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BANC MSS 2010/736
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Collection Title: Goodman and Levy family papers and scrapbooks,
Date (inclusive): 1850-2003
Collection Number: BANC MSS 2010/736
Creators:
Levy family
Goodman family
Extent:
Number of containers: 11 cartons and 10 oversize boxes
(linear feet: 14.6)
Repository: The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: The papers and scrapbooks of the Goodman and Levy families of El Paso, Texas, Nashville, Tennessee, and the San Francisco
Bay Area.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Collection is in process.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head
of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720-6000. Consent is given on behalf of The
Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright
owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner. See:
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and educational purposes.Materials in this collection may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition,
the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor
restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected
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with the user.
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Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. See:
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[Identification of item], Goodman and Levy family papers and scrapbooks, BANC MSS 2010/736, The Magnes Collection of Jewish
Art and Life, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Levy, Parez.
Goodman, Aaron
Levy, Estelle Goodman--Diaries
Lemmon, Amelia Levy
Lemmon, Guy
Levy family--Archives
Goodman family--Archives
Temple Sinai (El Paso, Tex.)--Sisterhood
Brandeis University--National Women's Committee
National Council of Jewish Women
University of California, Berkeley
California Institute of Technology
Western Jewish History Center. 184
Judah L. Magnes Museum. WJHC 1972.003
Bancroft Library. Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Jews--Texas--El Paso
Jewish women--Texas--El Paso
Jewish merchants--Texas--El Paso
Jewish merchants--Tennessee--Nashville
Photographs
Scrapbooks
Wedding Books
The Goodman and Levy family papers and scrapbooks were gifted to the Bancroft Library by the Judah L. Magnes Museum in 2010.
No future additions are expected.
Processed by Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life staff in 2011.
Estelle Goodman Levy was born in El Paso, Texas, where her father, Aaron, owned the Lion Grocery Company. Her grandfather,
Parez Levy, was an optician in Nashville, Tennessee. She attended Science Hall in Shelbyville, Kentucky and graduated from
Throop Academy in Pasadena, now the California Institute of Technology, in 1910. Estelle returned to El Paso and married Charles
Levy in 1916. She was active in the political, civic, social, historical, philanthropic and Jewish life of El Paso and the
Southwest, belonging to Mount Sinai Temple and many other local organizations including: the National Council of Jewish Women;
the Texas State Federation of Sisterhoods; the Women’s Club of El Paso; the Red Cross; the Parent Teachers Association; and
the Cloudcraft Recreation Camp baby sanitarium. With Isidore Bernard and Fanny Sattinger Goodman, two of her relatives, Estelle
supported the El Paso Historical Society and contributed articles to its quarterly. Estelle Levy’s daughter, Amelia Rose,
moved to Oakland, California in 1966 and married Edgar Guy Lemmon, Jr. in 1967.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains the following: a few items relating the life of Parez Levy in Tennessee, including a scrapbook and
a Masonic certificate; items relating to the life of Aaron Goodman in El Paso, Texas, including family scrapbooks with documents
and correspondence from Aaron's Lion Grocery Company and an 1889 legal document (in Spanish) relating to a Goodman's interests
in a mine in Juarez; the handwritten diaries of Estelle Goodman Levy (Aaron's daughter); a wedding book and marriage certificate
from the wedding of Estelle Goodman and Charles Levy; a number of scrapbooks documenting the life of Estelle Goodman Levy
in El Paso; and a significant number of items relating to the life of Amelia Levy Lemmon, including 48 scrapbooks and photo
albums dating from Amelia's school years through 2003. These document Amelia's experience at UC Berkeley and in the San Francisco
Bay Area, her activities in the Sisterhood of Oakland's Temple Sinai and in the Brandeis University National Women's Committee,
and her travels around the world. Amelia's childhood is also documented in the Goodman family scrapbooks in the collection.
The collection includes genealogical information about members of the Goodman, Levy, Frank, Lederer, Baruch, Brandt, Schenck,
and Sattinger families. Also included are some historical writings, including "My Parents, Joseph Hillel Goodman and Sarah
Rothschild Goodman" by Isidore B. Goodman and "In the Beginning: The Jewish Community of El Paso Texas" by Fanny Sattinger
Goodman.