Lucien Wolf and David Mowshowitch papers, [ca. 1869-1959]

Correspondence, reports, minutes, manuscripts, and clippings relating to the activities of Wolf, Mowshowitch, and the Joint Foreign Committee, as well as to the political situation of Jews in various countries and to the Paris Peace Conference. Papers of Lucien Wolf include his diary, lectures on English-German relations and English-Russian relations; bibliography of Wolf's works on Jewish themes; clippings of Wolf's articles; congratulations on his seventieth birthday; article on his last interview with Chamberlain; and correspondence with parents, 1869-1882, A. Abrahams, 1914-1925, Chief Rabbi Dr. J.H. Hertz, 1892-1923, Clara Melchior, 1913-1929, Jacob Schiff, 1910, Maxim Vinawer, 1917, Mark Wischnitzer, 1926-1928, Lord Robert Cecil, 1916-1919, Lord Rothschild, 1906, Cyrus Adler, Count J. Bernstorff, Szymon Ashkenazy, Solomon Dingol, Louis Marshall, Claude G. Montefiore, Sir Edward Sassoon, Jacob Schiff, Lord William Selborne, Nakhum Sokolow, Oscar Straus, Chaim Weizmann, the American Jewish Congress, 1916-1923, Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden, 1913, and Jewish Historical Society of England.

Julius Bisno collection, undated, 1780, 1801-1980.

Jewish organization executive. Primarily autographs, photos, writings, speeches, and biographical material, collected by Bisno, relating to ca. 120 Jews who have attained prominence in American public life; together with papers (1923-32) from Congregation Talmud Torah of Los Angeles, letters (1928-37) relating to other Jewish organizations in Los Angeles, and 3 letters of Stephen S. Wise, dealing with the general Jewish situation in Europe in 1933 and with the question of Jewish participation in the 1936 Olympic games. Persons represented include Benjamin N. Cardozo, Abe Fortas, Felix Frankfurter, Henry Horner, Herbert H. Lehman, and Lewis L. Strauss.

Judah P. Benjamin collection, undated, 1838-1942.

The collection consists of 25 letters written by Benjamin between 1838 and 1881 on a variety of subjects, four Confederate notes and two bonds bearing his picture, miscellaneous items about Benjamin (1893-1942), nine issues of the Congressional globe with speeches by Benjamin, as well as separate copies of his printed speeches, and a photostatic copy of the "Diary of Events" (400 pp.) kept by Benjamin, the original of which is in the Library of Congress (1862-1864).

Elihu Stone collection undated, 1913-1962.

Collection contains materials pertaining to the life and work of Stone.

Ancestry of Edward Joseph Larschan.

Larschan family tree reaching back to 1815

Bill of Joseph Jacobs for baking matzah

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Letter from Isaac Mendez Seixas to Joseph Simon

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Begging letter from Joseph Ben Joshua Netef Salit and application from minutes of trustees

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Letter of Reverend Joseph J. Pinto to K. K. S. I. announcing his intention to return to Europe

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Letter of Joseph Jessurun Pinto to Trustees of K. K. S. I.

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Letter of thanks to Joseph Rosen from the Ekaterinoslavskoe Evreĭskoe obshchevstvo po okazanii︠u︡ besplatnoĭ mediko-sanitornoĭ pomoshchi bedneĭshemu naselenii︠u︡ gorada Ekaterinoslava (EMSO)

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Letter of thanks to Joseph Rosen from the Ekaterinoslavskoe Evreĭskoe obshchevstvo po okazanii︠u︡ besplatnoĭ mediko-sanitornoĭ pomoshchi bedneĭshemu naselenii︠u︡ gorada Ekaterinoslava (EMSO)

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Ṿendung fun "gezerd" tsu di yidn vun ale lender

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Letter of thanks to Joseph Rosen

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Letter of thanks to Joseph Rosen from the Ekaterinoslav community

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