JCL. Jewish Community in Louisville

Scope and Contents This collection combines the reports and papers of the federation of Jewish Charities of Louisville from 1909 to 1910 and 1912 to 1914 with correspondence and other records generated by the Jewish Community Federation. The later organization was founded in 1934 to unify local Jewish groups into one organization. The group sought to assist fleeing German Jews in the 1930s and urged the creation of a Palestinian homeland in addition to promoting Jewish life and culture in the United States....

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The collection contains a scrapbook, "The Story of the New Jewish Hospital," 1948-1953, compiled by the Jewish Hospital Association president Saul B. Ades. There is also one linear foot of clippings, photographs, and other records compiled by the hospital's public relations department during the commemoration of Jewish's seventy-fifth anniversary in 1980.

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The material is comprised of scattered correspondence between 1927 and 1977, some of which is from Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, and newspaper clippings, mostly from the 1920s, about the University of Louisville Players.

Scope and Contents Material in Box 1 deals with the founding and activities of both the ACLU and KCLU. The material is arranged by functions and/ or divisions of material pertaining to any organization, i.e., constitutions, minutes of meetings, financial reports casework, drafts of policy, correspondences, pamphlets, handbooks, press releases and clippings.Box 2 deals with Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) material general civil liberties material, information relating to affairs of blacks and...

Scope and Contents Material in Box 1 represents a collections of news clipping and photographs of active members of the Louisville Jewish Community. Arranged alphabetically by individuals, the materials span almost two decades, from 1956 until the early 1970s. In compiling the folders, Mr.Landau restricted collection items to those from local Jewish papers. As an explanation of their contents, most folders in this box have notes pertaining to position and tiles of the individual.Box 2 continues the...

Scope and Contents The Sara Landau papers date from 1905 to 1986. These papers fully document Landau's life as a teacher, world traveler, economist, and enthusiast of life. There is enough correspondence to document her genuine care for people and her feelings about life, travel, and teaching. The reference materials show her continuing thirst for knowledge in her field of economics, and the educational materials support her enthusiasm for the educational process.This large collection has been...

Content Description This collection consists of Professor Lee Shai Weissbach's files relating to his research, teaching, and service while on the faculty at the University of Louisville. Archives and Special Collections holds the portion of his research files that relate to Jewish communities and synagogues (as structures) in Kentucky. Much of the research material consists of photocopies and this is often noted in the folder titles. Date spans provided in folder titles reflect any dates found in original...