Portrait of Jacques Offenbach Portraits Men

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Congregation Shearith Israel (New York, N.Y.) records, undated, 1755-1996.

Contains published and manuscript material relating to the activities and administration of the congregation and its subsidiary organizations including reports and weekly bulletins, early financial records and lists of those honored at religious services, copies of resolutions and forms of service and prayers for various occasions in manuscript form. Contains also material relating to the cemetery photographs, the Hebra Hased Va-Amet (the congregational burial society) and to later clergy in the congregation, Henry Pereira Mendes, David de Sola Pool and Louis Coleman Gerstein including published copies of their sermons.

Uriah P. Levy collection undated, 1787-1948, 1959, 1961, 1985, 2005.

Contains the notebook and correspondence of Abram Kanof relating to the naval career and activities of Uriah P. Levy; the correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, and a manuscript paper of Isaac Markens pertaining to the alleged claim that Levy was instrumental in abolishing flogging in the Navy; personal documents including a letter to Captain E.A.F. Lavalette concerning the behavior of officers under Levy's command as commodore of the Mediterranean fleet (1859), a photostatic copy of his will and the inventory of his estate (1862), and published material by and about Uriah Phillips Levy including a bound typewritten copy of "Record of Naval Court of Inquiry, 1857;" An essay on flogging in the Navy, 1849; Memorial of Uriah P. Levy, ... 1855; an original copy of a Manual of rules for men-of-war by Captain U.P. Levy, 1862; and Monticello and its preservation, since Jefferson's death, 1862-1902, by George Alfred Townsend. Also contains the halitza of Virginia Lopez Levy, widow of Uriah P. Levy, 1866, signed by J.J. Lyons; copies of letters of Michael Levy to Henry Deering and Dudley Woolridge, 1787-1788, and a published copy of The defense of Captain Jonas P. Levy. Gift, in part, of the Elsie O. and Philip D. Sang Foundation, 1979 and of Herman Herst, Jr., 1987.

1838-1839 documents relating to Jacques Judah Lyons and his service to K.K. Beth Shalome, Richmond, Virginia

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Letter of recommendation for Jacques Judah Lyons from Isaac Leeser

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Certificate of Jacques Judah Lyons discharge as hazan in Surinam

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Application of Jacques Judah Lyons to K. K .S. I. for hazan

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Resolution appointing Jacques Judah Lyons Superintendent of Polonies Talmud Torah School

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Recommendation of Jacques Judah Lyons from Surinam

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Resolution of trustees regarding marriage of Jacques Judah Lyons

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Letter of thanks to Jacques Judah Lyons

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Letter from Jacques Judah Lyons to trustees of K. K. S. I. regarding establishment of permanent minyan

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Letter to Jacques Judah Lyons from trustees, not permitting him to officiate at funeral of Bernheimer child

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Various notes on Newport by Jacques Judah Lyons

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Certificate regarding Jacques Judah Lyons

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