Baron Maurice de Hirsch and William Lowenthal

Title: Baron Maurice de Hirsch and William Lowenthal

Inclusive Dates: 1855-1900

ID: RG 318

Creators

Hirsch, Baron Maurice de
Lowenthal, William

Administrative/Biographical History

The Jewish Colonization Association (JCA) was founded in London in 1891 by Baron Maurice de Hirsch to aid economically deprived Jews in Russia. One of the JCA's first major projects was the development of an agricultural settlement in Argentina for Russian Jewish emigres. Dr. Wilhelm Lowenthal, a physicist and naturalist, was appointed by de Hirsch as the first director of the settlement project.

Subjects (links to similar collections)

Argentina
Colonies and Colonization Projects
Education
England
Great Britain
Immigration and Emigration
Russia

Forms of Material (links to similar genres)

Documents - Papers

Finding Aid Information

Inventory: English/Yiddish, 14/10 pp., typed (also at the beginning of first microfilm)

Administrative Information

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Other Formats: MK 471 (3)

Description: Papers of Baron Maurice de Hirsch, including personal documents, 1855-1899. Materials relating to Hirsch's contacts with the Russian government on the founding of Jewish schools in Russia, 1887-1889, including correspondence from the Russian Ministry of Education. Reports, correspondence and other materials relating to the JCA project in Argentina, including reports by de Hirsch and Lowenthal. Records of the founding of the JCA, including Hirsch's correspondence with his lawyers, 1894-1900.