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Non-Sectarian Committee for German Refugee Children, Correspondence, Stephen S. Wise (Box 2, Folder 5)

The Marion E. Kenworthy Papers contain correspondence, newsletters and minutes of meetings of the Non-Sectarian Committee for German Refugee Children, which was established in 1938 to lobby the United States government to allow immigration for refugee children. The collection also contains correspondence, pamphlets, newspaper articles, editorials, and congressional testimony relating to the 1939 Wagner-Rogers Bill authorizing the admittance of German refugee children to the United States as well as correspondence pertaining to this legislation from the Jewish Children's Bureau of Chicago (1939). Among the more important correspondents are Stephen S. Wise, Robert F. Wagner, Justin Wise Polier, Eugene Meyer and Dorothy Canfield Fisher.Digital ImageDigital finding aid

Stephen Wise papers 1841-1978

The collection has been arranged according to the following broad subject areas: personal affairs; speeches, sermons, and articles, both manuscript and published; the Free Synagogue in New York City; the Jewish Institute of Religion; American Jewish affairs; relations between the Jewish and non-Jewish communities; New York City affairs; United States affairs; the Press (both Jewish and non-Jewish); world affairs; the American Jewish Congress and World Jewish Congress; refugees; Zionism; Palestine and Israel; arts and letters; and individual corrspondence of a general natureThe papers shed light on the problems of civil liberties, education, labor, politics, and war and peace in a local, national, and international setting during the first half of the twentieth century. Included also is material pertaining to Wise's early career in Portland, Oregon, and New York, as well as correspondence with family and friendsThose sections pertaining to Wise's involvement in the American Jewish community, New York City, United States, and international affairs (including Zionism and Palestine-Israel) contain correspondence, extensive in some instances with virtually all leading national and international Jewish leaders, such as Louis Brandeis, Jacob De Haas, Albert Einstein, Felix Frankfurter, Richard Gottheil, David Ben Gurion, George Kohut, Julian Mack, Henry Morgenthau, Sr., and Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Henrietta Szold, Robert Szold, and Chaim Weizmann. There is correspondence as well with many leading non-Jewish personages. For example, with all American presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to Harry Truman (of special note is that with Franklin D. Roosevelt), leaders in the areas of labor and civil liberties, and church leaders, most notably John H. HolmesContains personal and family correspondence including letters from Stephen Wise to Justine and James Wise and Shad Polier; also contains personal documents including funeral instructions from Stephen Wise and a marriage certificate issued by Temple Emanu-El to Stephen Wise and Louise Waterman. Family papers contain a book of poems in German by Leopold Wasserman. This collection also features two early essays by Stephen Wise ("Youth in Religion" and "The Social Problem in the Bible") and letters to Stephen Wise from Theodor Herzl, Albert Einstein, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Justice Felix Frankfurter, Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as two reports of meetings between FDR and SSW; also featured are two letters between Israel Zangwill and Lucien Wolff on the subject of Arabs and Jews in PalestineA detailed outline and index to the correspondence accompanies the collectionBatch change test 0806201

Isadore Breslau papers undated, 1938-1975

This collection consists primarily of correspondence, notes and memoranda relating to his work with the American Zionist Bureau (1939-40) and the Zionist Organization of America (1941). Also includes correspondence as U.S. Army Chaplain (1943) stationed in Daytona Beach, Florida. Among the more important correspondents are Louis D. Brandeis, Stephen S. Wise, Solomon Goldman and Robert Szold.Contains letters and cables from the Emergency Refugee Committee (1938) which advocated open immigration for European Jewish refugees. Among the supporters were Hamilton, Fish, Charles Edward Russell, George L. Radcliffe, Peter Marshall and Joseph P. Tumulty. Of special interest is a 1938 press release on support for Jewish settlement in Palestine by the Lebanese-American Federation of New England. Also includes transactions of the 1941 annual meeting of the Zionist Organization of America and a transcript of a speech delivered before the American Association for Jewish Education (1965).Gift of Mr. Joel Breslau,Ms. Ruth Fein20060523far031

American Jewish Congress records, undated, 1916-2005.

The records of the American Jewish Congress, a national Jewish agency, concerned primarily with Jewish and other minority civil rights, include the constitution, by-laws, and minutes of the Administrative and Executive Committees and Governing Council of the Congress. The collection has materials generated by the National Biennial Conventions, Executive Directors, including Phil Baum and Henry Siegman, and the General Counsel files of Will Maslow, Commissions and the Jerusalem Conferences of Mayors, Regional Chapters, National Women's Division, Business and Professional Chapters, Public Relations, and miscellaneous activities conducted by American Jewish Congress.Microfilm available for Congress Monthly, January 1935-May 1940, 1989-2007.American Jewish CongressFinding Aid available in Reading Room and on Internet

Dewey Stone papers, 1916-1983.

Contains papers and photos including correspondence and other materials relating to work as Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (and Israel), as National Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, as a leading campaigner for Israel Bonds, and as co-founder of and Chairman of the Board of the Weizmann Institute of Science; 2 texts of radio broadcasts made in 1948 informing America about the Israeli war for independence and the new Israeli republic; a list of military equipment supplied by Mr. Stone to Israel in 1948; letters and biographical material relating both to pressure applied by Mr. Stone and others on Pres. Truman to recognize and support the new Jewish state and to Mr. Stone's financial support of Truman's campaign and the Democratic Party in 1948; materials on associations with Boston University (including the dedication of the Dewey D. and Harry K. Stone Science Building), and the Truman Library; tributes and awards; biographical material; memorials; misc. speeches, presentations, and essays; misc. press clippings; and various photographs. Among the correspondents are: Chaim Weizmann, Vera Weizmann, Abba Eban, David Ben Gurion, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, the Rothschilds, Hubert Humphrey, Adlai E. Stevenson II, Teddy Kollek, Golda Meir, Richard Cardinal Cushing, Jacob Fine, Henry Ford II, Solomon Goldman, John M. McCormack, Meyer Weisgal, and Stephen S. Wise.This collection also contains a number of items relating to Dr. Chaim Weizmann's career as a statesman and as the first President of the State of Israel. Also consists of Ann Stone's personal correspondence including letters for medical assistance with Lord Marcus J. Sieff of London.Gift of Anne Stone, 1985; and Estate of Ann Stone

Elihu Stone collection undated, 1913-1962.

Collection contains materials pertaining to the life and work of Stone.Materials pertaining to Stone's Zionist activities include organizational speeches and essays prepared by Stone; materials relating to the Palestine Resolution introduced by Stone into the Massachusetts Legislature and materials relating to the Lodge-Fish Resolution, including a partial account of Stone's role in the passing of the resolution as well as correspondence with Henry Cabot Lodge; correspondence from Stone's tenure as President of the New England Zionist Region; correspondence in his association with the World Zionist Organization, the Zionist Organization of America, the Jewish National Fund, and Keren Heyesod. The collection also includes speeches and writings of Louis Lipsky and speeches given by Henry Cabot Lodge, Colonel Josiah Wedgewood, Congressman John C. McCormack, Governor Frank G. Allen, and an address given by an unidentified Knesset member (probably Abba Eban) before the Mass. Legislature (1949). Also included: misc. correspondence concerning the internationalization of Palestine; materials concerning the opening of Hebrew University on Mt. Scopus (1925); material on Chaim Weizmann and Colonel Josiah Wedgewood; material on Jewish immigration to Palestine, including circulars proclaiming a mass meeting to protest British policy (1939); announcements of meetings and public rallies protesting Naziism; materials on the World Zionist Congress of 1937.Materials pertaining to Stone's political activities include the following: election campaign materials; correspondence written in support of other candidates; resolutions sponsored by Stone as a state representative; correspondence written as a state representative and as Assistant U.S. District Attorney.Contains also material relating to Stone's professional career as a lawyer and personal material relating to members of the family. Also included: material relating to the Meretz Relief Organization, the Meretz Free Loan Association & the Federation of Jews of Lithuanian Descent.There is also information regarding tributes to Stone, including correspondence and information relevant to an award presented to Stone by the President of Lithuania on the 25th anniversary of Lithuanian independence. Also included: copies of the song "My Homeland," lyrics by Stone and music by Boris M. Morros; correspondence written by John McCormack concerning Stone's attempt to gain an audience with the Pope (1927).Collection also contains the following: material relating to local Jewish community affairs, including a copy of a petition in favor of the Sabbath Bill proposed before the Mass. Legislature and also local community reactions to Naziism; correspondence on the Anti-Nazi Boycott Movement and on Jewish immigration to the U.S.; material on reactions to anti-Semitism, including the protest of persecution of Jews in Poland, a response to Henry Ford's anti-Semitic campaign, and information regarding the Nordic Theory and the Johnson Immigration Bill. Also included: an essay on the Sacco-Vanzetti Case.Individual correspondents include: Governor Frank G. Allen, Louis D. Brandeis, Alexander Brin, Sen. William M. Butler, Calvin Coolidge, Governor Channing H. Cox, James M. Curley, Benjamin F. Evarts, Louis Finkelstein, Mendel Fisher, Israel Friedlaender, Governor Alvan T. Fuller, James A. Gallivan, Dr. Israel Goldstein, Christian Herter, Frank B. Kellogg, Harry Levine, William M. Lewis, Ludwig Lewisohn, Louis Lipsky, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Congressman Joseph Martin, Congressman John C. McCormack, James G. McDonald, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Franklin D. Roosevelt, Morris Rothenberg, Leverett Saltonstall, Abba Hillel Silver, Pres. Harry Truman, William Vanderbilt, Myer Weisgal, Chaim Weizmann, and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise.Collection further contains miscellaneous photographs (undated) and a collection of letters written in Yiddish.Prominent Boston Jewish communal figure, active in Republican Party, leading Zionist activist.Gift, in part, of Mrs. Carol Stone,Gift, in part, of Lois Stone,far031