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Arthur A. Goren Papers, 1834-2010, bulk 1900-2010 4.5 linear feet
The collection contains copies of articles and photocopies of archival material used for research, drafts of speeches and manuscripts, handwritten and typed research notes, correspondence, clippings, photographs, and teaching and course material such as syllabi, readings, notes, and bibliographies. These materials were gathered by Goren between approximately 1960 and 2005, as he conducted research in, wrote about, and taught American Jewish history at universities in the United States and Israel.
ESCO Fund Committee Inc. records, 1941-1986 30 linear feet
Files of the ESCO Fund Committee, Inc. and its related foundations ESCO Foundation for Palestine and ESCO, Friends, Inc. The files contain correspondence, reports, clippings, Board minute books, photographs and ESCO publications. Among the correspondence are Stephen Wise, Theodore Kolleck, Ernest Bloch, and Leonard Bernstein. The collection also includes papers relating to Frank and Ethel Cohen's personal (i.e., non-ESCO) Zionist and Jewish interests.
The Jewish Children's Home Papers are comprised of five boxes containing mostly budgets, record and account books kept for the institution and its charges in the 1900s. There is a large bound volume which records all 341 admissions to the home between 1914 and 1947. It contains background information on each child admitted, their progress at the home, and the circumstances of their discharge. Most of the records were kept by the institution's superintendent, Jacob.S. Hollander, who served in that capacity from 1919 to 1948. Box 4 of the collection contains correspondence, budgets, and printed material he kept from involvement with Rochester chapters of the Jewish National Fund and the Mizrachi Zionist organization during the late 1930s and 1940s.
Marvin I. Herzog papers, 1942-2008 5.67 linear feet
The Marvin Herzog collection contains correspondence relating to Herzog's academic and personal life, including printouts from an email list devoted to Yiddish Studies. Also included is teaching and research materials, as well as materials relating to Herzog's work on the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (LCAAJ), and various materials relating to Zionist summer camps.