Box 2

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Includes wedding invitations, newspaper articles, and an eyewitness account of the 1991 Crown Heights riot in Brooklyn, New York, written by Joszef Steinherz.

Collection Overview From the Collection: Newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, newsletters, memoirs, recordings, and other papers of Ruth Bass Jacobs. Included are biographical papers and documents regarding the Bass and Jacobs families, including Noach Bass, Nathan Bass, members of the Pearlstine family, and Ruth Jacobs's siblings, husband, and children. Materials also relate to Jacobs's involvement in Charleston's Jewish community, particularly Brith Sholom Beth Israel and the Addlestone Hebrew Academy. Also included...

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Mostly photographs of family members but also includes newspaper clippings and other ephemera.

Collection Overview From the Collection: Newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, newsletters, memoirs, recordings, and other papers of Ruth Bass Jacobs. Included are biographical papers and documents regarding the Bass and Jacobs families, including Noach Bass, Nathan Bass, members of the Pearlstine family, and Ruth Jacobs's siblings, husband, and children. Materials also relate to Jacobs's involvement in Charleston's Jewish community, particularly Brith Sholom Beth Israel and the Addlestone Hebrew Academy. Also included...

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Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating to Ruth Bass Jacobs and her siblings. Includes a transcript of an interview with Charles Bass and a list of the descendants of Esther and Nathan Bass. One letter is written in Hebrew.

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Largely consists of newspaper articles written by Tzvi Jacobs or regarding his publications.

Collection Overview From the Collection: Newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, newsletters, memoirs, recordings, and other papers of Ruth Bass Jacobs. Included are biographical papers and documents regarding the Bass and Jacobs families, including Noach Bass, Nathan Bass, members of the Pearlstine family, and Ruth Jacobs's siblings, husband, and children. Materials also relate to Jacobs's involvement in Charleston's Jewish community, particularly Brith Sholom Beth Israel and the Addlestone Hebrew Academy. Also included...

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Noach Bass (1874-1940s), Ruth Bass Jacobs's uncle, was an important figure in the early Zionist movement in Grodno, Belarus (formerly Poland and Lithuania).

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Publication of essays written in Noach Bass's memory.

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Translated by Rabbi David J. Radinsky, Charleston. For audio recordings of this translation, please refer to the audiovisual series.