TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Conditions of Access and Use

Administrative Information

Search Terms

Box Folder Listing

Series A. General. 1923-1968.

A Finding Aid to the Charles Mantinband Papers. 1923-1968.

Manuscript Collection No. 563


Introduction

Repository: The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
Creator: Mantinband, Charles, 1895-1974.
Title: Charles Mantinband Papers.
Dates: 1923-1968.
Quantity: 0.8 linear ft.
Abstract: Papers consist of correspondence, sermons, a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous items pertaining to Mantinband's career and his interest in southern Jewry.
Collection Number: MS-563
Language: Collection material in English.

Biographical Sketch

Rabbi, civil rights activist, and prison chaplain, Mantinband was born in New York City, April 2, 1895. He was ordained at the Jewish Institute of Religion and attended Columbia University and the City College of New York. The bulk of his rabbinical career was spent in the south where he was active in the civil rights movement. Mantinband died in 1974.


Scope and Content Note

Papers consist of correspondence, sermons, a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous items pertaining to Mantinband's career and his interest in southern Jewry.


Conditions of Access and Use

Terms of Access and Use

The Charles Mantinband Papers 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

Mrs. Charles Mantinband, by the act of donating the Charles Mantinband Papers to the American Jewish Archives, assigned all property rights to the American Jewish Archives. Literary rights are retained by Charles Mantinband and his heirs. 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

Preferred Citation

Footnotes and bibliographic references should refer to the Charles Mantinband Papers and the American Jewish Archives. A suggestion for at least the first citation is as follows:

[Description], [Date], Box #, Folder #. MS-563. Charles Mantinband Papers. American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Provenance

The Charles Mantinband Papers were received from Mrs. Charles Mantinband, Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1973.

Processing Information

Processed by American Jewish Archives staff.


Box Folder Listing

Series A. General. 1923-1968. [1 Hollinger box]
Box Folder
1 1 Sermons.
1 2 Scrapbook.
1 3 Correspondence.
1 4 Miscellaneous papers.

Search Terms

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

Persons and Families

Mantinband, Charles, -- 1895-1974 -- Manuscripts.

Subjects

Civil rights
Jews -- Texas -- Jefferson.

Genres and Forms

Jewish sermons, American.

Occupations

Rabbis -- Southern states.