Prushin-Shershow Beneficial Association Records

 

1894-1967 

 

SCRC 182

 

Prushin-Shershow Beneficial Association (Philadelphia, Pa.)

 

3.04 linear feet (5 boxes) 

 

Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries

 

Materials in English, with some items in Yiddish.

 

 

 

The Prushin-Shershow Beneficial Association was organized in September 1889 by immigrants from the modern day Belarusian shtetls of Pruzhany and Shereshov.  Initially founded to assist new immigrants, the association grew to offer sick and death benefits and cemetery plots.  A Ladies Auxiliary was organized in 1930.  The association owned burial grounds in Har Nebo, Roosevelt Memorial, Mt. Jacob, and King David cemeteries.  In the 1980s, Prushin-Shershow transitioned to become predominately a social organization.        

 

The Prushin-Shershow Beneficial Association Records contain the organization’s meeting minutes, membership files, financial ledgers, and correspondence.  Early meeting minutes are written in Yiddish.  This collection also contains a photograph collage of members.  

 

The collection is arranged alphabetically by type of material, and then chronologically.

 

 

 

A photograph from this collection has been digitized and is available online on the Temple University Digital Collections website:  http://digital.library.temple.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15037coll15

 

A record for this collection is available in Temple University’s online library catalog: http://diamond.temple.edu/record=b5856888~S30

 

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. 

 

The Prushin-Shershow Beneficial Association Records are the physical property of the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. Intellectual property rights, including copyright, belong to the authors 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], [Box/folder number], Prushin-Shershow Beneficial Association Records, SCRC 182, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

 

 

 

Donated by Prushin-Shershow Beneficial Association in 1988.

 

Collection previously administered by the Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center, acquired by Temple in June 2009.

 

Collection processed and finding aid prepared in September 2015 by Jenna Marrone, Project Archivist, Special Collections Research Center. 

 

 

 

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

 

Prushin-Shershow Beneficial Association (Philadelphia, Pa.)

 

Fraternal organizations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Jews -- Pennsylvania – Philadelphia – Societies, etc.

 

Philadelphia (Pa.) 

 

Administrative records

Bylaws (administrative records)

Correspondence

Financial records

Ledgers (account books)

Logs

Manuscripts

Membership lists

Minutes

Newsletters

Photographs

 

 

 

1          1          Address book, members          undated

1          2          Constitution and bylaws          circa 1928

1          3          Correspondence, general          1947-1967

1          4          Correspondence regarding bylaws          1954-1955

1          5          Correspondence regarding cemetery plot reservations and death benefits, A-H          1948-1967

1          6          Correspondence regarding cemetery plot reservations and death benefits, L-T          1936-1965

1          7          Correspondence regarding cemetery plot reservations and death benefits, W-Z          1937-1965

1          8          Correspondence regarding member sick benefits, A-K          1956-1966

1          9          Correspondence regarding member sick benefits, L-P          1956-1966

1          10          Correspondence regarding member sick benefits, R-W          1956-1966

1          11          Correspondence regarding membership, A-G          1952-1966

1          12          Correspondence regarding membership, H-N          1952-1966

1          13          Correspondence regarding membership, O-Z          1944-1966

1          14          Finance reports          1944-1967

3          2          Financial ledger          1934-1939

1          15          Financial ledger          1936-1939

3          3          Financial ledger          1939-1946

1          16          Financial ledger          1943-1947

3          4          Financial ledger          1946-1955

2          1          Financial ledger          1955-1960

2          2          Legal agreement regarding release of benefit funds          1901

2          3          Meeting minutes and general ledger          1894-1899

2          4          Meeting minutes and general ledger          1902-1910

2          5          Meeting minutes and general ledger          1910-1916

2          6          Meeting minutes and general ledger          1923-1927

2          7          Meeting minutes and general ledger          1927-1931

2          8          Membership applications          1930, 1935

2          9          Membership dues ledger          1921-1923

2          10          Membership dues ledger          1921-1923

2          11          Membership dues ledger          1924-1926

2          12          Membership dues ledger          1924-1926

2          13          Membership dues ledger          1927-1929

2          14          Membership dues ledger          1927-1929

4          1          Membership ledger          1923-1934

4          2          Membership ledger          1935-1946

3          1          Photograph: collage of members          undated

2          15          Proof of age questionnaire, A-L          1956

2          16          Proof of age questionnaire, M-Z          1956

2          17          "P-S News" newsletter          May 1966

4          3          Roll book          1931-1933

4          4          Roll book          1934-1936

5          1          Roll book          1937-1939

5          2          Roll book          1943-1945

5          3          Roll book          1946-1951

5          4          Roll book          1956-1959