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Collection Guide: Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America

Overview of the individual archival collections and library materials found at the Center relating to the Hadassah organization and their activities.

Junior Hadassah members at the Palestine Pavilion at the World's Fair, New York City, 1940. RG 120 US 604. YIVO

Archival Highlights

American Association for Jewish Education (RG 1550)

The American Association for Jewish Education (AAJE) was an organization that attempted to coordinate the efforts of Jewish educational institutions throughout the United States, so as to standardize teaching practices, and support more isolated communities. Groups such as Yeshiva University, B’nai B’rith, the United Synagogue of America, Hadassah, Religious Zionists of America, the Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute, Workmen’s Circle, and the National Jewish Welfare Board were constituents.

Brocho Reichel (RG 404)

Collection includes correspondence with Henrietta Szold, the Jewish deputies to the Polish Diet, Joshua Heschel Farbstein, Yizhak Grunbaum, including others. Collection also includes materials on Hadassah in the U.S. and Junior Hadassah.

Horace Meyer Kallen (RG 317)

These papers relate to Kallen's interests in the fields of education, philosophy, Zionism, Jewish affairs, consumerism, co-operative movement, political activism. The collection includes correspondence with over 1000 organizations and about 4,000 individuals.

Kalman Motiuk (RG 307)

Collection consists of miscellaneous printed matter relating to Jewish life in New Brunswick, New Jersey.