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Jews.

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast

Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:

Reverend Benjamin Safer and Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0332
Abstract This collection documents the life of four generations of the Safer family of Jacksonville, Florida. It holds Reverend Benjamin Safer's Collection, including sermons, letters, notes, and family photographs. In addition, it includes official documents and photographs of the places where various family members lived and worked in Lithuania and Jacksonville, Florida. The family reunion scrapbook from 1978 and Edwin Safer's correspondence with the Miami Jewish Museum, which are also included in...
Dates: 1901-2017
Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida / Reverend Benjamin Safer and Family Collection

Richard M. Feist Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0326
Abstract This collection contains the papers of Richard M. Feist and some papers of Abraham Glück and Hermann Neudorf. These records include both personal and professional papers, and correspondence with members of the Jewish Brigade of the British Army, family members, members of Kibbutz Buckingham in England, various organizations in Europe and Palestine/Israel, and private persons searching for relatives or for other types of aid from 55 Search Bureau of the British Army of the Rhine following the...
Dates: 1945-1953
Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida / Richard M. Feist Papers

Robert Glover Holocaust Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0441
Abstract

The collection contains photographs of World War II and the Holocaust.

Dates: circa 1945
Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida / Robert Glover Holocaust Photographs

Robert Strassburg Collection on Ernest Bloch

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0517
Abstract

Research material gathered by the noted educator, composer, conductor and musicologist, Dr. Robert Strassburg (1915-2003), focusing on the career and life of composer Ernest Bloch (1880-1959).

Dates: 1880 - 2000
Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida / Robert Strassburg Collection on Ernest Bloch

Samuel Proctor Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS Coll. 135
Abstract

Samuel Proctor was an American historian, a pioneer in the field of oral history, and the founder and first director of the University of Florida's oral history program.

Dates: 1947-1995
Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida / Samuel Proctor Collection

Sanehiko Yamamoto Collection Regarding Albert Einstein

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0399
Abstract

This collection chronicles the 30 year relationship between Albert Einstein and Sanehiko Yamamoto (President of Japan's renowned publishing house Kaizosha) that was formed during Einstein's 1922 trip to Japan. Included are photographs, letters, and artwork given to Yamamoto by Einstein during his trip, as well as a 1949 letter and photographs documenting Yamamoto's continued friendship with Einstein after World War II.

Dates: 1922, 1949
Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida / Sanehiko Yamamoto Collection Regarding Albert Einstein

Sara Gaíl de Farber and Bess de Farber Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0416
Abstract

This collection holds materials created by Joseph Farber, father, and mother and daughter, Sara Gaíl de Farber and Bess Gaíl de Farber, respectively. The larger part of the collection includes materials that relate to Sara Gaíl's life and work in Argentina and the US. Separate folders hold materials relating to Bess de Farber's performance commemorating her mother's and father's emigration to the US from Poland, and Argentina, respectively, and her family and genealogical research.

Dates: 1918-2006; Majority of material found within 1950s-1970s
Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida / Sara Gaíl de Farber and Bess de Farber Papers

Schönwald Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0510
Abstract The collection includes letters, telegrams, and postcards sent to Henry Wald mostly between 1939 and 1941 by his parents and other relatives. While Henry Wald could escape Nazi Germany - he settled in Lincoln, Nebraska - his parents were waiting for a visa to leave Germany. They hoped to be reunited in the United States. The letters were transcribed and translated to English. An article detailing the history of the family under the Nazi regime by University of Florida professor emeritus of...
Dates: 1939 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1939 - 1941
Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida / Schönwald Family Correspondence

St. Augustine First Congregation of the Sons of Israel Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0374
Abstract

Materials from the First Congregation Sons of Israel in St. Augustine, which primarily includes research findings and documentation on the history of Jews in St. Augustine, the Congregation, the synagogue building, and its cemetery.

Dates: 1933-2015; Majority of material found within 1970-2010
Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida / St. Augustine First Congregation of the Sons of Israel Collection

Tau Epsilon Phi, Tau Alpha Chapter Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms Coll. 109
Abstract

Files pertaining to the fraternity's house and property, correspondence and minutes of official chapter meetings.

Dates: 1930-1995
Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida / Tau Epsilon Phi, Tau Alpha Chapter Records

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