First Poltaver Brotherhood Aid Association of Greater New York
Title: First Poltaver Brotherhood Aid Association of Greater New York
Inclusive Dates: 1958-2002
ID: RG 1901
Administrative/Biographical History
Organized in New York in 1903 and incorporated on July 15, 1904, by immigrants from Poltava (Poltawa), then in the Russian Empire (today, Ukraine). Earlier known alternately as the First Poltaver Brotherly Aid Society and the First Poltaver Brotherly Aid Association of Greater New York. The Association provided sick and death benefits, maintained a loan fund, purchased graves, and functioned as a burial society. It also held social events in conjunction with meetings, and made regular charitable donations to Jewish causes and organizations. It used four cemeteries: Mount Zion, Beth David, Wellwood, and Mount Lebanon. Dissolved around 2002.
Subjects (links to similar collections) Administrative InformationAcquired:
06/23/2004.
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Acquisition Note:
New York State Department of Insurance
Related Materials:
A souvenir program of the Association's 33rd anniversary celebration, January 4, 1936, is found in RG 123, File 242.
Collection Material Type: Official Records
