Saint Thomas Jewish Community Records (Small Collections)
Item
Country
US
Name of institution (official language of the state)
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
Contact information: email
Reference number
SC-
MF-
X-
MF-
X-
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (official language of the state)
Saint Thomas Jewish Community Records (Small Collections)
Language of title
eng
Creator / accumulator
Hebrew Congregation of St. Thomas (Charlotte Amalie)
Date(s)
1786/1969
Language(s)
dut
eng
Type of material
Textual Material
Scope and content
The American Jewish Archives preserve a few small collections with copies of documentation regarding the Jewish community of Saint Thomas that were donated to the archives by researchers and other private donors. They are the following:
X-475-478a: Hebrew Congregation (Saint Thomas Harbor, V.I.) records: records of the congregation, including marriage certificates and death records from 1850 to 1971, birth records from 1786 to 1934, and miscellaneous records from 1817 to 1850 (4 oversized boxes).
MF-3612: Hebrew Congregation (Saint Thomas Harbor, V.I.) records, 1786-1969 (1 microfilm).
SC-13466: Records of the Saint Thomas Jewish community, 1792-1802 (30 pages).
SC-13730: Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands, birth records, 1786-1954 (30 pages).
X-475-478a: Hebrew Congregation (Saint Thomas Harbor, V.I.) records: records of the congregation, including marriage certificates and death records from 1850 to 1971, birth records from 1786 to 1934, and miscellaneous records from 1817 to 1850 (4 oversized boxes).
MF-3612: Hebrew Congregation (Saint Thomas Harbor, V.I.) records, 1786-1969 (1 microfilm).
SC-13466: Records of the Saint Thomas Jewish community, 1792-1802 (30 pages).
SC-13730: Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands, birth records, 1786-1954 (30 pages).
Archival history
The copies that compose these small collections were donated to the American Jewish Archives by different private donors. X-475-478a and MF-3612 were received from Clementine Kaufman (Baltimore, Maryland) in 2005. SC-13730 include copies delivered to the archives by Enid M. Baa in 1954 and Bradd Boxman in 1992.
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.
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Author of the description
Carla Vieira, 2022
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