[JEWISH EMIGRATION]. An archive of material relating to Jewish emigration to America ca 1890-1909, including letters and printed pamphlets, most relating to Louis Edward Levy.

Approximately 68 carbon copy typescript or autograph letters, most to Louis Edward Levy, relating to Jewish emigration to the United States ca 1890-1909, with 7 printed pamphlets and other related material.

Louis Edward Levy (1846-1919), was the founding president of the Association for the Protection of Jewish Immigrants (later known as HIAS Pennsylvania), and he served as the leader of many local Jewish organizations in Philadelphia. He wrote on immigration-related issues, including federal legislation for literacy tests to restrict immigration, and, as evidenced in the present archive, he corresponded frequently with leaders of other immigrant aid societies across the United States.

Included in the correspondence are letters from: the Jewish Colonization Association, St. Petersbourg; the United Jewish Charities of St. Louis; the United Hebrew Charities, Ellis Island, NY; the Law Offices of Bernstein & Cohen, Portland, Oregon; the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, NY; the Association of Jewish Immigrants, Philadelphia; and the Association for the Protection of Jewish Immigrants. Included in the above are a small group of correspondence related to the emigration status of a Mr. Abram Mitkon (Mitkovsky), ca 1908, and carbon copy typescript notes from the First and Second Sessions of the Conference of Jewish Immigration Societies of America, 5-6 January 1909, and notes from the Second Conference of the National Jewish Immigration Committee, 28 February 1909.

Printed pamphlets include: KRAUSKOPF, Joseph, Rabbi. A Morning at Ellis Island. A Discourse. Temple Keneseth Israel, Philadelphia. 24 November 1907. -- The Press on Immigration. new York: Liberal Immigration league, n.d. -- PHILIPSON, David, Rabbi. Jewish Tracts...No.2. the Jew in America. Cincinnati, 1909. -- MEYER, Martin A., Rabbi. Jewish Tracts...No.3. Jew and Non Jew. Cincinnati: n.p., 1913. -- Termination of a Treaty between the United States and Russia. N.p.: n.p., 16 February 1911. -- The Jews of Roumania. Hearings before the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1914. -- Annual report of the Association for the Protection of Jewish Immigrants for the Year Ending April 30, 1916. Philadelphia, 1916.

Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant Mittler