Box JHC Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection Box 11

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Includes photographs of Robert Rovner and his store, Bob's Men's Shop, in Greenville, South Carolina, Philip Rovner's Bar Mitzvah, and photographs of unidentified individuals. Also includes an article announcing Philip S. Rovner's graduation from the Officer Candidate School at the Army Artillery and Missile Center at Fort Sill in Oklahoma.

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Includes three portraits of Harold Jacobs, one as a young man, and two as an older adult.

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Includes photographs featuring Abe Cohen, Isidore Cohen, Betty Mark Cohen, Cecile Cohen Waronker, Sherry Waronker Marsh, Yetta and Louis Mark, William Mark with his wife Fannie Zalin, Rose Mark Soneshine, Fannie Mark Widelitz, and Anne Mark Pinsky. Also includes Louis Mark with his grandchildren, and the descendants of Yetta and Louis Mark pictured in 1994.

Collection Overview From the Item: The collection consists of an invitation to a grand Purim masquerade ball at the Academy of Music on March 24, 1902. The ball was sponsored by the Hebrew Benevolent Society of Orangeburg, South Carolina, and printed on the invitation is a photograph of winners from the previous year's costume contest, among them Julia Peterkin, who, in 1929, won a Pulitzer Prize for literature. The invitation also contains a list of the ball's patronesses, arrangement committee, associate reception...

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Includes images of Ida Goldberg Breibart and four of her children, Solomon, Mildred ("Mickey"), Sidney, and Jack. Also includes images of Ida's parents, Sarah Rebecca Lifshitz and Jacob Goldberg, George Goldberg with his wife Ida Alpern Goldberg, family friends such as Leon Feldman, and members of the Hirsch and Brickman families.

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Program for an event awarding the Keser Shem Tov Award from Brith Sholom Beth Israel Congregation to Dr. Leon Feldman, a friend of the Breibart family.

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Written while he is in Germany to his family back in the United States describing his meetings with doctors, his ailments, preferred treatment plans, and the beauty and scenery of the city of Wiesbaden.

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Includes a report on Isadore's death onboard during his journey back to the United States.

Collection Overview From the Collection: Collection consists of a letter from Isadore Rich to his wife and children written while he was abroad in Wiesbaden, Germany, seeking treatment for Wright's disease, a page (in German) of the log of the ship Kronprinzessin Cecilie (Crown Princess Cecilie) reporting on Rich's death during his journey back to the United States, and his obituary. Also included is a facsimile of a German Abgangszeugnis, or "leaving certificate"-a document that contains a student's final exam grades-issued to...

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Facsimile of Leopold Block's German Abgangszeugnis, or "leaving certificate," reporting grades from his final examinations.