About 120 documents and photographs from the estate of Jacob Fuchs, a member of "Tze'irei HaMizrachi" in Plonsk and Lodz. Poland and Palestine, 1920s-1930s (some earlier or later documents). Hebrew, Yiddish and Polish.
Items include: · 7 photographs of Jacob Fuchs with pupils of the afternoon classes for religious studies at "Tachkemoni", of "Tze'irei HaMizrachi" (Lodz, Tishrei 5680 [1919]). · Family correspondence in Hebrew, Yiddish and Polish; including letters sent to Jacob Fuchs in Tel Aviv (1920s and 1930s), and a number of letters sent to his father, Shmuel, in ca. 1905. · Postcard sent from Lodz Ghetto to Brooklyn with the stamp of Rumkowski, chairman of the Judenrat in the ghetto (February 1941); Postcard sent from Germany to Zurich in 1940; three telegrams from the Polish Red Cross (1942) and two telegrams from the International Red Cross (1940-1941); response to letter sent to the Relief Committee for Jewish Refugees in Geneva (1941). · Stationery, training kibbutz of "HeChalutz HaMizrachi" in Lodz. · Contracts and business correspondence of Jacob Fuchs with the "HaSak" cooperative, Tel Aviv, ca. 1938. · Membership cards and certificates of Jacob Fuchs in the following organizations: the board of directors of the "Torah VeAvodah" movement in Poland; the board of directors of the "Tze'irei Mizrachi" organization in Poland; the "Hovevei Sfat Ever" (Lovers of Hebrew) Society, Lodz; the second conference of "HaMizrachi" in Poland, 1919; the Leipziger Messe (Leipzig Fair), 1929; the conference of delegates of the Mizrachi societies in Poland, 1921; the "Klub" of the "Zionist Center" in Lodz; the newspapers Das Judische Heim, "Lodzer Tagblatt"; and more.
Total of about 120 items. Size and condition vary.