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Extent: 32 folders

Archive RefTitle/ description
WO/7/4/2/3/1[formerly RG/2/7/43] Statement by Chaim Zhitlowsky on ORT in America [Yiddish]. Date: c.1923?. Location: 250. 
WO/7/4/2/3/2[formerly RG/2/7/79] 25 Years of ORT in the United States (American ORT Federation) by Aaron B. Tart, excerpt from ORT Economic Review, New York, December 1947. Date: 1947. Location: 253.
WO/7/4/2/3/3[formerly RG/2/7/80] The World ORT Union and The American ORT Federation. A Study made by Prof. Mark Wischnitzer for the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, New York, July 1943. Alt Ref: d06a001b. Date: July 1943. Location: 253.
WO/7/4/2/3/4[formerly RG/2/7/81] Copy of letter to Morris R. Cohen from Felix Frankfurter, dated April 6, 1933 re ORT. Description: Copy of letter to Morris R. Cohen from Felix Frankfurter, dated April 6, 1933 re ORT. This is an excerpt from an unknown printed edition of correspondence. Date: 6 April 1933. Location: 253.
WO/7/4/2/3/5[formerly RG/2/7/90] ORT Economic Bulletin: January-June 1941. Date: January-June 1941. Location: 253.
WO/7/4/2/3/5/1[formerly RG/2/7/90/1] ORT Economic Bulletin, Vol. II, No.1, Jan.-Feb., 1941. Alt Ref: d05a103. Description: ORT Economic Bulletin, Vol. II, No.1, Jan.-Feb., 1941. Contents: The Jews in Czarist Russia - Jacob Lestschinsky South Africa Trains Jewish Youth - Arthur Markowitz The Jewish Population of Brazil - Lothar Bauer Refugees First Farmers in Australia - W. S. Matsdorf; Developments in the Carribean Republics - Dr. Ernst Schwarz Problems of Farming in the United States - Samuel Axelroth. Date: January-February 1941. Location: 253.
WO/7/4/2/3/5/2[formerly RG/2/7/90/2] ORT Economic Bulletin, Vol. II, No.2, March-April, 1941. Alt Ref: d05a104. Description: ORT Economic Bulletin, Vol. II, No.2, March-April, 1941. Contents: Behind the Wall and Barbed Wires - Dr. David Lvovitch Economic Reconstruction of French Jewry - Professor W. Oualid The Plight of German Jewry - Erich Max Simon; Jews in Soviet Russia - Jacob Lestschinsky; Economic Possibilities in Chile - Dr. Margarete Berent; Experiences of Settlers in Parana - Heinrich Kaplan and Max Hermann. Date: March-April 1941. Location: 253.
WO/7/4/2/3/5/3[formerly RG/2/7/90/3] ORT Economic Bulletin, Vol. II, No.3, May-June, 1941. Alt Ref: d05a105. Description: ORT Economic Bulletin, Vol. II, No.3, May-June, 1941. Contents: The Sosua Settlement - Dr. Mark Wischnitzer; Problems of Economic Adjustment of the Immigrants in Colombia - Gerhard Neumann Jews in Soviet Russia - Jacob Lestschinsky; Jewish Farm Colonization in Palestine - Aron Alperin The Lessons of the Kitchener Camp - Alfred Werner. Date: May-June 1941. Location: 253.
WO/7/4/2/3/6[formerly RG/2/7/92] Exchange of correspondence between Peter Romanofsky and Jack Rader on American ORT Federation, 1976. Date: 1976. Location: 253.
WO/7/4/2/3/7[formerly RG/2/7/95] American ORT Federation publication: Arbeit un Oifboi, issue No.1, New York, June 1947 [Yiddish]. Alt Ref: d05a107. Date: June 1947. Location: 253.
WO/7/4/2/3/8[formerly RG/2/7/105] Women's American ORT and Career Education by Kenneth B. Hoyt, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1978. Date: August 1978. Location: 256.
WO/7/4/2/3/9[formerly RG/2/7/106] Women's American ORT (WAO) - Call to the 23rd and 24th National Biennial Conventions. Date: 1975-1977. Location: 256.
WO/7/4/2/3/10[formerly RG/2/7/111] Women's American ORT Reporter, Vol. XXX, No.3, January/February 1980. Alt Ref: d05a108. Description: Women's American ORT Reporter, Vol. XXX, No.3, January/February 1980. Location: 256.
WO/7/4/2/3/11[formerly RG/2/7/122] Letter from Herbert Lehman to Maldwin Fertig, Chairman of the ORT Council, New York, 11 March 1943. Date: 11 March 1943. Location: 256.
WO/7/4/2/3/12[formerly RG/2/7/125] History of Women's American ORT [WAO], Part I, by Mrs. Ferdinand Kaufmann, New York. Alt Ref: d05a112. Date: c.1975-1976. Location: 256.
WO/7/4/2/3/13[formerly RG/2/7/126] An excerpt from "Justice", July 1979, New York - on Shelley Appleton - re ORT Scholarship's Fund. Date: July 1979. Location: 256.
WO/7/4/2/3/14[formerly RG/2/7/128] Memo to Julius Hochman from Louis B. Boudin, June 29, 1948. Alt Ref: d07a267. Description: Memo to Julius Hochman from Louis B. Boudin, June 29, 1948. Provides insight into the efforts in creating American ORT. Date: 29 June 1948. Location: 257.
WO/7/4/2/3/15

[formerly RG/2/7/131] ORT/JDC Relationship. Description: ORT/JDC Relationship:

  1. Memorandum of agreement between American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee [AJDC] and American ORT Federation [AOF], dated 20th of January 1947.
  2. List of allocations made by AJDC to AOF, 1947-1979.
  3. World ORT Union 1979 Budget - expressed in dollars. Date: 1937.
 
WO/7/4/2/3/16[formerly RG/2/7/135] Documents relating to the beginnings of American ORT Federation [AOF] [English, Yiddish]. Description: Documents relating to the beginnings of American ORT Federation [AOF] [English, Yiddish]. Contains various documents pertaining to the organization and first steps of the AOF. Includes a 10-page document, Origins of ORT in America - The Earliest Days, as well as copies of minutes of meetings of the American ORT Executive Committee, Administrative Committee and Finance Committee from 1923-1924. Date: 1922-1977. Location: 257.
WO/7/4/2/3/17[formerly RG/2/7/150] Documents relating to a banquet organized by New York ORT for the Reconstruction Fund with participation of Herbert Hoover, 1927 [Yiddish, German]. Date: 1927. Location: 258.
WO/7/4/2/3/18[formerly RG/2/7/151] Material re the ORT Reconstruction Fund, New York, 1920s [Yiddish, English]. Date: 1927. Location: 258.
WO/7/4/2/3/19[formerly RG/2/7/171] JDC and American ORT Federation [AOF] - Statement on their relationship in 1938. Date: 16 February 1938. Location: 259.
WO/7/4/2/3/20[formerly RG/2/7/227] ORT Bulletin - American ORT Federation, December 1947 - Winter 1975.Date: 1947-1975. Location: 261.
WO/7/4/2/3/21[formerly RG/2/7/231] Addresses by Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt, H. Lehman, B. C. Vladeck and S. P. Duggan, at the Dinner of the ORT Campaign for Industrial Reconstruction, April 21, 1929. Date: 21April 1929. Location: 261.
WO/7/4/2/3/22[formerly RG/2/7/256] The Dangers in our Opportunities; The Opportunities in our Dangers - address by Nathan Gould to the Women's American ORT [WAO] 25th Biennial National Convention, 1979. Date: 21-25 October 1979. Location: 262.
WO/7/4/2/3/23[formerly RG/2/7/259] A press release, by Women's American ORT [WAO], focussing on the biography of David Lvovitch as part of the ORT Pioneers project, 1980. Date: 5 May 1980. Location: 262.
WO/7/4/2/3/24[formerly RG/2/7/260] On Affirmative Action - an address by Nathan Gould, presented at the mid-winter National Board Meeting of WAO, March 1980. Date: March 1980. Location: 262.
WO/7/4/2/3/25[formerly RG/2/7/262] Women's American ORT [WAO] Planning Conference, 1979- 1981. Alt Ref: d07f147-150; d07f152-156. Description: Women's American ORT [WAO] Planning Conference, 1979-1981: 1979/80 - American Affairs - Bea Forrest; 1980/81 - American Affairs - Ruth Taffel. Date: 1980. Location: 262.WO/7/4/2/3/26 [formerly RG/2/7/263] Exchange of letters between B. C. Vladeck and F. LaGuardia, April 1932. Date: April 1932. Location: 262.
WO/7/4/2/3/27[formerly RG/2/7/270] American ORT Federation [AOF] - National Convention 1949. Description: American ORT Federation [AOF] - National Convention 1949. Includes published booklet of the proceedings and verbatim transcripts. Date: 16 August 1966. Location: 263.
WO/7/4/2/3/28[formerly RG/2/7/271] Invitation to a tribute concert in memory of B. Charney Vladeck, on the 10th anniversary of his death, NY, 1948. Date: November 1948. Location: 263.
WO/7/4/2/3/29[formerly RG/2/7/275] 10th Anniversary Journal, 1941-1951, American & European Friends of ORT and the ORT Trade School, New York, 1951. Date: 1951. Location: 263.
WO/7/4/2/3/30[formerly RG/2/7/284] Women's American ORT [WAO] - various reports, evaluations and materials. Date: 1954-1976. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/1[formerly RG/2/7/284/1] Women's American ORT News, Vol. V, No.1, October 1954. Date: October 1954. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/2[formerly RG/2/7/284/2] Perspectives 1958/59 - 1959/60 by Nathan Gould, WAO National Executive Director. Date: October 1958. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/3[formerly RG/2/7/284/3] Evaluation of Women's American ORT's Responsibility to the Future Years by Nathan Gould, WAO National Executive Director. Date: 20 March 1963. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/4[formerly RG/2/7/284/4] Domestic Organizational Developments and Perspectives by Nathan Gould, WAO National Executive Director. Date: April 1964. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/5[formerly RG/2/7/284/5] Addendum III - Projected Supplementary Plans to Organizational Perspectives by Nathan Gould, WAO National Executive Director. Date: 21 May 1964. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/6[formerly RG/2/7/284/6] Report on the Activities of Women's American ORT 1964/65 Fiscal Year and First Half of 1965/66 Fiscal Year by Nathan Gould, WAO National Executive Director. Date: 18 January 1966. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/7[formerly RG/2/7/284/7] Report to the National Board Meeting (March 17, 1966) and to the 1966 Sector Meetings of the National Board by Nathan Gould, WAO National Executive Director. Date: 1966. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/8[formerly RG/2/7/284/8] Report on the Activities of Women's American ORT 1965/66 Fiscal Year and First Half of 1966/67 Fiscal Year by Nathan Gould, WAO National Executive Director. Date: 11 January 1967. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/9[formerly RG/2/7/284/9] Report on the Activities of Women's American ORT 1966/67 Fiscal Year and First Half of 1967/68 Fiscal Year by Nathan Gould, WAO National Executive Director. Date: 17 January 1968. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/10[formerly RG/2/7/284/10] Report on the Activities of Women's American ORT 1967/68 Fiscal Year and First Half of 1968/69 Fiscal Year by Nathan Gould, WAO National Executive Director. Date: 31 January 1969. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/11[formerly RG/2/7/284/11] Report on the Activities of Women's American ORT 1968/69 Fiscal Year and First Half of 1969/70 Fiscal Year by Nathan Gould, WAO National Executive Director. Date: 2 February 1970. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/12[formerly RG/2/7/284/12] The Activities of Women's American ORT From the 85th to the 90th Anniversary Congress - 1964/65 - 1969/70 Fiscal Years by Nathan Gould, WAO National Executive Director. Date: 23 October 1970. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/13[formerly RG/2/7/284/13] Report to the National Executive Council January 22-23 1970 - Problems and Tasks of the Organization in the Decade Ahead by Nathan Gould, WAO National Executive Director. Date: 1970. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/14[formerly RG/2/7/284/14] Pre-Convention Material Report to the National Executive Council by Nathan Gould, WAO National Executive Director, January 10-11 1971. Date: October 1971. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/15[formerly RG/2/7/284/15] Women's American ORT Activities Report 1970/71 Fiscal Year by Nathan Gould, WAO National Executive Director. Date: 29 February 1972. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/16[formerly RG/2/7/284/16] Report of Women's American ORT Activities for the Fiscal Year 1971/72 by Nathan Gould, WAO National Executive Director. Date: 4 January 1973. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/17[formerly RG/2/7/284/17] Report of Women's American ORT Activities for the Fiscal Year 1972/73 by Nathan Gould, WAO National Executive Director. Date: January 1974. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/18[formerly RG/2/7/284/18] Report of Women's American ORT Activities for the Fiscal Year 1973/74 by Nathan Gould, WAO National Executive Director. Date: 24 January 1975. Location: 254. 
WO/7/4/2/3/30/19[formerly RG/2/7/284/19] The Activities of Women's American ORT for the Fiscal Year 1974/75 by Nathan Gould, WAO National Executive Director. Date: 28 January 1976. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/20[formerly RG/2/7/284/20] Address to 1975 Sector Meetings and District Conventions April/May 1975 by Nathan Gould, WAO National Executive Director. Date: 1975. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/21[formerly RG/2/7/284/21] A 10 Year Perspective, Report to the National Board Conference by Nathan Gould, WAO National Executive Director during the Plenary session, Thursday, October 28 1976. Date: 1976. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/22[formerly RG/2/7/284/22] Pre-Conference Material - Address to 1976 District Conventions by Nathan Gould, WAO National Executive Director. Date: 31 August 1976. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/23[formerly RG/2/7/284/23] Letter and enclosures sent to WAO members by Nathan Gould following the 1974 Congress. Date: 11 March 1974. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/24[formerly RG/2/7/284/24] The American Jewish Community its Structure, Role & Organizations by S. P. Goldberg, Women's American ORT [WAO] Community Service Publications, New York, 1968. Date: 1968. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/25[formerly RG/2/7/284/25] Greetings - Women's American ORT [WAO] 20th Biennial Convention, New York, 1969. Date: November 1969. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/30/26[formerly RG/2/7/284/26] Call to the 23rd Biennial Convention, Women's American ORT [WAO], New York, October 1975. Date: 26-30 October 1975. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/31[formerly RG/2/7/285] Excerpt from Notre Parole, No.33 (8310), 16 November 1979 - ORT Conference in New York, a view of a Yiddish journalist [Yiddish]. Date: 16 November 1979. Location: 254.
WO/7/4/2/3/32[formerly RG/2/7/314] Writing by Leo Walt. Description: Includes various articles by Walt from 1968 to 1978: 'History of ORT in America', 1968; 'Growth and Development of Women's American ORT', 1978; 'Summary and Observations of the Development of Women's American ORT in the Pacific Southwest 1962-1978', 1978; Report on the Conference on the Respective Roles of Volunteers and Professionals within Their Organizations and Agencies, held on 16 November 1978. Also includes: newspaper clipping about Walt, c.1978; correspondence between Walt and Dr Vladimir Halperin re the distinction between the People's Tool Campaign and the ORT Tool Supply Corporation. Date: 1968-1983. Location: 267.