Vertical Files on the Jewish Community of Greater Philadelphia

 

1853-2021

 

SCRC 225

            

32.25 linear feet (33 boxes)

Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries

 

Materials in English, Yiddish, Hebrew, German, and Russian.

            

Detailed Collection Information 

 

The Vertical Files on the Jewish Community of Greater Philadelphia are an accumulation of items that document Jewish history in Philadelphia. The collection consists of photocopies of newspaper articles, pamphlets, family histories and genealogies, ephemeral items such as brochures, fliers and event programs and other miscellaneous materials relating to persons, places, organizations, and topical subjects. Some folders contain extensive information on a particular subject, while others hold only a single item. In some cases, there are multiple folders on a particular topic, person, or organization. Memorial or Yizkor books of remembrance for a select number of Philadelphia area synagogues can also be found in this collection. The vertical files provide background information on important cultural and historical events, businesses, and community members of the Jewish community in the Greater Philadelphia region and parts of southern New Jersey.

 

The vertical files are arranged alphabetically by subject, person (last name first), organization name, or title.

 

Research Access 

Collection is open for research. 

 

This collection may be housed off-site at the Library Depository, and require up to two business days to retrieve. Please review the finding aid and be prepared to identify specific materials to be retrieved. Contact the Special Collections Research Center in advance of your visit, so that materials may be relocated to the reading room for research. 

 

Additions to this collection are expected, and the latest additions may not be included in this finding aid. For information on material that may have been added since the last finding aid update, please contact the Special Collections Research Center.

The Vertical Files on the Jewish Community of Greater Philadelphia are the physical property of the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. The creators/donors have not assigned their rights to Temple University Libraries.  Other creators’ intellectual property rights, including copyright, belong to them or their legal heirs and assigns. Researchers are responsible for determining the identity of rights holders and obtaining their permission for publication and for other purposes where stated.

[Description and date of item], Vertical Files on the Jewish Community of Greater Philadelphia, SCRC 225, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

 

Donated by various individuals and assembled by staff beginning in the 1970s. A portion of the collection previously administered by the Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center, acquired by Temple in June 2009.  

 

Finding aid prepared according to contemporary archival standards in May 2013 by Jessica M. Lydon, Associate Archivist. Finding aid revised in July 2018, May 2019, and February 2020 by Jessica M. Lydon, Associate Archivist and in November 2021 to reflect additions to the collection inventory.

 

The following headings have been used to index the description of this collection in Temple University’s electronic catalog:

 

Subjects: 

Family histories

Fraternal organizations

Jewish families – Pennsylvania – Philadelphia

Jews -- Charities

Jews -- Education

Jews -- Pennsylvania – Philadelphia

Jews -- Social life and customs

Jews -- Societies, etc.

Synagogues

Philadelphia (Pa.)

Material Types: 

Clippings

Directories

Ephemera

Genealogies

Newsletters

Pamphlets

Photocopies

Photographs

Press releases

Publications

Reports

Souvenir programs

Vertical files

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32 Carat Club of Philadelphia

700 East Alumni Association

76ers Salute to Israel

7901 Tenants Association

 

A

Abel, Robert

The Abram H. and Helen Weiss Institute

Abrams Hebrew Academy

Adath Shalom

Adath Zion Congregation

Adler, Cyrus

Agronsky, Martin

Agudas Jisroel Immigration Department

Agudes Hashokhtim Defiladelfya (Philadelphia Slaughterers’ Association)

Ahavas Achim Beneficial Association 

Akiba Hebrew Academy

Akiba Hebrew Academy Alumni Association

Aleph Zedek Aleph (AZA) “PhiladelphiAZA”

Aliyah

Alliance of American Lithuanian Jews and Vicinity

Allied Jewish Appeal

Allied Jewish Appeal – 1939 Campaign

Allied Jewish Appeal – 1949 Campaign 

Allied Jewish Campaign poster

Alper, Robert

Alpers, Lillian

Alumni Association of the Hebrew Orphan’s Home

AM Bilingual Directory of Philadelphia (Russian and English) 

Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Philadelphia Joint Board, Dedication Ceremonies

Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Philadelphia Joint Board Yiddish fliers (photocopies)

American Board of Missions to the Jews

American Christian Fund for Jewish Relief

American Council for Judaism

American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors

American German Jewish Club

American Institute for the Study of Religious Cooperation

American Israel Cultural Foundation

American Jewish Committee, Philadelphia Chapter

American Jewish Publication Society

American Jewish Youth (Seniors), Chapter 58 “The Speaker”

American League for a Free Palestine, “Palestine Freedom Certificate”

American Mizrachi Women, Philadelphia Council

The American Organist American Red Magen David for Israel, Liberty Chapter

American Red Magen David for Israel, Philadelphia Branch

American Technion Society, Philadelphia Chapter, Women’s Division

Amster, Norm

Anne Frank Institute of Philadelphia

Anshei Sode Loven Beneficial Association

Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith

Anti-semitic material

Anti-Zionist resolution 1975

Arbel Chorale Group

Arnold family tree 

Aronson, Joe and Penny

Asbell, Milton B.

Asher, Lila Oliver

Associated Talmud Torahs

Association for Jewish Children

Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel, Philadelphia reunion, 1981

Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors

Association of Jewish New Americans of Philadelphia

Association of Orthodox Jewish Teachers of Greater Philadelphia

Association of Parents of American Israelis

Atereth Israel

Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education

Axelman, Anna

Axelrod, Dave

 

B

B. C. Friedman and Sons Matzoh Bakery

Babbitts, Bernard S.

Bank Leumi

Barnstein, B.

Bayt Yeladeem

Bayuk Cigar Company

Beaumont Club

Beethoven Orchestra and Chorus

Behrend, Moses

Behrend and Sonneborn families history and genealogy

Beker, Harold

Bellevue Cemetery, H and Tioga Streets, partial list of burials for years 1887-1949

Bellis, Isadore

Belz-Bessarabia Beneficial Association

Bender, Natalie N.

Beneficial associations

Ben-Horin, Meir

Benson, Evelyn R. 

Benzwie, Albert

Berg family tree

Bernstein family tree

Bernstein, Ida

Bernstein, Samuel “Leaden”

Besaraben Yid (Bessarabian Jew), February 1947

Beth Ahavah

Beth Ami Synagogue

Beth El (Cherry Hill, NJ) Yizkor books

Beth El Congregation

Beth El Suburban (Broomall, Pa.)

Beth El Suburban (Broomall, Pa.) Yizkor books

Beth Emanuel Messianic Fellowship

Beth Emeth B'nai Yitzhok

Beth Emeth Congregation

Beth Hakneseth Beth Shalom

Beth Jacob Schools of Philadelphia

Beth Sar Shalom Fellowship

Beth Sholom Congregation (Elkins Park, Pa.)

Beth Sholom Congregation (Elkins Park, Pa.) Yizkor books (See also Temple Beth Sholom)

Betty the Caterer

Bible Doll Lady (Diana Slavin Forman)

Billstein - Blum - Fleisher family tree

Binder, Cecelia

Bindler, Philip

Binswanger, Frank

Black Jews

Blanc, Victor H.

Blatt, Edward D.

Blitzstein, Anna

Block, Benjamin

Block, Harry

Blumberg, Baruch

Blumberg, Louis

Blumenthal Brothers Chocolate Company

Blumenthal family history “Samuel and Henrietta (Sternberger) Blumenthal Genealogy 1835-1992”

B’nai B’rith Educators Lodge No. 2716 – Educators Chapter No. 1430

B’nai B’rith Educators Unit Charter No. 5290

B'nai B'rith District Three

B'nai B'rith Group Vocational Guidance Service

B'nai B'rith lodges

B’nai B’rith Manual Training School 

B’nai B’rith National Americanism Commission

B'nai B'rith Veteran's Affairs and Armed Forces

B'nai B'rith Women

B'nai Chaim Social

B’nai Reuben

Board of Rabbis 

Bobby Block music

Bookbinder, Jack

Borenstein, Joram “Philadelphia’s Jewish Free University, 1970-1976: A Case-Study Analysis of Educational Reform, Campus Activism, and American Jewish Communal Life”

Borrock, Joe

Boslover Ahavas Achim Belzer Association

Boxbaum, Sylvia Bendroff

Boy Scouts of America, Troop 95

Boy Scouts of America, Troop 182 (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Braman, Norman

Breira, Philadelphia Area Chapter

Brickman, William

Brinkmann family history

Brith Sholom

Brith Sholom, Cardoza Lodge

Brith Sholom, Lodge No. 1 

Brith Sholom, Stephen S. Wise Lodge No. 1

Bronstein, Shalom “Congregation Beth Am Israel; As I Recall the Synagogue: Reminiscences of Southwest Philadelphia from the 1940’s to the 1960’s”

Brown, Harry

Bureau of Jewish Social Research (New York, N.Y.) Reports: Comparative Study of Heights, Weights, and Nutrition of Jewish Dependent Children in Philadelphia, 1920

Bureau of Jewish Social Research (New York, N.Y.) Reports: Federation of Jewish Charities of Philadelphia on their Medical and Health Work, circa 1920

Bureau of Jewish Social Research (New York, N.Y.) Reports: Jewish Day Nurseries of Philadelphia, December 1920 

Bureau of Jewish Social Research (New York, N.Y.) Reports: Jewish Foster Home in Philadelphia, PA, 1920

Bureau of Jewish Social Research (New York, N.Y.) Reports: Jewish Hospital of Philadelphia, circa 1920

Bureau of Jewish Social Research (New York, N.Y.) Reports: Jewish Maternity Hospital, circa 1920

Bureau of Jewish Social Research (New York, N.Y.) Reports: Juvenile Aid Society in Philadelphia, December 1920

Bureau of Jewish Social Research (New York, N.Y.) Reports: Mt. Sinai Hospital, June 1920

Bureau of Jewish Social Research (New York, N.Y.) Reports: Orphans' Guardians' Society, December 1920

Bureau of Jewish Social Research (New York, N.Y.) Reports: Survey of Organizations Doing Work with Jewish Delinquents in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, circa 1920

Bureau of Jewish Social Research (New York, N.Y.) Reports: Survey of the Jewish Child Care Situation in Philadelphia, December 1920

Burok, Moses J.

Business and Professional Women’s Group of Hadassah

Bustleton-Somerton Synagogue

 

C

Cakemasters Kosher Bakery

Camac Health Club

Camp Akiba

Camp Galil

Cantor, Gilbert N.

Cantors Assembly

Cemeteries

Center City Orthodox Synagogue

Center City Reconstructionist Synagogue

Central Club of Philadelphia

Central Committee of the Yiddishe Folkshuln

Chacker, Lauren, Bat Mitzvah invitation

“Chad Gad Ioh” operetta sheet music

Chaikin - Chasanov - Zavelsky (Sovel) "Our Family History"

Chaim Weizmann Lodge 1263 B'nai B'rith

Chambersburg (Pa.) Jewish community

Chanin, Israel

Chansky, Norman M., “Shabbat Shalom”

Charry, Elias

Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle "Jewish History and Literature" syllabus, circa 1900

Cherry, F. S.

Cherry, Walter

Chevra Achewah Chesed Anohe Cheval

Chevra Bikur Cholim

Chevra B’nai Reuben

Chevra Emunas Israel Ohev Sholom

Chevra Mishnaes of Temple Israel of Wynnefield

Chodorkover Association of Philadelphia map of Mt. Sharon Cemetery, section “K”

Chomsky, William

City of Hope

Cohen, Charles J. 

Cohen, David (Councilman-at-Large)

Cohen, Estelle

Cohen Family History 1892 to 1992

Cohen, Herman

Cohen, Janice

Cohen, Larry “The Chicken Hill Chronicles” 

Cohen, Mary M. 

Cohen, Milt

Cohn, Charles C.

Colonial Jews

Committee for a Jewish Army, Philadelphia Division

Congregation Adath Israel

Congregation Adath Jeshurun

Congregation Ahavas Achem

Congregation Ahavas Torah

Congregation Ahaveth Israel (Trenton, N.J.)

Congregation Aitz Chaim Vzichron Jacob 

Congregation Anshe Emes (Trenton, N.J.)

Congregation Beth El Emeth transcription of George Jacobs marriage record book

Congregation Beth El Suburban (Broomall, Pa.)

Congregation Beth Hamedrosh

Congregation Beth Israel (Lansdale, Pa.)

Congregation Beth Israel (Lebanon, Pa.)

Congregation Beth Israel (Media, Pa.)

Congregation Beth Israel of the North Penn Community

Congregation Beth Judah of Logan Yizkor books

Congregation Beth T'fillah of Overbrook Park

Congregation Beth Tovim Yizkor books

Congregation Beth Uziel

Congregation B’nai Abraham  

Congregation B’nai Abraham Ansi Russia regulations translation

Congregation B’nai Israel

Congregation B’nai Israel of Logan 

Congregation B’nai Israel-Ohev Zedek B'nai Halberstam

Congregation B’nai Jacob

Congregation B’nai Jeshurun

Congregation B’nai Tikvah 

Congregation B’nai Yoshia

Congregation Brith Israel

Congregation Chebre B’nai Israel

Congregation Dirshu Tov

Congregation Emanu-El

Congregation Kneses Israel Anshei Sfard

Congregation Kol Tzedek

Congregation Melrose B’nai Israel

Congregation Mikveh Israel

Congregation Mispallelim (Chester, Pa.)

Congregation Ner Tamid

Congregation Nes Ami (Radnor, Pa.) Yizkor books

Congregation Ohel Jacob

Congregation Otik-Mohlev

Congregation Shaare Israel

Congregation Shivtei Yeshuron Ezras Israel

Congregation Sons of Israel Yizkor books

Congregation Talmud Torah of West Philadelphia

Congregation Temple Judea

Congregation Tifereth of Lower Bucks County

Congregation Tikvas Israel

Congregation Tikvoh Chadoshoh

Consulate General of Israel in Philadelphia

Continuity and Change exhibit

Coordinating Committee on Vital Jewish Issues

Cooper, Eli Louis

Coopersmith - Rober - Savage (Savitsky) - Chaletsky - Shapiro - Diamond - Wolferd - Cohen (Konkevitz) - Klotnitsky "Our Family History"

Corens, Tess

Costanza, Mary

Cottler family history "100 Years in America"

Council of Young Men's Hebrew and Kindred Associations

Council on Jewish Education

Country Club Restaurant and Pastry Shop

Creamer, Milton

Creative Theatre

Cresson, Warder

Crowley, Bill

Cyrus Adler Hebrew High School

 

D

D. Becker and Sons

Dabrow, Dave

Dalsimer, Leon and Freidenrich, Fannie

Dannenbaum, Henriette and Lauchheimer, Jeanette

Davidow, Mae

Davids Family history

Delaware County (Pa.) Hadassah

Delware Valley Olim

Denenberg, Herb

Denny, Norman David Denny

Department stores

Der Besaraben Yid (the Bessarabian Jew)

Directories: Jewish organizations, 1939-1974

Directories: schools 

Directories: Synagogues, 1866-1996

Dobasarier Beneficial Association

Downtown Jewish Home for the Aged

Dr. Hertzel Zion Hebrew School (Trenton, N.J.)

Dreyer family reunion booklet

Driver Salesmen’s Union, Local No. 463

Dropsie College

Drucker, Jerome J.

Durst, William

 

E

East Lane Temple (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Echoes that Remain (film)

Edmundson, William Bertram

Ehrlich family history

Eilberg, Amy

Eilberg, Joshua

Einstein, Florence

Einstein, Max

Elisavetgrad Beneficial Association, Ladies Auxiliary constitution and bylaws, 1915

Ellis, Abraham M.

Ellis, Richard A.

Ernser, Matthew

Eskin, Howard

Ettinger, Samuel

Etz Chaim Center for Jewish Studies

Evantash, Edel

 

F

“The Families Aharonisky and Saltzberg (Shultzberg)”

Federation Day Care Services

Federation Housing Incorporated

Federation Housing Shalom Harbor House

Federation of Jewish Agencies of Greater Philadelphia

Federation of Jewish Charities

Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs Mid-Atlantic Region

Fegelson-Young Post 697

Feinberg, Morris

Feinstein, Myer

Feinstone, Sol

Feldman, Abraham J. 

Feldman, Chuck

Feldman, David

Feldstein, Joshua

Female Hebrew Benevolent Society

Fields, Harry

Fineshriber, William H. 

First - Ferst - Fierst - Furst family history "The Progeny of Israel"

First Fastover Beneficial Association

Fischhoff, Emanuel

Fisher, Solomon

Fishman, William S.

Fleet, Jordan

Fleisher family 

Fleisher memorial by Violet Oakley

Fleisher, Robert Henry

Flitter family

Flum, Joseph

Fogel, Henny

Forman Hebrew Day School 

Forman, Louis D.

Fox, Bernard

Frankel, Jacob

Franks, Clara Markowitz

Frederick, Stephen

Fredman, Samuel

Free loan societies

The Freeman Company

Freeman, Leon

Freiwald, Milton

Friedhoff family history "My Story"

Friedman, Dayle

Friedman’s Majestic Beverages

Friends of Palestine

 

G

Gallery, Leslie

Garber, Daniel C.

Gedance, Lillian Berdow

The George Washington Scottish Rite Bodies in the Valley of Abington Pennsylvania

Germantown Jewish Centre

Germantown Minyan

Gershman Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival

Gerstle famly history “Eleven Generations of the Gerstle Family”

Gerstley, Rita

Gertzman, Jay “Ysrael Ben Mendel (Isadore Gertzman)”

Gilderman, William

Gimbel, Ellis A.

Ginsburg, Lena Orlow

Glanz, Harry

Glass Family

Glassman, Philip I.

Glickman, Gail

Gold, Albert

Gold, Joseph E.

Goldberg, Edward I. 

Goldblatt, Emanuel "Menchy"

Golden Slipper Square Club  

Golden Slipper Square Club, Uptown Home

Goldenberg Candy Company

Goldis, Al

Goldman, Stuart

Goldman, William

Goldstein's Funeral Directors

Gordon, Ruth

Gordon, Zalman

Gorodetzer, Rebecca

Gorovitz, Pearl

Gratz College 

Gratz College accreditation studies

Gratz College Alumni Association

Gratz College Circular

Gratz, Rebecca

Grayzel, Solomon

Greater Philadelphia Council of B’nai B’rith 

Green, Arthur

Green Hill Lodge 2611 B'nai B'rith

Greenbaum, Benjamin

Greenberg, Robert

Greenfield, Albert M.

Greenfield, Barbara

Gross, Louis

Gross, Shelly and Guber, Lee

Grossman Family

Gutman, Jacob C.

 

H

Hackenburg, William B.

Hadassah, 23rd Annual Convention, Atlantic City, N.J.

Hagedorn-Merz Company

Haggadah

Halbert, Marvin R.

Halevi, Mordecai

Halpern – Dubin family history

Hammerschlag - Gardner family tree

Hammes, Tobi G. S.

Handbook for Soviet Jewish Immigrants in Philadelphia, 1980

Hapoel Hamizrachi of Philadelphia

Har Hasetim / Hazaism Cemetery

Har Jehuda Cemetery

Har Sinai Rabbi Louis Parris Center City Lodge #8 B'nai B'rith

Har Sinai Temple (Trenton N.J.)

Har Zion Hebrew School

Har Zion Temple

Har Zion Temple Sisterhood

Harmony Trio

Harrison, Harry

Harrison, Sigmund

Harrison's department store

Hartz, Ruth Kapp

Havurah Summer Workshop

Haym Salomon Monument Committee

Haym Solomon Memorial Park

Health Services of the Federation of Jewish Agencies, August 1962

Hebrew Association for the Deaf

Hebrew Charitable Fund, report of the first annual dinner, 1853

Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS)

Hebrew Literature Society

Hebrew Mutual Benefit and Benevolent Society of Brotherly Love

Hebrew Mutual Burial Ground, “B’nai Israel/Hebrew Mutual Burial Ground: A Piece of the Dutch Jewish History of Philadelphia,” report for an internship by E.R. Hurvich, 2008

Hebrew Mutual Cemetery

Hebrew Sheltering Home and Day Nursery

Hebrew Sunday School Society

Heimerdinger, Leo H.

Henry S. Frank Memorial Synagogue 

Herbach, Joseph

Herder, Moses

Hershkovitz, Markovitz, Hirsh family history

Heschel, David

Hesh's Bakery

HIAS and Council Migration Service

Hillel

Hillel of Greater Philadelphia

Hinda Goodis Down Town Free Loan Society 

Hirsch, Fay

Histadrut Council of Folk Organizations

Hodes, Natalie Lansing

Hoffman Family history

Hoffman, Gail Rebecca

Hoffman, Jack

Holocaust memorial calendar

Home for the Jewish Aged

Honigman, J. Myron

Horodister and Wilchaner Beneficial Association

Horsehair business

Hunt, Lee

Hurwitz, Donald B.

Hurwitz, Yosef Gershon

Husik, Isaac

Hyman, Libby Haynes

Hyneman, Elias Leon

 

I

Iceland (FBI) Veterans

Idstein, Julius

Independent Order of Brith Abraham, McKinley Lodge No. 238 (Pottstown, Pa.)

Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Siloam Encampment No. 17 (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Independent Order Voliner Progressive Beneficial Association

Independent Otik Moliver Intershlizing Sick Beneficial Association

Indian Springs Camp (Chester Springs, Pa.)

Industrial Home for Jewish Girls

Inglis House

Institute for Jewish Renewal

Interfaith Council on the Holocaust

Irving Schwartz Institute for Children and Youth

Isaacson, Rabbi Meyer

Isen Famly History and Genealogy with Allied Families "The Isen / Levine Family History and Genealogy: The Descendants of Ezekiel and Dora Levine and Moses and Yetta Kaplan"

Island Road Jewish community

Israel Bonds

Israel - Gulf War

Israel – Holy Land Travel News for the Delaware Valley

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Israel - Six Day War, 1967

Israel vs. U.S. at Shibe Park soccer program, 1948

Israeli Independence Day

Israelitan, Abraham

Issacman, Daniel (1924-1982)

 

J

Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy

Jacobs, Bernath L.

Jacobs, Maurice

Jacobs, Norman N.

Jacobson, Alvin Joseph

Jacobson, Doris

Jacoby, Sidney

James, Roby

Jamison, Judith Jaffe

Jastrow, Reverend Dr. Marcus

JCC Maccabi Games

JEVS Human Services

Jewish artists

Jewish baseball players

Jewish Book Council of America, Philadelphia Chapter

Jewish Book Festival

Jewish boxers

Jewish Campus Activities Board

Jewish Christian relations

Jewish Chronicle (Cumberland County, NJ)

Jewish Coalition for Peace in Vietnam

Jewish Communal Professionals Association of the Delaware Valley

Jewish Community Center of Southern NJ

Jewish Community Centers of Greater Philadelphia

Jewish Community Centers of Greater Philadelphia, David G. Neuman Senior Center

Jewish Community Centers of Greater Philadelphia, David G. Neuman Senior Center Cook for a Friend program

Jewish Community Centers of Greater Philadelphia, David G. Neuman Senior Center Local Legacies project

Jewish Community Centers of Greater Philadelphia, Gershman YM and YWHA Branch

Jewish Community Centers of Greater Philadelphia, Jacob and Esther Stiffel Center

Jewish Community Centers of Greater Philadelphia, Kaiserman Branch

Jewish Community Centers of Greater Philadelphia, Klein Branch 

Jewish Community Centers of Greater Philadelphia, Senior Adult Department

Jewish Community Centers of Greater Philadelphia, Sportsters

Jewish Community Chaplaincy Service of Greater Philadelphia

Jewish Community Festival of Arts, Books, and Culture

Jewish Community High School

Jewish Community Homes for Adult Independence (J/CHAI)

Jewish Community of Philadelphia

Jewish Community Relations Council

Jewish Community Youth Program

Jewish Congregation at Graterford

Jewish Converts and Interfaith Network

Jewish Educational Center No. 1

Jewish Educational Center, Philadelphia PA

Jewish Educational Workshop

Jewish Employment and Vocational Service

The Jewish Exponent

Jewish Family and Children’s Agency of Philadelphia

Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Greater Philadelphia

Jewish Family Service of Philadelphia

Jewish Farm School

Jewish farmers

Jewish Farmers Chorus

Jewish Federation of Delaware County

Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, 100th Anniversary

Jewish Federation of Trenton, NJ

Jewish film

Jewish Folk Chorus

Jewish Folkshulen of Philadelphia

Jewish football players

Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum

Jewish Heritage Programs

Jewish labor unions

Jewish Law Day

Jewish music

The Jewish National Fund

Jewish National Fund of America, John F. Kennedy Peace Award Dinner

Jewish Resource Center of Overbrook Park

Jewish Restaurants 

Jewish Sheltering Home for the Aged

Jewish theater

Jewish Theological Seminary City-Wide Awards Dinner, 1997

The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Philadelphia Branch

Jewish women

Jewish Youth

Jewish Youth Chorus

Jewish Ys and Centers of Greater Philadelphia

Jewish Ys and Centers of Greater Philadelphia, Joseph A. Daroff Campus of Adult Studies, “New Horizons”  

Jewish Ys and Centers of Greater Philadelphia, “The Review,” 1967-1975

Jews for Jesus

Jews in South Philadelphia

“Jews: Race, Nation, or Religion?, 1936”

Jewtown

Joseph Levine and Son

Joseph Magil Co.

Judaic Institute

Judaic Union, Philadelphia Lodge No. 1

Judaic Union, Standard Lodge No. 3 (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Julius H. Greenstone Hebrew High School

 

K

Kahn, Louis

Kaiserman, Kevy K.

Kapustin, Ben

Kaskin family history "Kaskin Chronicles"

Katz, Harry J.

Katz, Lawrence

Katzenberg – Kind – Stern “Our Family Tree”

Kaufmann, Arthur C.

Kehillah of Center City

Kesher Israel (West Chester, Pa.) 

Kirschner, Isadore L.

Kitsee, Isador 

Klausner, Samuel Z.

Klebansky, Wolf

Klein, Howard

Klein, Israel

Kleinman, Nathaniel

Kleztones

Kobrin, Leon

Kohelet Foundation

Kohn, Blanche Wolf

Kohn, Hannah

Kohn, Joseph

Kolinsky, Jason and Michael

Kolinsky, Steve

Kornblau’s Restaurant and Fine Foods 

Korn, Bertram 

Korn family history "Korn Legacy" volumes 1 and 2

Kosher restaurants

Korsoner Verein

Kositsky Family

Kosloff, Irving

Kowalchuk, Serge

Kraft, Jacob

Krakauer Beneficial Society

Kramer, Samuel Noah

Kramer, Simon

Krauskopf, Joseph

Kravitz, Morris

Kremer, Johnathan

Kucgalis, Jekabs

Kurland, Sy

 

L

L. Husik and Son Matzoh Bakery

Landes, David S.

Langsfeld, Mickey “From Gold Dust to Gold Inlays”

Lanin, Howard

Lanin, Lester

Lapayowker, Rose

Lapid

Lebanon War, 1982

Leeser family history "Die Geshichte der Familie Leeser aus Westfalen: 1723 bis heute," 1987

Leeser, Isaac

Leon, Max Manuel

Leopold, Samuel

Lerman, Marlene

Lertzman, Louis Perry

Letterhead from Jewish owned businesses (photocopies)

Levick Hebrew School

Levin family tree

Levin, Leib

Levin, Nora

Levinsky, Bernard

Levinson, Richard

Levinthal, Louis E.

Levis, Jesse (baseball player)

Levy Family history

Levy, Nathan

Levy, Uriah Phillips

Lew Tendler's Restaurant

Lewis, William M.

Likoff, William

Lincoln Theatre program, Menasha Skulnin in “My Wedding Night”

Lipovitser Beneficial Association

Lipschitz, Rabbi Moishe

Lispon, D. Herbert

Liss, Albert

Lit Brothers

Littell, Franklin

Littman’s Glenside Hotel (Atlantic City, N.J.)

Litwack, Harry

Locust Club of Philadelphia

Loeb, Liesl

Loeb, William S.

Loewenberg, Betty

“Look Out: A Musical Revue in Two Acts,” 1924-1925

Lotman, Arline

Louis Tose Sanctuary Jewish Community Center (Norristown, Pa.)

Lovenstein Family history

Lovinson family history "Gedenkschrift zur Erinnerung an die von Dr. Moritz Lovinson hinterlassene Familien-Stiftung"

Lubarsky family history “Zion in the New World: The Lubarsky’s Find the Goldene Medina,” May 2015

Lubavitch House

Lubavitch of the Delaware Valley

Lubin, Shelley

Lubin, Siegmund

 

M

M. Caplan Women’s, Misses’ & Children’s Wearing Apparel, 331 South Street

Magil, Joseph

Magold Co.

Maitin, Sam

Makom Jewish Cultural Center and Coffeehouse

Malavasky family choir

Malerman, Newt and Rina

Malickson, Ephraim

Manhof, Bernie

Mann, Frederic, R.

Margolis, Evelyn    

Margolis, Max L.

Marguiles, Louis

Marks, Bernard R.

Marks Brothers Department Store, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), official public comfort station card, circa 1866

Martin, Gary

Martin’s Run Associates 

Mashiach Zeiten Kimt (Runnemede, N.J.

Maslin, Rabbi Simeon J.

Masons, Keystone Royal Arch Chapter 175

Masons, Shekinah Lodge 246

Mastbaum, Jules E.

Matt, Hershel J.

Max and Sarah Bamberger Seashore Home

Meir, Golda

Memorial Committee for Monument to the Six Million Jewish Martyrs

Menko family tree

Mercantile Club

Messianic Jewish Center

Mezvinsky, Ed

Mid-City Club of Philadelphia

Mid-City Lodge #2146 B'nai B'rith

Middle East peace process

Miller, Adelene

Miller, Benjamin F. (1907-1971)

Miller, Frederic M.

Miller, Lou

The Minkovitzer Brith Achim Beneficial Association

Mishkan Shalom

Mogen Hatzoeer

Moldoff, Sol “Mishpachah Memo”

Montefiore Cemetery

Morais, Henry Samuel

Mordecai, Jacob

Mordell, Albert

Morris Magil Printing

Moses, David

Moss Rehabilitation Hospital

Mt. Airy Jewish Community Center Book of Remembrance, 1961-1962

Mt. Carmel Cemetery

Mt. Sinai Cemetery

Mt. Sinai Hospital

 

N

Nachman, David (Al Nash)

Naisiner Mutual Aid and Beneficial Association of Philadelphia

Narrow, Morton and Judith

National Agricultural College

National Conference of Jewish Communal Service

The National Farm School

National Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs

National Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs, Mid-Atlantic Region   

National Foundation for Jewish Culture

National Havurah Committee   

National Jewish Hospitality Committee and Information Centers

National Museum of American Jewish History

National Women’s League of the United Synagogue of America, Philadelphia Branch

Neighborhood Centre 

Neighborhood Centre South

New Jersey Farming Community

New Jersey Jewish Community

New Jewish Agenda, Philadelphia Chapter

Newman, Abraham A. 

Neziner Synagogue

Nichols, Sarah (d. 1942)

Nippon, Edward and Sylvia

North Marshall Street Business Men’s Association 

Northeast Jewish Community Center

Northeast Orthodox Congregation

Northeast Synagogue Consortium

Northern Hebrew Day Nursery

Northwest Interfaith Movement Nursing Home Connection

Northwood Hadassah

Novoseller, Harold

 

O

Obodovka Independent Ferein

Oesterreich Ungarischen Kranken Unsterstützungs Vereins 

Ohel Jacob Synagogue

Ohev Shalom of Bucks County

Ohev Sholom Synagogue

Olanoff, Rose S.

Old Original Levis

Old World Folk Band 

Old York Road Temple Beth Am

“The Original Brown Family: A Memoir,” 2014 Orleans, Jeffrey

Orleans, Marvin

“An Orloff Family Tree: Descendants of Simcha and Yenta Orloff”

Orodenker, Maurie and Edith

ORT America Resale Store

Ortenberg, Edgar

Oser, Harris E.

Oshiver, Harry J.

Osterneck, Morris 

Ostrow, Joseph

Oxford Circle Jewish Community Centre

 

P

Packel, Israel

Pannonia Beneficial Association constitution and bylaws, 1911

Pannonia Beneficial Association, Pannonia Ladies Auxiliary

Pannonia Beneficial Association, Pannonia News, 1966-1997

Paperhangers of Strawberry Mansion

Paperhangers Union Local 587

Parents of North American Israelis, Philadelphia Chapter

“Parents’ Place in Jewish Education” conference panel, 1948

Parmet's Hebrew Book Store

Parris, Louis

The Passover League of Philadelphia

Patkin, Max

Paull, Joseph

Pearlman, Al

Peck, Arthur reminiscences on South Philadelphia, 1972-2017

The Peerless and the Blumenthal Brothers Extract and Flavoring Companies

Pelberg, Abraham and Esther

Peltz, Rakhmiel

Penn Fruit Company, Inc.

Pennsylvania Bank and Trust Company

Perelman Jewish Day School

Perelman, Leon J.

Perlber, Josef
 Philadelphia Assembly of Israel Khal Adarh Israel

Philadelphia Beneficial Society

Philadelphia B'nai B'rith Council

Philadelphia Center for Jewish Graduate Students

Philadelphia Center on the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights

Philadelphia Committee, American Israel Public Affairs Committee

Philadelphia Committee of the Tel Aviv Foundation

Philadelphia Conference on the Problems of White Ethnic America

Philadelphia Coordinating Council on the Holocaust

Philadelphia Council of Jewish Youth Organization

Philadelphia District Committee of the International Workers Order

Philadelphia Friends of Israel 

Philadelphia Friends of Yeshivot Ner Israel

Philadelphia Fur Workers Union Local 53

Philadelphia Hadassah  

Philadelphia Hadassah news bulletin / newsletter

Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation

Philadelphia Israel Alliance

Philadelphia Jewish Children's School

Philadelphia Jewish organizations list, circa 1938

Philadelphia Jewish Times Institute Kosher Cooking School

Philadelphia Junior Hadassah

Philadelphia Mikvah Association

Philadelphia Mikvah Association, Northeast Branch

Philadelphia Mobilization Committee

Philadelphia Workmen's Circle Chorus

Philadelphia Young Judea

Philmont Country Club (Huntingdon Valley, Pa.)

Pickholtz family

Pinkenson, Joseph L. "My Father's Shul"

Pioneer Women

Piwosky, Abram P.

Polin, Benajamin H.

Polis, Carol

Politz Hebrew Academy 

Polsky, Allen

Polsky, Herman J.

Porkas, Able

Potok, Chaim

Presseisen, Ernst L.

Prince, Barry

Prushin Shershow Beneficial Association

Purmell, Bluma

Pushcarts

 

R

Ragovoy, Evelyn

Rashkover-Tiraspolier Social Association

Rath family history

Razumny Family history

Rebecca Gratz Club

Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

Redstone, Arthur L.

Reform Congregation Beth Or

Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel

Reiter, Freda

Relief Society for Political Exiles and Prisoners of Russia 

Retired and Senior Volunteer Program

Richman, Jacob S.

Rimon Reform Jewish Day School (Newtown, Pa.)

Riz, Yaakov

Rochester Formal Wear 

Rockower, Jacob R.

Rodeph Shalom

“Rodeph Shalom’s Men and Women in the Armed Forces” A Letter From Home, 1944-1945”

“The Romance of a People: A Musical and Dramatic Spectacle,” 1934

Rome, Edwin P.

Ronis, Bernard

Roosevelt Memorial Park

Rose, Dora E.

Rose, ElizabethRosen Alex

Rosen, Irvin 

Rosenau, Mrs. Wlater N.

Rosenbaum family history "Historical Perspectives"

Rosenberg, Adella

Rosenberg Hebrew Books

Rosenstein, Irv “Our Legacy: Jews and the American Labor Movement,” June 1991

Rosenstein, Mordechai

Rosenthal, Mark

“Rosenwald Days” flier, 1917

Rosenwald, Lessing J.

Roth, Arnold

Rothschild, LeRoy B., The Manufacturers’ Exchange: Philadelphia’s Premier Sales and Manufacturing Building

R. Pressman Inc., 4027 Girard Avenue

Rubin, Benjamin Arnold

Rubin, Esther

Rubin, Hyman

Rublin, Louis

 

S

S. Goldberg Fine Watch Repairing

Saidel, Jonathan A.

Saligman, Robert

Sall, Theodore “The Sall Story”

Salomon, Haym

Salus family

Samson family tree

Satinsky, Sol

Scarf, Maxwell

Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman

Schmidt, Menachem

Scholar's Conference on Holocaust

Schultz, Ruth “The Making of America and the Interaction of Her Jews”

Schwab, William B.

Schwartz, Edward Arthur

Schwartz, Max

Schwartz, Phyllis Solomon

Schwartzman, Maurice J.

The Seevak Family: A History 1700-1998

Septee, Moe

Serota, Shirley Weyman “Forever in Our Hearts: The Life of Bessie Shane Winokur”

S.G.F. Vacation Camp 

Shaare Zedek Hospital

The Shalom Center

Shamberg, R. Brock and Janice Carter Shamberg “A Sense of History: The Descendants of Nissen Shanberg and Related Families"

Shari Zedek

Sharp, Milton

Sharpe, Frances Sher

Sherman, Frances H.

Shippen-Shipon-Herman family history “Celebration of Life”

Shir Ami (Newtown, Pa.)

Sholom Aleichem Club

Shomrim of Philadelphia

Shoulson, Joel

Shoyer’s Restaurant, 412 Arch Street

Shubert Theater program “God, Man and Devil”

Shubin Theatre

Shuman, Harry

Shupak, Jerome

Shuster, Leonard

Sichel-Joseph-Pomerantz Family History

Sick Visitors Beneficial Association

Silban, Alice

Silent No More: newsletter of the Soviet Jewry Council of the JCRC of Greater Philadelphia

Silver, Joseph J.

Silverberg, Lily

Silvers, Arnold Jay

Simon Gratz High School

Sing it in Yiddish

Slavitt, David R.

Slepin, Max

Smolensky, Oiser

Society Hill Synagogue

Society for Visitation of Sick and Mutual Assistance, 50th anniversary invitation, 1863

Solis-Cohen family

Solis-Cohen, J., Jr. (Jacob), “Fifty Years of Appraising 1912-1962”

Solomon Schechter Day School

Sommer, H.B. "The Jew of To-day," 1883

Soslow, Edwin

Southern High School

South 7th Street Businesses

South Philadelphia Beneficial Association

South Philadelphia Hebrew Association (SPHAS)

South Philadelphia High School Alumni

South Street Business Association, Incorporated 

Soviet Jewry  

Soviet Jewry Council of JCRC

Specter, Arlen

Specter, Joan

Spiegel, Henry

Sportsmen’s Club for the City of Hope, “Torch of Hope” annual dinner programs

Sprafkin, Benjamin R.

Stand Against Hate rally, March 2017

The Stanley Music Club

Stark, Jayson

State of Israel Bonds

Steel, Columbus

Stein, Leon I.

Stein, Louis

Stein Miller Family history

Steinbach, Lewis W.

Steinberg, Frank M.

Steinberg, Saul

Stern and Co. of Philadelphia, PA

Stern Family Seder 

Stern, Harry

Stern, Malcolm H.

Stern the Caterer

Stiefel, Israel

Stillmans Memorial Chapel, 4324 N. Broad Street

Stokler, Elaine

Stone, I. F.

Strawberry Mansion

Suburban Jewish Community Center-B’nai Aaron (Havertown, Pa.)

Sugarman, Jack

Sukkat Shalom

Sulzberger, David “The Beginnings of Russo-Jewish Immigration to Philadelphia,” 1910

Sulzberger, Mayer (1843-1923)

Superior Wine and Spirits, Inc.

Sussman, Abraham

Synagogue as sanctuary

“Synagogues Without Ghettos: Technical Report Submitted to Board of Directors Har Zion Temple,” February 1970

Szold, Henrietta

 

T

Tabach, Yuri

Tabas Enterprises

Takiff, Harry A.

Talmud Torah Adath Jeshurun

Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia

Tatelman, Samuel

Tel-Aviv Inc. for Elderly People and The Annex for Convalescents

Temple Adath Israel

Temple Beth’El

Temple Beth Hillel Beth El (Wynnedwood, Pa.)

Temple Beth Hillel Beth El (Wynnedwood, Pa.) Yizkor books

Temple Beth Israel

Temple Beth Sholom Yizkor Book (See also Beth Sholom Congregation)

Temple Beth Zion Beth Israel

Temple Beth Zion Beth Israel Morris J. Root tribute scrapbook, 1976

Temple Emanuel (Cherry Hill, N.J.)

Temple Israel

Temple Israel of Upper Darby

Temple Judea Yizkor Book 

Temple Menorah Keneseth Chai

Temple Rodeph Zedek

Temple Sholom

Temple Sholom in Broomall

Temple Sinai

Temple Sinai Sisterhood

Temple Sinai Yizkor Book of Remembrance 

Temple Zion

“The Tenzer Family Tree Including the Feiler and Zahl Families”

Teplicker Beneficial Association of Philadelphia

Thalheimer, Clarence Stern

Thalheimer family history, “L’Chaim…Only in America”

Thursday Night Discussion Group

Tigay, Jeffrey

Tinkelman, Edward

Tolner Dubner Brotherhood Association

Tomania Novak Minnie Family Circle

Torah Academy of Greater Philadelphia

Trace, Arthur

Trade Council rally

True Sisters Benevolent Society (Atlantic City, NJ)

Turnoff, Sol S.

Twersky, Rabbi Moishe H.

 

U

Umanier Verein of Philadelphia

Union of Council for Soviet Jews

Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America

Unitarian Universalist Association

United Hebrew Services memorial program for James A. Garfield, 1881

United Hebrew Services memorial program for Sir Moses Montefiore, 1884

United Jewish Organizations

United Order True Sisters

United Push Cart Peddlers Association meeting notice, 1922

United Synagogue of America, Delaware Valley Region

United Synagogue of America, Philadelphia Branch

United Synagogue of America, Philadelphia Branch Board of Jewish Education

The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, Delaware Valley Region

United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, Mid-Atlantic

United Zionists – Revisionists of America Inc. (Herut U.S.A.)

Uptown Hebrew Sheltering Home

Uris, Leon

 

V

The Victor Club 

Vilna Congregation

Vizak, Les

Vogel, Morris

Von Halle family history

 

W

Wachtfogel, David

Walnut Street Theatre program “Kiddush Hashem”

Waskow, Arthur

Wasserman, Richard M.

Watts, Elaine

Weinstein family history

Weisblum – Remer family history

Weiss, Harry

Welcome Lodge No. 453 of the Free and Accepted Masons       

Welcomers Square Club

Wertheimer, Max

West Oak Lane Jewish Community Center

West Philadelphia Jewish Community Center

White, Libby K. “The Henry S. Frank Synagogue: Rekindling the Ner Tamid”

Whiteman, Maxwell

Wice, David H.

William B. Hackenburg Lodge No. 703

William B. Hackenburg Mount Moriah Lodge No. 155 

Winter, Abraham

Wirtschafters World

Wise, Stephen S.

Witlin family history

Wolf, Block, Schorr, and Solis-Cohen L.L.P.

Wolf, Edwin D.

Wolf family tree

Wolf, Herman

Wolf, Howard A.

Wolk, Arthur A.

Wolmark, Israel

Women's Festival

Woodbine, NJ

Women’s League for Conservative Judaism

Workmen’s Circle

WRTI 90.1 FM “Song of the Sabras,” 1973-1975

 

Y

Yales, Efrayim Eliʻezer, ha-Kohen

Yardley Synagogue

Yavitch, Jacob

Yeadon Jewish Community Center

Yellin, Samuel

Yeshiva Mishkan Israel

Yeshiva Mishkan Israel and Central Talmud Torah

Yeshiva Ohel Moshe

Yeshiva and Talmud Torah Beth-Safra of Logan of Congregation B’nai Israel

Young Israel of Oxford Circle

Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Philadelphia (YMHA)

Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Philadelphia (YMHA), Balbazoo Club

Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Philadelphia (YMHA), The Review, 1911-1915

Young Men’s and Young Women's Hebrew Association (YM-YWHA)

Young Men’s and Young Women's Hebrew Association (YM-YWHA), The Review, 1925-1955

Young People’s Congregation (Y.P.C.) Shari Eli

Young Roumanian Beneficial Association

Youth League

Yugent Yiddish Dramatic Group of South Philadelphia

 

Z

Zangwill, Israel

Zaslow, Jeffrey

Zaslow, Tillie "Six Generations"

Zeidman, Leonard

Zeitlin, Solomon

Zinkoff, David

Zionism

Zumoff, Abraham “Memories: Recollections of Almost a Century of a Personal Life”

Zumoff family history “Our Family: An Album of Six Generations 1831-1985”

Zumoff, Marc
Zygmuntowicz, Itka