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) [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
