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BOX 1-27 Series I (1940-1949), 1924-1949
BOX 1-6 Office Files, 1942-1949
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, notes, lists, press releases, printed matter, publications, newsletters, statements and testimony, photographs, and newspaper clippings. The files pertain principally to the inner workings of the national council and its Washington office and include material from the national board of directors, committees and departments, conventions, programs, and some local sections. Where possible, an individual's association with a committee, department, or national office is listed.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization, subject, or type of material.
BOX 1 Bankoff, Esther, service to foreign born, 1946
Bregman, Tessie, 1945-1946
Brown, Minerva, 1946
Committees and departments
Contemporary Jewish affairs
Correspondence, 1944-1949
Minutes, 1944-1946
Miscellany, 1943-1945, undated
Education and social action, 1947-1949
Evening groups, 1944-1949
International relations and peace
Correspondence, 1943-1949
International Relations Digest, 1943-1945
Minutes, 1944-1946
Miscellany, 1943-1946, undated
Membership, 1944-1946
Overseas service, 1944-1946
Public relations, 1944-1948
Section service, 1945-1948
Senior-junior council member relations, 1946
Service to foreign born, 1944-1948
BOX 2 Social legislation
Correspondence, 1943-1946
Minutes, 1944-1946
Miscellany, 1943-1946, undated
Newsletters, 1943-1945
Social welfare
Correspondence and minutes, 1944-1948
Miscellany, 1942-1948, undated
Ways and means, 1944-1948
Congressional testimony, 1944-1949, undated
Convention-at-home institute, 1945
Council Sabbath, 1946
Elfenbein, Elsie, executive director, 1946
Finkelstein, Florence, 1945
Friedman, Clara V., service to foreign born, 1945
General correspondence, 1944-1949
(2 folders)
BOX 3 Goldstein, Sylvia, secretary to Helen Raebeck, 1946
Goldstone, Hortense U., social welfare, 1944-1946
(4 folders)
Hausler, Rose A., comptroller, 1944-1946
Heilberg, Frieda, service to foreign born, 1945-1946
Hook, Sidney, "Survey Report on the National Council of Jewish Women," circa 1946
Kaunitz, Esther, service to foreign born/united service for new Americans, 1944-1946
(2 folders)
Kress, Janet, 1946
Levine, Pauline, chairman, executive committee, 1945-1948
Levy, Henry W., editor, The Council Woman, 1945-1946
Lobbying quarterly reports, 1947-1949
Margolin, Olya
Annual and weekly reports, 1945
Job evaluation, 1945
BOX 4 Miscellany, 1943-1949, undated
Moodie, Helen Montfort, 1944-1948
National Council of Jewish Juniors
Correspondence, 1945-1949
Minutes, 1944-1946
Miscellany, circa 1945-1946
Needles, Belle F., service to foreign born, 1945
Ottenberg, Nettie, 1945
Press releases, 1944-1948
Printed matter, circa 1945
Publications and newsletters
Across the Nation, 1944-1946
Call to Action, 1945
Miscellaneous, 1948
Publicity list, circa 1943
Raebeck, Helen, education secretary
1944-1945
(4 folders)
BOX 5 1946-1947
(4 folders)
Rothenberg, Flora R., executive director, 1944-1945
(3 folders)
Sacks, Abbie, service to foreign born, 1945-1946
Schindler, Sara W., 1945
Schwartz, Anna K., executive director, 1945-1946
BOX 6 Sections, Baltimore, Md., 1945-1946
Slutzker, Ruth, 1946
Wachtel, Lillian, social welfare, 1945-1946
Welt, Mildred G., national president, 1944-1949
Women's Joint Congressional Committee
Correspondence, 1944-1949, undated
Minutes, 1944-1949
(4 folders)
Miscellany, 1942-1949
BOX 7-27 Subject Files, 1924-1949
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, notes, legislation, press releases, printed matter, statements and testimony, photographs, and newspaper clippings. The files document the Washington office's interaction with government and civic organizations and include information on subjects of interest to the national council.
Arranged alphabetically by name of organization, subject, or type of material.
BOX 7 Agriculture Department
Correspondence, 1945-1949, undated
Miscellany, 1940-1949
American Association of University Women, 1943-1949
American Council on Education, Commission on the Occupied Areas of Europe, 1949
American Farm Bureau Federation, circa 1943-1944
American Home Economics Association, 1942-1949, undated
American Jewish Committee, 1947
Americans for Democratic Action, 1947-1949, undated
Americans United for World Organization, 1945-1946, undated
Association for Childhood Education, 1947-1949
Children's Bureau, 1941-1946
Citizens' Committee for Reciprocal World Trade, 1947-1948, undated
Citizens Food Committee
Kit no. 4, 1947
Kit no. 5, 1947
BOX 8 Miscellany, 1947
Reports, 1947, undated
Citizens' organizations, miscellaneous, 1944-1949
Commission for International Education Reconstruction, 1948-1949
Committee for the Marshall Plan to Aid European Recovery, 1947-1948, undated
Committee for the Nation's Health
Correspondence, 1945-1949
(2 folders)
Miscellany, 1941-1949, undated
National health insurance legislative proposals, 1946-1949, undated
BOX 9 Printed matter, 1945-1949, undated
Report on health insurance by the National Council of Jewish Women, 1946
Committee for United States Information Abroad, 1947-1948
Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, 1945-1946
Common Council for American Unity, 1948, undated
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