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Collection
Identifier: ARC-MUS-12
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The Arnold Wecker Music Scores is made up of cantor, composer, and conductor Arnold Wecker’s original synagogue compositions; his arrangements of traditional synagogue melodies for cantor, (SATB) choir, and organ; and many handwritten copies of 19th and early 20th century published synagogue compositions. There are some patriotic and religous songs in the Romanian language; a collection of "Wedding music" for voices, violin, and ‘cello; and many sets of (SATB) chorus part books, some...
Dates:
1891-1934
Collection
Identifier: ARC-1000-072
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The Irving Weingart Sermon Notes consists of handwritten notes, in English and Hebrew, for sermons, ca.1965-1988, as well as newspaper clippings and other materials which served as background for the sermons.
Dates:
1965-1988
Collection
Identifier: ARC-114
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The Paul Weiss Papers consists of manuscripts of his works The Search for God, The God We Seek, and For the Love of God.
Dates:
Undated
Collection
Identifier: ARC-1000-073
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The Louis Winer Papers consists of correspondence, clippings, certificates and awards, photographs, and video tapes, ca. 1948-1992, documenting Louis Winer's work with Camp Ramah, Chicago-area Jewish organizations, Masorti Judaism (Conservative Judaism in Israel), and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Most of the material dates from after 1980 and, in general, the collection documents Winer's activities in a fragmentary manner.More than half of the collection is made up...
Dates:
circa 1948-1992
Collection
Identifier: ARC-1000-074
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The Morton Wishengrad Papers has been maintained as Wishengrad kept them himself. They contain mostly correspondence and also include drafts of scripts, contracts, clippings, and a few photographs. This material mostly documents Wishengrad's writing career, but some personal and family matters, and Wishengrad's anti-Communism are documented.These papers provide a window into the several intersecting worlds that Wishengrad inhabited. As a writer for "The Eternal Light,"...
Dates:
circa 1944-1962
Collection
Identifier: ARC-115
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The Bernard Witt Papers consists of correspondence concerning literary topics, especially the bibliography on Yehoash on which Witt was working, as well as photographs. The correspondents include Itzhak Rivkind, Shea Tenenbaum, Nahum B. Minkoff, and others.
Dates:
1919-1950
Collection
Identifier: ARC-1000-120
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The Max Wohlberg Papers consists primarily of Max Wohlberg’s extensive collection of cantorial music manuscripts. Also included are letters in Yiddish, English and Hebrew, 1930’s-1995; subject files containing Wohlberg’s notes and class lectures, n.d.; his published and unpublished writings, 1950-1984; Yiddish, English and Hebrew newspaper clippings and journal articles, 1920’s-1990’s; synagogue bulletins and concert programs, 1928-1993; and his hand copies of traditional and other cantors'...
Dates:
circa 1892-1995
Collection
Identifier: ARC-1000-111
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This collection consists of the correspondence of Gerald I. Wolpe from 1942-1968.
Dates:
1942-1968
Collection
Identifier: ARC-2022-07
Abstract
The Women’s League for Conservative Judaism Records document the governance, events, programming, and publications of Women’s League from its first meeting in 1918 through 2022. The collection spans the first century of the organization’s history, from its founding and early boom years in the 20th century to its realignment in the early 21st. It contains meeting minutes, event planning documents, publications, photographs, textiles, audio-visual media, and objects.
Dates:
1918 - 2022
Collection
Identifier: ARC-1000-113
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The Marjorie Wyler Papers consists of files accumulated by her at the Seminary's departments of Public Information and Radio and Television. The material is arranged in two series. The first consists of subject files containing correspondence, press releases, and other material documenting a wide range of events at the Seminary during the more than fifty years at JTS. While the dates of this material span Wyler's years at both departments, the emphasis here is on public relations; the...
Dates:
1938-1993
Collection
Identifier: ARC-MUS-18
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The Joseph Yasser Papers consists of subject files, 1895-1979, including photos, programs, correspondence (Russian and English), research notes, and typescripts of several articles and scholarly papers. The papers also comprise Yasser’s teaching materials, 1951-circa 1960, and a few of his manuscript musical compositions and sketches, circa 1920-1928. Also included in the collection are Yasser’s two books:A Theory of Evolving Tonality (New York,...
Dates:
1895-1979
Collection
Identifier: ARC-116
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The Yehoash Papers consists of correspondence (1892-1926); manuscripts of poems, articles, and stories; proofs of the 1926 edition of Yehoash's Yiddish translation of the Bible; diaries (1914-1918); and clippings of articles by and about Yehoash (circa 1907-1959). Also included in the collection are correspondence, subscriber lists, brochures, artifacts, other records of the Yehoash Bible Committee (1936-1950); and papers of son-in-law Ben Dworkin (1931-1964) particularly concerning the...
Dates:
1892-1964
Collection
Identifier: ARC-1000-112
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The Richard Yellin Papers consists primarily of articles, correspondence, ephemera, papers, and sermons. Yellin's collection is a testament to his commitment to the Jewish Conservative movement of America. The majority of the collection relates to Yellin's professional career as a military chaplain and a pulpit rabbi. These materials document his long-standing faithful commitment and devotion to his parishioners, whether military personnel or lay people.
Dates:
circa 1958-1995
Collection
Identifier: ARC-1000-114
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The Michael M. Zagayski Papers came to the Seminary along with books purchased by the Seminary library at auction. The collection consists of correspondence documenting Zagayski's wartime involvement in Polish government affairs, Zionist affairs, and matters having to do with Polish Jewry; the proposed Holocaust memorial, 1960s; Zagayski's dealings with artists (notably Ossip Zadkine, from whom he made purchases, and Nathan Rapoport), and art galleries and museum directors. The bulk of the...
Dates:
1934-1977
Collection
Identifier: ARC-2007-19
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The Moses (Moshe) Zucker Collection is unprocessed.
Dates:
1904-1987
Collection
Identifier: ARC-2019-03
Abstract
The Rabbi Joseph S. Zuckerbram Papers consist of poetry and other writings, as well as records related to the Fairmont Jewish Center in Fairmont, West Virginia.
Dates:
1909-1956
Collection
Identifier: ARC-117
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The Zukunft Records consists of correspondence, mostly regarding subscription, with readers on the East Coast of the United States, Canada, South America, Western and Central Europe, printed advertisements, newspaper clippings, and statistics.
Dates:
1930-1936