WAUBnaiBrithAntidefamationLeagueNorthwestRegionalOffice2045.xml Preliminary Guide to the B'nai B'rith Anti-defamation League Northwest Regional Office Records circa 1935-1974 B'nai B'rith Anti-defamation League Northwest Regional Office Records Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries ©2007 (Last modified: 1/31/2020)
Seattle, WA 98195
Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections 2045 B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League. Northwest Regional Office B'nai B'rith Anti-defamation League Northwest Regional Office records circa 1935-1974 11.39 cubic feet Collection materials are in English. Community relation arm of B'nai B'rith with national membership and a regional office in Seattle

ADL's major role is to combat anti-Semitism and to interpret and inform the public about Israel and the Middle East. During the period represented by these records, ADL not only combatted anti-Semitism but also promoted civil rights for blacks. The Pacific Northwest regional office was located in Portland until January 1956, when it was moved to Seattle.

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 Cohen, Oscar Jacobs, Stanley Rabkin, Sol Rickles, P. Allen (Pincus Allen), 1895- Robinson, David Bernstein, Leonard Holcenberg, Samuel G Kaplan, Seymour H Oseran, Melville, 1918- Schroeter, Leonard Tarshis, Samuel William B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League. Northwest Regional Office--Archives Temple Beth Am (Seattle, Wash.) Washington State Board Against Discrimination Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington) Jewish Americans Civic Activism Washington (State) Oregon Washington State Jewish Archives (University of Washington)

 

Accession No. 2045-001: B'nai B'rith Anti-defamation League Northwest Regional Office records, 1935-1965 10.83 cubic feet

Scope and Content: Correspondence, minutes, and supporting organizational files. Includes subject files on people, organizations, lawsuits, and other events occurring during this time period.

Arrangement: Records of the Regional Office have been divided into two parts, one for the Portland office, approximately 1935-1959, and the other for the Seattle office, approximately 1950-1968. The Portland office functioned as the Regional office until January 1956, when the Seattle office became the Regional office. The Portland office continued to function until about 1959. The Seattle office existed for a number of years before it acted as the Regional office. Directors of the office have included: for Portland, David Robinson, and for Seattle in chronological order, Sam Holcenberg, P. Allen Rickles, Stanley Jacobs, Len Schroeter, and Seymour Kaplan.

Portland office files integrated with those of the Seattle office have been treated as part of the Seattle office files. At this stage of processing, series have been identified by the predominant kind of material contained in a file. Thus, incoming letters might also include some outgoing letters or minutes of meetings.

Portland office files concerned with the passage of a Fair Employment Practices Act in Oregon were acquired in 1967 and have been retained as a separate accession.

Restrictions apply to these records. Researchers are advised to discuss them with the Curator before requesting records.

Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access, contact Special Collections.

Records stored offsite; advance notice required for use.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights not transferred to the University of Washington Libraries

Acquisition Info: Donated by Seymour Kaplan, 11/13/1972.

 Portland Office 1 2045-001 General Correspondence Budget Memos Subject Series Alaska - New State no. 49 1958 American Council for Judaism 1943-1956 American Jewish Committee 1951-1955 American Veterans Committee 1949-1952 Boycott: German Products 1936-1938 Civil Rights Legislation 1953 Committee to Defend America 1941-1945 Concerted Peace Efforts 1940-1956 Curfew Regulations 1942 Desecration of Synagogue 1946 Dolls for Democracy Project 1957 Fair Employment Practice 1949-1955 Field Service Alaska 1947-1955 British Columbia 1947-1959 Idaho 1946-1956 Fight for Freedom 1941 Human Relations - Research 1965-1968 Intercultural - Community Survey 1950-1954 Jewish Businessmen 1941-1945 Jewish Physicians and Dentists in the Armed Forces 1943 Jewish Statistics - Army 1941 2 2045-001 Jones vs. O'Meara 1959-1962 Juvenile Delinquency 1952 National Conference of Christians and Jews 1955 Oregon Citizens Food Committee 1948-1949 Public Schools 1948-1959 Urban League Chicago 1955-1956 Portland 1947-1951 Venereal Disease 1946-1955 Discrimination Banks 1954-1955 Business Campaigns 1943-1954 Clubs 1940-1956 Communication 1954-1955 Employment 1942-1961 3 2045-001 Employment 1942-1961 Films 1933-1956 Fraternities and Sororities 1947-1954 Hotels 1941-1956 Housing 1945-1961 4 2045-001 Housing 1945-1961 Indians 1956 Insurance 1950-1955 Japanese 1956 Law Enforcement Agencies 1955-1959 Law Schools 1952-1955 Liquor Sales Licenses 1950-1955 Marriage Licenses 1951-1955 Medicine 1945-1956 Negroes 1949-1955 Plays 1946-1949 Political Campaigns 1950-1956 Religion 1954 Resorts 1938-1957 5 2045-001 Restaurants 1951-1956 Social 1948-1956 Sports 1948-1960 Synagogues 1950-1960 Teachers 1954-1955 Television 1953-1956 Transportation 1943-1960 Unions 1954 Fact Files Acme Breweries 1941 John Beatty 1952-1961 Maurice Bisgyer 1940-1941 Robert Bowen 1959 B Miscellaneous 1947-1949 C Miscellaneous 1940-1949 Raymond Davis 1943-1954 Ray L. Elliott 1946-1957 Adolph L. Gesche 1949-1955 Walter Gieseking 1949-1953 Rep. Ed Gossett 1948 Thomas P. Graham 1948 Edward Milburn Greenwood 1957 Mrs. Nathan Harris 1941 Father Henry Holthaus 1939 Rev. Armin A. Holzer 1946-1955 Claude E. Ingalis 1935-1942 6 2045-001 Boris Tobias Iserlis 1949-1950 Rev. Joe Jeffers 1940-1948 Ed O. Katz 1950 Tyler Kent 1945 Harold Kimball 1952-1959 Henry H. Klein 1946-1952 Walter H. Lawrie 1945-1946 Dellmore Lessard 1935-1956 Kenneth V. Lohick 1948-1949 Kalfred D. Lum 1944-1945 Dr. Harry A. Lyska 1939 Rabb: Moses Miller 1941 Rudolph Miller 1948-1950 Henry Monsky 1938-1940 Col. James B. Morehead 1945 Nachrichten (German Newspaper) 1933-1934 A. W. O'Connell 1941-1942 Dr. Norman V. Peale 1959 Fordam Rab 1944 Ethel Rosenberg 1952-1955 Julius Rosenberg 1952-1955 Edwin J. Schefter 1942 Bishop Bernard J. Shell 1946-1954 Everett Shelton 1946 Graham Stuart 1946 Count Felix von Luckner 1948-1949 Walter Winchell 1938 Countess Morag Zamoyska 1940 Subgroups Western Regional Advisory Board 6b/1 2045-001 Organization 1954-1955 6b/2-7 2045-001 General Correspondence 1949-1956 6b/8 2045-001 Minutes 1949-1955 6b/9 2045-001 Membership 1951-1955 6b/10 2045-001 Clippings 1949-1951 Oregon Regional Advisory Board 6b/11 2045-001 Organization 1954-1959 6b/12-15 2045-001 General Correspondence 1956-1961 6b/16 2045-001 Nominating Committee 1959-1961 6b/17-18 2045-001 Minutes 1959-1961 6b/19 2045-001 Membership 1959-1961 6b/20 2045-001 Reports 1959 Memoranda 6b/21 2045-001 Personally Yours Washington Reg. Adv. Board 1956-1958 6b/22-23 2045-001 Miscellaneous 1957-1961 6b/24 2045-001 Ephemera n.d. Seattle Office 7a/1 2045-001 Organization 1954-1958 Intraorganizational Correspondence 7a/2 2045-001 P. A. Rickles 1940-1942 7a/3 2045-001 Samuel Holcenberg 1946 7a/4 2045-001 P. A. Rickles 1947-1949 7a/5 2045-001 Stanley Jacobs 1949-1951 7a/6 2045-001 P. Allen Rickles 1951-1952 L. Schroeter 7a/7-10 2045-001 New York Office 1952-1955 7a/7-11 2045-001 Washington Regional Advisory Board 1953 7a/12 2045-001 Miscellaneous Offices ca. 1952-1955 Seymour Kaplan 7a/13-21 2045-001 New York Office 1956-1968 7a/22-23 2045-001 Pacific Southwest Regional Office 1957-1968 7a/24-25 2045-001 Portland Office 1956-1964 7b/1-2 2045-001 Portland Office 1956-1964 7b/3 2045-001 Miscellaneous Offices 1956-1968 7b/4-5 2045-001 Washington Regional Advisory Board 1956-1968 7b/6-9 2045-001 Incoming Letters 1956-1968 7b/10 2045-001 Outgoing Letters 1953-1968 7b/11 2045-001 General Correspondence 1952-1956, 1968 7b/12 2045-001 National Commission Meeting 1968 7b/13 2045-001 Miscellaneous Minutes 1959, 1968 7b/14 2045-001 Financial Records 1958-1968 Reports 7b/15-16 2045-001 ADL Activities in Washington State 1940-1959 7b/17 2045-001 Education 1959-1960, 1967-1968 7b/18 2045-001 Organizations 1965-1968 7b/19 2045-001 Miscellaneous 1947, 1954-1957, 1966-1968 7b/20 2045-001 Lists - Films, Publications, Miscellaneous 1957-1958 7b/21 2045-001 Speeches and Writings 1968, n.d. 7b/22 2045-001 News Releases 1949-1968 7b/23 2045-001 S. Kaplan Files 1956-1968 7c/1 2045-001 Miscellaneous 1946, 1968 Memoranda 7c/2-6 2045-001 Re: ADL Publications 1953-1968 7c/7 2045-001 American Jewish Committee/ADL Joint Memos 1949-1958 Newsletters 7c/8 2045-001 Personally Yours - Washington Regional Office 1949-1957 7c/9 2045-001 Jewish Western Bulletin 1966-1968 7c/10 2045-001 Miscellaneous 1966-1968 7c/11 2045-001 Clippings 1956, 1966-1968 7c/12 2045-001 Photographs, Unidentified ca. 1960s 7c/13-14 2045-001 Ephemera n.d. Conferences 8 2045-001 American Immigration Conference - General Correspondence 1960 Catholic-Jewish Conference - Outgoing Letters 1966 Educators' Conference on Human Relations Education: Planning Committee 1959 Planning Committee General Correspondence Midwest Conference on Human Relations Education Reports 1952 National Students' Conference on Human Relations 1952 Education Questionnaires Northwest Conference on Human Relations Education 1959 Incoming Letters Outgoing Letters General Correspondence Notes Tapes No. 1 - Dr. Francis F. Powers, Dr. Charles E. Odegaard No. 2/No. 3 - Sen. Richard Neuberger No. 4 - Dr. Ralph W. Tyler Oregon Conference on Human Relations Education - General Correspondence 1959, 1964-1968 Wisconsin Conference on Human Relations Education - Reports 1959-1960 Subject Series 9 2045-001 The American Jewish Committee 1968 John Birch Society 1965-1966 Christian-Jewish Relations 1966-1967 Communism 1950-1964 General Education Jews Community Discrimination Committee 1956-1962 Discrimination Civil Rights 1968 Clubs - Laurelhurst Beach Club 1950-1958 Education 1952-1960 Employment 1968 Housing - General 1967-1968 Housing - Curtis vs. Interlake Realty, Inc. 1963 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Seattle/Urban League 1968 Fascism 1953-1954 Fluoridation of Water 1952-1960 Immigration - Legislation 1953-1959 Israel General 1948-1969 American Attitudes 1953-1958 Boycott Against 1953-1958 Internationalization of Jerusalem 1960-1966 National Cooperation 1953-1956 Israeli Speakers 1954-1959 Jews and Judaism 1968 Jewish Federation - Community Relations Committee 1961-1968 Jewish Welfare Federation 1968 10 2045-001 National Association Against Unfair Taxation 1966 National Commission 1968 Public Schools 1957-1961 Fact Files Harry Glickman 1953-1961 Louis Harron 1958-1959 Tom Linder 1954 Victor Lindstrom 1945-1956 Dr. A. U. Michelson 1939-1954 Col. James B. Morehead 1945-1951 Dr. Charles W. Saale 1954 F. G. Sammons 1950 Kate Smith 1947-1949 L. D. Staplin 1947-1949 Dr. A. E. Strath-Gordon 1945-1949 Bruce Thomas 1948-1954 H. W. Totten 1954 Kurt von Schusehnigg 1947 Louis A. Weinberg 1955-1956 Washington Regional Advisory Board Organization 11a/1 2045-001 By-Laws 1950-1957 11a/2 2045-001 Committees 1953-1963, n.d. 11a/3-9 2045-001 General Correspondence 1949-1964 11a/10-15 2045-001 Minutes 1948-1964 11a/16-18 2045-001 Membership 1949-1958, 1965 Reports 11a/19 2045-001 ADL Activities in Washington State 1953-1964 11a/20 2045-001 Education 1963-1965 11b/1 2045-001 News Releases 1955-1957, n.d. 11b/2-3 2045-001 Memoranda 1949-1964 11b/4 2045-001 Clippings n.d. Washington Regional Advisory Board, Executive Committee 11b/5 2045-001 Organization 1957 11b/6 2045-001 General Correspondence 1953-1964 11b/7 2045-001 Minutes 1948-1958 Washington Regional Advisory Board, Nominating Committee 11b/8 2045-001 Organization - Nominations 1951-960 11b/9-11 2045-001 General Correspondence 1950-1961 11b/12 2045-001 Minutes 1956-1961 11b/13 2045-001 Memoranda 1954-1960 Washington Regional Advisory Board, Civil Rights Committee 11b/14 2045-001 Organization 1956-1957 11b/15 2045-001 General Correspondence 1954-1960, 1968 11b/16 2045-001 Minutes 1953-1958 11b/17 2045-001 Reports n.d. 11b/18 2045-001 Memoranda 1953-1960, 1968 Washington Regional Advisory Board, Program Committee 11b/19 2045-001 Organization 1957 11b/20 2045-001 General Correspondence 1954-1963 11b/21 2045-001 Minutes 1953-1957, n.d. 11b/22 2045-001 Memoranda 1953-1958 11b/23 2045-001 Washington Regional Advisory Board, Community Relations Committee - General Correspondence 1953-1956 11b/24 2045-001 Washington Regional Advisory Board, Public Relations Committee - General Correspondence 1956-1963 11b/25 2045-001 Washington Regional Advisory Board, Public Speakers Committee - General Correspondence 1954-1960 11b/26 2045-001 Washington Regional Advisory Board, Neighborhood Trends Subcommittee (Negro-Jewish Tensions) - General Correspondence 1954 Washington State Board Against Discrimination 11b/27 2045-001 Organization 1958, n.d. 11b/28-29 2045-001 General Correspondence 1957-1961 11c/1-2 2045-001 General Correspondence 1957-1961 11c/3 2045-001 Minutes 1960-1961 11c/4 2045-001 Financial Records - Budget 1959-1961 11c/5 2045-001 Cases 1958-1961 11c/6 2045-001 Reports 1958-1959 11c/7 2045-001 News Releases 1958-1961 11c/8 2045-001 Memoranda n.d. 11c/9 2045-001 Newsletters 1958-1959 11c/10 2045-001 Clippings n.d. 11c/11 2045-001 Miscellaneous n.d. Accession No. 2045-002: B'nai B'rith Anti-defamation League Northwest Regional Office records, circa 1974 .28 cubic foot

Scope and Content: Letters, clippings, ephemera, notes.

These are papers of Seymour Kaplan that he took home with him. He was regional director until 1974.

Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access, contact Special Collections.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights not transferred to the University of Washington Libraries

Acquisition Info: Donated by Mrs. Seymour Kaplan, 7/2/1975.

 Accession No. 2045-003: B'nai B'rith Anti-defamation League Northwest Regional Office records, before 1975 .28 cubic foot

Scope and Content: Seymour Kaplan's correspondence, clippings, speeches, photographs.

Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access, contact Special Collections.

Acquisition Info: Donated by Mrs. Sara Kaplan, 7/1/1975.