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Inventory of the Annette Levy Ratkin Jewish

Community Archives in Nashville, TN - 2021

The archives is a project of the Jewish Federation and Foundation of Nashville and Middle

Tennessee located at 801 Percy Warner Blvd., Nashville, TN 37205, phone 615-354-1655,

email address: [email protected]

The digitization and web access has been provided by a grant from The Tennessee State

Library and Archives.

Only the highlighted materials are available for viewing. This site will be updated as

resources become available. Please call the archive staff at the above number for further

assistance.

RG 1 Jewish Federation

Box l: Brief History of the Jewish Federation (2000)

1920-1970 Jewish Community Council and Jewish Federation Copies of charters 1940,

1948, 1969 (Name change), 1984

Clippings, 1920-1926-1950, 1969 (Central Conference of Jewish Organizations, 1916)

Correspondence from Nat Weise 1934-50

Jewish Welfare Fund Annual Report 1938

Correspondence on Community Hebrew School 1943-44

1949 “Study of Demographic and Organizational Aspects of the Nashville Jewish

Community”

1949 Demographic Study

1959 Constitution

1954, 1958 letter, CJF Certificate of Membership 1961, 1962 Annual Meeting; Leadership

Development 1964-66; Constitution 1965, Community Calendar 1966-67, 2010 Updates

to Constitution

Annual Meetings 1966-68 (30th anniv. Honoring Jacques Back), 1970-73, 1974; 1970

Mission to Israel; Leadership Development 1972; CRC 1973;1974-76 Financial Report,

letterheads; Newcomers Committee 1975-76; 1976 ? chart of accounts; 1976 Planning

Advisory, President’s meeting. UJA-TN State Com. Nat’l Women’s Div Meeting

Memphis 1976

National Women’s Division UJA, Feb. 1959 (Blanche Fensterwald)

Proceedings of the Community Orientation Institute, 1960-61 (synagogues, JCC, Jewish

Social Service, NCJW, B’nai B’rith, Hadassah, ZOA)

War of 1967; Salute to Israel Youth Rally 1970; 1970 Census

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Box 2: 1972-1976

Tax exempt notice 1970 (name change); exec. director’s time split 1971

Annual meetings 1970-74

Leadership Development: 1971-78, “A Journey into Leadership,” 1972

Handbook for Presidents of Organizations ca. 1973 or 1974

Home Missions, Arab oil 1973

Israel’s 25th Anniversary 1973 (see also OB 5)

Newcomers Committee, 1975, 1976

UJA TN State Com. meeting, Nat’l Womens’s Div, Memphis, 4/29/76

Women’s Div. 1978

Community Evaluation and Planning Committee, Planning Advisory 1976

1974 communication Coordinator, Cooperation Committee, Planning Committee 1976.

Israel Affairs, “What’s New” 1976-78. Israel Affairs Com. 1972-78

Women’s Presidents’ Council 1973-79

Women’s Affairs, 1969-1976. “Learn to Swim (See MS 12:5), Newcomers’ Committee

Chart of Accounts 1976?. Presidents’ Meeting 1976

Letterhead ca.1976.Financial Statement April 30 1975. Peggy Steine photo

Box 3: 1977-80:

Financial statements 1978-81. Leadership award and development 1977-79.

1977 Fund raising guidelines, Asst. Dir. Job description. 1977-78 board minutes (see tan

JF Box 7). 1977-78 Joint Agency on Staff Structure (separating JCC/JF execs.)

1979 and 1982 Personnel Policy

1979 photos of JCC or JF boards. 1979 Mission to Israel. Board and exec. Com.Minutes ,

Annual Meeting 1979. 1980 Year end statement. 1980 Board and President’s Council

(photos), Irwin Cotler, Scholar In Residence.

Box 3A: 1975-81

Committee on CJF review process 1977-79

Financial statements 1975-78

Box 4: Israel Expo 1978 (See OB 1)

Box 5: 1981-83:

Campaign leadership 1980-1995

1980-83 annual meetings. 1981 financial statement, etc. Shalom Nashville 1981, 1985,

1992 (see Box 5B for Shalom at Home coffee mug), 1980 Jew. Professionals org. Aipac.

Long-range planning 1980-86.

Photos: 1980-81, KKK, Hanukkah torch relay, Senator James Sasser, annual meeting,

Buz-A-Bus ad campaign. 1981-82 financial statement, papers.1982-83 Board of Directors.

Adult Institute 1982-85. UJA S. Reg. Conf. 1982. GAs 1980-82

Box 5A: Demographic Studies 1979 (see MS 5), 1982,1987 (See also 9B).See also

notebook for 2003; KKK – Klan activity in Pulaski 1980s-90s



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Box 5B: small box : Shalom at Home gift coffee mug 1985

Box 6: 1984-1985

GAs 1980-1982. Financial statements 1983-1985. JF board meetings, leadership

development 1983-1984. 1984 statement from TN Sec’y of State that JF was incorporated

July 15, 1948 (error: 1984?). Annual meeting 1984, 1985. Board retreats 1984-86. Project

Renewal Committee 1984 See Also RG 1:29, OB 8, OB A). 1984, 1985 miscellaneous.

Joint Tea: Community Plea for Soviet Jewry, Dec. 5, 1984

Box 7: 1986-1987:

Annual meeting 1986. Misc. 1986-87. Lion of Judah instituted (see 17A also). Financial

statements 1986-1987

Box 8: 1988-1990:

Financial statements. 1988, 1989. GA 1988. Misc. 12988-90 Annual meetings 1988-90.

Constitution adopted 1989. Learning Leaders 1990-1991

Box 9: 1991-1997.

Annual meetings 1989-1997. Leave policy. Environmental scan 1991. Bus tour of Jewish

Nashville--Leadership Development 1992. UJA regional conferences 1981-1991. Mission

Statement 1991. Miscellaneous 1991-96.

Box 9A: CJF Loan Guarantee Indemnification Agreement Documentation 1992

Box 9B: 1993 Telephone Survey (see also 5A), Environmental Scan 1991

Box 10: Campaign 1937-1977, list of officers, Moshe Dayan. Presidents, campaign chairs,

executive directors 1937-2000.General Chairmen of Welfare Fund 1939-1963. Campaign

analyses 1947-72. Campaign evaluations 1975-1992. Allocations 1931-1958. History of

JWF in Nashville. 1938 JWF clippings, letterheads. Women’s Cosmopolitan Division,

Youth Division 1957

Box 11: Campaign 1978-1981

Box 12: Campaign 1982-1984

Box 13: Campaign 1985-1997: Long Range planning 1981-89; Exec. Com. 1987-90;

Washington Mission 1985, Alexander Haig, 1985; Living chairmen 1985; Joint Fed.-JCC

Com. on Exec. Dir.; Donations 1986-90; consultant report on community leadership 1986;

Planning task force 1994, Yom Hashoah videos 1996 – service and TV interviews of

Hiroki Sugihara; Jay Pilzer; Ruth Tanner, Exec Dir 1991-94; Constitution revised 1996

Box 14: 1997-2001

Campaign 1996



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Joshua Fogelson, Exec Dir

Israel’s Fiftieth birthday, 1998

Campaign 1998, 1999

Task Force on Jewish Education 1997-99

New building office space 2000

Steve Edelstein executive director 2000-2010,

Priority ranking 2001

Annual Meetings, 1997-2001

Box 14A: 2002-05

Campaign 2003, Jewish Population Study 2002. See notebook with 2003 Demographic

Study Data, Israel Emergency Campaign 2002; Israel trip, 2002; Janette Silverman:

Melton 2001-4, TN House resolution #960 offering support for the Nation of Israel 2002

(located in Oversize Box 6), staff photos-bios 2000-12

Box 14B: 2006-2008

Buz-A-Bus (see also MS 12, Box 8 and RG 1 Bx 5), Hadassah, Young Leadership Award.

1971-

Strategic Plan 2008, Israel at 60 (2008)

Notes: Social Justice Passover Seder CRC (5/2009); Yom Hashoah Seder CRC (4/2007)

see also Box 25, Katrina Relief (2005)

Box 14C: 2009 – 2016. Clippings, flyers, New Initiatives 2010, World Fairs 2011-12

Box 15: Yearbooks 1937-1960



Campaign history

Box 17A: Annual Reports 2000-01, Annual Meetings, 2004-2010, “Get connected” 2009,

Lion of Judah & Women’s Philanthropy, Pomegranates, Past presidents

Box 17B: 2000- 2011; Mark Freedman (executive director 2011- 2018); Federation

directors and lay leaders; Paige Box Inventory list to 1993; List of Boxes in Storage at

Richards & Richards (started storage in 1993); NowGen, Joel Abramson, Israel trip 2003,

Shalachim [shlicha] (emissaries from Israel)

Box 18: Tan Paige box 7: Minutes 1962-1985 (West End Towers 1/26/71) (see also Paige

box 21). See also Box 24.

18A: Tan Paige Box: Minutes 1993-99. BP and Allocation Panels, 1993-98. Committees

1993-98, 1995-96. Jewish Educational Services Committee Minutes 1979-1993.



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18 B: Magnetic computer tape containing data used in study on housing for the elderly –

1978 from Vanderbilt

18C: Tan Paige box: Allocation Awards 1950-1981. President’s Council 1975-80.

Campaign 1976-79 (Men’s & Women’s [Bess Myerson]). Israel Affairs Committee 1978-

99. CRC Committee 1980-81. Federation & Foundation Administrative Budgets 1980-82.

Endowment Fund 1980-81. Board of Directors Minutes 1979-80. Project Renewal 1979-

80.

Box 19: Minutes 1988-1989

Box 20: Minutes 1999 - 2005

Box 20A: United Jewish Communities General Assembly 2007

Binder 20A-1 materials from GA 2007

Binder 20A-2 materials from GA 2007; see Bagels and Barbeque materials under

SC collection (2 boxes + original exhibit from TN State Musuem)

NOTES: Exhibit was given to archives by Candace Adelson from the TN

Museum because there was a storage shortage and the museum was

being cleaned out for the move to the new building on the Bicentennial

Mall. They were copied onto self-stick postits

by Chromatics and were scanned as image files. There are 24 panels. The

exhibit traveled to 14 places around Tennessee. Acc # 2188). The last two

panels are about the Temple architecture; last panel is about the oldest

companies in the state. Special note: The curator gave with no fee and the

remaining funds in the grant can’t be accessed.

Box 20B: Campaign photos 1998-2003 (see also Paige Box 46)

Box 21: Personnel (Arthur Landa, etc). HRD (Shalom Nashville, Volunteer recognition)

1990-1991 GA awards (see also list of plaques at beginning of this collection list)

Box 22: Local Allocations, Budget and Planning 1981-99 (see also Paige boxes)

Box 23: Committee on Aging, Housing for Elderly (see also OB 12 for West End Towers

Plans) 1973-1992. See also Box 18

Box 24: CRC (see also Paige boxes) 1953-1993. Al Gore

Box 24A: CRC 1994 – to date

Box 25: Holocaust programs. Ad Hoc Committee on Holocaust 1985. Interfaith Memorial

Service No date). Holocaust Studies at USN. Anne Frank in the World, TSM 1993.

Kadar exhibit 1999. . Yom HaShoah 1979-1999. Holocaust Oral History Project 1981-



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83 (Audiotapes, MS 32; See OB 7 for photographs). Volyne Torah dedication at WES

1989 – Joint program Yom HaShoah

Box 25A: Paperclips in Whitwell, holocaust menorah photos; Violins of Hope (2018), see

digital collection, Kapusta crate; Yom HaShoah 2000 – current; Lawyers without Rights at

Belmont 2018

Box 26: Holocaust: March of the Living 2006. Nashville Holocaust Memorial and panel

documentation. Holocaust Lecture Series 1979- . Tennessee Holocaust Commission.

Felicia Anchor. MTSU (Murfreesboro Holocaust Studies Conference ). Danielle Kahane-

Kaminsky, exec dir 20211-date. Gwen Thayer prepared a book documenting the

providence of all memorialized persons on the Holocaust Memorial. Nashville Holocaust

Memorial. Fedora Frank Award 2017;

Box 27: Soviet Jewry

New American Newsletter 1992-2000

Fedora Frank Award 1982 1983

High school in Israel 1980

Box 28: JSU, Campus Committee, Wall Street Journal 2002 (Vanderbilt, Rabbi David

Davis)

Box 29: Yad Eliezer, Israel programs and trips (see also OB 8). 2006 name change

Yad Eliezer/Ness Ziona 1984-86 (Zimmerman family), 2006 name change

Sela vist photos Summer 1982,-84, announcements,

Israel Independence Day 1970-71, 1973, 1976, 1979-85, 1988

1984 Pinchas Sapir Award

Jewish Enlightenment (4 rabbis) 1995

Panim el Panim, 1985, 1995

Sar-el Volunteers for Israel (Slotchiver)

Box 29A: Israel Incentive Grants & Scholarships

Box 30: Endowment Fund 1980s-2000s/ Foundation. B’nai Tzedek. Book of Life

Box 31 Foundation/Endowment Fund photos

Box 32: Hasofrim, NOW NEWS, newcomers lists

“Guide for Teaching Nashville Jewish History”

Box 33: NHPRC grant and others. Continuation of Archives 1979

Box 34: Old Archive Correspondence 1979-2005



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Box 35: Library History. Certification. PL 480. Center Library Committee – corres,

budget, publicity, personnel 1978-1992; JES establishment 1972, Library subcommittee

minutes 1977-78

Box 35A: Old Library Correspondence 1977-2009; Surpass Automation 2004; Library

downsize 2010

Box 36: Book Fair statistics 1973-2009. Library: Book Fair 1975-1981 (see RG2:11 JCC

for 1980-1990,

Box 36A: Book Fair 1991 – 2007

Box 37: JES 1972-93. . Resource Center 1985-92. JES Nashville’s High School in Israel

& Hebrew programs

Box 38: 2015- to date. Population Study 2015. Bonim Society (2015 - current);

President Award (established 2012). Executive Director Questionaires 1980 – to date.

Annual meeting 2015- current; Flyers, clippings (2015 - ), Life and Legacy; Global Day

of Jewish Learning 2012- to date); YOMs

Boxes 39: 1947-49, SOS ?????

Box 39-46: Photographs (Box 46—tan Paige box); Box 45 (Operation Exodus 1991);

Tzedukah Tzunday

Box 47: 1983 History video, slide show (see 47A for slides)

Box 47A (shoe box): Slides for History of Jewish Community 1983

Box 48 : A Caring Community, 2003 DVD, VHS

RG 2: JCC Boxes

Box 1:

5 vols. of YMHA NEWS 1915-1920 (on microfilm with OBSERVERS, MS 27)

Charter of YWHA 1924

Werthan stock 1941

Camp Olshine property deed

Title to 3500 West End

Dedication of Gertrude Weinstein Room 1942

Trophy and Plaque list



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Box 2:

Cornerstone contents, 1907, 1922, taken from 1951 cornerstone (see also box 6)

Box 2A:

Cornerstone contents, 1907-1951, 1984

Box 3: To 1923

Histories, Stephen Karr (1984), Annette Ratkin’s (1992)

History of YMHA NEWS, Nat Weise

“Something About Nashville’s YMHA” 1908-9

Charter of Incorporation 1903 ©

Clippings 1905-1929

Legal Documents: Deed of Property 1905, copy of Deed of Trust 1924

Picture of old building 1908-1916, 712 Union Street

YMHA NEWS: Mar., June, October 1915 (see also Box 1 for bound volumes), June

1917; Jan., June, July, August, September, November,December, June 1918 (1918 NEWS

staff), Jan. 1919, Feb.,June, July 1920; Special Women’s edition, May 1921; Aug. 1922

Photos: Manuel Frank, Secretary, in office, 1913; banquet 1914; Girls’ Auxiliary

Halloween dance from Nov. 1915 NEWS;1916 board of directors Jan. 1916 NEWS

Program: “The Old Songs” 1917

YM-YWHA play programs 1920, 1922

Nashville Review , 1920, building campaign article

Utopia Club (1914-24 [?]). Basketball photos. YMHA Peps 1920s

Box 3A: 1920s-1939

Activities and clippings 1920s, 1930s

Girls work annual reports 1927-30

Hebrew school textbook ca. 1922

Dedication 1924, letterhead 1925-26 (and photo of officers), 1931-32.

Article from July 1925 NEWS, Dedication of Memorial tablets and rededication of

building, 2/6/27, history of YWHA 12/27 NEWS

Copy of ticket to Peps game 1928-29, physical training program 1928

Junior YMHA Purim play program (n.d)

Pollyanna Club 1928. Kindergarten 1932 (Apr. 1932 NEWS): April 1921, June 1924,

October 1924 (Dedication number; SEE also OB4) Feb., Mar., April, June (Ladies’

Number), July, December 1926; Feb., June, July, December 1927 (25th anniversary); May,

June 1928; Mar. 1929;Oct. 1931: Jan., Feb., Apr., Oct. 1932; Feb. 1933

“Dramatics in the YMHA”, “Club Work Among Our Girls,” by Lillian W. Cohen, Dec

1927 NEWS

Recommended organization of YM-YWHA, 1923

Box 4: 1930s-40s

Clippings, programs; Undated 1930-41

Bazaars 1934, 1936

YMHA dancing class programs and music 1930s (Jane Levine)



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YMHA photo is in OB 8

YMHA NEWS staff 1931-32

William F. Rosenblum

YMHA Sports history 1933

Jolly Juniors dance invitation 3/6/30

YWHA Minutes 1927-1946. 18th anniversary Rally, 1/19/32, Fannie Rose Shore, MC

Negative of cartoon “Dates of Importance from 1933 YMHA NEWS

YMHA News /Sept 1933 “The Nashville Jewish Community”

“Y Revue” 1934-37

Program “The Call to Peace” 11/10/35 , sponsored by YM/YW and NCJW, Temple

Sisterhood/Brotherhood

Hirsh Kaplan oral history notes (see RG2:17); farewell dinner, 7/22/46

Pathfinders Club 1935

Melting Pot Campaign Mar./Apr. 1933

Girl Scouts Troop 6, 1927. Troop 11, 1931. ca. 1939 (see also MS 28: Lillian Weinstein

Cohen)

Ed Wasserman Boy Scout history 1934

G.F.C., 1936

P.G.W. (Promote the general welfare – PGW) 1937-52 photos and financial records

YMHA News Oct. 1931 (not published for a couple of prior years); Nov.1938

Abe Cohen charm bracelet 1901-1940 (husband of Lillian Weinstein Cohen)

J.Y.B. (Jewish Youth Basketball) 2 photos, Yellowstones, KY

1936-37 Boys World; clippings 1944-45

Annual Phys. Ed. Carnival 3/13/34

Shin Aleph photo 1932, corres. 1938, 1950 (see MS 13)

Box 5: 1940s (See Box 19 for Camp Olshine)

Oct. 1944 YMHA News

Morris Lipschitz honorary membership card from WWII. USO picture ca. 1944-45

History 1940

JCC Charter 1948

3814 West End 1948; 3324 West End [1949-52]

Minutes of Staff meetings 1946-49

Girl Scouts Troop 48, 1939-41

Photo of Youth group ca.1940

Center News April, November 1949

Board of Directors, Constitution 1944, Membership list, schedule 1945-47

YWHA gym class 1947

Financial records 1944-47, 1954

Clippings 1947-48 (sale of downtown building)

AZA basketball champs 1945

Photographs 1930s-1940s: sports, etc.

1931 bb. Champ charm

Boy Scout troop 1946

SEE ALSO OB 22 for baseball, volleyball shirts



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Box 6: 1945-57 (Purim balls), Harold Katz

Purim balls (first one, see Observer 3:106): 1931, 1936, 1940, 1947, 1949, 1950,

1951,1954

Clippings, etc. 1945-1956, 1947 statistics, exec. Dir. Report.

Day camp 1946, 1948?, 1954 (Street Trolly/Parthenon children)

“The YMHA In Retrospect”, by Sabina Grief

Sports Awards banquets 1950s, Handball champs 1953?, 1954, 1954-55 Basketball Boys

club champs

Peppettes 1950s, girls’ volleyball-1953

Campaign brochure for new building 1948

Cornerstone 1951 building (see also boxes RG 2:2/2A); JCC letterhead 1951 (3324 West

End), 1954. Financial Report 1952, “Use of Center Facilities,” 1953

United Givers’ Funds reports 1954-60

Harold E. Katz testimonial dinner 1954 (see also Box 17), Music publications 1966 (2)

Memphis JCC Centerama Award 2954

1952 brochure “Center of Happier Living”

50th anniversary, 3500 West End dedication 1952

Young Marrieds’ square dance 1953

Library ca. 1950s

Officers, letterhead, annual reports 1956, 1957

Israel Independence Day 1955

Harry Rosen, Eph Goldstein, program directors ca.1953-57

OB 13: 1959-63 scrapbooks

OB 23: Phil Cohen scrapbook (see also SC 246)

OB 9: Films of Camp JCC in the ‘50s

OB 15: Lee J. Loventhal Book of Remembrance

OB 18: JCC flags (USO 1940s, from Bill Boner 1984)

OB 25 YMHA photo exhibit

OB 27 Golden Age videotapes (and reel-to-ree -- transcibed): Harry Blum, Hattye Bubis,

Blanche Dembsky, Leonard Greenfield, May Lucas, Fritz Preis (2); Rose Rapoport, and

Harry and Evelyn Hersh; Baylie Rosenblum; Harry Stern, Harry Sternheimer; Men’s

discussion group history panel (3 congregations) April 10, 1991. Filed with NCJW

collection of audiotape oral histories: Goldie Orlein, Mrs. Abe Shapiro, Mrs. John Roth,

Freida Levinson; Mr. Feinberg; music tape; Doris Zager, interviewed by Barbara Burko. 2

audiotapes: 3/16/86 (11 people); 1/11/87 (sr. meals interviews)

OB 28 Observer photos 1986-89, from Jodi Borton: Maccabah games 1988 Center Scenes,

Observer July 22, 1988. Seniors Men’s Discussion, Golden Age. Adult athletics. Camp

Ktoni. Art sale. Israel Independence Day 1988. Children. Book Fair. Andy Gryll, winner

of Batman, Chanukah carnival Dec. 1989.Youth trip. Israeli scouts. ACJW Southern

Region. Rosh Ha’ayon Mandolin Orchestra, August 1989.

2 metal file drawers of membership cards , 1952



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Box 7: Past presidents

Photos and negatives of past presidents (through David Levy), as on wall in hall. Bios also

Photos and negatives of past presidents of YWHA (as on wall in hall)

Assorted photos of past presidents

Box 8: JCC Membership census 1967-82 (See also Paige Box 2)

Box 9: Center Life/Center Scene 1968-1982

Box 10: Program brochures 1947-1972, cookbooks

Box 11: 1960s-1970s brochures (nd)

Box 12: Brochures 1979-83

Box 13: Brochures 1984-86

Box 14: Staff and adult activities programs photos

Meta Windmiller (1950-1976) tea, July 22, 1990 (See also SC 122)

Sonny Kunian, Harold Hassenfeld

Art classes, dance classes, old building (West End)

Square dance 1953, Socials 1962., 1978, Abraham Joshua Heschel speech

Center and Federation boards 1950s and 1970s

Staff: Norma Tavalin, Della Jones, Roy Turner, Paul Aaron obit, etc. (see also album),

general staff photos

Shaliach, Giora Ayalon 1970-71: report and photo; Talma Nahir, Shaliach, photos

Center and Federation staff photos (RG 14:2) See box 17 for directors questionaires.

Box 15: Photographs: drama 1956-89, program brochures 1956- 1966, video of play 1989

Box 16: damaged photos

Box 16A: 1960s, 1982-83 Photos (Norma Tavalin)

1985-1986 photos (OBSERVER)

Montage for CENTER SCENE, May 26, 1971 . annual meeting issue

OBSERVER photographs 1985-1986

Nina Estner: singles 1981-82, misc.

Dreydle factories, Purim shtetls [1975], crafts fairs, pool, family weekend, pet fairs

1969,1970,dog obedience [1982], auto mechanics, Sukkah building 1980s

Hanukkah 1969, social events 1963, Israel Independence day [1982]

Box 16B: 1982-1984 snapshots (Norma Tavalin)

Box 16C (flat): Photos from Nina Estner 1985-88—adults, children, etc.



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Box 17: 1986-89. Executive directors questionnaires—1930s-80s

Box 18: Preschool photos

Box 18A: (Oversize): Preschool 1980s, 1990s ACC 2066

Box 19: Day Camp, Camp Olshine (to 1940s), artifacts (See also OB 9 for films)

Box 19A: Day camp photos

Box 19B: Day camp photos 2000 – to date

Box 19C: Day camp photo disc 2000-2007

Box. 19D: Day camp photos 2008 -

Box 20: 1958-73

Professional Staff minutes, 1956-62

Cooking class 1959

1959 officers (Shep Schwartz, Pres. Bailey Isaacs, first woman)

Flo Kornman (NCJW) on “Separation of church and State” 1958

Annual meetings, 1960 (dedication of playground), 1961-67

Integration of JCC, 1962-63, Dan May report

1964: cultural arts, budget control sheet, letter from White House to 4/5th grade Friendship

Club

“Future site” brochure 1967

1963 Advanced Leadership Institute, Southern Section JWB,

1965 Biennial conf. Southern Regional JWB, Nashville

Paige (tan) box lists

Box 20A: JCC dynamiting/bombing 1958 (see OB 8), RG1: CRC (Lou Silberman

reports). 2008 Anniversary, bomb threats 2017

Box 21: Annual Meetings 1982-

1974-1985. Groundbreaking, dedication of new building

Box 22: Shabbat Policy discussions, 1968-89

Box 23, 23A, B: Ralph Shepard Awards, Teen Town, Youth recognition (See also MS 10)

Box 24: 1960s, 1970s.. 1967 property appraisal, West End, map of new site.: Center site

advertisement 1966.Youth programs guidelines rev. 1967. Specs for JCC Day Camp 1967.

Center site campaign 1966-70. Deed , photographs outdoor site 1969. Right of way

dedication, site 1971. New building design 1978. Outdoor site dedication.



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Proceedings, JWB Advanced Leadership Training Institute, 1963. JYB Southern Regional

Biennial, 1965, Proceedings, Program

Box 25: 1970s: 3500 West End property 1974 (pictures). Extension of Percy Warner Blvd.

1973-74. Camp Najacomce 1970, songs. Youth director job description. Financial

statements, Center Board Institute 1970.Shaliach report 1970-71 (Giora Ayalon). 1971

membership list, correspondence, board of directors, constitution. Center cabinet 1972.

Ancestors exhibit family photos list 1975. 1972 Membership card, meeting notices,

letterhead, program. Cookbook 1973. Yiddish class 1974. Annual meeting 1970,1972,

1975 (membership list).Budget request to United Way 1975.

Box 26: New building 1970s-1980

Box 26A: New building 1976-1984. Architects’s drawing; see Box 39 for 2000

expansion and renovation

Box 27: Norma Tavalin’s Family Committee programs 1971-1977. List of Norma

Tavalin’s Paige (tan) boxes (listed below 3A, 3B, 3C)

Box 28: Prime Time News, Senior Sentinels

Contents list of “Davine’s Box” (Paige tan box) listed below

Golden Age history

Box 29: Golden Age Club photos; Men’s Discussion photos

Box 30: Golden Age (cookbooks, etc.); Men’s Discussion, Senior Adult Committee

Box 30A: Senior Adult photos (Valerie Seidner), 1980s, 1990s (from Meryl Kraft, 2/01)

Box 31: 1960s--1985 Sports, name change, 1985 Annual Meeting.

1980s

Teens, youth

Swim team, 1962,Swimming Pool and staff 1970s

Softball, 1960s, 1970s

Box 32: 1988-1989 (minutes, programs, etc.) SEE OB 29: Pictures of activities 1986-

1989

Box 32A: 1990

Box 33: 1991 (photos)

Box 34: 1991-1992. 90th Anniversary (1992), history

Box 35: 1993-1994



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Box 36: 1995-1996; camp photos, Gallerie Robin, facility photos, staff (1995-2002), Main

Event

Box 37: Seniors (Prime Time, Golden Age, 1993- 1995). Kovod Award, 1985-2008.

Drama, including “Aging Grace” & Gentleman from Birmingham, 1990s), Nourish your

mind 2000-2006.

Box 37A: Seniors, Prime Time 2000 – date , Nourish Your Mind 2007-to date, Health Fair

2005

Box 38: 1998 Capital campaign, The Kristallnacht Exhibit by TSU,

Box 39: 1997-1998

Box 39A: 2000-2004; Expansion and Renovation 2000, NJOY – Nashville Jewish

Organization of Young Adults (NJOY), Maccabi Games, Main Event 2000-2005

Box 39B: 2005-2009

The Lodge 1979-2005; demolition 2004. CD of needlepoint art in lobby. Photo of fabric

panels, Prime Time 2007-2009. Ed Finkelstein, executive director

Box 39C: 2010 – date

Box 39D: Maccabi Tee shirt 2013

Box 40: Board, Exec. Committee minutes, 1969-1973, 1977-80 (assorted committees:

cultural arts, 1980 youth council, newcomers meeting minutes)




Box 44: Minutes 1983-1987. Executive Committee Minutes Dec. 1974-1988. Board of

Directors 1970-1982

Box 45: Board of Directors minutes 1988-90

Box 46: Board of Directors minutes 1991-93

Box 47: JCC Activities 1990s - ; PHOTO FILE (alphabetized)

Box 48: Textiles – tee shirts



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Top of shelves, William Robin’s stamp collection (See SC 25 for appraisal)

Paige boxes:

Box 1:Proposed JCC Budgets 1960-64, JCC Budget and Financial statements, 1966-75,

Site development campaign 1966, JCC committee minutes 1969-72, Membership

committee minutes 1968-69, health club 1954-75, war record 1951, preschool lists,

budgets-history 1962-70, kosher food distributors 1959-71, JCC correspondence 1962-70,

miscellaneous 1977, staff meeting minutes , 1979-82. From Frances Kaminitz 1/90:

Budget 1970-72, Lists of committees and board 1962-74, financial correspondence 1959-

69, budget 1973-74, membership 1973-74, program, etc., budgets 1974-76, budget, 1975-

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Box 2: Bankbooks, permanent improvement acct 1952-1979, Day camp 1969-76 (gov’t

food supplement, health ins.), Day Camp staff 1982-83 Fed, JFS salaries 1979-

81,Correspondence 1970, Membership 1969, personnel 1978-80, health insurance records

1965-80, JCC board and committees 1967-71, personnel retirement fund 1955-70,

Budgets 1979-80, membership reports 1972-74, Center site campaign 1966-70, Site fund

pledges and gifts 1966-73, Bankbooks 1948-80.

Box 3: Membership Census 1967-1976 (see also Rg 2:8)

Norma Tavalin Box 3A: 1966-78: Family concerts 1966, Tub’shevat 1966-73, Israel

Independence Day 1966, Children’s art festival 1967, Purim carnival 1968-2, Hanuka

1969, arts festival 1970, family Sukkah workshop 1971, dog obedience class 1971, bike

rodeo 1972, crafts fair 1972-78, family weekend ,1972-78, family fish fry, 1972, summer

1972-73, dreydl factory 1973-78, sesame art show 1973, TN Arts Comm. 1973, day camp

1973-80, adult classes 1973-77, bike rodeo 1974, Center players “Poppa” (see

OBSERVER 3/7/75) 1974?, family skating 1974-75, photography show 1975-76, Panov

Ballet Dec. 1975 (Memphis), flea market/crafts fair 1976, family olympics 1976, family

canoe trip 1976,Ancestors in American History 1975, Bellwitch Cave 1976, response

1976, Vanderbilt prison project 1976, Center players “The Mensh” 1976, family

committee 1976-79, Farband/Cultural arts 1976-77 (Ben Bonus), “My Shalom, My

Peace” 1977, hayride 1977, road rally 1977-78, Library book fair 1977, disco dancing

1978, hayride 1978, cultural arts series I (Dan Rottenberg, FINDING OUR FATHERS)

1978, Jeff Feld 1977-80, singles 1978-79, children’s 1978-79, camp committee 1978-80,

group leadership manual 1975-80

Norma Tavalin: Box 3B:1979-83: Book fair1979, 1983, camp 1981-82, personnel code

1982, chavurah 1980-83, classes 1982, Adult Com. 1982-83, Bat Kol April 1982, Israel

Independence Day 1980-82,camp contracts and salaries 1981, conference schedule and

vacation 1981, alternate facilities 1981, Carnie Sokol/Nina Estner 1980-81, Search

Committee Aug. 1981, road rally 1980-81, summer activities 1981, adult dept. 1980-81,

Cultural Arts 80-81 (Dave Hart CBS/Ed Asner possible), JCC board of directors 1979-81,



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culturals 1979-81 Irving R. Levine 12/9/79,Sasha Nanus 3/30/80, C.Arts series 1980-81

(Chaim Potok), women’s classes 1979-81, scholarships 1981, staff time study 1980, room

setups 1979, executive committee 1980, family weekend 1979, May 9-11, 1980, May

1981,finance committee 1980-81, Israeli Scout Caravan 1980, Young Judaea 1979-81,

Cub Scouts 1980-81, Winter classes 1979, family committee 1977-82, Center players

“God’s Favorite” 1979See RG 2:15),“Bintel Brief 1979”, “Paris Is Out” 1980, “Majority

of One” Spring 1980 (see RG 2:15), “Chosen Children” 1982, Family and Site Committee

1981, Purim 1981, community calendar 1980-81, committees 1979-80, Ron Greenberg

1981, Applicants 1980, Arlene Pukach 1979-80, organizations, national conference, JWB

annual statistical report 1980, kitchen 1980, Paul Aaron 1979-81, Ami Drimmer 1978-80,

Davine Levison 1979-80, Jeffrey Feld 1977-80, craft fair 1979-80, fish fry 1979-1981,

Torch Relay 1980, Andrea Jasper 1979-80, family fitness 1979-80, Succot tsimmes

1978-80, bike rodeo Sept. 1979, Super Sunday July 1979, family canoe trip 1979, staff

structure and organization 1979, dreydle factory Dec. 1979, membership 1979-81.

Norma Tavalin: Box 3C: Rae Levine 1983, staff minutes 1981-82, Bat Kol players1978,

Centerstage 1979-80, Mordecai Rosenstein 1982, YIVO “Image Before My Eyes” 1978,

Ami Ron art exhibit 1976, TCHumanities grant proposal 1979, Adult social 1975-9,

Gourmet supper—theatre party Sept 1976, Center Players “Bintel Brief” 1979-80 (see

box 2), Time Out for women 1976-79, Ladies Morning out 1972-76, Fine arts brunch

1983, Cutting up the Voting Pie 1981, Shopping for a President/There’s Got to Be a Better

Way 9/29/80, Stop Smoking Aug 1977, Adult classes Fall 1983, theatre workshop 1982,

“Yiddle Mit His Fiddle” Summer 1980, social com. 1975-76, social and theatre party

1977-78, single parent families 1983-84, summer classes and programs 1974-81, Robert

Rubenstein storyteller 1983, “The Survivor” Jack Eisner 1980, “Lies My Father Told Me”

1976, Family life education 1979, Volunteer appreciation night 1979, Diaspora Yeshiva

Band 1982, Jews in American History Art exhibit 1976, Grants 1980-81, TAC grant “Here

Is Israel” Oct. 25,1979-80, Cultural arts ticket buyer lists 1979-80, Roman Vishniac,

Cultural arts 1973-83, Barry Rosen 1981, Norma Tavalin evaluations 1979-81, Institute

for Jewish Studies 1983-84, Staff meetings 1984, budgets 1982-83, Pucker Safrai gallery

1981, Columbus boy choir 1977, Tennessee Arts Commission 1978, special events com/

flea market/garage sale 1982, American Balalaika Co. 1980, Program evaluation 1981,

Petah Tikva (sister Center), Israel Chassidic Festival Dec. 1980, personnel committee and

codes 1974-81, Shirley Greenfield 1981-84.

Box 4: Davine Levison’s box (Golden Age)::

Minutes 1968-80. Annual bake sale 1969-72. Survey 1961. Sr. Adult activities 1961-62.

Annual Report 1965. Sr. Adult evaluation 1958-69. Citations 1964-70. Records 1959-60.

Programs 1958-63. Geriatrics 1952. Sr. Adult Institute 1967-68. Monthly reports/statistics

1964-80. “Yiddishe Mama Cookbook” 1974 (in gray box also). Purim 1975-82. Hanukkah

1976-81. Holiday ideas 1960-68. Board report 1980. SR. Adult Committee minutes 1975-

79. Mailing list 1962-80. Volunteer workshop 1965. Luncheon ideas 1968-81. Golden

Age constitution. Attendance sheets 1970-81. Membership list 1968-80. Executive

committee minutes 1963-73. Community service projects 1963-71. NCJW survey 1972.

Transportation 1961-81. Budget 1969-79. Cooking class 1970. Sewing 1974. Job



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opportunity 1975-76. Continuing education 1971. Adult children seminar 1978. Defensive

driving 1978. Family seminar 1975. Seminar on aging 1978. Senior Achievement 1965.

White House conference on aging 1981. Community Forum on aging 1977. Tender loving

care material. Reservation lists 1978-80. 1980-83 Golden Age: snow and ice shopping,

women’s discussion lists, officers, attendance. SHIRLEY GREENFIELD’S

miscellaneous 1966-82.

RG 3: Jewish Family Services

Box 1: to 1960s [portions RESTRICTED]

Charters, etc.: March 5, 1860: Act to create Young Men’s Hebrew Benevolent Society ;

February 1870, Acts of TN Gen,. Assembly, Nashville Hebrew Ladies’ Benevolent

Society, Aug. 31, 1891; Nashville Hebrew Relief Society; Federation of Jewish Charities

Charter of Incorporation 19 Mar. 1925; affidavit from Lee Loventhal 29 Sept 1934; Name

change from Jewish Welfare Federation to Jewish Social Service 19 May 1969; Jewish

Family Service, DEC. 16, 1976.

History 1981-82, by Molly Slabosky (detailed history by Beck Raskin for June 3, 1993,

annual meeting.

Hebrew Relief society report 1907-08,1900 New Orleans JEWISH LEDGER; 1903 report

of Hebrew Relief Society.

Copy of 1891 charter

JEWISH MESSENGER Aug. 8, 1859m “Young Men’s Hebrew Benevolent Assn.

Organized.”

1914 checks

Field Report, October 1950 (from Jean Roseman)

1939-50 record book

Lebeck award 1920s

1943 report, 1943-47 financial records

Boards of directors 1952-1965

1960-1972 records

Agreement: JSS of Nashville becomes the Nashville Jewish Social Service Committee of

the Jewish Community Council 1960-65

1956 annual report

Loan agreements 1957-71

Pictures of 1963 Volunteer Corps, Abe Pilsk, Molly Slabosky, Berney Steiner.

Pilsk Loan Fund 1953, 1966

UGF 1961-64 financial

.

Box 2: 1960s-1970s

UGF reports 1965, 1966, 1967, 1973

1975-76. 1968-74 reports.

Financial records 1969.

Expenditures 1972, 1973



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Homemaker services 1977

1976 assistance records

Box 3: 1960s-1970s (restricted)

By-laws Jan 1977; new corporate name

Hattye Bubis papers 1959-1962

Financial records 1965-1975

Financial statements 1976-79

B’nai B’rith home 1969-70,1975

1961-72 financial assistance

Annual meeting 1977-80

National Conference on Social Welfare certificates 1963-71

Officers 1978

Minutes 1961-1979

1965-72 papers

Box 4: 1970s con’t (restricted)

Minutes 1953-1973

1969-1972 (photo, 1969)

1970, 1971, 1973, 1974-75

Box 5: 1970s-1980s (1977 separated from JF) [Restricted]

Annual meetings 1981, 1982

Expenses 1977; comparative 1975-79

1982 bylaws for residence for Sr. Adults; deed to Continental Condominium

Allocations 1980s

Financial statements 1982,1983, 1987, 1988

Photographs 1970s, 1980d (honoring of Annette Eskind). See also Ruth Tanner’s JF

photograph boxes RG1:42-45

1983 brochure and photos

Personnel (restricted)

United Way 1977-80

Box 6: Soviet Jews block grant, Soviet resettlement (see also Paige Box 22, pp. 2, 3; Box

24); Soviet Resettlement in-kind documentation

Block grant financial reports 1979-81

United Way 1980-1986

Soviet Jewish publicity 1973-1993

Box 7: 1990s to 1999

Russian Settlements, New Americans Photographs: New Americans 1988-94; 1990, 1995

New Americans: see also RG 1: 27, HIAS agreements



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1990-92 Minutes, New Americans – clippings, newsletters, publications; Chesed 1996-99

Box 7A: 1995 Chesed coffee mug, 1991 Annual meeting videotape & VHS tapes of

Soviet Jews’ weddings

Box 7B (oversize): Chesed Dinner (5/1/03) historical photographic exhibit FSU Jews

arriving; Chesed Award : Hattye Bubis (1996) 1995-2992 list; old JCC lib pic of Bd of

Directos; Rabbi Lewinthal; Vine Street Temple;; Lydia Kornman; Henry and Caroline

Spitz; Leah Belle Eskind; Manuel Eskind; Rabbi Julius Mark; Sam Levy; Annette Eskind;

Nathan Cline; Louis Bernheim; etc.

Box 8: 2000’s

Chesed Award Dinner programs 2000-current, Chesed History, JFS Staff (Sogol);

clippings, flyers, newsletters, Senior Service booklet, Annual Meeting invites and

programs; some photographs on DVD of Chesed 2011, 2012

BINDERS (white) of minutes: Vol I – 1976-1989; Vol II 1990-2001; Vol III 2002 -

2019

MS 1: Sherith Israel

Box 1: 1871-1966

Deeds/Charters: KK Shehares cong. (Julius Circkle) 1876, sold cemetery property.

Hungarian Benevolent Society, July 1887. “Scherith” Israel, August 1997. .”Shereth”

Israel 1905.

Histories, Fedora Frank, Harry Hersh, Nat Weise

Photographs: Sherith Israel (see also slides of 1983 video for old house), Rabbi and Mrs.

Kaufman ca. 1945

1905, 1913,1920, 1953 constitutions

“Some Notes…” by L.H. Small

Cemetery

Presidents

1907 Dedication program. Purchase of Pews 1907

“Our Young Hebrew Club” Minutes 1918-21

Photo of rabbis who testified for Kosher Law ca. 1929. Men’s club officers ca. 1939

1932 religious school play program

Photos of Rabbi Chill, With L.H. Small, with Harry Stern. Harry Stern and class (Cascade

Plunge 1949)

Kadimah Club, 1940s bulletin and correspondence. Synagogue Youth clubs 1940s,

Schklars

Minutes of the Congregation: (scattered, 1954- 1960). Men’s Club minutes 1938-40

Transition from Fifth Avenue to West End 1940s

Clippings 1920s, 1930s,1958-66

Union of Orthodox Jewish congs. 1955, 1963 Southeastern conferences



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Members who served in WWII

Torah Scroll dedication to Lee Kuhn (JDC), 1945

1963 dedication of new building. Photos of new building

Box 2: Bulletins 1968-1995, Herman Kaplan, sisterhood, Photos, 1970s-1980s

Box 3: Rabbi Posner, Clippings, flyers, bulletins 1998-2004.

100th Anniversary 2005, Memorial Prayer Book

Box 4: Bulletins, clippings: 2005- . Photos of interior , exterior (acc 2025). Rabbis 2000-

current, Jewish Middle School of Nashville 2015, cemetery plot maps

Box 5: shoebox with Rabbi Abramson’s artifacts

MS 2 Temple Archives (located at The Temple in green type)

FOR JCC TEMPLE HOLDINGS, SEE END OF MS 2 (black type begins on

page 29)

Box 1:

Original cemetery book, B'nai Yeshurun, 1863-1882

Cemetery records 1851-1900 (history of cemetery)

Jewish marriages 1855-1900

Jewish community 1885-1889 (with Fedora's lists)



List of Newspaper clippings 1900-1910

Box 2:

1. Newspapers 1849-1888 (see list). Electrical letter 1895. Alb Rosenfeld's 1862 letter

(see OB). .

2. Pictures: Lande, Blum, Weil, Spitz, Barker, Sulzbacher (to JF)

3. Charters: Ladies' Working Society; Ohavai Shalom 1868,1933,1954; Mogen David

1854, 1855. Act to permit rabbis to perform weddings. Marriage license Simon Cohen,

Rebecca Greenbaum, Nov. 18, 1855 (A. Iser). .

5. Cemetery deeds, papers,

6. Early prayerbooks

7. Collection book 1893-1894

8.Yearbooks 1902-03, 1903-04

Box 3:

1. Jews buying and selling property

Notes on Nashville graduates

B'nai Yeshurun officers 1864-1876

Officers of Ladies' Working Society 1878-1891



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Ohava Emes officers 1863-1867

Officers, board members of Nashville congregations 1851-1904

2. Spanish American War Veterans

YMHA News, June 1918--members in WWI

Davidson County Jewish boys in WWI

Photos of WWII memorial marker in Temple cemetery , group with Julius Mark at Oahu

1945

WALKIE TALKIE 1944-1945 (sent to servicemen. Oct. 1944: "Out of 580 members, the

Vine Street Temple boasts 209 men and women in the armed services."

5. Rabbi Lewinthal: Resolution of Condolences on death of his wife Estelle Bloch

8/30/1921. Newspapers 2/7/1891; sermon 9/19/1908; 1/8/1898; 1919-1922. "Ten Years"

report, 1898 (lists of officers, confirmands, etc.) "Scriptural Question" (San Antonio).

25th Anniversary program. Obituaries (served 34 years, d.1922). Photos. SEE OB for

testimonial

6. Vine Street Temple: Photos. Jeffrey Zager research paper (also information about 1954

Temple)

Insurance payment 1843

Census of Temple by First Baptist Church 1885

Rabbi Isidore Lewinthal’s mortuary record 1888-1922 (Indexed)/ See Marriage Books,

OB 10

Box 4:

2. Early cemetery: 1887 title; removal of fence between O.S. and A.I. (Adath Israel) 1912,

1909: sale of property to A.I. Construction papers 1885 chapel.

3. Cemetery records 1927-1941.

4. Cemetery (transferred to Nat Weise box)

5. Cemetery bequests 1940s, 1950s (see also Nat Weise box)

6. Papers of Mrs. J.C. Lusky pertaining to cemetery 1933 (to box 42)

7. Cemetery notebooks

Box 5: Rabbis (See also Box 7, 7A)

1. Richard Stern 1923-1926

2. Newspaper clippings 1920-1936 (Pastors' assn. protests treatment of Jews in Germany)

3. Julius Mark 1926-1948. 1924--Fiftieth Anniversary of V.S. Temple

7. Lou Silberman (See also JF Archives MS 34)

8. Sylvan Schwartzman (1948-50)

9. Bernard Bloom, Rabbi Sheingold, Byron Rubenstein, Isadore Kalisch, A. Wechsler

(B'nai Yeshurun), I. Moses, Herman Saltzman (not O.S.), J.S. Goldhamer, D. Burgheim

(See: Lewinthal, Box 3)

List of Temple Presidents and Rabbis

CD of Temple Presidents pics(1876-2008) and 2007-08 Confirmation Class

Box 6:

1.Confirmation service programs 1894-1989

2. Confirmation banquets, skits)



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Box 6A (See Rabbi Fuchs’s dissertation, Box 7A):

Confirmation pictures 1895-2004 (see also OB26 for 1939)

50th reunion of class of 1952 disc (October 2002)

60th reunion of class of 1935 (1995)

Scans and CD and negatives of Confirmation pictures in hall (see also oversize shelf and

against Archives wall below, 2007-8, Box 5 with presidents) Against wall:1976, 1984,

1990, 1994, 1996*, 1997* 1998*, 1999, 2000*, 2001. (*Duplicates) Oversize : 1982,

1983, 1984, 1989, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000. Originals (on oversize shelf): 1975, 1977,

1978, 1979, 1980. On Shelf: 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1989.

From Betty Lee Rosen, 4/8/07: Confirmation Composites:

Against Wall: ORIGINALS; 1976, 1984, 1990, 1994, 1996*, 1997*, 1998*, 1999, 2000*,

2001.

DUPLICATES: (oversize)*: 1982, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000.

ORIGINALS ON OVERSIZE SHELF: 1975, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983,

1989

Box 6B: For 1939, 1935 certificates, SEE OB 26

Confirmation 1957-1967, 1977,1978, 1979. See also 13D for Confirmation papers in

with annual folders.

Box 6C:

Confirmation 1968-1975, 1939-1956 programs, speeches, etc.

Box 6D: Confirmation 1990 to date

Box 7: Rabbis: (see also Boxes 5, 7A, 8)

Rabbi Ken Kanter (installed 11/21/80, to Mizpah 11/23/83

Rabbi Jan Brahms (asst. rabbi 1976-1980; to Baton Rouge 1980-83; back to Temple as

assoc. rabbi 1983, then to Madison WI, Texas, retired

Rabbi Fred Guttman

Rabbi Randall Falk (and videotape of 75th b'day 1996)

General Randall Falk

Vote on cantors 1978, cantor Cline, Elson

Cantor Peter Halpern 1980-84

Box 7A: Rabbis: (See also Box 5, 8)

Rabbi Beth Davidson

Rabbi Stephen Fuchs (slides, etc., installation 9/5/86; papers) 1986-97

Rabbi David Davis (1997-2001 )

Rabbi Mark Schiftan 1999-

Cantor Bernard Gutcheon. Mrs. Lynda Gutcheon, educator

Rabbi Allison Flash

Rabbi Shana Goldstein

Rabbi Alexis Berk



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Box 8: (See Box 5, 7A for other rabbis)

Rabbi Bernard Starkoff

Rabbi William Silverman (1950-1960). See JF Archives

Groundbreaking photos Harding Road, cornerstone laying : Harding road (see also Paige

Box 8)

Louis Nicholas papers inventory at JUL

Tercentenary celebration, 1654-1954: Oct. 1954-May 1955 gubernatorial proclamation.

scrapbook.

Dedication 1955 (see also Paige Box 8)

Box 9:

Temple minutes 1898-1923, 1902-1912, 1913-1924.

Addenda to annual meeting minutes 1898-1925

Box 9A:

Temple minutes 1920-1926, 1926-1933 , Oct. 1937

Box 10A: Minutes 1937-1958

Box 10B: Minutes 1958-1967

Box 10C: Minutes 1968-1974

Box 10D: Minutes 1975-1982

Box 10E: Minutes 1982-1983 (missing 1984-85 [for 1985-87, see Audiocassettes]. 1987-

88, 1989-90). 1991-2000 (Minutes, July 2000-2004: Mitzie. 2004- : Donna

Box 11A:

Temple Bulletins 1926 (once)-1966 ( 4/18/61, Social Justice Com. Est. Fred Goldner,

first chr., 8/15/61

Box 11B:

Temple Bulletins 1967-1975

Box 11C:


Box 11D:


Box 11E:




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Box 11EE:


Box 12: Temple Youth

1940s, 1950s to date

Box 12A: Temple Youth

Box 12B: Temple Youth

1950s to date

3 bound volumes, Programs, OVFTY Regional Conclave in Nashville, 1967, 1970, 1974

(on shelf)

Box 13A: Religious School

Hattye Bubis PTA (organized Nov. 1926) president's report 1926-1927

Enrollment 1929-1957

1953-1954 (includes Confirmation)

1954-1955 (includes Confirmation, plus Julius Mark letter: Confirmation is always

Shavuot)

1955-1961

Student Council 1963-1975

Policies 1937-1976

Pageant by Rabbi Richard Stern ca. 1925

Box 13B: Religious School

THE CONFIRMER: 1950-1, 1952, 1954, 1955

Religious School publications 1950-1971

Religious school administrative policies 1937-1976

Student Council 1963-1975

Literary magazines 1972-1983

Personnel practices 1973

Teachers’ salaries 1972-1982

Hebrew Program

Box 13C: Religious School

Consecration pictures, etc. 1947-2010

School pictures 1940s-1960s

Bar/Bat mitzvah 1950s (Bat started 1957), speeches, etc., also 1970s

Religious school 1961-1985

Box 13D: Religious School

Genealogy elective grades 4-5-6 Fall 1983; 7-8, 4-5-6 1983-84. See also oral histories

Attendance books 1978-85

Pre-Confirmation class 1984-85



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Religious School Committee 1977-78, 1981-86

Faculty bulletins, roster, 1986-89

Sisterhood Rel. School textbook sales 1967-77

Box 13E: Religious School

Handbooks, directories 1984-85, 1994-96, 1998-2000, 2004-5

Dedication Rel. school 2000

Yearbooks 1988-89, 1989-90, 1991-92

Rosters 1991-98

Teachers’ manuals 1988-89, 1989-90, 1992-93

Curriculum 1991-92

Ruachs 1994-95, 1999, 2005

NATE accreditation 1998, Committee minutes 4/27/99

Songbook (n.d.)

Box 14: Religious School

William Rosenblum director of religious school 1919(?)-1923 Moved to box 16)

Religious school 1999-to date

Playschool 1998-

2001-2002 budget

2002-2003

Costa Rica Torah 2007

2008 Tzedakah allocations

Box 15:

1924: Fiftieth Anniversary (of Vine Street Temple building)

1928 anniversary, 60th

1931; Religious school addition

1934: Testimonial dinner honoring Nathan Cohn for 50 yrs. of service

1938: 70th Anniversary

1943: 75th anniversary (historical skit and notes) OBSERVER 12/3/43

1948: correspondence about 80th anniversary

1958: 90th anniversary

100th anniversary of joining UAHC 1973

Special services (VE day, Randall Falk's 10th anniv, 1976, first Selichot, 1972, 1973

Selichot (Lou Silberman)

High holiday services: 1906, 1911, letters telling how to get tickets to War Memorial for

1948 high holydays, etc., tickets 1951-52; seating capacity of VS Temple vs. War

Memorial

Social Justice Committee Minutes 1963 (see also Box 32 for SJ history)

Annual meetings 1972-76, 1986 (1968, 100th)

Box 16:

NASHVILLE: THE GATEWAY OF THE SOUTH (1970)

NASHVILLE AS A WORLD RELIGIOUS CENTER, by James Carty (1958)



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TENNESSEE HISTORY IN BRIEF

STUDY OF JEWISH POPULATION OF NASHVILLLE, 1949

THREE QUARTERS OF A CENTURY (1880s map; First American 1957)

FIRSTS IN NASHVILLE, A PICTORIAL HISTORY (maps)

NASHVILLE SKYLINE (1975, Vanderbilt exhibit--story of Schnell family)

Attempted bombing of The Temple 1981

Dr. Albert Weinstein

Richard Morin, educator

Congregational leaders (presidents) and William Rosenblum, director of Religious School

1919(?)-1923

Annual meetings 1994-96

Membership Committee Reports 1988-90

Board and Committee lists 1988-89

Temple Board members 1950s-1980s

Box 17A: Annual meeting minutes 1924-1964

Box 17B: Annual meeting minutes 1965-1984

Membership roster 1983

Box 18: Constitutions:

1890 constitution and By-Laws

1909 Charter, Constitution and By Laws

1923 constitution

Constitution 1943-2000

Box 19: Brotherhood 1925-1994. History of Brotherhood /Sisterhood Interfaith Dinner

1945-1994

Box 20: Sisterhood

“The Oppenheim Pictures”

Early annual reports. SEE OB 2 for 1949-50 annual report (scroll)

1901 Bazaar book (Ladies' Auxiliary)--see OB1 for Journal; copy of 1896 burial shroud

receipt

Photographs of holiday table settings (n.d)

Program material 1922-25

Institutes and conferences 1923-71

Clippings 1920-1959

50 yr. history 1870-1929

“A Modern Moses,” by Fedora Frank 1935-61

Report of KY-TN Fed. Temple Sisterhoods 1/13/28 and plaque to Corinne Lieberman

Cohn from them

1920-1960 (See also OB 4 scrapbooks)

Box 20A: Sisterhood minutes 1916-1925



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Box 20B: Sisterhood minutes 1926-1941

Annual reports, 1939-40, 1940-42

History 1932-1949 Part 2

Constitution and by-laws, 1937, 1997

Box 20C: Sisterhood minutes 1941-1960

Hattye Bubis 1947-49 Annual Report and papers

Box 20D: Sisterhood minutes 1960-1968

Box 20E: Sisterhood minutes 1968-1982, motions passed 1966-78 (Temple Playschool

opened Mar. 2, 1976)

Box 20F: Sisterhood Minutes 1979-2001

Financial Statements 1991-1999

Box 21: Sisterhood final reports, treasurers' reports, gift shop reports, NFTS 1968-1979

Housekeeping inventories 1968-1975

Ohio Valley Federation Biennial April 18-20, 1988 (Nashville); 1980-1990

Passover Recipes from the Outreach Committee

Ways and Means 1962-1973

Box 22: Sisterhood Annual Reports 1969-1994. (Playschool began 1975-76)

Undated programs

1950-1992 Photos, clippings, flyers, etc.

1976 Fedora Frank, “Our Nashville Jewish Pioneers”

Sisterhood Shabbats, 1970-87. “A Salute to our 50-year members”, 1975.

Box 23: Sisterhood 1993-2007 papers, photos

Yearbooks 1952-2003 (5714, 5716, 5718, 5719, 5726, 5728, 5730, 5731 (scanned hist.

pictures, 5734, 5741-56) 2002 missing (see Jewish Fed. Archives)

See also scrapbooks on oversize shelves: 1962-1967, 1967-81, 1985-94 (1916-1962 in

OB 4)

Box 24:

Marriage Books: 1896-1928, 1950-1967

Young Marrieds 1958

Boy Scout Troop 40: 1960s, 1970s

Choir, Jewish Music Month

Campaign 1951 (UAHC, HUC)

Clarence Bernstein Memoriam

Box 25:



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List of Contents of Paige boxes

Rabbi Falk's Correspondence 1970s,1980s (mostly Federation) See also Box 38, Paige

boxes 1-3.

Rabbi Falk's correspondence L-Z 1984 (philosophy re intermarriage 1968). Kelly Miller

Smith resolution

Clippings 1966, 1981-82 (Ray Ham)

Rabbi Falk's correspondence 1974-1984

Scattered 1968 Minutes and correspondence

1960-1970 correspondence, minutes, etc.

Choir 1959 (Silverman wanted a cantor/Harold Katz), 1960 (Falk)-1981 (Peter Halpern)

Building and maintenance 1969-70 (youth lounge addition, rabbinage)

Black-Jewish dialogue 1980-81

B'nai B'rith BBYO 1977

MTSU 1978-84

Jr. League, Kiwanis 1981

Metro and state gov't (R. Fulton's inaugural invocation 9/2/75) 1966-75

UAHC Midwest Council Biennial, Nashville 1978

Box 26: Renovations:

Front office/rabbi’s study 1981

Classroom/conference room 1983

Restrooms/cloakroom 1983

Sanctuary/auditorium/extended foyer 1984

Chapel 1980-82

Box 26A Renovations:

Memorial alcove/gift shop 1983

Sanctuary/memorial alcove 1982-84

The Temple—Photos/architects renderings 1957-80

Traditions exhibit 1986

Torah table 1987

Temple aerial view 1987. Photos 1990

Interior remodeling 1984

Box 27:

Beautification Committee 1958-1976, 1980-86

Library 1979

Box 28:

Adult education seminars 1950-1986

Box 29: Cemetery (Nat Weise) (See OB 2)

Old chapel photo and postcard

Cemetery history

Loveman-Mills1971



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Correspondence 1954-61, 1960s

Committee minutes, etc. 1950s, 1956

Information 1952-54, 1956-58, 1964, 1968-69, 1975-79, 1984-85

Society on Dying, Death, and Bereavement 1980

1964, Flagpole donated by Mitch Magid. April 15, 1964, Caretaker’s house completed

1963, War memorial, by Hunt & Sons

The Bowies, Nov. 1, 1925 (10/23/28 still there)-1950s, caretakers before Radford Stewart

Radford Stewart and wife, caretakers 1960s-1975 (when William Wallace took over)

Box 30: Cemetery (Nat Weise):

1950s, 1960s. 1963 Cemetery rules (blue book). 1967 Perpetual Care

Box 31:

Gifts to The Temple 1966-1986

Torah mantles (and needlepoint binders)1976

Holocaust Torah 1980

Art acquisition panel 1984-85

Legacy of Loyalty committee 1982-86

Library and Museum Committee 1984-85

Temple membership brochures 1970s, 1980s

1960s: Administrative Survey (1966). Administrator (1967). Liquor (1969). Couples

Club

Box 32: Committees 1960s, 1970s & 1980s. List of committees 1960-61

Temple Survey 1979

Social Action Com. 1979-86. History of Social Justice/Social Action Com. 1961-2007

(information 2/25/94: committee established 4/18/1961 minutes; added to Temple

Constitution 2/15/65, ART. VII, Sec. 20; Chairmen: Fred Goldner 12/19/61; Robert

Eisenstein 1964; Annette Levy [Ratkin] 1965-68; Louise Katzman 1975; Bernard Werthan

Jr. 1975-76; Davine Levison 1976; Ethel Lutin 1979; Molly Slabosky 1980-81). Social

Action 2010

Hope Inc. house renovation 1983

Long Range planning 1981-86

Ways and Means 1980-83

Temple Board of Trust and committee lists 1970-71, 1980-89

1982 Guide for the Use of Temple Property

(Beautification Com. started 1957. Investment Committee started 1957: May 19, 1957,

Annual Meeting minutes)

Box 33: Committees:

Worship and Music 1980

Nominating 1983-84

Building and Maintenance 1982-84

Playschool 1976-84 (1983 T shirt)

Personnel practices 1963-75 (Morin hiring)



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Committees 1984-85

Senior Templars 1980s, album 1985-86, 1990s

Thursday AM study group 1977-83

New York trip (adult) 1985

Correspondence 1985

All Tennessee Congregations meeting 1984

Adult Jewish Singles 1979-80

1958 certificate as a founding congregation of UAHC (85th anniv.)

Adult Ed. course outlines 1985

Board of Trust shabbatons 1985

Financial reports 1985-86

Adult Ed committee 1984-1990

Funds Committee 1980s

Adult Ed.: Elie Wiesel, Friday, Feb. 20, 1970, 8PM

Worship Committee 2003-2004

Box 34: Shabbat festival 1974

Shabbaton 1980

Box 35:

Redeemed bonds (1892), old insurance policies

Correspondence about first organ 1893m receipts, 1890s

Bequests 1931-1980

Ellendale property deeds (to Julius Mark)

1954 Sale of Vine St. Temple property

Ledger bequests 1960s

Box 36: Temple Art (Julius Mark oil portrait, by Max Westfield [SC 190], from Shamus

Club, Sept. 21, 1948)

Chaim Gross

Kopel Gurwin applique banner

Oded Halachmy pomegranate gate

Louis Kaish kiddush cup (Hecht)

A. Raymond Katz (memorial alcove door, stained glass windows, exterior stone

sculpture, bronze medallions of the Tanach, chapel menorah)

Herman Perlman glass

Ludwig Wolpert shabbat candelabra

Barney Zeitz glass art

Reuven Rubin 1977

Stained glass windows, Vine Street Temple

Memorial Hanukkiah, ca. 1945

Torah Crown, 1876

Box 36A: Ben Shahn mosaic,

Ayalah Gordon torah covers (see Family Room Closet).



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Temple Beautification history and minutes (Beck Raskin)

“Seven Days of Creation” sanctuary tapestry, 2008 (see oversize shelf for boards)

Box 37: Miscellaneous: Purim textile (Florence Eskind Zucker) on oversize shelf.

Peggy Steine Hannukiyah, Medallic history coins (Bender), Kuhn Seder plate (in honor of

Rabbi Falk’s retirement?), Ira Arbitman vitrage (destroyed), Marc Chagall painting,

Shraga Weil painting, Sukkah (Limor/Denbo), B. Weinstein megillah, Agam, Ilya Schor

rimonim,

Art appraisal 1982/Sukkah 1981

Helen Silberman sculpture 1982 (Oct. 16, 1981, Chapel letter, Box 26)

Guide to archaeological exhibit (Bronfman, Simon Weil, Israel Museum)

Sig Held photos of Temple art (Confirmation pics to Box 6A

Slides/negatives Temple art

Israel ritual objects.

Torah covers. Rosemary May (1990). Lurie, Larochette (2010), gift of Barbara and Bud

Zander

Susan Knowles Art Catalog 1994 (rev. 2004)

Torahs (includes Holocaust Torah)

Vine Street Temple Stained glass

Paint Specs for walls in memorial alcove (weekly)

Laurie Gross stained glass

2005 brochure

Description of Temple art

Kiddush wine goblet, in memory of Dianne Gilbert 2005

“Bagels and Barbecue” artifacts 2007-8

Silver antique Judaica (plexiglass wall display) in memory of Carl Goldstein, May 7, 1991

Box 38:

Rabbi Falk’s correspondence 1981-83 (see also Paige Boxes 1-3)

Box 39:

1991 140th anniversary photo album

1980 Temple fundraiser and 25th anniversary of new building

1983 Katz fundraiser

Hank Brooks campership Fund 1982-83

Funds committee 1981-84

Investment committee 1981-84

Financial reports 1982-83

Box 40: 1998-2002

Remembrance booklets

Membership directories

1998-1999

150th anniversary publications, programs 2000-01

2000-2002 file

Histories (old, and recent); membership brochures 1970s



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Congregants’ Hour disc, 1990-1995 (??) see 40A

Box 40A: Mitzvah Day 1995-

Ch.5 videotape Habitat for Humanity 9/9/01

Books of Remembrance 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002

Congregants’ Hour disc 1990-1995. Constitution (May 2002), latest

Box 40B: Jewish Film Festival 2001-2004 (from JF Archives Acc2062, Kathy Gutow

collection) (see ALRJCA at GJCC for 2005-current)

Box 41: 2003-2007

Pictures of Temple that are on Mitzie (Temple) computer

See VIDEO Box: 2003 Distinguished Lecture Series, 2003 Community Thanksgiving

Service,

June 19, 2004 Adult B’nai Mitzvah,

Committee reports.

Annual meetings 2007

Box 41A: 2007-2010

Past presidents

Beautification Committee 2001-2007. 2008 workshop.

Library and archives committee 2007-

Playschool 2008

Box 42: Cemetery Committee 2003-2006 (See OB2, 2A)

National Register of Historic Places, 2004; Historic Marker, 2004

Tennessee Historical Commission grant 2004-5, 2005-6

Cemetery tours: Parthenon, Sept. 20, 2005; USN, 4/23/06

(information: Alvin Friedman, Cem. Chair 1958; War Memorial 1963, Jas. Hunt & Sons;

Flagpole 1964 donated by Mitch Magid; April 15, 1964, caretaker’s home completed)

Ben Page plan 2004

Box 43: Cemetery 2006-

Metro Historical Commission Commissioners’ Award

Book Burial 2008

Cemetery committee 2006-

Rules and Regulations 2009

Maps and Histories, Section F list

Copies of Mrs. J.C. Lusky’s cemetery papers (from Box 4)

OB 1: Confirmation pictures 1943 (see also box 6A)

Marriage certificate of Henry Simpson and Mary Cronstein Jan. 13, 1884

Marriage cert. of Theodore Ash and Julia Blumenthal Jan. 20 1886

Confirmation cert. of Selene Goldberg , May 29 1925

Marriage certificate of Gilbert J. Fox and Natelle Hirsch March 25, 1919



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THE BAZAAR JOURNAL Dec. 16, 1901 (see box 20)

Centennial of HUC, 125th year of Ohabai Shalom--election of Mrs. David Steine as

president 1976

Natelle Hirsch's confirmation certificate June 5, 1908

Confirmation certificate Samuel Hirshberg June 5, 1946

Confirmation certificate Dave Lowenstein 1894

Charter of incorporation of Hebrew Relief Society Aug. 31, 1891

Charter of Incorporation of Avath Achim May 11, 1892

Charter of Incorporation of YMHA Feb. 7 1903

Picture of Rabbi Falk (1950s, and State of TN House Resolution 1986

1976 annual meeting of congregation

Pictures of Hanukkah, NASHVILLE BANNER 12/19/84 (to Gutcheon)

Blueprints: Sanctuary refurbishment (Bulla 1984); Memorial Alcove (Berle Pilsk);

bathroom 1982

Mimi Klein newspaper article 1984 (Hanukkah)

Lucite feet for Holocaust Torah display

OB 2: Cemetery book from 1925—. Maps, deeds of cemetery (copies in Cemetery

Record closet (on top of file cabinet) in Conference room

Photos from Miriam Weinstein of old cemetery chapel

Photo of Harry Blum, Nat Weise 1988

Photos of Temple exterior and Pomegranate Gate by Miriam Weinstein

Vine Street Temple Sisterhood Annual Report 1949-50 (scroll from Box 20)

OB 2A: Cemetery wall pictures pre renovation 2004

Oversize Box 3:

Ledgers: Vine Street Temple Improvement Fund, April 1937. Operation journal 1945-

1948. Contributions to funds 1967-1970

Marriage record books 1967-1978, 1978-1986

OB 4: Sisterhood scrapbooks 1916-1957 (see also Box 20)

Paige boxes (tan office-size):

Rabbi Falk's Files:

Paige Box 1:

Bar/Bat Mitzvah 1979-1987

Adult Bar/Bat Mitzvahs 1982-1985

Boy Scout Sabbath

Congregational Seders, 1950s-1980s

Freedom Seder for Black clergy 1985

Passover Memorial Service outlines 1970s-1980s

Passover seders- other churches, 1980s

B'rit and Naming and Blessing a baby services 1970s 1980s



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College Homecoming Sabbath 1970s-1984

Baccalaureate services 1960s-1980s (retrieved, Lee)

Music services 1950s

Brotherhood sabbaths 1980s

Chanukah workshop programs 1981

Services chavurot 1980s

New member--Services of consecration 1980s

Organ 1980s, 1950s

Boy Scout sabbath 1970s

Outreach sabbath 1985

"Congregational Encounter" 1975

Congregational responses "A Moment in Time" 1974

Consecration poem 1973

Consecration services 1980s

Shabbat HaGadol

Dedication Sabbaths 1984, 1982

Jewish Experiential Workshops 1970s

Kabbalat Shabbat, Lag Baomer

Mother's Day 1985

Minyan 1976

Moratorium Day 1969

Services:

Creative (Nashville)

Special

Israel Independence Day

Youth

Yom Kippur Eve

Marriage 1970s & 1980s

Summer 1982

Sukkot to 1985

Temple Youth 1980s

Community Thanksgiving 1980

Tisha B'ab 1970

UAHC Midwest Council Shabbat 1984

Sisterhood programs 1949-77

Sisterhood annual shabbats 1971-85 (interspersed in Box 22)

Sisterhood-Brotherhood 1961, 1966,1976

Tenth Anniversary Richard Morin (Educator) 1973

Simchat Torah (Consecration) 1957-85

Purim/Pesach 1964-75

Physicians' Sabbath 1967

Shabbat 1950-75

Selichot 1970s

Shimini Atzeret 1977-85



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Paige Box 2: Rabbi Falk's files, from Lee Haas 6/4/86

Board of Trustees 1978-81

Cradle Roll 1977-85

Budget and Finance Com. 1980-84

Building and maintenance 1980-82

Caring and Concern 1983-85

Cantors 1978- (Sheila Cline--first cantor; congregational meeting 1980; question of

making a permanent position, 1981, etc.)

Cemetery Committee 1980-84, 1985-86

College Committee 1983-84

Committee Chaimen 1983-84

Deaths 1983-84

Couples Club 1980-84

Adult Education 1984-85

Goldman Camp Institute 1979-84

Camperships 1976-85

Tennessee State Archives 1977

United Nations 1978

United Way 1976-83

Board of Trust Shabbaton 1984

Temple brochures

Hank Brooks Campership Fund 1984

Building and Maintenance Committee 1984-85

Buz-A-Bus 1978-83

Chavurot: I-III single women 1983-84; II 1969 (extinct); III 1981-85

Youth Choir 1981-83

Clergy Institute 1980, 1985

Constitution and ByLaws 1979-84

Contingency Committee 1984

Docents Class 1983-84

Financial Reports 1983-85

Funds Committee 1984-85

Temple Grounds 1977-80

Insurance Coverage 1981-82

Israel trip 1985

Job descriptions 1979-80

Laotian family 1979

Marriage encounter 1976

Marriage enrichment seminar 1979

Nominating committee 1984-85

General Memorial Fund 1979-85

Outreach committee 1984-85

Public Relations Committee 1972-80

Personnel and administrative Practice Committee 1980-83

Prayer Books 1980-84



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President's Council 1979-85

Temple property 1967-80

Sex education Grade 8 1984-85

Singles club for Jewish adults 1982-84

Estelle and Horace Small Campership Fund 1984

Social Action committee 1984-85; Elkins ave. house 1982-83

Society on Dying, Death and Bereavement 1979-82

Torah Commentary 1980-83

Simon Weil Lectureship 1979-83

Executive Committee 1985-86

Membership Committee 1985-86

Nominating Committee 1985-86

Library and Museum Committee 1985-86

Fees committee 1985-86

Dues Equalization Committee 1985-86

Committee Chairmen 1985-86

Hank Brooks Campership Fund 1985

Budget and Finance Committee 1985-86

Estelle and Horace Small Campership Fund 1985

Worship and Music Committee 1984-86

Paige Box 3: (Rabbi Falk)

Bar Mitzvah Michael Friedman (Zimmerman)- Israel 1983

Interfaith services 1978-85

Bar Mitzvah-Soviet Jewry 1983

Adult Jewish Singles Service 1977

Passover Services and programs 1985-86

Prayers 1966-85

Purim

High holidays

Yom Hashoah service 1983

Sample letters--People to People sabbaths 1963-74

High holyday music outlines thru 1977

Shevuot 1985

Selichot services 1979-85

Baccalaureate services 1965-80

Yom Kippur outlines 1981-83

Rosh Hashona outlines 1981-83

High holyday participants 1978-85

High holidays 1978-85

Yom Kippur youth services 1960-80

High holydays: Minyan services (auxiliaries) 1979-87

Memorial services 1964-85 (cemetery)—during high holydays

Yom Kippur family services 1958-84

Rosh Hashonah children's services thru 1983



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Yom Kippur outlines 1978-80

Rosh Hashanah outlines 1978-80

High holydays 1978-85

Correspondence n-r 1985-86

Sermons, Erie, PA

Paige Box 4: Rabbi Falk’s sermons

Paige Box 5: Rabbi Fuchs correspondence (1986-90)

Paige Box 6: Rabbi Fuchs:

Correspondence 1991

Negatives rabbinage, 1209 Canterbury (new roof)

Annual meetings 1980,1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1997

Committees:

Worship and Music 1986-87

Temple Youth 1985-87

Small campership fund 1986-87

Social Action 1987-91

Sisterhood 1987-88, 1990-91

Senior Templars 1986-87

Resignations 1985-87

Religious school committee 1986-89

Playschool 1984-88

Outreach 1987-90

Nominations 1986-87

Membership 1987-90

Long range planning 1986-87, 1990

Library, Archives, Museum 1983-84, 1987-88

Investment 1986-87

Hospitality and attendance 1986-87

Dues equalization 1987-88

Cong. Relations 1986-87

Cemetery 1987-90

Caring and concern 1986-87

Building maintenance 1987-88

Budget 1987-91

Brotherhood 1987-88,1990-91

Board of Trustees 1987-88

Adult education 1986-87

Beautification 1986-90

Deaths 1984-90

Computer 1982-89

College dinner 1988-91

Chavurah 3 1985-86



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Chavurot 1,4,5,6, single women 1983-85

Catholic-Jewish dialogue 1986-91

Couples Club 1985-86

Administrator bookkeeper 1966-90

Judaica gift shop 1979-85

Lee and Theresa Kuhn Fund 1982-85

Kuhn Memorial Fund 1978-85

Rosalie Lockenbach fund 1982

Lunch with the rabbi 1987-88

New members 1985-88

Memorial tablets committee 1985

Perpetual care 1987

Komisar book fund 1968-87

Upper school curriculum 1990-91

Post confirmation 1988-90

Religious school 1988-91

Sisterhood study circle 1981-87

Tax exempt cert. 1983

Small Congregations Conference1991

Don Jacobs loan fund 1990

Confirmation fundraiser 1990-91

College students 1990-91

Paige Box 7: See also Rabbi Fuchs’s secretary’s notebook with data for 1993-5

Rabbi Fuchs correspondence 1992-95

Discretionary Fund requests 1993-96

High Holiday security, 1976-98

Paige Box 8:

Building campaign 1952 (decisions to move)

Construction of new Temple 1955 (memorial alcove, pews, art, organ)

Youth Lounge 1969-81

Kitchen 1959

Guest book 1957-64

1954 groundbreaking, cornerstone laying, naming of Temple (see also gray Box 8)

Dedication Aug. 26-28, 1955

Memorial alcove gate rendering

Construction specs: memorial alcove, pews, organ, etc.

Kitchen remodeling plans, etc. 1959

Paige Box 9 : Audiovisuals (See also White boxes 1,2,3,4, Fuchs/Davidson/Morris

audiotapes)

1983 polaroid photos

Videos:

Katz 4/24/83 2c video, script



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Bluegrass to Broadway 11/14/93 2c

Cornerstone dedication Summer 1954, Rabbi Silverman's WSM noon show 7/16/57

Edna Falk's Sisterhood Sabbath 2/21/86

Kol Nidre services Oct. 10, 1978

Audiotapes: Family history/genealogy electives 1980-83; library/literary electives;

interviews with faculty, discussion with students (Cantor Halpern, Morin, Ken Kanter,

etc.)

Slides:

FOREVER FREEDOM Passover slide show (Leslie Kamenshine, Sharon Charney), April

1973: script, slides

1973, Casino night 1974, 1980, 1981

1983 annual meeting (?)

Sanctuary refurbishment 1984

Audiotapes:

Rabbi Jan Brahms farewell 12/20/85

Gunther Plaut (3 tapes) 3/22-24/85

Rev. Jimmy Snow 1979

(Orange box):

1975 Confirmation (2)

Dr. Jacob Marcus 10/17-18/75 (9 tapes), 10/21/85

Dr. Michael Cook 3/7-8/80 5 tapes

Dr. Liston Mills 10/5/80

Dr. Lou Silberman "The Torah as Read by the Rabbis" Jan 27 (?)

Dr. Eugene Borowitz 3/14/82

Katz 3/24/83

Falk, Death and Dying seminar 2/28/82

Rededication (renovation) sabbath 11/16/84

Adult Bnai Mitzvah 6/7/85

Sisterhood Sabbath honoring Edna Falk 2/21/86

Abba Eban 11/9/85

Lawrence Kushner (2 tapes) 1985 to Gwen 9/21/99

Vine street 8PM 3/15/85

Lydia Kukoff 3/7/86

Al Vorspan 4/4/86

Confirmation 5/25/85

Reel to Reel:

May 27, 1983 First Adult Bnai Mitzva

Katz rehearsal 4/24/83

Farewell to Cantor Peter Halpern 6/17/83

Paige Box 10: Ledgers

Rabbi Lewinthal’s marriage book 1881-1896

Tribute to Rabbi Lewinthal from his Confirmands 1889-1911 (copy framed in corridor by

elevator)

Ledger: Fund contributions 1970-75, 1977-82 (3)



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4 office boxes of Fuchs/Davidson/Morris audiotapes: 1) 1986-88;2)1987-1991; 3)1991-

94; 4)1994-97

Plaques on Oversize shelf: Certificate of Appreciation, the Temple School, Special

Oympics, May 15, 1992. Mayor’s 1998 Metro Beautification Award: The Temple,

Nashville Chamber of Commerce, West End Area Business Council (2 Plaques). Howard

E. Schwab Memorial Award, OVFTS Jewish Ceremonials and Arts, 1972. Temple

Sisterhood Distinquished Achievement Award in the Development Fund for American

Judaism, Nov. 1967. Sisterhood, Prime Minister’s Club, Israel Bonds, n.d.;Girl Scouts

Comberland Valley Council, 4/19/90. Bloomstein Library, In Memory of Jacob

Bloomstein and his family.

4 NFTS YES Honor fund, 1964-1986, 1981-1995. Ben Page Cemetery master plan 2004

(See Box 42A, OB2A)

Book of Life. Confirmation pictures: 1975, 1977-83, 1989.

Purim punch point cartoon textile (Florence Eskind Zucker)

Against wall: Oversize Confirmation pictures: Originals: 1976, 1984, 1990, 1994, 1996*,

1997*, 1998*, 1999, 2000*, 2001 (*Duplicates, oversize, also 1982, 1982-84, 1989, 1996-

1998, 2000)

Temple Boxes at JCC: MS2

MS2 Box 1A:

Religious school newspapers: TEMPLE TIMES (Mar. 1960), VINE LINE (Mar. 1952,

1953)

TY YOUTH EDIT 1938

OFTY: 1961, 1967, 1970, 1974, Kitowv 1976 programs, 1974 group photo

TY: Ca. 1938-39 photo, 1970s, Temple Bulletin Apr. 3, 1953 (See if at Tem)

Bnot mitzvah invitations 1980s, 1990s

1981 h.s. baccalaureate service program

1974-76 Literary magazines (r.s)

8-9 grade intersession Jan. 1972 THE STRONGHOLD

1956 Rose Hirshberg article

1979 r.s. committee

R.s. parent handbook 1965-66

R.s rosters 1978-83

Temple Boy Scout troop 1968-70

Photos: 8th grade trips to Cincinnati 1970, 1971

8th grade: "The Prophet's": Digest 1960, Times 1968, Prophecy 1971

1987 consecration photo, 1985-86 r.s. Parents Handbook, R. Morin's letter of resignation

1982

R.s. yearbooks 1989-90, 1988-89

1961 consecration photo



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Ticket: Children's Rally, 12/10/1922

Photo: r.s. faculty 1939 (miss Ruby Bacherig), V.S. T. r.s. letterhead ca. 1945-47

MS2 Box 1B:

Confirmation service programs: Originals : 1901, 1913, 1920-21, 1926-27, 1930, banquet

1931, 1932-38, 1939 , 1941-47, 1949, 1951, 1954 (history), 1956-57, 1959, 1961-63,

1965-67, 1970-72, 1975-76, 1978-83 (history), 1984, 1986. Copies: 1908, 1910, 1911,

1930, 1939

Conf. photos (see OB 4 for 1943, 1953, 1958, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1974-75; Observer for

1935 (2:66), 1936 (3:118), 1937 (4:168)

Hattie Cohen (1884), 1898 (and Hanna Mai Brown's cert. [c]), 1910,1931, 1932, 1933,

1942, 1946 (and formal party), Hanukkah 1947 (on VST bima), 1954, 1955 (Observer

Aug. 26), copies of 1932, 1933, 1931m 1961

CONFIRMER 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955 ("The new Temple takes form")

Copy of Pre Conf. Tercentenary Scrapbook 1954-1955--300 years of Jews in America

1654-1954

Confirmand pledges 1973-78

MS2 Box 2A: Bulletins thru 1985

1932-1977, 1979-85

MS2 Box 2B:

Presidents 1918 - present

Annual meetings 1947-66, 1968-72

Board members' notebooks 1972-73 & 1980-81

Administrator Keith Kraft

Preschool Director Ellen Silver

Membership brochure 1979

Committee lists, calendars, list of past pres. 1976-77

Constitution 1958, Budget, financial statement 1958-59

MS2 Box 3:

Temple Youth Ball formal tickets 1946

Religious School photos: Purim 1940, students 1946, pageant 1930s (original missing);

Ca. 1930s STAR OF JUDAH Purim play program

1939 Southern Jewish Youth Assembly program, etc.

Temple Brotherhood (history, past presidents 1925-1971 [organized 1925]), 1982-

Couples club

Officers of Ladies Working Society 1879-1892, charter

Sisterhood : Clairee Levy's "Women in Defense" (WWII), history from YMHA book,

1937 constitution, meeting notices 1935, 1950s, 1960s, salute to 50 year members 1975,

1977 NFTS Book of honors, District newsletters 1954-57, Biennial Assembly 1963,

papers of Hattye Bubis 1930-62, annual Reports 1977-78, OVFTS 1978, papers of Beck

Raskin 1948-1958, 10th birthday at YMHA 1924, Ladies Bazaar Journal 1901 copy, 1940



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silver anniversary program, photos 1953-55, clippings 1954-71, birthday and other flyers

1983-93, annual report 1990-91

Senior Templars 1983-84

MS2 Box 4:

Cemetery: History from YMHA News, Guide to Customs and Procedures, 1980 Temple

Society on Dying, Death, Bereavement (See Also OB 8)

Cemetery records of all congregations; (see list of charters, separate) 1854 Mogen David

Charter, 1888 receipt of lot purchase by I. Barker (o); copies: 1851 purchase of property

for Hebrew Benevolent Burial Society, 1871 Hungarian Benevolent Society property

purchases. 1887 cemetery minutes

Adult Ed: 1953 brochure, Sabbath seminar, 1970 Isaac Bashevis Singer (original)

Temple art: 1964 OBSERVER article re Weinstein megillah. Mike Rosen's 1980 article

on Reform Jewish art (the Temple's). brochure, description. Torah covers (4 negatives,

card). A Raymond Katz New year's card.

1992 Book of Remembrance reminder

Public Worship Committee 1974-75. "Congregational Encounter" responses from 1973

annual meeting.

Ticket for 1953 holyday seats.

1980 letter to cong. re. cantor's salary in budget.

Services: 1970 Falk 10th anniv., Selichot 1972, 1979, 1978 Yom Kippur Family

Skits: 1973 "Conversion of Scott Lewin" (Sisterhood) 1975, 1976 Confirmation class

skits. The Falk Saga 12/20/72. 1980 Golden Age.

Programs/speakers 1980-85, 1981 cantor's Lag B'Omer concert

Social Justice: minutes 1975-76. UAHC Consultation on Conscience 1977-79 (Ethel

Lutin), TY S.A. project handbook 1972, 1982-83

1979 Temple Survey

Ben Shahn mosaic 1959 (see Temple Box 36A)

Beautification 1950s (moved to Temple Box 36A 11/4/09: Abraham Kampf consultant.

Photos of Torah cover presentations Sept. 1977 (See Temple Box 36A

MS2 Box 5: History to 1955

1851, 1853, 1860 charters.1852 Isaac Garritson letter (MS 20: 6) and deeds,

Vine Street T. photos 1900-

1869 B'nai Yeshurun Confirmation photo

Sermon by Rabbi Perez Jacobson (Oct. 22, 1897)

May 4, 1887 minutes of cemetery?

Rabbi Richard Stern's obit 1983

50th anniv. of Vine St. 1924 --program, clipping

Letter from M.Werthan to Mrs. L. Jonas Nov. 5, 1900

Wm. F. Rosenblum leaves religious school to prepare for rabbinate 1923 (see also RG 2:4)

Clippings 1920-36 (Pastors' Assn. resolution 1933 against persecution of Jews in

Germany\60th anniv. 1928

Nathan Cohn testimonial dinner 1934



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Sabbath services 1943--26th anniv. of Balfour Declaration. Temple Board dinner at

Woodmont Club 1940s. V-E Day 1945

Letter from Julius Mark 20 Sept. 1944

"Walkie Talkie" (to servicemen)

UAHC Sept. 1973 (10th on list) dedication books

Bookplate Betty Frances Ginsberg Library Fund

70th anniv. 1868-1938

75th anniv. 1868-1943

Record "Shabbat Services for Shutins" (Schwartzman)

Writings of William B. Silverman

Dedication of cornerstone of new building 1954

Histories of Temple

MS2 Box 5A: 1955-1980 (See also MS 22:4, Temple papers of Gus Kuhn, 1958-1969)

Dedication of new building 1955

90th anniv. 1958

Photos: officers 1954-56, 1960

List of Board of Trust 1968-69; photo of Temple foyer 1968

1969 Yitzhak Rabin visit to Temple

1972 annual meeting program (c)

1973 100th anniv. of UAHC program and skit

Services/membership roster 1972-73, 1975

1981 Human Relations award to Rabbi Falk

Rabbi's Fund (for children's education) letter

1974 Sacred Service (Bloch)

Negatives of 1979 brochure (Ira Katz)

Adult B’nai Mitzvah classes

Fund raising event 1980

Sabbath Day Live March 1980 negatives

May 1981 bombing attempt clippings

Katz skit April 1983

Cantors 1978-2012 Mark Elson, Peter Halprin, Bernard Gutcheon

Richard and Cynthia Morin

Photos: Ted Pailet, Peter Halprin

Chavurah III photos

MS2 Box 6: Sisterhood yearbooks 1948-2001 (last one)

MS2 Box 7: Rabbis

David Burgheim (B'nai Yeshurun), Judah Wechsler, Alexander Iser, Herman Saltzman,

J.S. Goldammer, Lewinthal (letters 1887-1905 to Rabbi Max Heller, from AJA, c; 10 yrs

with Ohavai Shalom 1898 (o);testimonial from VU Chancellor Kirkland, 1912, c;

Nashville Liberal Congress of Religions), Julius Mark 1926-1948, Sylvan Schwartzman

1948-50, William Silverman 1950-60 (see also RG2:20A), Jan Brahms 1976-80, Beth



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Davidson, Steven Fuchs 1986- 1997 , David Davis 1997- 2001. Address by Rabbi Starkoff

1945

MS2 Box 7A:

Rabbi Ken Kanter, 1980-83

Rabbi Randall Falk

HUC Thesis: “The Southern Rabbi and the Civil Rights Movement,” By Allan Krause,

1967

Eulogy of General Randall Falk 2008

Cantor Bernard Gutcheon 1982-2012

MS2 Box 8: Bulletins 1985-1993



MS2 Box 11: 1980s, 1990-1999

140th Anniversary 1991

Current Photographs

60yr Confirmation Class reunion 1995, reunion April 2000

Temple expansion 1997

Vine Street Temple historical marker 1991, for interior photos see MS 30 Sapinsley

wedding

Clippings 1990-93

1994-1999

MS2 Box 12A: 2000-2007

Bulletins 2004-2007

Rabbi Mark Schiftan

Rabbi Allison Flash

Rabbi David Davis

Rabbi Shana Goldstein-Mackler (2004-

MS2 Box 12B: 2000-2016

Bulletins 2008 - 2016

Clippings, flyers 2008-2016

Senior Templers – photos of meetings in 2007

MS2 Box 12C: 2017- date

Bulletins

Clippings, flyers

TPS – Temple Preschool

MS2 Box 13: Fred Goldner's files, president 1980-82



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Photographs by Martha Goldner

Board of Trust 1950

Membership lists and dues 1973-77

1978 lists of board and committees, scattered minutes, summaries of parlor meetings

1979-80 lists of board, scattered minutes, presidents

1980 lists of board, committees. scattered minutes

4/30/80 audit

MS2 Box 13A: Fred Goldner's files 1981-84

1981 board, exec. comm, minutes, etc.

1982 Rosters, minutes, etc.

1983-84 nominating committee

MS2 Box 14: Photos of Cemetery tombstones prior to 1900 (acc. 709--see list in wooden

card catalog)

MS2 Box 14A: cemetery tombstone photography project: maps, project information (acc

709)

Metro Historical Commission photos 2003

MS 3 West End Synagogue

Box 1: 1893-1940s . Cemetery lists

Box 1A: Ledger books 1936-1944 (see two oversize for 1935), Roll of Officers 1910-1945

Box 1B (0versize): Minutes 1912-1930

Box 2: 1940s, 1950s

Box 2A: 1960s, 1970s (Kestenbaum, Glusman), 100th Anniversary

Box 3: 1970s (con’t), 1980s, 1990s, Vandalism 1989, Volyne Czechoslovakia Holocaust

Torah Dedication, Rabbis Fellner & Glazer, Cemetery, name changed 1984, Cantor Beth

Weiner, 118th Anniversary-+

Box 3A: 1990s (con’t)—to date Chevra Kadisha, 1977-2004. (See Siyum Ceremony,

Oct. 17, 2004, Album in plastic on shelf), Rabbi Ron Roth

Box 4: Sisterhood minutes 1922-1979

Box 5: Sisterhood, Men’s Club, USY, Yearbooks to date

Box 6: Paige (tan) box: Sisterhood scrapbooks 1953-1984 (1961-68, on shelf)



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Box 7: Bulletins 1944-1990


Box 9: Bulletins 1998-2007, 2005 -2007, clippings, etc.

Box 9A: Hollinger oversize: Minutes 1930-1940, Minutes 1945-1950, Resolutions 1933-

45; Max Levine’s correspondence: 1921-32, 1937-39. 1941-June 1946, Membership List

1940 & 1948, reports 1932-35; Roll Book of Officers 1910-1946

Box 10: Bulletins 2008- , Rabbis, Cantors, Educators, 2008 - current, clippings, photos

(2007 - ), building additions, asbestos abatement, architectural drawings

Mystery stained glass (from Monty Dorriety 2009),

Box 11: Fundraisers 2008 – current, Community Volunteers (Christmas at Vanderbilt),

Library history

MS 4: Akiva School

Box 1: Photographs, etc. (Pre 1999); see also OB 26 for 1979 graduate composite and

open Oversize shelf for 3 photo posters 1993

Box 1A: Photographs 2000 - ; see OB 26 for school composites 2002-04

Box 2: 1960s-1980s

Box 2A : Torah Dinner 1965 – 1999; Akiva Newsletters 1984 - 1996

Box 3: Calendars, handbooks (see Oversize shelf – Poster of quilt created by students for

UJA/GA 2007), Faculty Handbooks

Box 4: 1993-99; Torah dinners 1998-1999 (also see Box 2A); Ground Breaking for new

building 1998; Board minutes 1999-2000

Box 5: 2000-2003 (building dedication), Minutes Board 2001-2; Director’s manual,

Physical Plant from 1960-2000

Box 6: 2004- to date; Torah Dinners 2000-11, Alumni event

MS 5: American Jewish Committee: (Family Life Survey 1979; see oversize green

book with computer printout)

Box 1, Box 2

MS 6: B’nai B’rith (See Administration under “FOLDER contents itemized”

for MS 6 detailed description of contents)



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Box 1: Through 1950

B’nai B’rith District 7 convention, 1961 Birmingham

Box 2: 1960s

Box 3: 1970s

Box 4: 1980s to date (See also blind camp scrapbook, 2008 exhibit behind archives

door)

MS 7: Book clubs

MS 7A: Book and Garden club

MS 7B: Book Study

Box 1: Programs, scrapbooks (also one loose scrapbook), Photos

Box 2: Minutes, yearbooks

MS 7C: The Inquirers 1950 to date

MS 7D: Magazine Circle

Box 1: Yearbooks

Box 1A: Duplicate yearbooks

Box 2: Minutes 1922-1981 (See looseleaf book for 1996-2002)

Box 3: Miscellaneous programs, photos (Also a green loose scrapbook)

MS 7E: Modern Readers (2 scrapbooks on bottom shelf)

MS 7F: Readers Circle

MS 7G: Reviewers (combined with Readers Circle)

MS 7H: Tri Arts

Box 1: Yearbooks

Box 1A: Duplicate yearbooks



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Box 2: Tri Arts

MS 8: Brandeis University Women’s Committee (see also OB 3 for 2 scrapbooks

1954-1974)

MS 9: Hadassah

Box 1 1926-1950s

Box 2: 1943-1953 Books of Memory

Box 3: 1960s-1970s

Box 4: 1970s, Donors

Box 5: 1970s, 1980s

Box 6: Southern Regional Conferences 1938-1979 (Nashville 1961, 1967). Plaques,

1990s, 2000s

Box 7: Bulletins, clippings, 1970s-1989

Box 8: Bulletins 1990s to date. Script of 10/11/00 slide show (slides in small box 8A).

Script updated for May 10, 2006 80th birthday. CD Rom enclosed (updated slide show).

Past Presidents.

Box 9: Yearbooks. 1955-


Box 11: Minutes 2002-2006; Clippings, flyers, newsletters – 2000-05; 2006-10; 2011-15;

2016-18; Bulletins 2007-14

Scrapbooks: Paige Box 1: 1947-49, 1949-51, 1951-53, 1953-54, 1955-56, 1961-65,

1967-68.

Paige Box 2: 1961-69, 1966-67,1967 Southern Regional Conference (Nashville). 1993-

98, 1998-99, 2001-02. Oversize (on shelf): 1956-58, 1969-70, 1993-98, 2001-

2002, 2004, 2005-06, 2006-07

MS 10: Youth Council, BBYO (AZA, BBG)

Box 1: 1940s, 1960s (see also OB 28). SEE also OB 28: BBG composite 1966-1967.



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Origin of Youth Council 1942

Box 2: Youth Council 1955-56 Scrapbook, Dist. 7 BBYO yearbooks.BBYO 1960s

Box 3: BBYO 1970s, 1980s,

SEE also OB 28: AIT-MIT Conclave 1980, BBYO Cotton States Regional Group photo at

Capitol (undated), BBG silver charm

Box 4: BBYO 1990s 1994-1998 SEE also OB 28: AZA 1996-7 enlarged photos

Box 4A: BBYO 1990s 1998-1999, BBYO Advisory Board (1996), Cotton States

Region, misc. no dates

Box 5:BBYO 2000s (2006, 2007, 2008 scrapbooks on shelf with Observers), BBG 50th

Anniversary (CD of power point history); AZA scrapbooks 2011-12 & 2015-16 on shelf;

Box 5A BBYO – plaques and banner (wrong chapter number), BBG navy long sleeve T-

shirt cir. 1997

Box 6: Youth Council 1953-to date

SEE also OB 11, 16, 1997 photos in folder with Box 16; RG 2:23 (Ralph Shepard)

SEE also OB 28: scrapbooks: AZA 1976-77 (separate), 1977-79 (separate—on poster

board), 1979, 1982, Youth Council: 1949-55, 1956-57. 2 scrapbooks, BBG MIT classes

1976-77, 1977-78,

BBG composites 1965-66, 1966-67, 1967-68, 1968-69. BBYO Cotton States reg. Group

1967; Regional Beau door sign AZA

Box: 7: BBG - Scrapbooks [ HOLINGER BOX] # 1 BBG 2010 -2011 Harry Potter cover, #2

BBG Blue loose pages w/cover 2009 -2010, #3 BBG What a Trip 2013-2014, #4 BBG Aqua glitter 2013-

2014, #5 BBG 2010 – 2011, #6 BBG blue cover with battery lights [on shelf] , #7 BBG Convention 2008 -

2009

MS 11: Zionist organizations

A. Farband

B. Intercollegiate Zionist Federation of America

C. Mizrachi

D. Nashville Zionist District

E. Southern Zionist Youth Commission

MS 12: Nashville Section, National Council of Jewish Women (Book: NCJW

PROCEEDINGS OF FIRST CONVENTION 1896)

Box 1: 1901-1930s (Bertha Fensterwald Center history)



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Box 2: 1930s con’t

Box 3: 1940s-1950s (Fensterwald closing)

Box 4: Plaques. Council Home for Convalescent Children scrapbooks 1947-57 (see boxes

13 and 14)

Box 5: Sally Wolfe’s papers 1960s.. WICS 1964-69, Head School 1965-69, Scholarship

Loans, 1969-70. Ship-A-Box 1967-68, Community Service/Projects Committee 1957-62,

Hilltop House 1963-69, Learn to Swim 1968, 75th anniversary of National 1968 (see also

album).

“A Study of the Economic, Health, Housing, and Social Relationship Needs of Jewish

Older Adults in Davidson County, Tennessee” June 1960

Box 6: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s (Bertha Fensterwald Day Camp Site, 50th Anniversary) (see

also scrapbooks. Paige Box 5)

Box 7: 1970s: Albee Guttman, Sally Wolfe. Public Affairs (Ethel Lutin), Juvenile Justice,

Richland House 1975

Box 8: 1970s: Buz-a-Bus (photo) & lapel pin, Head School Day Care, Drug Treatment

Center. (see also reel of film of 80th anniversary –of National, 1973?)

Box 9: President’s Institute 1973 (see also scrapbook in Paige Box 5)



Box 12: Minutes 1965-1976. Membership 1966-74

Box 13: Convalescent Home minutes 1945-1958. Annual Reports 1945-1953

Box 14: Convalescent Home (see also scrapbooks 1947-57, box 4): Clippings and

publicity, Motor Corps list; audits 1945-54; insurance papers; case history, building

committee, cancelled checks 1958-59

Box 15: Oral History abstracts and release forms

Box 16-21: Oral Histories (see also audiotapes); digitized???

Box 22: Special projects oral histories—past presidents (audiotapes)




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Box 24: Bulletins 1976 to date


Box 26: Yearbooks 1972-

Box 27: 1980s, 85th anniversary script, Cookbooks I and II. Joint Teas 1979-83, Liability

insurance, Buz-A-Bus. See Hello Israel – Box 28B.

Box 28: 1990s . Photos/etc.. Membership 1992-95. Casa, Planned Parenthood, PG Players

1980-1999. 1998: Renewal House, Silent Witness, Camp Anytown. Presidents photos

1992-1996. Bus photos (also see Bx 31). Kathy Gutow Day on the Hill 1989-2000 &

jewelry. Bonnie Halprin papers.

Box 28A: Minutes 1989-86 (partial), 1990-93; 1998-1999

?Box 28B: Hello Israel 1987-2003. Women’s Seder 2000-08..

Box 29: 100th Anniversary (book, publicity, Cd-roms for boards). Extra copies in Paige

Box 7. VHS tapes (6) and Beta tape (1) in narrow box between Paige boxes.

Box 30: 2000-2002, (see also Frist Team Leadership Award 2000 in blue box): 2000--

2001. SAVV (2000). Kid’s care (2006).

Box 30A: Minutes – 1999-2000, 2001 -

Box 31: 2003-to date; Buz-A-Bus agreement with Jewish Federation

Tan boxes : Box 1: Scrapbooks 1952-55, 1959-61, 1961-63, 1963-65, 1966-67, 1968.

Box 2: Correspondence 1938-44, Corresponding Secretaries’ Reports, 1937-50;

Correspondence 1947-1949, 1953-60, 1964-73;2; District correspondence 1970-73;

Annual reports 1947-60, 1967-75. Box 3: Fund Reports 1915-22; Flower Memorial Fund

1923-26; “Nashville This Week”, Nov 11, 1929; Community Leadership Training

Program, Oct. 1958; Skit, “My Fair Lady” [1950s]; Policy Revision 1956-74; Operation

Read-Write 1962; Job descriptions 1965-66; Senior Adult 1961-1971; Shoplifting 1968;

Alliance for a Better Community, 1970; Jewish Community Council 1969-71; Southern

Interstate Regional 1964-67; Head Start 1965-67; Presidents Institute 1973; 1972 “Road

Show”; 1973 Social Services Legislation; 80th anniversary of National 1974; WISE

(Workers in Service for Education) 1970-74; Insurance forms and reports, day camp,

Conv. Home 1961-67; “ We the People in Search of Privacy”,Bicentennial 1976;

Financial Sec’y’s report, 1949-1953; Treasurer’s Report 1970-79; Project Opportunity

1972-74. Box 4: IRS Exemption forms 1954-1973; Checks and Bank Statement 1955-61;

Auditors’ Reports 1961-76; Bills and receipts 1962-63; Ways and Means 1969, 1971;

paid bills 1963-65; Scholarship Loan 1958, 1961-63; Scholarship Memorial Fund 1965-



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77; Council Cookbook I 1960s. Box 5: Scrapbooks 1968-72, 75th anniversary 1968, 1970-

73, 1973 Presidents’ Institute, 1974-76, 1976 bicentennial. Box 6:List of Members 1950-

1970s, Naturalized Citizens 1938ff. Box 7: Books – cookbooks, Centennial booklet,

history books about NCJW, 16 mm film, Fabric of my Life by Hannah G. Solomon

Loose scrapbooks: 1976-1986, Nashville Drug Center 1971-76, 1986-1992

MS 13: Shin Aleph (see oversize 1925-35 composite on oversize shelf; 2 oversize

scrapbooks on shelf)

Box 1: Minutes

Box 2: Scrapbook 1925-1940s; see also RG2: Bx 4 Shin Aleph & YMHA corres.

Box 3: Scrapbook II, Charm School

Box 4: Minutes, Financial Records

MS 14: ORT (See also OB 21 for scrapbook, 1972-80) Oversize Box “MS 14” on top

shelf with Observer boxes)

MS 15: Woodmont Country Club

Box 1: Concordia Club, Standard Club, Woodmont Club

Box 2: Droopy Drawers and other photos

Box 3: Woodmont Ladies Golf Association (see also SC 48, Elaine Morris Eskind)

Box 4: Joe Baker family pictures

MS 16: Workmen’s Circle (see also Photo Exhibit, OB 20)

MS 17: Defunct Organizations: (see also SC 162)

A. American Council for Judaism (anti-Zionist)

B. B’nai B’rith Women

C. Brandeis Club of Greater Nashville

D. Culture Club/Yiddish Theater

E. Tau Lambda Phi Sorority (See also OB 4)



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F. Mayfair Club

G. S.T.P. (See also OB 4)

H. Germania Lodge (Masonic—1868-1891). Isaac Levy

I. L.D.C. (See also OB 4, 1960’s scrapbooks on center shelf unit), Top Hat, ETC Club,

PLS Club, Jolly Kibitzers Club (J.K.C)., Sigma Zeta Mu (SZM), P.D.C., A K, Phi

Delta Phi

J. SZM

K. Gaylord Club

L. No Name Club

M. Seven Bachelors club

N. Joyful Helpers’ Club, 1924- ca. 1936

MS 18: Adolph and Sophie Wiener

Box 1: Wiener/Lusky family See SC 18 Dembsky (Roslyn Weiner m. Alvin Dembsky)

Box 2: Adolph, Bobby Wiener (West High yearbooks, 1944, 1945)

Box 3: Cohn, ,Lieberman, Prousnitzer, Schiff, Iser families (SEE also Tribute to Mrs.

Charles Cohn on oversize shelf and in OB 2)

MS 19: Buchman family history

MS 20: Fedora Small Frank

Box 1A: Frank Family: Isadore Frank, Phyllis and Stanley Frank (Richard, Robyn), Hilda.

Small Family: Ceigler, family trees

Box 1B: Smalls: Sylvan and Jerome, Horace and Babe, Irwin (Jimmy) and Beverly (Doug,

Roger, David, Linda Small Gluck) [family tree Kleban/Small]. Richard and Rhonda Small

(folder noted missing 7/5/2019), Laura Silverman

Box 2: Fedora personal: memoir, family tree 1982, tributes, Jewish Heritage Committee

1983, “Speaking of Union Station”, Metro Historical Commission, Book Study Club

papers, 39 greeting cards, TSLA Frank Collection list.

Box 3: Writings: See Accession card 426 for list

Box 4: Nashville Jewish community: 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1907,

1915-16. Chronology, miscellaneous notes 1902-1963, Social directory 1911, unpublished

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Box 5: Vital Statistics: Court records 1850s-1880s. Jews in the armed services (Civil War

(Spitz, Lettman), Spanish American War, World War I (See SC 175 for WWI and II).

Burials 1851-1900, Burials in other Nashville Cemeteries,. Marriages 1855-1900 (list,

Act, 1879, Greenbaum/Cohen wedding, r/Levy, Elsbach/Lipman. by Iser 1855.

Goldberger/Fleisman by Goldammer 1879). Act to permit rabbis to perform marriages,

1879. Foreign born population of Nashville in 1850. Officers, board members, rabbis of

Nashville congregations. Jews buying and selling property 1840-1870. Nashville high

school and Peabody college graduates. Research on families. Correspondence: Undated

1952-1981; from former rabbis of The Temple..Dr. Samuel Raphael, 1861, “An Israelite’s

View of Slavery

Box 6: Other people: Beta Eta Lambda 1922. Myer Oppenheimer, Fechtenbach (sic),

Jacob Ellis, Feist, Simpson/Erenstein, Elsback, Aaron Bergeda (SC 93), Simon Sigman,

Marx, Elaine Parker, Leichtman (to SC 59), American Jewish Tercentenary, Bloomstein

family (SC 106), Sax (Savage House). See also MS 15:1), Garritson, Gabrielle Frank/Julia

Blumenthal (moved to SC 119). Miscellaneous non Jewish historical photos. First Baptist

Church Census cards of Jews 1954-1955. Isabella Spitz’s Ward Seminary Program. See

also OB 2 for diplomas,

MS 21: American Jewish Historical Society meeting in Nashville 1979.

MS 22: Kuhn family (see also dissertation “The History of the Early Jewish Settlers of

Nashville Tennessee,” by Rabbi William Kuhn; see also Hirsch, Fox family SC 26, 68;

OB 24)

Box 1: Barbara J. and Gus D. Kuhn family

Box 1A: Small box of 6 audiotapes of Simon Weil

Box 2: Simon Weil (and Carrie Mae), Gus Kuhn family: Albert and Miriam (nee Kuhn)

Weinstein ( and photos from Dave Gordon) . League of Women Voters, etc, Barbara

Kuhn. Gus Kuhn, Jr. and Barbara (nee Jacobs), Bill and Emily (nee Kuhn, Gus David and

Elaine (nee Raphael), Irwin and Diane (nee Silberman), Heloise (nee Pfeifer) and Jack

Kuhn , Selma Kuhn Goldstein. Simon Weil, World War I. Lois Hainsfurther Kuhn

(family), Rosen Family, Roz Sherman, Lois Kuhn Fox (see SC 26).

Box 3: Kuhns-Big K

Box 3A: Kuhn Family Reunion 1995. Family History

Betty Lee Weinstein, Howard Rosen.

Box 4: Temple papers of Gus D. Kuhn 1958-1969



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MS 23: Elizabeth Lowenheim Jonas Jacobs

Box 1: Lowenheim family (see also MS 44), Family tree (OB 2)

Box 2: Elizabeth Jacobs (See also OB 4)

Box 2A: Homer Jonas Family: Suzanne Morris, Strupp, Betsy Chernau; Kay Jewelry

Box 3: Johnson family, R.D. Blum, Lee Blum, Elizabeth Jacobs’ speeches on

volunteerism, Elizabeth Jacob’s plays, skits, songs, etc., Hans Strupp’s Career and

Influence by Allen Bergin, MD, Gift of Jewish Nashville by John Callighan III, “If the

Present Trend Continues” by Rabbi Stephen Fuchs

Box 3A: Barker, Harry Blum, Sawyer families

Box 4: Jacobs, Shepard, Zagnoev (Brad), Goldstein families (SEE OB 26 for Goldie

Flexer Shepard’s mother, Mildred Podis Flexer, scrapbook) Doochin to SC 4

Box 5: Hartman family (see also silver tray ), photo of Standard Club servicemen’s

plaque WWI, WWII

Box 6: 1911, 1915, 1922, 1924 Hume Fogg Echoes (yearbooks). Lusky , Hume Fogg:

Nashville’s 1st Public School DVD

Box 7: Lowenheim family. Elizabeth’s photos. Mary Jane Lowenheim Werthan’s

cemetery videotape (see MS 44)

Box 8: Elizabeth Lowenheim Jacobs “Voting in Nashville” (March 5, 1999) video, 1993

Seton Society Recipients video, Tennessee Crossroads Show #852 “Suffrage” video,

Elizabeth Lowenheim Jacobs Interview video, Metro Government Historical Interviews:

Elizabeth Lowenheim Jacobs video

MS 24: L. Jonas & Co. (See also SC7). Meyer, Newman, Elcan family

MS 25: Annette Rose Levy Ratkin family

Box 1: Early Levy papers, (SEE also SC 107, SC 141) Levy’s store, Nassauer, Ada and

Raphael Levy, Jaroslawski

Box 1A: Annette Levy Ratkin



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Box 2: Marx family, Herbert Levy, Cline and Bernheim

Box 3: Fishgall, Rosensweig, Annette and Ralph Levy Sr., Harding court, etc./

Box 4: Ralph Levy Jr. family (1)

Box 5 Ralph Z. Levy Jr. family (2); David Levy, Rose (Kurt)

Box 6: Gail Levy Seibold

MS 26: Balfour Photo Reproductions - in Oversize Box 5

MS 27: THE OBSERVER/Jacques Back

(2 Paige Boxes: Box 1: Microfilms of THE OBSERVER 1935- to date. Box 2:

PEABODY REFLECTOR 1921 – to Vanderbilt Special Collections. MERCHANT AND

MANUFACTURER 1920, 1923-24, TENNESSEE MASON 1924, NASHVILLE

REVIEW 1919-20, HUME-FOGG ECHO 1923, VANDERBILT COMMODORE 1925,

1927

Box 1: Plaques

Box 2: Personal

Box 3: Judy Saks, editor 1987-2012

CDs of 2006-2012 pdfs of The Observer

OBSERVER (many have been moved to individual collections) Photographs Individual

photos: Johanna Abrahams, Gary Asher, Mark Bertram, Teddy Bart, Barats (Russian

dentist), Julie Goldstein Boehm, Bernice Berenson, Bill Boner, Merle Born, Richard

Fulton, Jonathan Glaser, Richard (Evelyn) Goldberg, Karen Goldman, Mark Goldstein,

Wm. & Michael Golden (twins), Lori Greenbaum Fishel, Jon Howard Halprin, Lisa

Halpern, Terri Held (f. Sig), Sigmund Held, JCC Drama, M. Himmelstein, Valerie

Hyman, Debbie Kaplan, Steve Karr, Terry Katzman (see SC 75), Barrie Davis Kirshner,

Ellen Silver Gilbert, Keith Kraft (see MS 2 Temple, 1980s), Herman Kushner, Elizabeth

Kraft, Steve Greil, Mitzi (Murfreesboro), Craig Davis, Mitch Delcau (rabbi), Ron

Dubrov, M. Eshagpour, Alison Evans, Todd Evans, Faye Sidney, A. M. Feldman, Lori

Fishel, Vickie Foyer, Frank Friedman, Lora Krizelman, Andrea Kronenberg, Morris

Levine (see personal collection), Lester (Bud) Levy, Vic Lineweaver, Izzy Kosten, Sally

Levine, Sara Lubow, Ku Klux Klan, Safer girls

And about aged 7-8 the following students Sarah Baum, Leah Shaw, Bronwyn Fleming,

Megan Breyer, Alec Greenberg, Isaac Gabella, Haley Joyce, Ashley Whithere, Zack Stern,

Ben Flantzman [also see Federation RG 1 campaign photos]



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OBSERVER Printed Photos by year: 1980s, 1990s, 2000 -

MS 28: Lillian Weinstein Cohen (Girl Scouts)

MS 29: “Davidson County Women in World War I”

MS 30: Sulzbacher, Martin, Lowenstein, Morse, Lowenthal, Rosenheim, Henry and

Meyer Cohen, Landsberger, Betty Lusky, Hecht families business/photographic,

Loventhal, Naft, Jones, Eichberg

MS 31: Morris, John, Jessie, Milton Frank family (see SC 57) Seeing Eye

MS 32: Holocaust See. Also RG1:26

Box 1: Oral History project (Holocaust audio tapes are different from video tapes)

Box 2: Holocaust individuals: Engel, Ellenberg, Gentry, Goshen, Lassing, Levison, Loeb,.

Loewenstein, Lorch, Lustig (Reinheimer), Naft, Neumann, May, Rosenfeld

Box 3: Schlanger, Schweizer, Seidner family, Slomovic, Snodgrass, Starkand, R. Stern,

B. Stern, Strupp, Zelenka. Paper Clips. Treblinka (by Pollack), AJA article about Camp

Forrest German Internees. Tn Hist/ Quarterly article spring 1992. Gant, Evans, Eisenstein

Liberators’ photos Proof sheets of Survivors photos (OB 7). Ruth Cornwall article. MTSU

Holocaust program 1991.Ann Frank exhibit 1993. Jewish Video competition award 1995.

Harpeth Hall seminar 1983. “Playing for Time” (Circle Theater 1987).

“And then they came for me – Remembering the world of Anne Frank” (Renaissance

Repertory Company 2002), Misc.

(4 shoe boxes: Holocaust Oral History audiotapes; 12 boxes of Holocaust Oral history

videotapes, plus notebooks , and OB 7 for photographs of interviewees. Hollinger box

with DVDs. Video project notebooks).

MS 33: Clairee H. Rosenbaum Levy (See also MS 25)

MS 34: Jews in the University community

Box 1: Individuals, Judaica Library collection (see also MS 39—Lou Silberman)

1916 Vanderbilt U. Medical School commencement program

The Fighting 300th”, by Dr. Louis Rosenfeld (see also MS 44)

Individuals: Abrahams, Alper d., Anchor, USN, Bernard, von Raffler-Engel d.,

Bernstein, Blumstein, Boehm, Cherry, Mark Cohen, Stanley Cohen, Deutschman, Dobbs-

Weinstein, Engel, Epstein, Fleischer, Fryd, Fuchs, Gabbe (left BNA 2008), Gelland,



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Geller, Goldring, Goodman, Greenstein, Haas (left BNA 1999), Gorstein, Halachmi d.,

Rogers, Heller, Isenstein, Johnson, Katahn, Mauksch, Meltzer (left BNA 2013) , Miller,

Mode -Z, A.J. Levine, Harry May, Dr. David Rabin d., Sam Richmond d., Herb Rich d.,

Russell Rothman, Ron Salomon (left BNA 2013), Sandler/Sacks, Herb Schwartz, Bernard

Tucker, Schoenfeld

Dr. Marc Hollander (Friends of the Library)

Judaica Collection (Lou Silberman, see MS 39)

Eskind Biomedical Library

President’s Commission on the Holocaust (Dr. Ingeborg Mauksch)

1946 Gadfly, commencement program.

Holocaust survivors: Notowitz, Smith, Ziffer, Westfield

Box 2:

Graduate summer Institute on Judaism, ADL, B’Nai B’rith, 1972

Zeta Beta Tau fraternity (ZBT), 1918-

Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEP) fraternity:, 1928-1986 [Hustler

The Fugitives

Parthenon restoration, and plays, Sidney M. Hirsch

Ensel Oratorical Contest 1936

Box 3: AEPhi (sorority), Fugitives, Menorah Society 1915-ca. 1918, Alpha Epsilon Phi

sorority; 1925(?)-1965

Chabad at Vanderbilt University, Rabbi Rothstein

Box 4: Vanderbilt Yearbook 1946 The Commodore, Hillel (see also Paige

boxes19,23,35), Ben Schulman Center, Rabbi Capers Funnye January 2001 MLK

(Kirk Barton dissertation: “These Are Not Pajamas: All of This Is Life” (Baal Shem Tov)

MS 35: Cullom & Ghertner, Ghertner family, Silver (Gold-Silver Jewelry Co.)

MS 36: Brown/Kirshner

Box 1: Jacobus, Weinbaum, Lucas, Brown, Kirshner (William, Earl, Howard), Kraft

(Keith) families, Lawrence Blum

Box 2: Bea and Percy Cohen (see also SC 159 Henry Cohen), Berdye Daneman Cohen

(Mrs. Sidney)

Box 3: Kirshner/Brown Ledger Books

MS 37: Zager, Wolfe



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Box 1: Zager/Wolfe families (Meyer Wolfe m. Louise Dahl-Wolfe).

Box 2, Meyer Wolfe

MS 38: Rose Goldberg Hirshberg

MS 39: Dr. Lou Silberman (see also MS 34)

MS 40: Mortimer May family (see also library catalog, SC 23), Leon May, Jacob

(Jack) May, Bells Bend, May Town, Bloch, Hirt (Melanie ‘nee May & Doug)

MS 41: Kornman family

Box 1: Lydia Weille, History of Jews in Paducah, KY

Box 2: Kornman/Raskin

Box 3: Kornman/Raskin/Meyer

Box 4: 1992 reunion. Weinbergers, Wise, Beck Kornman Raskin’s oral history,

Dembsky, Haber, Kraft, Rosen, Wilson, Pushin

MS 42: Glick/Shyer (Ellis, Rich, Lebeck’s), Clarksville

Box 1: Family papers

Box 2: Family photos

MS 43: Dr. Pauline Tenzel (see also library catalog)/Fleischer

Box 1: Patent information – Oxygen inhaler

Papers of Forenblats and Tenzels

Family of Gerald and Doris Fleischer

Papers 1920-1980

Photographs – high school, Russia, college, Fensterwald Clinic

Transcripts of autobiographical tapes

Transcriptions of oral tapes

Speeches

Hardcopy of the book, Pauline Tenzel, The Life Story of a “Lady Doctor”

Papers of Paul and Eva Fleischer



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Artifacts of Pauline Tenzel’s professional life

Box 2: Shenkman/Cohen Family Tree/Reunion (see also SC 246)

PT -- School, Correspondence, Family Photos 1893-1927, Remembrances 1979

For book -- Dispositions from family 1988-1991, Talks on research by Doris

Fleischer, Securing documents, Correspondence 1920-1927, correspondence with

publisher & publicity, Correspondence requesting remembrances, Paul Fleischer –

obits, correspondence, will, funeral, last edited draft of book

MS 44: Werthan family (see also MS 23)

Box 1: Mary Jane (Janie) Lowenheim and Albert Werthan; May Werthan & Herb Shayne

Box 1A: Albert’s Shamus Club papers. Driving Miss Daisy

Box 1B: Minnie Lowenstein, Epstein/Bogatsky (Skovron). Helen Werthan Cohn and

Louis Rosenfeld (see also MS 34), Teitlebaum, Werthan family. Emma Werthan

Feldman

Box 2: Joe and Howard Werthan (see also MS 22), Harris Solinsky, Aaron Lande,

Godhelp

Box 3: May Moses and Morris Werthan (parents of Bernard, Albert, and Helen) Family

Tree; Leah Rose (RoRo) Bernstein and Bernard (PD) Werthan, Sr.; Clarence Bernstein

Family (parents of Leah Rose); LRW personal, awards, volunteerism, Urban League;

Peabody College and Demonstration School; Family Photographs

Box 3A: Leah Rose Werthan volunteer activities

Box 3B: Betty Kornman and Bernard Werthan, Jr.; Joan Werthan and Lawrence Blum;

Libby Rosenblum and Morris Werthan, Pardes Reader

MS 45: Industrial Removal Office

And

MS 46: Sow and Grow Garden Club (scrapbook 1975-1990), Beautification Award

Documentation Book, minutes, yearbooks 1982-current

MS 47: Congregation Micah

Box 1. Bulletins 1992-1999

Box 2: Bulletins, 2000-2005

Box 2A: New building 2007. Clippings, flyers, 1992-2005. Wendy and Ken Kanter



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Box 3:: Clippings, flyers, Bulletins, 2006-

Small Collections:

SC 1 Samuel McKinley Levine

SC 2 Mitchell Lurie

SC 3 Association for Relief of Jewish Widows and Orphans

SC 4 Harry Schwartz Family – Cummins sisters married Schwartz; Doochin

(American Paper and Twine), Friedman, Hiken. Hiken children - Rapaport, Levine

(Morris & Louis Levine [see SC 64], Gay Eisen. Schwartz children – Zeitlin (also

see SC 75), Taradash, Wasserman (see also SC 243), Goldberg. Doochin children –

Saperstein, Wolf, Kasselberg. Fidelholtz (Jack & Sadie Doochin), Jacobs. Friedman

children – Petrovsky.

SC 5 Book Fair Speaker Alfred Kazin (tape) – collection deleted 3/15/2013

SC 6 Leah Frank Bloom, David Gross, WWII

SC 7 Jonas/Lowenstein/Lewis Family (see also MS 24) Shelbyville. Frank, Dutchman’s

Curve Train wreck

SC 8 Theresa Lowenstein Cohen – sister of Herman Lowenstein [OB Box 17 dress]

SC 9 Charles Levy & Bro. Company (Gallatin, TN). Other Charles Levy, Coleman Levy

SC 10 Fishgall Family (see SC 25 Levy)

SC 11 Sabina Greif

SC 12 Izzy Kaufman

SC 13 Maron J. Simon

SC 14 Doyne Family

SC 15 David Elliott Palet

SC 16 Joseph Edward Pasternak, Guttman, Schatten, Schwartz

SC 17 businesses: Einstein (Dan & Ellen, Sweet 16th – bakery), Hassenfeld, King

(Jewelers), Joe Kraft, Liff (Steiner-Liff), Lipman, Moskovitz, Nemer (Cotton

Mill), Pargh (also see SC 113), Saturn (American Artisan), Schwartz, Sender /

Cooper, Sprintz, Stolman, Tannenbaum and Ginsberg, Vise, Zimmerman (Service

Merchandise) moved to SC 192, Delek (Mapco), Frank, George Cohn (Nashville

Toffee) see also MS 44 Werthan / Rosenfeld, HAI (Hospital Affiliates

International), Dixie Leather (Shklar), Levy’s, Public Square project. Greenbaum,

Loveman see SC 27; (See SC 38 (North Edgefield)), Jews in East Nashville, 1920s-

40s: Dave , Sam Doyne, Jacob Karr, Wm. Sanderson (see SC 238), Sam Fisher,

Sam Shymlock, Lucas, Gordon, Finkel, Blumen, Averbuch, Frankel, Komisar see

SC 38, Carney (see also SC 259 Carney / Smith), Lockenbach, Rapoport, Shechter

(SmartSpace LLC); Freeman maps of downtown Nashville 1959 & 1979, Morris /

Slomovic / Davidson: Ess & Fress Catering

SC 18 Blanche Wyman Dembsky photographic

SC 19 Ben Gurion’s Visit to TVA

SC 20 Rosalie Lockenbach; Rittenberg/Lockenbach [Milton, Sheryl, Ronald (Rosalie’s



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nephew)]

SC 21 Werthan Bag Co.,

SC 22 Lindauer/ Fensterwald/ Eisenstein/ Speller family (SEE encapsulated composite of

photos on oversize shelf; Burk & Co. In SC 23), Fishel family tree, Coleman,

Greenberg, Hoffman

SC 23 Dan May family/May Hosiery Mill. Jack May. Fishel/May/Stern family (See also

MS 40 for Bells Bend, “Our American Family” – The Mays (PBS special 2016)

SC 24 Joe and Bessie Simon/Sternheimer/ Sam Levy box 2/Cohen/Robert

Green/ Weintraub, Tarbox, Vanderbilt yearbook 1932; Family Tree of Eli Cohen

(grandfather of Bessie Simon)

SC 25 Grossman Robin family

SC 26 Hirsch/Fox family, JJ photos of families – Eisenstein, Steine, Eskind, Morris

SC 27: Loveman, Berger family/business. Scott Seligman’s Family trees: Loveman,

Mills, Rich, Breyer, M.F. Schwartz (ref SC 102) , Shep Schwartz, Weinstein,

Fleisman, Cypress, Bissinger, Sonnenfeld, Wiener, Fishel, Caplan, Yellin,

Kornman, Halpern, Meyer, Kraft, Glaboff, Seligman (Smargonsky, Cohen, Weil,

[also see SC 113], Brin [Fayetteville]), Mizpah Congregation, Chattanooga (See

also SC 176, TSLA), Also Celia Rich and Bessie Pritz.

SC 28 Weingart / Gordon family (Gordon JCC), Weinberger (also see SC 39), Litoff

SC 29 Marion (Mrs. Alexander) Kenigsberg, Silverman

SC 30 Herbert Kohn (see also RG2). Shamus Club, Rabbi Silverman correspondence

SC 31 Nat Weise family, Mamlin (Kindergarten photo – Miss Ruby [Bacherig]),

Hershkovitz

SC 32 Fannye Schwartz

SC 33 State of Israel Bonds, Nashville Committee

SC 34 Nashville Jews in Politics-- Ronnie Steine, Eskind, Shookoff, Burson, Cohen,

Weiner, Bedne, Schulman, Ruben (moved to SC 121), Rebrovick (see also SC

48 Eskind), Erin Coleman, Ralph Cohen

SC 35 Garfinkle/ Nochlin/ Ross/ Jaffa family

SC 36 Ira Katz family

SC 37 Bloomfield/Brown/Harris/Bissinger/Lefkovits/Levick/Solomon family (see also

SC 157)

SC 38 Komisar, Klott, Klottwog, Luobanow, Berss, Feignbaum family

SC 39 Hyman Cohen (Thomas, Weinberger (also see SC 28, Murray Cohen)

SC 40 Elsa Herzfeld Frank

SC 41 Seymour Samuels family

SC 42 Harry Stern family, Hait sisters

SC 43 Ella Haiman

SC 44 Peggy and Martin Tohrner, Franklin, TN, Fine, Posnack, Dobson

SC 45 Ethel W. Lutin

SC 46 Alvin Rosenbloom (Jackson,TN)

SC 47 Eisenstat, Hersh

SC 48 Eskind families (Leon Ginsburg, Pearlman); also see SC 24 Family Tree – Leah

Belle Eskind Levy. See SC 51 Allen Eskind WWII journal; Ural Karr (cousin),

See photos of Joe Jacobs SC 26



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SC 49 Joe and Gertrude Weinstein (see also SC 75)

SC 50 Nathan Cohen/Weinman

SC 51 Zander, Eskind (Allen), Schulman, Friedman, Coleman, Fishel, TN Glass,

TN Building Products

SC 52 Koch/Isaacs/Silverman, Bailey Levine Isaacs (see also SC 151 Max Levine)

SC 53 Helen Cohen Bergida. History of Pulaski,, by Nelle Roller Cohen (Harris

Solinsky, Sol Cohn, Herman Levinson, Jacob Levine, Stanley Cohen, Morris

Levison, Max Stein, I. Denbo). Meyer Cohen, Adolph Jacobs family tree (from

Teri Weinstein Cohen), Gross, see also SC 78. (See SC 93, MS 12:16 Helen

Bergida’s NCJW Oral History; Weinstein MS 22:3)

SC 54 Alvin Stillman, Weismark

SC 55 Redelsheimer family

SC 56 Pilsk family

SC 57 Rich Schwartz, Frank and Leo Schwartz (Ruby Bacherig Kindergarten [Acc 2009,

1930-31, SC 24 {Acc 828}, SC 31, MS 15] Big Brothers (Bertha Fensterwald

Social Center). See SC 57

SC 58 Lebeck, Zibart, Frankland families (see Berger, SC27) (Zibart cousins to Goldstein

of Murfreesboro), Glazer

SC 59 Starr/Lightman

SC 60 Steiner family (Also see MS 20 Jerome Small)

SC 61 Max Sigal family

SC 62 Sheila Levine Family (Willy Levine son of Rev. Max Levine WES, see SC 151)

SC 63 Jewish National Fund

SC 64 Moskovitz, Gross, Kornman, Manas, Levine (see also SC 62,SC 151) ,

Rosenstein/Wilker family; Esta Moskovitz Loventhal (Ben) [The Echo yearbook

1931]; Max Greenberg [business partner of Charles Gross]

SC 65 Rubin Ruskin, Frazee

SC 66 Haas/Oppenheim

SC 67 Jews in the Arts –

Collector - Peggy Steine (See photos of Joe Jacobs SC 26), Alice Zimmerman,

Stringer (see SC 232)

Applied - Shirley Horowitz (decorator), Scott Hodes glass,

Sylvia Hyman – ceramics, Zev Goring (ark at Beit Tefilah)

Fine - Sharon Charney, Rhonda Wernick, Kaaren Engel, John Baeder,

Written - Solomon, Jackie Jules (also see SC 116 Hechtkopf ), Ted Pailet, Alan

Turk

Performing - Layne Sasser, Ann Tonelson, Morgan Karr, Kholos

SC 68 National Conference of Christians and Jews (Community Nashville)

SC 69 Bromberg Family

SC 70 Dinah Shore (ref SC27), (ref 102 for play handbill)

SC 71 Kantor/Spark family

SC 72 Murfreesboro, TN (see Fannie Barnett NCJW oral history)

“The Murfreesboro Jewish Community, 1855-1900” (Henry Hirsh, A. Loeb,

Joseph Frank, Landsberger, Henlein, Fleishman, Tobias, Ray Nathan

marries Joseph Levy, Ike Hirshburg, Goldstein, H. Abraham.) Rabbi Rami



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Shapiro, Lon (died 2008) and Christie Nuell (moved to England), Cohen Brothers

(also see SC 159, MS 36:2 Percy Cohen)

SC 73 Steinau family

SC 74: Kessler family

SC75: Brooks, Katzman, Averbuch, Zeitlin, Shmerling, Rosenblum (Rodney & Libby

Werthan), Mehlman, Schklar, Caplan (See SC 214) (Dresner, Huettner,

Rosenthal), Biener, Mendelsohn, Weinstein (SC49), Brodsky,Yellin, Sigal

family (for family photo, see OB 20). Adaskin family tree, Fuldauer,

Shmerling –Abe’s Garden; Krivcher (Ilsa’s mother was a Brooks) [Bebe Marx

from Memphis is Charles Krivcher”s sister]

SC 76: Goldner,Neaderthal, Rose, Greenfield, Guttman, Pushin, Milner families

SC 77 Freudenthal,Moses family

SC 78 Lester Gross (Pulaski, TN)

SC 79 Bubis family

SC 80 Feldman Family/Nashville Trunk and Bag Co., Albert, Rapaport, Goldberg

SC 81 Ball/Kaduri

SC 82 Lipschutz/Friedman family

SC 83 Maurice and Joy Karr, Marshall Karr, Pete Roth

SC 84 J.B. Cohen Family (Gladys Stillman’s brother) [see also SC 246 Shenkman/Cohen),

Joseph Cohen

SC 85 Cubine/Adler/Marks family

SC 86 Kohnstamm/Paritz family

SC 87 Glenn Feldman, “Jews of Nashville 1900-1920” (see SC 109)

SC 88 August family

SC 89 Gilbert family, Lillian Weinbaum [Gilbert], Hume Fogg 1913

SC 90 Powers, Stone, Felknor, Lewis/Mitchell family

SC 91 Cavert School

SC 92 Charles and Melba Lapidus

SC 93 Bergeda/Block/Stuart family (see SC 53)

SC 94 Peter Haas, “Jewish Life in Tennessee”. See also SC 187

SC 95 Peter Katz family

SC 96 Peres Levy family

SC 97 Haas, Beatrice (Lack)

SC 98 Blumen family, Ward

SC 99 Oriental Carnival and Street Fair Official Program, Oct. 16-21, 1899

SC 100 Franklin Havurah

SC 101 Teitlebaum family

SC 102 Harris Abrahams, Michael Schwartz, Tarbox, Hume Fogg, Tennessee Centennial

Expo (ref SC 27)

SC 103 Jake Levine family/Jewish Ledger, New Orleans, Sept. 7, 1900: Ike and J.

Lefkovits, Ohabai Shalom, Adath Israel, Hebrew Relief Society, B’nai B’rith,

Kesher Shel Barzel, Magazine Circle, Standard Club, Mrs. Harry Joseph, Barney

Philips, Ben Lindauer, Max Bloomstein, Benjamin Herman, Joseph Morse, Sol

and Dave Cline, Abe Wolf, Lee J. Loventhal, Saul Gordon, Rachel Salzkotter,

Lizzie Lee Bloomstein, H. Redelsheimer, William Herman, Mr. And Mrs. M.



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Feldman, Herman Lusky, Rabbi Lewinthal, Nathan Cohn, Hattie Harczyk

(Tugendrich), Sam Lowenstein, Emanuel Wolf, Dr. S.M. Bloomstein, Sallie

Crone, Sam Lowenstein, Dr. J. H. Feist (see MS20:6), Martin S. Loventhal

SC 104 Davis, Seloff, Broudy (Brody), Rosenblum, Levine; See OB 6 Davis Store photos

SC 105 Tullahoma, TN

SC 106 Bloomstein family (SEE also MS 7D, Magazine Circle; OB 6)

SC 107 Effron,Heymann,Latner,Bernwald family (See also SC 141)

SC 108 Rady family

SC 109 Rob Spinney, The Jewish Community In Nashville 1939-1949

SC 110 Feinstein family

SC 111 Kleeman,/Osman, Lusky family (also Clarksville)

SC 112 Roden/Hermann family

SC 113 Pargh (See OB 26; SC 17). Lipschutz, Stein, Cassell, Neuman, Moskovitz

Bittner, Rubenstein, Shore (see also SC 70), Seligman, Julian Cohen (see also SC

72), Weil family, Pinsly, Mossman, Cole

SC 114 David (Skull) Schulman, Robert Carney

SC 115 Jews in Music, Bluebird Café (see Amy Kurland SC 17)

SC 116 Jacqueline Hechtkopf

SC 117 Harrison Gray (TN Rep)

SC 118 Cindee and Michael Gold

SC 119 Manuel Frank Family (Gabrielle Ash Frank), Sylvia Frank Suhrland (see also MS

20)

SC 120 Burt Hummell

SC 121 Leon Ruben

SC 122 Meta and Richard Windmiller

SC 123 Aaron Hiller (see SC 128)

SC 124 Cypress/Knights of Joseph

SC 125 Jesse Kornbluth

SC 126 Abe Stein

SC 127 Samuel Kaufman

SC 128 Herman Kushner (see SC 123, OB 4), Blecker, Laiken (Laken), Silbert

SC 129 Bruce Levy

SC 130 Cherie Bennett/Jeff Gottesfeld

SC 131 Porges

SC 132 Herman and Irma Kaplan, Beisman

SC 133 Michael Rose - music

SC 134 Harmony Korine – film maker

SC 135 Richard Feldman, MD

SC 136 Janet (‘nee Levine) and Perry March

SC 137 Levitch

SC 138 Slabosky (Molly), Hirsch (Bruce), Russ - Moses, Speer, +, Zagnoev, Brook

SC 139 Tonelson

SC 140 Kahn/Levy

SC 141 Hipsh, Heymann, Caperton, Nassauer, Levy Fayetteville (See also SC 107,

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SC 142 Sandy Woolf

SC 143 Robert Levy

SC 144 Lee and Peter Haas

SC 145 Carol Orsborne

SC 146 Dan Nichols

SC 147 Bruce and Norma Rogers

SC 148 Reva and Gene Heller

SC 149 Joe Cohen (See also MS 3)

SC 150 Isaacs, Mendelsohn, Mehlman

SC 151 Max Levine (see also MS 3), William (Shelia, SC 62) Levine, James, Martin, &

Rae Levine

SC 152 Olivia Newman

SC 153 Nashville May 2010 Flood, Schwartz testimonial

SC 154 Center for Jewish Awareness, Chabad of Nashville, Beit Tefilah, Yitzchok

Tiechtel

SC 155 Fran Goldstein Kaminitz

SC 156 Limor family (see also MS 32)

SC 157 Bissinger, Haber, Lusky, Burke, Kornman, Lucks, Rosenthal (see also SC 37, MS

41)

SC 158 Eli Zacharin (see also RG 2)

SC 159 Henry Cohen, Patsy Barnett Wind (see also Fannie Barnett OH, MS 12), Cohen

Brothers of Murfreesboro (SC 72), Percy and Bea Cohen; Dave Cohen

photo 1905 – see OB 21

SC 160 Phil Roseman (Memoirs of Trimble, Tennessee), Jean Roseman (author of

Shalom Nashville), talk “A Price Far Above Rubies” & powerpoint 2/2012

SC 161 John Calligham II

SC 162 Kesher Shel Barzel

SC 163 Berl Klein’s will

SC 164 Ohava Emes

SC 165 Lubin/Moskovitz/Rayman/Silverfield families

SC 166 Russian Kongregation Teforet Israel 1885

SC 167 Dr. Jerome Klein family, Herzog

SC 168 Southern Jewish Historical Society photographic exhibit: Nov. 2003: Vine

Street Temple, JCC (3), West End Synagogue (2), Akiva, Sherith Israel (Mitzi

has on computer at Temple) Congregation pictures.

SC 169 Slutsky, Buc families

SC 170 Salzkotter, Schwab families

SC 171 Civil Rights. Clive Webb, ‘We Will Not Yield: Racial and Anti-Semitic

Violence in 1950s Nashville.” Civil rights in the Nashville Jewish Community

(Annete Ratkin). Brad Miller “Jewish community response to the Black freedom

struggle In Nashville. Security threats and Vandalism. See also RG2:20A, MS

2:7A

SC 172 Sam Riven and family

SC 173 Janette Silverman, “Three More Than a Minyan: the Integration and

Assimilation of Jews in Nashville, TN,” 2004; rewrite of article 2016; Publ. TN



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Historical Quarterly Summer 2016 Nashville History

SC 174 Frank School of Music (Leon Frank)

SC 175 Jews in World War I and II(See also MS 20:6), Standard Club Plaque WWI,

WWII mounted on GJCC wall (see MS 23, Box 5 Hartman for photo)

SC 176 TSLA exhibit on Jews in Tennessee, Oct. 11, 2004. Tennessee State library

Judaica collection.

SC 177 Al and Ned Feldman

SC 178 Laurie Moore, Proclaiming Justice to the Nations

SC 179 Layman family

SC 180 Bierfield murder, Franklin, 1868. Friedman murder (1884). Fishman fire, 1909.

SC 181 Yazdian family, Hecklin, Kweller, Hyatt, Spielman, Hanai, Pearl

SC 182 Ochs family

SC 183 Columbia, TN: Gene Heller (also see SC 148), Bogatsky & Bauman, Louis

Loeb, William Barker, David Lazarus (see also Pulaski), Z. Levy

SC 184 Jackson, TN (see also SC 46). Brownsville, TN

SC 185 Rabbi Herman Saltzman, Hertzka family

SC 186 West End High School

SC 187 Histories of the Jews of Tennessee, Kentucky: Encyclopedia Judaica, Stuart

Rockoff, ISJL: Bristol/Johnson City; Brownsville; Chattanooga; Clarksville;

Columbia; Jackson; Knoxville; Memphis; Murfreesboro (see also Cohen SC

72), Oak Ridge; Tullahoma; Union City (see also Haas, SC 94); Winchester

(see also SC 141); Clarksville (see Glick MS 42); Mt. Pleasant see Stein (SC

175), Rosenberg , Trimble (SC 160); Hopkinsville, KY (Klein); Paducah

(Rosenfield) (See MS 41:1 also Paducah Jews); Fayetteville (see SC 233 Sir /

Ginsburg)

SC 188: Jewish American Music Festival 2007

SC 189: Volunteer Voices

SC 190: Westfield family

SC 191: Morris-Pailet families

SC 192: Zimmerman family, Bell

SC 193: Melman family

SC 194: Held family

SC 195: Paplanus/Garber Families

SC 196: Juvelier family

SC 197: “Barney and Clyde.” the Moskovitz, Morris family, by Jean Roseman

SC 198: Bernow, Lewis, Rothstein, Yoffe

SC 199: Michael Mayhan

SC 200: Victor Magid Family ( Frankel, Moskovitz, Sanderson, Williams, Small)

SC 201: Barton / Lipsitz

SC 202: Addlestone Family

SC 203: Shreibman (Public Library in LaVergne, TN)

SC 204: Bregman, Daniel - Act! for America 2011

SC 205: Gryll/Nochlin Family

SC 206: Lee Dorman: author of Nashville’s Jewish Community, publ 2010 by Arcadia

Press, pictorial history; editor of The Observer



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SC 207: Guinsburg

SC 208: Lane Family – Stan & Cheryl, Rana Dragon, Amy ?, Amanda (Berck) Awend

SC 209: Margaret Perlen

SC 210: Birthday Club - Levy-Ratkin, Goldner, Brown, May, Kuhn

SC 211: Frances Cutler Hahn – holocaust

SC 212: Pritikin

SC 213: Ragosin

SC 214: Dresner, Botnick, Caplan, Hersh, Lefkovitz (see SC 104)

SC 215: Martin and Rowena Levy

SC 216: Cliff Fiedler and Toby Abrams

SC 217: Schwarcz (Andy & Barbara)

SC 218: Pankowsky

SC 219: Epelbaum, Karabel

SC 220: Eli Cohen, Hyman Cohen, Martin, Davenport

SC 221: Corenswet

SC 222: Twersky / Goldsmith

SC 223: Sax Brothers

SC 224: Raefsky

SC 225: Mintz

SC 226: Rubenfeld

SC 227: Chojnacki, Remer, Berkon

SC 228: Schulman, Edith and Charles

SC 229: Chazen

SC 230: Sar El - Volunteers for Israel

SC 231: O’Neal

SC 232: Stringer

SC 233: Sir, Ginsburg

SC 234: JMS – Jewish Middle School

SC 235: Carney / Smith

SC 236: Beaver

SC 237: Cynthia Trainer

SC 238: Sanderson

SC 239: Nashville Jewish Film Festival [OB 6 posters 2008,2012, 2013 ]

SC 240: Terryl A. Propper

SC 241: Wittenstein

SC 242: PJ Library – Grinspoon; Akiva, Federation, GJCC

SC 243: Wasserman

SC 244: Goldstein, Bernard (also see TSLA Harry Klein Papers), I. Steven (Steve)

Goldstein (also see Jews in Politics SC 34)

SC 245: Alalouf, Ben

SC 246: Shenkman/Cohen Family – Bernard, Kraft, Fleischer, Schulman, Garfinkle,

Cohen, Hill, Johnson, Bleeker



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See also: TSLA Harry Klein Papers (See SC 244 – Goldstein)

MS 13: Shin Aleph

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