TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Arrangement Note

Restrictions

Administrative Information

Search Terms

Box Folder Listing

Series A. General. 1993-1995.

An Inventory to the Kerry M. Olitzky Research Materials. 1993-1995.

Manuscript Collection No. 817

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

Biographical Sketch

Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky is the author of several publications on Jewish life and education, including Jewish Holidays: a Brief Introduction for Christians, The How-To Handbook for Jewish Living, and The Book of Proverbs. Ordained by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1981, Olitzky served Congregation Beth Israel in West Hartford, Connecticut. He was the Dean of Adult Jewish Learning and Living and taught at HUC-JIR for fifteen years.

Scope and Content Note

Research materials including correspondence, circulars, and excerpts on the history of synagogues in America, arranged alphabetically by state.

Arrangement Note

This collection is arranged in one (1) series:

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

Kerry M. Olitzky, by the act of donating the Kerry M. Olitzky Research Materials to the American Jewish Archives, assigned all property rights to the American Jewish Archives. Literary rights are retained by Kerry M. Olitzky 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 Kerry M. Olitzky Research Materials and the American Jewish Archives. A suggestion for at least the first citation is as follows:

[Description], [Date], Box #, Folder #. MS-817. Kerry M. Olitzky Research Materials. American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Provenance

The Kerry M. Olitzky Research Materials were received from Kerry M. Olitzky, New York, N.Y. in April 1996.

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

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

Institutions

Subjects