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Finding Aid for the Jewish Archives
of Greater Buffalo, Local Community Records,
1844-1976
(bulk
1920-1960)
MS 150.3
State University of New York at
Buffalo. University Archives
420 Capen HallBuffalo, NY 14260United StatesPhone: 716-645-2916Fax: 716-645-3714Email:
lib-archives@buffalo.edu
URI:
http://library.buffalo.edu/archives
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2010. State
University of New York at Buffalo. All rights reserved.
Title: Jewish Archives of
Greater Buffalo, Local Jewish Community Records,
1844-1976
(bulk
1920-1960)
Extent: 4.92 linear feet
(4 cartons,
1 flat box)
Repository:
State University of New York at Buffalo. University
Archives
Abstract: Records of the Local
Jewish Community in the Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo include cemetery
records, local temple and shul records, and Jewish organizations. Also included
are material pertaining to deported persons and refugee matters, and the papers
of Max M. Yellen and Dr. Gerhard J. Falk and Dr. Ursula A. Falk.
Preferred Citation
[Description and dates], Box/folder number, MS 150.3, Jewish
Archives of Greater Buffalo, Local Jewish Community Records, 1844-1976 (bulk
1920-1960), 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
Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo, Local Jewish Community Records,
1844-1976 (bulk 1920-1960) 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, February 2007.
Finding aid updated by Karen Morse, October-November 2006.
Accruals and Additions
No further accruals are expected to this collection.
The Jewish Community of Buffalo, New York holds a rich, extensive
history, evident in the records of the Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo.
Selig Adler and Thomas Connolly, co-authors of
From Ararat to Suburbia: A History of the Jewish
Community of Buffalo (1960) point out that "Early in 1814, the City of
Buffalo was mentioned for the first time in Jewish history." (Ch. 1, p. 3). The
research for Adler and Connolly's work was assisted in large part by the
original source material of the Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo.
Records of the Local Jewish Community, Series I, includes cemetery
records of Erie County Lodge 300, consisting of two ledger books, and one
CD-ROM. Erie County Lodge Cemetery Records are also available through the
website,
Jewish Buffalo on
the Web .
II, Community Religious Matters consists of meeting minutes of
the Buffalo Board of Rabbis and records of the Buffalo Council of Jewish
Congregations. Series II also includes citizenship papers dating back to 1844
of Emanuel Newman, an early leader of the Buffalo Jewish community and active
in the affairs of Temple Beth Zion. Other local congregations including Temple
Beth El, Temple Beth Am, Temple Shaarey Zedek, and B'rith Israel are also
documented here.
III, The Jewish Community, Buffalo: Matters of General Interest
includes three subseries. Records in this series mainly document various local
organizations, agencies, and activities of the Buffalo Jewish community.
Subseries A consists of photocopies of Xeroxes made by Dr. Adler. Included are
a photograph circa 1940 of the Buffalo Jewish Choral Society and a recording
with singer Sidor Belarsky. Surveys, correspondence, memorandum, membership
lists, and committee reports are found in this series.
Other Jewish Associations, Series IV, primarily documents the Jewish
Hospital Association, 1920-1928, which includes a minute book and constitution,
reports of annual meetings and special meetings. This series also houses an
index of past members of the United Jewish Federation as well as a scrapbook
for the 1927 Jewish Federation Campaign.
This collection is arranged in four series as follows:
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 1.1 |
|
ledger
|
|
| 1.3 |
|
CD-ROM containing images of scanned ledger pages
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 2.1-2.2 |
|
Minutes of the Buffalo Board of Rabbis
|
|
| 2.3 |
|
Information on Yeshivot supported by AJDC; Yeshivot and
Displaced Persons (DP) problems
|
|
| 2.4 |
|
The problem of Meshulochim
|
|
| 2.5 |
|
Are the Federation and the Center too secular in their
approach?
|
|
| 2.6 |
|
Matters pertaining to circumcision
|
|
| 2.7 |
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Community Kashrut problems
|
|
| 2.8 |
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Jewish chaplains in World War II
|
|
| 2.9 |
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Conference of rabbis and Jewish communal workers -
Minutes, 1958-1961
|
|
| 2.10 |
|
Material on various types of Judaism
|
|
| 2.11 |
|
Buffalo Ritularium (Mikvah)
|
|
| 2.12 |
|
Who is a Jew according to Jewish law?
|
|
| 2.13 |
|
Public schools in the area and the Sabbath and Jewish
Holydays
|
|
| 2.14 |
|
A list of Buffalo synagogues, 1942
|
|
| 2.15 |
|
Rabbis and the Vietnamese War
|
|
| 2.16 |
|
Buffalo Council of Jewish Congregations (established
1917)
|
|
| 2.17 |
|
Congregation Achim Lubavitz
|
|
| 2.18 |
|
Congregation Ahavas Sholem (Jefferson Avenue
Shul)
|
|
| 2.20 |
|
Congregation B'rith Israel (Hickory Street Shul)
|
|
| 2.21 |
|
Congregation Beth Jacob (Clinton Street
Shul)
|
|
| 2.22 |
|
Congregation B'rith Sholem (Pine Street
Shul)
|
|
| 2.23 |
|
Temple Beth El
|
| |
|
[note: contains fragile materials]
|
|
| 2.24 |
|
Temple Beth Zion
|
| |
|
[note: contains fragile materials]
|
|
| 2.25 |
|
Temple Shaarey Zedek (before 1968 merger Temples Ner
Israel)
|
|
| 2.26 |
|
Young Israel of Buffalo (105 Maple Road)
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 2.27-2.28 |
|
Buffalo Jewish population studies
|
|
| 2.29 |
|
Growth of Buffalo suburbs
|
|
| 2.30 |
|
Jewish organizations in Buffalo,
1966
|
|
| 2.31 |
|
Jewish War Veterans of the U.S. - Buffalo Frontier Post
#25
|
|
| 2.32 |
|
Buffalo Jewish veterans before World War II
|
|
| 2.33 |
|
General information about Buffalo Jewry in the Archives
of the American Jewish Historical Society
|
|
| 2.34 |
|
Russian Chevra Kadisha Cemetery Association; B'nai
Israel Cemetery Association
|
|
| 2.35 |
|
Buffalo Hebrew Benevolent Association
|
|
| 2.36 |
|
Jewish-Catholic relations
|
|
| 2.37 |
|
(American) National Conference of Christians and Jews;
Jewish-Protestant relations
|
|
| 2.38 |
|
Participation in Federation work by children of former
Federation leaders
|
|
| 2.39 |
|
Buffalo Opportunity Shop (est. 1941)
|
|
| 2.40 |
|
The Haven - a club of refugees from Germany (1930s)
|
|
| 2.41 |
|
American Jewish Committee (local chapter)
|
|
| 2.42 |
|
Missionary activities
|
|
| 2.43 |
|
(Buffalo) Jewish Mother's Club
|
|
| 2.44 |
|
Federation policy on civic protective agencies
|
|
| 2.45-2.46 |
|
Montefiore Lodge B'nai B'rith; ADL in Buffalo
|
|
| 2.47 |
|
Black-Jewish relations
|
|
| 2.48 |
|
Religion: Bible reading and Christmas in the public
schools
|
|
| 2.49 |
|
Anti-Semitism (local and national); answers
|
|
| 2.50 |
|
Community information (1948) club and synagogue
memberships
|
|
| 2.51 |
|
List of new Buffalo Jewish families,
1960s
|
|
| 2.52 |
|
The Federation and speech of Sir Oswald Mosely to
students at the State University of New York at Buffalo,
September 1962
|
|
| 2.53 |
|
Federation correspondence with The Labor Temple (New
York City)
1951; 1953
|
|
| 2.54 |
|
Jewish anti-Zionist movements
|
|
| 2.55 |
|
Charitable Foundation in Buffalo
(1960)
|
|
| 2.56 |
|
Federation descriptions of the Buffalo Jewish
Community
|
|
| 2.58 |
|
History of the Buffalo Jewish Choral Society
|
| |
|
[note: includes photograph circa 1940s]
|
|
| 1.4 |
|
History of the Buffalo Jewish Choral Society, 78 rpm
recording, Yigdal; Polyakoff- Arr. Samuel Luskin; Sidor Belarsky and the
Buffalo Jewish Choral Society, Cond: Bernard Mandelkern
|
|
| 3.1 |
|
Sokoliefki Jews in Buffalo
|
|
| 3.2 |
|
1951 MacIver Report on Jewish Community Relations
Committees
|
|
| 3.3 |
|
Surveys of the Buffalo Jewish Community-
1923; 1929
|
|
III.A. American Palestinian Relations
|
| Scope and content: Files in subseries A are photocopies of
xeroxes collected by Dr. Adler from the Abba Hillel Silver Papers, Western
Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio and the Council's Papers of the
State Historical Society of Wisconsin Archives. |
| |
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 3.4-3.5 |
|
The American Council for Judaism
|
|
| 3.6 |
|
England and Zionist affairs during World War II
era
|
|
| 3.7 |
|
Xerox of an article by Professor R. H. Gerrell, "U. S.
Policy in the Middle East"
|
|
| 3.8 |
|
Peter Bergson (Hillel Kook)
|
|
| 3.9 |
|
Zionist leaders and the U. S. Department of
State
|
|
| 3.10 |
|
American Jewish Conferences,
1942-1946
|
|
| 3.11 |
|
Christian front groups for the Zionists, World War
II
|
|
| 3.12-3.15 |
|
Wartime Zionist affairs, correspondence (national)
|
|
| 3.16 |
|
General wartime Zionist affairs; miscellaneous undated
material, undated
|
|
| 3.17-3.18 |
|
Correspondence of Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, Cleveland,
O.
|
|
| 3.19 |
|
Correspondence between Dr. Silver and Dr. Emanuel
Neumann, New York City
|
|
III.B. Deported Persons and Refugee Matters
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 3.20 |
|
Federation wartime help for refugees through United
Jewish Appeal (UJA)
|
|
| 3.21 |
|
United Service for New Americans (later
HIAS)
|
|
| 3.22 |
|
Supplies for Overseas Survivors run through Joint
Distribution Committee (JDC)
|
|
| 3.23 |
|
Deported persons settled in Buffalo by Jewish Family
Services in immediate post-war years
|
|
| 3.24 |
|
Federation correspondence with JDC (NYC),
1940-1947,
1953-1969
|
|
| 3.25 |
|
Post-war for refugees: Federation correspondence with
UJA, 1946-1955
|
|
| 3.26 |
|
Attempts to settle some relatives of A. Rosichan
|
|
| 4.1 |
|
Federation efforts in behalf of Soviet Jews
|
|
| 4.2 |
|
Miscellaneous refugee matters
|
|
| 4.3-4.4 |
|
Papers of Max M. Yellen
|
|
| 4.5 |
|
Papers of Dr. Gerhard J Falk (Falck) and Dr. Ursula A.
Falk
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 4.6 |
|
American-Israel Cultural Foundation
|
|
| 4.7 |
|
National Committee for Labor Palestine
(Histadrut)
|
|
| 4.8 |
|
Federation correspondence with the Embassy of Israel
(Washington)
|
|
| 4.9 |
|
Supplies for Israel through Scrip for Israel, Inc.
|
|
| 4.10 |
|
Israel's tenth anniversary celebration
1958
|
|
| 4.11 |
|
Institute on Overseas Studies
|
|
| 4.12 |
|
Hebrew Institute of Technology (Amerucan Technion
Society)
|
|
| 4.13 |
|
Federation input (with Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo)
of exhibition of Seven Painters of Israel
|
|
| 4.14 |
|
Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra concert,
1951
|
|
| 4.15 |
|
Histadruth Ivrith of America (Hebrew Language and
Cultural Association)
|
|
| 4.16 |
|
Federation correspondence with and information
pertaining to the Weizmann Institute of Science
|
|
| 4.17 |
|
Federation and the Zionist Organization of America
Expansion Fund,
1948-1951
|
|
| 4.18 |
|
Material on Israeli-Arab tensions; Arab
refugees
|
|
| 4.19 |
|
Federation coordination of local celebrations of
Israeli Independence Day,
circa 1946
|
|
| 4.20 |
|
Hadassah; Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School
|
|
| 4.21 |
|
Israeli correspondence, 1952-1958, includes material
on relatives of Jacob Morison
|
|
| 4.22 |
|
Federation correspondence with Jewish Agency for
Palestine, 1951-1969
|
|
| 4.23 |
|
Conservative Judaism in Israel
|
|
| 4.24 |
|
(Buffalo) Israeli EXPO
1976
|
|
| 4.25 |
|
American Christian Palestine Committee
|
|
| 4.26 |
|
Federation and Buffalo Zionist Emergency Council
during the Israeli War of Independence,
1948
|
|
| 4.27 |
|
Yom Kippur War,
1973
|
|
| 4.28 |
|
Reports on Israeli conditions at various
times
|
|
| 4.29 |
|
Federation and religious institutions in
Israel
|
|
| 4.30 |
|
Material on unification of campaigns for Israel and
Europe
|
|
| 4.31 |
|
The Jewish National Fund
|
|
| 4.32 |
|
The Federation and State of Israel Bonds
|
|
| 4.33-4.34 |
|
Material on Zionism before 1948
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 4.35-5.1 |
|
Jewish Welfare Society material 1911-1947
[3 folders] |
|
| 5.2 |
|
Jewish Federation Campaign 1927, Scrapbook of clippings,
Maurice Tabor, Chairman
|
| |
|
[note: contains fragile materials]
|
|
| 5.3-5.4 |
|
Subvention committee: Minutes
1932-1938
|
|
| 5.5-5.11 |
|
Jewish Hospital Association, Special Meetings,
1926-1929
|
|
| 5.12 |
|
Minute book of Jewish Hospital Association,
Constitution, incorporation,
1920-1926
|
|
| 5.13-5.16 |
|
Jewish Hospital Association: Reports of annual meetings,
1921-1928
|
|
| 5.17 |
|
United Jewish Federation: card index of past
members
|
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the Library's online catalog.
Jewish Federation of
Greater Buffalo
State University of New
York at Buffalo. University Archives
Israel and the
diaspora
Israel--History
Jewish archives--New York
(State)
Jews--New York
State--Buffalo
Judaism--History--Modern
Period, 1750-
Silver,
Abba Hillel, 1893-1963
Temples--New York
(State)--Buffalo
United States--Foreign
Relations--20th Century
Charter
Citizenship
papers
Correspondence
Minutes
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