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 Item — Box: 175, Folder: 16, Object: 3

Dates

  • Creation: 1881 - 1981

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research in the Archives & Special Collections reading room. Handling guidelines and use restrictions will be communicated and enforced by archives staff members.

Extent

From the Collection: 102 Linear feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

General

UJA = $9,000, Joint Defense Appeal = $300, Council Against Intolerance in America = $250, The National Committee for Labor Israel = $200, B'nai Brith National Youth Service Appeal = $200, National Jewish Welfare Board = $100, Weizman Institute of Science = $100, American Red Mogen Dovid for Palestine = $50, B'nai Brith Home and Hospital (Memphis, TN) = $50, Leo Levi Memorial Hospital (Hot Springs, Arkansas), Jewish Children's Home (New Orleans) = $50. Total Distributions = $10,375.

Last three charities were al lnew to the list of allocations for Huntsville. The B'nai Brith Home and Hospital in Memphis was and continues to be a hospital and now includes a home for the elderly. The Jewish Children's Hom in New Orleans was a Jewish orphanage that opened in 1855 to assist widows and orphans. It closed in 1946 with its services expanded under the Jewish Children's Regional Services (JCRS). The Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital opened in 1914 by B'nai Brith as the only hospital in the country specializing in arthritis and kindred rheumatic ailments. The hospital was free in service, national in scope, and non-sectarian in treatment. It continues today specializing in mental health, rehabilitation, and physical therapy.

Repository Details

Part of the The University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives & Special Collections Repository

Contact:
M. Louis Salmon Library
301 Sparkman Drive
Huntsville Alabama 35899 United States of America
256-824-6523