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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1 | Title: | Abba Hillel Silver Papers, Series III
| | | | Creator: | Silver, Abba Hillel | | | | Dates: | 1916-1945 | | | | Abstract: | Abba Hillel Silver was the rabbi of Temple-Tifereth Israel, Cleveland, Ohio, and an international leader of the Zionist movement. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, memoranda, reports, bulletins, press releases, publications, mainly related to Silver's work with the American Zionist Emergency Council, 1943-1945 and the United Palestine Appeal, 1934-1945. Additionally, the collection contains correspondence with Emanuel Newmann, Cyrus Sulzberger, and Sumner Welles, from the early 1940s; Zionist correspondence and memoranda related to the Zionist Organization of America, 1917-1934; correspondence and memoranda related to unemployment insurance, 1921-1937; and general correspondence, 1916-1937. The documents contain some notes in Hebrew, presumably written by Dr. Noach Orian, an Israeli researcher. The collection includes material related to the response of American Jewish leadership to the rise of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust and the rescue of European Jewry, Jewish settlement in Palestine, and anti-semitism in America. Also included is a letter from David Ben Gurion to Justice L. Brandeis on the history of relations between Jews and Arabs in Palestine; a statement by Rabbi Silver concerning contention over division of funds raised for the United Palestine Appeal, the Joint Distribution Committee, and the National Refugee Service; an interview with Henry Morgenthau by Dr. Bernard Joseph regarding conditions in Palestine under the British High Commissioner; and, a report by Chaim Weizmann on a meeting with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. | | | | Call #: | MS 4928 | | | | Extent: | 2.01 linear feet (2 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Silver, Abba Hillel, 1893-1963 | American Zionist Emergency Council | United Palestine Appeal (U.S.) | Zionist Organization of America | Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers | National Refugee Service (U.S.) | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Jews -- United States | Jews -- Palestine | Rabbis -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Zionism | Zionism -- United States | World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue | Jewish-Arab relations | Refugees, Jewish | Jewish question | Insurance, Unemployment -- United States | Antisemitism -- United States | Palestine -- Emigration and immigration | Palestine -- Politics and government -- 1917-1948
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2 | Title: | Philip Horowitz Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Philip Horowitz | | | | Dates: | 1932-2001 | | | | Abstract: | Philip Horowitz was a scholar of classical and modern Hebrew, a Yiddishist, a teacher, and an advocate of human rights and liberal causes. He served as rabbi of Brith Emeth Congregation, Pepper Pike, Ohio, from its inception in 1959 until its closure in 1986. He was Visiting Professor of Theology at John Carroll University, 1968-1978, and Dean of College Seminars, National Federation of Temple Youth, 1962-1972. He was also a member of the Executive Commission, Ohio Civil Liberties Union, 1964-1970, served on the Board of Directors of the Cleveland Council on Soviet Anti-Semitism, and was a member of the Ohio Commission on Abortion Reform. The collection consists of booklets, a bulletin, cassettes, certificates, compact discs, correspondence, invitations, manuals, memorial tributes, memoranda, a newsletter, newspaper clippings, a pamphlet, photographs, programs, sheet music, and transcripts. | | | | Call #: | MS 5436 | | | | Extent: | 1 linear feet (including three containers and one oversized folder) | | | | Subjects: | Horowitz, Philip, 1922-2002 | Brith Emeth Temple (Pepper Pike, Ohio) | Rabbis -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Reform Judaism -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Synagogues -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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