St. Augustine First Congregation of the Sons of Israel Collection

This collection is divided into two series. The first series includes documents about the history of the Congregation and Jewish history in St. Augustine from the 19th century as well as Ms. Broudy's research on Jewish history in general and in St. Augustine and Florida in particular. The items enclosed in the first series in Box 1 vary: letters, newspaper clippings, photographs, the Congregation's newsletters, holiday greetings edited into booklets, several receipts recording the renovation made in the synagogue to add a social space, and handwritten notes, including family trees and several lists of congregants and their membership dues. A separate folder holds photographs and other items about the Bernstein and Pozin families and correspondence about the Weinstein bequeath. Another separate folder holds pictures of, documents about, and research on the synagogue building. The collection includes documents relating to the work of the sisterhood as well. In a separate folder pictures and program brochures of shows staged by congregation members can be found.

Box 2 contains two separate notebooks of meeting minutes from the 1990s and a separate register booklet records dues paid during the 1930s and 1940s. Furthermore, there are four CDs containing interviews with congregants

An experimental and incomplete printed album commemorating the Congregation's history and Jewish history in St. Augustine is housed separately, in box 3.

In the oversize folder a map of the cemetery's area, a map of the cemetery itself, and an architectural plan for the extension of the synagogue building are enclosed.

The second series includes documentation, newspaper clippings, and photographs related to the cemetery, the tomb stones, the histories of the congregants buried there. A separate folder holds records of the cemetery, including correspondence, maps, and photographs, and in yet another folder the records of the Cemetery Association can be found. In addition, on a DVD, housed in Box 2, there are pictures of some of the tomb stones and photographs taken during a guided visit to the cemetery.