Letter of Appointment from Ulysses S. Grant 1870

Letter written by Ulysses S. Grant appointing Benjamin Franklin Peixotto as United States Consul-General to Romania.Digital imag

Correspondence (Box 2, Folder 13) undated, 1860-1878

Correspondence B, written in English, contains letters from A. Bennish of the Anglo-American Association and Adolphe Buchner, temporary consul at Bucharest prior to the arrival of Peixotto. Several of the letters in this folder speak of the situation of Jews residing in Morocco, Romania, and Baghdad.Digital imag

Oversized Materials undated, 1860-1880

Oversized material is the digitized contents of two boxes (OS1 and OS2) that consist of correspondence, clippings, printed materials from Box 2, Folders 12, 13 and 17 as well as Box 4, Folders 1 and 8.Digital imag

Tarshish, Allan, "Rabbinical Thesis: Board of Delegates of American Israelites (1859-1878)" (Box 4, Folder 10) 1832

Box 4, Folder 10 contains the rabbinical thesis of Allan Tarshish, written in 1932 concerning the Board of Delegates.Digital imag

Board of Delegates of American Israelites records 1859-1881, 1887, 1932

Contains printed copies of the 1860 constitution and by-laws, copies of proceedings and annual reports, 1859-1877, of the Board of Delegates; report on Jews in Roumania, an 1874 annual report of the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society, manuscript minute books and minutes of meetings, 1859-1876, resolutions, executive, financial, ritual slaughtering and other special committee reports, newspaper clippings and correspondence with synagogues and organizations in the U.S. who constitute the membership of the Board of Delegates, with the Union of American Hebrew Congregations with whom they later merged, the Union's Board of Delegates of Civil and Religious Rights, and with individuals and organizations in foreign countries including the Alliance Israelite Universelle, the Anglo-Jewish Association, the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Committee for the Roumanian Jews (Berlin), the Koenigsberg Committee, and the London Roumanian Committee.Correspondence, in English, French, German, Hebrew and Spanish, deals with the Board's activities of collecting statistical information on Jewish life in America, acting as an advisory arbitrator in disputes, and protecting civil and religious rights of Jews both in America and abroad, rights which were infringed upon by various incidents including General Ulysses S. Grant's order expelling Jews from his Military Department which was revoked after appeals were made to government officials including President Abraham Lincoln; proposed U.S. and North Carolina State constitutional amendments recognizing Christianity as the religion of the land; problems arising from student absenteeism on Jewish holidays and from changing the name of Jews' Hospital in New York City to Mount Sinai Hospital; the exclusion of Jewish clergymen from being chaplains in the U.S. Army; anti-semitic charges, including one of "Jewish nationalism", by Major General Benjamin F. Butler which prompted replies defending Jewish ... and stressing the service of Jews to the country in respected positions; pogroms, anti-semitism, famine and poverty affecting the Jewish population in Iran, Iraq, Italy, Morocco, Palestine, Russia, Roumania, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey.Efforts were made to aid Jewish inhabitants of and emigrants from the U.S. Consul at Bucharest, Benjamin Franklin Peixotto ... build schools, orphanages and widows' asylums in Palestine; to eliminate discriminatory clauses aginst American and French Jews in the Swiss Treaty; to revoke the Spanish edict of 1492 banishing Jews; and to raise money to relieve the suffering of Jews throughout the world. There are several letters from Rabbi Isaac Elhanan Spektor requesting aid for a community near Kovno, Russia. Among those active in ... ring Jewish rights whose correspondence is included are Adolphe Cremieux, Isaac Leeser, Jonas Phillips Levy, Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, Isaac N. Seligman, William Henry Seward, Adolphus Simeon Solomons and Simon Wolf. Also contains correspondence about the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia as well as the American Jewish Publication Society (in existance 1871-1873) concerning Jewish educational scholarship in the U.S. A large proportion of the correspondence is either addressed to or from Myer Samuel Isaacs who held various positions on the Board.far0315digitize

Myer S. Isaacs collection undated, 1844, 1851-1925

Contains correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to the centennial birthday celebration of and memorial services for Sir Moses Montefiore; correspondence consists primarily of replies to a circular advocating the holding of memorial services issued by the Board of Delegates on Civil and Religious Rights from congregations in Buffalo, Charleston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Detroit. Contains also correspondence relating to the activities of the Alliance Israelite Universelle on behalf of Palestine and the Jews in the Balkan States and Morocco and to the establishment of United States committees for the Alliance and the raising of funds, including correspondence with H. Pereira Mendes, Henry S. Jacobs, John Hay, and Adolphe Cremieux as well as letters from Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Galveston, Minneapolis, Mobile, Rochester, St. Louis, and San Francisco. Also contains extensive correspondence concerning anti-semitism in Russia, aid to Jewish immigrants, and Jewish agricultural colonies in the United States, with letters from James G. Blaine, Manuel Augustus Kursheedt, Sabato Morais, Charles Nathan, Hirsch Leib Sabsovich, (Isaac N.?) Seligman and Judah Wechsler, among others. Also contains newspaper clippings and other items relating to Jewish life during the late 19th century and articles and memorabilia about various members of the Isaacs family.Among these is material on the Hebrew Institute; an article describing Myer Isaac's work as an army chaplain and items pertaining to his election campaign for judge. There is also presidential campaign material for Benjamin Harrison and James G. Blaine. Among the correspondents are Jacob H. Schiff, Adolph S. Cremieux, Benjamin F. Peixotto, Adolphus Solomons and Moses Dropsie.Gift, in part, of Lloyd Klatzkin,far031