Collection ID: P-95
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Price, Samuel
- Abstract:
- Contains the correspondence and personal diaries of Samuel Price. The latter describes events of a general nature and particularly life in the Jewish community in great detail in Newark (1913) and Springfield, Mass. (1913-1962). Of special interest is his extended comments on American politics, labor strikes, religion in the public schools, American military incursions in Mexico, World War I, and the Irish War of Independence.
- Extent:
- 6 manuscript boxes, 1 1/2 manuscript box and 3.25 linear feet
Background
- Scope and Content:
Contains the correspondence and personal diaries of Samuel Price. The latter describes events of a general nature and particularly life in the Jewish community in great detail in Newark (1913) and Springfield, Mass. (1913-1962). Of special interest is his extended comments on American politics, labor strikes, religion in the public schools, American military incursions in Mexico, World War I, and the Irish War of Independence.
Scrapbook 1913-1941.
Indexed Terms
- Subjects:
- Students -- United States
Rabbis -- United States
Church and education in the United States
European War, 1914-1918 -- Jews
Strikes - Names:
- Brandeis, Louis Dembitz 1856-1941
- Places:
- Newark (N.J.)
Springfield (Mass.)
United States -- Politics and government
United States -- Foreign relations -- Mexico
Ireland
Access
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
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Center for Jewish History15 West 16th StreetNew York, NY 10011, United States
- CONTACT:
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212-294-8350reference@ajhs.org