TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction

Scope and Content Note

Restrictions

Administrative Information

Search Terms

A Finding Aid to the Association for the Protection of Jewish Immigrants (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records. 1884-1949.

Manuscript Collection No. 218



Introduction

Repository: The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
Creator: Association for the Protection of Jewish Immigrants (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Title: Association for the Protection of Jewish Immigrants (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records.
Dates: 1884-1949.
Quantity: 5 microfilm reels.
Quantity: 1.2 linear feet.
Abstract: Correspondence, minutes, agent's monthly reports, constitution, charter, and financial records relating to refugees, displaced persons, the Jewish Holocaust, and the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America; together with monthly statistics (Dec. 1910-Nov. 1912) concerning Jewish immigrants arriving at the port of Philadelphia, Pa.
Collection Number: MS-218
Language: Collection material in English.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, minutes, agent's monthly reports, constitution, charter, and financial records relating to refugees, displaced persons, the Jewish Holocaust, and the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America; together with monthly statistics (Dec. 1910-Nov. 1912) concerning Jewish immigrants arriving at the port of Philadelphia, Pa.


Restrictions

Terms of Access and Use

The Association for the Protection of Jewish Immigrants (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records are open to all users. The original manuscript collection is available in the Barrows-Loebelson Reading Room of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives.

Property and Literary Rights

H.H. Cohen, by the act of donating the Association for the Protection of Jewish Immigrants (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records to the American Jewish Archives, assigned all property rights to the American Jewish Archives. Literary rights are retained by the Association for the Protection of Jewish Immigrants (Philadelphia, Pa.). Literary rights may also be retained by specific creators of materials.

Questions concerning rights should be addressed to the Executive Director of the American Jewish Archives. For more information see the American Jewish Archives copyright information webpage.


Administrative Information

Alternative Forms of Collection

The Association for the Protection of Jewish Immigrants (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records include microfilm. The microfilm may be a duplicate of the collection or include different materials. See MF-137 to MF-137d. Microfilm is available through inter-library loan.

Preferred Citation

Footnotes and bibliographic references should refer to the Association for the Protection of Jewish Immigrants (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records and the American Jewish Archives. A suggestion for at least the first citation is as follows:

[Description], [Date], Box #, Folder #. MS-218. Association for the Protection of Jewish Immigrants (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records. American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Provenance

The Association for the Protection of Jewish Immigrants (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records were received from H.H. Cohen, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1957.

Processing Information

Processed by American Jewish Archives staff.

Accruals and Additions

No further accruals are expected to this collection.



Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the AJA's online catalog.

Association for the Protection of Jewish Immigrants (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Archives.
Constitutions
Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Immigrants
Jews -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Charities
Jews -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Societies, etc
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Emigration and immigration
Ports of entry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Refugees, Jewish -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia