TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Arrangement Note

Restrictions

Administrative Information

Search Terms

Box Folder Listing

Series A. General. 1962-1970.

An Inventory to the Neil Brief Papers. 1962-1970.

Manuscript Collection No. 814

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: Brief, Neil, 1934-
Title: Neil Brief Papers
Dates: 1962-1970
Quantity: 2.0 linear feet (2 Record Cartons)
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, clippings, and other materials concerning the Ventura County Jewish Council and Temple Beth Torah of Ventura, California.
Collection Number: MS-814
Language: Collection material in English.

Biographical Sketch

Neil Brief was born in Brooklyn, New York on October 10, 1934. Ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1960, he served the Ventura County Jewish Council and Temple Beth Torah from 1962 to 1970 before spending 33 years as rabbi of Ezra Habonim-The Niles Township Jewish Congregation in Skokie, Illinois.


Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, reports, clippings, and other materials concerning the Ventura County Jewish Council and Temple Beth Torah of Ventura, California arranged in chronological order.


Arrangement Note

This collection is arranged in one (1) series:

Series A. General. 1962-1970.

Restrictions

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

Neil Brief, by the act of donating the Neil Brief Papers to the American Jewish Archives, assigned all property rights to the American Jewish Archives. Literary rights are retained by Neil Brief 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 Neil Brief Papers and the American Jewish Archives. A suggestion for at least the first citation is as follows:

[Description], [Date], Box #, Folder #. MS-814. Neil Brief Papers. American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Provenance

The Neil Brief Papers were received from Rabbi Neil Brief, Skokie, Illinois in March 1985.

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. 1962-1970.
Box
1 Correspondence, reports, clippings, and other materials. 1962-1967. [9 folders]
Box
2 Correspondence, reports, clippings, and other materials. 1967-1970. [4 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

Brief, Neil, 1934-

Institutions

Temple Beth Torah (Ventura, Calif.)
United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Ventura County Jewish Council (Ventura, Calif.)

Subjects

Military chaplains

Places

Ventura (Calif.)

Occupations

Rabbis