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Ehrenreich family papers undated, 1841-1971

Consists primarily of correspondence, genealogical charts, newpaper clippings, published material, photographs, and memorabilia of the Waterman-Ehrenreich-Krensky family. Of special importance are the items relating to Bernard Ehrenreich, Louise Waterman Wise, and Stephen Samuel Wis

I. Martin Spier papers undated, 1929-1940

The collection consists of the following: material pertaining to the organization of the Youth Division of the American Jewish Congress (1940) including signed letters from Stephen S. Wise and Edward S. Silver and minutes of a meeting on reorganization of the division; a letter and flyer pertaining to a speaking engagement for the Works Projects Administration for the City of New York (1940); a letter of invitation to a meeting of the Junior Federation-Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities (1940); a biographical sketch; Spier's Bar Mitzvah speech; as well as an American Jewish Congress family membership card (1937

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

Bernard C. Ehrenreich papers undated, 1871-1971

Primarily correspondence, scrap-books, etc. relating to activities as rabbi in Montgomery, Alabama and Stockton, California. Includes also extensive correspondence from Jewish servicemen in World War I and II, Intercollegiate Menorah Association, Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity and Camp Kawaga and letters from Stephen S. Wise, Mordecai M. Kaplan and Leon J. Obermayer. Contains also collection of picture postal cards and original minute-book of the Central Bureau of the Federation of American Zionists of Greater New York.far031

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

Melvin Urofsky collection 1898-1977

Contains 21 typescripts from oral history interviews with individuals associated with Stephen S. Wise. The interviews were conducted primarily by Melvin Urofsky for a biography and transcribed at the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Also includes over 300 photocopies of correspondence to and from Stephen S. Wise, found in the Yale University Library, Princeton University Library, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, American Jewish Archives and the Harry S. Truman Librar

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