLII, No. 1, September 1952.
"The Great Dr. R," Review of Edwin Wolf's "Rosenbach: A Biography" in
Jewish Exponent, November 25, 1960.
"The Earliest Christmas Books" by A.S.W. Rosenbach. Privately Printed, Philadelphia, December 1927.
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News releases, 1960-1961.
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"Printers' Ink in their Veins" by Beth-Zion Abrahams, published in
The Jewish Chronicle , November 22, 1963.
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"The Storm of Steam," reprint from the
Evening Star , Washington, D.C., January 16, 1886 and part of a typescript on Internal Improvements in the Old World.
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Dunlap's
American Daily Advertiser for June 4 and 5, 1793.
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Newspaper pages on The Sephardic Jews of England.
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"The Sephardim of England: City Anniversary of Old Jewish Community, "
The Times (pp. 5-6), December 18, 1951; "Prince Philip at Bevis Marks: 250th Anniversary Celebrations,"
The Jewish Chronicle , December 21, 1951; "The Sephardi Comminity of England" by Richard D. Barnett,
The Jewish Chronicle , December 14, 1951.
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"Our Brethren in the Other Americas" by Harry O. Sandberg,
The Reform Advocate , pp. 637-640, June 3, 1916,.
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Essays, biographies, and poems (handwritten), 1840s.
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Translation of a French work on the Jews of France and the Paris Sanhedrin (carbon copy).
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Freeman Auction Catalog, 1990 May 31.
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Report of Sub-Committee on the Relations between the Maccabeans and the Jewish Historical Society of England, 1894 March.
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W. Max Muller Collection--photographs and plates, pre-1938.
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Two photographs (one of a sphinx and one of a boulder), two plates of illustrations ( Plate 24 and Plate 25: Asiatics from
the Tomb of Amu-Nesh, Western Thebes), and a photographic reproduction of a sculpture.
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Unidentified Hebrew notes, 1960s.
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Album of Photographs from Kerzaeh (Chorazin), Israel.
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Moses Dropsie and Mayer Sulzberger Notes and Miscellaneous.
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Includes a variety of material, including notes on Macbeth and the Talmud and a pamphlet on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
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Transparency of Picart's engraving of the Portuguese synagogue in Amsterdam in 1731.
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The Workmen's Circle Centennial Celebration, 2000.
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Archival material found in Orphanage (pamphlet with image of a map and Teddy Kollek's signature).
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Eastern Star Lodge--Chapter Meeting pamphlet and resolution, 1936-1937. Gift of Lois Sataloff, former CAJSL employee; her
mother was a member of the Order.
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Yiddish Community in Petrograd.
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Esther Scrolls in Yiddish.
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Menashe Unger Newspaper Clipping scrapbook.
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Jordan, William Chester : "History and relationship of Jewish Studies to General Scholarship on Medieval Europe" (typescript),
prepared for the "Judaic Studies in the Contemporary World" Symposium at Penn, 1993.
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Nashir ("Let us sing") Eulogy or graveside service poorly vocalized (handwritten).
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Unidentified Collection of newspaper clippings and notes, circa 1897; Possibly Mary Cohen?.
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Box contains notes and newspaper clippings on a variety of topics. The newspaper clippings are in alphabetical folders, corresponding
to the alphabetical accordion file container in which they were originally housed.
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Sefr ha-Likutim (printed title page and handwritten manuscript).
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"Meeting the Need of Jewish Youth in the American Jewish Community" by Meyer Bass.
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