Abraham and Irma Lopes Cardozo Papers (ASF AR 8)
Irma Cardozo joined the Dutch army in 1943, and as Corporal Irma Robles she was sent to Washington, D.C. to work in the Pentagon with the Dutch Marines. When the war ended, she came to New York to work in a branch of a Netherlands Bank. She later served as President of the Women's Division of the Central Sephardic Jewish Community of America and co-President of the Sisterhood of Congregation Shearith Israel.
Evelyn Klapholtz Papers (ASF AR 20)
This collection contains the personal papers of Evelyn Klapholtz. The bulk of this collection consists of genealogical information and material related to her family. There is additional material related to the Sephardic community in New York City.
Papers of Joseph A. D. Sutton (ASF AR 37)
Sutton was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1907. With only six years of formal education, he came to New York in 1916. He lived in a variety of locations in the New York metro area, until he finally came to settle in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn. There he founded a lace-importing business, which he continued to expand until he retired in 1967. In retirement, Sutton enrolled at Brooklyn College.
Papers of Joy Zacharia Appelbaum (ASF AR 55)
Appelbaum wrote for a wide variety of Jewish-American newspapers, including The Jewish Week, The Jewish Standard, The Cleveland Jewish News, and The Sephardic Home News. She served as the Executive Director of the International Sephardic Education Foundation (ISEF), funding scholarships for Sephardim studying in Israel, as well as serving for several years (1988-1991) as the Director of Public Relations for the Brooklyn based Sephardic Home for the Aged.
Records of the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America (ASF AR 33)
The Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America began as the Salonican Brotherhood of America, Inc. which was founded in Manhattan in 1915 as a society to help Sephardic immigrants from Salonica become accustomed to life in the U.S., as well as to have a place of Sephardic worship and community.
Sephardic Home for the Aged Records (ASF AR 75)
The Sephardic Home for the Aged served as a nursing and rehabilitation center for the Sephardic Jewish community of New York City from 1951-2014. While this collection spans the institution’s history, the bulk of the records stems from 1988-2011. The largest portions of the collection are the photographs and Board of Directors files. Also included are the by-laws and constitution, general administrative files, event files, and files of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Sephardic Home Association (LASHA).
Brownsville: The Birth, Development, and Passing of a Jewish community in New York / Alter F. Landesman. New York: Bloch Pub. Co., 1971.
The Communal life of the Sephardic Jews of New York City / Bureau of Jewish Social Services. New York: Bureau of Jewish Social Services, 1926.
Judeo-Spanish Dialects in New York City / Max A. Luria. New York: 1930-1931.
A Short and Remarkable History of New York City / Jane Mushabac and Angela Wigan; with illustrations from the Museum of the City of New York. New York: Fordham University Press, 1999
Synagogues of New York City: A pictorial Survey in 123 photographs / Oscar Israelowitz. [n.d.]
Wills of Early New York Jews, 1704-1799 / foreword by Isidore S. Meyer. Studies in American Jewish history no. 4.
