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MINUTE BOOKS OF CONGREGATIONS United Hebrew Congregation, Fort Congregation B'rith Kodesh, Rochester,

Smith, Arkansas, Vols. 1-111, 1892-1920, A'ew York, Ledger, 1865-1874 Original Congregation B'nai Israel, East Liver-

United Hebrew Congregation, Fort pool, Ohio, 1927-1935 Smith, Arkansas, Board OF Officers, Congregation B'nai Israel, East Liver- 1908-191 1, Original pool, Ohio, Ledger, 1919-1937

United Hebrew Congregation, Fort Congregation Beth Israel, Portland, Ore- Smith, Arkansas, Cash Books, Vols. gon, XTols. 1-11, 1865-1923 1-111, 1900-1 920, Original Congregation Beth Israel, Portland, Ore-

United Hebrew Congregation, Fort gon, Board of Trustees, Vols. 1-111, Smith, Arkansas, Cemetery Records, 1893-1909 Vols. 1-11, 1882-1920, Original Mizpa h Congregation, Chattanooga,

United Hebrew Congregation, Fort Tennessee, Vols. I-VIII, 1894-1942 Smith, Arkansas, Congregational Pa- Congregation Beth Israel, Austin, Texas, pers, By-Laws, Constitution, and Deeds, Vols. 1-111, 1924-1945 1874- i 909, Original Congregation B'nai Israel, Galveston,

Congregation Temple Sinai, Oakland, Texas, X'ols. I-V, 1870-1920 California, i 890-1905 Congregation B'nai Israel, Galveston,

Congregation Ernanu-El, Sail Fiancisco, Texas, Evecutive Committee, 1868- 1889 California, 1906-1913 Congregation Leshem Shomayim, Wheel-

Congregation Aaron, Trinidad, Coloiado, ing, West Virginia, Vols. 1-11, 1849-1904, Vols. 1-11. 1883-1934. Original English and German

Congregation Zion ("Zion" Gemeinde) , Congregation Leshem Shomayim, Wheel- Terre Haute, Indiana, 1858-1860, Gel- ing, West Virginia, Board of Trustees, man, Original 1879-1909, English and German

Congregation Brotheily Love, Bangor, Portuguese Jewish Congregation, Surin- Maine, 1849-1899, English and Geiman am, West Indies, Records of the Jura-

Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, Newaik, tors of the Jewish Nation in Surinam, New Jersey, Vols. 1-11, 1848-1871 1754-1825, Portuguese, Microfilms

Congregation B'rith Kodesh, Rochester, (Algemeen Rijksarchief, 's Gravenhage, New York, Board of Tiustees, Vols. Holland.) I-IV, 1887-1936

Esther Lodge, No. 159, I.O.B.B., Helena, Arkansas, Vols. 1-11, 1886-1 923

Hot Springs Lodge, No. 278, I.O.B.B., Hot Springs, Arkansas, Original, Re- stricted

Sabbath School Society, Congregation Aaron, Trinidad, Colorado, 1916-1925, Original

Sabbath School Society, Congregation Aaron, Trinidad, Colorado, Cash Book, 1895-1910, Original

Hebrew Ladies' Aid Society, Trinidad, Colorado, Vols. 1-11, 1889-1923

Hebrew Ladies' Aid Society, Trinidad, Colorado, Cash Book, 1900

Trinidad Lodge, No. 293, I. O.B.B.,

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Trinidad, Colorado, Vols. I-II, 1878- 1914, Original

Sinai Literary Association, Chicago, Illi- nois, 1877-1878

Hebrew Ladies' Benevolent Society, Ter- re Haute, Indiana, 1907-1923, Original

B'nai B'rith Lodge, No. 227, I. 0 . B. B., Owensboro, Kentucky, i87q-igz1

Reuben Lodge, No. 3, I. 0 . F. S. of I., The Free Sbns oC Israel, New York, N. Y., Vols. I-X, 18-19-1898, German and English, Origznal

Reuben Lodge, No. 3, I. 0 . F. S. of I., New York, N. Y., Ledgers, Vols. 1-111, 1849- 187 1, Original

Reuben Lodge, No. 3, I. 0. F. S. of I., New York, N. Y., Minute Book of the 60th Anniversary, 1909, Origznal

Reuben Lodge, No. 3, I. 0 . F. S. of I.,

New York, N. Y., Miscellaneous Ma- terial, Origi~zal

Reuben Lodge, No. 3, I. 0 . F. S. of I., New York, N. Y., Questionnaires, Vols. I-IV, 1861 -191 2, German and English, Original

Reuben Lodge, No. 3, I. 0. F. S. of I., New York, N. Y., Receipt Book, 1875- 1887, Otigi?aal

Reuben Lodge, No. 3, I. 0 . F. S. of I., New York, N. Y., Resolutions, 1850 I 856, Original

Temple Israel Sisterhood, New York, N. Y., 1891-1893, Original

Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, Board of Control, Vols. I-II, 18Gl-i896, Orig- inal

Hebrew Benevolent Association, DalIas, Texas, 1872-1878

Congregation Temple Sinai, Oakland, California, Articles of Incorporation, 1875. Photostnt

(Copy from the Office of the County Clerk of Alameda, Calif.)

Gemeleth Chesed and Hebrew Mutual Benefit Society, New York, N. Y., Arti- cles of Incorporation, 1861, Printed, Photostat

(Gift of Rabbi Elias Solomon, New York, N. Y.)

Hebrew Mutual Benefit Society and Ju- dah Touro Widow and Orphan Fund, New York, N. Y., Constitution and History, 1896, Printed, Photostat

(Gift of Rabbi Elias Solomon, New York, N. Y.)

Corigregation Keneseth Israel, Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania, Constitution, no date, Photostat

(Gift oE Dr. Bertram TV. Korn, Phil- adelphia, Pa.)

Congregation Mikve Israel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Rules and Regulations, 1813, Photostats

(Copies from the Minute Book of Congregation Mikve Israel, Philadel- phia, Pa.)

Congregation Mikve Israel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Charter and By-Laws, 1824, Microfilnt

(Copy from the Minute Book of Con- gregation Mikve Israel, Philadelphia.

T h e Female Hebrew Benevolent Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Constitu- tion, 1825, Printed, Photostat

(Copy from the Dropsie College, Philadelphia, Pa.)

Heljrelv Education Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Constitution and By- Laws, 1848, Printed, Photostats


Hebrew Society for the Visitation of the Sick and Mutual Assistance, Philadel- pbia, Pennsylvania, Constitution and By-Laws, 1835. Printed, Photostats


United Hebrew Beneficent Society, Phil- adelphia, Pennsylvania, Constitution and By-Laws, 1822, Printed, Photostats


Sumter Society of Israelites, Sumter, South Carolina, By-Laws, Rules and Regulations, 1907, Photostats

(Congregation Temple Sinai, Sum- ter, S. C.)

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Temple Sinai Congregation, Sumter, South Carolina, Constitution, 191 I , Photostat

(Congregation Teliiple Sinai, Sum- ter, S. C.)

Congregation Beth Shalom, Richmond, Virginia, Original Constitution, 1789, Typezuritlen Copy

(Isaac Leeser probably took the original froni the congregational records in Richmond and 1)rought it with hirn to l'liiladelphia when he became the hazzan. The original, no doubt, was among the Leeser papers, ancl is probably now in the possession of Miss Emily Solis-Cohen in Philaclelphia.)

ADLER, NATHAN; letter, 1879, London , knglarld; Munl~script

The letter gives an answer to t~vo questions which Charles Myers, of Nor- folk, Va., had propounded to the Chief Rabbi of England: whether the Torah is read at a service where there is 110 hlin- yan; and whether a boy of twelve can be included in a Minyan.

(Gift of Rabbi A. Alan .~teinbach, Brooklyn, N. Y.)

BAUM, ALBERT G., Collection; I 1/01., 1940-1 945; Manziscript

Correspondence between the chaplain and soldiers, who thank him for hospitality, and for spiritual, moral, and religious help, describing at the same tirne army life, army methods, and conditions in America and England. Let- ters written by Baum LO parents and relatives of these soldiers, informing them about the state oE health, of mind, and the whereabouts of their sons. In- cluded are Bsum's own descriptions of his experiences as a chaplain 1~110, as a "personal confessor," used- his influ- ence and prestige to uphold the rights and privileges of his men and sought to better their lot, and of his efforts in creating unity in Jewish life.

(Gift of Rabbi Albert G. Bauin, New York City.)

BENJAMIN, JUDAH P.; letter, 1873. Liver- pool, England; Manuscript

The statesman, who held several posts in the Confederate Cabinet, mentions, in this letter to W. H. and 0. H. Mor- rison of Washington, D. C., the conditions under ~uhich he will give then1 the .4merican co~itrol over his book, A

Treatise o n tlze Laiu o\ Sale of Personal Property.

(Gift of the Hebrew Union College Library.)

B o o ~ c , DANIEL; letler, 1784; n o place; Photostat

'I'he noted Kentucky pioneer and In- dian fighter was commissioned by Jacob I. Cohen and his partner, Isaiah Isaacs of Richmond, Va., to survey their lands on the Licking River in Kentucky, just a few miles south oE present-day Cin- cinnati. Presenting his bill, he wrote: "Mr. Samuel Grant my sisters sun will Lykly hand you this Leter if so he will be a good hand to send I,y and I will Bee acountal>le for any money put into his hands inless kild by the Indens."

(Copy froni the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, l'a.)

BOUDINOT, ELIAS; letter, 1820, Burling- ten, N. J.; Muizuscript

The Revolutionary palriot, President of Congress, and friend of Washington, who signed the Peace Treaty with Eng- land, proposes, in this letter to the Rev- erend W. C . F. Frey, a new way to help Jews persecuted in their homelands in Europe by bringing them to America and providing Cor them here I)y the colonization not of groups, but of indi- vidual families. I t was perhaps the first time that an Aalerican statesman had made such a proposal. He believes that it would I>e very difficult to get money for this purpose because of the general depression in the country, and [he citizens are obliged to help their own neigh- bors first. But he outlines another feas- ible plan and sends his share in cash.

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"I had forseen this issue, and advised you to discourage any coming over that was not able to maintain themselves for one year at least, so that they might go at once on land, that would be given to them, and at least be able to get food and garment aEter one year."

(Purchased from the American Auto- graph Shop, Merion Station, Pa.)

BRIANT, HUI.DAH A.; letter, 1863, Santa Lucn, Grorgin; Photostat

Huldah Briant relates to a friend that the ladies in the city where hcr father was living "marched in double file with pistol in hand" into the stores of Jews asking to be supplied by them with provisions and clothes as they wcrc suf- fering and their husbands were in the army, fighting for their propcrty.

(Copies from the Huldah A. (Fain) Briant Papers, Duke University Library, Durham, N. C.)

CARDOZO, BENJAMIN NATHAN; 65 letters, 1920-1937, New York, N. Y.; Rye , N. Y.; Washington, 1). C.; Whi te Plains, N. Y.; Ma7zuscript

Correspondence with .4nnie Nathan Meyer on personal affairs, political, phil- osophical, educational, and literary matters, books, trips, friends, aiid relatives, discussing also life, human destiny, law, and justice, and describing Cardozo's activity as a judge in New York and MTashington.

(Gift of Joseph Solomon, New York.)

CARICAL, HAM ISAAC; 5 letters, 1773- I 775, Surinam, Bal-bado~, W. I.; Photostats

In one of the letters (September 19, 1773)~ addressed LO Ezra Stiles of New- port, R. I., the learned rabbi from Pal- estine describes his stormy passage of 49 days from Rhode Island to Surinam, and thanks Stiles for the kindness and hospitality extended to him during his stay in A~nerica. In 4 letters, dated 1771-1775, he informs Stiles about his happy arrival i r ~ Barbados, where the congregation received the new rabbi "with every mark of esteem and respect due to my character" and promised him

that it would send for his wife and son "at their expence." Deep sympathy is expressed on the death of Stiles's wife. "It is ccrtainly the grealest grief any person can undergo to part with such a loving companio~~."

(Copies from the Yale University Li- brary, New Haven, Conn.)

(I am greatly obliged to Dr. Cecil Roth for correcting a mistake which I made in the January, 1952, issue of the Ameri- can Jewish Arclrives concerning the letter which Carigal wrote to Aaron Lopez from "St. John, Newfoundland," on No- vember 8, 1773. Dr. Roth discovered that the data given in Carigal's letter to Lopez (written in "Spanish," not in "Portugnese") arid in the English letters to Stiles are "irreconcilable." I t must therefore be stated that Carigal was' certainly not in St. John, Ne~vfoundland, on November 8, 1773, as he had just arrived at Surinam in September, 1773. But the error was a technical rather than a scientific one. When the technician photostared the Lopez letter in Newport, he superimposed it upon another letter, written by a non-Jew n ~ h o cyme from Newfoundland. Thus, at first glance, it seemed as if Cnrigal liad written Erom Newfoundland, the more so since the letters which he wrote to Stiles Crom Surinam and Barbados were received by the Archives many inor~ths later than was the so-called "Ne~\~founclland" letter.)

CASTRO, HENRY; l e t t e r , 1842, Paris, France; Photostat

He informs Anson Jones, the Secretary of State, that he has sent two ships to Texas loaded with passengers to occupy the land. All his settlers are cultivators with money and material. He asks the Secretary to obtain for him from Con- gress an extension of a year to fulfill the terms of his contract.

(Probably from the State Library of Texas or Univ. of Texas Library.)

CENTRAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN RAB- RIS, papers; Vols. I-XXIV, 1893-1 93;; Manuscript

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Applications, account ,books, correspondence, messages, minutes, programs, records, reports, resolutions, and solicita- tions of funds.

(Gift of the Central Conference of .4merican Rabbis.)

CLEVELAND, GROVER; lelter, 1897, Prince- ton, N. J.; Manuscript

The President thanks Simon Wolf for sending him his biographical sketch of Mordecai Manuel Noah. He has just finishcd the reading and "derived from it much pleasure and profit."

(Purchased.)

CONGREGATION BETI-I ELOHIM, Charleston, S. C.; petition, I 791 ; Typescript

The wardens and elders of the Jewish congregation ask the Senate of South Carolina that their congregation be le- gally incorporated. T h e petition is signed by Philip Hart and Isaac Da Costa as wardens, by Moses C. Levy as treasurer, and by four others.

(Copy from the Historical Commis- sion of South Carolina, Charleston, S. C.)

CROGHAN, GEORGE; letter, 1770, Fort Pitt, Pa.; Photostat

T o David Franks, relating to Franks's activity as a war commissary.

(Copy from the Edward E. Ayer Col- lection, the Ncwberry Library, Chicago, Illinois.)

DE LANCEY, PHILA; letter, 1779, Phila- delphia, Pa.; Photostat

The daughter of Jacob and Abigail Franks of New York, who eloped with Oliver De Lanccy it1 1742, asks the addressee, Colonel S. B. Webb, of Philadel- phia, to deliver a letter to a Miss Wal- ton of New York.

(Copy from the Yale University Li- brary.)

Ecs~son, LOUIS I.: papers; 1 Vol., 1918- I 919; Manuscript

Correspondence of Rabbi Egelso~~ will1 parents, relatives, friends, rabbis, schol- ars, and the Jewish Welfare Board.

(Gift of Rabbi I.ouis I. Egelson.)

EZEKIEL, MOSES; letter, igog, Rome, Italy; Manz~script

He thanks Rabbi Louis Grossmann for a letter "which I appreciate as a confi- dential matter."

(Gift of the Hebrew Union College Library.)

FELSENTHAL, BERNHARD; 8 letters, 1896- 1901, Chicago, Ill., German; Photostats

He discusses with his friends Eisen- stein and Libowitz scientific matters, Tal- mud, the science of Judaism, civil law problems, books, and magazines. Men- tioned are Gotthard Deutsch, David Ein- horn, Abraham Geiger, Kaufmann Koh- ler, Richard J. 11. Gottheil, and Isaac M. Wise.

(Gift of Dr. Joshua Bloch, New York.)

FELSENTHAL, BERNHARD; 2 letters, 1892- 1895, Chicago, Ill., German; Manz~script

In one of the letters Felsenthal writes to Henry Greenebaum about a plan, suggested by Professor Jacques Loeb, to establish a physiological institute .in America, and describes Loeb's proposals to raise money from persons who knew Helmholtz or were his pupils.

(Gift of the Hebrew Union College Library .)

FRANK, NATHAN; letter, 1890, Washing- ton, D. C.; Photostat

As a member of the House of Repre- sentatives, Frank, a resident of St. Louis, advises his friend, J. M. Thompson, vice- president of a bank in that city, about charges made against his business prac- tices. He asks him urgently to look into the matter.

(Copy from the Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo.)

GRATZ, MICHAEL; pelilion, 1783, Phila- delphia, Pa.; Photostat

As a creditor of the State of Virginia, Gratz asks the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia for paynlent of its dcbt for goods supplied to George Rogers Clark.

(Copy from the Virginia State Li- brary.)

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HARRISON, ROBERT M.; 2 letters, 1820, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands; Photostats

Harrison reports to John Quincy Ad- ams and H. M. Culloch that a Mr. Levy, an "extremely zealous" American vice- consul in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, has been much restricted in the exercise of his consular functions, as the "Gov- ernment of this colony [then Danish] has always been inimical to the residence of foreign agents." But he, himself, declares that it was wrong of Mr. Levy "to lower our national character in the estimation of foreigners." He finds him unable to "maintain that dignity of de- portment which should correspond with the importance of the office he has been appointed to fill."

(Copies from the General Recora of the Department of State, National Ar- chives, Washington, D. c.)

HART, AARON; letter, 1763, Three Rivers, Canada; Photostat

T h e able and well-known Canadian merchant informs his business friend, Samuel Jacobs, that rats have eaten most of Jacobs' goods.

(Copy from St. Joseph Seminary, Three Rivers, Canada.)

HART, ABRAHAM; 4 letters, 1844-1845, Philadelphia, Pa.; Photostats

Correspondence of the publisher wiih James Fenimore Cooper about printing and reprinting a few of Cooper's novels, discussing also copyrights and business matters. Induded is a letter of Hart written to Cooper's son in 1852.

(Copies from the Yale University Li- brary .)

HART, JOSHUA; letter, 1773, Charleston, S. C.; Photostat

T o Aaron Lopez, relating to business matters.

(Copy from the Newport Historical Society, Newport, R. I.)

HAYS, MOSES MICHAEL; declaration, 1776, Newport, R. I.; Photostat

Many citizens of Newport, among them Moses M. Hays, declare their loyalty to

the colonies. They will not "directly or indirectly afford assistance of any sort or kind whatever to the said [English] Fleet and Army during the Continuance of the present war, but that we will heartily assist in the Defence of the United Colonies."

(Copy from the Rhode Island State Archives, Providence, R. I.)

HELLER, MAX; Papers; Vols. I - X X V I I , 1876-1930; Man~~scr ip t ; Partly Restricted

This collection includes 11 volumes of addresses, bills, documents, essays, leases, lectures, minutes, notes, programs, resolutions, sermons, and wedding and funeral prayers, and 16 volumes of interesting correspondence. 3 volumes con- tain mostly family letters dealing with personal and domestic problems and throwing light on the hard struggle of Bohemian immigrants who came to Chi- cago in the 1870's 13 volumes of general correspondence are comprised of letters of Cyrus Adler, Felix Adler, Mary An- tin, Bernhard Bettmann, Henry Berk- owitz, Louis D. Brandeis, Edward N. Calisch, Alfred M. Cohen, Philip Co- wen, Henry Englander, Jacob Ezekiel, Bernhard Felsenthal, Leo M. Franklin, J. Walter Freiberg, Harry Friedenwald, Ephraim Frisch, Moses Gaster, Julius Goldstein, Richard J. H. Gottheil, Moses J. Gries, Louis Grossmann, Emil G. Hirsch, Henry Hurwitz, Kaufmann Koh- ler, Alexander Kohut, Joseph Krauskopf, Louis Lipsky, Judah L. Magnes, Max L. Margolis, Louis Marshall, Claude G. Montefiore, Julian Worgenstern, David Philipson, Max Raisin, William Rosenau, Solomon Schechter, Isidor Singer, Joseph Stolz, Nathan Straus, Oscar S. Straus, Henrietta Szold, Felix M. Warburg, Isaac M. Wise, Leo Wise, Stephen S. Wise, Jonah B. Wise, Louis Wolsey, Simon Wolf, Israel Zangwill, and Heinricli Zirndorf, relating to congregational, rab- binical, religious, scientific, cultural, and political matters, the Reform Movement, Zionism, the labor movement, conferences, meetings, the prayer book contro- versy, immigrational problems, the He- brew Union College, books, trips, and

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the careers of well-known rabbis, scien- tists, and writers.

(Gift of Rabbi James G. Heller.)

HOLSTEIN, JUDITH; letter, 1784, Natchez , Miss., Trans!at ion . f r o m t h e Spanish; Photostat

In a petition to the Civil and Military Commandant of the Post and District of Natchez, Judith Holstein, possibly a Mar- rano, conlplains that a man of infamous conduct has carried off her daughter, the wife of Thomas Holmes, and their child. She asks that the child be relr~rned to her and placed under her protection.

(Copy from the Office of the Chancery Clerk, Adams County, Natchez, Miss.)

JEWISH INST~TUTE OF RELIGION, Papers; Vols. I -XI- J f I I , 1g21-1g4g; Manuscript

Addresses, correspondence, lectures, minutes, repom, resolutions, and statis- tics.

(Gift of the Jewish Institute of Re- ligion, New York.)

JONAS, JOSEPH; letter, 1825, Cincinnat i , 011io; Manuscript

This first Jewish pioneer of the Ohio Valley and Parnas of the Congregation Bene Israel, and three other members of the congregation, J. Joseph, D. I. Johnson, and Phineas Moses, ask the Charleston Jews for subscriptions for the building of a synagogue. "We are well assured that many Jews are lost in this country from not being in the neighbourhood of a congregation, they often marry with ,Christians, and their posterity lose the true worship of God for ever."

(Gift of Dr. David Philipson.)

JUDAH, BENJAMIN; letter, 1798, London , England; PIzotostat

Irr this letter to Alexander Hamilton, Judah expresses his happiness that his country has been aroused to a just sense of dignity and is determined to defend its claims against an insidious foe. He offers to procure arms.

(Copy from the Alexander Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.)

JUDAH, MOSES; pet i t ion, 1819, Fairfield, Conn.; Photos(at

Moses Judah of New York and other nlerchants have formed an zssociation for the purpose of manufacturing cotton and woollen fabrics in the town of Norwalk. They ask the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut to incorpo- rate their association into a company under the name of the "Richmondville Manufacturing Company."

(Copy from the Connecticut State Archives.)

JCOHLIR, KAUFMANN; le t ter , 1893. N e w York , N. Y.; Manuscl-ipt

He discusses with Joseph Stolz the contemplated English prayer book of David Einhorn.

(Gift of the Hebrew Union Collegc Library.)

Lrvu, Mosl s; pet i l lon, probably 1783, p?obably Charleston, S. C.; Photostat

In a letter to the President and members of the Senate of South Carolina, Levy tells how he happened to stay in the British West Indies during the War of Independence. A native of New York, he was, while still very young and against his will, put by his f a ~ h e r on board a British ship sailing to Jamaica. There he succeeded in being dischatged, and went back to America with the intention of becoming a citizen of South Carolina. He asks urgently to be admitted to citizenship.

(Copy from the Historical Colnmission of South Carolina.)

LEVY, SAMSON; le t ter , 1804, no place; Photostat

He informs John Backer about business matters.

(Copy froin the Yale University Li- brary.)

LINDO, MOSES; letler, 1770, Charleston, S. C.; Photoslat

T h e surveyor and inspector-general of indigo, drugs, and dyes for the province of South Carolina asks Sampson and Solomon Simpson, merchants of New

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York, to send the sum of five pounds, on his account, to the new Rhode Island College (now Brown University), as the founders have "no objection of admit- ing the Youth of our Nation without interfering in Principals of Religion."

(Copy from the Brown University Library.

Loen, J ~ c o u MORITZ, Collection; Vols. I - X X X VI I , 1898- 1935, Chicago, Ill.; Man- uscript

Vols. 1-11, The American Jewish Relief Committee for War SuKerers, 1921-1922

Vols. 111-XVI. T h e Board of Educa- lion, 1913-1923

Vol. XVII. The Chicago Conference (the [Jnited Jewish Campaign), 1926

Vols. XVIII-XIX. T h e Chicago Hebrew Institute, I 908-1935

Vol. XX. T h e Committee for 250,000 Dollars

Vol. XXI. Masonic Affairs (Chicago Lodge, No. 437, A. F. and A. M.), 1898- '931

Vols. XXII-XXVI. Public Affairs Vols. XXVII-XXX. T h e Standard Clnh Vols. XXXI - XXXIII. Sunday Jewish

Activities Vols. XXXIV-XXXVII. The United

Drive for $q,ooo,ooo (Gift of Hamilton M. Loeb, Chicago,

Illinois.)

LOPFZ, AARON; letter. 1781, I.eic~ster, Mass.; Photostat

He discusses with Ezra Stiles Carigal's portrait, and Stiles's "affectionate com. memoration for that illustrioris hacham."

(Copy from the Yale University Li- brary .)

LOI'EZ, AARON; letter, 1781, Boston, Mass.; Photostat

T o ,4rnold Wellcome, relating to vari- ous business matters.

(Copy from the Yale University Li- brary .)

MCKIXLEY, WILLIAM; letter, n o date, Krashiizgton, D. C.; Photostat

He offers to Oscar S. Straus, to whom the letter is addressed, the post of Am-

bassador to Turkey. (Purchased from the National Society

of Autograph Collectors, Hollywood, California.)

ADIS IS ON, JAMFS; letter, 1782, Philadel- plzia, Pa.; Photostat

T o Edmund Randolph: "I cannot ill any way make you more sensible of the iinportailce of your kind attention to pecrlniary remittances for me than by informing you that I have for some time past been a pensioner on the favor of Haym Salomon, a Jew Broker, the agent of Mr. Morris."

(Copy from the Library of Congress.)

MAGNES, Jrro.\a L.; letter, igog, N e w York, N . Y.; Photortnt

He confides in Hector Stolz his Jewish faith: "I see in the traditional Jew a living Judaism with distinctiveness and character -- a national - religious Juda- ism. I want LO r e~a in as much of distinc- tive character in modern Judaism as is possible. T o this end I would seek to take from living Judaism what I can and may, in so far as that has import for my life as a non-orthodox Jcw. And besides his I hope for new values in the frltr~re. That, too, is why I am a Zionist - because I believe these new values call best be created in a Jewish center."

(Gift of Dr. Jacob R. Marcus.)

MI?YER, AWNIT. NATIIAN, COLLECTION; Vols. I - X X , 1890-1950; Mant~script , Partly Restrirted

Vols. 1-11, plays; Vols. 111-IV, stories, articles, and essays; Vol. V, book manuscripts; Vols. VI-XV, general correspondence; Vol. XVI, personal letters LO her husband, daughter, and members of her family; Vol. XVII, minutes of the Board of Trustees of Barnard College, 1890- 1950; Vol. XVIII, the Cape Cod Art Exhibit, arranged for the Cape Cod Scholarship for Barnard College, 1941; Vols. XIX-XX, pictrrres of the Nathan and Meycr families.

(Gift of Joseph Solomon, New York, New York.)

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M E Y ~ R , ANNE NATHAN, Collection; 80 letters, lgod-lg47, Albanjl, N. Y.; Arlington, Vt.; Boston, Mass.; Cambridge, Mass.; Los Angeles, Calif.; New York, N . Y.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Washington, D. C.; Manuscript; Partly Restricted

Correspondence between Annie N a t h a ~ ~ Meyer and Cyrus Adler, Pearl S. Buck, Nicholas Murray Butler, Dwight D. Eis- cnhower, John Erskine, Clifton Fadiman, Edna Ferber, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Herbert Hoover, Bronislaw Huberman, Fannie Hurst, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Herbert H. Lehman, Irving Lehman, Joshua Loth Liebman, Henry Morgen- thau, Eleanor Roosevelt, Theodore Roose- velt, Arthur, Hays Sul7l,erger, Carl Van Doren, Brurlo Walter, Wendell L. Will- kie, Stephen S. Wise, and Israel Zang- will, mostly about literary, cultural, political, and sociological questions, and personal affairs.

(Gift of Joseph Solomon; New York.)

MILLER, CARL I., Collection; 1 Vol., 1944- 1946: Manuscript

Letters to and from Miller, Army or- ders, reports, and marriage certificates.

(Gift of Rabbi Carl I. Miller, now of Gar), Ind.)

MOPITEFIORE, MOSES; lelter, 1878, Rams- gate, England; Manuscript

He sends to Alfred T. Jones the amount of his subscriptlon to Jones's "excellent Journal," the "Jewish Record." He hopes fervently that the editor will continue to promote the study of the Hebrew language and its sublime litera- ture. "We must now more than ever make every effort to support our Schools and Colleges where the word of God is taught in its purity."

(Gift of Mrs. .Arthur A. Kahn, Atlan- tic City, N. J., through the courtesy of Rabbi Joseph Narot, Miami, Fla.)

Monoecar, ALFRED; letter and papers, 1819, Warrenton, N . C.; Photostats

In a letter written to John C. Calhoun, Mordecai accepts thankfully his appointment as a cadet of the Military Acad-

emy at West Point. As Major Mordecai he became, later on, a well-known scientific investigator and author of Experi- ments on Gunpowder, served in the Mexican War, and was sent by the United States to observe operations in the Crimea. Included are seven merit rolls and the results of examinations that show the name of Alfred Mordecai as: a 4th class student, January, 1820; a 3rd class student, January, 1821; a 3rd class student, June, 1821; a 2nd class student, June, 1822; a 1st class student, January, 1823; and a 1st class student, June, 1823.

(Copies from the Records of the War Department, National Archives.)

MORDECAI, ALFRED; letter, 1856, Washing- ton, D. C.; Photostat

Major Mordecai recommends his son Alfred as "a candidate for appointment of cadet in the Military Academy." He "has the requisite qualifications Cot ad- mission into the Military Academy and is free from any defect which would disqualify him for the military service."

(Copy from the National Archives.)

MORDECAI, ALFRED, JR.; letter, 1857, Washington, D. C.; Photostat

Letter of acceptance of his appointment as a cadet.


MORDECAI, JACOB; letter, 1796. Warren- ton, N. C.; Photostat

The founder of the non-sectarian Ce- male seminary at Warrenton, and pioneer of feniale education, is happy about the progress which his two daughters, Rachel and Ellen, the addressees of the letter, have made in their learning in Richmond. "The advantages attendant. on Education will no doubt all conspire to impell you with ardor steadily to pursue this pleasing avocation."

(Copy from the Duke University Li- brary, Mordecai Collection.)

MORDECAI, JACOB; 3 letters, 1818, War- renton, N. C.; Richmond, Va.; Phvto- stats

ACQUISITIONS

An application to the War Depart- ment for his son Alfred, age ig, to enter the Military Academy at West Point. He recommends him as a good scholar who has read the usual Greek and Latin authors, and as a man of good disposi- tion and moral character.

(Copies from the National Archives.)

MORDECA~, SO:.OMON; letter, 1806, War- renton, N. C.; Photostat

In this letter to his brother Samuel, the son of Jacob Mordecai tells of his studies in Greek grammar and Virgil's Acneid. He thanks Samuel Cur sending him the "Baron Munchhausan" which "afforded us not a little atnusetnent," and asks for more good books.

(Copy from the Duke University Li- brary.)

MORGAN, JOHN TYLER; letter, 1880, Wash- ington, D. C.; Manuscript

T h e Senator from Alabama defends himself, in this letter, written to Adolph Proskauer, against the reproach of hav- ing made some anti-Semitic remarks at- tacking a certain Charles Mayer's public career in Alabama "as being unworthy of the race to which he belongs."

(Gift of Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isser- man, St. Louis, Mo.)

MOSES, HENRY; LEYI, SAMUEL; SIRSONS, MONTAGUE; SOLOMONS, HYAM; SOLO- MONS, LEVY; LYONS, MORDECAI; petition, 1783, Cha~leston, S. C.; Photostat

T h e rnemorialists relate to the Assem- bly of South Carolina that they arrived in this state "some time after the reduc- tion of this capital by the British, and never took an active part against this or any of the United States of America." Although prisoners on parolc, they sin- cerely wished, they said, to become resi- dents of this state and loyal citizens of America.

(Copy from the Historical Commission of South Carolina.)

MOSES, ROSALIE E. A,; lelter, 1861, Sum- ter, S. C.; Photostat

Mrs. Moses sends to the Secretary of

the Treasury of the Confederate States of America, in Richmond, the sum of one hundred dollars "in aid of our soldiers gallantly contending in Virginia for our great cause."

(Copy from the General Records of the Department of the Treasury, Na- tional Archives.)

MYERS FAMILY, Papers (supplement); 26 items, 1817-1827; Photostats

Contracts, deeds, business papers, and correspondence with business friends and politicians.

(Gift of Miss Katherine Barton, Nor- folk, Va.)

MYERS, JOHN; letter, 1827, Washington, D. C.; Photostat

The son of Moses Myers, of Norfolk, Va., asks James Madison to write to the President or the Secretary of the Treasury on behalf of his lather, "who is put in nomination by his friends for the office of Collector of that port" (Nor- folk).

(Copy from the Library of Congress.)

NASSY, DAVID: q letters, 1793-1799. Phila- deiphia, Pa., Stirinam; French; Photo- stats

The author and doctor of medicine, a native of Surinam, who -as one of the "R6gens" of the Portuguese Jewish "nation" of Surinam - signed the fa- mous letter to Christian Wilhelm Dohm in 1786, and was one of the composers, or possibly the author, of the Essai sur la Colonie de Surinam, avec I'histoire de la Nation Juive Portugaise y Ctablie, lenirs privileges, immunite's et franchises . . . , lived for a few years in Philadel- phia. During his stay in that city, where he practised medicine, he was elected to membership by the American Philo- sophical Society. I11 these letters, addressed to the President of the Society, he expresses his thanks for his election, and declares his intention of returning to Surinam (1795) and his desire to promote the objects of the Society in his native country. In 1799 he sends his work, entitled Lettre Politico-Theologi-

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60-Mo7ele szlr les Jui fs , from Surinam to Philadelphia, commenting on it and on the spirit of enlightenment in Amer- ica: Les Etats Unis, mettoient en pra- tique, dont ce qui n'6toit ailleurs, qu'une mine Thi-orie de quelques particuliers: Heureux l'endroit, od les bonnes T.oix, sont sanctionni-es par les lnoeurs du Peu- ple! Heureux le Peuple, dont les moeurs sont les garants de ses Loin!" . . . "Un ouvrage qui d6Eend une partie du genre humain accabli-e de la haine, et calonl- ni6e par les prejugCs, ne sauroit etre tnieux jug6 que, par les Savans de Phila- delphia. . . ." Included are extracts from the Society's Minutes (typewritten), pertaining to a discourse of Dr. Nassy, "Whether the learned researches of modern botanists have been more useful than those of the ancient," which was pre- sented and referred to a committee on Fehruary 21, 1794, and the discourse itself (in French).

(Copies from the Atnerican Philosoph- ical Society, Philadelphia, Pa.)

NOAH, Mo~n~c .41 MANUEL; letter, 1818, Neul York; Manuscript

In April, 1818, Noah delivered a discourse at the consecration of the Mill Street Synagogue calling America the chosen country of his people. He sent this address to 'Thomas Jefferson, and rrrote him that he was persuaded that "nothing can be more gratifying to you than to see the Jews in this country in the full enjoyment of citil and religious rights, to know that they pos- sess equal privileges."

(Gift or the Hebrew Union College Library.)

O~to, ADOLPI-I S., Papers; about 650 letters, 1914-1942, America, Austria, Eng- land, France, Germany, Palestine; Ger- man , English, Yiddish; Manuscript; R e - stricted

Correspondence between Oko and El- kan Adler, Esther Agnon, Sholom Asch, Hans Bach, Fritz Barnbcrger, David and Carola Baumgardt, Salo W. Baron, Mi- riam Beer-Hofmann, Richard Beer-Hof- marln, Norman Bentwich, Hugo Rerg-

mann, Constantin Brunner, Martin Bu- ber, Elliot E. Cohen, Ismar Elbogen, Ja- cob Epstein, Felix Frankfurter, Aron Freimann, Carl Gebhardt, Nelson Glueck, Lazarus Goldschmidt, James G. Heller, Max Heller, Isaac IIusik, Mordecai M. Kaplan, Hans Kohn, George Alexander Kohut, Rebekah Kohut, Arthur Liebert, Judah L. Magnes, Alexander M a n , Israel Mattuck, H. L. Mencken, George F. Moore, Julian Morgenstern, Adolph S. Ochs, Arthur Ruppin, Herbert Samliel, Arthur Schnitzler, James Senior, S. Shu- nami, Andre Spire, Arthur Szyk, Gene- vicve Taggert, Otto Vollbehr, and Ste- phen S. Wise, on personal matters, t a ~ n - ily problems, the careers and character of friends, literary, scientific, religious, Jewish, and political questions, Zionism, Nazism, war, and Oko's efforts to briilg spiritual and financial help to refugees.

(Gift of Mrs. Adolph S. Oko.)

PAVIA, JOSEPII: letter, 181 7, Baltimore, Mrl.; Photostat

Pavia, who seems to havc been an agent of the Department of State, writes to Moses Young that he is waiting for some necessai y intelligence.

(Copy frotn the General Records of the Department of State, National Ar- cl~ivts.)

PROSK.AUER, JENNY, COLLECTION; V O ~ . I-II , 1862- 1924, Mobile, Ala.; M o n t g o m e y , Ala.; S t . Louis, Mo.; Washington, D. C.; German and English; Manuscript

Vol. I . Correspondence of Adolph Pros- liauer with the Secretary of State, the War Department, relatives, Eriellds, and business associates: of Mrs. Adolph Pros- ltauer with II. Sonneschein and others; of Arthur Joseph Mayer Proskauer with the War Department, friends, editors, and publishers relating mostly to Adolph Proskauer's Civil War experiences and the Rattle of Gettysburg.

Vol. 11. Manuscripts of articles, essays, novels, and plays written by Arthur Jo- seph Mayer Proskauer.

(Gift of Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isser- man, Tenlple Israel, Washington Blvd., St. Louis, Mo.)

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R O H R H E I M E R , R E N A M., Papers; Vols. 1-11, 1936-1950, America, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Swilzer- lancl, Turkey; E n g l i ~ h and German; M a ~ ~ u s c r i p t

Correspondence o f Rena M. Rohrhei- mer .ivith friends, relatives, committees, and organizations mainly o n refugee problems, and on her ef forts i n arrang- ing to get Jews out o f Nazi-occupied countries and Germany. T h e collection contains interesting and moving letters written by well-known writers, profes- sors, artists, and simple people describing their desperate condition during t h e war and expressing their thanks for Miss Rohrheimer's courageous help and self- sacrifice. Included are many fine reports, cssays, notes, and letters written by Miss Rohrheinler herself about her trips to England. France, Egypt, Italy, Israel, and Switzerland.

(Gi f t of Miss Rena M. Rohrheimer, Philadelphia, Pa.)

SALOILION. H A Y M ; lelLer, 1784, n o place; Photostat

He asks Turnbul l , Marmie and Com- pany to send 15,000 dollars i n State money o n the account o f a Mr. Holker. Included are 3 receipts signed b y Sam Hays for Haym Salomon.

Copies f rom the Yale University Li- brary .)

SALOMON, H A Y M ; Senate Papers; Micro- films

(Copies f rom the National Archives.)

SCHIFF, JACOB H., Papers; Vols. I - X X X V , 1914-igz0, English and German; Manu- script

Vol . I . 1914. Correspondence o f Jacob H . Schiff with T h e Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (I-IIAS) ; Kohler, Kaufmann; Koliler, Max; Kraus- k o p f , Joseph; Kreisler, Fritz; Mack, J u - lian; McAdoo, Wi l l iam G.; Magnes, J u - dah L.; hlarshall, Louis; Mendes, H . Pereira; Meyer, Annie Nathan; Mor- genthau, Henry; Miihsam, Hans; Miitl- sterberg, Hugo; Nathan, Paul; Neumark, David, and the United Jewish Aid So-

cieties: dealing mostly wi th educational, political, immigrational, and relief problems, the outbreak o f the first World W a r , t h e inhuman treatment o f the Jews i n Poland, and relief for Antwerp Jews and for Jewish sufferers f rom the war. Included are reports written b y Henry Morgenthau, the American A m - bassador i n Constantinople, to Schiff on the conditions o f the Jews in Turke) - , Roumania, and Palestine, and letters f rom Paul Nathan, o f Berlin, on the activities o f the Hilfsverein der Deut- schen J u d e n in Palestine, the struggle between Zionists and non-Zionists i n Germany, the "language question" ill Jerusalem, and the founding o f a Jewish Institute o f Technology (Technikum) i n Haifa.

Vol . 11, 1914-191,rj. Corrispondence wi th the Montefiore Home; Morgenthau, Henry; Nathan, Paul; Ochs, Adolph S.; Ridder, Herman; Rockefeller, Johri D. Jr.; Rosenwald, Julius; Ruppin , Arthur; the Schif f family; Straus, Nathan, and Schurman, Jacob G . (president o f Cor- a nell University) : concerning the Beilis trial ( t h e ritual murder accusation i n Kiev), the Montefiore Honie, the Amer- ican Relief Fund for Palestine, the e f - fects o f the war on Palestine, and Schiff 's 1ectul.eship at Cornell University.

Vol . 111, 1914. Correspondence with Raisin, Max; Sobernheim, Moritz; Straus, Isaac; Sulzberger, Cyrus; Sulzberger, Mayer; Takahashi, Nakamura; T a f t , W i l - l iam H., and Thomson, Sir Mitchell: on the United Hebrew Charities, he Stand- ard Oil Company and the economic condition o f Palestine. T h i s volume contains also a report by S'obernheim on the political, economic, and cultural situation in Palestine and the Middle East.

Vol . IV , 1915. Correspondence with W a l d , Lillian D.; Warburg, Max, o f Hamburg; Warburg, Paul; W h i t e , An- drew D.; Williams, J o h n Shelton, and Wise, Stephen S.: relating to the Henry Street Settlement, the military situation o f the Great Powers, financial transactions, business matters, Cornell Univer- sity, and the Leo M. Frank case i ~ ? Atlanta and Marietta, Ga.

5 2 AMERICA N JEWISH ARCHIVES, JANUARY, 1953

Vol. V, 1915. Correspondence with Ad- ler, Cyrus; the American Jewish Com- mittee; the Amcrican Jewish Relief Committcc; Antin, Mary; Barondess, Jo seph; Benderly, Samson; Bernstein, Her- man; Bernstorff, Graf von (of the Ger- man Embassy); Bettmann. Mrs. Bern- hard; Billikopf, Jacob; Boas, Franz; Brandeis, Louis D.; Cassel, Ernest; Cut- ler, Harry; Deutsch, Gotthard: Dumba, Constantin (of the Austro-Hungarian Embassy); Eleanora, Queen of Bulgaria; Friedlaender, Israel; Hall, Stanley G. (president of Clark University), and Mag- nes, Judah L.: comnlenting on the Leo M. Frank case, the plight of the Jews and their need of help in Poland, Lith- uania, Galicia, Russia, and Palestine, the afiairs of Dropsie Collcge, and the Jewish Teachers' College, and containing re- flections and theories on Zionism, na- tionalism, Judaism, arid religious and educational problems.

Vol. 7;J, 1915. Corrcspondence with the Educational Alliance; Ewers, Hanns Heinz; the Federation of Jewish Farmers in America; Flexner, Abraham; Freiberg, J. Walter; Greene, Jerome (of the Rocke- feller Foundation); Grics, Moses J.; Gug- genheim, David; the Hebrew Technical School for Girls; the Hebrew Union Col- lege Teachers' Institute; Hengelmuller, Baron von (of the Austrian Embassy); the Henry Street Settlerncnt; HIAS; the Hill Professorship Fund (of Harvard University) ; Hirsch, Abraham (of Hal- berstadt) ; the Baron de Hirsch Fund; the Hirsch Agricultural School, and Hur- witz, Henry: rnostly on Jewish farming problems, the Leo M. Frank case, anti- Selnitism in Georgia, American-German relations during the first World War, and Schiff's own attitude towards Ger- many.

Vol. VII, 1915. Correspondence with Benderly, Samson (of the Bureau of Jew- ish Education) ; Jacobs, Joseph; Jastrow, Morris; the Jewish Agricultural Experi- ment Station; the Jewish Immigrants' In- formation Bureau; the Jewish Daily News; the Jewish Publication Society; the Jew- ish Teachers' College Fund; the Kehillah (the Jewish Community, New York) ;

Kohler, Max J.; Kohler, Kaufmann; Kohut, Rebekah; Lehman, Herbert H.; Lyon, David G. (of the Harvard Semitic Museum): Mack, Juliatl W.; Magnes, Judah L.; hlannheimer, Leo; Marshall, Louis; the Menorah Journal; Sulzherger, Cyrus, and the Treasury DepartrrienL: discussing the Jewish Labor itlovement, Jewish agricultnral experiments, relief and financial transactions, and the action of the House of Representatives on the Immigration Bill.

Vol. VIII, 1915. Correspondence with the Montefiore Home; Nathan, Paul (of Berlin) ; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; the National Civic Federation; the National Employment Exchange; the New York Peace Society, and the New York Staats- Zeitung: dealing with the massacres of Russian Jews, the situation of Polish Jewry (reports of Paul Nathan on his trips to Poland and his attempts to help), with politics, war prohlems, the "Kaiser," and the anti-Semitism of the National Employment Exchange.

Vol. IX, 1915. Correspondence with Ochs, Adolph S.; Phillips, Benjamin Z. (the law partner of John J. Slaton, Gov- ernor of Georgia at the time of the Leo M. Frank case) ; Philipson, David; Pool, David de Sola; Rosenau, William; Rosenwald, Julius; the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children; Schwab, Charles M. (president of the Bethlehem Steel Cor- poration) ; Simon, James (of Berlin); Slaton, John J. (Governor of Georgia); Straus, Oscar S.; Temple Emanu-El, New York; the Union of American Hebrew Congregations; the United Hebrew Char- ities of New York; Untermeyer, Samuel; Viereck, George Sylvester, and Vogel- stein, Ludwig: pertaining to the Leo M. Franlc case, Jewish agricultural and in- dustrial problems, the Haifa Technikum, and personal and domestic events.

Vol. X, 1915. Correspondence .with Wald, Lillian D.; Warburg, Max; War- burg, Paul; Wolf, Lucien: Wolf, Simon, and the Young Men's Hebrew Associa- tion: mainly on the Henry Street Settle- ment and business matters. Jncluded are addresses and articles.

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Vol. XI, 1915-1918. Correspondence with Barnard College.

Vol. XII, 1916. Correspondence with Adler, Cyrus; the American Hebrew; the American Jewish Congress; the Ameri- can Jewish Relief Committee; Asch, Sho- lom, and Butler, Nicholas Murray: on Jewish institutions, rclief work, and educa tion.

Vol. XIII, 1916. Correspondence with Basch, Victor; Billikopf, Jacob; Bonn, Moritz; Brandeis, Louis D.; the Brook- lyn Federation of Jewish Charities: the Central Jewish Institute; the Council of Jewish Women; Gregory, T . W. (Attor- ney General of the United States), and Rosenwald, Lessing: containing reflec- tions on political and social science, and on rclicf and educatioilal pro'blems, and dealing with the Morris Bettmann case.

Vol. XIV, 1916. Correspondence with Harrison, Leon; the Henry Street Set- tlement; HIAS; Houston, D. F. (Secretary of Agriculture); the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith; the Independent Order of B'rith Ahraham; the Jewish Commu- nity (Kehillah); the Jewish Encyclope- dia; the Jewish Theological Selninary of America; the Joint Distribution Com- mittee; Kohler, Max J.; Kohler, Kal~f- mann, and Kohut, George Alexander: on relief problems, literary, scientific, and religious questions, and business matters.

Vol. XV, 1916. Correspondence with the League to Enforce Peace; Lehman, Herbert H.; Levy, Felix; Mack, Julian W.; Magnes, Judah L.'; Marshall, Louis; thc Montefiore Ho~rie; Morgenthau, Henry; Morris, Ira (the American Am- bassador to Sweden); Nathan, Paul, and the United Hebrew Charities of New York: relating to articles in the Yiddish press against Schiff, to Magnes' critical observations concernir~g the press, and to his proposal to initiate "a congress of a United American Jewry in securing full rights for the Jews of belligerent lands." T h e correspondence deals also with Magnes' attempts to raise money for the family of Sholom Aleichem. In- cluded are articles and reports dealing with the administration of Jewish af-

fairs in Poland by the German government during the War, and Schiff's opinion on this matter.

Vol. XVI, 1916. Corrcspondence with the National Farm School; New York University; Polk, Frank (counselor for the State Department); Rosenwald, Ju- lius; Ruppin, Arthur; Schneiderman, Harry, and Stolz, Joseph: on personal and do~ncstic affairs, relatives and friends, and the economic and political situation in Palestine, and containing also speeches delivered by Schiff on the "Kehillah" and the Central Jewish In- stitute.

Vol. XVII, 1916. Correspondence with Billikopf, Jacob; Lansing, Robert (United States Secretary of State) ; Straus, Oscar S.; Taft, Charles I?.; the Union of Amer- ican Hebrew Congregations: the Ilnited Hebrew Charities; Wilson, James H.; Wolf, Simon, and the Woodrow Mrilson Independent League: dealing with the presidential elections, with conferences with Wilson, with recollections of a White House interview in 191 I on the Roumanian and Russian question, with attempts to secure equal rights for core- ligionists, and with the peace movement. Included are interesting letters written by Si~non Wolf to Schiff with reference to his activities in the interests of Ameri- can Jewry, his interviews with Presidents and fa~nous persons, and his ideas on Zionism and Judaism.

Vol. XVIII, 1917. Correspondence with the American Hebrew; the .American Jewish Committee; the American Jewish Congress; the American Rights League; Asch, Sholom; Berkowitz. Henry; Rilli- kopf, Jacob; Boas, Franz; Brandeis, Louis D.: Cohen, Waley R.; Lehman, Herbcrt H., and hfarshall, Louis: mostly on relief problems.

Vol. XIX, 1917. Correspondence with The Day; Deutsch, Gotthard; the Edu- cational Alliance; Elkus, Abram; Ene- low, Hyman G.; the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Socie- ties; the Federation of Jewish Farmers of America; Friedenwald, Harry; Fried- laender, Israel; Friedman, Elisha; Fuld, Felix, and the Jewish Protectory and

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Aid Society: on thc problems of Profes- sor Gotthard Deutsch at the Hebrew Union College, and his requests for help. Included are minutes of the Andrew Freedman Home, New York.

Vol. XX, 1917. Correspondence with Barnard College; Gary, Elbert; the Ger- man University League; Guggenheim, Daniel; the Halifax Fund; Heller, Max; the Henry Street Settlement, and HIAS.

Vol. XXI, 191 7. Comespondence with the Jewish Daily News; the Joint Distri- bution Committee; Kallen, Horace M.; Knopf, Alfred A.; Kohler, Max J.; Koh- ler, Kaufmann; Kohut, George Alexan- der and Rebekah; Krauskopf, Joseph; Laemmle, Carl; Landman, Isaac: Leh- man, Irving, and Luhin, David: relating to the Deutsch case, relief problems, education, and the Russian Revolution.

Vol. XXII, 1917. Correspondence with the Jewish Wellare Board.

Vol. XXIII, 1917. Correspondence with Magnes, Judah L.; Marshall, Loitis; L11e Montefiore Home; Morgenthau, Henry, and the National Employn~ent Exchange: on the "abominable condition in the National Exchange that had driven Schiff out personally of the Directorate of the Institution which he had Eound- ed" and on the death of Professor Miin- sterberg and the attempts to aid his family.

Vol. XXIV, 1917. Correspondence with Reading, Rufus Daniel Isaacq, Marquess of; Root, Elihu; Schiff, Mortimer; Stolz, Joseph; Sulzberger, Mayer, and Temple Emanu-El: discussing politics, financial problems, the peace rnovcment, conditions in the United States, the Russian Revolution, family affairs, and philosoph- ical and religious questions.

Vol. XXV, 1917 Correspondence with Phillips, William (Assistant Secretary of State) ; the Union of American Hebrew Congregations; the United Hebrew Char- ities; the Universal Film Manufacturing Co.; Untermeyer, Samuel; Wald, Lillian D.; Waldman, Morris; Wilson, James H.; Wolf, Simon, and Zangwill, Edith: on Zionism, war taxation, and the character and affairs of friends.

Vol. XXVI, 1918. Correspondence with

Adler, Cyrus; the American Hebrew; the American Jewish Chronicle; the American Jewish Committee; the Amer- ican Jewish Congress; the American J e w ish Relief Committee: the American Prison Association, and Asch, Sholonl: rnoslly on relief matters.

Vol. XXVII, 1918. Correspondence with Baruch, Bernard M.; Behrcnd, Al- bert; Benderly, Samson; Ben Jehuda, Eliezer; Billikopf, Jacob; Bogen, Boris; the Charity Organization Society; Cor- neIl University: the Democratic Mid- European Union (Thomas G. Masaryk) ; nix, John A.; the Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies; Friedman, Eli- sha; Friedlaender, Israel, and Fuld, Felix: dealing with German militarism, the character of the German people, the house oE Hohenzollern and the Palestine question. Schiff is amazed "to experience the indifference that exists among leaders to the furtherance of the religious aspect" (in Palestine) and regrets "that to many of the leaders (of Zionism) the political viewpoint forms the more im- portant movement." Included are claims, demands, projects, and propositions.

Vol. XXVIII, 1918. Correspondence with Goldstein, Herbert; Harrisuri, Leon; the Harvard Menorah Society; the He- brew Charities Building; the Henry Street Settlement; HIAS; the Baron de Hirsch Fund; the Intercollegiate Meno- rah Association and the Italian War Re- lief Fund: on charitable questions.

Vol. XXIX, 1918. Correspondence with the Japan Society: Jastrow, Morris: the Jewish Chautauqua Society; the Jewish Educational Alliance; the Jewish Theo- logical Seminary; the Jewish War Suf- ferers Campaign; the Jewish War Relief Conlmittec; the Jewish Welfare Board; the Joint Distributioil Committee; Kal- len, Horace M.; Kohlcr, Max J.; Kohut, Rebekah; ICrauskopf, Joseph; the League to Enforce Peace; Lhe League of Small and Subject Nationalities; Levy, Max; Lyon, Daniel G., and Magnes, Judall L.: relating to Magnes' plan to organize the Kehillah, and to actual Jewish problen~s.

Vol. XXX, ig18. Correspondence with Mack, Julian; Magnes, Judah L.; Mar-

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shall, Louis; Mars, Alexander; Mason, Samuel; Melamed, S. M.; Mendes, H. Pereira; tlie Menorah Journal; the Miz- rachi Zionist Organiration; the Monte- fiore Home; Motgenthau, Henry; the National ConEerence on the Foreign Relations of the United States; the National Farm School; the National Se- cnrity League; the National War Savings Committee; Nippert, Alfred K., and Ochs, Adolph S.: relating to the encl of the war, the nerv order in Germany, the German Socialist Party, the moral and social condition of the German people, peace negotiations, the League of Nations, the Peace Conference in Paris, labor conditions in the United States, Trotzky and Jews in the Bolshevik movement, and the Polish National Party and its attitude to Polish Jewry.

Vol. XXXI, 1918. Correspondence with the Palestine Orange Committee; Plaut, Leopold; Rosen~vald, Julius, and Russell, James E.

Vol. XXXII, 1918. Correspondence with Rockefeller, John D.; Schiff, Morti- mer; Schurman Jacob G.; Senior, Max; Smith, Alfred E.; Stein, Albert; Stolz, Joseph; S'traus, Oscar S.; Straus, Nathan; the Teachers' College of Columbia Uni- versity; Untermeyer, Samuel; Wald, Lil- liar1 D.; Waldman, Morris; the War Trade Board; 'CYarburg, Paul M.; Wiley, Louis, and Wolf, Simon: on financial trausactions with the Treasury Depart- ment, the restoration of Palestine, and falnily matters.

Vol. XXXIII, 1918. Correspondence with the Red Cross.

Vol. XXXIV, 1918. Correspondence with Adler, Cyrus; the American Com- missidn to Negatiate Peace; the Ameri- can Hebrew; the American Jewish Con- gress; the American Jewish Relief Com- mittee; Barnard College; Barondess, Joseph; Bernstein, Herman; Billikopf, Jacob; Borah, William E. (Senator); the Endowment Fund of Columbia Univer- sity; Glass, Carter (Secretary of the Treas- ury) ; Jastrow, Morris; the Jewish Theo- logical Seminary; Kaplan, Mordecai M.; Krauskopf, Joseph; the League of Free Nations Association: Mack, Julian; Mag-

nes, Judah L.; Marshall, Louis; the Montefiore Home; Morgenthau, Henry; Nerv York University, and Nippert, Al- lred K.: dealing with the railroad sitna- tion, the Sephardic Jews, the rehabilita- tion of Eas~ern European Jewry, po- groms in I'olancl, protest meetings on behalf of Polish Jewry, attempts to give financial aid to Mendel Beilis, victim of the Kiev ritual murder accusation, the upbuilding of Palestine, the Haifa Tech- nikum, plans for a science research institute on Mount Scopns, and the ,Jewish Labor Congress; and discussing the tasks oE the American Jewish Committee (defending the rights of Jews, and com- batting discrimination against them in all parts of the world), and the Bill of Rights adopted by the American Jewish Congress. This volume contains also interesting letters and reports from tlie American Jewish delegation at the Peace Conference in Paris relating to Jewisli minority and civil rights. Judge Nippert, in one of his letters, thanks Schiff, de- claring that it was his merit "to lead Back the public mind into channels of peace reconstruction and renewed rvorld intercourse between the nations - friend and foe."

Vol. XXXV, 1920 . Correspondence with the Hebrew Union College; HIAS'; the Baron de Hirsch Fund; the Joint Distribution Committee; Kraus, Adolph; Mack, Julian; Marshall, Louis: Morgen- thau, Henry; the National Farm School; the National Hebrew Association: the Russian Infornlation Bureau; Samuel, Herbert; Straus, Oscar S., and the Union oE American Hebrew Congregations: 011

the National Farm School, discrimination against Jews practised in the Na- tional Employment Exchange, immigration problems, conditions in post-'CYar Europe, the economic and political situation in Bolshevik Russia, the Jewish question in Russia, the Ukrainian question, the development oE Palestine, and reparations "for the thorough rehabili- tation of Palestine, so that the land will be able gradually to absorb those whose ardent desire is to emigrate there."

(Gift of the Schiff Family.)

g G AMERICA

SEWAKD, WII.LIAM HENRY, Collection; I I

letters, 1849.1867, Havana, Cuba; New Orleans, La.; New York, N . Y.; Washing- ton, D. C.; Photostats

In one letter (1863) a certain Lyon Isaacs of New York informs Se~vard that he "can give him information which may prove of the highest importance as well as to benefit the country and the Union." Robert P. Noah, son of .Mordecai Manuel Noah, draws Seward's attention (1867) to a telegram in the morning papers concerning the landing of General Prim in Catalonia and the prospects for a revolution in Spain. "1,ately returned from Europe, I have it in my hands to communicate the plans of the revolutionary party with other inEormation oE importance to the Government." In a second letter he gives more detailed information on General Prim's plans to land in Catalonia and start a revolt, to depose the existing monarchy, to unite Spain and Portugal under the king of Portugal, and to uphold the integrity of the Spanish nation. "The above information may be of little importance to our Government, but at my suggestion the question as to the sale of Cuba in the event of success was made the subject of a corrcspondence between the General and his agent." (The agent was an intimate friend of Noah.) In March, 1849, Hay" M. Salomon, son of Haym Salomon, asks Seward, at that time a Senator, to recommend him for a public ofice, reminding him of the

. services which his father had rendcred to the Government. In a memorandum to the Secretary of the Treasury (no date) Seward recommends Salomon for public employment "from the fact of the great unrequited debt of gratitude due his father who . . . lost a large or entire fortune in the establishmen1 ol this Government of which you and I are now forming part. . . ."

(Copies from the William Henry Sew- ard Collection, Rush Rhees Library, Uni- versity of Rochester.)

SHEFTALL, MORDECAI; letter, 1760, Savan- nah, Ga.; Photostat

,N JEWISH ARCHIVES, JANUARY, 1953

He sends to Mrs. Sarah Nickleson and Company, London, a bill of exchange payable to William Russell.

(Copy from the New York Public Library .)

SHEFTALL, MORDECAI; letter, 1774, .Savan- nah, Ga.; Photostat

He informs John Houston that he is "very willing to settle the affairs respect- ing the Estate of Solomon Solomons, without any suite."

(Copy frorn Lhe New York Public Library.)

SHEFTALL, MORDECAI: letter, 1779, Savan- nah, Ga.; Photostat

H e writes to his wife Frances that he was made a prisoner by the English, but is well treated by the foe. Their son Sheftall escaped and is with him. He rccommends to Frances that she take care of the children and keep up her spirits.

(Copy from the New York Public Library.)

SOLOMON, SAMUEL D.; letter, 1813, St. Luuis, &lo.; Typewritten Copy

He informs General William Clark of the death of Colonel Kibby of St. Charles. "The British have landed at Chicagou, and that they are collecting all the Indians to make a desent on this place in the spring."

(Copy from L11e Missouri IIistorical Society, St. Louis, Mo.)

SOLOMONS, LUCIUS L., Collection; 34 items, 1725-1925; Manuscript

This collection contains an abundance of deeds, genealogical records, inden- tures, reports, and letters written by membeis of this old Sephardic family over a period of roo years.

The most interesting correspondence consists of 8 letters written by Rebecca Mendes Seixas to her brother Isaac Men- des Seisas (1766-1779) in English and Spanish from London and Kingston, Ja- maica. She speaks of her intention of making a will; makes rcfercnces to Hay- man Levy and Moses Franks; tells him

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that Moses Seixas is well established, that Rebecca and her family are residing a t Humerston, four miles from London: mentions Isaac's intention of visiting her and the risks of the sea voyage; (Isaac had been endeavoring to get money from Rebecca, but she claims that she can not send it to him, under the terms of their father's will;) speaks of transactions with Hayman Levy and Mrs. Franks, and of the death of "our brother Pedro." (According to Kraus, he was a brother of Daniel M. Seixas, Re- berca's husband.) The letter from Ja- maica, addressed c/o Moses Seixas at Newport and received at Stratford, Conn., on October 12, 1779, tells of her trip from London to Jamaica with her daughter and her son-in-law, Daniel Brandon Seixas, and of the death of Daniel's brother. She is worried about the fate of her family in America.

In a letter from Montreal, dated 1792, Sally Solomons McCord writes to Levi Solomons about the death of their father. Lucius Levy Solomons refers, in a letter to James King (1829, from Mon- treal), to the death of his young daughter Catherine, and to the disposi- tion of entailed property which they seem to own jointly in the town of Norfolk. In an incomplete letter (no date, no place) to Moses Seixas, Nathan Grace copies the will of Rebecca Men- des Seixas. Israel B. Kursheedt, in 1831, sends George Sullivan a "Responsum" on the function and validity of Jewish marriage contracts, citing "Eben Ezer." In 1912 Moses Gaster, of London, sends to Lucius Solomons a copy of the marriage certificate of Abraham and Abigail Mendes Seixas (1725), signed by Haham Nieto. A letter of Samuel Fleischman, of New York, to Charles Hartman (1 yen) contains a lengthy apologia for Jews and Judaism, and suggests that Lucius Solo- mons tour major cities, giving a well publici~ed "apologetic" address.

(The Lucius L. Solomons Collection, a gift of his children, Mrs. Arthur Lil- ienthal, Mrs. Stanley Green, and Mrs. Arthur Franken, and of his sister, Mrs. Meyer Jaffa, all of San Francisco, Calif.)

STILES, EZRA; 4 letters, 1773-1774, New- port, R. I., English and Hebrew; Pho- tostats

To Haim Isaac Carigal on personal and family matters, the sickness of his wife, and religious and theological questions.


STILES, EZRA; letter, 1781, New Haven, Conn.; Photostat

He asks Aaron Lopez, the addressee, to send him a picture of the "great atld eminent" Rabbi Carigal. I t may be de- posited in the Library of Yale College "as a perpetual memorial of that illus- trious Hebrew."


STOLZ, JOSEPH, Collection; 1918-1927, C i w cinnati, Ohio, Syracuse, N . Y.; Manu- script

Correspondence with Ralph W. Maci:, David Philipson, Jacob H. Schiff, and the Union of American Hebrew Congre- gations: on personal matters, intermar- riage prohlems, Palestine, Henry Ford's attacks against Jews, but mainly on the Synagogue Pension Fund.

(Gift of Rabbi Morton M. Berman, Chicago, Ill.)

WEIL, FRANK I,., Papers; Vols. I-11 (Sup- plenaent); Manuscript

Miscellaneous material, containing also a copy of a letter written by Harry S. Truman to Weil (1951).

Copies of citations of merit given to Weil.

(Gift of Frank L. \Veil, New York.)

WOLSEY, Louis, Papers; Vols. I-111 (Sup- plement), I 942- 1948; Manuscript

Correspondence with members of the American Council for Judaism. Proceed- i n s of the Atlantic City meeting of non-Zionist rabbis, 1942. Minutes of the Committee on Synagogue Music and Re- vision of the Union Hytnnal of the Cen- tral Conference of American Rabbis.

(Gift of Dr. Louis Wolsey.)


MANUSCRIPT HISTORIES HISTORY OF TEMPLE ISRAEL, MIAMI, (Copy from the Tulane University Li- FLORIDA, by Herbert U . Feibelnzan; T y p e - brary.) script

(Gift of Herbert U. Feibelman, Miami, ?~KUCTURE OF THE JEWISH COM~ZIUNITY I N

Florida.) .THE CITY OF DETROIT; Microfilm (Copy from the University of Michi-

NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH gan, Ann Arbor, Mich.) C0l\fhlL!Nl~~ OF Drs MOINES, IOWA, COL- lected by Eugene Malznheimer; Manu- HISTORY OF TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL, JACK- script and Typescript SON, MICIIICAN, by Irving I . Katz; T y k e -

Notes on the history of the ,Jewish script Community Center of D'es Moines. Iowa, (Gift of Congregation Beth Israel, originally the Jewish Settlement Associa- Jackson, Mich.) tion of Des Moines, 1907-rgji; Notes on the history of the Jewish Social Ser. HISTORY OF rl%e JEJVS OF MONTANA, 1950, vice, 19t%-ig51; T h e history of the Bu- by Rabbi Benjanai?~ Icelson; Typescript reau of Jewish Education; Institutes of (Gift of Rabbi Ben,jamin Kelson, Jewish Studies, held ill Des Moines in Montana University.) 1926, 1927, 1935, and 1936; The Des Moirles Council of Jewish Education. HISTORY OF THE MIZPAH CONGREGATION,

(Gift of Rabbi Eugene Mannheimer, CHATTANOOGA, TEN N E S S E E , I 846- 1946; Des Moines, Iowa.) compiled by Rabbi Abraham Fein,stein;

Typescript and PI-inted I~ISTORY OF SINAI CONI;RI<GATION, CHICAGO, Girt of Rabbi Abraham Feinstein, ILL., by I . Hirsch, 1949; Microfilnz Chattanooga, Tenn.)

(Copy from the University of Chicago.) HISTOKY OF THE GUCGENHEIMS AND THE

HISTORY OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN SMELTER TRUST IN COLORADO, by D. F. NEW ORLEANS, !)y Irma illina ,Jo?les, 1925; Popham, 1950; Microfilm Microfilm (Copy from the Univ. of Michigan.)

(Copy from the Tulane University Library .) SOME ATTITUDES OF THE EAST EUROPEAN

IMMIGRANTS TOWARD JEJVISH CHARITY IN

HISTORY OF JEIVISH PHILANTHROI'Y IN THE UNIT-ED STATES IN THE YEARS 1890- NEW ORLEAXS, by I r ~ n a M. Isaacson, 1937; 1900, by Harold Silver, 1934; Microfilm Microfilm (Copy from the New York Public Li-

(Copy from the Harvard Tilton Me- brary.) morial Library, Tulane University.)

JEWISH I&~MI(;KAN~'s A N D WORLD WAR I. STUDY OF THE GROUP ACTIT'ITIES OF THE A STORY OF YIDDISI~ PRESS REACTIONS, by JEWISH YOUTH OF NEW ORLEANS, by Leo Joseph Rappaport, 1947; Microfilm Sh$all; Microfilm (Copy from Columbia University.)

BOONE, DANIEL; 1781, receipt, n o place; Locate the said Lands on as good as Photostat the Country. will admit of given under

"Received of Jacub Cohen 12 war- my hand this zq Day of December 1781." rants consisting of 5000 ackers of Land (Copy from the Library of Congress.) and the same for Josiah Isac and six pound Specie for which I promis to CONGREGATION BENE ISRAEL, Cinci t~nati ,

ACQUISITIONS 5 9

Ohio. Agreement made between the con- Moses Pranks, administrator. gregation and Max Lilienthal, 1850; (Copies from the Register of Wills Manuscript and ex-officio Clerk of the Orphans'

(Gift of Dr. David Philipson.) Court, Philadelphia, Pa.)

CONGRECAT~ON BENE ISRAEL, Cincinnati, Ohio. ~l fortgage to the First New Jeru- salem Society of Cincinnati, 1865; Manu- script

(Gift of Dr. David Philipson.)

CONGKEGATION B'RITH SHOLOM, Louisville, Ky. Article of Agreeinent betrueen the congregation and the architect, A. N. S I ~ u c k , concerning the building of a syiz- agogue, 1881: Photostat

(Gift of Rabbi Martin M. Perley, Louisville, Ky.)

CONGREGATION RODEPH SIIOLOM, Plziladel- phia, Pa., Deed, 1807; Photostat

Thomas Warwick and Mary, his wife, to Leon 1:an Amringe, Isaiah Nathan, Isaac Marks, Aaron Levi Jr., Abraham Gumperts, and Abraham Moses, conveying a plot of ground as a burial place.

(Copy from Deed Book E. F., City and County of Philadelphia, Pa.)

DE LUCENA, ABRAHAM; 3 receipts, 1780- 1782, Philadelphia, Pa.; Photostats

(Copies from the Yale University Li- brary.)

DREYF.USS, GERARD; Bill of sale, 1892, Dal- las, Texas; Photostat

Payment of 125 dollars to Delia P. Meyer of Illinois and Carrie S. Loeb of Dallas.

(Gift of Mrs. Lawrence Pollock, Dal- las, Texas.)

FRANKS, ISAAC; Receipt, 1782, Philadel- phia, Pa.; Photostat

Received of John Holker inoney which Franks gave hiin as a loan in 1779.


FRANK, MOSI S; Leltem of administ~ation, 1794, Philadelphia, Pa.; Photostats

Letters of adtninistration granted in the estate of David Franks, deceased, to

GERS~LE, SAMUEL; Certificate, 1883, Az~gs- burg, Germany, German; Manuscript

Teacher's certificate for S. Gerstle of Steppach.

(Gift of Rabbi Levi A. Olan, Dallas, Texas.)

GRAVEL, JOHN; Letters of administration, 1792, Philadelphia, Pa.; Photostats

Letters of administration granted ill the estate of David Franks, deceased, to John Gravel, administrator.

(Copies from the Regis~er of Wills, Orphans' Court, Philadelphia, Pa.)

Joser~soN, MANUEL; 2 receipt.7, 1781, Plziladelphia, Pa., English, French; Pho- tostats


LAZARUS, J.; Assignment, 1864, Houston, Texas; Photostat

Assignment for active duty. (Gift of Miss Louise Larendon, Jack-

son, Tenn.)

LEV], Moses; Certificate, 1785, Charles- ton, S. C.; Photostat

Concerning a tract of land. (Copy from the Historical Commission

of South Carolina.)

LEVY, TIIORIAS; Deed, 181 1, Philadelphia; Manuserifit

Deed of the property sold LO Benjamin Thomas.

(Gift of the Hebrew Linion College Library.)

MIRANDA, ISAAC, PAPERS; affidavits, letters, reports, 1727-1 731, Philadelphia, Pa.; Photostats

These papers deal with a dispute be- txveen Governor Patrick Gordon of Pentl- sylvania and Vice Admiralty Judge Jo- seph Brorvne. Isaac Miranda, a merchant and a former Jew, was appointed Deputy


or Substitute Vice Admiralty Judge by Browne (Browne borrowed money from Miranda in 1726), but when the case of the schooner "Sarah" came before Miran- da, Browne apparently, at the request of the reclaimer, Peter Baynton, revoked Miranda's commission (1727) . Browne did this because of Miranda's "ill conduct and irregular procedure." However, Browne and Baynton seem to have been in collusion. Browne wrote Miranda on behalf of Baynton, but Miranda made it clear that he would not give Baynton the decision which he sought. Miranda believed that Browne was corrupt. Mi- randa is referred to as a Christian and takes the oath on the Holy Evangelists. In general, Miranda's reputation, as re- flected in this material, seems to have been bad, although he appears to have acted honorably with respect to the schooner "Sarah" in refusing to do the bidding of the corrupt Browne. The material is largely in the form of affidavits.

(Copies from the Privy Council Un- bound Papers, Public Record Office, Lon- don.)

MOSES, ARTHUR; Certificate, 1876, Terrell, Texas; Photostats

Certificate of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, including an Endow- ment Certificate of the I.O.O.F., 1880, and a Resolutions and Widow's Certifi- cate of the Artesia Lodge, No. 406, A.F. and A.M., 1887.

(Gift of Mrs. S. Ralph Schwarzschild. Elkins Park, Pa.)

PHILLIPS, JONAS; 2 warrants, 1817-1 819, Pendleton District, S. C.; Photostats

Concerning a tract of land belonging to Jonas Phillips.

(Copies from the Historical Coinmis- sion of South Carolina.)

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PROSKAUER, ADOLPH; Certificate of membership i n the Alabama Legislatu~z, 1870. Mobile, Ala., French; Mantiscript Certificate of membership i n the Cotton Exchange, 1894, St. Louis, Mo.; Marztc- script

Certificate of the Socie'te' Francaise de Bienfaisance, 1870, Mobile, Ala., French; Manuscript Citizenship Certificate, 1871, Mobile, Ala.; Manuscript 2 Masonic Certificates, 1875 and 1895, Mobile, Ala., and Virginia; Manuscript Muster Rolls of the Civil War, about 1864; Manuscript Resolution of the Board of Trustees of Congregation Shaarai Shamayim, 1875, Mobile, Ala.; Manuscript

(Gift of Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isserman, St. Louis, Mo.)

SHEFTALL, MORDECAI AND LEVI; Indenture, 1770, no place; Photostat

Button Gwirinett conveys the island of Saint Catherine, in the province of Geor- gia, to Mordecai and Levi Sheftall as secarity for a debt of one thousand pounds.

(Copy from the New York Public Li- brary.)

SHEFTALL, MORDECAI; Indenture, I 76 1.

Sou.th Carolina; Photostat The indenture made between Morde-

cai Sheftall, a merchant of the province of Georgia, and Isaac DaCosta, of Charleston, S. C., concerning a marriage settlement between Mordecai Sheftall and Frances Hart, daughter of Moses Hart, of The Hague, Holland.

(Copy from the Register Mesne Con- veyance Office, Charleston County, S. C.)

SHEFTALL, MORDECAI; Deed, 1773, Savan- nah, Ga.; Plzotostat

The deed o f trust from Mordecai Shef- tall to "Philip Minis and Levi Sheftall of Savannah, Isaac DaCosta and Joshua Hart of Charleston, Abraham Hart and Joseph Gomperts of London, Sampson Simpson and Solomon Simpson of New York, Isaac Hart and Jacob Rivera of Newport, Rhode Island," conveying a five-acre tract of land for a cemetery and erecting a synagogue.

(Copy from the County Records of Chatham County, Book X, p. 461, through the courtesy of Mrs. Benjamin Sheftall, Gaffney, S. C.)

ACQUISITIONS

SHEFTALL, MORDECAI; Settlement of debts, 1791, n o place; Photostat

(Gift of Mrs. Benjamin Sheftall.)

SOLOMONS, LUCIUS L., Collection; Account of the estate of Abraham Mendes Seixas (Miguel da Silva Pacheco) drawn by Ismc and Abraham de Peyster. It in - cludes the account of Isaac and Abraham de Peyster against Hodrigo Pacheco, executors of hliguel da Silva Pacheco, 1751; Manuscript

A case (1750) in ~vhich the Attorney General's opinion is asked as to whether a debt incurred by Rodrigo Pacheco, deceased, as one executor of Abraham Men- des Seixas, must be paid by the surviving executor, Daniel Mendes Seixas. The answer: no. The debt was incurred with the de Peysters of New York.

An indenture between Stephen van Rensselaer and James Caldwell, granting for rent a plot of ground on Rensse- lacr's estate. With an endorsement, January 10, 1821, continuing the rights for seven years to Levi Solomons, and including a typescript on James Cald-

Circumcision Book of Congregation Aaron, Trinidad, Colorado; written by Rabbi L. Freudenthal in his Ger- man Prayer Book; A4an~~script

(Gift of Rabbi Samuel Cook, New York, N. Y.)

Laurel Groves Cemetery, Burial Records, Savannah, Ga.; compiled by Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern from the Elzas Pa- pers.

(Gift of Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern, Norfolk, Va.)

Marriage and Death Records of Sinai Congregation, Chicago, Ill., Vols. 1-11, 1861-1905; written in German and Hebrew by B. Felsenthal; :Manu.rcript

(Gift of Miss Julia I. Felsenthal, Chicago, Ill.)

Birth and Marriage Records of the Louis- ville, Ky., Jewry, 1793-1916; Handwrit- ten notes; Photostats


well, showing that he was a partner of Levi Solomons, an early Albany tobac- conist. Solomons succeeded Caldwell it1 the ownership.

An indenture between John Scott, Master of Chancery, New York State, and Levi Solomons, Albany merchant.

(The Lucius L. Solomons Collection.)

SOLOMONS, SELIKA; Deed, 1873, New York; hlanuscript

Granting to her sons Seixas Solornons and Lucius Levy (Moses) Solo~nons Nor- folk, N. Y., property.

(The Lucius L. Solomons Collection.)

TRUMAN, HARRY S.; Appointment, 1952, Washington, D. C.; Photostat

The President appoints Rabbi Samuel Thurman, of St. Louis, Mo., a commis- sioner of the United States commission for the observance of the one-hundredth anniversary of the death oE John How- ard Payne. Included are 3 telegrams from Truman to Thurman.

(Gift of Rabbi Samuel Thurman, St. Louis, Mo.)

United Jewish Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio, Burial Records, 1850-1951; Mi- crofilms

(Copies from the United Jewish Cem- etery.)

Reservoir Avenue Cemetery of Congrega- tion Sons of Israel and David, Provi- dence, R . I., Burial Records, 1859-195.0

(Copied and arranged chronologi- cally by David C. Adelman, l'rovidence, R. I.)

Death Notices, Charleston, S. C., 1786- 1905

(Compiled by Rabbi Malcoln~ H. Stern from the Elzas Papers.)

Marriage Notices, Charleston, S. C., 1817- 1889

(Compiled by Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern.)

Death Notices, Georgetown, S. C., 1772. 1830

(Compiled by Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern.)

6 2 ALMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES, JANUARY, 1953

Birthroll of Female Portuguese Jews of the Portuguese Congregation in Cura- cao, West Indies, 1743-1831, Dutch; Photostats

(Copies from the Algemeen Rijksar- chief, 's Gravenhage, Holland.)

Register of Births and Deaths of the Portuguese Congregation, Curacao,

West Indies, 17-02-1831, Dutch; Pho- tostats

(Copies Irom the Algemeen Rijksar- chief, 's Gravenhage, Holland.)

Register Book of Births of the English and German Synagogue ill Kingston, Jamaica; Microfilm

(l 'hrough the courtesy of Rev. Hen- ry P. Silverman, Kingston, Jamaica.)

CERTIFICATES OF BIRTH, CITIZENSHIP, CONFIRMATION, AND MARRIAGE ABRAHAMS, MOSES; Naturalization, 1799, ton District and the Federal Courts, Charleston, S. C.; Typeruritten Copr South Carolina

As an alien admitted to citizenship in (Copy from the Historical Comnlis- the Courts of Session for the Charles- sion of South Carolina.) ton District and the Federal Courts, South Carolina. LEVI, MOSES: Nnturaliiation certificate,

(Copy from the Historical Commis- 1795. Charleston, S. C.; Typeruritten Copy sion of South Carolina.) (Copy from the Historical Comrnis-

sion of South Carolina.) ALEXANDER, ABRAHAM; Ketubah, 1801, Charleston, S. C., Hebrew; Manuscript MEIRFELDT, WOLF; Naturalization certifi-

T h e hazzan was Abraham Azuby. One cate, 1852, ha mil to?^ County, Ohio; Man- of the witnesses was E. D. L. Motta, a uscript member of the well-known South Caro- (Gift of Dr. Victor E. Reichert, Cin- lina family. cinnati, Ohio.)

(Gift of Dr. David Philipson.) MOSES, AIC~HUR; Birth certificate, 1846,

DE SOLA, HANNAH; Confirmation certifi- Luxe?nbourg; Photostat cute, 1844, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands; (Gift of Mrs. S. Ralph Schwarzschild, Manuscript Elkins Park, Pa.)

(Gift of Dr. David Philipson.) PASDELOUP, EDOUARD URSIN, AND CHII\IENE,

HERZBERG, MORRIS, AND HEYMAN, HELEN; LEA CLEMENTINE; Marriage certificate, Marriage certificate, 1877, Philadelphia, 1844, Neru Orleans, La.; Photostat Pa.; Photostat (Gift of Miss Louise Larendon, Jack-

(Gift of Dr. Bertram W. Korn, Phila- son, Tenn.) delphia, Pa.)

POPPER, FERDINAND LEWIS, A N D REIS, 50- JOSEPH, J., JR.; KetftOah, 1822, Charles- PHII:; Marriage certificate, 1909, Cincin- ton, S. C., Hebrew; M a n ~ ~ s c r i @ t nati, 0 hio; ~ a n u s c r i p t

T h e hazzan who officiated was Mr. (Gift of F. L. Popper, Cincinnati, 0 . ) Peixotto. Among the witnesses were Na- than Hart and Jacob de Leon, both SALZENSTEIN, CI.IARLES, A N D GEKSTLE, SAL- distinguished Jews of the early nine- LIE; Marriage license, 1866, Cincinnati, teenth century. Ohio: Mantiscript

(Gift of Dr. David Philipson.) Signed by Isaac M. Wise (Gift of Rabbi Levi A. Olan, Dallas,

JOSEPHS, JOSEI'II; Natrtralization, 1799, Texas.) Charleston, S. C.; Typewri t ten Copy

As an alien admitted to citizenship SENIOR, ABRAHAM, A N D MAYFIELD, REGINA; ill the Courts of Session for the Charles- Marriage record, 1848, Cincinnati, Ohio;

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Photostat Signed by James K. Gutheiin (Gift of Dr. James Senior, Chicago,

Illinois.)

SENIOR, MAX, AND KuI-~N, EMMA; Marriage lice?zse and certificate, 1888, Cincinnati, Ohio; Manuscript

Signed by Isaac M. Wise and Henry Berkowitz

(Gift of Dr. James Senior.)

SHONINCER, HENRY, AND WEIARMAN, SO- PHIA; Marriage certificate, 1856, Louis- ville, Ky.; Photostat


SOLOMONS, LEVI AND CA~HI:RINIS; Natural- ization certificates, 1820, Albany, N . Y.; Marl uscript

(From the Lucius L. Solomons Collec- tion.)

SOLO&~ONS, LUCIUS LEVY, AND SEIXAS, SE- LINA; Ketubah, 1824, Philadelphia, Pa., English and Hebrew; Manuscript

With Levy Phillips officiating, and Samuel Hays and II. (probably Hayman Marks, husband of Grace Seixas Juda) as witnesses. With a certified translation by Israel Baer Kursheedt, 1831, and a notarization of Kursheedt's translation by Samson M. Isaacs, 1831.

(From the Lucius L. Solomons Collec- tion.)

FONSECA, JACOB; Last lf7ill, 1727, New MIRANDA, ~SAAC; Last Wi l l and Testa- York, N . Y.; Copy; Photostat m e i ~ t , 1732, Lancaster, Pa.; Photostat

Including Codicil, 1728 (Copy from the Register of Wills of (Copy from the Court of Appeals, the Orphans Courts for the County of

Albany, N. Y.) Philadelphia, Pa.)

JACOBS, S.AMUKL; Last Wil l , 1775, Mon- NORDEN, LYON; Last Wil l , 1798, Savan- treal, Canada; Photostat nah, Ga.; Photostat

(Copy from the Public Archives of (Copy from the Office of Ordinary, Canada, O~tawa, Canada.) Chatham County, Ga.)

JUDAH, HENRIETTA; Lact Wil l , 1849, New York, N . l'.; Photostat

The daughter of Naphtali Hart Judah leaves bequests to her sisters Amelia Cromelin and (Richea) Anna, wife of Theodore F. Seixas.

(From the Lucius L. Solomons Col- lection.)

LEVY, SARAH; Last Wil l , 1839, Kershaw District, S. C.; Typewrit ten Copy

(Copy from the Probate Judge, Krr- shaw County, S. C.)

MINIS, ABRAHAM; Last 1Yi11, 1755, Savan- nah, Ga.; Typewrit ten Copy

This is the oldest will extant of a Jew of the colony of Georgia.

(Copy from Will Book AA, pp. 20-2 I , Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)

NUNES, MOSES; Last Wil l , 1785, Savan- ?,ah, Ga.; Photostat

(Copy from the Probate Court, Ci~ath- am County, Ga.)

SEIXAS, REBECCA MENDIS; Will , no date, no place; Manuscript

Copy of a portion of Rebecca's will as it relates to Isaac Melldes Seixas. Isaac had been receiving £30 yearly irom Dan- iel M. Seixas' estate, and was to receive his father's entire estate if he married with the approval of the executors. But his marriage was not approved, and his father's estate went to Rebecca, the surviving daughter. Rebecca, however, bequeaths to Isaac the interest from her estate, the principal of which goes to her daughter and son-in-law.



SOLOMON, GERSHOM; L,nst Wil l , 1850, Peekskill, N. Y.; Copy

The son of Benjamin Solomons and Elkaleh Seixas Solomons; he leaves his estate to his sister, Rebekah, wife of Nathan Mendes.


SOLOMONS, CATHERINE MANUEL (~uidow of Levy Solomons); Last Wi l l , 1834, New York, N. Y.; Manuscript

She bequeaths to her grandsons, Levy Solomons, Seixas Solomons, and Lucius L. Solornons, property at Longeuil, op- posite Montreal, and one-half part of a tobacco factory plot in Albany. The rest goes to her surviving son, Samuel David Solomons. The will includes the certificate of execution of the above for Snm- uel David Solomons, 1852.


SOLOMONS, HAYAM; Last Wil l , 1801, Charleston, S. C.; Typewritten Copy

(Copy fro111 the Will Book, iSoo-iSo~,

p. 164, Historical Commission of South Carolina.)

SOLOMONS, SEL~NA; Last Wil l and Testa- ment, 1883, New Yolk , N . Y.; Handrurit- ten Copies; A4a?zuscript

Including the first Codicil, 1883. Be- quests are made to her daughter-in-law Hannah (Marks) Solomons; to her nieces, Jeanette and Abigail Kursheedt, and Frances A., wife of Aaron N. Cohen, and Sarah, daughter of the Rev. J. J. Lyons; to her grandnieces, Sarah, Alice, Made- lirle, and Louise Nathan, and Grace Eloise and Sereiia Kursheedt; to her grandnephew, Jwathan Nathan; and to the following New York institutions: Mt. Sinai Hospital, the Hebrew Benevo- lent and Orphan Asylum Society, the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, and the Ladies' Lying-in Relief Society. The residue is to be held in trust for her daughter-in-law. Hannah, and the latler's children.


HARRIS, MAURICE H.; Sermons, Vols. I -XI , 1882-1930; Manuscript

(Gift of Rabbi I. Edward Kiev, New York, N. Y.)

L E ~ S E R , ISAAC; 3 Discour.ses, Philadelphia, Pa.; Microfilfrw

Discourses argumentative and devo- tional on the subject of the Jewish religion, delivered at the Synagogue Mik- veh Israel in Philadelphia in the years 5598-5601.

(Copies from the American Jewish Historical Society.)

PEIXOTTO, DANIEL L. M., M.D.: Anniver- sary Discourse, 1830, New York, N . Y.; nilicrofilm

Peixotto was vice-president of the Medical Society of the City and County of New York.

(Copy froin the Columbia University Library.)

WISE, ISAAC M.; Address, 1869, Quincy, Illinois; Mimeographed Copy

An oration delivered a t the laying of the corner stone of the Temple of Quin- cy, Illinois.)

(Gift of Rabbi Joseph Liberles, Quincy, Illinois.)

EZEKIEL FAMILY; Notes i n the Family FIDA~QUE FAMILY TREE; Notes in the Bible, 1835-1899; Photostats Family Bible, Philadelphia, Pa.; Pho-

(Gift of Mrs. Seymour Samuels, Cin- tostats cinnati. Ohio.) (Gift of Dr. Bertram W. Korn, Phila-

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delphia, Pa.) SOLOMONS FAMILY; Genealogical notes PROSKAUER FAMILY; Birth register, 1847, and records of births, marriages, and Breslat~, Germany; Manuscript deaths; iManuscript

(Gift of Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isser- (From the Lucius L. Solomons Col- man, St. Louis, Mo.) lection.)

COHEN, JACOB I.; Prayer for the Govern- ment, 1789, Richnloiad, Va.; Typewritten Copy, Photostat

President Washington had ordered a day of thanksgiving and prayer.

(Probably in the papers of Miss Emily Solis-Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa.)

DARMSTADT, JOSEPH; Puriin Poenz, 1789. Richmond, Va.; Typewritten Copy

Dedicated to Jacob I. Cohen. (Probably in the papers of Miss Emily

Solis-Cohen.)

E ~ N G , HENRY; Records of the Proceed- ings of the General Court Martial of Henry Etting, 1832; Microfilms


GRATZ, MIRIAM: Memorandum Book, 180 j; Microfilm

(Copy from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.)

HAYNI:, SAM; All. Abstract of all Stat.utes, 1685, London; Microfilm

(Copy from the Harvard University, Boston, Mass., Graduate School of Busi- ness Administration.)

HAYS, JUDAH; Receipt Book; Microfilm (Copy from the Virginia State Library,

Richmond, Va.)

KRAUSKOPF, JOSEPH; Autograph Book, 1876-1877, Cincinnati, Ohio; Manusct.ipt

With the signatures of Isaac M. Wise, Max Lilienthal, and others.

(Gift of Rabbi Narot, Miami.)

LEVI, DAVID; A Defence of the Old Tes- tanzent i n a Series of Letters addressed to Thomas Paine. Printed by IPilliam A. Davis for Naphtali Juda, Boolzsellet., I 797; Microfilnls

(Copy from the New York Public Li- brary.)

LI:VY, URIAH P.; Court Martial Cases, I 816-1839; Microfilms


LEVY, URIAH P.; T h e Court Martial, 1857; Microfilm


LEVY, URIAH P.; Defense of Uriah P. L e y before the Court of Inquiry held at Washington City by B . F. Butler of New Yorlz, 1857-1858, Printed Book; Microfilm

(Copy from the New York Public Li. brary.)

LEVY, URIAH P.; I . Record of the Pro- ceedings i n the case 01 Urioh p. Levy upon charges preferred o n an information o f L t . Geo. Mason Hooe commenced April 6, concluded April 12, 1842. R e - tnnnded to the Court for its reconsidera- tion, May 2, 1842.

11. Defense of Capt. Uriah P. Levy, U. S. Navy, before a Court of Inquiry convened at Washington, D. C., i n No- vember, 1857. This may or may not be a complete typewritteia copy of the manuscript. T h e appendices are certainly not here. 115 p., ending: "I leave nly destiny i n your hands!" Microfilms

(Copies from the Library of Congress.)

LIST OF ALL THE TAXPAYERS I N NEWPORT, R. I., 1775; Photostats

Among others, there are the follo~ving Jewish names: Hart, Isaac and Com- pany, £2-6-1; Hart, Samuel and Moses, £2-6-1 Hayes, M. Moses, £ 1-16-10: Isaac, Jacob,-13-10; Jacob, Joseph, £ 1-14-6; Levy, Moses, £6-18-3; Levy, Benjamin,- 2-4; Levi, Hiam and Seixas, £4-12-2; Levy,

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Sirneon,-2-4; Lopez, Aaron, f32-9-10; Lo- pez, David,- 13-10; Lopez, Abraham,-2-4; Lopez, David Juiiior,-2-4; Moses, Sam- uel,-4-8; Polock, Myer, fi-16-10; Rivera, Jacob Rod., fg-4-4.

(Copies from the Office of the Clerk of the Superior Court, Newport, R. I.)

LOUISIANA RECORDS, Inventory of the Church and Synagogue Activities of Louisiana; Microfilms

(Copies from the Historical Records, Baton Rouge, La.)

LURIA, ALBKRT MOSES; Diary; Microfilm (Copy from the North Carolina Uni-

versity Lihrary, Chapel Hill, N. C.)

MERCHANTS EXCHANGE OF ST. LOUIS; Res- olution, 1900, St. Louis, Mo.; Manuscript

Tribute to the memory of -4dolph Proskauer.

(Gift of Rahbi Ferdinand M. Isser- man, St. Louis, Mo.)

MORDECAI PAPERS; Vol. I , 1784-1818; Vol. 11, 1818-1822; Vol. 111, 1822-1824; Vol. IV, 1824-1828; 1/01. 17, 1828-1846; Vol. V I , 1828-1866; Microfilms

(Copies from the Duke University Library .)

P ~ l x o n o , BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Papen; Microfilms

Vol. I. Relating to the appointment of Benjamin Franklin Peixotto as United

N JEWISH ARCHIVES, JANUARY, 1953

Slates Consul at Bucharest, Roumania, and at Lyons, France, 1870-1890. Vols. 11-111. Records of the service of Benjamin Franklin Peixotto as United States Con- sul at Lyons, France, 1877-1886.


REVOLUTIONARY WAR PRIZE CASE OF

BROOKS AND GRIFFITA SCHOONER HOPE AND CARGO VS. AARON LOPEZ; Microfilms


SENATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA; Extfact from the Journal, 1794; Typewritten Copy

The Senate read the petition of the Elders and Vestry of the Hebrew Syna- gogue in Charleston, called Beth Elohim, praying that the Senate might pass a law to permit the petitioners to raise by lottery the sum of 800 pounds, in order to enahle them to discharge the balance of the expense incurred by them in building a synagogue. It includes a report of the Committee on Religion, to which the petition was referred, in 1794, that the prayer of the congregation ought to be granted; further, an extract from the Journal of the Senate, in 1794, to the effect that the House took into consideration the report of the Commit- tee and ordered that the same Commit- tee prepare and bring in a bill, pur- suant to the prayer of the petitioners.

(Copics from the Historical Commis- sion of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.)

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