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Manuscript Collections by City

NORTHERN NEW JERSEY

Communal Organizations

Israel Advocacy Organizations

  • Hadassah Northern New Jersey Records (NJ)

Social Organizations

  • B’nai B’rith Women Heritage Council Records (North Jersey)
  • B’nai B’rith Youth Organization Records (Greater Jersey Region)

BERGENFIELD, NJ

Synagogues

  • Bergenfield-Dumont Jewish Center Records (Bergenfield, NJ)
    • See: Congregation Beth Israel of Northern Valley (Bergenfield, NJ)
  • Congregation Beth Israel of Northern Valley Records (Bergenfield, NJ)

CLIFTON, NJ

Benevolent Societies

  • Daughters of Miriam Center for the Aged Records (Clifton, NJ)

Personal Papers

  • Covitz & Kot Family Papers (Clifton, NJ; Paterson, NJ)

Synagogues

  • Beth Sholom Records (Clifton, NJ)
  • Clifton Jewish Center Records (Clifton, NJ)

EMERSON, NJ

Synagogues

  • Congregation B’nai Israel Records (Emerson, NJ)

FAIR LAWN, NJ

Communal Organizations

  • Jewish Community Council of Fair Lawn Records (Fair Lawn, NJ)

Israel Advocacy Organizations

  • American Jewish Congress Records (Fair Lawn, NJ)
  • Hadassah Fair Lawn Records (Fair Lawn, NJ)

Personal Papers

  • Marge Bornstein Papers (Fair Lawn, NJ)
  • Goldman Family Photographs (Fair Lawn, NJ)
  • Hy Levine Collection (Fair Lawn, NJ)

Social Organizations

  • B’nai B’rith Women Records (Fair Lawn, NJ)

Synagogues

  • Congregation Ahavat Achim Records (Fair Lawn, NJ)
  • Congregation Shomrei Torah Records (Fair Lawn, NJ)
  • Fair Lawn Jewish Center Records (Fair Lawn, NJ)

Veterans

  • Jewish War Veterans. Lt. James I. Platt Post No. 651 Records (Fair Lawn, NJ)

HACKENSACK, NJ

Social Organizations

  • Bergen County YMHA Records (Hackensack, NJ)

Synagogues

  • Temple Beth El (Hackensack, NJ) Records (Hackensack, NJ)

HALEDON, NJ

Social Organizations

  • Camp Veritans Records (Haledon, NJ)

LEONIA, NJ

Synagogues

  • Congregation Sons of Israel Archive (Leonia, NJ)

MAYWOOD, NJ

Synagogues

  • Temple Beth Israel Records (Maywood, NJ)

NEW MILFORD, NJ

Social Organizations

  • B’nai B’rith Women Records (New Milford, NJ)

OAKLAND, NJ

Educational Institutions

  • Gerrard Berman Day School Records (Oakland, NJ)

PARAMUS, NJ

Communal Organizations

  • Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Records (Paramus, NJ)

Educational Institutions

PASSAIC, NJ

Benevolent Societies

  • Passaic Hebrew Independent Benevolent Association Records (Passaic, NJ)

Communal Organizations

  • Hebrew Lebovitz Friendship Association Records (Passaic, NJ)
  • Jewish Family Service of Clifton/Passaic Records (Passaic, NJ)

Personal Papers

Social Organizations

  • Clifton/Passaic Y Records (Clifton, NJ; Passaic, NJ)
  • Jewish Masonic Lodge Photographs (Passaic, NJ)
  • Knights of Pythias Records (Passaic, NJ)

Synagogues

  • Congregation Adas Israel Records (Passaic, NJ)
  • Congregation Ahavas Israel Records (Passaic, NJ)
  • Congregation Bikur Cholim of Passaic-Clifton Records (Passaic, NJ)
  • Congregation B’nai Israel Records (Passaic, NJ)
    • See:  Steven Weintraub Collection Regarding Passaic Jewish Community
  • Congregation B’nai Jacob Archive (Passaic, NJ)
    • See:  Steven Weintraub Collection Regarding Passaic Jewish Community
  • Temple Emanuel Archive (Passaic, NJ)
  • Young Israel of Passaic-Clifton Records (Passaic, NJ)

Veterans

  • Jewish War Veterans. Preiskel-Miller Post No. 47 Records (Passaic, NJ)

PATERSON, NJ

Benevolent Societies

  • Americus Burial Fund Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • Farband Labor Zionist Order No. 65 Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) Ladies League Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • Independent Lodzer Young Men Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • Independent United Jersey Verein of Paterson Archive (Paterson, NJ)
  • Jacob Dineson Lodge Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • Labor Zionist Alliance Branch 135 Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • Paterson Hebrew Free Loan Association Archive (Paterson, NJ)
  • Silk City Benevolent Association Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • Veritans Club Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • Workmen’s Circle Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • Yanover Lodge Records (Paterson, NJ)

Businesses

  • Nathan & Miriam Barnert Memorial Hospital Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • David Doktor Medical Instruments (Paterson, NJ)
  • Joelson Family Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Klein Ribbon Corporation Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • Sandor A. Levinsohn Testimonial Dinner Photograph Album (Paterson, NJ)
  • Harvey Schoenfeld Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Alex Solinsky Photographs (Paterson, NJ)
  • Steven L. Weisman Papers (Paterson, NJ)

Communal Organizations

  • Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • United Jewish Appeal Northern New Jersey Records (Paterson, NJ; Paramus, NJ)

Educational Institutions

  • Eastside High School Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • Miriam Barnert Memorial Hebrew Free School Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • Paterson Workmen’s Circle School Records (Paterson, NJ)

Israel Advocacy Organizations

  • Hadassah Paterson Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • Israel Bonds Records (Paterson, NJ)

Personal Papers

  • Regina Brendzel Collection (Paterson, NJ)
  • Edith Brown Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Marcia Laveton Chapman Collection (Paterson, NJ)
  • Ida Geisler Cohen Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Joel Cohen Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Louis Cohen Photographs (Paterson, NJ)
  • Marian Cohen Collection (Paterson, NJ)
  • Metz Cohn Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Lee Dresner Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • William Dressler Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Herbert Falk Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Sylvia Fay Haft Firschein Memorial Oral History Collection (Paterson, NJ)
  • Abraham Friedman Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Friedman Family Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Allen Ginsberg Collection (Paterson, NJ)
  • Harold Glazer Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Lewis M. Glazer Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Florence Gold Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Abe J. Greene Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Jules Gutin Collection (Paterson, NJ)
  • Ruth Hirshberg Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Benjamin Horwich Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Reeva Isaacs Collection (Paterson, NJ)
  • Joelson Family Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Max Karafky Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Natalie & Marvin Klein Collection (Paterson, NJ)
  • Robert Kramer Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Sylvia Krugman Collection (Paterson, NJ)
  • Evelyn Lawrence Collection (Paterson, NJ)
  • Florence Lazarov Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Miriam Migdal Lubinsky Collection (Paterson, NJ)
  • Harry Nadell Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • North Jersey Community Histories (Paterson, NJ)
  • William Offenberg Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Muriel Penn Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Hinda Robinson Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Max Rosen Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Max Rosen Photographs (Paterson, NJ)
  • Judge Irving I. Rubin Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Morris Saffron Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Maxine Yucht Schein Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Claire Schlomowitz Slides (Paterson, NJ)
  • Harvey Schoenfeld Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Melvin Meyer Scult Papers (Paterson,  NJ)
  • Mary Scheidwasser Shain Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Norma & Sigmar Silber Collection (Paterson, NJ)
  • Regina A. Simons Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Alex Solinsky Photographs (Paterson, NJ)
  • Fritzie and Sol Stein Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Stein Family Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Abram Stern Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Jack Stern Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Joseph Walkowitz Papers (Paterson, NJ)
  • Michael Wollner Family Photographs (Paterson, NJ)
  • Harry Zax Papers (Paterson, NJ)

Social Organizations

  • Aleph Zadik Aleph Junior Order of B’nai B’rith Scrapbook (Paterson, NJ)
  • Alphi Phi Pi Fraternity. Beta Chapter Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • Athletic Photographs (Paterson, NJ)
  • B’nai B’rith Men. Lodge No. 143 Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • B’nai B’rith Women Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • Brandeis National Committee. Paterson Chapter Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • Delta Psi Sorority Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • National Council of Jewish Women Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • Panther Club Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • Paterson Jewish Folk Chorus Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • United Synagogue Youth (USY) Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • YM and YWHA of North Jersey Records (Paterson, NJ; Wayne, NJ)

Synagogues

  • Ahawat Shulme Dpoland Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • Barnert Temple Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • Congregation Ahawath Joseph Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • Congregation Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol Cemetery Account Book (Paterson, NJ)
  • Congregation B’nai Jeshurun Account Book (Paterson, NJ)
  • Hebrew Leibawitz Association Records (Paterson, NJ)
  • Temple Emanuel Archive (Paterson, NJ)
  • United Brotherhood Linath Hazedek Congregation Records (Paterson, NJ)

Veterans

POMPTON LAKES, NJ

Synagogues

RIVER EDGE, NJ

Educational Institutions

  • Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey Records (River Edge, NJ)

TEANECK, NJ

Personal Papers

  • Amy Dodd Collection (Teaneck, NJ)

Synagogues

  • Congregation Beth Am Archive (Teaneck, NJ)
  • Temple Emeth Records (Teaneck, NJ)

TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON, NJ

Social Organizations

  • Bergen County YJCC Records (Township of Washington, NJ)

WAYNE, NJ

Businesses

  • Jerry Atkins Papers (Wayne, NJ)

Communal Organizations

  • Jewish Family Service of North Jersey Records (Wayne, NJ)

Personal Papers

  • Jerry Atkins Papers (Wayne, NJ)

Social Organizations

  • B’nai B’rith Women. Albert Einstein Chapter No. 1114 Records (Wayne, NJ)
  • Boy Scouts of America Troop 7 Records (Paterson, NJ; Wayne, NJ)
  • William Paterson College Jewish Student Association Records (Wayne, NJ)

Synagogues