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  1. Jewish Community in Morocco

    From the opening titles of the film: "This film was made on the eve of the dissolution of one of the oldest Jewish communities in the Diaspora - the Jewish community of Morocco. Within a short time, ancient and established communities were rooted out: inhabitants of the mellah in the large cities, the kasbahs in the desert of the south, and the remote villages of the Atlast mountains. Via the camera we have attempted to perpetuate a way of life, the customs and mores of a splendid community seen in their Moroccan context, before the community moved on to its new-ancient homeland." From NCJF...

  2. Jewish Community in Tarnopol Gmina Wyznaniowa Żydowska w Tarnopolu (Sygn. 110)

    Documents concerning charity foundations of: Abe Eberman, Feiga Chaja Königsberg, Dawid Francoz, Abraham Kittner, Milka Karpf, Majer Weissglas, Jakub Czosnowski, Jakub Eberman, Salomon Eberman, Sina Fröhlich, Ester Brüner, Mojżesz Parnas, S. Marmorka, Mojżesz Katz, Złata Raisa Dudak, Horowitz, Kurfürst, Markus Eliasz Günsberg, M. Weissglas, Rudolf Gall, Melchior Axlerad, Saul Parnass, Rywka Peller, Józef Perl, Jakub Schmierer, Ozjasz Kaminker, Łukaczer, Jekl Luftig, Hersz Lille, Pasia Ruchla Safier, Mariem Kammerling-Hirschorn, Samuel Schulbaum, Izydor Weissglas.

  3. Jewish community in Włocławek and its region Gmina Żydowska we Włocławku oraz akta gmin żydowskich Aleksandrów, Brześć Kujawski, Chodecz, Izbica, Kowal, Lubień, Lubraniec, Przedecz

    Various documents of the Jewish community in Włocławek and its region: minutes of the Board meetings, lists of incomes and expenses, budgets, correspondence, inspection of the community in Włocławek, lists of community members, materials related to the election of the community leaders, applications of candidates for rabbis. Lists of payers to the community funds, birth, marriage and death certificates, register books, posters, announcements, etc.

  4. Jewish community in Wrocław Synagogen Gemeinde zu Breslau Gmina Żydowska we Wrocławiu (Sygn.105)

    Contains records of the Jewish Community in Wrocław from 1796-1944 (Gmina Żydowska we Wrocławiu). Includes Board minutes,1922-1939; Board correspondence with offices,1796-1939, communities and Jewish associations as well as private individuals, including correspondence concerning the protection of refugees from Russia, Romania, Galicia, the Grand Duchy of Poland, 1867-1874, 1892-1907, 1914-1930; documentation on preparations to the Third Convention of the Association of German Jews in 1909, the District Association of Jewish Communities in Prussia in Breslau,1926-1933; correspondence with t...

  5. Jewish community in Żychlin Gmina żydowska w Żychlinie (Sygn. 111)

    Records of the Jewish community in Żychlin: lists of advance payments, lists of remittances paid for medical treatments, payment of shares to a communal fund, books of share payers and a list of community members.

  6. Jewish Community of Antwerp Shomre Hadas religious marriage records. Collection

    This collection contains: the register of the Jewish Community of Antwerp Shomre Hadas containing the religious marriage certificates drafted between 1 January 1937 and 27 February 1938 ; a second register containing the certificates drawn up between 6 March 1938 and 27 June 1939 ; a third register containing the certificates drawn up between 29 June 1939 and 14 June 1942 ; a folder containing unbound religious marriage certificates drawn up by the Jewish Community of Antwerp Shomre Hadas between 5 November 1944 and 14 October 1947. Each certificate contains the following information: the d...

  7. Jewish Community of Baia Mare collection

    Mixed collection of a ledger book and religious articles including an oil lamp, candlesticks, spice box and auction price box Hannuka, oil lamp, from Baia Mare synagogue, stayed in synagogue during Holocaust. Auction price box used in Baia Mare synagogue, stayed in synagogue during Holocaust, used when fundraising for people called to the Torah and during the High Holy Days. Spice box, in two pieces, made of copper-alloy. Two candlesticks (one pair) from Baia Mare synagogue, stayed in synagogue during the Holocaust. Ledger that lists Jewish properties from 1888 to 1943; Baia Mare, Romania.

  8. The Jewish Community of Cluj collection

    The collection consists of a prayer book stand from the Neologist Synagogue of Horea Street, and a wooden cabinet from the Chancellery of the former local Jewish High School.

  10. The Jewish Community of Gothenburg

    The archive of the Jewish Community of Gothenburg contains the records of the community from the period of the first Jewish immigrants in the late 18th Century until the archive was deposited with the Regional Archives in Gothenburg in 1980. In the archive, there are many records relating to the Holocaust. These include documents about the aid activities for Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors that the community and other Jewish organizations in Gothenburg carried out during and after the time of Nazi persecution and the Holocaust. The community's relief committee (see the series: Judis...

  11. Jewish community of Kastoria in 1937

    Title card: “Horpistah, Village Near Kastoria.”Color. People walk in the streets of Horpistah. Men pose for the camera. Outdoor merchants sell their wares. Goats, horses, donkeys, and other livestock. People tend to the livestock. Benjamin Honen, the town crier. Many people walk around at an outdoor market. A cobbler fixes shoes. Black and white. Fabric merchants pose for the camera. More market scenes. Josef Confino with tie. Title card: “The Archbishop of Kastoria.” The Archbishop of Kastoria, surrounded by a small group, walks by. Title card: “Picnic in Do-Pia-Koos.” A large group of peo...

  12. Jewish community of Kastoria, Greece; Sephardic school for children

    EXT pan of a building. Children stand outside. Pan, shopfronts with signs in Greek, crumbling stone wall on Metropole Street. A man with hat walks along the street. Houses over a lake, pan coastline. Residences, laundry hanging from balcony. A woman walks in the street. Another woman steps outside her house. A man walks towards her and they shake hands. Cobblestone streets in Kastoria with local people walking around, including Nona, Sol, and Victor Hazan. A woman does the washing in a body of water. A group of men in hats and long jackets walk towards the camera. Pan, building with balconi...

  13. The Jewish community of Manila

    Articles regarding the establishment and history of the Jewish community and its synagogue in Manila, dated 1946 and 1947.

  14. Jewish Community of Romania Comunitati Evreiesti din Romana

    Records of the Jewish communities from Focșani, Bucharest, Giurgiu, Botoșani, Ploiești, Bîrlad, etc. and some Zionist organizations. Records reflect the situation of Jews from Bessarabia and Bucovina, discriminatory policies implemented by the government of Romania such as closing businesses, expropriation of properties, internment in camps, the situation of Jews in the Golta region, emigration of Jews from Romania, repatriation of Jews interned in camps in Transnistria, Germany, and Poland, and aid activities to Jews by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, or other Jewish o...

  15. Jewish Community of Sarajevo collection

    The collection consists of five postwar grave markers from the Jewish Cemetery at the former Djakovo labor camp in Dakovo, Croatia.

  16. Jewish Community of Stockholm

    • Judiska (Mosaiska) församlingen i Stockholm (JFST)
    • Riksarkivet Täby
    • Judiska församlingen i Stockholm
    • English
    • 315 linear meters. Textual material such as protocols and minutes, financial and statistical records, correspondences, and reports and memos, and periodicals and ephemera. There are also a smaller amount of photographs and drawings.

    Archivists at the National Archives have archival holdings have organized and cataloged the holdings into over 80 sub-archives. The overarching structure is as follows: 1 Central archive 2 Church records 3 Community bodies 4 Funds and foundations 5 Organizations and associations 6 Business organizations 7 Rabbis and other staff 8 Personal archives 9 Music sheets 10 Image and photo collections The Central archive includes the administrational records and documents related to the community's core activities. Until 1910, the community had the official duty to keep population records for its me...

  17. Jewish Community of Targu Mures collection

    The collection consists of two yads used by the Orthodox Jewish community of Targu Mures, Romania for over 100 years.

  18. Jewish Community of Targu Neamt collection

    The collection contains documents related to the deportation of Jews from Târgu Neamt, Romania to Transnistria. Included are 10 identity cards issued to Jews exempting them from forced labor for limited time, 1943; a list of names of Jews from Târgu Neamt deemed fit or unfit for forced labor, 1944; an announcement concerning war widows and orphans on how to get restitution for the death of family members; and a document listing orphaned Jewish children removed from Transnistria and taken to Palestine, 1944.

  19. Jewish Community of Thessaloniki collection

    The collection consists of two tombstone fragments from the Jewish cemetery in Thessaloniki, Greece, which was destroyed in December 1942 during the German occupation.

  20. The Jewish community of Velke Kapusany collection

    Contains a photocopy of a brief history of Martin Shlanger's hometown in Velke Kapusany, Slovakia.