Charles Schwager papers 1909-1948

The collection consists of letters written to Schwager by Americans and non-Americans on a variety of topics pertaining to Jews. The majority of the letters are from members of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senate, and American governors, expressing their views on Jews, anti-Semitism, and Palestine as a Jewish homeland. Also included are letters on this topic from Thomas Edison, Charles Curtis, and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Other letters concern the First Solotwiner Sick and Benevolent Society, the proposed formation by Schwager of a cloak-maker's union, and other topics of general Jewish interestAmong the correspondents are Charles M. LaFollette, Hamilton Fish, Jr., Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., John W. McCormack, Alben W. Barkley, Robert F. Wagner, Clare Boothe Luce, Louis Marshall, Fiore La Guardia, and George D. AikenGift, in part, of the Elsie O. and Philip D. Sang Foundatio