Selig Adler Buffalo Jewish community collection

Consists of two directories of Jewish Organizations of Buffalo (1938, 1939); papers of the Buffalo Council of Jewish Congregations, including a photostat of its Certificate of Incorporation, correspondence, memos, news clippings, and printed matter pertaining to the supervision of kashruth in the community (1925-1941); newspaper articles about Rabbi Joshua S. Zambrowski and Max M. Yellen, both actively associated with the Council (1939-1972); a copy of an unexecuted Certificate of Incorporation of the Buffalo Unit of Orthodox Congregations, Inc. (1932); papers, documents, and a photograph of Congregation Brith Sholem, a list, in Hebrew, of the officers and members of the Congregation at the time, that was placed in the cornerstone of the synagogue building constructed in 1893, and some correspondence and scattered minutes of meetings in Hebrew and Yiddish (1882-1943); documents pertaining to the Buffalo Hebrew School (1936-1940); copies of the Last wills and testaments of Israel Swados, 1862-1936, and Mary Saperston, d. 1935, bequeathing part of their estates to several Jewish Institutions in Buffalo, and legal documents and correspondence pertaining thereto (1929-1940)Gift of the collectorPreviously cited as I-10

Predictors of Adult Sibling Social Support for the Seriously Mentally III

Little research examines the reasons adult siblings might provide social support to unmarried, dependent brothers and sisters. This article examines how obligation, reciprocity, and the quality of personal relationships affect whether siblings provide social support to the seriously mentally ill. It uses a sample of 108 siblings of 85 participants in a treatment program for the seriously mentally ill to examine the factors that predict several aspects of help provision. Reciprocity is an important predictor of reported and projected support: The more help respondent siblings receive from ill siblings, the more willingness to help they show in return. The availability of parental and other sibling caregivers is also associated with reported help from siblings. Neither norms of family obligation nor relational quality are highly correlated with support. The results indicate that professionals should take into account the potential importance of siblings as providers of social support to the seriously mentally ill and encourage their clients to develop reciprocal interactions with their brothers and sisters.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/66728/2/10.1177_0192513X94015002007.pd