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Bush Street Synagogue Cultural Center records, 1980-1995.
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Title:
Bush Street Synagogue Cultural Center records, 1980-1995Creator/Contributor:
Warburg, Felix M. (Felix Max), 1924-2019, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Judah L. Magnes Museum, WJHC 2003.010.Creator/Contributor:
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and LifeAbstract:
The collection consists of the records generated by Felix Warburg and the Bush Street Synagogue Cultural Center. The collection
contains newsletters; photographs; financial records; materials generated while doing historical research on the building
and Temple Ohabai Shalome which occupied the building until the 1930s; architectural drawings of what a Jewish Cultural Center
at Bush Street might have looked like; applications for funding; San Francisco Redevelopment Agency correspondence and contracts;
and promotional materials and letterhead for the organization.
Date:
1980 (issued)Subject:
Synagogues -- California -- San FranciscoJews -- California -- San Francisco
Historic buildings -- California -- San Francisco
Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration
Juifs -- Californie -- San Francisco
Monuments historiques -- Conservation et restauration
Congregation Ohabai Shalome (San Francisco, Calif.)
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (San Francisco, Calif.)
Warburg, Felix M. (Felix Max) -- 1924-2019 -- Archives
Note:
Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number WJHC 2003.010.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Transfer; Judah L. Magnes Museum; 2010.
Felix M. Warburg (b.1924 - d. 2019) was the grandson of New York banker Felix M. Warburg. In the 1980s, he established the
Bush Street Synagogue Cultural Center to save the building that had housed San Francisco's Congregation Ohabai Shalome at
1881 Bush Street. He wanted to turn the building into a Jewish cultural center and later proposed plans to turn the space
into a performing arts hall. Eventually, the city's Redevelopment Agency decided to give the building to Kokoro Assisted Living,
a home for Japanese-American senior citizens. In September 2003, Felix Warburg donated the records of the Bush Street Synagogue
Cultural Center to the Western Jewish History Center.
Bush Street Synagogue Cultural Center records, BANC MSS 2010/856, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Materials in English.
Type:
commercial correspondence.Records (Documents)
Business correspondence.
Documents administratifs.
Correspondance commerciale.
Physical Description:
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2.5 (2
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.