New York Jewish Population Study, 1991 (M565V1)

The questionnaire is composed of three distinct segments. 1) Brief screening to elicit the Jewish character of the household relative to the respondent and other members. A household considered "Jewish" if any of the following was determined to be true of any household member: a) being Jewish, b) considering themselves Jewish, c) being raised Jewish, and d) having a Jewish parent. 2) Basic household demographics and 3) detailed series of questions dealing with a varietyof demographic, social, and philanthropic issues of interest to the Jewish Community

Convention and conference dates.

Document listing dates and locations of the meetings of member organizations.The original inventory is available in the folderProcessed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize

Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds records, undated, 1906-1998.

The American Jewish Historical Society houses an additional 1000+ boxes of unprocessed material in offsite storage regarding the records of the Bureau of Jewish Social Research, the National Appeals Information Service, and the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. These additional 1000+ boxes of material is located offsite and until further notice is currently closed to the public. Please note that the material described in this collection box list is the only portion of the collection currently accessible to the public.This collection contains the archives of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, a national coordinating agency that assists national and regional Jewish agencies in the U.S. and Canada in fund raising, community organization, health and welfare planning, public relations, etc. The collection includes material of the predecessor agency (Bureau of Jewish Social Research), plus correspondence, research, budget reports, audits, and report of activities of approximately 600 American national and local Jewish agencies, and some functioning overseas.In addition, the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds records also contains subject files relating to the aged, blind, burial, family service, health and hospitals, immigration legislation, mikvot, refugees, residence laws, service to Jews in prison, and transients, and material prepared for a special conference on the Mental Impairment of the Aged in 1959, budget manuals for Jewish communities of 55 cities, budget digests detailing the financial circumstances of various Jewish organizations, financial information on approximately 300 Jewish communities in the form of budget control sheets with attached reports and correspondence, community studies of Brooklyn, Boston, Camden, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Jersey City, Minneapolis, New York, Newark, Philadelphia, Pittsfield, St. Louis, and Trenton.The records also include correspondence and material relating to the activities of the Council, the General Assemblies, the Annual Schroder Award presented by the Council to organizations for outstanding achievement in social welfare, the correspondence of some of the directors and regional consultants, periodicals published by the Council, and an extensive file of Council publications

Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Boston MacIver Report records, 1949-1953. (bulk 1951-1952)

This collection contains materials collected by Boston’s JCRC, which monitored the situation as well as participated in the review of the report. Materials include news clippings, written reactions from the organizations, notes and correspondence from JCRC director Robert Segal, and the full report with recommendations, reactions and NCRAC action steps.This collection was donated to AJHS by the Jewish Community Relations Council of Boston.The MacIver Report was commissioned by the National Community Relations Advisory Council (NCRAC) in order to ascertain the efficacy of services and interrelationships of six specific organizations associated with NCRAC, including the American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, American Jewish Congress, Jewish Labor Committee, Jewish War Veterans and the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. A committee appointed by NCRAC selected Dr. Robert MacIver of Columbia University to lead a team of social scientists in the evaluation of these organizations, which culminated in a report with recommendations for improved services and relationships. The final report sparked many questions and concerns from the organizations, eventually leading to the American Jewish Committee’s withdrawal from NCRAC.Finding Aid available in Reading Room and on Internet.far031

Solis-Cohen family papers, 1808-1990.

Correspondence, diaries, acount books, pamphlets, and other personal and professional materials pertaining to Jacob da Silva Solis and his descendents.Contains the research notes and correspondence for genealogical studies of the Cardozo, Etting, Menken, Nathan, Nones, Peixotto, and Solis families. Includes a list of Jewish officers and men who served in the Revolutionary War, from the state of New Jersey. Contains also a letter to a member of the Solis family written by Joseph H. Hertz in 1893.Contains personal correspondence and two unsigned typescripts on Christianity and Jewish suffering and on socialism; also a memorial tribute by William M. Bunn.The collection consists of the following material: 1) a calendar, for the years 1807-1852, of the major Jewish holidays, as well as a chart indicating the hour Sabbath begins; 2) a letter of solicitation, authorizing Solis to collect funds for Cong. Bene Israel, Cincinnati (1829); 3) two letters from Manis Jacobs (1828 & 1829), president of Shaare Chesed Congregation (Gates of Mercy) of New Orleans, to Solis, informing him of various congregational occurrences; 4) a letter to Charity Hays Solis from Shaare Chesed Congregation, expressing their condolences on the death of Jacob Solis (1930); and 5) a signature of Solis, detached from a letter.Primarily material relating to the School of the Parents' Education Association in Jerusalem and the American Committee working on behalf of the School; includes correspondence with Deborah Kallen, founder and principal of the School, published material relating to the work of the School and the financial records, reports and minute-books, etc. of the American Committee. In addition there is correspondence with Sophie Udin concerning the Hebrew University Library and mniscellaneous letters to and from Henrietta Szold, Stephen S. Wise, John Haynes Holmes, Julian Mack, and Horace Kallen.Primarily correspondence with national Jewish institutions in the United States and Palestine, including the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Zionist Organization of America, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and material relating to German refugees during the Hitler period and even in Palestine.Death certificate, for city of Philadelphia, signed by J. Solis-Cohen.Gift of Ann Solis-Cohen Rosenthal and Charles Rosenthal,Gift, in part, of Solomon Solis-Cohen, 1900.Jacob da Silva Solis-Cohen, surgeon, pioneer in laryngology.Gift of Eleanor and Morris Soble.far031