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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the University of Pennsylvania: Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Because of the nature of the collection, the contents within it vary quite a bit. Many of the folders/collections were found during various inventories of the archives, and as they did not seem to fit into any of the existing collections, were placed here. There are a few collections, however, such as the Samuel Posnanski Collection, the Jacob Hoschander Collection, the Moise Schwab Collection, and the Joseph Zolin Collection, which contain manuscripts that were removed from the Adler Collection. All of these manuscripts or typescripts were submitted to the Jewish Quarterly Review through Adler, and were therefore seen by the processor of the Adler Collection as separate from the collection.
People
- HaCohen, Chanoch, Rabbi -- Correspondence
- Friedenwald, Harry -- Correspondence
- Krauskopf, Joseph
- Karafin, Samuel -- Archives
- Adler, Cyrus -- Correspondence
- Hoschander, Jacob -- Correspondence
- Neuman, Abraham A. (Abraham Aaron) -- Correspondence
- Adler, Cyrus -- Administration
- Kohut, George Alexander -- Administration
- Watts, Frederick -- Correspondence
- Harrison, George L. (George Leib)
- Lopez, Aaron -- Administration
- Gordon, Cyrus Herzl -- Administration
- Cummings, Byron -- History
- Lincoln, Abraham -- History
- Mortara, Pio -- History
- Adler, Cyrus -- Archives
- Dropsie, Moses A., (Moses Aaron) -- Archives
- Jastrow, Marcus -- Archives
- Morais, Sabato -- Archives
Subject
Place
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania: Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
- Finding Aid Author
- Michelle Chesner
Collection Inventory
A scholarly talmudic discussion, signed by Moshe Itzak Abzan, Hamburgh
1. "Constitution and By-Laws…" (1884) 2. Gratz Trust (1895) 3. Reports of the President, Treasurer and Committees (1921) 4. Reports of the Officers and Committees (1924) 5. Service of Rededication (1954)
1. Copies of Lincoln letter (3) 2. Letter and transcription from Carvalho (?) re: school for Hebrew instruction 3. Response from KKMI re Carvalho letter (and transcription) 4. Newspaper clipping describing KKMI repairs (1903) 5. Blueprints for KKMI (3) 6. Transcription of Washington letter 7. Print of interior of MI building
Various clippings, etc. relating to KKMI exhibits, occasions; List of occupants in the cemetery (9th and Spruce).
7 ll. - Letters from Mrs. Hemdah Benderly to Harry Friedenwald
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1 folded will; 5 articles
0.01 Linear FeetHebrew letter with attached English translation
12 leaves
6 ll
12 ll.
6 ll.
1. Postcard 2. Certificate of Rabbinic ordination 3. Certificate affirming ordination 4. Certificate confirming rabbinic authorization 5. Certificate authorizing Rabbi Karafin as Shohet (copy only; actual ms is missing).
2 folders
51 leaves
76 leaves. Includes note at beginning from Adler declining to publish the article.
Holograph text "Un Peu de Linguistiques Comparees" Holograph translation into English (2 typescripts)
Typescript of article entitled "The Holy Scriptures of the Jews." 9 leaves.
See Related Material in the Adler Collection, ARC MS 25: Box 119, Folder 16
Physical Description0.01 Linear Feet21 ll.
0.01 Linear Feet51 leaves, bound in folder
Autograph letter to Frederick Watts from "Jno Kennedy", with holograph annotation by Joshua I. Cohen; typed transcript of Kennedy's letter; and a photocopy of the accompanying letter of gift from George A. Kohut to Cyrus Adler.
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On 10 October 1872 Harrison writes Wolf, asking for "a sketch of the origin, projects and present circumstances of the Jewish Hospital." Wolf responds in an eight-page letter dated 12 December 1872.
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CAJS has five copies of the published version under LD1728.D58 R8 1977 (1 ref, 2 stacks, 2 archives)
Typescript draft of Frank J. Rubenstein's "The Dropsie University: The Early Years: 1908-1919."
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0.01 Linear Feet1 leaf Ship manifest of Aaron Lopez, dated at Newport, RI
0.01 Linear Feet8 leaves + 2 notebooks
Notes, correspondence, c.v. for C.H. Gordon, discussion of a union catalog for Philly libraries (via AHA); Translation of unknown text (Mandias?)
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1. Letter from D. Goldenberg, requesting Dr. Sidney Fish to identify the below. 2. "A poem, composed of poorly quoted Hebrew phrases, apparently written on the occasion of a cornerstone laying ceremony of a synagogue or some charitable institution (Jewish Hospital?)" 3. "A brief funeral address for a departed friend, written in typical German-Jewish." 4. A Yiddish letter from a mother to her son (Neuistadt), 1892
Physical Description0.01 Linear Feet3 mss + contemporary letter
Pamphlet (in envelope) written by Banks about cuneiform 2 letters from Edgar J. Banks to Jacob Gimbel, offering him some ""genuine Babylonian tablets"" which he was selling for "a European collector"
Physical Description0.01 Linear Feet2 ts letters, 1 envelope with pamphlet
0.01 Linear FeetFirst day cover envelope, stamped and dated May 15, 1992, honoring the 500th anniversary of the Jewish arrival in the Ottoman Empire following the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain.
Handwritten index (removed from notebook) listing topics and Talmudic references to them.
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Lists of pledges (in shillings) for donations to Kineset Yisrael (congregation?) in Jerusalem
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Letter from the "Special Agent of Vital Statistics of Jews" requesting information for this section in the census.
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New York Times article regarding discovery of "Roman Jewish Relics" in Arizona (12/14/1925)
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0.01 Linear Feet1 bound book
A Literary Curiosity: a Sermon in Words of One Syllable Only by A Manchester Layman. Title and date written in ink; text block pasted from original book/article.
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Article from Donahue's Monthly Magazine (Boston), January 1892, Vol., xxvii, No.1, bound in boards.
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TS (with corrections) for fictional narrative "Shepherd and Sheep" printed in God's Remnants: Stories of Israel Among the Nations by Samuel Gordon (E.P. Dutton, 1916). Note in pencil reads "accepted for publication by Chambers."
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2 ll. correspondence between R' S. H. Silverstein of Toronto and R' Yekutiel Ari Kemelhar.
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TS for Moses Maimonides' "Epistle to Yemen"
4 offprints sent to Professor Abraham Neuman from Edward Glaser: "Alvaro Cubillio de Aragon's Los Desagravios de Christo", Hispanic Review 24, No. 4 (1956): 306-321.
"Lope de Vega's El Nino Incocente de la Guardia", Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 32, No. 3 (1955): 140-153.
"Referencias Antisemitas en la Literatura Peninsular de la Edad de Oro", Nueva Revista de Filologia Hispanica 8, No. 1 (1954): 39-62.
"Two Anti-Semitic Word Plays in the Guzman de Alfarache", Modern Language Notes 69, No. 5 (1954): 343-348.
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Marriage of Sol Kantor and Carolyn Rich
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Refers to William Aaronson, soldier from May 30, 1861-June 1, 1863
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For Rebecca Tobias naming Jacob Lazarus and Joshua Hendricks as executors
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American Zion Commonwealth Land Certificate Agreement
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Kol Kore requesting support for Yeshivah Beth-Joseph in Tel Aviv
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This print is one of the Judaica prints made for 'Calmet's Dictionary': Ph. v. Gunst, 1725; 'Het Pascha der Jooden'.
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MM44: 1 blank and 1 filled in memorial notice ("a remembrance from the United Aged home Moshav Sekenim Jerusalem" for Rivka Shu'am b'Binyamin -– died in 1958)
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Notices for two plays: (1) "Hebrew Family; or, a Traveller's Adventure" to be performed at Theatre Royal, Covent Garden on April 8, 1825 and (2) The Trees Die Standing (Ida Kaminska – n.d.). (3) Poster for Jewish Book Month by Arthur Szyk (November 23-December 23 1951)
Physical Description0.01 Linear Feet3 posters
Letter by Rabbi Raphael Yom-Tov Ashkenazi to printer Shlomo Belforti and his friends in Livorno.
Three reproduced photographs:
1) HaRav Aaron Kotler, HaRav Yitzchok Meir Ben-Menachem,and HaRav Isser Zalmen Mektzer;
2) HaRav Shneur Kotler, HaRav Levi Yitzchok HaLevi Horowitz, and HaRav Eliezer Menachem Shach;
3) HaRav Yaakov HaLevi Ruderman, HaRav Shneur Kotler, and HaRav Boruch Sorotzkin.
The folder contains a variety of material, much of which is related to Congregation Mikveh-Israel and Rabbi Leon Elmaleh: invitations to the dedication of the new Mikve-Israel Synagogue (1909); Philadelphia Section, Council of Jewish Women,1899-1901, list of members and their addresses; Congregation Mikveh Israel, Hours of Services for Rosh Hashanah Kippur and Succot, 1933, 1942, 1944, 1951,1952, 1956, 1957, 1960-1963, 1966, 1968; The Women's Group of the Mikveh Israel Association, Garden Party, 1939; Letter signed Betty and Al Bendiner and a booklet signed by Bendiner; copies of The Mikveh Israel Record, 1948 and 1953; copies of several WPEN radio broadcasts (1946, 1947) and WIP radio (1948); a copy of an article on Mikveh Israel from The Philadelphia Record, February 23, 1945; several talks delivered by Rabbi Leon Elmaleh; The American Jewish Historical Society by Isidore S. Meyer. Journal of Jewish Bibliography, reprint, Vol. IV, No. 1-2; "Proceedings at the Unveiling of a Tablet Commemorating the Site of the First Synagogue After the Resettlement (1657-1701), Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation, London," address by Rev. David Bueno de Mesquita, 20 May, 1928; "Report on the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue, Bevis Marks, London, contained in the Survey of the Ancient and Historical Monument on London Volume IV, The City issued by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1929," published 1930; K.K. Mickve Israel Annual Report of Joseph E. Sulzberger, 1906-1907; Poem "Old and New" by Mary M. Cohen, 1909; A letter from Rabbi Bertram W. Korn to Rabbi Leon Elmaleh and one from Arthur Fleisher. Both are accompanied by a biography of Jacob Frankel; 1911 Program for the Sisterhood of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of New York; copy of an address by Alfred Bendiner to a meeting of the American Philosophical Society re: William Strickland's synagogue.
A hand-drawn handbill which lists the actors in the production "Poisoned" and 4 cyanotypes of several men.
Gift of Nathaniel Bender.
Scrapbook containing poetry, handwritten notes on a number of topics including antisemitism and slavery, and a 1942 article from The American Weekly about Dropsie professor Dr. Nathaniel Reich.
Newspaper and journal articles about Rebecca Gratz, 1938-1961, including the naming of a room at Philadelphia House (now known as Hill House) at the University of Pennsylvania.
Includes a handwritten poem titled "The Black Knight" and a copy of Time magazine, Volume XXIV, No. 22, dated November 26, 1934.
Includes notes from Skoss(?) on his physical condition(?)
Lists those who worked as waiters and cooks and who lived with the householder and how much they paid or were owed in wages.
Includes 2 pamphlets: "'The Nazi War: Prayer or Supplication" to be Read every Sabbath and Festival after the Prayer for the King and the Royal Family" in Hebrew and English (1938/1939);
"Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth" (1953) in Hebrew and English.
Also includes a broadside in Hebrew.
Notes for the translation are written on the stationery from the West End Hotel & Cottages in Long Branch, NJ from the 1890s.
Typed biographies of A.S. Pushkin and Lermontav. The file also contains a manila envelope and handwritten notes which mentions the Jewish Quarterly Review.
Typescript about Gratz College, its history and place in the Philadelphia Jewish community.
Includes newspaper articles, programs, and events from the synagogue. The file also contains a history of the Mill Street Synagogue (1730-1817) of the Congregation Shearith Israel by Rev. D. de Sola Pool (1930). The material may have come from Emily Solis-Cohen.
The leather journal appears to contain notes about medical matters and symptoms of patients, notes, books purchased, etc.
Graphic image of a ship created from Hebrew words and lettering; signed Jacob Soffer.
Biblical quotations and typed and handwritten notes, some on United States National Museum stationery
Among the items in the folder are articles on Israel Friedlaender from The Council Chronicle (1928) and several in The Maccabaean (1920), an article from The Jewish Chronicle on the Bombay Synagogue (1961), the 1982 obituary of Baroness Alix de Rothschild in The Jewish Chronicle and a bill from a bookbinder in Breslau from 1903.
An empty folder for the late archaeologist Dr. Harry Reginald Holland Hall. On the back of the folder there are photographs of two standing sculptures, one of which is an Egyptian figure.
Clipping from The Evening Sun, Baltimore, January 20, 1945 titled "Rabbi Drazin annotates Volume on Genealogy" and several pages of handwritten notes on genealogy in Genesis and a biblical chronology in Hebrew.
This 1870 typescript contains notes faintly written in pencil at the top of the first page: "Subsequently reprinted in Dr. Daniel Marsh's 'Myths of the Bible'" and "[Reported by M_ L] when it was delivered."
"Manifesto" with writings of Elia Benamozegh and Guiseppe Mazzini (inscribed on the back of the pamphlet with Sabato Morais' name and address);
front page of The Press, Philadelphia, November 8, 1867;
"The Sarcophagus of the Palestinian Jews" by Alexander Kohut from The Reform Advocate;
a newspaper clipping about a child who was killed.
Articles from Der Israelit (1936) and a printer's galley proof of "Die Originalitat des neulich entdeckten hebraischen Sirachtertes" (Bonn, 1900).
The file includes a letter dated May 5, 1815 from Rev. Carvalho (and a typed copy) in which Carvalho informs Mikveh Israel that he intends to establish a seminary and that he will also establish a class to teach indigents for free. There is also a handwritten summation of a meeting of the Mikveh Israel Board on May 22, 1815 (and a typed copy) in which Carvalho's proposal is discussed, as well as a letter from Leopold [Landman] at Mikveh Israel informing Cyrus Adler of the existence of Carvalho's offer.
Darmstadter family tree from 1794-1965
Includes: advertisement for Dr. Henry Malter's "Saadia Gaon" to be published by the Jewish Publication Society; photograph of a headless sculpture from a book; a postcard sent to Mayer Sulzberger by O.S.S, in 1913 and one sent to Cyrus Adler by Samuel Edelman in 1913, notes in Hebrew on stationery for the American Academy for Jewish Research; a handwritten essay on Jewish snobs and one on the value of travel; a deed dated August 19, 1872 between Michael Reinhard and James Boal.
Teaching Certificate for the city of Philadelphia signed by Simon Gratz and Edwin Wolf
Typed copy of will names various Philadelphia charities and Judge Sulzberger
A typescript ("The Rationalism of Maimonides"), handwritten notes ["Studien uber Indogermanish-Semitesche Wurzelverwandschaft von Friedrich Delitzsch Leipzig 1873"] and a typed letter addressed to Judge Sulzberger.
The cover of the journal "The Sketch" shows the 1842 inscription over the entrance to the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Arabic newspaper from 1911.
Notes from John William Wallace's "The Reporters."
Typed list
2 versions of the introduction and 2 letters addressed to Dr. Nathaniel Reich
Typed translation of "Chapter 3: The Cult of the One God" and the footnotes.
5 pages of handwritten notes
Handwritten legal notes
Letters to and from Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen and Jacob deHaas. There are also newspaper and journal articles.
Letters and magazine articles on Jewish music
Typed sheet with lists of papers to be delivered with lantern slides, short papers and those needing more than 20 minutes.
Year 32, No. 3
Rebecca Rosenbach memorial booklet, written by Emily Solis-Cohen, (3 copies), reprinted from Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, No. 31, 1928.
"Early American Children's Books 1682-1840," The Private Collection of Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, On Exhibition at The New York Public Library, 1927, booklet inscribed to Dr. S. Solis-Cohen by Rosenbach.
"Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society," Number XXXVIII, September, 1948, Part 1. Contains articles by Rosenbach and Jacob Marcus.
"Eighty-ninth Annual Report," Hebrew Sunday School Society of Philadelphia, 1927. Contains an address by Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach on "Early American Jewish School Books."
"A. S. W. Rosenbach 1876-1952 In Appreciation," Reprinted from Publication of the American Jewish Historical Society, Vol. XLII, No. 1, September 1952.
"The Great Dr. R," Review of Edwin Wolf's "Rosenbach: A Biography" in Jewish Exponent, November 25, 1960.
"The Earliest Christmas Books" by A.S.W. Rosenbach. Privately Printed, Philadelphia, December 1927.
"The Sephardim of England: City Anniversary of Old Jewish Community, " The Times (pp. 5-6), December 18, 1951; "Prince Philip at Bevis Marks: 250th Anniversary Celebrations," The Jewish Chronicle, December 21, 1951; "The Sephardi Comminity of England" by Richard D. Barnett, The Jewish Chronicle, December 14, 1951.
Two photographs (one of a sphinx and one of a boulder), two plates of illustrations ( Plate 24 and Plate 25: Asiatics from the Tomb of Amu-Nesh, Western Thebes), and a photographic reproduction of a sculpture.
Includes a variety of material, including notes on Macbeth and the Talmud and a pamphlet on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Gift of Lois Sataloff, former CAJSL employee; her mother was a member of the Order
Box contains notes and newspaper clippings on a variety of topics. The newspaper clippings are in alphabetically labeled folders corresponding to the alphabetical accordion file container in which they were originally housed.