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Overview of the Collection
Creator:	First Poltaver Brotherhood Aid Association of Greater New York
Collection Title:	Records of the First Poltaver Brotherhood Aid Association of Greater New York
Dates:	1958-2002
Abstract:	These are the records of the First Poltaver Brotherhood Aid Association of Greater New York, a landsmanshaft 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
Physical Description:	0.42 Linear Feet
Identification:	RG 1901
Repository:	YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

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Administrative History

Organized in New York in 1903 and incorporated on July 15, 1904, by immigrants from Poltava (Poltawa), then in the Russian Empire (today, Ukraine). Earlier known alternately as the First Poltaver Brotherly Aid Society and the First Poltaver Brotherly Aid Association of Greater New York. The Association provided sick and death benefits, maintained a loan fund, purchased graves, and functioned as a burial society. It also held social events in conjunction with meetings, and made regular charitable donations to Jewish causes and organizations. It used four cemeteries: Mount Zion, Beth David, Wellwood, and Mount Lebanon. Dissolved around 2002.

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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.

Deeds to graves (copies), 1968-2001. Grave reservation records related to Beth David Cemetery, 1967-1998, Wellwood Cemetery (including photocopy of cemetery map), 1968-2001, and Mount Lebanon Cemetery, 1968-1998. Card file of grave reservations. Correspondence with the State of New York concerning the reinstatement of the Association’s corporate existence, and its name of record, 1958. Correspondence with the Internal Revenue Service concerning the Association’s tax-exempt status, 1967-1968. Financial reports, 1966-1972. Blank application forms for loan fund. Meeting notice, 1971. Membership address lists. Correspondence concerning dissolution, 2002.

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Related Materials

A souvenir program of the Association's 33rd anniversary celebration, January 4, 1936, is found in RG 123, File 242.

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Access Points

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

• Topical Terms

• Geographic Terms

  • United States

• Topical Terms

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

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