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Kalushiner Society minute book
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss 1149
Abstract
A handwritten minute book of the Kalushiner Society of Charleston, South Carolina, from October 1927 through December 1936, mostly in Yiddish with some English. The Independent Kalushiner Society was a mutual aid society founded by Charleston residents who had immigrated from the shtetl of Kaluszyn in Poland. The society was founded in 1921 and provided members with benefits like no-interest loans, assistance when ill, and group insurance rates.
Dates:
1927-1936
Found in:
Special Collections
Zionist Organization of America (Charleston, S.C.) papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-051
Collection Overview
The minutes (1917-1933 with a gap from May 1922-November 1923; and 1940-1944) cover all the special and regular meetings of the organization. Members attending are listed and there are various lists throughout the volume, detailing the approximately 100 or so men and women who belonged. Topics were discussed, at first, in both Yiddish and English. Dues were collected and there are frequent mentions of the need to raise more funds for specific causes, and the need to energize the populations...
Dates:
1917-1947
Found in:
Special Collections