Grand Council of the Rabbinate of Tel Aviv (reunion to remind rabbis of the principal points of Jewish orthodoxy and urge them to induce Jews to practice the religion more assiduously). Entrance to the hall of the Grand Council; Grand Rabbi Amiel (in soft hat) and Grand Rabbi Toledano (in the turban) go to their seats at a table, other rabbis stand. Rabbis talking. Rabbi Amiel speaks, others listen. ...

Papers relating to Rabbi József Katona, the chief rabbi of Dohány, Hungary. Inlcudes correspondence, typescript text of sermons, documents, newspapers, and further information about Rabbi Dr. Katona and his family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

Consists of an original fundraising letter sent from Rabbi Jonah Wise to Rabbi Charles Rubel of Long Island, dated May 18, 1933. In the letter, Rabbi Wise explains that he recently returned from Germany where Jews are being persecuted by the German government, and asking for a contribution to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

Rev. Leslie Hardman was a British Army Chaplain at the liberation of Belsen.

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Consists of four photographs from the World Jewish Congress meetings which took place in Montreux, Switzerland, in July 1948. Includes a photograph of the Israeli delegation, including Rabbi Joseph Gabrieli and Abba Eban, who later became the Israeli foreign minister. Rabbi Gabrieli is the father of the Shoshana Rosenberg, the donor. Also includes photographs taken at a post-war Mizrachi Zionist meeting ...

Rabbi Dr. Moshe Carmilly Weinberger was born in 1908 to an Orthodox family in Budapest, but spent his childhood in the Transylvania region of Romania. From 1924 to 1931, Rabbi Weinberger studied at the Rabbinical Seminary in Budapest. He spent a year in Berlin, where he saw first-hand the spread of anti-semitism in Germany. He returned to the Rabbinical Seminary in Budapest to complete his studies, ...

Robert Dreyfus (1913-2002) was born in Sélestat, Alsace on 4 June 1913, the son of Fernand (1867- ?) and Delphine (née Levy, 1874-1934) Dreyfus. After his schooling there, he began studies at the University of Strasbourg in 1930, planning to become a dentist, but a religious awakening led him to change course, and in 1932 he decided instead to study to become a rabbi, and entered a rabbinical school ...

Copyright Holder: Eli Schaap

Consists of correspondence, memoranda, notes, photographs and similar materials collected by Samuel Kramer, an attorney who was legal counsel to Agudas Chasidei Chabad in Brooklyn, NY, and who worked closely with Rabbi S. Gourary and his father-in-law, the Lubavticher Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, in attempts to secure visas for several dozen rabbis and students of the Tomchei Tmimim yeshiva, first ...

Broadside: Announcing a memorial gathering in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for the recently deceased Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzenski of Vilna. Sponsored by Merkaz Chorev of America at the Tifereth Yisrael Synagoge, in which Rabbi Eliezer Silver will speak and prayers recited for those murdered in the current outrages in Europe; New York, 1940

Consists of receipts and thank-you letters for donations made by D. Jaffe of Newport, RI, to Rabbi A. Zelman's yeshiva in Warsaw and Rabbi A. Scher's yeshiva in Kaunas in 1939. The thank-you letters relate how difficult it is becoming to keep the yeshivas open.

Photocopies of pages of periodicals that include articles about Moshe Pesach, and publications about the Jewish Community of Volos. Photocopies of texts (prints and manuscripts) concerning Jews, photocopies of photos of members of the Pesach family and the Jewish Community of Volos.

MS, religious service in a synagogue. Rabbi and cantor singing, praying with open prayerbooks. CU, Rabbi (back of his head) with ark open before him. Camera pans the congregation, singing. MCU, cantor standing before large, arched windows, glare of light through window. Cantor seen mainly in profile, while singing turns occassionally toward and away from the camera.

1150 Y: Prague, Czechoslovakia, October 3, 1946 (?). INTs, Jews worshipping in the Synagogue of Prague. MS, the rabbi opens the ark and takes out the Torah which is shown to the worshippers. LS, same as MS above. MS, Jews worshipping the Torah. The rabbi enters the center of the synagogue where the Torah is placed on a table. He opens it. MS, the rabbi opening the Torah for the ceremony. CU, the rabbi ...

1150 Y (11:21:41): Prague, Czechoslovakia, October 3, 1946 (?). INTs, Jews worshipping in the Synagogue of Prague. MS, the rabbi opens the ark and takes out the Torah which is shown to the worshippers. LS, same as MS above. MS, Jews worshipping the Torah. The rabbi enters the center of the synagogue where the Torah is placed on a table. He opens it. MS, the rabbi opening the Torah for the ceremony. ...

Consists of four photographs taken in the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (UNRRA) Schlachtensee displaced persons camp near Berlin, Germany, circa 1945. The photographs include images of Rabbi Hyatt, an American chaplain; an unidnetified rabbi from Schlachtensee; a group of students; and Phyllis Dunkelman.

Contains information about the life and experiences of the Karl Rosenthal family in Berlin, Germany; the fate of family members during the Holocaust; and Karl Rosenthal's work as an educator in Germany and Rabbi of the Temple of Israel congregation in Wilmington, North Carolina. Also includes a collection of poetry written by Karl Rosenthal.

Consists of one letter, written by Rabbi Dr. Jehiel Weinberg, undated but circa 1946, to Dr. Marcus Cohen in Basel, Switzerland. In the letter, Rabbi Weinberg, the pre-war principal of the Hildesheimer Seminary in Berlin, writes about the wartime loss of his private library and asks his friend whether the Joint Distribution Committee might be able to assist him in acquiring some Jewish books recovered ...

Broadcast on the 60th birthday of Queen Wilhelmina, of a Jewish religious service in Austin Friars Church, by Rabbi Pereira and Rabbi De Mesquita. The collection of Broadcasts from Radio Oranje (Radio Orange) contains a selection of the radio broadcasts that were transmitted between 1940 and 1945. They were broadcasts created by the Dutch Government in exile in London, transmitted to encourage and ...

The collection consists of a letter sent by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Cyrus Adler, president of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, sending him a holiday greeting, December 23, 1939, and Cyrus’s reply by telegram on December 24. Roosevelt’s salutation incorrectly addresses Adler as a rabbi. Also included are several clippings of articles authored or edited by Rabbi David Aronson for ...

The photographs depict Schneiur and Shlomo Trabska dressed in Polish Army uniforms, their cousin of who was a rabbi, and Siegfried Mendel from Gniewkowo, Poland.

Jewish religious service outdoors. Sunny day, large gathering, organized event, lots of people. Young women with arms around each other, staring without apparent emotion. Rabbi holds up Torah. Makeshift ark, tapestry. VLS from above of gathering, big circle of people crowded together, outer ring of people stand on benches. Long line of little kids coming together, join and enter circle. CU, Rabbi reading. ...

Contains correspondence of Va'ad Ha'Hatzala for a visa to the United States for Yitzchak Singer, a Holocaust survivor and yeshiva student who was found in Bergen-Belsen. Among the documents is a letter signed by Rosalie Stive of the immgiration department of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; and letters from rabbis in the United States to immigration authorities about accepting the ...