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Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity, Epsilon Chapter. Records, 1927-1942, 1945.
Mss 33
Size: .2 cubic feet
Content: Minutes
Significance: Jewish fraternity at Emory University and Georgia Tech University.
American-Israel Chamber of Commerce S.E. Region. Records, 1992-1997. (newsletters)
American Jewish Relief Committee. Records, 1916.
(photocopy of a newspaper article listing the donors from the state of Georgia
Amit Women, Atlanta Chapter. Records, 1949-1983.
Mss 54
Size: .4 cubic feet.
Content: Certificates, correspondence, financial records, newspaper clippings, membership records, and a scrapbook.
Significance: Formerly Mizrachi Women, this Zionist organization raises funds for Israel.
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. Records, 1914-1940.
(leaflets written by Leo Frank while held at the City Jail and two plays published by the Atlanta office of ADL to teach tolerance at public school)
Associated Grocers Co-Op Inc. Records, 1929-1987.
Mss 70
Size: 10 cubic feet.
Content: Financial records, resolutions, history, minutes, and membership records.
Significance: On August 14, 1928 a handful of independent grocers met in Atlanta, Georgia to organize the first grocery store owners cooperative. On February 18, 1929 the organization was incorporated as Atlanta Saving Stores, Inc. The organization eventually grew to include over 190 independent grocery store owners in Atlanta.
Atlanta Boys' Club. Records, 1942.
(brochure)
Atlanta Bureau of Jewish Education. Records, 1946.
(constitution)
Atlanta Community Chest, Inc. Records, 1923.
(photocopy of Articles of Incorporation)
Atlanta Jewish Federation. Records, 1906-1980.
Mss 82
Size: 53 cubic feet.
Contents: The Atlanta Jewish Federation Records are divided into four series. Series I is subdivided into three sub-series. Sub-series I consists of the records of the Atlanta Federation of Jewish Social Service including minutes, annual reports, correspondence and files from the numerous organizations and agencies with whom the Federation had a relationship. Included in this series are the records of the Jewish Educational Alliance, the Morris Hirsch, Clinic, the Montefiore Relief Association and the Morris Lichtenstein Free Loan Association. Sub-series II consists of the case files of individuals and families requiring counseling and relief assistance. Sub-series III consists of the case files of Holocaust survivors requesting restitution.
Series II consists of the records of the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund and includes campaign files, minutes, funding requests from organizations and yeshivot in the United States, Europe and Palestine.
Series II consists of the records of the Atlanta Jewish Community Council and consists of minutes, newsletters, and files on subjects concerning the Council such as anti-Semitism, The Temple bombing, segregation and religion in the public school.
Series IV consists of scrapbooks from the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund, 1936-1943, and the Atlanta Jewish Community Council, 1956-1957.
Significance: The Atlanta Jewish Federation was formally incorporated in 1967 and is the result of the merger of the Atlanta Federation for Jewish Social Service founded in 1905 as the Federation of Jewish Charities, the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Federation founded in 1936 as the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund, and the Atlanta Jewish Community Council founded in 1945. Prior to the merger, each agency acted independently with separate officers but overlapping boards of directors. Edward M. Kahn was the executive director of all three. This collection of records traces the growth and development of Atlanta's Jewish community. The minutes, reports, correspondence and administrative files and scrapbooks is an extensive resource for the social historian researching subjects as varied as Jewish social service, Jewish-Christian relations, Jewish-Black relations, Holocaust restitution, Jewish camping, settlement houses, and religion in the public school.
Atlanta Rabbinical Assembly. Records, 1970-1988.
Mss 157
Size: .6 cubic feet.
Content: Administrative and general files.
Significance: The Atlanta Rabbinical Association was founded in 1970 and is comprised of rabbis who represent the full spectrum of organized religious expression in the Atlanta area. Membership is open to and includes colleagues, both active and retired, from all sectors of the Jewish community; members serve in congregational as well as non-congregational settings.
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Records, 1949-1950.
(program)
Atlanta Vaad Hakashruth. Records, 1940-1954.
(correspondence, meeting announcements and a resolution)
The Blue Card, Inc. Records, 1961.
(booklet re. the destroyed synagogues of Europe)
B'nai B'rith Atlanta Lodge. Records, 1968.
(newsletter)
B'nai B'rith Gate City Lodge. Records, 1963.
(history)
B'nai B'rith Gate City Lodge. Records, 1936-1984.
Mss 49
Size: .6 cubic feet.
Content: Minutes, membership records, and scrapbooks.
Significance: B'nai B'rith Gate City Lodge was founded in Atlanta in 1870 and is the oldest benevolent association to be founded by the Jewish community. These are the only extant records of this organization.
B'nai B'rith Women. Records, 1936-1977.
Mss 25
Size: 1.2 cubic feet
Content: Correspondence, newsletter, records of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organizations and scrapbooks.
Significance: B'nai B'rith Women, Inc. organized an Atlanta chapter in April, 1944. Activities included assistance to Hillel House at the University of Georgia, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, and the American Red Cross. B'nai B'rith Women were also actively involved with the sale of war bonds during World War II. Programs of B'nai B'rith Women have historically served both the Jewish and non-Jewish communities of Atlanta.
B'nai B'rith Youth Organization. Records, 1968-1969.
Mss 142
Size: .4 cubic feet
Content: Scrapbook from B’nai B’rith Girls DJG Chapter.
Significance: The scrapbook details the activities of this Jewish Youth group for girls.
B'nai B'rith Youth Organization-Acharit Chapter. Records, 1972-1973.
B'nai B'rith Youth Organization - Atlanta Chapter A.Z.A. 134. Records, 1933-1950.
Mss 29
Size: 1.2 cubic feet
Content: Scrapbook
Significance: The scrapbook covers the activities of this Jewish youth organization from 1933-1950.
B'nai B'rith Youth Organization-Deborah Chapter 1358. Records, 1964-1967.
Mss 50
Size: .2 cubic feet.
Content: Correspondence, newsletters, reports, newspaper articles and membership records.
Significance: Highlights activities of a Jewish youth organization in the 1960s.
Columbus Lodge No. 77 Independent Order B'nai B'rith. Records, 1866-1890.
Mss 88
Size: .2 cubic feet.
Contents: Minutes, 1866-1976.
Significance: This Columbus Lodge of B'nai B'rith was established only one year of after the end of the Civil War.
Don't Worry Club. Records, 1951.
(program)
Eternal Life Hemshech. Records, 1965.
(architectural drawing of the Holocaust memorial at Greenwood Cemetery)
Karen Edlin Family. Papers, 1995.
(program and invitation to Hemshech-Second Generation-Survivors Tribute Concert)
Georgia Association of Recycling Industry. Records, 1933-1976.
Mss 38
Size: .2 cubic feet.
Content: Minutes, correspondence and meeting notices.
Significance: The minutes reflect upon the evolution of the recycling industry in Atlanta.
Georgia Farm School and Resettlement Bureau, Inc. Records, 1939-1943
Mss 2
Size: 1.6 cubic feet.
Content: Correspondence, minutes, committee reports, and financial records relating to the daily activities of this organization.
Significance: The Georgia Farm School and Resettlement Bureau was organized in 1939, as a non-profit agency, interested in the resettlement and retraining of Jewish refugees. As the situation of Jews in Europe deteriorated, the Bureau developed a working relationship with the National Refugee Service. So that efforts on behalf of newcomers could be coordinated, the Farm School and Resettlement Bureau worked closely with other Jewish service organizations including the Atlanta Section, National Council of Jewish Women, B’nai B’rith Gate City Lodge #144, The Temple Sisterhood, the Atlanta Federation for Jewish Social Service and the Atlanta Free Loan Association.
Rebecca Bloom Goldman. Papers, 1946.
(script: "Twenty-four Years of Junior Hadassah in Atlanta)
Hadassah-Atlanta Chapter. Records, 1991.
(anniversary program)
Hadassah-Atlanta Chapter. Records, 1947-1980.
(programs and newsletters)
Hadassah Southeastern Region. Records, 1921-1987.
Mss 22
Size: 1.4 cubic feet.
Content: Minutes, correspondence, committee reports and newsletters.
Significance: Organized in 1926, Hadassah Southeastern Region is the umbrella organization for all Hadassah chapters in the Southeast. The Atlanta chapter is the oldest, having been organized in 1917, only five years after Henrietta Szold met with eleven other American Jewish women to establish Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. The original membership of 18 grew to over 2200 in the 1960s.
The Hebrew Benevolent Society of Albany, Georgia. Records, 1878-1985.
Mss 97
Size: 1.4 cubic feet.
Contents: Minutes, correspondence, histories of Temple B'nai Israel of Albany and of the Society, financial records, memorial resolutions, membership records and reports.
Significance: The complete set of minutes chronicles the work of a women's benevolent organization and provides the social historian with insight into Jewish community life in small towns throughout the South.
Hungarian Benevolent Association. Records, 1935.
(program)
A.G. Reisman Family. Papers, 1937.
(by-laws of the Hungarian Benevolent Association)
Independent Order Free Sons of Israel Atlanta Lodge. Records, 1877-1898.
Mss 35
Size: .2 cubic feet.
Content: Membership records.
Significance: Early Atlanta Jewish lodge. The membership records contain members' date of birth and country of origin.
Joseph B. and Lena B. Jacobs Foundation, Inc. Records, 1961-1986.
Mss 121
Size: .2 cubic feet
Content: The collection consists of the minutes of this foundation from its inception in 1961 to its incorporation as a supporting foundation of the Atlanta Jewish Federation now known as the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.
Significance: This foundation was founded in 1961 to distribute funds devoted exclusively to the causes of charity, education, and religion within the United States.
Jewish Educational Loan Fund. Records, 1883-1991.
Mss 36
Size: 15 cubic feet
Content: Administrative files including legal papers, minutes and annual reports of the Jewish Orphans Home and the Jewish Children's Service; case files of residents of the Jewish Orphans Home and case files of European children who either emigrated immediately prior to the World War II, or who survived the Holocaust, and who were then placed in a foster home in Atlanta.
Significance: The Jewish Educational Loan Fund, Inc. was originally established in 1889 as the Hebrew Orphan's Asylum. The Facility was home to hundreds of Jewish children from the Southeast between the years 1889-1930, when it closed as a resident facility. In 1948 the name of the Jewish Orphan's Home was officially changed to The Jewish Children'' Service Inc. Regional foster home placement and adoptions were administered under the auspices of this Bureau. In 1988, the official name was again changed to the Jewish Educational Loan Fund to more accurately portray the organization's present function which is to provide interest-free loans to Jewish students whose families live in any of the affiliated communities throughout the Southeast.
Jewish Ladies Aid Society - Columbus, Georgia Records, 1874-2000.
Mss 109
Size: 2.4 cubic feet
Contents: Minutes, financial records, annual reports and year books.
Significance: The Jewish Ladies Aid Society (JLAS) - Columbus, Georgia was founded on July 5, 1874 by The Ladies Purim Association. These women decided to broaden the focus of their association, that was up to now limited to an annual Purim ball, to include charity and benevolence within the Jewish community and throughout the City of Columbus. Originally named the Daughters of Israel this newly formed organization would subsequently change its name to the Hebrew Benevolent Society, The Ladies Aid Society and finally to the Jewish Ladies Aid Society. The JLAS functioned as the Sisterhood for Temple B'nai Israel founded in Columbus in 1854. Later changing its name to Temple Israel, the congregation is the second oldest in the State of Georgia.
Joseph Schaffer (1884-1939) Family. Papers, c.1950.
(Jewish National Fund tree certificate)
Jewish Orphan Home. Records, undated
(color postcard showing exterior of home)
Jewish Progressive Club. Records, 1923-1978.
Mss 6
Size: .8 cubic feet.
Content: Minutes and newsletters.
Significance: The Jewish Progressive Club was established in 1913 by Russian Jews who felt unwelcome at the Standard Club, which had been founded by German Jews in 1867.
Jewish Triangle Club. Records, c.1945-1990.
(newspaper article and history)
Jewish War Veterans of the United States. Ladies Auxiliary. Records, 1957.
(Flyer from Flag Day rally)
Jewish Welfare Fund of Columbus, Inc. Records, 1944.
(photocopy of Articles of Incorporation)
The Katherine and Jacob Greenfield Hebrew Academy of Atlanta. Records, 1953-1991.
Mss 64
Size: .8 cubic feet.
Content: Anniversary books, scrapbook, 1953-1960, and photocopies of minutes.
Significance: First Jewish day school in Atlanta established in 1953.
Keren Hayesod. Records, 1922.
(program)
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Records, c.1920-1923.
(newsletter, brochure, postcard, and blank page used for minutes)
National Council of Jewish Women - Atlanta Section. Records, 1885-1996.
Mss 139
Size: 15 cubic feet.
Content: The National Council of Jewish Women, Atlanta Section Records are divided into four series. Series I consists of administrative files. Series II consists of files relating to programs and issues. Series III consists of files relating to conferences and conventions. Series IV consists of scrapbooks.
Significance: The National Council of Jewish Women, Atlanta Section, was founded in 1895 when a small group of Jewish women met at The Temple (Hebrew Benevolent Congregation) to form a local chapter of the national organization that had been established two years earlier in New York. The first president was Rebecca Solomons Alexander. In the early years the Atlanta Section acted as the Sisterhood of The Temple. Dr. David M. Marx, the Rabbi of The Temple, acted as advisor to the fledging organization. Over the ensuing decades, NCJW, Atlanta Section, remained steadfast in supporting issues relating to women, children and education. The Atlanta Section also worked tirelessly to assist persons displaced by both World Wars.
National Council of Jewish Women-Columbus, Georgia. Records, 1920-1927.
(minutes)
National Federation of Temple Youth Southeast Region Records, 1959-1960.
(newsletters)
Oriental Hebrew Society. Records, 1920.
(photocopy of mortgage bond)
Sisterhood of Temple B'nai Israel, Albany, Georgia. Records, 1906-1989.
Mss 95
Size: .8 cubic feet.
Contents: Correspondence, financial records and minutes.
Significance: Originally known as the Hebrew Ladies Aid Society it was established in 1906. The minutes are fairly complete and document the various activities of this organization.
The Standard Club. Records, 1850-1982.
Mss 4
Size: .5 cubic feet.
Content: Property records, certificates, lists of stockholders, income bonds, titles, contracts, fliers and brochures.
Significance: Established in 1867 as the Concordia Club, it is the oldest still extant, private club in Atlanta. For over 100 years the Standard Club met most of the social needs of its many members. In the early years, the club adhered to a closed membership policy, welcoming primarily those from the well-established German Jewish community to join. This policy, in part, led to the establishment of social organizations such as the Jewish Progressive Club and the Mayfair Club, which met the needs of other segments of Atlanta’s Jewish society. The history of the Standard Club directly mirrors the history and lifestyle of its members whose social, political, economic, and philanthropic contributions have helped to shape the city of Atlanta.
The Temple Sisterhood. Records, 1902-1987.
Mss 42
Size: 3 cubic feet
Content: Minutes, scrapbooks, programs, invitations, reports, speeches and Garden Club records.
Significance: The Temple Sisterhood was established on December 9, 1912, and is the oldest congregational sponsored women's organization in Atlanta.
Tuesday Afternoon Club. Records, c.1914.
(history)
United Hebrew School of Atlanta. Records, 1920-1957.
Mss 16
Size: .4 cubic feet.
Content: Correspondence, minutes, fliers, financial records and a 1929 report of the status of Jewish education in Atlanta.
Significance: The United Hebrew School was Atlanta's first attempt at a community-wide Hebrew school available to all Jewish children, regardless of synagogue affiliation.
United Jewish Orthodox Association. Records, 1923-1924.
Mss 17
Size: .2 cubic feet
Content: Correspondence, minutes (in Yiddish), contribution lists.
Significance: This organization was organized by members of the Orthodox community of Atlanta and the Southeast to encourage the Hebrew Orphans Home to provide orphans with both a Kosher kitchen and a Jewish education.
The William Breman Jewish Home. Records, 1951-1984.
Mss 101
Size: .6 cubic feet.
Contents: Minutes, correspondence and newsletters.
Significance: The minutes of the Board are complete and chronicle the history of this important Jewish communal organization.
Women's American ORT, Atlanta Region. Records, 1976.
(anniversary book)
Shirley Yudelson Mosinger. Papers, 1948.
(programs and newsletter from Young Judaea)
Young Judaea - Daughters of Zion. Records, 1941-1958.
Mss 148
Size: 1 cubic foot.
Content: The collection consists of three scrapbooks containing memorabilia and correspondence.
Significance: Young Judaea - Daughters of Zion Chapter was an active youth organization in Atlanta throughout the 1940s and 1950s.
Young Ladies Co-operative Society - Albany, Georgia. Records, 1901-1925.
Mss 96
Size: .2 cubic feet.
Contents: Minutes
Significance: Two minute books that cover the entire history of this organization.
Young Women's Christian Association. Records, 1987.
(Program to Women of Achievement)
Zionist Organization of America. Records, 1937-1985.
Mss 40
Size: .4 cubic feet
Content: Newsletters, scrapbooks, and speeches written by Adelbert Freedman.
Significance: Adelbert Freedman, was active in ZOA since 1936 and executive director of the Southeastern Region from 1940-1951. The collection traces the development of Zionism in the Southeast and particularly in Atlanta.
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