Leo Fischer
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Brief Description: The collection relates primarily to Rumanian-Jewish affairs and to Fischer's efforts to defend Jewish minority rights in Rumania and to provide economic assistance to the Jewish community. Correspondence with Jewish personalities from Rumania, including Wilhelm Filderman and with leaders of the Free Rumanian Movement (1940-1950). Correspondence with Rumanian-Jewish philanthropic and cultural organizations especially United Rumanian Jews of America. Correspondence with the royal family and with high ranking members of the Rumanian government, including King Carol II, King Ferdinand I, Vintila Bratianu, Ion Gheorghe Duca, Nicolae Titulescu, Gheorghe Tatarescu, Ion Inculet, in the period following World War I.      Correspondence of Fischer Press and Fischer Apartments. Personal documents.  Financial papers.  Reports and clippings relating to Jewish life in Rumania, 1918-1940. Memoirs of Leo Fischer.
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Record Series Number: RG 559 /RG 559 
Created by: Fischer, Leo (b.1883)
Volume: 0.0
Arrangement: folders arranged alphabetically by name & subject; box 8 is unarranged
Subject Index
Charitable Activities
Landsmanshaftn
Minority Rights, Post-World War I
Rumania
Social Welfare
United States
Genres/Forms of Material
Documents - Papers
Finding Aid Revisions: 1994/11/10 ; 1903/01/23 ; GMB
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