Nathan/Kraus Family Collection

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Country: US
Name of institution (official language of the state): The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
Language of name of institution: eng
Contact information: postal address: 3101 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220
Contact information: phone number: 01 513 487 3000
Contact information: web address: https://www.americanjewisharchives.org/
Contact information: email: Contact form
Reference number: MS-107
Type of reference number: Archival reference number
Title (official language of the state): Nathan/Kraus Family Collection
Language of title: eng
Creator / accumulator: Walter Max Kraus
Date(s): 1738/1939
Language(s): eng
Extent: 16 boxes
Type of material: Textual Material
Physical condition: Good
Scope and content: This collection comprises genealogical and biographical documents of 18th and 19th-century American Jewish families and individuals. It includes copies of diaries, deeds, wills, marriage contracts, historical sketches, business papers, church and synagogue records, genealogies and copies of letters. A significant part of this collection also comprises annotations regarding documents, literature and correspondence from Walter Max Kraus and other genealogists.
Among the American Jewish families and individuals covered by this collection are members of Sephardic families such as the Lopez, the Mendes Seixas, the De la Motta, the Bueno de Mesquita, and the Gomez, among others. For instance, this collection includes copies of Moses Lopez's certificate of naturalisation and license to produce potash (box 11, folder 13; and box 16, folder 22), abstracts of marriage records of the Shearith Israel from 1759 to 1779 (box 13, folder 11), annotations regarding John Charles de Lucena (box 11, folder 15) or the origins of the Seixas family (box 14, folders 21-22), and copies of the wills of Abraham de Lucena (box 16, folder 5) and Abraham Mendes Seixas (box 16, folder 35).
Archival history: This collection was received from Marion N. Sandor and Walter Kraus, New York, N.Y.
Administrative / Biographical history: Walter Max Kraus (1889-1944) was an American neurologist and psychiatrist. He studied at Harvard University and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and taught neurology at Cornell Medical School. Genealogy was another interest of Kraus, who collected numerous annotations, documents and bibliographic material regarding early American Jewish families.
Access points: locations: Charleston, South Carolina (USA); New York, New York (USA); Newport, Rhode Island (USA); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA); Savannah, Georgia (USA)
Access points: persons, families: Bueno de Mesquita; Costa, Isaac da; Gomez; Lopez, Moses; Lucena, Abraham de; Lucena, John Charles (João Carlos Lucena); Mendes Seixas, Abraham; Nunes Ribeiro; Mendes Seixas; Rodriguez Rivera; Touro
Access points: subject terms: Sephardim in North America; Genealogy; Legal status of Jews; Trade and commerce; 18th century; 19th century
Access points: document types: Circumcisions, ketubot and burials; Denization and naturalisation; Family papers; Scrapbooks and notebooks; Wills and probates
System of arrangement: The collection is arranged alphabetically according to the family's last name.
Links to finding aids: A Finding Aid to the Nathan-Kraus Family Collection
Author of the description: Carla Vieira, 2022
Published primary sources: Marcus, Jacob Rader. 1959. American Jewry: Documents: Eighteenth Century. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press.; Zola, Gary Phillip, and Marc Dollinger, eds. 2014. American Jewish History: A Primary Source Reader. Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life. Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University Press.

Item sets: WSD Roadmap; WSD Roadmap finais; WSD Roadmap USA

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