Albert Einstein walking with Chaim Weizmann on deck of the S.S. Rotterdam en route to the United States Portraits Groups; Men

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"... I want an Ocean between us!" : Letters from Samuel Kahn, devoted father of one of the thousand children brought from Germany to the United States in 1934.

The manuscript contains letters written by Samuel Kahn to his daughter in the USA between 1934 and 1937.

Pilgrimage to the Holy Land Commemorative Medal

Obverse: A 16th century map drawn by a German cartographer Heinrich Bintung, which shows Jerusalem standing in the center of the three continents. Reverse: Inscription.

To the Mothers of the Twelve Thousand.

The size of the work and the printed title suggests, that this is a poster. It bears the emblem R.J.F., for the sponsoring organization, Reichsbund Juedischer Frontsoldaten or National Organization of the Jewish Front-line Soldiers. The mothers of "The twelve thousand" refers to the Jewish soldiers killed during World War I, when reminding Germans of the patriotism and sacrifices of German Jews, seemed important in view of the discrimination they were confronted with at the time, in 1935.

Letter on the election of Dr. Leo to the position of Honorary Secretary of Home for Aged and Infirm

Letter: Dr. Leo elected Honorary Secretary of Home for Aged and Infirm. Written in English script.

Letter regarding the election of Dr. Leo to the Progress Lodge

Letter regarding the election of Dr. Leo to the Progress Lodge. Written in English script on blue lined white paper.

Invitation to the opening of new Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews.

Invitation to Opening of New Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews. Invitation to a reception for new building. Simeon N. Leo, M.D., Hon. Sec.

Papers relating to the Ladies Benevolent Society

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Memorandum regarding a loan made by G.W. Ludlow to the congregation

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Offers to the tsedaka

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The Wieruszowski ancestry : from the mid 1700’s to the late 1900’s /

Family trees of the descendants of the Wieruszowski and of the Apt families from the mid 1700’s to the late 1900’s, from family sources and from other places.

Duties to the dead and dying

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Service on the occasion of the visit of Abraham Defehr of Surinam to the synagogue

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Manuscript Items relating to the Civil War, including letters

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