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Descriptive Summary
Historical Note
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Restrictions
Index Terms
Administrative Information
Description of Series
History
Legal Documents
Officers
Correspondence
Committees
Meeting Groups
Printed Material
Projects
Programs
Conferences
Scrapbooks and news clippings
Photographic, Sound and Audiovisual Materials
Ephemera
Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization Printed Materials
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Guide to The San Antonio Chapter of Hadassah Records, 1921-2011
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San Antonio Chapter of Hadassah |
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The San Antonio Chapter of Hadassah Records |
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1921-2010 |
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Creator Abstract: |
The San Antonio Chapter of Hadassah is a non-profit Zionist organization supporting the improvement of health services in the Jewish homeland of Israel. The San Antonio organization also seeks to educate Americans on Jewish traditions and culture. |
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Content Abstract: |
The collection contains histories, minutes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, printed material, yearbooks, newsletters, scrapbooks, photographs, and sound recordings. Together, the records document the local chapter's organizational history. |
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Identification: |
MS 4 |
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10.75 linear feet (15 Boxes) |
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Materials are in English. |
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University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections |
The San Antonio Chapter of Hadassah is a non-profit Zionist organization supporting the improvement of health services in the Jewish homeland of Israel. The San Antonio organization also seeks to educate Americans on Jewish traditions and culture. Henrietta Szold (1860-1945), founder of the national organization of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, was the guest of honor at a preliminary meeting to organize the San Antonio Chapter in 1920. Szold, a Jewish American dedicated to the Zionist movement, forged a strong identity for American Jewish women as the providers of health care and social services in Israel. The San Antonio Chapter of Hadassah was formally organized April 9, 1921, with a charter membership of 20 women and Mrs. Max Goot (Leah) elected as the first President. Mrs. Goot remained President for the next 10 years.
A primary function of the San Antonio Chapter is raising money to support the Hadassah Medical Organization and Medical Center in Jerusalem. During the first fund-raiser in 1921, women went door to door around San Antonio and stood on street corners with tin cans to collect change. The women also held 'linen showers' to collect sheets and towels for the hospital. Later, the San Antonio organization started the annual Donor Dinner, which quickly became a popular event in the community and was the largest fund-raiser of the San Antonio Chapter. Fund-raisers in later decades included special beauty clinics and fashion shows in San Antonio. During World War II, the San Antonio Chapter of Hadassah rolled bandages, saved tin cans, and helped the Jewish Welfare Board with their projects for Jewish soldiers. Rose Treiman became a prominent member for her work during that time.
The San Antonio Chapter also raised money locally for Youth Aliyah, a program originally for the rescue of Jewish children in Germany during the World War II era. Youth Aliyah evolved into sponsoring disadvantaged youth in Israel by raising funds to provide these youth with food, clothes, and education. One fund-raiser involved selling napkins for a dollar, on which the buyers' names were embroidered. All the napkins were sewn together into a tablecloth that was used at meetings and events of the organization for many years. The Silver Tea is an annual fund-raiser of Youth Aliyah.
The San Antonio Chapter of Hadassah is committed to a dynamic program of Jewish education and guidance of Jewish American youth. Junior Hadassah was started for the younger generation of women in Hadassah, and a business and professionals group was organized for working women. The San Antonio Chapter also sponsors the Young Judaea Camp in Wimberly, Texas, for children from eight years old to high school age. Oneg Shabbat, a monthly meeting of study and discussion to celebrate the holidays and review Jewish culture and literature, is another educational effort of the San Antonio Chapter.
The San Antonio Chapter of Hadassah is composed of three meeting groups: Aviva, Leah Goot, and Rose Treiman, totaling 685 members as of 1987. The San Antonio Chapter publishes an annual yearbook and regularly issues a newsletter of the latest news and events in Israel and America.
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The collection contains histories, minutes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, printed material, scrapbooks, photographs, and sound recordings. Together, the records document the local chapter's organizational beginnings and structure, membership, functions, projects, programs, growth, presence in the community, and relations with the state and national organizations. The collection is particularly strong in documenting membership and the Donor Dinners that raised money to support the Hadassah Medical Organization and the Medical Center in Kerem, Jerusalem.
Of the collection's 14 series, the strongest document the organization's History, Meeting Groups, Printed Material, Projects, Programs, andScrapbooks. The first series, History, documents the beginning of the national and Texas organizations, and the San Antonio Chapter of Hadassah. Also well documented in this series is information on the national organization's founder, Henrietta Szold.
The organization's membership and functions are conveyed through several series. Meeting Groups contains minutes providing helpful insight into the group's activities and planning during 1977-1991. This series also covers a few events of the Eleanor Roosevelt Group in the 1960s. The Committees and Printed Material series offer a wealth of information tracing the Chapter's membership. Donor Dinners, the organization's main fund-raising event, is prominently documented in Projects and Scrapbooks. Also found in Projects are records on the Silver Tea sponsored by Youth Aliyah. Lacking is information on projects related to the war effort during World War II. The bulk of Programsoffers an idea of the type of presentations and their content that Hadassah organized for its members at various public meetings.
Scrapbooks is a colorful source spanning several decades and topics. Donor Dinners, and information on activities and events of the Leah Goot and Rose Treiman meeting groups are highlighted in these scrapbooks. Also included are News and Viewsnewsletters, and some conference materials.
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The papers are arranged as follows: |
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History |
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Officers |
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Correspondence |
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Committees |
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Meeting Groups |
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Printed Material |
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Projects |
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Programs |
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Conferences |
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Scrapbooks |
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Photographic Materials and Sound Recordings |
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Ephemera |
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Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization |
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Access restrictions
Original audiovisual materials cannot be handled directly by patrons. Please contact Special Collections to request access to these materials, which may require the creation of digital copies.
This collection is housed at UTSA's Main Campus and must be accessed via the John Peace Library Special Collections reading room. To request access, please use the Collections Request Form.
Use Restrictions
The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
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Persons |
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Szold, Henrietta. |
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Treiman, Rose. |
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Goot, Leah. |
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Organizations |
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Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, San Antonio Chapter |
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Jewish Agency for Israel. Youth Aliyah Dept. |
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Zionism--Texas. |
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Women--Texas--San Antonio--Societies and clubs--History. |
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Jewish nationalism. |
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Jewish women--Texas. |
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Photographs. |
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Sound recordings. |
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Correspondence. |
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Scrapbooks. |
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Local Subjects |
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Jewish Organizations |
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Women's Groups |
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[Identification of item],The San Antonio Chapter of Hadassah Records, MS 4, University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.
Received as a gift to University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections in 1993, 1999, and 2011 (Accessions 1993-003, 1999-015, 2011-008).
Processed by Jill Jackson and Toni Jeske, January 1999. Additions processed and encoded by Nikki Lynn Thomas, Manuscripts Curator, April 2011.
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History |
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Consists of essays and a scrapbook documenting the founder of the national organization, as well as the beginnings of the Texas and San Antonio Chapters. |
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San Antonio Chapter |
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Essays, undated [1970?] |
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Rose Treiman's notebooks and scrapbook, 1967 |
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Hadassah in Texas, 1970s |
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Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization, Henrietta Szold, 1934-1936, 1964 and undated |
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General Zionist movement, undated |
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Organizational recognition plaque, 1920 |
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Contains by-laws of the San Antonio Chapter. A few model constitutions are also included, however, the organization's own constitution is not present. |
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By-Laws and Model Constitutions, 1977 and undated |
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This series is weak in its coverage in terms of date span and the number of officers documented. The series lacks explanation of officer roles and responsibilities. Included is brief and fragmentary correspondence, reports, and speeches of two past presidents of the organization, dating 1936-1969. |
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Presidents |
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Bella Glasberg |
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Correspondence, 1936-1967 and undated |
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Reports, 1938 |
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Speeches, undated |
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Etta Barenblat |
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Correspondence, 1969 |
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Treasurer |
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Ledger, 1966-1981 |
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Ledger, 1966-1982 |
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Press, Radio and TV Chairman |
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Printed material, 1964-1982 |
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Press releases, 1971-1982 |
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Correspondence |
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Correspondence is extremely fragmentary in its span of 19 years. Correspondents include Leah Goot and other officers of the organization concerning arrangements for events such as the Donor Dinner. |
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Correspondence, 1965-1984 and undated |
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This is a short series documenting a 12 year span of committee membership. |
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Membership, 1972-1984 |
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Meeting Groups |
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These records contain a full run of executive and general meeting minutes for the years indicated of one of the meeting groups within the Chapter. No minutes exist in the collection for years prior to 1977 nor of any other meeting groups. |
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Leah Goot Group |
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Executive Board Meeting Minutes |
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1977-1982 |
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1982-1988 |
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1988-1991 |
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General Meeting Minutes |
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Eleanor Roosevelt Group |
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Bulletin, 1965-1969 |
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Events 1960s |
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Formation of group |
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Yearbooks date from 1928-1993, and provide a list of officers and members, a brief history of the organization, and short messages from the national and chapter presidents. Also included are bulletins. |
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Yearbooks |
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Bound in two volumes, 1928-1946, 1946-1962 |
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1951-1952, 1954-1955 |
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1957-1958, 1958-1959 |
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1959-1960, 1960-1961 |
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1967-1968, 1968-1969 |
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1986-1987, 1987-1988 |
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1990-1991, 1991-1992 |
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1992-1993 |
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2002 |
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Includes Donor Dinner programs, publicity, and invitations. Also included are newspaper clippings on Youth Aliyah's projects which encompasses the annual Silver Tea fund-raiser. Donor Dinner scrapbooks can be found in the Scrapbooks series. |
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Donor Dinners |
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General Information |
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1940, 1947, 1949 |
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1991-1993, 1996 |
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Publicity, 1969-1984 |
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Newspaper clippings, 1954-1985 |
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Invitations, 1959-1994 and undated |
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Youth Aliyah |
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Silver Tea 1956-1972 |
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Newspaper clippings, 1967-1980 |
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Contains program publicity materials, and scripts of presentations. Programs include dramas and Hanukkah events. |
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Hanukkah |
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Publicity |
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Notebook of newspaper clippings, 1939-1940 |
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Notebook of newspaper clippings, 1941-1954 |
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Printed material, 1963-1993 |
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Bible Study scripts, 1937 |
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Presentation texts, 1968-1994 and undated |
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Dramatic Presentations |
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"The Case of the New Member," undated |
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This series is fragmentary in its coverage of five Texas Southern Region of Hadassah conferences and one Greater Texas Region conference. Materials mainly consist of handouts and flyers received at the conferences. The series documents participation of the San Antonio Chapter and the content of the conferences. Additional conference materials are located in Scrapbooks series. |
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Texas Southern Region of Hadassah |
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Zionist Regional, 1940, 1943 |
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Scrapbooks and news clippings |
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Scrapbooks containing invitations, programs, publicity, newsclippings, and photographs documenting the organization's events and highlights of the year. Activities include installation of new officers, conferences, and Donor Dinners. Several scrapbooks focus on Donor Dinners, and the Leah Goot and Rose Treiman meeting groups. |
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Texas Southern Region of Hadassah 12th Annual Conference, 1962 |
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1962-1966 |
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1987-1989 |
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1988-1989 |
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1990-1991 |
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1994-1995 |
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National Convention, 1995-1996 |
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2001-2002 |
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Colors of Hadassah, 2005 |
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Hadassah for all Seasons, 2005-2006 |
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Donor Dinner |
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1979 |
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1983 |
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Leah Goot Group |
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1977-1980 |
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1989-1990 |
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1990-1991 |
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1993-1994 |
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1996 |
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September 2005-April 2006 |
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Rose Treiman Group |
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1992-1993 |
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2003-2005 |
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2009-2010 |
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2010-2011 |
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Events, 1938, 1956-1986 and undated |
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Individuals, 1964-1984 and undated |
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Stationery |
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Memorial Cards and Gift Acknowledgments |
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Certificates |
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General publicity,1939-1940 |
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General publicity,1941-1954 |
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Clippings from San Antonio newspapers [from the San Antonio Public Library], 1888, 1918-1945, 1987-1999 |
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Contains negatives of photos from the Donor Dinner in 1966, photographs of ceremonies at the Medical Center at Mt. Scopus Jerusalem, and a ceremony honoring Itamar Ben Ami. Additional photographs document local Hadassah events. Also included are two audio tapes labelled 'Hadassah President to President' and 'Russia-Zinna, Hilla, & Fiena', and three videotapes of National Hadassah Updates. |
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Prints and negatives, 1966 and undated |
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Camp Young Judaea photographs, undated |
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55th Annual Donor Dinner and Myrtle Awards, January 27, 2002 |
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Photograph likely documenting the opening night banquet of the 1925 Hadassah convention in San Antonio, undated |
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Enlarged photographic reproductions of 2 unidentified women, undated |
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Audio Tapes |
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"Hadassah President to President" |
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"Russia-Zinna, Hilla, & Fiena" |
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Video Tapes of National Hadassah Updates |
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This scattered series contains Israeli stamps, and memorabilia from regional and national conferences. |
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Israeli stamps |
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New Member Total Membership Wood ornaments |
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Conference Award Buttons and Ribbons, 1986-1987 |
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Fundraising Award Hanging, 1969-1970 |
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Handbag from 53rd Annual National Convention, 1967 |
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Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization Printed Materials |
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The records provide information on the national organization and are limited to print materials and a bulletin. Included is Hadassah Magazine, 60th Anniversary Issue that highlights the history and significant accomplishments of the organization. |
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Hadassah Magazine, 60th Anniversary Issue, 1972 |
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Bulletin, Hadassah Headlines, 1980-1981 |
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