New York Landsmanshaftn and Other Jewish Organizations

 

 

• YIVO's catalogued landsmanshaftn collection over 1380 organizations

  • Burial Society Plot Maps in YIVO's Landsmanshaftn Collection
    

  • Burial Ledgers in the Workmen's Circle Collection (RG 575)
    

• Works Progress Administration (WPA) Yiddish Writer's Group Study (1938) [English listing] 1487 organizations

• Works Progress Administration (WPA) Yiddish Writer's Group Study (1938) [Yiddish listing] 2145 organizations

• American Jewish Year Book 1900-1901 294 organizations

• American Jewish Year Book 1907-1908 1643 organizations

• American Jewish Year Book 1919-1920 2302 organizations

• Works Progress Adminstration (WPA) Federal Writers Project - Survey of State and Local Historical Records: Church Records Jewish - Synagogue (1939) [New York City only] 2092 organizations [note: this is a very large file (1.25 MB) that may take a few minutes to load]

• Jewish Calendar, Lodge and Society Directory (1905) compiled and edited by Alex Eli Jacobs 1301 organizations

• Lodges listed in The Jewish Communal Register of New York City (1917-18) [lodges only] 963 organizations

• Additional Lodges 293 organizations

• Landsmanshaftn and other town and country-related organizations incorporated in New York County (1848-1920) in the AJHS collection of New York County incorporations 3014 organizations

• Translations of common Hebrew and Yiddish words in landsmanshaftn and burial society names

 

Last Updated on 06/06/10 Prepared/Edited By Ada Green

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