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The collection consists mainly of minutes, surveys, reports, photographs and correspondence of both JWB personnel and U.S. military chaplains, directed toward or concerns with the Jewish men in the Armed Forces. The material covers such topics as arrangements for holidays (primarily the High Holy Days and Passover)--special food needs, services, furloughs, prayerbooks; budgeting and staffing; registration and marking of Jewish graves; anti-Semitism in the military; the general problems of Kashruth; communication between the men and their families; and general recreation and entertainment.
Series I: Subject Files, undated, 1919-1939
Series II: Individual and General Correspondence, undated, 1917-1939
Series III: World War I Records, undated, 1917-1939
Series IV: Corp. Areas, by year, numerically, undated, 1941-1949
Series V: Subject Files, by year, alphabetically, undated, 1940-1949
Series VI: Overseas, by country, correspondent, and subject, undated, 1942-1951
Series VII: U.S.O., by year, undated, 1941-1945, 1974
Series VIII: Reports, by year, undated, 1944-1951
Series IX: J.W.B. Services to Hospitals, by State, undated, 1920, 1941-1947
Series XI: Judge Irving Lehman Files, by subject, undated, 1920-1941
Series XII: Armed Service Division, by subject, undated, 1949-1952
Series XIII: Graves Registration, by subject, undated, 1919-1953
Series XIV: Anti-Semitism, by subject and location, undated, 1941-1948
Series XV: Letters of Appreciation, by year, 1941-1954
Series XVI: Kashruth, by year, undated, 1940-1955
Series XVII: Statistics Department, by location and subject, undated, 1920-1950
Series XVIII: Oscar Janowsky, Working Papers for Survey on JWB Story, by subject, undated, 1932-1948
Series XIX: Harry Cutler, subject files, undated, 1917-1954, 1969