Alliance Israelite Universelle (Borenstein-Eisenberg Collection)

Title: Alliance Israelite Universelle (Borenstein-Eisenberg Collection)

Inclusive Dates: 1868-1930s

ID: RG 406

Extent Information

4'7"; 11 5"lgl

Arrangement

folders and individual documents arranged numerically

Creators

Alliance Israelite Universelle

Administrative/Biographical History

Jewish organization founded in France in 1860 for the purpose of providing help to Jews suffering from religious discrimination. Headquarters in Paris. The Alliance intervened on behalf of Jews in Serbia, Rumania, Belgium, Russia, Switzerland, Morocco, Poland, Hungary, and other countries. It also provided assistance to large groups of Jewish refugee immigrants from Russia. Lastly, the Alliance established schools in many countries, especially in the Balkans and the Middle East.

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Documents - Records

Finding Aid Information

Inventory: English, 29 pp., typed

Administrative Information

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Other Formats: MKM 1 (5)

Description: Correspondence, reports, minutes, printed matter dealing primarily with Jewish immigration from Russia to the United States, Canada, Latin America, from the 1860s through 1930s. The bulk of the materials, however, relates to the heavy wave of immigration of the 1881-1885 period sparked by the May Laws and the pogroms which erupted in Russia in 1882. The records reflect the relief work carried out on behalf of the refugees by Jewish organizations in Western Europe of which the most notable was the Alliance Israelite. Others include the Mansion House Fund (London), the German Central Committee for Russian Jews (Germany), the Israelitische Allianz (Austria), similar committees in Konigsberg, Brussels, and Geneva, the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society (HEAS, a precursor of HIAS), and HIAS in New York. The committees organized protest meetings against the pogroms, arranged transportation, and gave financial aid to immigrants. Many of the documents pertain to Brody, a border city between Russia and Austrian Galicia, which became a major transit point for immigrants on their way to the U.S. and to other countries. Materials relating to the reaction of Jewish communities in France, England, Germany and the U.S. to the persecution of Russian Jews. Documents about immigration to the U.S.A. including: passenger lists; correspondence and prospectuses from shipping companies regarding transportation; statistics from the transit center at Brody; lists of pogrom victims (1905); HIAS reports on shelters and on vocational training in the U.S.; documents about agricultural colonization in the United States including reports from the Jewish Colonization Association, Woodbine Agricultural School, colonies in Louisiana and Colorado; statistical reports by HIAS on settlement possibilities in small American towns. In addition, the collection contains reports on persecutions of Jews in Rumania; reports from Casablanca, Morocco, 1918-1932; reports on the Tisza-Eszlar blood libel case.