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Collection Guide: National Jewish Welfare Board

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

Messing, Kosher style..., Seol, South Korea, June 1970 (I-337, AJHS)

National Jewish Welfare Board, 1916-1988 (I-298)

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Majority of collection consists of National Jewish Welfare Board surveys of U.S. Jewish communitites. Collection also contains general administrative material, publications, press releases, community service material, conference proceedings, and several boxes of correspondence of National Jewish Welfare Board president Frank Weil and field secretary Harry Schatz.

Fundraising pamphlet: The Answer to the Call - The Jewish Welfare Board United War Work Campaign - Week of November 11, 1918 (Yeshiva University Museum)

Arrangement

Series I: Jewish Community, Jewish Community Center, and YMHA/YWHA Studies, 1921-1969, 1978

Associations and World Confederation, 1950, 1972, 1975, 1977-1978
Executive and Staff Seminars, Committees, and Itineraries, 1965-1966, 1969, 1975, 1978-1979
Annual Meetings, 1944-1946
Programming, Conventions, Leadership Development, 1947-1950, 1952-1953, 1955-1960, 1963, 1969-1972, 1975-1979
Assorted Research Articles, undated, 1946, 1951, 1960-1961, 1963-1965, 1973, 1975
Lay Leadership, undated, 1965, 1970, 1972-1978
Programming and Religious Aid for Chaplains, 1951, 1970-1973, 1975-1976
Director's Reports, Meeting Minutes, 1976-1978
Rabbinical Council of America; Non-Jewish Associations, 1965, 1976-1977
Dedications, Anniversaries, undated, 1950, 1955, 1960-1963, 1976
Requests for Mailings; The Jewish Chaplain, 1943-1978
Inter-Office Correspondence, 1957-1977
Women's Organizations, undated, 1961-1962, 1964, 1969, 1978
Press Releases, 1946-1951, 1963-1968, 1970-1976, 1978
Services to Jewish Community Centers, Correspondence, undated, 1947-1955, 1957-1971
Miscellaneous Files, undated, 1935, 1945-1949, 1951, 1953, 1961, 1963-1964, 1966-1968, 1976
Lionel Koppman, Public Information Correspondence, 1972-1974