Subject files collection
Scope and Content Note
Collection encompasses an extensive variety of organizations, subjects, and formats and is most useful for genealogists and researchers interested in general information. Researchers looking for a particular publication will also find this collection helpful.
Within each series is a variety of material; primarily types of publications and mailings. Specifically, the collection may include souvenir journals, promotional and informational brochures and flyers, publications, calendars, greeting cards, business cards, postal cards, invitations and programs, playbills, certificates, prayers, religious and civil legal documents, posters, gift catalogues, newspaper clippings, and broadsides. Dates range from the early 20th century to the present.
Dates
- Creation: undated, various dates
Language of Materials
The collection is in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish.
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 Director of Library and Archives 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
email: reference@ajhs.org
Extent
78 Linear Feet (156 manuscript boxes)
Abstract
Collection encompasses an extensive variety of organizations, subjects, and formats and is most useful for genealogists and researchers interested in general information. Researchers looking for a particular publication will also find this collection helpful.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into fourteen series as follows:
- Series I: Miscellaneous organizations
- Series II: Bicentennial celebrations
- Series III: Black/Jewish Relations
- Series IV: Broadsides
- Series V: Business: Jewish Involvement
- Series VI: Entertainment/Media
- Series VII: Holocaust
- Series VIII: Interfaith Relations
- Series IX: Invitations and Programs for Special Events
- Series X: Politics: Jewish Involvement
- Series XI: Religious and Civil Contracts, Certificates, and Prayers
- Series XII: Schools
- Series XIII: Soviet Jewry
- Series XIV: Synagogues
Custodial History
Compiled by American Jewish Historical Society staff
Genre / Form
Geographic
Occupation
Topical
- Aging
- American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976
- Anniversaries
- Antisemitism
- Arts
- Bar mitzvah
- Bat mitzvah
- Black people -- Relations with Jews
- Camps
- Ceremonial objects
- Charities
- Children
- Conversion
- Counterculture
- Divorce
- Education
- Emigration and immigration
- Funeral homes
- Genealogy
- Hebrew language
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Homosexuality
- Hospitals
- Jewish community centers
- Jewish single people
- Jews -- Dietary laws
- Jews -- Music
- Jews -- Study and teaching
- Jews, Ethiopian
- Jews, Soviet
- Jews, Syrian
- Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity
- Labor movement
- Marriage
- Motion pictures
- Museums
- Old age homes
- Orphanages
- Peace movements
- People with disabilities
- Politics, Practical
- Refuseniks
- Sabbath
- Schools
- Sephardim
- Social service
- Societies
- Sports
- Synagogues
- Television
- Theater
- Tuberculosis
- Vegetarianism
- Women
- Yiddish language
- Young Men's Hebrew associations
- Zionism
- Title
- Guide to the Subject files collection, undated, various dates *I-424
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Miranda Harder, Mark Schechter, and Rachel Pollack
- Date
- © 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the American Jewish Historical Society Repository