Title: Nathan Sand Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1914-1947

Creator:

• Sand, Nathan, 1881-1947

Call Number: Milwaukee Mss DL; PH 1532

Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes) and 10 photographs

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries’ Archives Department / Milwaukee Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Correspondence, minutes, photographs, and related printed papers kept by Sand, secretary of the Milwaukee division of the American Jewish Congress, 1931-1947, and a participant in numerous other Jewish organizations.

Language: English, Yiddish

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Two boxes pertain to the work of the American Jewish Congress. These papers include information on campaigns to boycott German products in 1933 and the Olympic Games in 1936, and to promote other anti-Nazi measures; on cooperation with other Jewish organizations; on World War II relief programs; and on internal conflicts within the Milwaukee Group. An additional box contains records of the Milwaukee Jewish Council, 1939-1947, Poale Zion of Milwaukee, 1939-1947, Bank Hapoalim, 1937-1940, as well as scattered papers, 1914-1947, relating to Milwaukee Jewish groups interested in labor, youth, veterans, and inter-racial relations. A scrapbook contains letters, clippings, and memorabilia describing Sand's work in the Jewish community. One folder of unbound business papers concerns the operation of Sand's insurance agency in the 1940s. The photographs in the collection are from the Poale Zion, the Yiddish-speaking party of the Labor Zionists in Milwaukee. Included are images from a 1919 Americanization Pageant held in Milwaukee at which the local Poale Zion presented a tableaux of scenes from Jewish history. Golda Mabovitz Meyerson (Golda Meir) was a participant in the tableaux.

Joseph L. Baron Papers (Milwaukee Mss 173 and Milwaukee Micro 45) and Milwaukee Jewish Council Records. (Milwaukee Micro 41)

Acquisition Information

Presented by Joseph L. Baron, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1958.

Processing Information

Photographs processed by David Benjamin, 1996.

Milwaukee Mss DL	American Jewish Congress, Milwaukee Division
Box   1	1931-1940 Scope and Content Note: Newspaper clippings, correspondence, and printed materials from the files of Nathan Sand, Secretary. Includes materials on 1933 boycott campaign of German goods, attempts to gain labor and state legislative support to protest Nazis, controversies between left and right wing elements in Milwaukee, attempt to boycott 1936 Olympics reports of Milwaukee mass meetings, attempts to organize Wisconsin Jewish communities, national American Jewish Congress activities, and report of the World Jewish Congress meeting in Geneva during 1936.
Box   2	1941-1947 Scope and Content Note: Correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, and printed materials from the files of Nathan Sand, Secretary. Included are materials on Nazi protest mass meetings in Milwaukee, support of Russian War Relief, philosophy of the American Jewish Congress and relations with other Jewish organizations, support of Howard McMurray for Congress, various organizational difficulties and conflicts that led to the decline of the Milwaukee Division
Box   3	Milwaukee Jewish organizations, 1919-1947 Scope and Content Note: Correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, and printed materials, and reports of various Milwaukee Jewish organizations including the Jewish Socialist Labor Party, Jewish National Fund, various Labor Zionist organizations, various Jewish youth groups, Russian War Relief, Jewish Welfare Board, Milwaukee Zionist Council, Milwaukee Jewish Committee for Veterans Service, Inter-racial Federation of Milwaukee County. Included also is a financial report of Ezra Betzar, 1914-1919, and letterheads of various Jewish labor, relief, and Zionist groups in Milwaukee in the 1920s.
Box   3	Milwaukee Jewish Council, 1939-1947 Scope and Content Note: Chiefly financial reports from this group's inception in 1939 with some material on its membership, organization, and activities.
Box   3	Poale Zion of Milwaukee, 1939-1947 Scope and Content Note: Correspondence in Yiddish with national office and Milwaukee members.
Box   3	Bank Hapoalim, 1937-1940 Scope and Content Note: Correspondence with Tel-Aviv office and lists of Milwaukee shareholders.
Box   4	Personal papers and miscellaneous materials of Nathan Sand, 1914-1947 Note: Also includes material on the recruitment of World War I Jewish Legion volunteers from Milwaukee, the activities for relief to war-stricken countries, elections to the first American Jewish Congress, activities of early Milwaukee Zionists, and the life of Nathan Sand.
PH 1532	Photographs
	Americanization Pageant, Jewish History tableau, May 18, 1919 Note: Photographer: L.F. Kuli
Item   1	“First Message of Civilization”
Item   2	“Exile into Babylon”
Item   3	“The Wanderer finds Liberty in America“ Note: Woman portraying the Statue of Liberty is probably Golda Mabovitz Meyerson (Golda Meir).
Item   4	“The Jewish Rebirth“ Note: Woman holding menorah is probably Golda Mabovitz Meyerson (Golda Meir).
Item   5	Poale Zion Chasidim Ball, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February 28, 1925 Note: Photographer: L.F. Kuli.
Item   6-9	Unidentified Man Dressed as a Chasid Rebbe Note: Photographer: M. Natkin.
Item   10	Banquet in honor of Ben Cador, Young Poale Zion Club, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, January 9, 1927 Note: Photographer: L.F. Kuli.