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American Hebrew Society Collection

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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
SCRC 184
Repository:
Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
Extent:
2.35 linear feet (4 boxes + 4 map folders)
Language:
English and Yiddish
Preferred Citation:
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], American Hebrew Society Collection, SCRC 184, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Date:
1906-1983 (inclusive) and 1928-1983 (bulk)
Form:
Administrative records, Charters, Clippings, Correspondence, Financial records, Ledgers (account books), Manuscripts, Membership lists, Minutes (administrative records), Objects, Photocopies, and Souvenir programs
Abstract:

The American Hebrew Society was founded in 1901 as the Roumanian Workingmen's Beneficial Association. The association initially provided Romanian Jewish immigrants with integration assistance, but grew to offer its members social events, sick benefits, and internment planning. After realizing that the association's name did not identify the organization as Jewish, the group was renamed the Roumanian Hebrew Beneficial Association. In 1965, the association changed its name once again to the American Hebrew Society.

This collection contains the correspondence, financial statements, meeting minutes, and membership files of the American Hebrew Society. It also includes cemetery records for the association's reserved plots in Har Jehuda, Har Nebo, and Mt. Sharon cemeteries.

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

Collection materials donated by the following donors: Mildred Berdrick, 1986; Dora Gottenberg in 1976 and 1997, David Doret in 1996, and Rose LeSavoy and James Robb in 1994 and 1995. Collection previously administered by the Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center, acquired by Temple in June 2009.

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

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Publisher
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
December 2023
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

The American Hebrew Society Collection is 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

Anniversary program, 1906.
Box 1 Folder 1
Anniversary programs, 1951-1953.
Box 1 Folder 2
Anniversary programs, 1955, 1958, 1960.
Box 1 Folder 3
Benefit register, 1926-1967.
Box 1 Folder 4
Charter, 1902.
Map Folder M1d
Correspondence, general (some photocopies), 1945-1983.
Box 1 Folder 5
Correspondence, general, 1954-1966.
Box 1 Folder 6
Correspondence, meeting minutes, and amendment regarding organization name change, 1965.
Box 1 Folder 7
Correspondence regarding cemetery plots, 1928, 1954-1965.
Box 1 Folder 8
Correspondence regarding cemetery plots (some photocopies), 1931-1978.
Box 1 Folder 9
Dues receipt book, 1952-1968.
Box 1 Folder 10
Dues receipt book, 1966-1967.
Box 1 Folder 11
Dues receipt book, 1969-1971.
Box 1 Folder 12
Dues receipt book, 1971-1973.
Box 1 Folder 13
Dues receipt book, 1973-1976.
Box 1 Folder 14
Dues receipt book, 1976-1980.
Box 1 Folder 15
Financial statement, 1901.
Map Folder M1d
Financial statements, 1968-1981, undated.
Box 1 Folder 16
Financial statements, Special Fund, 1969-1980.
Box 1 Folder 17
Gavel, undated.
Box 4
Har Jehuda Cemetery grave maps, circa 1960s.
Map Folder M1d
Har Jehuda Cemetery permits, 1928-1971.
Box 1 Folder 18
Har Nebo Cemetery permits, 1928-1966.
Box 1 Folder 19
Meeting minutes, 1943-1963.
Box 3 Folder 1
Meeting minutes, 1948-1966.
Box 1 Folder 20
Meeting minutes, 1949-1966.
Box 2 Folder 1
Meeting minutes, 1956-1966.
Box 2 Folder 2
Mt. Sharon Cemetery permits, 1958-1972.
Box 1 Folder 21
Mt. Sharon Cemetery plot reservation notebooks and grave certificates, 1941-1968, undated.
Box 1 Folder 22
News clippings (photocopies), circa 1960s.
Box 1 Folder 23
Sketch plans for bronze plaque, 1968.
Map Folder M1d

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