Solis-Cohen family papers, 1808-1990.

Abstract

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