Chevra Bnei Rabbi Menachem Mendel Anshei Dubrowa

Title: Chevra Bnei Rabbi Menachem Mendel Anshei Dubrowa

Inclusive Dates: 1927-1979

ID: RG 1906

Extent Information

7-1/2"

Creators

Chevra Bnei Rabbi Menachem Mendel Anshei Dubrowa (New York, N.Y.)

Administrative/Biographical History

Organized March 25, 1892 in New York by immigrants from Dubrowa (Dąbrowa Białstockȧ, Dąbrowa, Dombrove, Dombrowa) in the Russian Empire (today, Poland). The town is in the vicinity of Grodno (today in Belarus). Maintained a synagogue at 526 Georgia Avenue in Brooklyn from 1920 until around 1968. The society provided sick and funeral benefits, purchased graves, and functioned as a burial society. It also held social events and made charitable contributions. From 1946 on the society held an annual memorial meeting commemorating victims of the Holocaust. In 1967-1968, in collaboration with Irgun Jotzei Dombrowa n/Grodno in Israel, it collected funds to plant trees as a Dubrower memorial in the Martyrs Forest in Jerusalem. The society used three cemeteries: Washington, Mount Judah and Beth David.

Subjects (links to similar collections)

Benevolent Societies
Burial Societies
Cemeteries
Charitable Activities
Charitable Societies
Immigrant Societies
Landsmanshaftn
Mutual Aid Societies
Poland
Survivors, Holocaust
United States

Languages of Materials

Yiddish
English
Hebrew

Administrative Information

Acquired: 10/21/1997. Registration of Record Group dated 9/1/2009

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Acquisition Note: Helen Goldstein; ACC 13/09

Collection Material Type: Official Records

Description: Box 1: Minutes, in Yiddish and English, 1961-1971. Meeting notices, in Yiddish and English, 1946, 1951-1979. Materials related to the Dubrower organization Irgun Jotzei Dombrowa n/Grodno in Israel, 1955-1975, including correspondence (in Yiddish and Hebrew), photographs, and donor lists, in part concerning collection of funds for the planting of trees as a Dubrower memorial in the Martyrs Forest in Jerusalem. Membership lists. Member address book and addresses on loose notes. Lists of grave reservations. Correspondence with members (from and to Philip Sidransky and Samuel Sidransky), 1927-1976. General releases, 1954, 1968. Agreements for purchase of graves, in Yiddish and English, circa 1957-1969. Fragment of contract related to sale of synagogue and land, circa 1968. Draft resolution, in English and Yiddish, concerning establishment of a fund to be called Reserve for Endowment. Form letter from committee in Dubrowa, circa 1920s-1930s, appealing to Dubrower landslayt for contributions to erect a building for the Jewish school. Admission tickets, 1934, and 1952-1953 (60th anniversary events). Clipping (concerning member Jacob Zeidman), circa 1930. Receipts for Israel Bonds, 1966-1971. Blank forms, in Hebrew/English and Yiddish, for Yad-Vashem Martyrs' and Heroes' Memorial Authority. Notes and drafts (includes poems). Box 2: Financial reports, 1956-1971. Miscellaneous financial notes. Certificates related to the Dubrower memorial in the Martyrs Forest, circa 1968. Certificate of merit for Philip Sidransky from the Hebron Yeshiva in Jerusalem.