Board of Delegates of American Israelites records 1859-1881, 1887, 1932

Contains printed copies of the 1860 constitution and by-laws, copies of proceedings and annual reports, 1859-1877, of the Board of Delegates; report on Jews in Roumania, an 1874 annual report of the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society, manuscript minute books and minutes of meetings, 1859-1876, resolutions, executive, financial, ritual slaughtering and other special committee reports, newspaper clippings and correspondence with synagogues and organizations in the U.S. who constitute the membership of the Board of Delegates, with the Union of American Hebrew Congregations with whom they later merged, the Union's Board of Delegates of Civil and Religious Rights, and with individuals and organizations in foreign countries including the Alliance Israelite Universelle, the Anglo-Jewish Association, the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Committee for the Roumanian Jews (Berlin), the Koenigsberg Committee, and the London Roumanian Committee.

Stillschweig Family Collection 1896-1989

Three page letter to Diane Spielman relating to resarch on Samuel Stillschweig and Jewish community in Heide.

Fred Oppenheimer Collection 1799-1896

Military, family and business documents: accounting of the Jewish community in Gemmingen (1799/1800); public school certificate (1884); appointment as instructor of the Volkswehr (1849); note to the mayor of Gemmingen; power of attorney in German, Philadelphia (1896).

Ruelfenrod; Jewish Community Collection 1836

Photocopies of documents by Baruch Bilstein and Wolf Levi of Ruelfenrod regarding the Jewish cemetery of Ruelfenrod