Archives West Finding Aid

Scope and Content: Tape-recorded interview conducted by Mildred Rosenbaum, with manuscript, January 31, 1982.

Stiefel relates his experiences as a refugee newcomer to Seattle and his involvement in the Herzl Conservative Congregation and the start of the New Tamid congregation. Related accession: Stiefel Family.

Scope and Content: Correspondence, minutes, financial records, reports, ephemera, other record series.

Documents his presidency of the Jewish Federation, and other Federation positions; see Names of Subgroups. Temple Circle is not affiliated with one single congregation but is city-wide.

Scope and Content: Correspondence, financial records, membership rosters, reports, annual meetings, ephemera, subject series.

Scope and Content: Organizational features, correspondence, articles of incorporation, bylaws, annual report, audit report, subject series.

Entire accession documents B'nai B'rth Hillel Foundation. Closed material is a subject series on internal accounting investigation by Laventhol and Horwath, 1979-1980.

Scope and Content: Organizational features, correspondence, minutes, financial records, newsletters, membership lists, subject series.

Entire accession documents Ernest Stiefel's membership in Congregation Beth Shalom, especially his term as president 1982-1984.

Scope and Content: Bylaws, correspondence, financial records, annual reports, brochures, ephemera.

Entire accession concerns Jewish Federation.

Scope and Content: Biographical features, genealogical material, writing "The Story of My Emigration," correspondence, minutes, financial records, annual reports, and related material.

Ernest Stiefel left Nazi Germany in 1940. This accession includes a genealogy tracing his family history ca. 1700+. Family names in genealogical material: Straws, Vendig, Stern, Huettenbach, Wachenheim, Weinschenk.

Scope and Content: Records of two Jewish Federaton committees: Jewish Education Allocations Committee, 1991-1992 and Acculturation Allocations Committee, 1991-1992; two letters from the Washington Emigre Bureau, 1940.

Scope and Content: Accountant's workpapers, financial records, reports, correspondence, and related papers concerning Stiefel's committee work in the Seattle Jewish community, including the Jewish Education Allocations Committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, the Jewish Transcript, and the Washington State Jewish Historical Society, ca 1978-1993. Also included are photocopies of his brother Siegfried's correspondence with the Washington Emigre Bureau, 1940, documenting Stiefel's emigration from Germany.

Scope and Content: Correspondence, minutes, financial records, newsletters, membership lists, printed material, and ephemera relating to Stiefel's volunteer work for the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and the Washington State Jewish Historical Society, and his membership in Congregation Beth Shalom.

Scope and Content: Correspondence, minutes, financial and fundraising records, constitutions, by-laws, legal records, lists and newspaper articles relating to Stiefel's volunteer work for several Jewish organizations, and his membership in Congregation Beth Shalom.

Scope and Content: Correspondence, minutes, financial records, audit reports, subject series, and printed material relating to Stiefel's volunteer work. Papers also include assorted programs, flyers, and memorabilia from various synagogues and community organizations. Bulk of papers pertain to Stiefel's work for the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and on three of its committees: capital needs fund; planning and allocations; and Jewish education allocations.

A subgroup of the papers contain the records of the board of directors of the Northwest Yeshiva High School.

The subject series includes: Jewish Family Service, University of Judaism, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Council for Initiatives in Jewish Education, and the Kline Galland Home.

Scope and Content: Tape recorded interview(s) covering the years 1940 to 2001, taken on March 7th and 12th, 2001, September 7th, 2005; transcript, clipping.

Scope and Content: Interview conducted June 13, 2001 by Sid Weiner. Stiefel discusses the history of the Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation in Seattle.

Scope and Content: Contains correspondence, agendas, minutes, reports, and allocation requests from the Federation's Planning & Allocations Committee (1999-2007) and the Capital Needs Committee (2002-2003). Also includes correspondence of the Executive Board in the aftermath of the shootings at the Federation office on July 26, 2006.

Scope and Content: Contains records from Stiefel's personal and civic activities including newsletter (1970), membership list and 1968 Seder instructions for the Ner Tamid congregation; Beth Shalom membership list (1970) as well as correspondence and financial documents from the congregation's capital campaign (1997); minutes, reports, legal documents, by-laws, financial reports of B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation at University of Washington (1947-1982); a booklet from the Camp Solomon Schechter Jubilee Year Celebration Dinner in 2005.