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of Greater Buffalo, Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo Records,
1902-1979
(bulk
1930-1975)
MS 150.1
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Title: Jewish Archives of
Greater Buffalo, Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo Records,
1902-1979
(bulk
1930-1975)
Creator:
Jewish
Federation of Greater Buffalo
Extent: 29.25 linear feet (18 cartons,
10 oversize boxes)
Repository:
State University of New York at Buffalo. University
Archives
Abstract: The Records of the Jewish
Federation of Greater Buffalo in the Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo.
Included are the records of constituent agencies and member organizations of
the Federation such as, the Bureau of Jewish Education, Jewish Family Services,
the Jewish Community Center, Kadimah School of Buffalo, and the Rose Coplon
Home. Records include minutes, committee reports, publications, correspondence,
yearbooks, scrapbooks, and photographs.
Preferred Citation
[Description and dates], Box/folder number, MS 150.1, Jewish
Archives of Greater Buffalo, Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo Records,
1902-1979, University Archives, The State University of New York at
Buffalo.
See the Archives'
preferred citations instructions for
additional information.
Acquisition Information
The collection was transferred from the State University of New York
College at Buffalo (Buffalo State) Archives in 2006 by the Jewish Federation of
Greater Buffalo.
Terms of Access
The Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo, Jewish Federation of
Greater Buffalo Records, 1902-1979, are open for research.
Copyright
Copyright of papers in the collection may be held by their authors,
or the authors' heirs or assigns. Researchers must obtain the written
permission of the holder(s) of copyright and the University Archives before
publishing quotations from materials in the collection. Most papers may be
copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures unless otherwise
specified.
Processing Information
Collection originally processed by the staff of the State University
of New York College at Buffalo (Buffalo State) Archives.
Collection rehoused by Mark McGuire, December 2006-January 2007.
Finding aid updated by Karen Morse, October-November 2006.
Accruals and Additions
No further accruals are expected to this collection.
The Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo began first under the title,
United Jewish Federation of Buffalo, Inc. According to Adler and Connolly's
From Ararat to Suburbia: The History of the Jewish
Community of Buffalo:
"It all began with the consolidation, in 1903, of the old German
philanthropic societies; gradually, as the community matured and as the old
stocks mingled with the new, almost all non-synagogue functions in Buffalo were
united under the leadership of a single organization." (Ch. 7, p. 227)
The Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo, Inc. today continues in that
role, as the umbrella organization for several agencies in the Greater Buffalo
area including the Bureau of Jewish Education, Hillel of Buffalo, The Holocaust
Resource Center, and the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo.
The records of the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo consist
primarily of administrative records and material on community programs.
Early Federation records, constitution and by-laws, financial
reports, building and housing information, yearbooks, fund campaign
information, correspondence and miscellaneous photographs are located in Series
I.
The records of Jewish Family Service (Series II) includes some records
of the Jewish Welfare Society, the predecessor to the Jewish Family Service,
most records relate to the departments of Child Care Services, Health and
Dental, Family Life, and Elder Care.
The records of The Jewish Community Center (Series III) document the
beginning of the center, construction plans, finances, various services and
programs and the Center's expansion with a new facility in the Buffalo suburb
of Getzville, NY.
Documentation of the Buffalo Jewish Camps including budget reports,
committee minutes, attendance records, constitution and by-laws, personnel
matters, and publicity material is located in Series IV.
V contains material on Jewish education in Buffalo and the
Bureau of Jewish Education's role in it: history of the Bureau, constitution
and by-laws, committee/board minutes, surveys, enrollment figures, Hebrew
instruction material, essay contest, school curriculum evaluations, and
correspondence.
Records of the Kadimah School of Buffalo consists of records of the
School's beginning, and includes some photographs, clippings, and yearbooks,
correspondence with the Jewish Federation of Buffalo and committee minutes are
located in Series VI.
The records of the Rose Coplon Jewish Home and Infirmary (Series VII)
consists of constitution and by-laws, property deeds, building information,
newsletters, personnel records, and Board of Directors minutes.
The majority of the scrapbooks in Series VIII document the
Federation's annual United Jewish Fund Campaign, covering the years 1926,
1936-1939, 1941-1942, and 1946-1975. Other scrapbooks document Camp Lakeland,
the Federation's Fiftieth Anniversary, and Yom Hashoah material.
This collection is arranged in eight series as follows:
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 1.1-1.2 |
|
Federation constitutions and by-laws
|
|
| 1.3-1.4 |
|
Early Federation material including information on its
predecessor organizations
|
|
| 1.5 |
|
Federation material 1911-1918; including reports of the
presidents to the board
|
|
| 1.6 |
|
Early Federation legal and financial matters
|
|
| 1.7 |
|
List of Federation presidents,
1902-1964
|
|
| 1.8 |
|
The Jewish Federation for Social Service becomes the
Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo
|
|
| 1.9 |
|
Early history of the Federation; a 1952 letter from
Judge Samuel J. Harris
|
|
| 1.10 |
|
1920s - Reports of the presidents, etcetera
|
|
| 1.11 |
|
The Federation during the 1920s
|
|
| 1.12 |
|
Newspaper clippings on Federation drives,
1920-1930
|
|
| 1.13-1.14 |
|
Reports of Cecil B. Wiener, Secretary and General
Manager of the Federation to the Board of Governors,
1922-1932
|
|
| 1.15 |
|
The Jewish Community Building at 406 Jefferson
Avenue
|
|
| 1.16 |
|
1930s - Reports of the Federation presidents and
directors of Jewish Community Building
|
|
| 1.17 |
|
Federation campaigns of the 1930s
|
|
| 1.18 |
|
Publicity items of the 1930s
|
|
| 1.19 |
|
Reports of Judge Cecil B. Wiener, Executive Secretary of
the Federation, 1930 1934; effects of the Great Depression on relief
matters
|
|
| 1.20 |
|
The Federation Salvage Shop,
1934-1951
|
|
| 1.21 |
|
The Federation at 588 Monroe Street, early
1940s
|
|
| 1.22 |
|
Newspaper clippings on the 1933 campaign
|
|
| 1.23 |
|
The Federation and World War II
|
|
| 1.24 |
|
The United War and Community Fund - World War
II
|
|
| 1.25 |
|
Veterans' Service - World War II Day
|
|
| 1.26 |
|
Record of Jewish soldiers from Western New York during
World War I
|
|
| 1.27 |
|
1914 list of names and addresses
|
|
| 2.1 |
|
Federation self-survey,
1948-1951
|
|
| 2.2 |
|
The United Jewish Fund of Buffalo before the 1949 merger
with the Federation
|
|
| 2.3-2.4 |
|
Federation correspondence with United Jewish Appeal
(established 1938) and its predecessor organizations
|
|
| 2.5 |
|
Merger of the Federation and the United Jewish Fund of
Buffalo,
1948-1949
|
|
| 2.6 |
|
The Federation and the 1954 Tercentenary of Jewish
settlement in North America
|
|
| 2.7 |
|
The Isaac Hoenig Memorial Fund (established
1924)
|
|
| 2.8 |
|
Federation committee on drug use and abuse,
1970-1971
|
|
| 2.9 |
|
Mortgages on 406 Jefferson Avenue circa,
1910-1920
|
|
| 2.10-2.11 |
|
Essential campaign information,
1946-1959
|
|
| 2.12 |
|
Essential campaign information,
1960s
|
|
| 2.13 |
|
Essential campaign information, 1970s
|
|
| 2.14 |
|
Federation policy on the confidentiality of subscribers'
lists
|
|
| 2.15 |
|
Comparison (to Buffalo) of amounts raised in other large
cities
|
|
| 2.16 |
|
Evaluation of campaigns
|
|
| 2.17 |
|
Israel Emergency Fund Campaign, 1967 [Six Day
War]
|
|
| 2.18 |
|
United Jewish Appeal: Israel Emergency Fund, Yom Kippur
War,
1973-1974
|
|
| 2.19-2.20 |
|
Committee on Social Planning, background and minutes
|
|
| 2.21 |
|
Solicitation hints used at various times
|
|
| 2.22 |
|
Descriptions of the Federation's work and functions,
circa 1945
|
|
| 2.23 |
|
Federation Plan and Scope Committee,
1944-1946
|
|
| 2.24 |
|
The Federation and income tax matters, circa
1945
|
|
| 2.25 |
|
Federation standing and special committees, circa
1945
|
|
| 2.26 |
|
Committee on Trusts and Bequests [succeeded by the
Buffalo Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies]
|
|
| 2.27 |
|
The Buffalo Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies, Inc.
|
|
| 2.28 |
|
Federation Youth Committee
|
|
| 2.29 |
|
Federation Young Leadership Development Program,
1970s
|
|
| 2.30 |
|
Capital Funds Campaigns, 1960s
|
|
| 2.31 |
|
Federation's Fiftieth anniversary celebration,
1952
|
|
| 3.1-3.3 |
|
Federation relations with the Community Chest [now
United Way],
1946
|
|
| 3.4-3.7 |
|
Federation allocation committees
|
|
| 3.8-3.15 |
|
Minutes of the Federation Board of Governors
|
|
| 3.16 |
|
Federation Board eligibility,
1946
|
|
| 3.17 |
|
Material on the Weil family; Dr. A. L. Weil, etcetera
|
| |
|
[note: contains fragile materials]
|
|
| 4.1 |
|
Buffalo Jewish clubs and the Federation,
1945-
|
|
| 4.2 |
|
Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Fun matters,
1945-
|
|
| 4.3 |
|
Federation Legal Committee,
1945-1946
|
|
| 4.4 |
|
Contemplated Federation Staff Institute,
1959
|
|
| 4.5 |
|
Federation opposition to a New York state bill
destroying the confidentiality of welfare payments,
1952
|
|
| 4.6 |
|
The New School of Social Research - correspondence,
1947-1948
|
|
| 4.7 |
|
The housing of Federation offices
|
|
| 4.8 |
|
Training Bureau for Jewish Communal Workers,
1947-1948
|
|
| 4.9 |
|
Federation internal office campaign matters
|
|
| 4.10 |
|
Honor rolls: Federation campaigns
|
|
| 4.11 |
|
The Federation and the [Buffalo] Community Welfare
Council
|
|
| 4.12 |
|
USO-JWB correspondence in re Jewish
servicement
|
|
| 4.13 |
|
Federation allocations, 1945-1957; Joint Defense
Appeal
|
|
| 4.14 |
|
National Conference of Jewish Communal Service -
correspondence,
1948-1953
|
|
| 4.15 |
|
Information on Federation yearbooks, published,
1941-1942
|
|
| 4.16 |
|
Federation correspondence with Niagara Falls, New York
Federation,
1951-1957
|
|
| 4.17-4.20 |
|
Federation Annual Meetings
|
|
| 4.21 |
|
Federation Women's Division - campaign
results
|
|
| 4.22 |
|
Federation Women's Division - correspondence
|
|
| 4.23 |
|
Federation Women's Division - minutes of
committees
|
|
| 4.24 |
|
National Council of Jewish Women: Federation
correspondence with,
1949-1953
|
|
| 4.25 |
|
Women's Division - publicity items
|
|
| 4.26 |
|
Material on community planning and attempts to form a
local Community Relations Council,
1945
|
|
| 4.27 |
|
National Community Relations Advisory Council [New York
City]
|
|
| 4.28 |
|
Federation Committee on Community Relations,
1959
|
|
| 4.29 |
|
Cumulative figures on various campaigns
|
|
| 4.30 |
|
Federation policy on multiple community
campaigns
|
|
| 4.31 |
|
C. B. Wiener Memorial Campaign for Capital Funds,
1961-1963
|
|
| 4.32 |
|
Chairmen of UJF campaigns, 1946-1965
|
|
| 4.33 |
|
Campaign publicity items
|
|
| 4.34 |
|
Non-Jewish contributions to Federation
drives
|
|
| 4.35 |
|
Figures on allocations,
circa 1945
|
|
| 4.36 |
|
Federation policies on allocations
|
|
| 4.37-4.38 |
|
Minutes: Federation executive meetings of agency
heads
|
|
| 4.39 |
|
Minutes: Federation officers and past presidents,
1950-1969
|
|
| 4.40 |
|
Collection of unpaid pledges,
circa 1945
|
|
| 4.41 |
|
Young Men's Division [established 1949, formerly Young
Men's Service Organization]
|
|
| 5.1 |
|
Federation financial reports,
1948-1967
|
|
| 5.2 |
|
Large City Budgeting Conference [established by Council
of Jewish Federations and Welfare Fun in 1948, Buffalo Federation joined in
1953]
|
|
| 5.3-5.5 |
|
Federation budgets,
1944-1971
|
|
| 5.6 |
|
Federation Yearbooks,
1914-1929
|
|
| 5.7 |
|
Federation Yearbooks,
1933-1942
|
|
| 5.8 |
|
Hillel facts and allocations
|
|
| 5.9 |
|
Hillel: Federation correspondence regarding allocations
etcetera,
1949-1970
|
|
| 5.10-5.11 |
|
Hillel Foundation at the State University of New York at
Buffalo,
1947-1972
|
|
| 5.12 |
|
Annual reports of the Hillel directors,
circa 1949
|
|
| 5.13 |
|
Hillel activities; Kosher meals at the State University
of New York at Buffalo; ARI support
|
|
| 5.14 |
|
Hillel Center at Buffalo State,
circa 1968
|
|
| 5.15 |
|
Federation high school solicitations and results
|
|
| 5.16 |
|
Chabad movement: Federation support for Chabad House at
the State University of New York at Buffalo
|
|
| 5.17 |
|
Federation and radio-television publicity,
1953-1959
|
|
| 5.18 |
|
Israel and the Entebbe Airport raid July,
1976
|
|
| 5.19 |
|
Newspaper clippings: Yom Kippur War,
1973-1974
|
|
| 5.20 |
|
Federation attempts to aid Soviet Jewry,
1971
|
|
| 5.21 |
|
Information on Israel,
1967-1973
|
|
| 5.22 |
|
Missions of Buffalo Jews to Israel
|
|
| 5.23 |
|
Federation publicity and public relations,
1950-1951; 1965-1968
|
|
| 5.24 |
|
Federation public relations committee
|
|
| 5.25 |
|
Federation newsletters [began publication in 1929 as THE
FEDERATION QUARTERLY and continued until now under different names]
|
|
| 5.26-5.27 |
|
Miscellaneous pictures and flyers; includes Israel
photographs, 1955 and Jewish leaders' meeting with President Lyndon Baines
Johnson,
1964
|
|
| 6.1 |
|
Miscellaneous photographs
|
|
| 6.2 |
|
Federation Loan Fund Committee,
1941-1943
|
|
| 6.3 |
|
YIVO allocations,
1945-1955
|
|
| 6.4 |
|
American Friends Service Committee
[Philadelphia]
|
|
| 6.5 |
|
Jewish Theological Seminary of America and its
auxiliaries
|
|
| 6.6 |
|
Jewish Labor Committee: Correspondence in re annual
allocations and Federation help, to local Jewish labor groups
|
|
| 6.7 |
|
Federation allocations, 1944-1958 - Jewish Telegraphic
Agency
|
|
| 6.8 |
|
Federation allocations, 1944-1956 - Jewish War Veterans
of the United States
|
|
| 6.9 |
|
National Farm School - Bucks County,
Pennsylvania
|
|
| 6.10 |
|
National Foundation for Jewish Culture [New York
City]
|
|
| 6.11 |
|
Sponsoring Committee for a Citizens'
Organization
|
|
| 6.12 |
|
Retreat, 1980-1981; with briefing papers on the
Federation
|
|
|
|
Contents |
|
| |
|
Federation Personnel matters: Records of Federation
employees, salary and retirement policies, job descriptions, budget
matters
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 6.13 |
|
Sydney S. Abzug (1909- ); Director of the Federation,
1955-1976
|
|
| 6.16 |
|
Leon Cantor (1914- ); Director of Rosa Coplon Home,
1962-
|
|
| 6.17 |
|
Albert Deemer (1911- ); Director of the Jewish Family
Service, 1953
|
|
| 6.18 |
|
Herman A. Eigen; Director of the Jewish Center,
1946-1954
|
|
| 6.20 |
|
William L. Grossman (1920- ); Director of the Jewish
Center, 1961
|
|
| 6.21 |
|
David Kleinstein (1915- ); Director of the Jewish
Center,
1954-1961
|
|
| 6.23 |
|
Lester Levin; Executive Director of the Federation,
1976-1977
|
|
| 6.25 |
|
Laura L. Margolis; Director of Federation
mid-1930s
|
|
| 6.28 |
|
Camille Plant (Secretary of Camp Lakeland,
1951-1967)
|
|
| 6.30 |
|
Samuel Roberts, Director of Rosa Coplon
Home
|
|
| 6.31 |
|
Morris Rombro (1924- ); Director of the Federation,
1978
|
|
| 6.32 |
|
Arthur S. Rosichan (1907- ), Director of the
Federation,
1945-1955
|
|
| 6.36 |
|
Sylvia Small,
1918-1961
|
|
| 6.38 |
|
Judge Cecil B. Wiener,
1876-1960
|
|
| 6.39 |
|
Herman Weinheimer, Director of Jewish Family Service,
1946-1952
|
|
| 6.41 |
|
Federation salary scales
|
|
| 6.42 |
|
Federation retirement policies
|
|
| 6.43 |
|
Federation job descriptions
|
|
| 6.44 |
|
Federation personnel policies
|
|
| 6.45 |
|
Capital Funds Campaign,
1960-1961
|
|
| 6.46 |
|
Capital Cashbook,
1925
|
|
| 6.48-7.1 |
|
Budgets,
1927-1960; 1969-1970 [2
folders]
|
|
| 7.2-7.8 |
|
Budget allocations,
1936-1957,
1958;
1968
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 7.9 |
|
Constitution and by-laws of Jewish Family Service and
its predecessors
|
|
| 7.10 |
|
Jewish Welfare Society, etcetera - Histories
|
|
| 7.11 |
|
Jewish Family Service - unionization; other personnel
matters
|
|
| 7.12 |
|
Reports of Jewish Family Service presidents to the
Federation
|
|
| 7.13 |
|
Philosophies of Jewish Social Service: Mission of Jewish
Family Service
|
|
| 7.14 |
|
Jewish Federation for Social Service [its predecessors
and successor] correspondences, etcetera,
1930-1948
|
|
| 7.15 |
|
Jewish Family Service budgets
|
|
| 7.16 |
|
Jewish Family Service Child Care Service
|
|
| 7.17 |
|
Jewish Family Service medical and dental
services
|
|
| 7.18 |
|
Dissolution [1952] of the Jewish Children's Placement
and Guidance Bureau of Western New York
|
|
| 7.19 |
|
Federation Committee on Aging: Minutes, correspondence,
etcetera
|
|
| 7.20-7.21 |
|
General information on problems of the aged
|
|
| 7.22 |
|
Federation correspondence on aging
|
|
| 7.23 |
|
Criticisms of Jewish Family Service
|
|
| 8.1 |
|
Jewish Family Service Psychiatric clinic (established
1943)
|
|
| 8.2 |
|
Jewish Family Service Board of Directors:
minutes
|
|
| 8.3 |
|
Jewish Family Service Vocational Guidance Program
(established 1943)
|
|
| 8.4 |
|
Services offered by the agency; publicity
items
|
|
| 8.5 |
|
Report of reaccreditation study of Jewish Family
Service,
1962
|
|
| 8.6 |
|
Jewish Family Service: 1949 Federation self-survey raw
materials
|
|
| 8.7 |
|
Federation self-survey of Jewish Family Service -
completed reports
|
|
| 8.8 |
|
Jewish Family Service 1959-1960 survey by Council of
Jewish Federations and Welfare Fun - correspondence
|
|
| 8.9 |
|
1959-1960 survey: Final report
|
|
| 8.10 |
|
Jewish Family Service Burial policies
|
|
| 8.11-8.12 |
|
B'nai B'rith/Jewish Family Service Group Guidance
Program of Buffalo
|
|
| 8.13 |
|
Jewish Family Service: Inter-agency
cooperation
|
|
| 8.14 |
|
Jewish Family Service: Abortion matters and
policy
|
|
| 8.15 |
|
Family Guidance: Previously married, singles,
etcetera
|
|
| 8.16 |
|
Jewish Family Services: Passover aid
|
|
| 8.17 |
|
Jewish Family Services: Homemaker service
|
|
| 8.18 |
|
Meals on Wheels Service
|
|
| 8.19 |
|
Jewish Family Services: Welfare clients
|
|
| 8.23 |
|
Family Service Association of America: Correspondence,
evaluations
|
|
| 8.24 |
|
Jewish Family Services: Adoption matters
|
|
| 8.25 |
|
Immigration matters since the Holocaust
|
|
| 8.26 |
|
Jewish Occupational Council [New York City]
|
|
| 8.27 |
|
Group meeting on "Family life in the 70s,"
1970
|
|
| 8.28 |
|
Jewish Family Services miscellaneous items
|
|
| 8.29 |
|
German indemnifications to victims of the
Holocaust
|
|
| 8.30 |
|
Jewish Family Services and Center Nursery School
Conference,
1958-1959
|
|
| 8.31-8.36 |
|
Minutes of staff meetings,
1946-1977
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 9.1 |
|
Young Jewish Women's Benevolent Society [predecessor to
the Center],
1934-1940
|
|
| 9.2 |
|
Center constitutions and by-laws
|
|
| 9.3 |
|
History of the Center movement
|
|
| 9.4-9.5 |
|
The Jewish Center before
1949
|
|
| 9.6 |
|
Report of the [Buffalo] Jewish Center Study Commission,
1948-1949
|
|
| 9.7 |
|
Sale of the Monroe Street Building,
1947
|
|
| 9.8 |
|
The attempt to buy the Elk's Club as a site for a Jewish
Center,
1945
|
|
| 9.9 |
|
The Center,
1948-1949
|
|
| 9.10 |
|
Jewish Center Site Committee,
1945-1946; election of 787 Delaware
Ave.
|
|
| 9.11 |
|
Dedication of the Delaware Avenue Center,
October 9, 1949
|
|
| 9.12-9.13 |
|
Early struggle to maintain the Delaware Avenue
Center
|
|
| 9.14 |
|
Construction of Youth Lounge and Snack Bar,
1957-1959
|
|
| 9.15 |
|
Reports of Center activities
|
|
| 9.16 |
|
National Jewish Welfare Board [New York City] -
correspondence, etcetera.
|
|
| 9.17 |
|
Annual reports of the Center to Jewish Welfare Board,
1950-1956
|
|
| 9.18-9.19 |
|
Center budgets,
1955
|
|
| 9.20 |
|
Federation allocations to the Center
|
|
| 9.21 |
|
Center projected plans and unmet needs
|
|
| 9.22 |
|
Opening of the Center on Shabbes
1960s
|
|
| 9.23 |
|
The Center and Judaism
|
|
| 9.24 |
|
Center personnel matters
|
|
| 9.25 |
|
Recommendations [mid-l960s] capital replacement and
improvement committees
|
|
| 9.26 |
|
Center youth programs
|
|
| 9.27-9.28 |
|
Jewish Center Study Commission Report for the 1980s, 2
volumes
|
|
| 9.29 |
|
Center nominating committees
|
|
| 9.30 |
|
Center evaluation commission, early
1970s
|
|
| 9.31 |
|
Center study commission,
1963
|
|
| 9.32 |
|
Center Annual Book Fair (established 1967)
|
|
| 9.33 |
|
Center committees, set-up of
|
|
| 9.34 |
|
Center Nursery School
|
|
| 10.1 |
|
Material on volunteers
|
|
| 10.2 |
|
Staff meeting minutes,
1974-1976
|
|
| 10.3 |
|
Problems of the elderly - housing, etcetera
|
|
| 10.4 |
|
Minutes of various committees
|
|
| 10.7 |
|
Minutes - Board of Directors,
1952-1974
|
|
| 10.8 |
|
Minutes - meetings of department heads,
1976-1977
|
|
| 10.10 |
|
Publications of the Senior Adult Department [under
various titles]
|
|
| 10.11-10.12 |
|
Older Adult Department: Golden Agers
|
|
| 10.13 |
|
Older Adult Department: Golden Agers; correspondence,
publicity items
|
|
| 10.14-10.16 |
|
The Suburban Jewish Center [North Forest Road]
|
|
| 10.17-10.18 |
|
Kedoshim Memorial Committee,
1971-1976 [for victims of the Holocaust]
|
|
| 10.19-10.20 |
|
Debenture loans for the Suburban Jewish Center
|
|
| 10.21 |
|
Center publicity items
|
|
| 10.23 |
|
Miscellaneous matters
|
|
| 10.24 |
|
Center staff meetings - minutes, etcetera
|
|
| 10.25-10.26 |
|
Business and Professional Club- correspondence and
miscellaneous items
|
|
| 11.1 |
|
Business and Professional Club - minutes,
1966-1974
|
|
| 11.2 |
|
Information on individual cases [Golden Agers],
1963-1965
|
|
| 11.3 |
|
Senior Adults: Golden Agers - minutes of various
committees,
1968-1978
|
|
| 11.4 |
|
Congregate dining program for the elderly
1970s
|
|
| 11.5 |
|
Senior Adults: Golden Agers - programs and
publications
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 11.6 |
|
Camp Emanuel Joseph [Scouthaven]
|
|
| 11.7 |
|
Blanche B. Joseph Foundation
|
|
| 11.8 |
|
Camp Centerland; acquisition of site 1954;
development
|
|
| 11.9 |
|
Centerland personnel and staff matters
|
|
| 11.10 |
|
Centerland publicity items
|
|
| 11.11 |
|
Centerland budgets and Federation
allocations
|
|
| 11.12 |
|
Centerland Director's reports
|
|
| 11.13 |
|
Centerland income and attendance reports
|
|
| 11.14 |
|
Centerland minutes of various committees
|
|
| 11.15-11.16 |
|
Centerland statistics
|
|
| 11.17 |
|
Study of Buffalo Jewish Community Day and Resident
Camping Services,
1959-1961
|
|
IV.B. The Jewish Fresh Air Camp: Camp Lakeland
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 11.18-11.26 |
|
Jewish Fresh Air Camp Association, Board Meetings,
1947-1972
|
|
| 11.27-11.29 |
|
The Jewish Air Camp [established 1910, became Camp
Lakeland about 1947]
|
|
| 11.30 |
|
Camp Lakeland, Constitution and by-laws
|
|
| 11.31 |
|
Camp Lakeland, 1949 self-survey
|
|
| 12.1 |
|
Camp Lakeland, Angola Site and development
|
|
| 12.2 |
|
Camp Lakeland aims and philosophy
|
|
| 12.3 |
|
Camp Lakeland minutes of sub-committees of the
Board
|
|
| 12.4 |
|
Camp Lakeland out-of-season camping
|
|
| 12.5 |
|
Move to Franklinville [early 1970s] and sale of Angola
property
|
|
| 12.6 |
|
Federation allocations and budget matters
|
|
| 12.7 |
|
The Jewish Center and the camps
|
|
| 12.8 |
|
Abraham Axelrod,
1906-1958
|
|
| 12.10 |
|
Camp Lakeland, personnel matters
|
|
| 12.12 |
|
Special programs, retarded children,
etcetera
|
|
| 12.14-12.15 |
|
Camp Lakeland statistics,
1946-1972
|
|
| 12.16 |
|
Camp Lakeland, reports to the Federation and the
United Fund,
1947-1973
|
|
| 12.17 |
|
Camp Lakeland reports, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1961-1963,
1965-1968, 1975-1976
|
|
| 12.18 |
|
Jewish content at Camp Lakeland
|
|
| 12.19 |
|
Camp study committees
1961,
1973
|
|
| 12.20 |
|
Merger of Camp Lakeland and the Jewish Center
[completed 1974]
|
|
| 12.21 |
|
Jewish Free Air Camp, minutes,
1940-1949
|
|
| 12.22-12.23 |
|
Camp Lakeland material
|
|
| 12.24-12.25 |
|
Fresh Air Camp material,
1930,
1939-1945
|
|
| 12.26 |
|
Fresh Air Camp, minutes, trustees,
1914-1951
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 13.1 |
|
Bureau constitutions and by-laws; committee duties
|
|
| 13.2 |
|
Statements of aims and functions of the
Bureau
|
|
| 13.3 |
|
Conditions of affiliation of schools with the Bureau
|
|
| 13.4 |
|
Housing of the Bureau
|
|
| 13.5 |
|
The Talmud Torah at 323 Hickory Street: Matters
pertaining to its becoming a constituent of the Federation,
1922-1925
|
|
| 13.6-13.7 |
|
The Buffalo Hebrew School at 206 North Park
Avenue
|
|
| 13.8 |
|
The Jewish Community Religious School
|
|
| 13.9 |
|
Herman Wile, founder of the Bureau; a history of the
Bureau
|
|
| 13.10 |
|
The Bureau under Paul Veret [mid-1930s]
|
|
| 13.11 |
|
The Bureau under Dr. U. Z. Engelman,
1938-1945
|
|
| 13.12 |
|
The Bureau under Mark M. Krug,
1945-1949
|
|
| 13.13 |
|
The Bureau under Dr. Elazar Goelman,
1949-1959
|
|
| 13.14 |
|
The Bureau under Ruben Resnik,
1959-1968
|
|
| 13.15 |
|
The Bureau under Rabbi Hyman Tuchman,
1969-1971
|
|
| 13.16 |
|
The Bureau under Yehuda Shabatay,
1972-1977
|
|
| 13.17 |
|
The Bureau under Abraham F. Yanover, 1976-
|
|
| 13.18 |
|
The Bureau and the 1948-1951 Federation self-survey
|
|
| 13.19-13.20 |
|
1955 survey of Jewish education in Buffalo by the
National Commission on Jewish education
|
|
| 13.21-13.22 |
|
Workmen's Circle School [Yiddishist] Federation
inquiries into the state of Jewish education in Buffalo
|
|
| 13.23 |
|
Abortive attempt to merge all Conservative
congregational schools in Buffalo circa 1966
|
|
| 13.24-13.25 |
|
Principals' Council of Buffalo Hebrew schools,
1963-1976
|
|
| 13.26-13.27 |
|
Bureau - information on salaries, pensions, personnel
matters, etcetera
|
|
| 13.28-13.29 |
|
Instruction in Hebrew and Jewish subjects in local
secular institutions [State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo State
College]
|
|
| 13.30 |
|
Hebrew instruction in Buffalo high schools
|
|
| 13.32 |
|
Bureau Scholarship Committee [for summer camps]
|
|
| 13.33 |
|
The abortive attempt to set up a College of Jewish
Studies in conjunction with Buffalo State College, mid-1970s
|
|
| 14.1 |
|
The Bureau and Hebrew-speaking camps
|
|
| 14.4 |
|
Bureau-itemized disbursements
|
|
| 14.5 |
|
Reports to the Federation of the Bureau's activities,
1932-1974
|
|
| 14.6 |
|
Enrollment figures for congregational
schools
|
|
| 14.7 |
|
Bureau membership matters
|
|
| 14.8 |
|
Teachers' Bulletin,
1951-1959
|
|
| 14.9 |
|
Bureau Long-range Planning Committee (established
1958)
|
|
| 14.10-14.12 |
|
Bureau School for Adult Jewish Studies [later listed
under different names]
|
|
| 14.13 |
|
Federation Jewish educational population survey,
1975-1976
|
|
| 14.14 |
|
Minutes of the Bureau Executive Committee
|
|
| 14.15 |
|
Minutes of the Bureau Committee on Public
Relations
|
|
| 14.16 |
|
Bureau Board of Review [Code Committee]
|
|
| 14.17 |
|
Yeshiva Achei Tmimin [later Hebrew Academy of
Buffalo]
|
|
| 14.18 |
|
Minutes - High School of Jewish Studies
Committee
|
|
| 14.19 |
|
Bureau - miscellaneous matters
|
|
| 14.20 |
|
Efforts to train and license Hebrew teachers in
Buffalo
|
|
| 14.21 |
|
Bureau efforts for retarded and handicapped
children
|
|
| 14.22 |
|
Reports from other cities in re Jewish education; codes
of practice in other cities
|
|
| 14.23 |
|
Annual Bible Contest [established by the Bureau
1960s]
|
|
| 14.24 |
|
Federation UJF essay contest
|
|
| 14.25 |
|
Women's study groups sponsored by the Bureau
|
|
| 14.26 |
|
Early Bureau Board minutes,
1929-1933
|
|
| 14.27-15.1 |
|
Bureau Board minutes [4 folders]
|
|
| 15.2 |
|
Board correspondence
|
|
| 15.3-15.4 |
|
Information on congregational schools
|
|
| 15.5 |
|
School evaluations and curricula
|
|
| 15.6 |
|
Annual Book Review Contest
|
|
| 15.7 |
|
Federation allocations for the Bureau,
1945-1974
|
|
| 15.9 |
|
Material on the appreciation of Hebrew
teachers
|
|
| 15.10 |
|
Niagara Frontier Folk Festival - Bureau
participation
|
|
| 15.11 |
|
Bureau Library matters
|
|
| 15.12 |
|
Conferences and workshops for Hebrew teachers,
1963-
|
|
| 15.13-15.15 |
|
Bureau High School of Jewish Studies
|
|
| 15.16 |
|
United Jewish High School of Jewish Studies
|
|
| 15.17-15.22 |
|
Miscellaneous material - High School of Jewish Studies
yearbooks, graduation programs, etcetera
|
|
| 15.23-15.24 |
|
[Buffalo] Inter-faith Religious Committee
|
|
| 15.25 |
|
Bureau Jewish Book Shop
|
|
| 15.27 |
|
Bureau Bulletins and Briefs
|
|
| 15.28 |
|
Bureau youth study tours in Israel
|
|
| 15.29 |
|
Bureau Inter-school Music Festival
|
|
| 15.30 |
|
Yiddish Forum [sponsored by the Bureau]
|
|
| 15.31 |
|
Annual Warsaw Ghetto Memorial [sponsored by the
Bureau]
|
|
| 15.32 |
|
Bureau-Center relations
|
|
| 15.33 |
|
WHAT'S NEW; published by the Bureau,
1950-1975
|
|
| 15.34 |
|
Report on communal post-elementary Jewish education in
Buffalo,
1968
|
|
| 15.35 |
|
Teaching material on Jewish holy days
|
|
| 15.36-15.38 |
|
Material on Jewish education
|
|
| 15.39 |
|
Merger of Hebrew schools - Temple Beth David an Humboldt
Orthodox Center,
1951-1953
|
|
| 16.1-16.2 |
|
Curriculum content
|
|
| 16.3 |
|
Material on Dr. Max Spangenthal - one-time principal of
the High School of Jewish Studies, 1950s
|
|
| 16.4 |
|
Samuel Luskin of Temple Beth El (d. 1959)
|
|
| 16.5 |
|
Samuel Gordon (d. 1967); Hebrew teacher at the Buffalo
Talmud Torah, 1900s and 1930s
|
|
| 16.6 |
|
Samuel Israeli; long-time principal of the Buffalo
Hebrew School
|
|
| 16.7 |
|
Moses and Judith Von; long-time teachers in various
Buffalo Hebrew schools
|
|
| 16.8 |
|
Jacob Case; long-time Buffalo Hebrew teacher at various
schools
|
|
| 16.9 |
|
Bureau Book Review Workshop, 1950s
|
|
| 16.10 |
|
Minutes of the Bureau Adult Education Committee, 1963,
1966-1967
|
|
| 16.11 |
|
Annual Bureau Dinners,
1961-1968
|
|
| 16.12-16.40 |
|
Bureau Publicity, News Clippings,
1938-1972
|
|
| 16.41 |
|
Miscellaneous printed material and bureau publicity
items, annual dinners, etcetera
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 17.1 |
|
Origins; Federation correspondence; reports on the
progress of the school to 1964
|
|
| 17.2 |
|
Kadimah charter; school personnel matters
|
|
| 17.3 |
|
Annual reports; budgets; tuition schedules
|
|
| 17.4 |
|
Miscellaneous material,
1959-1968
|
|
| 17.5 |
|
Correspondence and miscellaneous matters, circa
1964
|
|
| 17.6 |
|
Federation correspondence
1964-1965,
1967-1969
|
|
| 17.7 |
|
Kadimah services to Russian children,
1979
|
|
| 17.8 |
|
Publicity items, photos, yearbooks, etcetera
|
|
| 17.9 |
|
Minutes of the Board of Directors; Education Committee;
Faculty meetings
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 17.10 |
|
Constitution and by-laws; Deed to property,
1924; The Home's mission and
services
|
|
| 17.11 |
|
Survey of the Home by Council of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Fun,
1936; Histories of the Home
|
|
| 17.12 |
|
Federation information received before the inclusion of
the Home as a Federation agency [1947-1956]
|
|
| 17.13 |
|
The Home becomes a Federation agency,
1956
|
|
| 17.14 |
|
Federation correspondence with the Home,
1957-
|
|
| 17.15 |
|
Matters pertaining to residents - statistics of
population, admissions, etcetera
|
|
| 17.16 |
|
Home publicity items
|
|
| 17.17 |
|
Move to make the Home non-sectarian, circa 1970 and its
defeat by the board
|
|
| 17.18 |
|
ROSA COPLON HOME NEWS; scattered copies,
1971-1979
|
|
| 17.19 |
|
Home Kashrut survey,
1968
|
|
| 17.20 |
|
Home personnel matters - unions, salaries, retirement,
etcetera
|
|
| 17.21 |
|
Home committee set-up
|
|
| 17.22 |
|
In-service training program,
1971
|
|
| 17.23 |
|
Committee to Move Things,
1972-1974; regarding transfer of patients to
the Wadsworth Street Building
|
|
| 17.24 |
|
Medical staff committee; medical care
matters
|
|
| 17.25 |
|
Special gifts and memorials committee - minutes.
March 21, 1974
|
|
| 17.26-17.27 |
|
Physical expansion of the Home,
1956-1972
|
|
| 17.28 |
|
Home Long-Range Planning Committee minutes,
1962-1974
|
|
| 17.29 |
|
Budgets and operating expenses
|
|
| 18.1 |
|
Financial matters: Capital Development Program, bank
loans, etcetera
|
|
| 18.2-18.6 |
|
Early Board of Directors minutes,
1915-1930
|
|
| 18.7-18.11 |
|
Minutes of the Board of Directors,
1940-1976
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 41.1-41.2 |
|
Camp Cash Book,
1926
|
|
| 41.3 |
|
United Jewish Campaign,
1926
|
|
| 41.4 |
|
Jewish Federation for Social Service,
1936
|
|
| 41.5 |
|
Second Annual Federation Ball,
1937; Clippings, etcetera
|
|
| 41.6 |
|
Twin Appeals: Jewish Federation for Social Service and
The United Jewish Appeal,
1937
|
|
| 41.7 |
|
Jewish Welfare Society of Buffalo,
1937; miscellaneous material on welfare work
intensified by the 1937 Recession
|
|
| 41.8 |
|
Photos at Camp,
1938
|
|
| 41.9 |
|
Jewish Federation for Social and United Jewish Appeal
Twin Appeals: Jewish Federation for Social Service and The United Jewish
Appeal, Parts 1-2,
1938
|
|
| 41.10 |
|
Jewish Federation for Social Service, Parts 1-2,
1939
|
|
| 42.1 |
|
United Jewish Appeal,
1941, Clippings
|
|
| 42.2 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign,
1942
|
|
| 42.3-42.4 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign,
1946
|
|
| 42.6-42.9 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign,
1947
|
|
| 43.1 |
|
Camp Lakeland Scrapbook,
1948-1962
|
|
| 43.2-43.4 |
|
United Jewish Appeal,
1948
|
|
| 43.5 |
|
United Jewish Appeal Campaign,
1948; Youth Campaign
|
|
| 44.1 |
|
United Jewish Appeal,
1948
|
|
| 44.2 |
|
Jewish Federation for Social Service, 1949
Appeal
|
|
| 44.3 |
|
United Jewish Fund Appeal,
1949
|
|
| 44.4-44.5 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign,
1950
|
|
| 44.6 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign,
1951
|
|
| 44.7 |
|
United Jewish Appeal,
1951; Women's Division
|
|
| 45.1 |
|
United Jewish Fund : Fiftieth Anniversary,
1952
|
|
| 45.2 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign,
1952
|
|
| 45.3 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign : Women's Division Fiftieth
Anniversary of the Federation,
1952
|
|
| 45.4 |
|
Women's Division,
1953
|
|
| 45.5 |
|
United Jewish Fund,
1953
|
|
| 45.6 |
|
Women's Division,
1954
|
|
| 45.7 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign,
1954
|
|
| 45.8 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign,
1955
|
|
| 45.9 |
|
Women's Division,
1955
|
|
| 46.1 |
|
United Jewish Fund Drive (Oversized),
1956
|
|
| 46.2 |
|
Women's Division,
1956
|
|
| 46.3 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign,
1956
|
|
| 46.4 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign,
1957
|
|
| 46.5 |
|
Women's Division,
1957
|
|
| 46.6 |
|
Women's Division,
1958
|
|
| 46.7 |
|
Women's Division, Mailings,
1958
|
|
| 46.8 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign,
1958
|
|
| 47.1 |
|
Scrapbook Campaign United Jewish Fund,
1959
|
|
| 47.2 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign,
1960
|
|
| 47.3 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign,
1961
|
|
| 47.4 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign,
1962
|
|
| 47.5 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign,
1963
|
|
| 47.6 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign,
1964 Parts 1-3
|
|
| 47.8 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign,
1965
|
|
| 47.9 |
|
United Jewish Fund,
1965; Office mailing only
|
|
| 47.10 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign,
1965-1966
|
|
| 48.1-48.2 |
|
United Jewish Fund, Clippings,
1966
|
|
| 48.3 |
|
United Jewish Fund: Public Relations,
1967
|
|
| 48.4 |
|
United Jewish Appeal: News Clippings,
1967
|
|
| 48.5 |
|
Israel Emergency Fund,
1967
|
|
| 48.6 |
|
United Jewish Appeal: Office Mailings,
1967
|
|
| 48.7 |
|
United Jewish Appeal: Emergency Fund,
1967
|
|
| 48.8 |
|
United Jewish Fund Pts.1,2,
1968
|
|
| 48.9 |
|
United Jewish Fund: Newspaper Publicity,
1968
|
|
| 48.10 |
|
United Jewish Fund: Office Mailings,
1968
|
|
| 49.1 |
|
Miscellaneous Federation Material,
1969-1972
|
|
| 49.2 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign: Office mailings,
1969
|
|
| 49.3 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign,
1969
|
|
| 49.4 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign,
1970; Clippings and Campaign
Materials
|
|
| 49.5 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign,
1970; Office Mailings
|
|
| 49.6 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign,
1970; Newspaper and Periodicals
|
|
| 49.7 |
|
United Jewish Fund Women’s Division,
1971; Newspaper Publicity
|
|
| 49.8 |
|
United Jewish Fund Women’s Division,
1971; Office Mailings
|
|
| 49.9 |
|
United Jewish Appeal,
1971
|
|
| 50.1 |
|
Women's Division: Various Office Mailing Material,
1972
|
|
| 50.2 |
|
Women's Division: Newspaper Clippings,
1972
|
|
| 50.3 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign,
1972
|
|
| 50.4 |
|
Women's Division,
1973
|
|
| 50.5 |
|
Yom Hashoah Material,
1973
|
|
| 50.6 |
|
United Jewish Fund Drive,
1973
|
|
| 50.7 |
|
United Jewish Fund Campaign,
1974
|
|
| 50.8 |
|
United Jewish Fund,
1975
|
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the Library's online catalog.
Adler, Selig, 1909-1984
Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo
State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives
Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo
Jewish archives--New York (State)
Jewish leadership--New York State--Buffalo
Jews-Education
Jews-New York State--Buffalo
Judaism--History--Modern Period, 1750-
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Minutes
Photographs
Scrapbooks
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Records, 1844-1976
MS
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