Lessing J. Rosenwald papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28000
Subjects: National libraries; Bibliography; Julius Rosenwald Fund; American Council for Judaism; Art museums; Parks; United States. War Production Board; Book collecting; Zionism; World War, 1939-1945; United States. National Recovery Administration; Emigration and immigration; National Gallery of Art (U.S.); Refugees; Correspondence; United States; Prints; Jews; International Congress of Bibliophiles; Citizens Committee on Displaced Persons; Charities; Sears, Roebuck & Company; Library of Congress; America First Committee; Philip H. & A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation; Industrial policy; Isolationism; Education; Collectors and collecting; Societies
Description: Correspondence, subject files, speeches and writings, printed material, and other papers relating to Rosenwald's career with Sears, Roebuck & Co.; his activities on behalf of various Jewish causes and opposition to Zionism; his public service work with the National Recovery Administration and the War Production Board; his various charitable, educational, and cultural philanthropies; and his work as a bibliographer and collector of books and prints.  Subjects include Alvethorpe Park, Jenkintown, Pa., the America First Committee, isolationism, American Council for Judaism, Citizens Committee on Displaced Persons, refugee relief and immigration, International Congress of Bibliophiles, Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art, Philip H. & A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, and Julius Rosenwald Fund.

Correspondents include Cyrus Adler, Jacob Billikopf, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Julian P. Boyd, Joseph S. Clark, Richardson Dilworth, William J. Donovan, Dwight D. Eisenhower, H. Wendell Endicott, Abraham Flexner, Felix Frankfurter, Ellis A. Gimbel, Frederick Richmond Goff, Emerson Greenaway, Teddy Kollek, Morris S. Lazaron, Fred Lazarus (1884-1973), Herbert H. Lehman, Jacob M. Loeb, Paul Mellon, William Claire Menninger, Julian Morgenstern, Reinhold Niebuhr, Eugene Ormandy, George Wharton Pepper, Isidore S. Radvin, David Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960), Eleanor Roosevelt, Philip H. Rosenbach, Edith Goodkind Rosenwald, William Rosenwald, D. Hays Solis-Cohen, Horace Stern, Edward R. Stettinius, Lewis L. Strauss, Harry S. Truman, Sidney J. Weinberg, Edwin Wolf, and Robert Elkington Wood.
Notes: Open to research.

Transfer, Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division, 1980-1983.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.

Bibliophile, businessman, and philanthropist.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006033