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Series A. Central Files. 1919-1976.

Series B. Political Department/Department of International Affairs and United Nations. 1919–1977. (bulk 1940s-1960s)

Series C. Institute of Jewish Affairs. 1918-1979.

Series D. Relief and Rescue Departments. 1939–1969. (bulk 1940-1950)

Series E. Culture Department. 1943–1974.

Series F. Organization Department. 1942–1976.

Series G. Administrative Departments. 1936–1979.

Series H. Alphabetical Files. 1919–1981. (bulk 1940-1981)

Series I. Publications. 1942–1971.

Series J. Non-Print Materials and Miscellaneous. 1930–1982.

A Finding Aid to the World Jewish Congress Records. 1918-1982.

Series E. Culture Department. 1943–1974.

Manuscript Collection No. 361

Introduction
Repository: The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
Creator: World Jewish Congress
Title: World Jewish Congress Records
Dates: 1918-1982
Bulk Dates: 1940-1980
Quantity: 488.4 linear feet (1221 Hollinger boxes)
Abstract: Collection containing the files of the New York office of the World Jewish Congress, 1918-1982, with the bulk of materials dated between 1940-1980. Records include cables, correspondence, memos, minutes, photographs, press releases, publications, reports and research files. Subjects include: WJC organization, antisemitism, Israel, Jewish unity, Jewish rights, Jewish communities, Holocaust-era and World War II relief and rescue, Jewish-Arab relations, Soviet Jews, and Zionism. This collection also contains some material from the American Jewish Congress.
Identification: MS-361
Language: Collection material in English.

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Terms of Access and Use

The World Jewish Congress 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

Literary rights are retained by the World Jewish Congress and its designees. 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.

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Preferred Citation

Footnotes and bibliographic references should refer to the World Jewish Congress Records and the American Jewish Archives. A suggestion for at least the first citation is as follows:

[Description], [Date], Box #, Folder #. MS-361. World Jewish Congress Records. American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Box and Folder Listing

Series E. Culture Department. 1943–1974. [11 Hollinger boxes (4.4 linear feet)]
Historical Note: The Culture Department in New York was established in March 1945 to assist with reconstruction of the spiritual and cultural life of Holocaust survivors; recovery of cultural treasures and communal archives; and to strengthen the intellectual aspects of Jewish life in the Western hemisphere and Sephardic communities in the Mediterranean area. Several variations of the name of the department are used in the collection, including Education Department, Cultural Department, and Department of Culture and Education.
Scope and Content Note: Contains correspondence of the department directors, Simon Federbush and Wolf Blattberg, together with reports, publications, and other material pertaining to the activities of the New York branch of the Culture Department.
Material in the series includes correspondence of the first director, Simon Federbush (1945–ca. 1950) and the second director, Wolf Blattberg (1950–1958), who joined the department in 1945. After Blattberg's death in 1958, Greta Beigel assumed his responsibilities for cultural work. Included in Blattberg's files is correspondence with the London headquarters of the Culture Department and its director, Aaron Steinberg (1946–1968).
In addition to correspondence, the series contains reports, publications, and other materials pertaining to the activities of the Culture Department in New York, such as the school adoption plan, cultural delegation to Europe and South America, essay contests, relations with UNESCO, book drives, and periodicals. Other materials in the series refer to conferences on Jewish, Yiddish, or Hebrew culture.
Arrangement Note: Divided into three subseries:
Subseries 1. Executive Files. 1944–1959. [8 Hollinger boxes]
Scope and Content Note: Consists of files of Simon Federbush and Wolf Blattberg's correspondence and reports.
Federbush, Simon, 1944–1958
Box Folder
E1 1 Correspondence, 1944
E1 2 Correspondence, 1945
E1 3 Correspondence, Jan–Mar 1946
E1 4 Correspondence, Apr–Jun 1946
E1 5 Correspondence, Jul–Sep 1946
E1 6 Correspondence, Oct–Dec 1946
E1 7 Correspondence, Jan–Apr 1947
E1 8 Correspondence, May–Sep 1947
E1 9 Correspondence, Oct–Dec 1947
E1 10 Correspondence, Jan–Apr 1948
Box Folder
E2 1 Correspondence, May–Dec 1948
E2 2 Correspondence, 1949
E2 3 Correspondence, 1950
E2 4 Correspondence, Jun–Dec 1953
E2 5 Correspondence, Jan–Jun 1954
E2 6 Correspondence, Jul–Dec 1954
E2 7 Correspondence, Jan–Jun 1955
E2 8 Correspondence, Jul–Dec 1955
E2 9 Correspondence, Jan–Jul 1957
E2 10 Correspondence, Aug–Dec 1957
Box Folder
E3 1 Correspondence, 1958
E3 2 Activities 1945–1946
E3 3 Biographical sketch, 1947
Blattberg, Wolf, 1945–1958
Box Folder
E3 4 Correspondence, Jan–Apr 1946
E3 5 Correspondence, May–Aug 1946
E3 6 Correspondence, Sep–Dec 1946
E3 7 Correspondence, Jan–Apr 1947
E3 8 Correspondence, May–Jun 1947
E3 9 Correspondence, Jul–Sep 1947
E3 10 Correspondence, Oct–Dec 1947
Box Folder
E4 1 Correspondence, Jan–May 1948
E4 2 Correspondence, Jun–Sep 1948
E4 3 Correspondence, Oct–Dec 1948
E4 4 Correspondence, Jan–Mar 1949
E4 5 Correspondence, Apr–May 1949
E4 6 Correspondence, Jun–Aug 1949
E4 7 Correspondence, Sep–Oct 1949
E4 8 Correspondence, Nov–Dec 1949
Box Folder
E5 1 Correspondence, Jan–Mar 1950
E5 2 Correspondence, Apr–Jun 1950
E5 3 Correspondence, Jul–Dec 1950
E5 4 Correspondence, 1951
E5 5 Correspondence, 1952
E5 6 Correspondence, 1953
E5 7 Correspondence, Jan–Jul 1957
E5 8 Correspondence, Aug–Dec 1957
E5 9 Correspondence, Jan–Aug 1958
E5 10 Dwork, C. Irving, Washington, D.C. office, 1946
Box Folder
E6 1 Argentina, 1953–1956
E6 2 Argentina, statistical reports, correspondence, 1955
E6 3 Brazil, 1953–1958
E6 4 Canada, 1953–1957
E6 5 Great Britain, 1949–1953
E6 6 Great Britain, 1954
E6 7 Great Britain, 1955
E6 8 Great Britain, 1956
E6 9 Israel, 1953
E6 10 Israel, 1954
E6 11 Israel, 1955
Box Folder
E7 1 Israel, 1956
E7 2 Israel, 1957–1958
E7 3 Mexico, 1953–1956
E7 4 Peru, 1953–1958
E7 5 Surinam, 1952–1958
E7 6 Uruguay, 1953–1958
E7 7 California, Connecticut, Florida, and Illinois, 1953–1958
E7 8 Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, and Missouri, 1949–1959
E7 9 New Hampshire, 1949–1956
E7 10 New York City, 1953
E7 11 New York City, 1954
E7 12 New York City, 1955
E7 13 New York City, 1956
Box Folder
E8 1 New York City, 1957
E8 2 New York City, 1958
E8 3 New York State, 1953–1958
E8 4 Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island, 1949–1958
E8 5 South Carolina, Texas, Washington, D.C., and Wisconsin, 1950–1957
E8 6 Virgin Islands, 1954
E8 7 Book drives, 1945–1948
E8 8 Blattberg, Wolf, condolences, 1958
E8 9 School adoption plan, 1946–1950
E8 10 Participant correspondence, 1945–1949
E8 11 Participant correspondence, 1950
E8 12 Reports and memos, 1945–1946
Subseries 2. Miscellaneous. 1943–1966, 1971. [2 Hollinger boxes]
Scope and Content Note: Consists of various correspondence, United Nations committee reports, and awards.
Box Folder
E8 13 Correspondence, 1943–1946
E8 14 Correspondence, 1947–1949
Box Folder
E9 1 Correspondence, 1950–1959
E9 2 Correspondence, 1960, 1962, 1965–1966, 1971
E9 3 Beigel, Greta, 1958–1959
E9 4 Katz, Rachel, 1959
E9 5 Marcus, Robert S., 1947–1948
E9 6 Marcus, Robert S., 1949–1950
E9 7 Scharfstein, Zevi, trip to South America, 1947
E9 8 Sokal, Saul, 1951–1959
E9 9 Commission on European Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, 1946–1947
E9 10 Commission on the Role of Science in Jewish Education, Kallen, Horace M., chairman, 1958
E9 11 Cultural Committee, 1947–1948
E9 12 Finance Committee, 1953–1955
E9 13 Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc., 1945–1949
E9 14 Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc., 1950–1954
E9 15 Speaker's bureau, 1947
E9 16 United Nations Children's Fund and United Nations Economic and Social Council, reports (including United Nations Economic and Social Council Textbook Improvement Project), 1950–1952
E9 17 United Jewish Educational and Cultural Organization, 1947
E9 18 Activities in Latin America, 1950–1958
Box Folder
E10 1 American Jewish Cultural Congress, 1947
E10 2 European symposium, Yiddish in Jewish life, Jan 29–30, 1966
E10 3 First International Jewish Musicological Congress, 1957–1958
E10 4 Marcus, Jay Joshua Memorial Awards, 1950–1952
E10 5 Jewish education in United States, 1946–1950
E10 6 Jewish education and youth activities in Europe, reports, 1945–1946
E10 7 Maimonides celebration and American Jewish Tercentenary, 1954–1956
E10 8 Marcus, Robert S., awards, 1951–1956
E10 9 Marcus, Robert S. Memorial Library, Tartakower, Arieh, address at opening ceremony, 28 Jan 1953
E10 10 Second Hebrew Congress, Tartakower, Arieh, address, 1955
E10 11 Textbook revision, 1951
E10 12 Who's Who in World Jewry, 1953–1954
E10 13 Yiddish Cultural Congress, 1949
E10 14 Activities reports, 1946–1949
E10 15 Activities reports, 1950–1964
E10 16 List of books and newspapers receiving Cultural Affairs, 1955–1956
E10 17 Rudawski, David, article, “The Nature of the Religious Revival and Its Effect on the Jewish School”, 1957
Subseries 3. Publications. 1945–1965, 1973–1974. [1 Hollinger box]
Language Note: Many of the publications in this subseries are in Yiddish.
Scope and Content Note: Consists of publications regarding Jewish life and culture.
Box Folder
E10 18 Bulletin of the Department for Culture and Education, no. 1–4, Jul 1945–Aug 1946
E10 19 Bulletin of the Department for Culture and Education, no. 1–6, 1950
Box Folder
E11 1 Duker, Abraham G., publications on Jewish life, 1950–1965
E11 2 Jewish Cultural Affairs, no. 1–6, (Yiddish) 1950
E11 3 Jewish Cultural Affairs, vol. I, no. 7–8, 1951
E11 4 Jewish Cultural Affairs, vol. I, no. 7–11, Vol. II, no. 10, (Yiddish) 1951, 1953
E11 5 Jewish Cultural Affairs, (incomplete set) 1955–1961
E11 6 Jewish Cultural Affairs, vol. XII, no. 4–XIII, no. 4, (Yiddish) 1961–1962
E11 7 Jewish Cultural Affairs, vol. XIII no. 1–4, 1962
E11 8 Jewish Cultural News (including cover letter), May 1973, Feb 1974
E11 9 Publications, re: Herzl, Theodor; Glatstein, Jacob; Toynbee, Arnold, 1955–1961
E11 10 Selected List of Jewish Books Published in the United States, vol. I–vol. II, no. 2, Jan 1950–Dec 1952

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