TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Arrangement Note

Restrictions

Administrative Information

Search Terms

Box Folder Listing

Series A. General. 1974-1999.

A Finding Aid to the Kenneth B. Block Papers. 1974-1999. (bulk 1980-1985).

Manuscript Collection No. 811

NHPRCFunding, in part, for the arrangement and description of this collection was provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Introduction

Repository: The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
Creator: Block, Kenneth B., 1946-
Title: Kenneth B. Block Papers
Dates: 1974-1999
Bulk Dates: 1980-1985
Quantity: 0.4 linear feet (1 Hollinger box)
Abstract: Correspondence and other materials pertaining to Rabbi Block’s chaplaincy work in Maryland.
Collection Number: MS-811
Language: Collection material in English.

Biographical Sketch

Kenneth Block was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1946. Ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1974, Block has served as the rabbi of the Harford Jewish Center and as a Jewish Chaplain at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Perry Point, Maryland.


Scope and Content Note

Correspondence and other materials pertaining to Rabbi Block’s chaplaincy work in Maryland.


Arrangement Note

This collection is arranged in one (1) series:

Series A. General. 1974-1999.

Conditions of Access and Use

Terms of Access and Use

This collection is 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

Kenneth Block, by the act of donating this collection to the American Jewish Archives, assigned all property rights to the American Jewish Archives. Literary rights are retained by Kenneth Block or his heirs. Literary rights may also be retained by specific creators of some 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 Kenneth B. Block Papers and the American Jewish Archives. A suggestion for at least the first citation is as follows:

[Description], [Date], Box #, Folder #. MS-811. Kenneth B. Block Papers. American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Provenance

The Kenneth B. Block Papers were received from Rabbi Kenneth B. Block, Street, Maryland, in September 1999.

Processing Information

Processed by Elisa Ho, September 2011.

This collection was arranged and described according to minimal-processing standards. Funding, in part, for the arrangement and description of this collection was provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.


Box Folder Listing

Series A. General. 1974-1999.
Box
1 Correspondence and other materials. 1974-1999. [5 folders]

Search Terms

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

Persons and Families

Block, Kenneth B., 1946-

Institutions

Harford Jewish Center (Aberdeen, Md.)
Temple Beth Torah (Centreville, Va.)
United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Veterans Administration Hospital (Perry Point, Md.)

Subjects

Chaplains, Military
Jews--Maryland

Genres and Forms

Correspondence

Occupations

Rabbis