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Prushin-Shershow Beneficial Association Records

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
SCRC 182
Repository:
Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
Extent:
3.04 linear feet (5 boxes)
Language:
English and Yiddish
Preferred Citation:
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Prushin-Shershow Beneficial Association Records, SCRC 182, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Date:
1894-1967 (inclusive)
Creator:
Prushin-Shershow Beneficial Association (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Form:
Administrative records, Bylaws (administrative records), Correspondence, Financial records, Ledgers (account books), Logs, Manuscripts, Membership lists, Minutes (administrative records), Newsletters, and Photographs
Abstract:

The Prushin-Shershow Beneficial Association was organized in September 1889 by immigrants from the modern day Belarusian shtetls of Pruzhany and Shereshov. Initially founded to assist new immigrants, the association grew to offer sick and death benefits and cemetery plots. A Ladies Auxiliary was organized in 1930. The association owned burial grounds in Har Nebo, Roosevelt Memorial, Mt. Jacob, and King David cemeteries. In the 1980s, Prushin-Shershow transitioned to become predominately a social organization.

The Prushin-Shershow Beneficial Association Records contain the organization's meeting minutes, membership files, financial ledgers, and correspondence. Early meeting minutes are written in Yiddish. This collection also contains a photograph collage of members.

The collection is arranged alphabetically by type of material, and then chronologically.

Donated by Prushin-Shershow Beneficial Association in 1988. Collection previously administered by the Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center, acquired by Temple in June 2009.

A photograph from this collection has been digitized and is available online on the Temple University Digital Collections website.

Collection processed and finding aid prepared in September 2015 by Jenna Marrone, Project Archivist, Special Collections Research Center.

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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
May 2024
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

The Prushin-Shershow 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.

Collection Inventory

Address book, members, undated.
Box 1 Folder 1
Constitution and bylaws, circa 1928.
Box 1 Folder 2
Correspondence, general, 1947-1967.
Box 1 Folder 3
Correspondence regarding bylaws, 1954-1955.
Box 1 Folder 4
Correspondence regarding cemetery plot reservations and death benefits, A-H, 1948-1967.
Box 1 Folder 5
Correspondence regarding cemetery plot reservations and death benefits, L-T, 1936-1965.
Box 1 Folder 6
Correspondence regarding cemetery plot reservations and death benefits, W-Z, 1937-1965.
Box 1 Folder 7
Correspondence regarding member sick benefits, A-K, 1956-1966.
Box 1 Folder 8
Correspondence regarding member sick benefits, L-P, 1956-1966.
Box 1 Folder 9
Correspondence regarding member sick benefits, R-W, 1956-1966.
Box 1 Folder 10
Correspondence regarding membership, A-G, 1952-1966.
Box 1 Folder 11
Correspondence regarding membership, H-N, 1952-1966.
Box 1 Folder 12
Correspondence regarding membership, O-Z, 1944-1966.
Box 1 Folder 13
Finance reports, 1944-1967.
Box 1 Folder 14
Financial ledger, 1934-1939.
Box 3 Folder 2
Financial ledger, 1936-1939.
Box 1 Folder 15
Financial ledger, 1939-1946.
Box 3 Folder 3
Financial ledger, 1943-1947.
Box 1 Folder 16
Financial ledger, 1946-1955.
Box 3 Folder 4
Financial ledger, 1955-1960.
Box 2 Folder 1
Legal agreement regarding release of benefit funds, 1901.
Box 2 Folder 2
Meeting minutes and general ledger, 1894-1899.
Box 2 Folder 3
Meeting minutes and general ledger, 1902-1910.
Box 2 Folder 4
Meeting minutes and general ledger, 1910-1916.
Box 2 Folder 5
Meeting minutes and general ledger, 1923-1927.
Box 2 Folder 6
Meeting minutes and general ledger, 1927-1931.
Box 2 Folder 7
Membership applications, 1930, 1935.
Box 2 Folder 8
Membership dues ledger, 1921-1923.
Box 2 Folder 9
Membership dues ledger, 1921-1923.
Box 2 Folder 10
Membership dues ledger, 1924-1926.
Box 2 Folder 11
Membership dues ledger, 1924-1926.
Box 2 Folder 12
Membership dues ledger, 1927-1929.
Box 2 Folder 13
Membership dues ledger, 1927-1929.
Box 2 Folder 14
Membership ledger, 1923-1934.
Box 4 Folder 1
Membership ledger, 1935-1946.
Box 4 Folder 2
Photograph: collage of members, undated.
Box 3 Folder 1
Proof of age questionnaire, A-L, 1956.
Box 2 Folder 15
Proof of age questionnaire, M-Z, 1956.
Box 2 Folder 16
"P-S News" newsletter, May 1966.
Box 2 Folder 17
Roll book, 1931-1933.
Box 4 Folder 3
Roll book, 1934-1936.
Box 4 Folder 4
Roll book, 1937-1939.
Box 5 Folder 1
Roll book, 1943-1945.
Box 5 Folder 2
Roll book, 1946-1951.
Box 5 Folder 3
Roll book, 1956-1959.
Box 5 Folder 4

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