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Overview of the Collection
Creator:	Derechiner Benevolent Association (N.Y.)
Collection Title:	Records of the Derechiner Benevolent Association
Dates:	1934-1981
Abstract:	These are the records of the Derechiner Benevolent Association, a landmanshaft or benevolent association. Upon the dissolution of the society, the records were collected by the New York State Department of Insurance. Although many of these societies were founded around the turn of the twentieth century, the records collected in this way primarily date from the second half of the century (1950-2000). The landsmanshaftn collections generally include constitutions, by-laws, minutes, correspondence with members, financial ledgers, deeds to graves, cemetery maps, and membership lists. For details on this particular collection, see the scope and content note.
Language of Materials:	English, Yiddish, Hebrew
Physical Description:	1.04 linear feet
Identification:	RG 1780
Repository:	YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

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Administrative History

Organized in 1906 by immigrants from Derechin (Dereczyn, Deretchin, Derhichin, Dretchin), in the Russian Empire (today, Belarus). In its printed constitution the Association's name is spelled in English: Derechener. The Association provided sick and death benefits, and functioned as a burial society. It used Baron Hirsch Cemetery.

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Scope and Contents

This finding aid is a collection-level record. Box and folder list, if any, are found here in the scope and content note.

Box 1: Constitution (printed in Yiddish and English). Burial society correspondence and documents, 1948-1981. Financial records, 1934-1975. Meeting notices, 1964, 1968. Membership dues receipts book, 1972-1979. Check stubs, 1958-1981. Cancelled checks, 1961-1973. Correspondence concerning dissolution of the Association, 1978-1979.  Box 2: Minute book in Yiddish, 1957-1979. General ledger in Yiddish, 1951-1979. General ledgers in English, 1953-1981. Box 3 (oversize): Membership dues ledgers, 1957-1979. Yortsayt (Yahrzeit) pages (for commemoration of the dead), printed in Hebrew, with names and dates carefully inscribed by hand in Hebrew calligraphy.

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Access Points

This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.

• Topical Terms

  • Benevolent Societies
  • Burial Societies
  • Cemeteries
  • Charitable Societies
  • Immigrant Societies
  • Landsmanshaftn
  • Mutual Aid Societies
  • Mutual Aid Society

• Geographic Terms

  • United States

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