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Zitomirer Beneficial Association Records
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The Zitomirer Beneficial Association was organized in 1916 to provide integration assistance to newly arrived immigrants from Zhytomyr in present day Ukraine. As membership grew, the association offered additional benefits, including sick benefits and internment planning services. The lodge reserved plots for its members at Mt. Lebanon Cemetery in Upper Darby. The association disbanded in 1982.
This collection contains membership ledgers, financial statements, and programs of the Zitomirer Beneficial Association. It also includes correspondence and grave lot reservation information for the association's reserved lots at Mt. Lebanon Cemetery in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. Some material in this collection post-dates the existence of the association.
Material is arranged alphabetically by type of material, and then chronologically.
Donated by Janice Booker in 1983 and 2001. Collection previously administered by the Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center, acquired by Temple in June 2009.
Collection processed and finding aid prepared in October 2015 by Jenna Marrone, Project Archivist, Special Collections Research Center.
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- Fraternal organizations -- Pennsylvania – Philadelphia
- Jews -- Pennsylvania – Philadelphia – Societies, etc
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- Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
- Finding Aid Author
- Machine-readable finding aid created by: Rajkumar Natarajan, Sky Global Services India (P) Ltd.
- Finding Aid Date
- October 2023
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Collection is open for research.
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The Zitomirer Beneficial Association Records are the physical property of the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. Intellectual property rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Researchers are responsible for determining the identity of rights holders and obtaining their permission for publication and for other purposes where stated.