Series 1: TEMPLE ISRAEL [CONGREGATION RYHIM AHOOVIM]
Box 1
Laws of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (1905)
Bylaws of the Congregation Ryhim Ahoovim (1912)
Congregational Minutes (10/16/1950)
Congregational reports Rabbi (1920; 1932-34; 1936-37)
President of Congregation reports (1929; 1932-37)
Treasurer’s reports & financial statements. (1928; 1931-37; 1950)
Property information and 95th anniversary
Board of Trustees Minutes (1886-1905) [ledger]
Board of Trustees/Board of Officers of the Congregation (1905-1919) [ledger]
Annual meetings of the Congregation (1890-1916) [ledger]
Box 2
Congregation Minutes (1917-1950) [ledger]
Dues Book (1909-1915) [ledger]
Dues Book (1917-1919) [ledger]
Receipt Book (1855-1927) [ledger]
Box 3
Receipts (1900-1921)
Correspondence (1906-07; 1910; 1912; 1916-17; 1919)
Misc. notes, scraps, publications
Photographs of United Jewish Appeal Dinner (1957)
Misc. Programs
Series 2: INDEPENDENT ORDER OF B’NAI B’RITH [HOPE LODGE NO. 126]
Box 3 (cont.)
By-laws (1915); amendments (1923)
“Temple Tidings” – Death of Rabbi Harvey Franklin (Jun 4, 1976)
Minutes (1869-77) [ledger]
Minutes (1898-1906) [ledger]
Box 4
Minutes Book (1906-1916) [ledger]
Minutes (1917-24) [ledger]
Minutes (1924-29) [ledger]
Minutes of 60th Anniversary Program (2-6-29)
Financial records (1909-1919)
Treasurer’s Reports (1916; 1918-19)
Remittance statements (1918)
Misc. receipts (1918-19)
Correspondence. w/ Grand Lodge No. 4 (1900-05; 1918; 1921-22; 1929)
Club Room Committee (1920-21)
Misc. (1917)
Withdrawal cards (1918; 1922; 1928)
Notes, scraps, resolutions
Box 5
Minutes of Hope Auxiliary (1926-1931) [ledger]
Series 3: JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL/CENTER
Box 5 (cont.)
Jewish Community Council – Constitution, Manual and Guide for Use of Officers
Jewish Community Center Minutes Directors of Center (1925-45) [ledger]
Board of Directors of Center (1944-48)
Jewish Community Center Correspondence of Board of Directors (1931; 1947)
Jewish Community Center Financial records: receipts & disbursements (1951)
Jewish Community Center Misc. notes, scraps, programs
Temple Israel, Stockton---List of Congregation Presidents (1905-56)
Ku Klux Klan letter to Mrs. N. Burstein, Stockton (1924) [parody letter probably written by visiting Rabbi Harvey Wessel]
Robert Tat. “The effect of inter-marriage on Jewish identity in Stockton” (1968)
Misc. notes, list of Rabbis
Temple Israel, Stockton---Genealogical correspondence & notes
Biographical sketch of Rabbi Henry Lowenthal, San Francisco
Series 4: TEMPLE B’NAI ISRAEL, SACRAMENTO; WESTERN JEWISH HISTORY MISCELLANY, JEWISH PUBLICATIONS
Box 6
Temple B’nai Israel, Sacramento: Minutes (1904)
Temple B’nai Israel, Sacramento: Correspondence---David Lubin (1900)
Temple B’nai Israel, Sacramento: Correspondence ---Robert Burns McAulay (1957)
Temple B’nai Israel, Sacramento: Misc. photographs, clippings, etc.
Temple B’nai Israel, Sacramento: Misc. programs (1892-1935)
Temple B’nai Israel, Sacramento: Temple construction & dedication photographs (1953)
Kate B. Carter. ‘The Jews in early Utah” (1952) from [Hidden] Treasures of Pioneer History
Notes showing Jewish donors to construction of Sacramento Catholic cathedral (1874)
Temple Beth Israel, Tacoma, Washington. Golden Jubilee (1942)
Temple Israel at 50, Long Beach, California (1974)
History and dedication of Temple B’nai Israel (Sacramento) scrapbook
Emanu-El (1903-1925)
The Jewish Layman (Jan, Mar 1933)
B’nai B’rith Magazine (Nov 1923; Aug-Sep 1934)
The Montividean (7-16-55)
“Israel: The new face of an old people,” San Francisco Examiner (10-4-64)
The Jewish Voice (San Jose State)
Reprint from a Bicentennial Festschrift for Jacob Rader Marcus (1976)
“The Use of Genealogy in Western Jewish Historical Research.” Brand Book Number Four San Diego Corral of the Westerners (1976)
American Jews in the West (July, 1974)
“Ketubot from early California” by Robert E. Levinson (1975) Michael, On the History of the Jews in the Diaspora (1975)
Series 5: STOCKTON HADASSAH RECORDS AND MISCELLANY
Box 7
Minute Books (1927-32; 1941-44) [two ledgers]
Treasurer’s Account Books (1908-29) [two ledgers]
“Sisterhood of Temple Israel” Minute Book (1948-57) [ledger]
Box 8
Stockton Hadassah Account Books (1911-20) [two ledgers]
Rabbi Wise’s trip to California (1877)
Congregation Ada Yeshurm records
Congregation Ada Yeshurm records (1920-1930)
Minutes of congregation (1910-1920)
Congregation Ahavas Aachim records
Series 6: TEMPLE ISRAEL CEMETARY RECORDS
Box 9
Cemetery rules, 1st set
Cemetery financial and maintenance
Cemetery Committee Reports
Cemetery Deed
Cemetery operations and procedures
Cemetery dedication & photos
Cemetery commission for the preservation of pioneer Jewish cemeteries
Cemetery scrapbook and misc. notes
Cemetery newspaper clippings
Temple Israel Cemetery plaque dedication, Stockton (1961)
Series 7: TEMPLE ISRAEL RECORDS, FAMILY HISTORIES, AND EARLY HISTORIES OF STOCKTON JEWISH SETTLEMENTS.
Box 10
Annual report, 1958-1959
By laws, 1960s-1970s
Membership, 1970s
Committees, 1970s
Rabbi Rosenberg’s testimonial dinner, 1976
Scrapbook, 1970s
Bea Schwartz biography
Bea Schwartz correspondence
Bea Schwartz photos of Temple and community center, 1961
Bea Schwartz family correspondence 1938-1939
Levy Family history
Berg Family history
Blumenthal Family history
Corran Family history
Friedberger Family history
Levinsky Family history
Louis Family history
Early Jewish history in California
Early Jewish history in Stockton
Early history Stockton Jewish Settlement
Memorial services
Publications; Archives
Hebrew Documents
Ritual information/ food faire
Box 11
Temple Israel Scrapbook (photocopy)