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Guide to the Papers of the Solis-Cohen Family,
undated, 1808-1990

*P-642

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Descriptive Summary

Creator: Solis-Cohen Family
Title: Papers of the Solis-Cohen Family
Dates: undated, 1808-1990
Abstract: Family papers of the American Sephardic Solis and Cohen families, composed of materials primarily from the American Civil War to the 1930s, with some additional materials prior to and after the time period. Contains correspondence, diaries, journals, medical papers, and eulogies of the family; materials relating to Zionist and Jewish organizations in the United States and abroad; genealogical research and correspondence of several famous Jewish personas; and artifacts, art work and other ephemera.
Languages: The collection is in English and Hebrew.
Quantity: 3 linear feet (6 manuscript boxes) and 2 oversized folders
Accession number: P-642
Repository: American Jewish Historical Society
Location:
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Biographical Note

The Solis-Cohen family is of Sephardic origin, tracing its ancestry back to the time of the expulsion from Spain after 1492 during the time of the Inquisition, specifically back to Solomon da Silva Solis (Jacob's great-grandfather), who fled to Amsterdam from Spain in the 17th century and married Isabel da Fonseca, daughter of the marquis of Turin, count of Villa Real and Monterrey. The family established itself in the United States with the arrival of Jacob da Silva Solis from London on October 25, 1803. Jacob's grandfather (Solomon da Silva Solis) is reported to have refused succession to the marquisate of Turin, since it would have required his defection from Judaism. Many of Jacob's descendants were born and lived in Philadelphia.

This large Sephardic family, with roots in antebellum Philadelphia was active in Colonial and Revolutionary public affairs. There have been seven generations of Jacob's descendants, and family members have had and still have among them many who are respected for their notable accomplishments in the areas of medicine, literature, art, law, real estate and Jewish communal service, at both the national as well as local levels.

Biographical Sketches

Jacob da Silva Solis was born in London, on August 4, 1780 to Solomon da Silva Solis and Benvenida de Isaac Henriques Valentine and arrived in the United States (in New Orleans, according to family tradition) on October 25, 1803. He married Charity Hays (daughter of David Barrack Hays of Westchester, New York) on April 24, 1811, with whom he had five daughters (Benveneda, Esther Etting, Judith Simha, Sarah Miriam and Phoebe Elizabeth) and two sons (Solomon and David Hays). He lived in Wilmington, Delaware for approximately seven years (where he and his brother Daniel operated a dry goods and quill pen business from 1814-1816); temporarily in New Orleans, Louisiana (where he founded Congregation Shanarai Chasset in 1827); and Mt. Pleasant, New York, where he was affiliated with Congregation Shearith Israel, and where he died on December 29, 1829 at the early age of 49. These papers are continued by his grandsons (through his daughter Judith) Jacob da Silva Solis-Cohen, Leon Solis-Cohen and Solomon da Silva Solis-Cohen and his great grandson, Jacob da Silva, Jr., as well as by two of his grandchildren, Elvira Nathan Solis and Isaac Nathan Solis (daughter and son of David Hays).

Jacob da Silva Solis-Cohen, M.D., was born on February 28, 1838 in New York City to Myer David Cohen and Judith Simha Solis. He was an elder brother of Leon da Silva Solis-Cohen and Solomon Solis-Cohen and a grandson of Jacob da Silva Solis. In 1875 he married Miriam Binswanger, with whom he had eight daughters (Judith Simira, Sophia Rebecca, Miriam Fonseca, Elinor, Rosalie Isabel, Bertha Florence, Esther and Edith) and three sons (Myer, Jacob da Silva, Jr. and Isadore). During the Civil War he served as Assistant Surgeon to the Union Army in the Twenty-Sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. After serving in Hooker's Brigade in the defense of Washington, D.C., he later transferred to the Navy as Acting Assistant Surgeon, serving under Rear Admiral S.F. DuPont, in the expedition to Port Royal Harbor, South Carolina, on the United States Steamer "Florida." He remained in the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron until January 12, 1864, when he resigned from the Navy.

He attended Jefferson Medical College, and in 1860 received his medical degree from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. An eminent physician, he was an internationally renowned pioneer nose and throat specialist and a founder of the Philadelphia Polyclinic, becoming its first professor of diseases of the throat and chest. He later received an honorary professorship at the Jefferson Medical College. He wrote pioneering treatises in his specialty and was one of the founders of the American Laryngologic Association (President, 1880-1882). He founded and edited the Archives of Laryngology. He died in Philadelphia in 1927.

Leon da Silva Solis-Cohen , Esq., was born in Philadelphia on October 16, 1840 to Myer David Cohen and Judith Simha Solis. He was a brother of Jacob da Silva Solis-Cohen and Solomon Solis-Cohen, and a grandson of Jacob da Silva Solis. On April 10, 1872 he married a cousin, Lucia Manness Ritterband, with whom he had two daughters (Jessie Myra and Gertrude) and one son (Leon Manness). He served in the Union army in the Keystone Battery, during the Civil War, until just before the Battle of Gettysburg, when he was medically disabled. He was an attorney and a writer of prose and poetry, sometimes writing as "Lemon S. Cream" or by the pseudonym "Sh'muel". He died an early death on September 19, 1884 at age 44.

Solomon Solis-Cohen, M.D., was born in Philadelphia to Myer David Cohen and Judith Simha Solis on September 1, 1857. He was a brother of Jacob da Silva Solis-Cohen and Leon da Silva Solis-Cohen, and a grandson of Jacob da Silva Solis. He married his cousin Emily Grace Solis on March 24, 1885, also in Philadelphia, and with whom he had three sons (David Hays, Leon and Francis Nathan) and one daughter (Emily Elvira). He died on July 12, 1948 in Philadelphia. He attended Jefferson Medical College, where he received his medical degree in 1883, and served as professor of clinical medicine from 1902 to 1927. He also taught at the Philadelphia Polyclinic (1887-1902) and at Dartmouth College (1890-1892). He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a trustee of the U.S. Pharmacopoeia Convention. His basic research in medicine was widely noted.

He was active in Jewish affairs as the founder of the associate organization of the YMHA of Philadelphia; a founder and trustee of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; and a founder of the Jewish Publication Society of America. One of the earliest Zionists in the United States, he attended the Third Zionist Congress at Basel (1899), and was for a time a member of the provisional executive of the Zionist Organization of America during the first World War. In 1929 he was appointed a non-Zionist member of the new Jewish Agency for Palestine.

In addition to being a physician, he was also a poet, publishing When Love Passed by and Other Verses and translations from Hebrew poets of the Middle Ages. A selection of his writings and addresses was published under the title Judaism and Science and Other Addresses which contains a full bibliography of his writings.

Isaac Nathan Solis, Esq., was born in 1857, the son of David Hays Solis and Elvira Nathan Solis, and died in 1909. In 1880 he married Marcia Morgan; they had five children, of whom two died in infancy. He was an attorney.

Emily Grace Solis Solis-Cohen was born on November 26, 1859 in Philadelphia to David Hays Solis and Elvira Nathan Solis. She married her first cousin Solomon Solis-Cohen, M.D. in that same city on March 24, 1885 with whom she had three sons (David Hays, Leon and Francis Nathan) and one daughter (Emily Elvira, also known as Emily Solis-Cohen, Jr., who never married). She died on November 31, 1936, also in Philadelphia. Active in Jewish community affairs, Emily Solis-Cohen was also greatly involved in Zionist affairs, especially raising funds for the School of the Parents' Education Association in Jerusalem.

Elvira Nathan Solis was born sometime in the 1860s and died in New York on November 30, 1953. She was the daughter of David Hays Solis and Elvira Nathan Solis, sister of Emily Grace Soils Solis-Cohen and Isaac Nathan Solis, and a granddaughter of Jacob da Silva Solis. She engaged in extensive genealogical studies of various families from which she descended. She never married.

Emily Elvira Solis-Cohen, daughter of Solomon and Emily Grace Solis-Cohen, was born in Philadelphia in 1886. In her early years she studied with Henrietta Szold and Lucy Wilson. She later became a welfare worker and was the author of children's books as well as poems, miscellaneous articles and monographs on the status of women in Jewish law and Jewish religious festivals. For many years the field secretary of the Jewish Welfare Board, she organized and promoted the YWHA and other Jewish women's organizations. She never married, and died at Philadelphia in 1969.

Jacob da Silva Solis-Cohen, Jr., was born in Philadelphia on June 26, 1890 to Jacob da Silva Solis-Cohen, M.D. and Miriam Binswanger Solis-Cohen. He was a great grandson of Jacob da Silva Solis. On December 13, 1916, he married Marion Gimbel Labe in Philadelphia, with whom he had two daughters (Mary and Ann). [Ann Solis-Cohen Rosenthal and her husband Charles are the donors of this collection.] He died on July 8, 1968. A prominent realtor in Philadelphia, he was President of Mastbaum Brothers and Fleisher and of Albert M. Greenfield and Company. As a genealogist he conducted historical research of his family, and published articles and addresses on his results. His service to the Jewish community included, among others, Presidencies of the Jewish Publication Society of America, the Philadelphia Branch of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and honorary president of Congregation Mikveh Israel. He wrote a paper on the founder of the family, "Jacob S. Solis: Traveling Advocate of American Judaism." [American Jewish History Quarterly, 52 (1962-63), 310].

References

Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol. 15. (Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Judaica, 1972).

Kagen, Solomon R. Jewish Contributions to Medicine in America. (Boston: Boston Medical Publishing Co., 1939)

Solis-Cohen, Jacob da Silva, Jr. in The Jewish Experience in America, Vol. 2, pp. 335-386 (on Jacob da Silva). Abraham J. Karp, editor (New York: DTAV Publishing House, 1969).

Stern, Malcolm H. First American Jewish Families, 3rd ed. (Baltimore: Ottenheimer Publishers, 1991).

The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol. 6 (New York: Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Inc., 1943).

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Scope and Content Note

The Papers of the Solis-Cohen Family is composed of material mostly from the period from the Civil War through the 1930's, although it also includes some material from both earlier and later dates. Although the collection does not preserve the total volume of papers produced by this large and intellectually active family, its importance for American Jewish history is immense.

This collection is valuable to researchers studying not only the lives and genealogies of the Solis and Solis-Cohen family, but also students of the Civil War, Jewish communal activities, early Zionist activities and particularly the ways in which Jews have assimilated and contributed to secular National affairs.

The collection contains correspondence, diaries and journal, medical papers, and eulogies; various materials concerning the Joint Distribution Committee, German refugees in the 1930's, Zionist Organization of America, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Palestine, the National Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, Clinical Proceedings of the Jewish Hospital, typescript essays; committee reports, financial records and printed materials about the School of the Parents' Education Association in Israel, as well as correspondence with Sophie Udin, Henrietta Szold, Stephen S. Wise, John Hanes Holmes, Julian Mack and Horace Kallen; research notes and correspondence for genealogical studies of the Cardozo, Etting, Menken, Nathan, Nones, Peixotto, and Solis families; correspondence, news clippings, histories, genealogies, photographs, printed material on members of the extended Solis-Cohen family such as Solomon Nunes Carvalho, David Barrak Hays, Bernhard Marks, Clara Binswanger, Aaron Levy and Hyman Polock; as well as correspondence, photographs, histories and printed works by the great Jewish historian of England, Cecil Roth. There are also artifacts, art work, and other ephemera.

The collection is primarily in English, with some Hebrew language materials.

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Arrangement

The collection is organized into eight series by Solis or Solis-Cohen family member.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

The collection is open to all researchers by permission of the Director of Library and Archives of the American Jewish Historical Society, except items that are restricted due to their fragility.

Use Restrictions

Information concerning the literary rights may be obtained from the Executive Director of the American Jewish Historical Society. Users must apply in writing for permission to quote, reproduce or otherwise publish manuscript materials found in this collection. For more information contact: American Jewish Historical Society, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011.

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Related Material

Rosenbach Collection of Rare American Judaica and the Soble Collection of American Judaica.

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Provenance

The bulk of the collection was donated in 1993 by Ann (née Solis-Cohen) and Charles L. Rosenthal. The papers of Emily Grace and Emily Elvira Solis-Cohen, Solomon Solis-Cohen, M.D., Elvira Nathan Solis, Isaac Nathan and Jacob da Silva Solis were donations received through prior donations.

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Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:
Identification of item, date (if known); Papers of the Solis-Cohen Family; P-642; box number; folder number; American Jewish Historical Society, Boston, MA and New York, NY.

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Access Points

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Container List

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

 

Series I: Jacob da Silva Solis (1780-1829), 1808, , 1814-1830.
Box 1, Folders 1-3.
Arrangement:

Arranged by type of material.
Scope and Content:

This series consists of correspondence to Sarah Hayes and from Aaron Solomon, as well as others, and a personal calendar of Jewish holidays.
Box Folder Title Date
1 1 Correspondence undated, 1814-1830
1 2 Calendar 1808
1 3 Solomon Solis (1819-1854) [son of Jacob da Silva Solis and Charity Hays], Resolutions of the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia June 27, 1854
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Series II: Jacob da Silva Solis-Cohen, M.D. (1838-1927), undated, 1849-1918.
Box 1, Folders 4-17; Box 2, Folders 1-10.
Arrangement:

Arranged into four informal subseries by type of material: correspondence, diaries and journals, medical papers and miscellaneous documents primarily by year.
Scope and Content:

This series consists of correspondence with Judith Simha Solis, Leon Solis-Cohen, Bernhard Marks, Jacob Solis Ritterband and various relatives, among them Benjamin Etting Hays, Jr., Ellen W. Solis Falk, Judith Hays, Myer Solis Cohen and Solomon Solis, as well as Civil War correspondence including Jacob Solis Ritterband, Leon Solis-Cohen, B. Nathan, Esq., the Surgeon General, Secretary of War, Army Medical Board, Navy Department, Rear Admiral Samuel F. DuPont, Gideon Welles, George Clymer, and others. It also includes diaries and journals describing his military service as Assistant Surgeon on the USS Florida during the Civil War, and other medical papers including reports, a death certificate, reprints of articles, and ephemera.

Correspondence
Box Folder Title Date
1 4 To Judith Simha Solis 1873
1 5 From various relatives 1849-1873
1 5A From Ellen Solis Falk to her sister Matilda Cohen 1860
1 6 Bernhard Marks 1850-1857
1 7 J.S. Ritterband 1855-1858
1 8 Personal Matters 1860
1 9 Civil War 1861
1 10 Civil War 1862
1 11 Civil War 1863
1 12 Civil War 1864
1 13 To and From Leon Solis-Cohen from Abroad undated, 1867-1873
1 14 Relating to Civil War Military Service 1894-1913
1 15 Miscellaneous 1854-1856

Diaries and Journals
Box Folder Title Date
1 16 Ward Room Diary/USS Florida 1861-1862
1 17 US Steamer Florida 1862
Box Folder Title Date
2 1 Navy Register 1863
2 2 Patient Treatment Diary 1863
2 3 Narrative of Privations and Sufferings undated

Medical Papers
Box Folder Title Date
2 4 Reports 1861-1862
2 5 Death Certificate 1868
2 6 Articles 1870-1876
2 7 Articles 1880-1889
2 8 Articles 1890-1894
2 9 Articles undated, 1907-1918

Miscellaneous
Box Folder Title Date
2 10 Matriculation Certificate to U. of Pennsylvania; AMA Membership Card; Address to Hebrew Literary Society; Speech by Jefferson Davis, 1860; Program; Stock Certificates; Passport, 1865; Check to Self; Charter and By-laws of Union League; Part of Article on Hays Revolutionary History Oversized Materials undated, 1850-1879
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Series III: Leon da Silva Solis-Cohen, Esq. (1840-1884), 1867-1884.
Box 2, Folders 11-14.
Arrangement:

Arranged by type of material in chronological order.
Scope and Content:

Covering the period from 1867 to 1884, this series includes correspondence with Jacob Solis Ritterband and with John G. Dale, Dr. Jacob da Silva Solis-Cohen, Judith Simha Solis, Attorney Armant Petot of New Orleans regarding the estate of Jacob da Silva Solis; miscellaneous bank papers and a eulogy from The American Hebrew of September 26, 1884 which includes some of his poetry.
Box Folder Title Date
2 11 Correspondence: From Jacob Solis Ritterband 1867
2 12 Correspondence: Regarding Jacob da Silva Solis undated, 1867-1871
2 13 Bank Papers, Miscellaneous Oversized Materials 1870
2 14 "In Memoriam" (Eulogy) 1884
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Series IV: Solomon Solis-Cohen, M.D. (1857-1948), undated, 1892-1953.
Box 3, Folders 1-14.
Arrangement:

Arranged by organization and type of material.
Scope and Content:

This series consists primarily of correspondence with national Jewish institutions in the United States and Palestine, including the Joint Distribution Committee, the Zionist Organization of America, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Palestine, National Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds and material relating to German refugees during the Holocaust period and events in Palestine. Also included are Clinical Proceedings of the Jewish Hospital and assorted ephemera.
Box Folder Title Date
3 1 Joint Distribution Committee: Correspondence 1931-1938
3 2 Joint Distribution Committee: Printed Material Oversized Materials undated, 1933-1936
3 3 Germany, Refugees: Correspondence 1933-1938
3 4 Germany, Refugees: Miscellaneous 1933-1934
3 5 Zionist Organization of America: Correspondence 1927-1936
3 6 Hebrew University: Correspondence 1930
3 7 Hebrew University: Photographs circa 1924
3 8 Palestine: Correspondence 1930-1941
3 9 Palestine: Printed Material undated, 1931
3 10 National Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds 1934-1941
3 11 Clinical Proceedings of the Jewish Hospital 1949
3 12 Correspondence, Miscellaneous undated, 1900-1940
3 13 Ephemera: American Phil. Society Mtg. Ticket; Fundraiser Letter; Programs; Medical Article Reprint; Publicity Letter; Press Release; Invitations; Yahrzeit Cards' Eulogy; Cemetery Brochure; Advertisement; Order Form; Membership List; Printed Hymn; Copy of Letter 1892-1953
3 14 Leon Solis-Cohen, M.D. [son of Solomon Solis-Cohen, M.D. and Emily Grace Solis], Correspondence Regarding Middle East Crisis 1956 1956-1958
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Series V: Isaac Nathan Solis (1857-1909), undated, 1908-1909.
Box 3, Folders 15-18.
Arrangement:

Arranged by type of material.
Scope and Content:

This series is made up of personal correspondence and two unsigned typescripts, one on Christianity and Jewish suffering, the other on socialism. There is also a memorial tribute.
Box Folder Title Date
3 15 Correspondence to Isaac Nathan Solis undated, 1908
3 16 Typescript Essays undated
3 17 Memorial Tribute [circa 1909]
3 18 David Hays Solis, Jr. (1862-1936) [Brother to Isaac Nathan Solis, Esq. and Elvira Nathan Solis] Correspondence with a Customer 1889
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Series VI: Emily Grace Solis Solis-Cohen (1859-1936) and Emily Elvira Solis-Cohen (1886-1969), undated, 1923-1936.
Box 4.
Arrangement:

Arranged by correspondence mostly relating to the Deborah Kallen School and other materials relating to the Kallen school including reports, minutes, financial records, printed material and speeches by year. Additional material includes miscellaneous materials, writings and Hadassah correspondence arranged by year.
Scope and Content:

These papers of an active mother and daughter consist primarily of material relating to the School of the Parents' Education Association in Jerusalem and the American Committee working on behalf of the School. They include correspondence with Deborah Kallen, founder and principal of the school, published material relating to the work of the School and the financial records, reports and minute-books, etc. of the American Committee. In addition there is correspondence with Sophie Udin concerning the Hebrew University Library and miscellaneous letters to and from Henrietta Szold, Stephen S. Wise, John Haynes Holmes, Julian Mack and Horace Kallen. There is also printed material consisting of brochures, a magazine article, invitations, a program of lectures and a rough diagram of the school.

Deborah Kallen School Correspondence. (Box 4, Folders 1-12)
Box Folder Title Date
4 1 From Deborah Kallen undated, 1922-1931
4 2 To Deborah Kallen undated, 1924-1931
4 3 Deborah Kallen's School, Miscellaneous undated, 1925
4 4 With Bank re: Parent's Cooperative School undated, 1925-1927
4 5 Sophie Udin, Jewish National and University Library undated, 1926-1927
4 6 School of Parents' Education Association 1923
4 7 School of Parents' Education Association 1924
4 8 School of Parents' Education Association 1925
4 9 School of Parents' Education Association 1926
4 10 School of Parents' Education Association 1927
4 11 School of Parents' Education Association 1928
4 12 School of Parents' Education Association 1931, 1936

Correspondence. (Box 4, Folder 13)
Box Folder Title Date
4 13 Miscellaneous undated, 1920-1933

Deborah Kallen School Documents. (Box 4, Folders 14-17)
Box Folder Title Date
4 14 Reports, Minutes, etc. of the Committee for Deborah Kallen School undated, 1925
4 15 Financial Records of the Committee for Deborah Kallen School undated, 1924-1927
4 16 Speeches undated, 1924-1930
4 17 Printed Material: Deborah Kallen School Oversized Material undated, 1924-1931

Emily Grace Solis Solis-Cohen and Emily Elvira Solis-Cohen Documents. (Box 4, Folders 18-20)
Box Folder Title Date
4 18 Miscellaneous undated, 1928-1931
4 19 Hadassah Correspondence 1928-1930
4 20 Writings undated
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Series VII: Elvira Nathan Solis (186?-1953), undated, 1893-1904.
Box 5, Folders 1-11.
Arrangement:

Genealogical materials are arranged alphabetically by family name.
Scope and Content:

This series contains the research notes and correspondence for genealogical studies of the families listed below. It also includes a list of Jewish officers who served in the Revolutionary War from New Jersey and a letter to a member of the Solis family by Joseph A. Hertz in 1893.
Box Folder Title Date
5 1 Cardozo Family undated
5 2 Etting Family undated
5 3 Menken Family Correspondence undated, 1902-1904
5 4 Menken Family Notes and Family History undated
5 5 Nathan Family Oversized Materials undated, 1904
5 6 Nones Family Oversized Materials undated, 1903
5 7 Peixotto Family 1902
5 8 Solis Family Oversized Material undated
5 9 Register of Jewish Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War undated
5 10 Letter from Joseph H. Hertz 1893
5 11 Miscellaneous undated, 1902
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Series VIII: Jacob da Silva Solis-Cohen, Jr., (1890-1968), undated, 1803-1990.
Box 5, Folders 12-20; Box 6.
Arrangement:

Arranged by individual.
Scope and Content:

This series includes material relating to the genealogy and history of branches of the Solis-Cohen family. Included are correspondence, photographs, family trees, news clippings, photostats, manuscripts, transcripts and a Hebrew prayerbook of the Solis-Cohen family generally, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, Jacob da Silva Solis-Cohen, M.D., Bernhard Marks, David Barrak Hays, Jacob da Silva Solis, Myer D. Cohen, Clara Binswanger, Aaron Levy and Hyman Polock. It also includes correspondence, photographs, histories and printed works of Cecil Roth relating to research on this family.

Genealogy. (Folder 12)
Box Folder Title Date
5 12 Genealogy undated, 1928-1951

Cecil Roth. (Folders 13-17)
Box Folder Title Date
5 13 Family Research Correspondence 1927-1951
5 14 Family Research Photograph 1937
5 15 Family Research Histories 1936
5 16 Family Research Printed Works undated, 1930-1933
5 17 Family Research "Medieval Lincoln Jewry and Its Synagogue" 1934

Solomon Nunes Carvalho, (1815-1897). (Folders 18-20)
Box Folder Title Date
5 18 Correspondence 1971-1988
5 19 Carvalho Material 1862-1878
5 20 Miscellaneous 1903-1989

Jacob da Silva Solis-Cohen, M.D., (1838-1927). (Box 6, Folders 1-5)
Box Folder Title Date
6 1 Bibliography undated
6 2 NY Times/USS Florida Story undated
6 3 News Clippings and Newspapers Oversized Materials 1871-1954
6 4 Transcripts of Correspondence 1873
6 5 Photos and Bookplate undated

Bernhard Marks. (Folder 6-7)
Box Folder Title Date
6 6 Photostats undated
6 7 Family History undated

David Barrak Hays, (1732-1812). (Folders 9-12)
Box Folder Title Date
6 8 Correspondence 1912-1985
6 9 Histories, Genealogies undated, 1950-1953
6 10 Photographs undated
6 11 Printed Material undated, 1952-1990
6 12 Picture undated

Jacob da Silva Solis, (1780-1829). (Folders 13-18)
Box Folder Title Date
6 13 Correspondence 1948-1966
6 14 Hebrew Prayerbook 1811
6 15 Photographs, Photostats undated, 1805-1830
6 16 Histories undated, 1953
6 17 Manuscript 1962
6 18 Wilmington Oversized Materials undated

Myer D. Cohen (1811-1865). (Folder 19)
Box Folder Title Date
6 19 Myer D. Cohen (1811-1865): Oversized Materials 1865-1959

Clara Binswanger's (1860-1901) Birthday. (Folder 20)
Box Folder Title Date
6 20 Clara Binswanger (1860-1901): Birthday 1901-1957

Aaron Levy, (1742-1815). (Folders 21-23)
Box Folder Title Date
6 21 Correspondence 1949-1951
6 22 Photographs undated, 1931-1949
6 23 Family Tree undated

The Aaronsburg Story (Folders 24-25)
Box Folder Title Date
6 24 The Aaronsburg Story 1949: Programs, Pamphlets, Directions [1949?]
6 25 The Aaronsburg Story 1949: Newsclippings and Newspapers [1949?]

Passport of Hyman Polock (Folder 26)
Box Folder Title Date
6 26 Passport of Hyman Polock 1852
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Oversized Materials

Series II: Jacob da Silva Solis-Cohen, M.D. (1838-1927), 1849-1918.
Box Folder Title Date
OS 2 Box 2, Folder 10 Miscellaneous Documents undated, 1850-1879

Series III: Leon da Silva Solis-Cohen, Esq. (1840-1884), 1867-1884.
Box Folder Title Date
OS 2 Box 2, Folder 10 Miscellaneous Bank Documents 1870

Series IV: Solomon Solis-Cohen, M.D. (1857-1948), 1892-1953.
Box Folder Title Date
OS 2 Box 3, Folder 2 Joint Distribution Committee Printed Material undated, 1933-1936

Series VI: Emily Grace Solis Solis-Cohen (1859-1936) and Emily Elvira Solis-Cohen (1886-1969), undated, 1924-1931.
Box Folder Title Date
OS 2 Box 4, Folder 17 Printed Material: Deborah Kallen School undated, 1924-1931

Series VII: Elvira Nathan Solis (186?-1953), undated, 1893-1904.
Box Folder Title Date
OS 2 Box 5, Folder 5 Nathan Family undated, 1904
OS 2 Box 5, Folder 6 Nones Family undated, 1903
OS 2 Box 5, Folder 8 Solis Family undated

Series VIII: Jacob da Silva Solis-Cohen, Jr. (1890-1968), 1803-1990.
Box Folder Title Date
OS 2 Box 6, Folder 3 Jacob da Silva Solis-Cohen, M.D., (1838-1927): News Clippings and Newspapers 1871-1954
OS 2 Box 6, Folder 18 Jacob da Silva Solis, (1780-1829): Wilmington undated
OS 2 Box 6, Folder 19 Myer D. Cohen 1865-1959
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