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[Description and dates], Box/folder number, MS 150.2, Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo, Selig Adler Papers, 1932-1988, University Archives, The State University of New York at Buffalo.
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Selig Alder (1909-1984) was an accomplished historian and faculty member of the State University of New York at Buffalo Department of History. In 1980 Adler became archivist 1980 of the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo. He was the Samuel Capen Professor of American History from 1958-1980 and in 1975 was named a State University of New York Distinguished Service professor. His published works include The Isolationist Impulse: It's Twentieth-Century Reaction (1957), The Uncertain Giant, 1921-1941; American Foreign Policy Between the Wars(1965) and with co-author Thomas E. Connolly, From Ararat to Suburbia: A History of the Jewish Community of Buffalo (1960).
| 1909 | Born January 22 in Baltimore, Maryland | |
| 1927 | Graduated from Utrecht High School, Brooklyn, New York | |
| 1928 | Entered College of Arts and Sciences, University of Buffalo | |
| 1931 | B.A., summa cum laude, University of Buffalo | |
| 1932 | M.A., University of Illinois | |
| 1934 | Ph.D., University of Illinois | |
| 1934-1937 | High School teacher, Buffalo (Grover Cleveland and Kensington) | |
| 1936 | Married Janet Sukernek | |
| 1938-1947 | Part-time instructor, University of Buffalo summer programs | |
| 1943-1944 | Taught civilians and Air Force cadets at University of Buffalo | |
| 1947 | Assistant Professor of History, University of Buffalo | |
| 1950 | Associate Professor of History, University of Buffalo | |
| 1952 | Full Professor of History, University of Buffalo | |
| 1952-1953 | Visiting professor, University of Rochester | |
| 1952-1979 | Appointed by Governor Dewey to Kosher Law Advisory Board | |
| 1957 | Published The Isolationist Impulse: It's Twentieth-Century Reaction | |
| 1957-1963 | Director, Master of Science in Social Studies program | |
| 1958-1980 | Samuel P. Capen Professor of American History | |
| 1960 | Published (with Thomas E. Connolly), From Ararat to Suburbia: A History of the Jewish Community of Buffalo | |
| 1961-1965 | Chairman, Educational Policy and Planning Committee of Faculty Senate | |
| 1961-1965 | Executive Committee, Arts and Sciences College | |
| 1961-1965 | Vice President, University Senate | |
| 1962 | Chairman, Faculty Committee on merger with State University of New York | |
| 1963 | Chairman, Faculty Conference on merger with State University of New York | |
| circa 1962-1969 | State University of New York Faculty Senate and Faculty Senate Executive Committee | |
| 1965 | The Uncertain Giant, 1921-1941: American Foreign Policy Between the Wars | |
| 1966 | Chairman, History Department | |
| 1966- | Chairman, State Education Department College Proficiency Examination in American History Committee | |
| circa 1968-1969 | Visiting professor at Cornell | |
| 1974 | State University of New York Faculty Exchange Scholar | |
| 1975 | Distinguished Service professor | |
| 1980 | Retired from University of Buffalo | |
| 1980- | Archivist, Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo | |
| ?-1984 | Archivist, Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo at State University College at Buffalo | |
| June 1984 | Archives dedicated as Selig Adler Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo | |
| 1984 | Died, November 8, Buffalo |
I, Personal Information contains vitae and other biographical information on Adler, as well as photographs and correspondence. Also includes information on Adler's family, news clippings and an annotated bibliography.
Publications, Series II documents Adler's articles and book reviews, and includes articles by other writers and friends of Adler. Writings in this series relate to issues on U.S. foreign policy, Jewish American communities, and Jewish and American history.
III, Subject Files and Lectures includes Adler's notes, lectures, and lecture notes on subjects such as Zionism, Jewish history, U.S. foreign policy, education, and civil rights. Also of interest are Adler's notes on archives and the nature and importance of establishing Jewish archives and documenting Jewish community.
IV, Additional Materials includes correspondence and committee reports describing the establishment of the Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo. Series IV documents various administrative activities of the Jewish Archives in conjunction with the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo such as research inquiries, personnel, physical space, and budget matters.
This collection is arranged in four series as follows:
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I. Personal Information,
1962-1985
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The Personal Information series is divided into two subseries: Personal Correspondence and Family and Personal Information. |
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| 1.1 |
Miscellaneous correspondence,
1962-1988
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| 1.2 |
Info. on Frontenac St. House,
1952-1975
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| 1.3 |
Samuel P. Capen Chair, history
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| 1.4 |
Dr. Julius Pratt, death 1983
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| 1.5 |
Janet Adler, news clippings
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| 1.6 |
Joseph Adler, annotated bibliography
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| 1.7 |
Miscellaneous information
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| 1.8 |
Photographs
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| 1.9 |
Correspondence
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| 1.10 |
Necrology, 1909-1984 [American Jewish History, Vol. 74
(No. 4) June 1985, reprint]
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| 1.11 |
Selig Adler Memorial Fund/Lectures,
etcetera
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II. Publications,
1937-1982 |
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Series includes articles and book reviews by Adler and a copy of The Uncertain Giant, 1921-1941: American foreign policy between the wars (1965). One publication not included in this series is a festschrift honoring Adler, titled An American Historian, edited by Adler's friend and colleague Milton Plesur (1980), located in Series IV, Additional Materials. Series II also contains articles by friends of Adler and four folders of miscellaneous articles not by Adler. |
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The Publications series is arranged in six subseries. |
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| 1.12 |
Miscellaneous typed articles/lectures
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| 1.12 |
Incomplete critique, not identified
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| 1.12 |
All the Presidents' Women
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| 1.12 |
Jewish Refugee factor in American Middle Eastern
Policy, 1939-1945
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| 1.12 |
Rating the presidents of this century
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| 1.12 |
A short story of a long history, Judaism
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| 1.12 |
Lecture series, outline
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| 1.12 |
American presidency course, State University of New
York at Geneseo
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| 1.12 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Foreign policy; also includes
copy assessment of policy
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| 1.12 |
Lectures, no date
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 1.13 |
"The Congressional Election of 1918,"
The South Atlantic Quarterly,
Vol. 36 (No. 4),
October 1937 , p 447-465 [original
issue]
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| 1.14 |
"Bryan and Wilsonia Caribbean Penetration,"
Hispanic American Historical
Review Vol, 20 (No. 2),
May 1940 p. 198-226 [original
issue]
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| 1.15 |
"The Palestine Question in the Wilson era,"
Jewish Social Studies Vol. 10
(No. 4)
1948 p. 303-334 [reprint]
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| 1.16 |
"The Challenge of Survival,"
Ethos Vol. 1 (No. 1),
1956, p. 15-18 [original
issue]
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| 1.17 |
"Whither U.S. Policy?,"
Congress Weekly, Vol. 23 (No.
26),
October 22, 1956
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| 1.18 |
"America's Moment of Failure,"
Midstream Vol. 14 (No. 5),
May 1968 [Book review of
While Six Million Died by Arthur
D. Morse. p. 66-72; original issue, manuscript]
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| 1.19 |
"FDR and the Palestine Problem,"
Colleague, Vol. 7 (No. 7)
March 25, 1971, p. 1-4 [original
issue]
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| 1.20 |
"Franklin D. Roosevelt y et sionismo,"
Maj Shavot Pensamientos Vol. 11
(No. 1 and 2),
April-July 1972, p. 96-104 [original
issue, in Spanish]
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| 1.21 |
"Franklin D. Roosevelt and Zionism,"
Judaism, Issue 83, Vol. 21 (No.
3),
Summer 1972
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| 1.22 |
"F.D.R. and Zionism,"
The Jewish Digest, Vol. 18 (No.
11),
September 1973, p. 7-11 [original
issue]
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| 1.23 |
"The United States and the Holocaust,"
American Jewish Historical Society
Quarterly, Vol. 64 (No. 1),
September 1974, p. 14-23 [reprint
(2)]
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| 1.24 |
"Hoover's foreign policy and the New Left "
The Hoover Presidency: A
Reappraisal, Martin L. Fausald (ed.), SUNY Albany,
1974. [reprint; chapter from
book]
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| 1.25 |
"The United States and the Middle Eastern Dilemma,
1917-1939,"
The Maryland Historian, Vol. 7
(No. 1),
Spring 1976, p. 1-17 [original issue,
manuscript]
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| 1.26 |
"The Roosevelt Administration and Zionism: The Pre-War
Years, 1933-1939,"
Essays in American Zionism,
1917-1939, The Herzl Press, New York,
1978, p. 132-147 [reprint from a
yearbook]
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| 1.27 |
The Uncertain Giant, 1921-1941: American
foreign policy between the wars,New York. Macmillan,
1966, p. 132-147 [reprint from a
yearbook]
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| 1.28 |
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 1.29-1.30 |
Critique of "While Six Million Died" [
Midstream
May 1968, p. 62]
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| 1.29-1.30 |
"FDR and Zionism", Pt. 1 [
The Jewish Digest
, September 1973, p. 7]
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| 1.29-1.30 |
"Franklin D. Roosevelt y el Sionismo," [
Maj'shavot / Pensamientos,
April-July
1972, p. 96]
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| 1.29-1.30 |
"Highlights of the History of the Jewish Family
Service" [1981 Annual Meeting of Jewish Family Services,
December 2, 1981]
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| 1.29-1.30 |
"Presidential Affairs" [Magazine of Buffalo News,
April 25, 1982]
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| 1.29-1.30 |
"Roosevelt Administration and Zionism: Pre-war Years,
1933-1939" [
Herzl Yearbook, Vol. 8,
1978]
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| 1.29-1.30 |
"American Jewry and that Explosive Statehood Question,
1933-1945" [Reprint from Bicentennial Festschrift for Jacob Rader Marcus,
1976 ]
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| 1.29-1.30 |
"Franklin D. Roosevelt Foreign Policy: An Assessment"
[
International Review of History and
Political Science
, May 1978, Vol. 15, no. 2, p.
1]
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| 1.29-1.30 |
"The United States and the Middle Eastern Dilemma,
1917-1939" [
Maryland Historian, vol. 7, no.
1 Spring 1976]
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| 1.29-1.30 |
"Isolationism Since 1914" [
American Scholar,
Summer 1952, pg. 335]
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 1.31-1.33 |
Review of
American Diplomacy and the Spanish Civil
Warby Richard Traina, printed in
Political Science Quarterly [v.
85, no. 4,
1970, p. 648]
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| 1.31-1.33 |
Review of
Zebulon B. Vance and the "Scatter
Nation" reprinted from
Journal of Southern History
[vol. 3, no. 3
August 1941, p. 694]
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| 1.31-1.33 |
Review of
The Emergence of Conservatism Judaism:
The Historical School in 19th Century America by Moshe Davis printed in
the
Journal of Jewish Studies [vol.
17, nos. 1 and 2,
1966pg. 111]
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| 1.31-1.33 |
Review of
An Uncertain Friendship: Theodore
Roosevelt and Japan, 1906-1909 by Charles E. Neu published in
Political Science Quarterly
[vol. 85, no. 1,
March 1970, p. 141]
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| 1.31-1.33 |
Review of
With Eyes Toward Zion by Moshe
Davis, "An Overview of Jewish History,"
Midstream [vol. 25, no. 6,
1979, p. 87]
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| 1.31-1.33 |
Review of
The Jewish Community in Rochester,
1843-1925 by Stuart Rosenberg published in
Jewish Social Studies [vol. 17,
no. 2,
April 1955, p. 167]
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| 1.31-1.33 |
Review of
The Realities of American-Palestine
Relations by Frank E. Manuel published in
Jewish Social Studies [vol. 12,
no. 4,
October 1970, p. 400]
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| 1.31-1.33 |
Review of
American Jewry and the Civil War
by Bertram Wallace Korn published in
Jewish Social Studies [vol. 13,
no. 4,
October 1951, p. 367]
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| 1.31-1.33 |
Review of
Steeled by Adversity: Essays and
Addresses on American Jewish Life by Salo Wittmayer Baron published in
Conservative Judaism[vol. 26,
no. 4
1972, pg. 74]
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| 1.34-1.35 |
"Millard Fillmore and the Things of God and Caesar I
and II" by John T. Horton [
Niagara Frontier, vol. 2, no. 2
1955]
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| 1.34-1.35 |
"Personal Standards for the Rabbi" by Rabbi Isaac
Klein
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| 1.34-1.35 |
"The Presidential Heartbeat: the Health of Twentieth
Century Presidents" by Milton Plesur [
Buffalo Physician, p.
10]
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| 1.34-1.35 |
"The Heartbeat in the White House" by Milton Plesur [
American History Illustrated,
vol. 5, no. 1,
April 1970, p. 38]
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| 1.34-1.35 |
"James K. Polk and John Bull" by Julius W. Pratt
[Reprinted from:
The Canadian Historical Review,
December 1943]
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| 1.34-1.35 |
"John C. Calhoun, Philosopher of Reaction" by Richard
N. Current [Reprinted from the
Antioch Review,
1943]
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| 1.34-1.35 |
"Heine and His Cousins A Reconsideration" by Philipp
F. Veit [Reprinted from the
Germanic Review,
1972]
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| 1.34-1.35 |
"The Morgenthau Peace Mission of 1917" by Richard N.
Lebow [Reprinted from
Jewish Social Studies, vol. 32,
no. 4,
1970]
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 1.36 |
"Jewish Delaware: History, Sites, Communal Services
1955-1976" [
Jewish Historical Society of
Delaware,
1976]
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| 1.36 |
"The Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning" by Herman
Weil [
1963]
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| 1.36 |
"Jewish Studies in Universities: Alternate Approaches
in Different Parts of the World" by Moshe Davis [Ext. of a Paper Presented to
the Committee on Formal Jewish Studies Programs of the Memorial Foundation for
Jewish Culture,
1973]
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| 1.36 |
"The Stranger in the Synagogue" by Abraham J. Karp
[University of Rochester Library Bulletin vol. 14, no. 1
1958]
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| 2.1 |
"American Jewry Cannot Dance at End of Puppet String
Manipulated in Israel" by Judah J. Shapiro [The Jewish Frontier, Sept. 1970] -
"A Symposium on the American Jew" by United Jewish Federation of Buffalo, Inc.
1952]
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| 2.1 |
"A Decisive Pattern in American Jewish History" by
Ellis Rivkin [Offprint from Essays in American Jewish History,
1958]
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| 2.1 |
"Abraham Jacobi: Pediatric Pioneer" by Lytt I.
Gardner, M.D. [Reprinted from Pediatrics vol. 24, no. 2
Aug. 1959]
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| 2.1 |
"Has American Jewry Come of Age?" by Mordecai M.
Kaplan, [The Reconstructionist vol. 19, no. 11
Oct. 1953]
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| 2.1 |
"300 Years of Jewish Community Organization" by Isaac
Franck, [The Reconstructionist vol. 19, no. 12
Oct. 1953]
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| 2.1 |
"300 Years of Jewish-American Culture" by Charles
Angoff, [The Reconstructionist vol. 19, no. 13
Nov. 6, 1953]
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| 2.2 |
"In the Beginning" by Martin Salperstein, [Jewish
Standard,
July 1981]
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| 2.2 |
"Vanishing American Jew" by Thomas B. Morgan, [Look
Magazine,
5-5-64]
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| 2.2 |
"American Jewry" by Emanuel S. Goldsmith, [National
Jewish Monthly,
Mar. 1968 , pg. 21]
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| 2.2 |
"The Challenge of Freedom" by Joachin Prinz, [United
Synagogue Review,
Jan. 1966, pg. 16]
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| 2.2 |
An Interview with Isaac Bashevis Singer" by Harold
Flender, [National Jewish Monthly,
March 1968, pg. 181]
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| 2.2 |
"The American Jewish Academic" by Edward S. Shapiro,
[Congress Monthly,
Sept/Oct 1978, pg. 13]
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| 2.2 |
"The Jewish Community: Jeopardy or Commitment" by Dr.
Weisberg
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| 2.2 |
"Some Notes on the Early Development of Jewish
Charities in the United States" by S.D.Temkin,
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| 2.2 |
"A Long Look Ahead: Jewish Life 120 Years From Now" by
Rabbi Morris Adler
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| 2.2 |
"BB and the Civil War" by Robert Shosteck, [National
Jewish Monthly,
Jan. 1962, pg. 9]
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| 2.2 |
"The Meaning and Significance of Jewish Survival" by
Walter S. Wurzburger, [Reprinted from Journal of Jewish' Communal Service, vol.
40, no. 3
Sept. 1964, pg. 307]
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| 2.2 |
"Judaism in Suburbia: a Sociologists' View" by Rathan
Glazer
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| 2.2 |
"The Security of the Conspicuous" by Harry Golden,
[ADL Bulletin
Sept. 1957, pg. 1]
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| 2.2 |
"American Jewish Firsts" by Tina Levitan, [Young
Israel View-point
Nov/Dec 1950, pg. 12]
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| 2.2 |
"The Quest for Identity in a Pluralistic Society: The
Jewish Experience in America" by Abraham J. Karp, and Philip S.
Bernstein
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| 2.2 |
"American Jews Rediscover Orthodoxy" by Natalie
Gittelson, [New York Times Magazine,
September 30, 1941
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| 2.3 |
"American Judaism in the Light of History" by Meyer
Waxman, [Chicago Rabbinical Council
1955]
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| 2.3 |
"Dawn in the West" by Jacob R. Marcus, [American
Jewish Archives
1981]
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| 2.3 |
"This Tempting Freedom" by Allan Peskin
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| 2.3 |
"Tomorrow's Prospect" by Jacob R. Marcus, [American
Jewish Archives
1965]
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| 2.3 |
"Out of the American Experience" by Henry E. Schultz,
[Annual Meeting of the National Commission, Wash. D.C.
1965]
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| 2.3 |
"Social Discrimination Against Jews in America,
1830-1930" by John Higham, [Reprinted from Publications of the American Jewish
Historical Society, Vol. XLVII, no. 1,
September, 1957]
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| 2.3 |
"Judah P. Benjamin As a Jew" by Bertram W. Korn,
[Reprinted from Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, No.
XXXVIII, Part 3,
March 1949]
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| 2.3 |
"Jewish Roots in America" by Bertram W. Korn [American
Jewish Tercentenary,
December 1953]
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| 2.3 |
"Emerging Culture Patterns in American Jewish Life" by
Abraham G. Duker, [Reprinted by The Jewish Education Committee of New York,
June 1950]
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| 2.4 |
Proceedings of the Conference on Writing Regional
History, with special emphasis on religious and ethnic groups,
1955
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| 2.5 |
The Jewish Quarterly Review,
1955
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Card file of important authors
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III. Subject Files and Lectures,
1932-1980 |
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This series includes Adler's lectures and notes on American and Jewish history and U.S. foreign policy, as well as his notes on the importance of establishing Jewish archives. |
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Files are divided into ten subseries and arranged by subject. Some lectures are arranged chronologically. |
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| 2.6 |
History of religion, lectures,
1950s
[3 envelopes] |
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 2.7 |
Survey of Jewish Historyby Leo
Honor,
1932
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| 2.8 |
The Jewish Middle Agesby Jacob
Golub,
1937
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| 2.9 |
Outline of history of Israel, no date
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| 2.10 |
Jews, History, Origin - lectures,
1950s-1960s
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| 2.11 |
Jews, History, Middle Ages - lectures,
1960s
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| 2.12 |
The Jewish Medieval Heritage,
February 4, 1962
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 2.13 |
Simon Dubrow, Martyr,
1941
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| 2.14 |
General, lectures,
1951-1952
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| 2.15 |
U.S. and the Holocaust,
1974
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| 2.16 |
Holocaust, lectures, undated
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| 2.17-2.18 |
Lectures, Toronto, Canada,
1977, undated
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| 2.19 |
General, undated
[3 envelopes] |
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| 2.20 |
Lectures, Miscellaneous, undated
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| 2.21 |
Can the Jews survive?
1960s
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| 2.22 |
How did the Jews survive?, undated
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| 2.23 |
Crises facing Jewry, undated
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| 2.24 |
Critiques of books, undated
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| 2.25 |
Growth of Jewish thought,
1950s
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| 2.26 |
Lectures,
1970s (2 envelopes)
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| 2.27 |
U.S. and the Middle East, lectures
1950s-1970s
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| 2.28 |
General, undated
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| 2.29-3.1 |
Miscellaneous printed articles, not by Selig
Adler
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| 3.2 |
Lectures,
circa 1955-1979
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| 3.3 |
U.S. Jewish influence in American political
thought
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| 3.4 |
Notes, undated
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| 3.5 |
U.S. Judaism in American Civilization,
undated
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 3.6 |
Jewish Civil rights, lecture
1947
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| 3.7 |
General (Baltimore:
1951,1955)
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| 3.8 |
Notes for lecture, Charlotte, North Carolina,
1959
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| 3.9 |
Jewish notables: Noah, Wise,
1951
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| 3.10 |
General (Detroit, 1957)
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| 3.11 |
Teddy Roosevelt and the Jews,
1959
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| 3.12 |
Jewish life today and in the future,
1950s
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| 3.13 |
Problems of survival 1950s
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| 3.14 |
Decisions facing American Jewry
1960s
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| 3.15 |
American Jewry in the Civil War
1960
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| 3.16 |
Temple Beth-El, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
1961
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| 3.17 |
How does American Jewry differ?,
1963
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| 3.18 |
U.S. problems of American and Jewish Life, lectures,
1960s
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| 3.19 |
Question of liberty/freedom, lectures,
1960s
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| 3.20 |
Education/Problems of Education,
1961,
1962, undated
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| 3.21 |
MacIver Report, Critique, undated
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| 3.22 |
300th Anniversary, Lectures,
1970s
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| 3.23 |
Bi-Centennial Reflections lecture,
1975
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| 3.24 |
Bible in American history, undated
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| 3.25 |
American and Jewish exceptionalism,
February 24, 1976
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| 3.26 |
Outlines for courses, History of Jews - U.S.,
undated
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| 3.27 |
History of Jewish Associations
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| 3.27 |
General
1955,
1960
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| 3.27 |
General
1960s - 1980s
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| 3.27 |
History of Temple Beth El
1961
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| 3.27 |
General, undated
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 3.27 |
U.S. Foreign Policy
1957
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| 3.27 |
Whither Our Foreign Policy?, undated
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| 3.27 |
U.S. Foreign Policy, undated
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| 3.27 |
The United Nations, undated
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| 3.27 |
Foreign Policy,
1963
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| 3.28 |
Future of U.S. Foreign Policy,
1976
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| 3.28 |
Isolationism,
1984
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| 3.29 |
How Secure in Collective Security?,
1960s
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| 3.30 |
Isolationism revisited since
1930s-1970
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 3.30 |
Notes on McKinley Assassination
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| 3.30 |
Notes on Teddy Roosevelt
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| 3.30 |
History of UB Foundation
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| 3.30 |
Notes on Civil Rights
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| 3.30 |
Negroes in America,
1960s
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| 3.30 |
Negro Revolution,
1970s
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| 3.31 |
Miscellaneous notes on American History
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| 3.31 |
Miscellaneous notes on Civil War
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| 3.32 |
History- U.S.- Buffalo, undated
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 3.33 |
Archives, undated
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| 3.34 |
Establishment of History Center: Milwaukee,
1963
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| 3.34 |
Radicalism
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| 3.34 |
Historiography, notes/lectures
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| 3.34 |
Historiography, Revisionism, History today,
1970s
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| 3.34 |
Historiography, Writing and teaching history
today
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| 3.35 |
Historiography, Jewish/American,
1960
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| 3.36 |
Nature of local history,
1960s
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| 3.37 |
Authors' clinic, 1955: Writing history of the
Jews
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IV. Additional Materials |
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Series includes correspondence from Joseph Adler, Selig's son, as well as administrative records and correspondence regarding the establishment of the Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo. |
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Series is arranged in rough alphabetical order. |
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 4.1 | American Jewish Archives, miscellaneous information | |
| 4.2 | Balch Institute, Jewish Archives Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | |
| 4.3 | Greenmeadows Books, correspondence | |
| 4.4 | Brith Abraham Cemetery Records | |
| 4.5 | Buffalo Hebrew School | |
| 4.6 | Bureau of Jewish Education Historical Information | |
| 4.7 | Bureau of Jewish Education, miscellaneous items, 1980s | |
| 4.8 | Bureau of Jewish Education, miscellaneous items, 1970s | |
| 4.9 | Beth Jacob Cemeteries | |
| 4.10 | Rose Coplon Home | |
| 4.11 | Dreidls Game | |
| 4.12 | Hadassah | |
| 4.13 | Hebrew Union College | |
| 4.14 | Hillel, State University of New York at Buffalo | |
| 4.15 | The Holocaust | |
| 4.16 | "Twenty Centuries of Jewish Life in the Holy Land: The Forgotten Generations," Dan Bahat, editor | |
| 4.17-4.18 | Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo, Dr. Adler correspondence | |
| 4.19-4.23 | Jewish Community Life, 1940s, 1970s, 1980-1986 | |
| 4.24 | Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo, origins | |
| 4.25 | Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo, correspondence | |
| 4.26 | Jewish Historical Society News | |
| 4.27 | Buffalo Jewish Review | |
| 4.28 | Kadimah School | |
| 4.29 | Menorah Campus | |
| 4.30-4.31 | Temple Beth Zion, A History, Dr. Selig Adler | |
| 4.32 | Rothberg School for Overseas Students | |
| 4.33 | Temple Beth Zion, miscellaneous programs, publications | |
| 4.34 | Temple Shaarey Zedek | |
| 4.35 | Torah Center of Buffalo | |
| 4.36 | Va'ad Hakashruth of Buffalo | |
| 4.37 | Jewish Archives, requests, etcetera | |
| 4.38-4.39 | Biographical information, miscellaneous speakers | |
| 4.40 | Adler, Janet M. (Sukernek) | |
| 4.41 | Adler, Joseph, correspondence | |
| 4.42 | Adler, Miriam | |
| 4.43 | Adler, Rabbi Morris | |
| 4.44 | Adler, Selig, Distinguished Service Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo | |
| 4.45 | Adler, Selig, Book review. From Ararat to Suburbia | |
| 4.46 | Adler, Selig, Collection, duplicates, finding aid | |
| 4.47 | Bross, Mina | |
| 4.48 | Falk, Ursula | |
| 4.49 | Rabbi Joseph I. Fin, Temple Beth Zion, 1947-1958 | |
| 4.50 | Dr. Louis Finkelstein | |
| 4.51 | Goldberg, Dorothy | |
| 4.52 | Kempner, Ed | |
| 4.53 | Rabbi Isaac Klein Collection Inventory | |
| 4.54 | Klein, Rabbi Isaac, subject of correspondence in that of Dr. Gerhard Falk | |
| 4.55 | Inventory of Bernard Mandelkern Collection | |
| 4.56 | Merowitz, Morton | |
| 4.57 | Correspondence, Moser, Shia | |
| 4.58 | Plesur, Milton | |
| 4.59 | Plesur, Milton, Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo | |
| 4.60 | Soibelman, David | |
| 4.61 | The Warner Family, History | |
| 4.62 | The Warner Family | |
| 4.63 | Weinstein, Lois | |
| 4.64 | Jewish Life, Miscellaneous articles | |
| 4.65 | The Cofeld Museum, Buffalo | |
| 4.66 | Colleague, March 25, 1971, Vol. 7 (No. 7), "FDR and the Palestinian Problem" by Selig Adler | |
| 4.67 | Dedication, Selig Adler Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo, Donors | |
| 4.68-5.2 | Young Israel of Greater Buffalo [3 folders] |
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| 5.3 | Honor plaque [photocopy of original], Selig Adler Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo | |
| 5 | Impacts of Contemporary Life upon Judaism, Jacob Rader Marcus, 1969, by the American Jewish Archives | |
| 5 | Jews, Judaism and the American Constitution, 1982, by the American Jewish Archives | |
| 5 | The Larger Task, Jacob Rader Marcus, 1974, American Jewish Archives | |
| 5 | Unidentified Hebrew book | |
| 5 | An American Historian, Essays to Honor Selig Adler,ed. Milton Plesur, 1980, State University of New York Press | |
| 5 | The Hoover Institute on War, Revolution and Peace, Report, 1983 | |
| 5 | The Hoover Institute on War, Revolution and Peace, Report, 1984 | |
| 5 | Jewish Newspapers and Periodicals on Microfilm, Augmented Edition, 1984 | |
| 5 | A New Age Guide to the Jewish Holidays, Seasons of Our Joy, A Celebration of Modern Jewish Renewal by Arthur Waskow, 1982 | |
| 5 | Dr. Joseph Fink, Radio Addresses, 1940-1946 [1 envelope] | |
| 5 | Recollections of An American Historian, An Interview with Dr. Selig Adler, by Morris Rombo, June 1984, Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies, Holling Press | |
| Box | Contents | |
| 1 |
Mina Bross,
January 17, 1988
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| 1 |
Mina Bross, undated
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| 1 |
Dr. Selig Adler, History of Temple Beth Zion
(TBZ)
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| 1 |
Dedication, Selig Adler Jewish Archives and Isaac
Klein Papers,
June 28, 1984
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog.
