The AJHS Manuscript Catalog
Kohler, Max James Papers |
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Type / Call # | Personal / P-007 | Contains scrapbooks, correspondence and reports relating to Kohler's extensive activities on behalf of liberal immigration and naturalization laws in the United States, his opposition to the registration of aliens, the problem of Chinese immigration to the United States, his opposition to the use of the term "Hebrew Race" in the classification of immigrants, the drafting of minority clauses at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, Jewish and Christian relations in the U.S. and the condition of Jews in Russia, Roumania, Poland and Nazi-Germany with the following institutions: the American Civil Liberties Union, 1926-1934, B'Nai Brith, 1930-1933, Board of Delegates on Civil Rights, the Committee on Ellis Island, the Foreign Language Information Service, the Hebrew Benevolent Society of Baltimore, the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society, the Jewish Immigrant's Information Bureau in Galveston, Texas, the Industrial Removal Office, the National Conference on Jews and Christians, the National Council on Naturalization and Citizenship, the Bureau of Immigration of the United States Department of Labor, the United States Department of Commerce and Labor, the Department of State and individual United States Congressmen. Contains also correspondence pertaining to the book G-d In Freedom by Luiggi Luzzatti which Kohler edited and for which he wrote a large supplementary chapter. In addition there is a large amount of personal correspondence arranged alphabetically pertaining primarily to Kohler's published works. Also contains an extensive collection of the correspondence of Baron and Baroness de Hirsch pertaining to their various philanthropic activities among which were the Jewish Colonization Association, the Baron de Hirsch Agricultural School on Woodbine, NJ, the Baron de Hirsch Fund, and other efforts to assist the Jews of Russia, as well as printed and published material and biographical data collected by Kohler. Includes also one scrapbook pertaining to Haym Salomon; Leon Huhner's material on American Jewish history with particular references to the Jews in the South and biographical data on col. David Salisbuty Franks; material on the financial activities of the Seligman family during the Civil War and the 1870's, Rober J. Walker, special agent of the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury to England during Civil War, and on August Belmont. The collection also contains Kohler's manuscript notes, and published material pertaining to the Dreyfus Affair, Jewish history in general and American history in particular. Also included is material by Winifred Kohler, Kohler's wife. The collection also contains a biography of Kaufman Kohler, as well as correspondence concerning the publication of the David Einhorn Memorial volume, and printed materials authored by him. Also contains the original typescript of a speech delivered before the National Geographic Society on January 19, 1917, entitled, "The Progressive World Struggle of the Jews for Civil Equality." Also included is correspondence between Taft and the American Jewish Historical Society. | Years | 1871-1934
| Size | 20 cartons & 4 scrapbooks |
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