New York Landsmanshaftn and Other Jewish Organizations
The Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc. has compiled a searchable database of Burial Societies in the New York Metro Area. The data is searchable by Town Name, as the town or shtetl is listed in Where Once We Walked. We are aware that a number of town names have changed in the post-Soviet period, many of which were towns in Eastern Galicia that are part of Ukraine. However, for purposes of consistency, we are continuing to use the old Soviet town name. The very nature of the Town Name search means it will pertain mainly to landsmanshaftn plots. The data is also searchable by Keyword. In the near future, the database will be searchable also by Family Name, which will cover the full scope of the database.
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YIVO's catalogued landsmanshaftn collection over 1380 organizations
- Works Progress Administration (WPA) Yiddish Writer's Group Study (1938) [English listing] 1487 organizations
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Works Progress Administration (WPA) Yiddish Writer's Group Study (1938) [Yiddish listing] 2145 organizations
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American Jewish Year Book 1900-1901 294 organizations
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American Jewish Year Book 1907-1908 1643 organizations
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American Jewish Year Book 1919-1920 2302 organizations
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Works Progress Adminstration (WPA) Federal Writers Project - Survey of State and Local Historical Records: Church Records Jewish - Synagogue (1939) [New York City only] 2092 organizations [note: this is a very large file (1.25 MB) that may take a few minutes to load]
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Jewish Calendar, Lodge and Society Directory (1905) compiled and edited by Alex Eli Jacobs 1301 organizations
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Lodges listed in The Jewish Communal Register of New York City (1917-18) [lodges only] 963 organizations
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Additional Lodges 293 organizations
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Landsmanshaftn and other town and country-related organizations incorporated in New York County (1848-1920) in the AJHS collection of New York County incorporations 3014 organizations
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Translations of common Hebrew and Yiddish words in landsmanshaftn and burial society names
