November 02, 2006

Winner of the  International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies 2001 Outstanding Projects Award

New York Landsmanshaftn
and Other Jewish Organizations

• YIVO's catalogued landsmanshaftn collection over 1000 organizations
  
  • Newly Received Burial Society Plot Maps in YIVO's Landsmanshaftn Collection
  
  
• Works Progress Administration (WPA) Yiddish Writer's Group Study (1938)
  [English listing] 1487 organizations
  
  
• Works Progress Administration (WPA) Yiddish Writer's Group Study (1938)
  [Yiddish listing] 2145 organizations
  
  
• American Jewish Year Book 1900-1901 294 organizations
  
  
• American Jewish Year Book 1907-1908 1643 organizations
  
  
• American Jewish Year Book 1919-1920 2302 organizations
  
  
• Works Progress Adminstration (WPA) Federal Writers Project - Survey of State and Local Historical Records: Church Records Jewish - Synagogue (1939) [New York City only] 2092 organizations [note: this is a very large file (1.25 MB) that may take a few minutes to load]
  
  
• Jewish Calendar, Lodge and Society Directory (1905) compiled and edited by Alex Eli Jacobs 1301 organizations
  
  
• Lodges listed in The Jewish Communal Register of New York City (1917-18)
  [lodges only] 963 organizations
  
  
• Additional Lodges 293 organizations
  
  
• Landsmanshaftn and other town and country-related organizations incorporated in New York County (1848-1920) in the AJHS collection of New York County incorporations 3014 organizations
  
  
• Translations of common Hebrew and Yiddish words in landsmanshaftn and burial society names

Last Updated on 11/02/06
Prepared/Edited By Ada Green

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