TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Restrictions

Administrative Information

Search Terms

Box Folder Listing

Series A. General. 1868-1965.

A Finding Aid to the Jacob Sonderling Papers. 1868-1965.

Manuscript Collection No. 582



Introduction

Repository: The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
Creator: Sonderling, Jacob, 1878-1964
Title: Jacob Sonderling Papers
Dates: 1868-1965
Quantity: 0.8 linear feet (2 Hollinger boxes)
Abstract: Correspondence, autobiographical material, sermons, notes, and other materials relating to Sonderling's career as a chaplain in the German army during World War I, as a rabbi in Los Angeles, Calif., and to the Sonderling family.
Collection Number: MS-582
Language: Collection material in English, German, Dutch, and Hebrew.

Biographical Sketch

Rabbi, of Los Angeles, Calif.


Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, autobiographical material, sermons, notes, and other materials relating to Sonderling's career as a chaplain in the German army during World War I, as a rabbi in Los Angeles, Calif., and to the Sonderling family.


Restrictions

Terms of Access and Use

The Jacob Sonderling 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

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, by the act of donating the Jacob Sonderling Papers to the American Jewish Archives, assigned all property rights to the American Jewish Archives. Literary rights are retained by Jacob Sonderling 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 Jacob Sonderling Papers and the American Jewish Archives. A suggestion for at least the first citation is as follows:

[Description], [Date], Box #, Folder #. MS-582. Jacob Sonderling Papers. American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Provenance

The Jacob Sonderling Papers were received from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles, California, in 1991.

Processing Information

Processed by American Jewish Archives staff.

Accruals and Additions

No further accruals are expected to this collection.


Box Folder Listing

Series A. General. 1868-1965.
Box Folder
1 1 Correspondence. 1956-1964, Undated.
1 2 Sermons. 1946-1947.
1 3-5 Sermons. Undated. [3 folders]
1 6 Writtings and notes. Undated.
1 7 Autobiographical sketches (1880's-1920's) and related correspondence. 1961-1964.
1 8 Adult education class. 1960.
1 9 Notes and address book. Undated.
Box Folder
2 1-2 Notes. Undated. [2 folders]
2 3 Emma Sonderling (Mrs. Jacob). 1952-1962.
2 4 Paul H. Sonderling. Personal Correspondence. 1944-1950.
2 5 Miscellaneous. 1965-1962, Undated.

Search Terms

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

Chaplains, Military
Fairfax Temple (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Germany -- Chaplains
Jewish sermons, American
Jews -- California -- Los Angeles
Jews, German
Rabbis -- California -- Los Angeles
Sonderling family
Sonderling, Jacob -- 1878-1964
World War, 1914-1918 -- Chaplains -- Germany
World War, 1914-1918 -- Germany -- Participation, Jewish