Abba Hillel Silver Photographs (PG491)

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Abba Hillel Silver (1893-1963) was a Rabbi at The Temple-Tifereth Israel, Cleveland, Ohio, and prominent leader of the Zionist movement for a Jewish homeland. The collection consists of black and white and color photographs, drawings, slides, and stereo color transparencies. Of special note is a 1925 portfolio of charcoal drawings, many autographed, of the Administrative Committee of the Zionist Organization of America, including Silver, Louis Lipsky, Emanuel Neumann, Henrietta Szold, and Stephen Wise.

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: 1918 JDC (Joint Distribution Committee) Executive Committee Meeting, undated; Undated photograph of painting, signature of artist illegible, 1918 JDC (Joint Distribution Committee) Executive Committee Meeting, seated left to right, Felix M. Warburg, Chair; Louis Marshall, Albert Lucas. Secretary: Mrs. F. Friedman, official stenographer; Boris D. Bogen, Executive Director; Leon Sanders, Harry Fischel, Sholem Asch, Alexander Kahn, Jacob Milch, Harriet E. Lowenstein, comptroller; Colonel Moses Schoenberg, Aaron Teitelbaum, M. Z. Margolis, Israel Friedlander, Paul Baerwald, Associate-Treasurer; Julius levy, Peter Wiernik, Meyer Gillis, Harry Cutler, Cyrus Adler, Arthur Lehman, Treasurer; Jacob H. Schiff; (standing left to right) Herbert H. Lehman, Abraham Zucker, Isidore Herschfield, Meyer Berlin, Stanley Bezo, Louis Topkis, Morris Engelman, Historic no. 5A (3040/1499), P98-003

: Abba Hillel Silver, 3/4 profile drawing, dated April 26, 1951; Drawing of 3/4 profile of Abba Hillel Silver, signed by artist in partially legible text in Hebrew, dated April 26, 1951

: Abba Hillel Silver and Gershon Agron standing with group of unidentified men, circa 1950s; Left to right, unidentifed, unidentified, Abba Hillel Silver, Gershon Agron, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, ca. 1950s

: Abba Hillel Silver and Virginia Horkheimer Silver standing with Hanoch Nanner (first mayor of Eilat), circa 1950s; Left to right, Virginia Horkheimer Silver, Abba Hillel Silver, unidentified, Hanoch Nanner (first mayor of Eilat), ca. 1950s

: Abba Hillel Silver and Virginia Horkheimer Silver standing with two unidentified men, Dead Sea, Oron, Israel, circa 1950s; Left to right, Virginia Horkheimer Silver, Abba Hillel Silver, two unidentified men, Dead Sea, Oron, Israel, ca. 1950s

: Abba Hillel Silver and Virginia Horkheimer Silver standing with two unidentified men, Dead Sea, Oron, Israel, circa 1950s; Left to right, Virginia Horkheimer Silver, Abba Hillel Silver, unidentified, unidentified, Dead Sea, Oron, Israel, ca. 1950s

: Abba Hillel Silver being presented with The Annual National Service Award of Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity, circa 1950s; Left to right, unidentified man, Abba Hillel Silver being presented with The Annual National Service Award of Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity, Rebman Photo Service, 2300 Payne Ave., Warner Bros. Bldg., SU 3750-FA. 7363, ca. 1950s, P98-003

: Abba Hillel Silver, center, seated with two unidentified men, circa 1950s; Left to right, unidentified, Abba Hillel Silver, unidentified; Maurice Eisendrath identified as one of the men on reverse of the photograph, ca. 1950s, P98-003

: Abba Hillel Silver in pulpit exchange with Dr. Olson at Epworth-Euclid Methodist Church, 1956; In pulpit exchange with Dr. Olson at Epworth-Euclid Methodist Church, Mrs. Roodhuyzen, back to camera, P2001-001.4

: Abba Hillel Silver portrait in profile, by Alfred Bernheim, circa 1950s; Portrait in profile, Copyright by Alfred Bernheim, Photographer, Jerusalem, This photograph must not be reproduced in any manner with out the full acknowledgement: Photograph by Alfred Bernheim, ca. 1950s, P98-003

: Abba Hillel Silver, profile drawing, dated January 1933; Drawing of profile of Abba Hillel Silver, partially legible text in German, dated January 1933

: Abba Hillel Silver reading in an armchair with books in the background, circa 1950s; Abba Hillel Silver, reading in an armchair with books in the background, P 98-003, ca. 1950s