B'nai B'rith Anti-defamation League Northwest Regional Office records, circa

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1 B'nai B'rith Anti-defamation League Northwest Regional Office records, circa Overview of the Collection Creator B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League. Northwest Regional Office Title B'nai B'rith Anti-defamation League Northwest Regional Office records Dates circa (inclusive) Quantity cubic feet Collection Number 2045 Summary Community relation arm of B'nai B'rith with national membership and a regional office in Seattle Repository University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Special Collections University of Washington Libraries Box Seattle, WA Telephone: Fax: speccoll@uw.edu Access Restrictions Consult the access restrictions information for each of the accessions listed below. Some material stored offsite; advance notice required for use. Languages English Historical Note ADL's major role is to combat anti-semitism and to interpret and inform the public about Israel and the Middle East. During the period represented by these records, ADL not only combatted anti-semitism but also promoted civil rights for blacks. The Pacific Northwest regional office was located in Portland until January 1956, when it was moved to Seattle. Content Description Consult the scope and content information for each of the accessions listed below. Other Descriptive Information Forms part of Washington State Jewish Archives 1

2 Use of the Collection Restrictions on Use Consult the restrictions governing reproduction and use for each of the accessions listed below. Administrative Information Detailed Description of the Collection No : B'nai B'rith Anti-defamation League Northwest Regional Office records, cubic feet Scope and Content: Correspondence, minutes, and supporting organizational files. Includes subject files on people, organizations, lawsuits, and other events occurring during this time period. Arrangement: Records of the Regional Office have been divided into two parts, one for the Portland office, approximately , and the other for the Seattle office, approximately The Portland office functioned as the Regional office until January 1956, when the Seattle office became the Regional office. The Portland office continued to function until about The Seattle office existed for a number of years before it acted as the Regional office. Directors of the office have included: for Portland, David Robinson, and for Seattle in chronological order, Sam Holcenberg, P. Allen Rickles, Stanley Jacobs, Len Schroeter, and Seymour Kaplan.Portland office files integrated with those of the Seattle office have been treated as part of the Seattle office files. At this stage of processing, series have been identified by the predominant kind of material contained in a file. Thus, incoming letters might also include some outgoing letters or minutes of meetings.portland office files concerned with the passage of a Fair Employment Practices Act in Oregon were acquired in 1967 and have been retained as a separate accession.restrictions apply to these records. Researchers are advised to discuss them with the Curator before requesting records. Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access, contact Special Collections. Records stored offsite; advance notice required for use. Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights not transferred to the University of Washington Libraries Acquisition Info: Donated by Seymour Kaplan, 11/13/1972. Container(s) Description Dates Portland Office 2

3 General Correspondence Budget Memos Subject Series Alaska - New State no American Council for Judaism American Jewish Committee American Veterans Committee Boycott: German Products Civil Rights Legislation 1953 Committee to Defend America Concerted Peace Efforts Curfew Regulations 1942 Desecration of Synagogue 1946 Dolls for Democracy Project 1957 Fair Employment Practice Field Service Alaska British Columbia Idaho

4 Fight for Freedom 1941 Human Relations - Research Intercultural - Community Survey Jewish Businessmen Jewish Physicians and Dentists in the Armed Forces 1943 Jewish Statistics - Army Jones vs. O'Meara Juvenile Delinquency 1952 National Conference of Christians and Jews 1955 Oregon Citizens Food Committee Public Schools Urban League Chicago Portland Venereal Disease Discrimination Banks Business Campaigns Clubs Communication

5 Employment Employment Films Fraternities and Sororities Hotels Housing Housing Indians 1956 Insurance Japanese 1956 Law Enforcement Agencies Law Schools Liquor Sales Licenses Marriage Licenses Medicine Negroes Plays Political Campaigns

6 Religion 1954 Resorts Restaurants Social Sports Synagogues Teachers Television Transportation Unions 1954 Fact Files Acme Breweries 1941 John Beatty Maurice Bisgyer Robert Bowen 1959 B Miscellaneous C Miscellaneous Raymond Davis Ray L. Elliott Adolph L. Gesche

7 Walter Gieseking Rep. Ed Gossett 1948 Thomas P. Graham 1948 Edward Milburn Greenwood 1957 Mrs. Nathan Harris 1941 Father Henry Holthaus 1939 Rev. Armin A. Holzer Claude E. Ingalis Boris Tobias Iserlis Rev. Joe Jeffers Ed O. Katz 1950 Tyler Kent 1945 Harold Kimball Henry H. Klein Walter H. Lawrie Dellmore Lessard Kenneth V. Lohick Kalfred D. Lum Dr. Harry A. Lyska 1939 Rabb: Moses Miller

8 Rudolph Miller Henry Monsky Col. James B. Morehead 1945 Nachrichten (German Newspaper) A. W. O'Connell Dr. Norman V. Peale 1959 Fordam Rab 1944 Ethel Rosenberg Julius Rosenberg Edwin J. Schefter 1942 Bishop Bernard J. Shell Everett Shelton 1946 Graham Stuart 1946 Count Felix von Luckner Walter Winchell 1938 Countess Morag Zamoyska 1940 Subgroups Western Regional Advisory Board 6b/ Organization b/ General Correspondence

9 6b/ Minutes b/ Membership b/ Clippings Oregon Regional Advisory Board 6b/ Organization b/ General Correspondence b/ Nominating Committee b/ Minutes b/ Membership b/ Reports 1959 Memoranda 6b/ Personally Yours Washington Reg. Adv. Board b/ Miscellaneous b/ Ephemera n.d. Seattle Office 9

10 7a/ Organization Intraorganizational Correspondence 7a/ P. A. Rickles a/ Samuel Holcenberg a/ P. A. Rickles a/ Stanley Jacobs a/ P. Allen Rickles L. Schroeter 7a/ New York Office a/ Washington Regional Advisory Board a/ Miscellaneous Offices ca Seymour Kaplan 7a/ New York Office a/ Pacific Southwest Regional Office a/ Portland Office

11 7b/ Portland Office b/ Miscellaneous Offices b/ Washington Regional Advisory Board b/ Incoming Letters b/ Outgoing Letters b/ General Correspondence , b/ National Commission Meeting b/ Miscellaneous Minutes 1959, b/ Financial Records Reports 7b/ ADL Activities in Washington State b/ Education , b/ Organizations b/ Miscellaneous 1947, , b/ Lists - Films, Publications, Miscellaneous b/ Speeches and Writings 1968, n.d. 11

12 7b/ News Releases b/ S. Kaplan Files c/ Miscellaneous 1946, 1968 Memoranda 7c/ Re: ADL Publications c/ American Jewish Committee/ADL Joint Memos Newsletters 7c/ Personally Yours - Washington Regional Office c/ Jewish Western Bulletin c/ Miscellaneous c/ Clippings 1956, c/ Photographs, Unidentified ca. 1960s 7c/ Ephemera n.d. Conferences American Immigration Conference - General Correspondence

13 Catholic-Jewish Conference - Outgoing Letters 1966 Educators' Conference on Human Relations Education: Planning Committee 1959 Planning Committee General Correspondence Midwest Conference on Human Relations Education Reports 1952 National Students' Conference on Human Relations 1952 Education Questionnaires Northwest Conference on Human Relations Education 1959 Incoming Letters Outgoing Letters General Correspondence Notes Tapes No. 1 - Dr. Francis F. Powers, Dr. Charles E. Odegaard No. 2/No. 3 - Sen. Richard Neuberger No. 4 - Dr. Ralph W. Tyler Oregon Conference on Human Relations Education - General Correspondence Wisconsin Conference on Human Relations Education - Reports 1959,

14 Subject Series The American Jewish Committee 1968 John Birch Society Christian-Jewish Relations Communism General Education Jews Community Discrimination Committee Discrimination Civil Rights 1968 Clubs - Laurelhurst Beach Club Education Employment 1968 Housing - General Housing - Curtis vs. Interlake Realty, Inc National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Seattle/Urban League 1968 Fascism Fluoridation of Water

15 Immigration - Legislation Israel General American Attitudes Boycott Against Internationalization of Jerusalem National Cooperation Israeli Speakers Jews and Judaism 1968 Jewish Federation - Community Relations Committee Jewish Welfare Federation National Association Against Unfair Taxation 1966 National Commission 1968 Public Schools Fact Files Harry Glickman Louis Harron Tom Linder 1954 Victor Lindstrom Dr. A. U. Michelson

16 Col. James B. Morehead Dr. Charles W. Saale 1954 F. G. Sammons 1950 Kate Smith L. D. Staplin Dr. A. E. Strath-Gordon Bruce Thomas H. W. Totten 1954 Kurt von Schusehnigg 1947 Louis A. Weinberg Washington Regional Advisory Board Organization 11a/ By-Laws a/ Committees , n.d. 11a/ General Correspondence a/ Minutes a/ Membership , 1965 Reports 16

17 11a/ ADL Activities in Washington State a/ Education b/ News Releases , n.d. 11b/ Memoranda b/ Clippings n.d. Washington Regional Advisory Board, Executive Committee 11b/ Organization b/ General Correspondence b/ Minutes Washington Regional Advisory Board, Nominating Committee 11b/ Organization - Nominations b/ General Correspondence b/ Minutes b/ Memoranda

18 Washington Regional Advisory Board, Civil Rights Committee 11b/ Organization b/ General Correspondence , b/ Minutes b/ Reports n.d. 11b/ Memoranda , 1968 Washington Regional Advisory Board, Program Committee 11b/ Organization b/ General Correspondence b/ Minutes , n.d. 11b/ Memoranda b/ Washington Regional Advisory Board, Community Relations Committee - General Correspondence 11b/ Washington Regional Advisory Board, Public Relations Committee - General Correspondence 11b/ Washington Regional Advisory Board, Public Speakers Committee - General Correspondence

19 11b/ Washington Regional Advisory Board, Neighborhood Trends Subcommittee (Negro-Jewish Tensions) - General Correspondence 1954 Washington State Board Against Discrimination 11b/ Organization 1958, n.d. 11b/ General Correspondence c/ General Correspondence c/ Minutes c/ Financial Records - Budget c/ Cases c/ Reports c/ News Releases c/ Memoranda n.d. 11c/ Newsletters c/ Clippings n.d. 11c/ Miscellaneous n.d. No : B'nai B'rith Anti-defamation League Northwest Regional Office records, circa cubic foot Scope and Content: Letters, clippings, ephemera, notes. These are papers of Seymour Kaplan that he took home with him. He was regional director until Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access, contact Special Collections. Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights not transferred to the University of Washington Libraries 19

20 Acquisition Info: Donated by Mrs. Seymour Kaplan, 7/2/1975. No : B'nai B'rith Anti-defamation League Northwest Regional Office records, before cubic foot Scope and Content: Seymour Kaplan's correspondence, clippings, speeches, photographs. Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access, contact Special Collections. Acquisition Info: Donated by Mrs. Sara Kaplan, 7/1/1975. Names and Subjects Corporate Names : B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League. Northwest Regional Office--Archives Temple Beth Am (Seattle, Wash.) Other Creators : Personal Names : Bernstein, Leonard Cohen, Oscar Holcenberg, Samuel G Jacobs, Stanley Kaplan, Seymour H Oseran, Melville, Rabkin, Sol Rickles, P. Allen (Pincus Allen), Robinson, David Schroeter, Leonard Tarshis, Samuel William Corporate Names : Washington State Board Against Discrimination Washington State Jewish Archives (University of Washington) 2007 (Last modified: 7/30/2018)

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