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United Hebrew Schools and Yeshivos (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records

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Call Number:
SCRC 405
Repository:
Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
Extent:
3.75 linear feet (3 boxes + 5 map folders)
Language:
English and Hebrew
Preferred Citation:
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], United Hebrew Schools and Yeshivos (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records, SCRC 405, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Date:
1919-1969 (inclusive) and 1949-1968 (bulk)
Creator:
United Hebrew Schools and Yeshivos (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Form:
Administrative records, Attendance records, Charters, Clippings, Correspondence, Diplomas, Financial records, Ledgers (account books), Minutes, Newsletters, Photocopies, Posters, Reports, School records, and Scrapbooks
Abstract:

In August 1918, delegates from the various Talmud Torahs throughout Philadelphia established the Associated Talmud Torahs of Philadelphia, a communal agency organized to improve the Jewish educational system in the Hebrew schools. The program of study in the Talmud Torahs included classes on Hebrew language, the Bible and Jewish literature, history, Jewish customs, ceremonies and traditions, and current events. By 1930, the Associated Talmud Torahs was comprised of a network of schools including a Hebrew kindergarten, ten elementary schools, a Hebrew high school, and Jewish extension classes offered through local congregations. In March 1948, the Yeshiva Mishkan Israel and the Central Talmud Torah merged with the Associated Talmud Torahs to form the United Hebrew Schools and Yeshivos, a constituent agency of the Federation of Jewish Agencies. In 1993, United Hebrew Schools and Yeshivos merged with the Hebrew Sunday School Society of Philadelphia to form the Community Hebrew Schools of Greater Philadelphia. The Community Hebrew Schools of Greater Philadelphia ceased operation in 2006.

The United Hebrew Schools and Yeshivos (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records document the activities of the community run religious education agency and its predecessor, the Associated Talmud Torahs, from its founding through the late 1960s. The bulk of the collection dates from after the 1948 merger and includes school enrollment records, statistics, curriculum materials, reports, bulletins, yearbooks, and budgets and monthly reports prepared for the Federation of Jewish Agencies. There is limited board of directors and committee meeting minutes from the 1940s. However, there is administrative correspondence with executive directors and presidents spanning the operation of both the Associated Talmud Torahs and the United Hebrew Schools and Yeshivos. The bulk of records are in English, with Hebrew found throughout the collection, most notably in the correspondence and curriculum files.

The collection is arranged alphabetically by folder title.

Collection placed on deposit in 1973 by the United Hebrew Schools and Yeshivos. Collection previously administered by the Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center, acquired by Temple in June 2009.

Collection processed and finding aid created in November 1974 by Lindsay B. Nauen. Collection arrangement revised, boxes replaced, and finding aid revised according to contemporary archival standards in February 2019 by Jessica M. Lydon, Associate Archivist, with assistance from Victoria Nichols, student assistant.

Akiba Hebrew Academy (Merion, Pa.) Records, SCRC 36, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Beth Jacob Schools of Philadelphia Records, SCRC 4, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Hebrew Sunday School Society of Philadelphia (Pa.) Records, SCRC 50, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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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
February 2024
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research. Access to folders containing student grades is restricted for 75 years from date of creation as noted in the inventory.

Use Restrictions

The United Hebrew Schools and Yeshivos (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records are on deposit with the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. The owner has not assigned its rights to Temple University Libraries. Other creators' intellectual property rights, including copyright, belong to them 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

Alumni Association, 1960.
Box 1 Folder 1
American Association for Jewish Education, 1950-1959, undated.
Box 1 Folder 2
Announcement of special services for young people with Cantor Motle Pavlaski, 1936.
Map Folder M11b
Annual meetings and reports, 1949-1956.
Box 1 Folder 3
Annual meetings and reports, 1957-1968, undated.
Box 1 Folder 4
Bar Mitzvah students, 1946-1960.
Box 1 Folder 5
Charter: Associated Talmud Torahs, 1919.
Map Folder M11b
Charter: Fund for Torah and Tarbuth, 1949.
Map Folder M11b
Community Board of License, 1955-1968.
Box 1 Folder 6
Copyright information for Hebrew textbook, 1934-1952.
Box 1 Folder 7
Correspondence: Ben Rosen, 1924-1932.
Box 1 Folder 8
Correspondence: Herman Landau, 1949-1952.
Box 1 Folder 9
Correspondence: Jacob Levin, 1955-1961.
Box 1 Folder 10
Correspondence: Joseph Levitsky, 1946.
Box 1 Folder 11
Correspondence: Mordecai Halevi, 1950-1954.
Box 1 Folder 12
Correspondence: Sidney Fish, 1967-1968.
Box 1 Folder 13
Curriculum: general, 1943.
Box 1 Folder 14
Curriculum: Hebrew vocabulary lists, 1948-1949.
Box 1 Folder 15
Curriculum: interfaith education, 1960-1967.
Box 1 Folder 16
Diplomas (blank), undated.
Box 1 Folder 17
Enrollment campaign, 1943-1944.
Box 1 Folder 18
Enrollment data, 1950-1952.
Box 1 Folder 19
Federation of Jewish Agencies: Committee on Camping, 1956-1959.
Box 1 Folder 20
Federation of Jewish Agencies: Committee on Camping, 1960, undated.
Box 1 Folder 21
Financial records: General, 1942-1946.
Box 1 Folder 22
Financial records: Allied Jewish Appeal, 1951-1959.
Box 1 Folder 23
Financial records: budget, 1948-1951.
Box 1 Folder 24
Financial records: budget, 1952-1954.
Box 1 Folder 25
Financial records: budget, 1955-1959.
Box 1 Folder 26
Financial records: budget, 1960-1968, undated.
Box 1 Folder 27
Financial records: escrow fund, 1962-1969.
Box 1 Folder 28
Financial records: monthly reports, 1951-1953.
Box 1 Folder 29
Financial records: monthly reports, 1954-1956.
Box 1 Folder 30
Financial records: monthly reports, 1957-1959.
Box 1 Folder 31
Financial records: monthly reports, 1960-1962.
Box 1 Folder 32
Financial records: retirement fund, 1943-1950.
Box 1 Folder 33
Financial records: retirement fund, 1951-1956.
Box 1 Folder 34
Financial records: retirement fund, 1957-1960, undated.
Box 1 Folder 35
Financial records: salary schedules, 1967-1968.
Box 1 Folder 36
Financial records: tax exemption, 1934-1935, 1952.
Box 1 Folder 37
Financial records: transfer of properties to Federation of Jewish Charities, 1923-1928.
Box 1 Folder 38
Future Hebrew Teachers of America, 1957.
Box 1 Folder 39
Graduation, 1945.
Box 1 Folder 40
Graduation, 1934-1937.
Box 1 Folder 41
Graduation, 1946-1947.
Box 1 Folder 42
Graduation, 1949-1960.
Box 1 Folder 43
Hebrew Culture Society, 1956-1960.
Box 1 Folder 44
Holidays and celebrations: Israel's tenth anniversary, 1958.
Box 1 Folder 45
Holidays and celebrations: Jewish book month, 1955-1957.
Box 1 Folder 46
Holidays and celebrations: Jewish schools week, 1951-1958.
Box 1 Folder 47
Holidays and celebrations: Judge Levinthal dinner, 1941.
Box 2 Folder 1
Holidays and celebrations: Lag B'omer, 1956.
Box 2 Folder 2
Holidays and celebrations: Talmud Torah day, 1951.
Box 2 Folder 3
Holidays and celebrations: United Nations day, 1955-1956.
Box 2 Folder 4
Keren Ami, 1943, 1945, 1960.
Box 2 Folder 5
Library project: General, 1941-1948, undated.
Box 2 Folder 6
Library project: junior Hebrew library, 1942-1944.
Box 2 Folder 7
Membership campaign, 1956-1960, undated.
Box 2 Folder 8
Merger petition, 1948.
Box 2 Folder 9
Minutes: committee meetings, 1939-1946.
Box 2 Folder 10
Minutes: Executive Committee and Board of Directors, 1943-1946.
Box 2 Folder 11
National Talmud Torah organization, 1954.
Box 2 Folder 12
Parent Teacher Council, 1939-1959.
Box 2 Folder 13
Parents' Voice, 1941-1950.
Box 2 Folder 14
Parents' Voice, 1951-1960.
Box 2 Folder 15
Poster: third annual Purim ball, 1939.
Map Folder M11b
Printed forms, 1934-1942.
Box 2 Folder 16
Prize funds: General, 1922-1926.
Box 2 Folder 17
Prize funds: General, 1927-1928.
Box 2 Folder 18
Prize funds: General, 1929-1949, undated.
Box 2 Folder 19
Prize funds: Gross, 1925-1927.
Box 2 Folder 20
Prize funds: M. Husik, 1940-1948.
Box 2 Folder 21
Prize funds: Markowitz, 1935-1950.
Box 2 Folder 22
Prize funds: N. I. S. Goldman, 1934-1947.
Box 2 Folder 23
Prize funds: Rosenberger, 1924-1938.
Box 2 Folder 24
Publications: Bulletins of the Associated Talmud Torahs, 1931, 1937.
Box 2 Folder 25
Publications: list of scrapbooks, circa 1928-1940.
Box 2 Folder 26
Publications: newspaper clipping scrapbook, 1957-1960.
Box 2 Folder 27
Reports: Jewish education in Philadelphia, 1936.
Box 2 Folder 28
Reports: Jewish education in Philadelphia (Committee of Fifteen), 1925-1927.
Box 2 Folder 29
Reports: Jewish education in Philadelphia (Council on Jewish education reports), 1936-1944.
Box 2 Folder 30
School enrollment records, 1949-1951.
Box 2 Folder 31
School enrollment records, 1951-1953.
Box 2 Folder 32
School enrollment records, 1953-1955.
Box 2 Folder 33
School enrollment records, 1955-1957.
Box 2 Folder 34
School enrollment records, 1957-1959.
Box 2 Folder 35
School enrollment records, 1959-1960.
Box 3 Folder 1
School enrollment records, 1960-1961.
Box 3 Folder 2
School statistics, 1935-1936.
Box 3 Folder 3
School statistics, 1950, 1967-1968.
Box 3 Folder 4
School statistics: monthly class attendance, 1944-1946.
Box 3 Folder 5
Schools: Agudath Hamorim, 1921-1950.
Box 3 Folder 6
Schools: Agudath Hamorim, 1950-1959.
Box 3 Folder 7
Schools: Ben Rosen annuals, 1934-1952.
Box 3 Folder 8
Schools: Ben Rosen student progress reports, 1967.
Box 3 Folder 9
Schools: Ben Rosen twenty fifth anniversary, 1954.
Box 3 Folder 10
Schools: Ezrath Israel, 1962-1963.
Box 3 Folder 11
Schools: Gratz College bulletins and memoranda, 1965-1968.
Box 3 Folder 12
Schools: Gratz College correspondence, 1924-1937.
Box 3 Folder 13
Schools: Gratz College correspondence, 1940-1960, undated.
Box 3 Folder 14
Schools: Gratz College High School department freshman class, 1968.
Box 3 Folder 15
Schools: Gratz College High School department Hebrew, 1967-1968.
Box 3 Folder 16
Schools: Gratz College High School department history, 1967-1968.
Box 3 Folder 17
Schools: Gratz College High School department history, 1967-1968.
Box 3 Folder 18
Schools: Gratz College High School department history, 1967-1968.
Box 3 Folder 19
Schools: Gratz College minutes and reports, 1967-1968.
Box 3 Folder 20
Schools: Gratz College normal department, 1968.
Box 3 Folder 21
Schools: Hebrew High School, 1924, 1949-1951.
Box 3 Folder 22
Schools: Oxford Circle, 1949-1955.
Box 3 Folder 23
Schools: Oxford Circle, 1956-1957, undated.
Box 3 Folder 24
Schools: Yavneh general, 1967-1968.
Box 3 Folder 25
Schools: Yavneh petty cash, 1967-1968.
Box 3 Folder 26
Schools: Yavneh prospects, 1967-1968.
Box 3 Folder 27
Schools: Yavneh registration sheets, 1967-1968.
Box 3 Folder 28
Schools: Yavneh student progress reports, 1968.
Box 3 Folder 29
Schools: Yavneh summer camp, circa 1958.
Box 3 Folder 30
Schools: Yeshiva Mishkan Israel, 1959-1960.
Box 3 Folder 31
Staff: detached teachers, 1960.
Box 3 Folder 32
Staff: faculty meetings, 1967.
Box 3 Folder 33
Staff: memoranda, 1943-1944.
Box 3 Folder 34
Statements of policy, 1930-1960, undated.
Box 3 Folder 35
West Philadelphia Hebrew School announcement of High Holy Day services featuring Cantor Yitzhok Lieb Kahn, undated.
Map Folder M11b

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