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Finding Aid for the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo section of the Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo, 1902-1979 (bulk 1930-1975)

MS 150.1

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Jewish Federation of Buffalo annual meeting, 1964

Collection Overview

Title: Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo - Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo Records, 1902-1979 (bulk 1930-1975)
Collection Number: MS 150.1
Creator: Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo
Extent: 29.25 linear feet (18 cartons, 10 oversize boxes)
Language of Material: Collection material in English and Hebrew.
Repository: State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives
Abstract: The Records of the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo segment of the Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo. Included are the records of constituent agencies and member organizations of the Federation such as, the Bureau of Jewish Education, Jewish Family Services, the Jewish Community Center, Kadimah School of Buffalo, and the Rose Coplon Home. Records include minutes, committee reports, publications, correspondence, yearbooks, scrapbooks, and photographs.

Preferred Citation

[Description and dates], Box/folder number, MS 150.1, Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo - Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo Records, 1902-1979, University Archives, The State University of New York at Buffalo.

See the Archives' preferred citations instructions for additional information.

Terms of Access and Use

The Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo section of the Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo is open for research.

Copyright

Copyright of papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns. Researchers must obtain the written permission of the holder(s) of copyright and the University Archives before publishing quotations from materials in the collection. Most papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures unless otherwise specified.

Acquisition Information

The collection was transferred from the State University of New York College at Buffalo (Buffalo State) Archives in 2006 by the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo.

Processing Information

Collection originally processed by the Staff of the State University of New York College at Buffalo (Buffalo State) Archives.

Collection rehoused by Mark McGuire, December 2006-January 2007.

Finding aid updated by Karen Morse, October-November 2006.

Finding aid encoded by Mark McGuire, January 2007.

Historical Note

The Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo began first under the title, United Jewish Federation of Buffalo, Inc. According to Adler and Connolly's From Ararat to Suburbia: The History of the Jewish Community of Buffalo:

"It all began with the consolidation, in 1903, of the old German philanthropic societies; gradually, as the community matured and as the old stocks mingled with the new, almost all non-synagogue functions in Buffalo were united under the leadership of a single organization." (Ch. 7, p. 227)

The Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo, Inc. today continues in that role, as the umbrella organization for several agencies in the Greater Buffalo area including the Bureau of Jewish Education, Hillel of Buffalo, The Holocaust Resource Center, and the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo.

Scope and Content Note

The records of the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo consist primarily of administrative records and material on community programs.

Early Federation records, constitution and by-laws, financial reports, building and housing information, yearbooks, fund campaign information, correspondence and miscellaneous photographs are located in Series I.

The records of Jewish Family Service (Series II) includes some records of the Jewish Welfare Society, the predecessor to the Jewish Family Service, most records relate to the departments of Child Care Services, Health and Dental, Family Life, and Elder Care.

The records of The Jewish Community Center (Series III) document the beginning of the center, construction plans, finances, various services and programs and the Center's expansion with a new facility in the Buffalo suburb of Getzville, NY.

Documentation of the Buffalo Jewish Camps including budget reports, committee minutes, attendance records, constitution and by-laws, personnel matters, and publicity material is located in Series IV.

Series V contains material on Jewish education in Buffalo and the Bureau of Jewish Education's role in it: history of the Bureau, constitution and by-laws, committee/board minutes, surveys, enrollment figures, Hebrew instruction material, essay contest, school curriculum evaluations, and correspondence.

Records of the Kadimah School of Buffalo consists of records of the School's beginning, and includes some photographs, clippings, and yearbooks, correspondence with the Jewish Federation of Buffalo and committee minutes are loacted in Series VI.

The records of the Rose Coplon Jewish Home and Infirmary (Series VII) consists of constitution and by-laws, property deeds, building information, newsletters, personnel records, and Board of Directors minutes.

The majority of the scrapbooks in Series VIII document the Federation's annual United Jewish Fund Campaign, covering the years 1926, 1936-1939, 1941-1942, and 1946-1975. Other scrapbooks document Camp Lakeland, the Federation's Fiftieth Anniversary, and Yom Hashoah material.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in eight series as follows:

Series I. Internal Matters

Series II. Jewish Family Service

Series III. The Jewish [Community] Center

Series IV. The Buffalo Jewish Camps

     Subseries A. Camp Centerland

     Subseries B. The Jewish Fresh Air Camp: Camp Lakeland

Series V. Bureau of Jewish Education/Jewish education in Buffalo

Series VI. Kadimah School of Buffalo

Series VII. Rosa Coplon Jewish Home and Infirmary

Series VIII. Scrapbooks

Container List

Series I. Internal Matters

1.1-1.2 Federation constitutions and by-laws
1.3-1.4 Early Federation material including information on its predecessor organizations
1.5 Federation material 1911-1918; including reports of the presidents to the board
1.6 Early Federation legal and financial matters
1.7 List of Federation presidents, 1902-1964
1.8 The Jewish Federation for Social Service becomes the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo
1.9 Early history of the Federation; a 1952 letter from Judge Samuel J. Harris
1.10 1920s - Reports of the presidents, etcetera
1.11 The Federation during the 1920s
1.12 Newspaper clippings on Federation drives, 1920-1930
1.13-1.14 Reports of Cecil B. Wiener, Secretary and General Manager of the Federation to the Board of Governors, 1922-1932
1.15 The Jewish Community Building at 406 Jefferson Avenue
1.16 1930s - Reports of the Federation presidents and directors of Jewish Community Building
1.17 Federation campaigns of the 1930s
1.18 Publicity items of the 1930s
1.19 Reports of Judge Cecil B. Wiener, Executive Secretary of the Federation, 1930 1934; effects of the Great Depression on relief matters
1.20 The Federation Salvage Shop, 1934-1951
1.21 The Federation at 588 Monroe Street, early 1940s
1.22 Newspaper clippings on the 1933 campaign
1.23 The Federation and World War II
1.24 The United War and Community Fund - World War II
1.25 Veterans' Service - World War II Day
1.26 Record of Jewish soldiers from Western New York during World War I
1.27 1914 list of names and addresses
2.1 Federation self-survey, 1948-1951
2.2 The United Jewish Fund of Buffalo before the 1949 merger with the Federation
2.3-2.4 Federation correspondence with United Jewish Appeal (established 1938) and its predecessor organizations
2.5 Merger of the Federation and the United Jewish Fund of Buffalo, 1948-1949
2.6 The Federation and the 1954 Tercentenary of Jewish settlement in North America
2.7 The Isaac Hoenig Memorial Fund (established 1924)
2.8 Federation committee on drug use and abuse, 1970-1971
2.9 Mortgages on 406 Jefferson Avenue circa, 1910-1920
2.10-2.11 Essential campaign information, 1946-1959
2.12 Essential campaign information, 1960s
2.13 Essential campaign information, 1970s
2.14 Federation policy on the confidentiality of subscribers' lists
2.15 Comparison (to Buffalo) of amounts raised in other large cities
2.16 Evaluation of campaigns
2.17 Israel Emergency Fund Campaign, 1967 [Six Day War]
2.18 United Jewish Appeal: Israel Emergency Fund, Yom Kippur War, 1973-1974
2.19-2.20 Committee on Social Planning, background and minutes
2.21 Solicitation hints used at various times
2.22 Descriptions of the Federation's work and functions, circa 1945
2.23 Federation Plan and Scope Committee, 1944-1946
2.24 The Federation and income tax matters, circa 1945
2.25 Federation standing and special committees, circa 1945
2.26 Committee on Trusts and Bequests [succeeded by the Buffalo Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies]
2.27 The Buffalo Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies, Inc.
2.28 Federation Youth Committee
2.29 Federation Young Leadership Development Program, 1970s
2.30 Capital Funds Campaigns, 1960s
2.31 Federation's Fiftieth anniversary celebration, 1952
3.1-3.3 Federation relations with the Community Chest [now United Way], 1946
3.4-3.7 Federation allocation committees
3.8-3.15 Minutes of the Federation Board of Governors
3.16 Federation Board eligibility, 1946
3.17 Material on the Weil family; Dr. A. L. Weil, etcetera
   [note: contains fragile materials]
4.1 Buffalo Jewish clubs and the Federation, 1945-
4.2 Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Fun matters, 1945-
4.3 Federation Legal Committee, 1945-1946
4.4 Contemplated Federation Staff Institute, 1959
4.5 Federation opposition to a New York state bill destroying the confidentiality of welfare payments, 1952
4.6 The New School of Social Research - correspondence, 1947-1948
4.7 The housing of Federation offices
4.8 Training Bureau for Jewish Communal Workers, 1947-1948
4.9 Federation internal office campaign matters
4.10 Honor rolls: Federation campaigns
4.11 The Federation and the [Buffalo] Community Welfare Council
4.12 USO-JWB correspondence in re Jewish servicement
4.13 Federation allocations, 1945-1957; Joint Defense Appeal
4.14 National Conference of Jewish Communal Service - correspondence, 1948-1953
4.15 Information on Federation yearbooks, published, 1914-1942
4.16 Federation correspondence with Niagara Falls, New York Federation, 1951-1957
4.17-4.20 Federation Annual Meetings
4.21 Federation Women's Division - campaign results
4.22 Federation Women's Division - correspondence
4.23 Federation Women's Division - minutes of committees
4.24 National Council of Jewish Women: Federation correspondence with, 1949-1953
4.25 Women's Division - publicity items
4.26 Material on community planning and attempts to form a local Community Relations Council, 1945
4.27 National Community Relations Advisory Council [New York City]
4.28 Federation Committee on Community Relations, 1959
4.29 Cumulative figures on various campaigns
4.30 Federation policy on multiple community campaigns
4.31 C.B. Wiener Memorial Campaign for Capital Funds, 1961-1963
4.32 Chairmen of UJF campaigns, 1946-1965
4.33 Campaign publicity items
4.34 Non-Jewish contributions to Federation drives
4.35 Figures on allocations, circa 1945
4.36 Federation policies on allocations
4.37-4.38 Minutes: Federation executive meetings of agency heads
4.39 Minutes: Federation officers and past presidents, 1950-1969
4.40 Collection of unpaid pledges, circa 1945
4.41 Young Men's Division [established 1949, formerly Young Men's Service Organization]
5.1 Federation financial reports, 1948-1967
5.2 Large City Budgeting Conference [established by Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Fun in 1948, Buffalo Federation joined in 1953]
5.3-5.5 Federation budgets, 1944-1971
5.6 Federation Yearbooks, 1914-1929
5.7 Federation Yearbooks, 1933-1942
5.8 Hillel facts and allocations
5.9 Hillel: Federation correspondence regarding allocations etcetera, 1949-1970
5.10-5.11 Hillel Foundation at the State University of New York at Buffalo, 1947-1972
5.12 Annual reports of the Hillel directors, circa 1949
5.13 Hillel activities; Kosher meals at the State University of New York at Buffalo; ARI support
5.14 Hillel Center at Buff State, circa 1968
5.15 Federation high school solicitations and results
5.16 Chabad movement: Federation support for Chabad House at the State University of New York at Buffalo
5.17 Federation and radio-television publicity, 1953-1959
5.18 Israel and the Entebbe Airport raid July, 1976
5.19 Newspaper clippings: Yom Kippur War, 1973-1974
5.20 Federation attempts to aid Soviet Jewry, 1971
5.21 Information on Israel, 1967-1973
5.22 Missions of Buffalo Jews to Israel
5.23 Federation publicity and public relations, 1950-1951; 1965-1968
5.24 Federation public relations committee
5.25 Federation newsletters [began publication in 1929 as THE FEDERATION QUARTERLY and continued until now under different names]
5.26-5.27 Miscellaneous pictures and flyers; includes Israel photographs, 1955 and Jewish leaders' meeting with President Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1964
6.1 Miscellaneous photographs
6.2 Federation Loan Fund Committee, 1941-1943
6.3 YIVO allocations, 1945-1955
6.4 American Friends Service Committee [Philadelphia]
6.5 Jewish Theological Seminary of America and its auxiliaries
6.6 Jewish Labor Committee: Correspondence in re annual allocations and Federation help, to local Jewish labor groups
6.7 Federation allocations, 1944-1958 - Jewish Telegraphic Agenc
6.8 Federation allocations, 1944-1956 - Jewish War Veterans of the United States
6.9 National Farm School - Bucks County, Pennsylvania
6.10 National Foundation for Jewish Culture [New York City]
6.11 Sponsoring Committee for a Citizens' Organization
6.12 Retreat, 1980-1981; with briefing papers on the Federation
 
Federation Personnel matters: Records of Federation employees, salary and retirement policies, job descriptions, budget matters
6.13   Sydney S. Abzug (1909- ); Director of the Federation, 1955-1976
6.14   Saul Berkoff
6.15   Joseph Bronstein
6.16   Leon Cantor (1914- ); Director of Rosa Coplon Home, 1962-
6.17   Albert Deemer (1911- ); Director of the Jewish Family Service, 1953
6.18   Herman A. Eigen; Director of the Jewish Center, 1946-1954
6.19   Beta Goldstein
6.20   William L. Grossman (1920- ); Director of the Jewish Center, 1961
6.21   David Kleinstein (1915- ); Director of the Jewish Center, 1954-1961
6.22   Marvin G. Lerner
6.23   Lester Levin; Executive Director of the Federation, 1976-1977
6.24   Jeffrey Liber
6.25   Laura L. Margolis; Director of Federation mid-1930s
6.26   Marvin J. Migdol
6.27   Martha Morris
6.28   Camille Plant (Secretary of Camp Lakeland, 1951-1967)
6.29   Popper, Otto
6.30   Samuel Roberts, Director of Rosa Coplon Home
6.31   Morris Rombro (1924- ); Director of the Federation, 1978
6.32   Arthur S. Rosichan (1907- ), Director of the Federation, 1945-1955
6.33   Herbert Sanderson
6.34   Sol Silverman
6.35   Benjamin Small
6.36   Sylvia Small, 1918-1961
6.37   Celia Weinberg
6.38   Judge Cecil B. Wiener, 1876-1960
6.39   Herman Weinheimer, Director of Jewish Family Service, 1946-1952
6.40   Joel Weiss
6.41   Federation salary scales
6.42   Federation retirement policies
6.43   Federation job descriptions
6.44   Federation personnel policies
6.45   Capital Funds Campaign, 1960-1961
6.46   Capital Cashbook, 1925
6.47   Minute book
6.48-7.1   Budgets, 1927-1960; 1969-1970 [2 folders]
7.2-7.8   Budget allocations, 1936-1957, 1958; 1968

Series II. Jewish Family Service

7.9 Constitution and by-laws of Jewish Family Service and its predecessors
7.10 Jewish Welfare Society, etcetera - Histories
7.11 Jewish Family Service - unionization; other personnel matters
7.12 Reports of Jewish Family Service presidents to the Federation
7.13 Philosophies of Jewish Social Service: Mission of Jewish Family Service
7.14 Jewish Federation for Social Service [its predecessors and successor] correspondences, etcetera, 1930-1948
7.15 Jewish Family Service budgets
7.16 Jewish Family Service Child Care Service
7.17 Jewish Family Service medical and dental services
7.18 Dissolution [1952] of the Jewish Children's Placement and Guidance Bureau of Western New York
7.19 Federation Committee on Aging: Minutes, correspondence, etcetera
7.20-7.21 General information on problems of the aged
7.22 Federation correspondence on aging
7.23 Criticisms of Jewish Family Service
8.1 Jewish Family Service Psychiatric clinic (established 1943)
8.2 Jewish Family Service Board of Directors: minutes
8.3 Jewish Family Service Vocational Guidance Program (established 1943)
8.4 Services offered by the agency; publicity items
8.5 Report of reaccreditation study of Jewish Family Service, 1962
8.6 Jewish Family Service: 1949 Federation self-survey raw materials
8.7 Federation self-survey of Jewish Family Service - completed reports
8.8 Jewish Family Service 1959-1960 survey by Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Fun - correspondence
8.9 1959-1960 survey: Final report
8.10 Jewish Family Service Burial policies
8.11-8.12 B'nai B'rith/Jewish Family Service Group Guidance Program of Buffalo
8.13 Jewish Family Service: Inter-agency cooperation
8.14 Jewish Family Service: Abortion matters and policy
8.15 Family Guidance: Previously married, singles, etcetera
8.16 Jewish Family Services: Passover aid
8.17 Jewish Family Services: Homemaker service
8.18 Meals on Wheels Service
8.19 Jewish Family Services: Welfare clients
8.20 Marriage matters
8.21 Hebrew Shelter Home
8.22 Case work material
8.23 Family Service Association of America: Correspondence, evaluations
8.24 Jewish Family Services: Adoption matters
8.25 Immigration matters since the Holocaust
8.26 Jewish Occupational Council [New York City]
8.27 Group meeting on "Family life in the 70s," 1970
8.28 Jewish Family Services miscellaneous items
8.29 German indemnifications to victims of the Holocaust
8.30 Jewish Family Services and Center Nursery School Conference, 1958-1959
8.31-8.36 Minutes of staff meetings, 1946-1977

Series III. The Jewish [Community] Center

9.1 Young Jewish Women's Benevolent Society [predecessor to the Center], 1934-1940
9.2 Center constitutions and by-laws
9.3 History of the Center movement
9.4-9.5 The Jewish Center before 1949
9.6 Report of the [Buffalo] Jewish Center Study Commission, 1948-1949
9.7 Sale of the Monroe Street Building, 1947
9.8 The attempt to buy the Elk's Club as a site for a Jewish Center, 1945
9.9 The Center, 1948-1949
9.10 Jewish Center Site Committee, 1945-1946; election of 787 Delaware Ave.
9.11 Dedication of the Delaware Avenue Center, October 9, 1949
9.12-9.13 Early struggle to maintain the Delaware Avenue Center
9.14 Construction of Youth Lounge and Snack Bar, 1957-1959
9.15 Reports of Center activities
9.16 National Jewish Welfare Board [New York City] - correspondence, etcetera.
9.17 Annual reports of the Center to Jeiwish Welfare Board, 1950-1956
9.18-9.19 Center budgets, 1955
9.20 Federation allocations to the Center
9.21 Center projected plans and unmet needs
9.22 Opening of the Center on Shabbes 1960s
9.23 The Center and Judaism
9.24 Center personnel matters
9.25 Recommendations [mid-l960s] capital replacement and improvement committees
9.26 Center youth programs
9.27-9.28 Jewish Center Study Commission Report for the 1980s, 2 volumes
9.29 Center nominating committees
9.30 Center evaluation commission, early 1970s
9.31 Center study commission, 1963
9.32 Center Annual Book Fair (established 1967)
9.33 Center committees, set-up of
9.34 Center Nursery School
10.1 Material on volunteers
10.2 Staff meeting minutes, 1974-1976
10.3 Problems of the elderly - housing, etcetera
10.4 Minutes of various committees
10.5-10.6 Evaluations
10.7 Minutes - Board of Directors, 1952-1974
10.8 Minutes - meetings of department heads, 1976-1977
10.9 Membership matters
10.10 Publications of the Senior Adult Department [under various titles]
10.11-10.12 Older Adult Department: Golden Agers
10.13 Older Adult Department: Golden Agers; correspondence, publicity items
10.14-10.16 The Suburban Jewish Center [North Forest Road]
10.17-10.18 Kedoshim Memorial Committee, 1971-1976 [for victims of the Holocaust]
10.19-10.20 Debenture loans for the Suburban Jewish Center
10.21 Center publicity items
10.22 Center programs
10.23 Miscellaneous matters
10.24 Center staff meetings - minutes, etcetera
10.25-10.26 Business and Professional Club- correspondence and miscellaneous items
11.1 Business and Professional Club - minutes, 1966-1974
11.2 Information on individual cases [Golden Agers], 1963-1965
11.3 Senior Adults: Golden Agers - minutes of various committees, 1968-1978
11.4 Congregate dining program for the elderly 1970s
11.5 Senior Adults: Golden Agers - programs and publications

Series IV: Buffalo Jewish Camps

Subseries A. Camp Centerland
11.6   Camp Emanuel Joseph [Scouthaven]
11.7   Blanche B. Joseph Foundation
11.8   Camp Centerland; acquisition of site 1954; development
11.9   Centerland personnel and staff matters
11.10   Centerland publicity items
11.11   Centerland budgets and Federation allocations
11.12   Centerland Director's reports
11.13   Centerland income and attendance reports
11.14   Centerland minutes of various committees
11.15-11.16   Centerland statistics
11.17   Study of Buffalo Jewish Community Day and Resident Camping Services, 1959-1961
 
Subseries B. The Jewish Fresh Air Camp: Camp Lakeland
11.18-11.26   Jewish Fresh Air Camp Association, Board Meetings, 1947-1972
11.27-11.29   The Jewish Air Camp [established 1910, became Camp Lakeland about 1947]
11.30   Camp Lakeland, Constitution and by-laws
11.31   Camp Lakeland, 1949 self-survey
12.1   Camp Lakeland, Angola Site and development
12.2   Camp Lakeland aims and philosophy
12.3   Camp Lakeland minutes of sub-committees of the Board
12.4   Camp Lakeland out-of-season camping
12.5   Move to Franklinville [early 1970s] and sale of Angola property
12.6   Federation allocations and budget matters
12.7   The Jewish Center and the camps
12.8   Abraham Axelrod, 1906-1958
12.9   Attendance figures
12.10   Camp Lakeland, personnel matters
12.11   Publicity items
12.12   Special programs, retarded children, etcetera
12.13   Income matters
12.14-12.15   Camp Lakeland statistics, 1946-1972
12.16   Camp Lakeland, reports to the Federation and the United Fund, 1947-1973
12.17   Camp Lakeland reports, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1961-1963, 1965-1968, 1975-1976
12.18   Jewish content at Camp Lakeland
12.19   Camp study committees 1961, 1973
12.20   Merger of Camp Lakeland and the Jewish Center [completed 1974]
12.21   Jewish Free Air Camp, minutes, 1940-1949
12.22-12.23   Camp Lakeland material
12.24-12.25   Fresh Air Camp material, 1930, 1939-1945
12.26   Fresh Air Camp, minutes, trustees, 1914-1951

Series V: Bureau of Jewish Education and Jewish Education in Buffalo

13.1 Bureau constitutions and by-laws; committee duties
13.2 Statements of aims and functions of the Bureau
13.3 Conditions of affiliation of schools with the Bureau
13.4 Housing of the Bureau
13.5 The Talmud Torah at 323 Hickory Street: Matters pertaining to its becoming a constituent of the Federation, 1922-1925
13.6-13.7 The Buffalo Hebrew School at 206 North Park Avenue
13.8 The Jewish Community Religious School
13.9 Herman Wile, founder of the Bureau; a history of the Bureau
13.10 The Bureau under Paul Veret [mid-1930s]
13.11 The Bureau under Dr. U. Z. Engelman, 1938-1945
13.12 The Bureau under Mark M. Krug, 1945-1949
13.13 The Bureau under Dr. Elazar Goelman, 1949-1959
13.14 The Bureau under Ruben Resnik, 1959-1968
13.15 The Bureau under Rabbi Hyman Tuchman, 1969-1971
13.16 The Bureau under Yehuda Shabatay, 1972-1977
13.17 The Bureau under Abraham F. Yanover, 1976-
13.18 The Bureau and the 1948-1951 Federation self-survey
13.19-13.20 1955 survey of Jewish education in Buffalo by the National Commission on Jewish education
13.21-13.22 Workmen's Circle School [Yiddishist] Federation inquiries into the state of Jewish education in Buffalo
13.23 Abortive attempt to merge all Conservative congregational schools in Buffalo circa 1966
13.24-13.25 Principals' Council of Buffalo Hebrew schools, 1963-1976
13.26-13.27 Bureau - information on salaries, pensions, personnel matters, etcetera
13.28-13.29 Instruction in Hebrew and Jewish subjects in local secular institutions [State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo State College]
13.30 Hebrew instruction in Buffalo high schools
13.31 Ulpan matters
13.32 Bureau Scholarship Committee [for summer camps]
13.33 The abortive attempt to set up a College of Jewish Studies in conjunction with Buffalo State College, mid-1970s
14.1 The Bureau and Hebrew-speaking camps
14.2-14.3 Bureau budgets
14.4 Bureau-itemized disbursements
14.5 Reports to the Federation of the Bureau's activities, 1932-1974
14.6 Enrollment figures for congregational schools
14.7 Bureau membership matters
14.8 Teachers' Bulletin, 1951-1959
14.9 Bureau Long-range Planning Committee (established 1958)
14.10-14.12 Bureau School for Adult Jewish Studies [later listed under different names]
14.13 Federation Jewish educational population survey, 1975-1976
14.14 Minutes of the Bureau Executive Committee
14.15 Minutes of the Bureau Committee on Public Relations
14.16 Bureau Board of Review [Code Committee]
14.17 Yeshiva Achei Tmimin [later Hebrew Academy of Buffalo]
14.18 Minutes - High School of Jewish Studies Committee
14.19 Bureau - miscellaneous matters
14.20 Efforts to train and license Hebrew teachers in Buffalo
14.21 Bureau efforts for retarded and handicapped children
14.22 Reports from other cities in re Jewish education; codes of practice in other cities
14.23 Annual Bible Contest [established by the Bureau 1960s]
14.24 Federation UJF essay contest
14.25 Women's study groups sponsored by the Bureau
14.26 Early Bureau Board minutes, 1929-1933
14.27-15.1 Bureau Board minutes [4 folders]
15.2 Board correspondence
15.3-15.4 Information on congregational schools
15.5 School evaluations and curricula
15.6 Annual Book Review Contest
15.7 Federation allocations for the Bureau, 1945-1974
15.8 Hug Ivri of Buffalo
15.9 Material on the appreciation of Hebrew teachers
15.10 Niagara Frontier Folk Festival - Bureau participation
15.11 Bureau Library matters
15.12 Conferences and workshops for Hebrew teachers, 1963-
15.13-15.15 Bureau High School of Jewish Studies
15.16 United Jewish High School of Jewish Studies
15.17-15.22 Miscellaneous material - High School of Jewish Studies yearbooks, graduation programs, etcetera
15.23-15.24 [Buffalo] Inter-faith Religious Committee
15.25 Bureau Jewish Book Shop
15.26 Nursery schools
15.27 Bureau Bulletins and Briefs
15.28 Bureau youth study tours in Israel
15.29 Bureau Inter-school Music Festival
15.30 Yiddish Forum [sponsored by the Bureau]
15.31 Annual Warsaw Ghetto Memorial [sponsored by the Bureau]
15.32 Bureau-Center relations
15.33 WHAT'S NEW; published by the Bureau, 1950-1975
15.34 Report on communal post-elementary Jewish education in Buffalo, 1968
15.35 Teaching material on Jewish holydays
15.36-15.38 Material on Jewish education
15.39 Merger of Hebrew schools - Temple Beth David an Humboldt Orthodox Center, 1951-1953
16.1-16.2 Curriculum content
16.3 Material on Dr. Max Spangenthal - one-time principal of the High School of Jewish Studies, 1950s
16.4 Samuel Luskin of Temple Beth El (d. 1959)
16.5 Samuel Gordon (d. 1967); Hebrew teacher at the Buffalo Talmud Torah, 1900s and 1930s
16.6 Samuel Israeli; long-time principal of the Buffalo Hebrew School
16.7 Moses and Judith Von; long-time teachers in various Buffalo Hebrew schools
16.8 Jacob Case; long-time Buffalo Hebrew teacher at various schools
16.9 Bureau Book Review Workshop, 1950s
16.10 Minutes of the Bureau Adult Education Committee, 1963, 1966-1967
16.11 Annual Bureau Dinners, 1961-1968
16.12-16.40 Bureau Publicity, News Clippings, 1938-1972
16.41 Miscellaneous printed material and bureau publicity items, annual dinners, etcetera

Series VI. Kadimah School of Buffalo

17.1 Origins; Federation correspondence; reports on the progress of the school to 1964
17.2 Kadimah charter; school personnel matters
17.3 Annual reports; budgets; tuition schedules
17.4 Miscellaneous material, 1959-1968
17.5 Correspondence and miscellaneous matters, circa 1964
17.6 Federation correspondence 1964-1965, 1967-1969
17.7 Kadimah services to Russian children, 1979
17.8 Publicity items, photos, yearbooks, etcetera
17.9 Minutes of the Board of Directors; Education Committee; Faculty meetings

Series VII: Rosa Coplon Jewish Home and Infirmary

17.10 Constitution and by-laws; Deed to property, 1924; The Home's mission and services
17.11 Survey of the Home by Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Fun, 1936; Histories of the Home
17.12 Federation information received before the inclusion of the Home as a Federation agency [1947-1956]
17.13 The Home becomes a Federation agency, 1956
17.14 Federation correspondence with the Home, 1957-
17.15 Matters pertaining to residents - statistics of population, admissions, etcetera
17.16 Home publicity items
17.17 Move to make the Home non-sectarian, circa 1970 and its defeat by the board
17.18 ROSA COPLON HOME NEWS; scattered copies, 1971-1979
17.19 Home Kashrut survey, 1968
17.20 Home personnel matters - unions, salaries, retirement, etcetera
17.21 Home committee set-up
17.22 In-service training program, 1971
17.23 Committee to Move Things, 1972-1974; regarding transfer of patients to the Wadsworth Street Building
17.24 Medical staff committee; medical care matters
17.25 Special gifts and memorials committee - minutes. March 21, 1974
17.26-17.27 Physical expansion of the Home, 1956-1972
17.28 Home Long-Range Planning Committee minutes, 1962-1974
17.29 Budgets and operating expenses
18.1 Financial matters: Capital Development Program, bank loans, etcetera
18.2-18.6 Early Board of Directors minutes, 1915-1930
18.7-18.11 Minutes of the Board of Directors, 1940-1976

Series VIII. Scrapbooks

41.1-41.2 Camp Cash Book, 1926
41.3 United Jewish Campaign, 1926
41.4 Jewish Federation for Social Service, 1936
41.5 Second Annual Federation Ball, 1937; Clippings, etcetera
41.6 Twin Appeals: Jewish Federation for Social Service and The United Jewish Appeal, 1937
41.7 Jewish Welfare Society of Buffalo, 1937; miscellaneous material on welfare work intensified by the 1937 Recession
41.8 Photos at Camp, 1938
41.9 Jewish Federation for Social and United Jewish Appeal Twin Appeals: Jewish Federation for Social Service and The United Jewish Appeal, Parts 1-2, 1938
41.10 Jewish Federation for Social Service, Parts 1-2, 1939
42.1 United Jewish Appeal, 1941, Clippings
42.2 United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1942
42.3-42.4 United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1946
42.5 Camp Lakeland, 1947
42.6-42.9 United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1947
43.1 Camp Lakeland Scrapbook, 1948-1962
43.2-43.4 United Jewish Appeal, 1948
43.5 United Jewish Appeal Campaign, 1948; Youth Campaign
44.1 United Jewish Appeal, 1948
44.2 Jewish Federation for Social Service, 1949 Appeal
44.3 United Jewish Fund Appeal, 1949
44.4-44.5 United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1950
44.6 United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1951
44.7 United Jewish Appeal, 1951; Women's Division
45.1 United Jewish Fund : Fiftieth Anniversary, 1952
45.2 United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1952
45.3 United Jewish Fund Campaign : Women's Division Fiftieth Anniversary of the Federation, 1952
45.4 Women's Division, 1953
45.5 United Jewish Fund, 1953
45.6 Women's Division, 1954
45.7 United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1954
45.8 United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1955
45.9 Women's Division, 1955
46.1 United Jewish Fund Drive (Oversized), 1956
46.2 Women's Division, 1956
46.3 United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1956
46.4 United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1957
46.5 Women's Division, 1957
46.6 Women's Division, 1958
46.7 Women's Division, Mailings, 1958
46.8 United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1958
47.1 Scrapbook Campaign United Jewish Fund, 1959
47.2 United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1960
47.3 United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1961
47.4 United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1962
47.5 United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1963
47.6 United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1964 Parts 1-3
47.8 United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1965
47.9 United Jewish Fund, 1965; Office mailing only
47.10 United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1965-1966
48.1-48.2 United Jewish Fund, Clippings, 1966
48.3 United Jewish Fund: Public Relations, 1967
48.4 United Jewish Appeal: News Clippings, 1967
48.5 Israel Emergency Fund, 1967
48.6 United Jewish Appeal: Office Mailings, 1967
48.7 United Jewish Appeal: Emergency Fund, 1967
48.8 United Jewish Fund Pts.1,2, 1968
48.9 United Jewish Fund: Newspaper Publicity, 1968
48.10 United Jewish Fund: Office Mailings, 1968
49.1 Miscellaneous Federation Material, 1969-1972
49.2 United Jewish Fund Campaign: Office mailings, 1969
49.3 United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1969
49.4 United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1970; Clippings and Campaign Materials
49.5 United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1970; Office Mailings
49.6 United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1970; Newspaper and Periodicals
49.7 United Jewish Fund Women’s Division, 1971; Newspaper Publicity
49.8 United Jewish Fund Women’s Division, 1971; Office Mailings
49.9 United Jewish Appeal, 1971
50.1 Women's Division: Various Office Mailing Material, 1972
50.2 Women's Division: Newspaper Clippings, 1972
50.3 United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1972
50.4 Women's Division, 1973
50.5 Yom Hashoah Material, 1973
50.6 United Jewish Fund Drive, 1973
50.7 United Jewish Fund Campaign, 1974
50.8 United Jewish Fund, 1975

Search Terms

Contributors

Adler, Selig

Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo

State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives.

Subject Terms

Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo

Jewish archives--New York (State)

Jewish leadership--New York State--Buffalo

Jews-Education

Jews-New York State--Buffalo

Judaism--History--Modern Period, 1750-

State University of New York at Buffalo--Archival resources.

Genre Terms

minutes

correspondence

scrapbook

photograph

fliers

Related Resources

22/6F/204, Selig Adler Papers, 1928-1985.
     Finding aid available online.

22/6F/358, Selig Adler Additional Papers, 1928-1985.
     Finding aid available online.

Adler, Selig and Thomas E. Connelly. From Ararat to Suburbia: The History of the Jewish Community of Buffalo. Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1960. Available in Lockwood Library and the University Archives (non-circulating), F129 B8 A38.

Archives 9/7/00-3, Jewish Life (Buffalo, N.Y.), University Archives Periodical Collection.

MS 9, David Diamond Papers.
     Finding aid available online.

MS 149, Rabbi Isaac Klein Papers
     Finding aid available online


Other finding aids in the Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo Collection:

MS 150.2, Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo, Selig Adler Papers
     finding aid available online

MS 150.3, Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo, Local Jewish Community
     finding aid available online

MS 150.4, Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo, Papers of Prominent Local Jews
     finding aid available online

MS 150.5, Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo, Synangogue Records
     finding aid available online


Resources Outside the University Archives:

David Diamond Collection, P-59, American Jewish Historical Society Archives