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Levy family papers, 1876-1958.
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Title:
Levy family papers, 1876-1958Creator/Contributor:
Levy, Jenne Feder.Creator/Contributor:
Schwarzbaum, Melvin.Creator/Contributor:
Congregation Beth Olam (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.)Creator/Contributor:
Temple Sinai (Oakland, Calif.)Creator/Contributor:
Western Jewish History Center, 187.Creator/Contributor:
Judah L. Magnes Museum, WJHC 1977.007.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.Creator/Contributor:
Online Archive of CaliforniaAbstract:
The collection consists of papers and photographs relating to the California descendents of immigrant Morris Levy. Included
are family correspondence and family documents; cemetery deeds from the First Hebrew Congregation in Oakland (Temple Sinai)
and Congregation Beth Olam in Hollywood; business-related materials; a scrapbook of Jenne Feder Levy; newspaper clippings;
a genealogical chart that includes information about members of the Levy, Schwarzbaum, Pudlin, Feder, and Plattus families;
a pass allowing entrance in and out of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire; and World War II ration booklets.
Also contains Melvin Schwarzbaum's will (1958); a travel journal of Leopold Levy (1907-1908); an autograph book of Jenne Feder
(1879-1881); a 1919 letter to Miriam Levy from a U.S. soldier in Vladivostok, Siberia named Julius Federman (or Zederman);
and two scrapbooks consisting of clippings of illustrations from nineteenth-century American magazines. The photographs in
the collection consist of portraits and group photographs of members of the Jonas, Levy, Pudlin, Schwarzbaum, and Appel families
and family friends.
Date:
1876 (issued)Subject:
n-us-ca -- n-us--- -- e-ru---Jews, German -- California -- San Francisco
Jewish cemeteries -- California
Rationing -- United States
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906
Soldiers -- United States -- Correspondence
World War, 1939-1945 -- Economic aspects -- United States
Juifs allemands -- Californie -- San Francisco
Cimetières juifs -- Californie
Rationnement -- États-Unis
Tremblement de terre de San Francisco, Calif., 1906
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Aspect économique -- États-Unis
Economics
Jewish cemeteries
Jews, German
Rationing
Soldiers
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Genealogy
Oakland (Calif.) -- History
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Genealogy
Vladivostok (Russia)
California
California -- Los Angeles
California -- Oakland
California -- San Francisco
Russia (Federation) -- Vladivostok
United States
Levy family -- Archives
Pudlin, Miriam Levy -- Correspondence
Pudlin family
Plattus family
Appel family
Feder family
Jonas family
Levy (Famille) -- Archives
Appel family
Feder family
Jonas family
Levy family
Pudlin, Miriam Levy
Note:
Formerly: Western Jewish History Center Collection Number 187.
Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number WJHC 1977.007.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Transfer; Judah L. Magnes Museum; 2010.
Morris Levy arrived in San Francisco, after coming to the U.S. from Posen, Prussia in the early 1850s. In 1859, Morris and
his wife, Julia Hecht, had a son, Meyer. Meyer went into the jewelry business and married Jenne (or Jennie) Feder, a young
dressmaker, in 1894. Meyer and Jenne's daughter, Miriam (b. 1895), married David Pudlin and moved to Los Angeles. David Pudlin
was the son of Jacob Pudlin, a pioneer jeweler, and David spent over fifty years as a wholesale jeweler. In time, he became
president of the William E. Phillips Company in Los Angeles.
Preferred citation: Morris Levy family papers, BANC MSS 2010/714, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Materials in English.
Type:
Autograph albumsPhotograph
correspondence.
death records.
family papers.
Genealogies.
photographs.
scrapbooks.
deeds.
wills.
Archives.
Deeds.
Genealogy.
History.
Personal correspondence.
Wills.
Deeds.
Wills.
Photographs.
Albums (Books)
Photographies.
Albums personnalisés.
Actes formalistes.
Testaments.
Physical Description:
2 boxes, 2 oversize boxes, and 1 oversize folder (1.6 linear ft.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
2006585502
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.