Title: Jacob Muchin Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1942-1956

Creator:

• Muchin, Jacob, 1911-

Call Number: Green Bay Mss 33

Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Archives and Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Papers of Muchin, a Manitowoc, Wis., lawyer employed by the federal government in various positions related to rent controls. Included is correspondence, clippings, and subject files on local, state, and national rent control matters; and personal correspondence and other materials on the American Jewish Tercentenary, 1954, including information on the Anshe Poale Zedek Congregation in Manitowoc and on the formation of the Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning.

Language: English

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Jacob Muchin was born in Manitowoc, Wisconsin on January 16, 1911 of Russian immigrants. His father was a merchant and scrap iron dealer. He received his B.A. in 1931 and LL.D. in 1933, both from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. After practicing law from 1933 to 1942 in Manitowoc, Muchin became involved with rent control in Wisconsin. He held the positions of Area Rent Director and Area Rent Director-Attorney under the Office of Price Administration and the Office of Housing Expediter in the period 1942-1949. He was then promoted to the position of Trial Attorney, handling litigation on rent control in Washington, D.C. Thereafter, he successively was promoted to Field Representative, Assistant General Manager, and in April 1951, became Acting Deputy Director of the Office of Rent Stabilization (formerly Office of Housing Expediter).

Forced to retire in 1953 by personnel reductions, Muchin returned to his Manitowoc law practice. Since then he has also been a consultant to the Executive Office of the President in the Office of Emergency Preparedness; his work has consisted of planning and writing regulations, procedures, and guidelines in preparedness for Federal legislation authorizing the imposition of Federal rent controls. When the wage, price and rent freeze became effective on August 15, 1971, he participated in drafting the Economic Stabilization Regulation #1, which was the first document put into effect to stabilize prices, wages, rents and salaries. Muchin continues to serve as a consultant at the national office of the Office of Emergency Preparedness and is now a consultant to the General Services Administration.

Muchin has also been active in the Manitowoc Jewish community. In 1954, he became Chairman of the Manitowoc Tercentenary Committee and a Director of American Jewish Tercentenary Committee of Wisconsin. In 1955, he joined the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning. He has served as president of the trustees of Congregation Anshe Poale Zedek and on several occasions has been chairman of the Manitowoc Jewish Federation, whose primary function is to raise money for various Jewish charities and the United Jewish Appeal.

In 1960 Muchin was president of the Manitowoc County Bar Association and in 1972 was appointed court commissioner by the three judges serving Manitowoc County. He has also served on various committees of the Wisconsin Bar Association.

In 1933 he married Dorothy Biberfeld of Gary, Indiana. Their two sons are now married and practice law in Chicago, Illinois.

The Jacob Muchin Papers, 1942-1956, are divided into two subject files, Rent Control and the American Jewish Tercentenary.

The largest part of the collection, 1942-1956, deals with rent control and includes correspondence, clippings, and office subject files. The correspondence is between Muchin and various state and federal government officials regarding administrative and rent control matters; there are also two folders of office memos from the Manitowoc office. The clippings, 1942-1952, are arranged chronologically in scrapbooks and on loose sheets of paper. These are from Chicago and Manitowoc area newspapers regarding rent control, the Office of Price Administration (O.P.A.), and Muchin's activities. The office subject files maintained by Muchin deal with both rent control matters and routine operations of the Manitowoc office.

The second section concerns the American Jewish Tercentenary in 1954. There is correspondence between Muchin and various Wisconsin and national Tercentenary committee members and are folders regarding Tercentenary activities at the national, Wisconsin, and Manitowoc levels. The Manitowoc activities included the dedication of a new building of the Anshe Poale Zedek Congregation. The Wisconsin activities included the formation of the Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning, which established a Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and also later at UW-Milwaukee. The Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning later founded the Wisconsin Jewish Archives.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Jacob Muchin, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, April 19, 1963. Accession Number: M63-69

Processing Information

Processed by Lindsay Nauen and Eleanor McKay, Feb. 15, 1974.

	Series: Rent Control
	Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   1	Rent Control, 1943-1949
Box   1 Folder   2	Rent Control, 1950-1956
Box   1 Folder   3	Office Memos, 1945-June 1948
Box   1 Folder   4	Office Memos, August 1948-1949
	Clippings, Scrapbook
Box   1 Folder   5	1942-1945
Box   1 Folder   6	1946-1947
	Clippings, Loose
Box   2 Folder   7	1945-1947
Box   2 Folder   1	1948-1952
	Subject File
Box   2 Folder   2	Eviction Decisions, 1944-1948
Box   2 Folder   3	Eviction Guidelines from the O.P.A., 1945-1946
Box   2 Folder   4	Office Procedures, 1950-1952
	Personnel
Box   2 Folder   5	General , 1948-1949
Box   2 Folder   6	Job Requirements and Standards, May 1951
	Publicity
Box   2 Folder   7	General, 1943-1949
Box   2 Folder   8	Veterans Preference, 1948-1949
	Radio Talks
Box   2 Folder   9	1946-1949 May
Box   2 Folder   10	1949 June-July
Box   2 Folder   11	Rent Advisory Board Bulletins, 1950-1952
Box   2 Folder   12	Rent Advisory Board Handbook, undated
Box   3 Folder   1	“Rent Control in Central and Northeastern Wisconsin” by Jacob Muchin, 1949
Box   3 Folder   2	Rent Education Week, 1946
Box   3 Folder   3	Scrapbook, 1946
Box   3 Folder   4	Rent Stabilization Program, 1951-1952
Box   3 Folder   5	Rental Values
	Series: American Jewish Tercentenary	⇧
Box   3 Folder   6	Correspondence, 1954-1955
Box   3 Folder   7	Manitowoc Activities, 1954
Box   3 Folder   8	Wisconsin Activities, 1954
Box   3 Folder   9	National Activities, 1953-1954
Box   3 Folder   10	Community Manual, 1954