Nassy family papers

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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: 001 513 487 3000
Contact information: web address: https://www.americanjewisharchives.org/
Contact information: email: Contact form
Reference number: SC-12159
Type of reference number: Archival reference number
Title (official language of the state): Nassy family papers
Language of title: eng
Creator / accumulator: American Jewish Archives
Date(s): 1765/1800
Language(s): dut
Extent: 45 pages
Type of material: Textual Material
Scope and content: This small collection is composed of copies of documents, letters, and papers relating to the Nassy family, one of the early and most important Sephardic families of the Surinam Jewish community.
Archival history: This collection was donated to the American Jewish Archives by Mrs. Harold H. Stern (Willow Grove, Pa.) on April 20, 1973.
Administrative / Biographical history: The American Jewish Archives (AJA) resulted from the initiative of the historian Jacob Rader Marcus (1896-1995). In 1947, Marcus persuaded the President of the Hebrew Union College (HUC), Nelson Glueck (1900-71), to authorise the establishment of the AJA in the original library building of HUC in Cincinnati, Ohio. Glueck appointed Jacob Rader Marcus as director, Rabbi Bertram W. Korn (1918-79) as associate director, and Selma Stern-Teubler (1890-1981) as archivist. The AJA was founded with the aim of collecting, preserving and making available for research materials on the history of Jews and Jewish communities in the Western Hemisphere, in particular in America. Therefore, over its history, the AJA has sought to obtain records of congregations and Jewish organisations, genealogical materials, papers of rabbis and key figures in American Jewish history, among other Jewish-related materials. Since 1948, the AJA has published a semi-annual journal, The American Jewish Archives Journal, which is one of the major referred periodicals on American Jewish history.
Access points: locations: Surinam
Access points: persons, families: Nassy
Access points: subject terms: Sephardim in the Caribbean; 18th century; 19th century
Access points: document types: Family papers; Transcriptions and translations
Links to finding aids: American Jewish Archives online catalogue
Author of the description: Carla Vieira, 2022