Susan Hoffman
Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
320 Elmer L. Anderson Library
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-625-0192
Email: s-hoff@umn.edu
web: http://www.jhsum.org
Inventory JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE UPPER MIDWEST
Acquisition Number 0258
Amos Deinard Collection Boxes 77-80
Records, 3 1/2 linear feet. Also includes clippings, photos, and charts.
Provenance: donated by son Dr. Amos Deinard
Amos Deinard was born in Minneapolis in 1898 the son of Rabbi Samuel and Rosa Deinard. He was a graduate of West High School, a Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Minnesota, and received his J. D. at Harvard University. Deinard was a devoted public servant and sat on many boards in the Jewish and the general communities. He was a founder of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation and served as president from 1935-40. He also served on the Minneapolis Fair Employment Practices Commission, and the Minnesota Society for the Prevention of Blindness. He died in 1985.
The collection is divided into the following parts:
Personal Papers: Documenting the Minneapolis Reform Jewish community in which he grew up.
Organizational Papers: Containing materials concerning MFJS, local, national, and international Jewish agencies. HAVE TO HAVE FOLDER NUMBERS WITHIN BOX DESCRIPTIONS. BRING UP BOXES
BOX 77 D02S12CG
1. Amos Deinard - Personal, family and friends
2. Weil-Jeffrey families
3. Naturalization records, correspondence, and research on Minneapolis
Jewish history and oral history - 1978, on Minnesota Jewish history
4. Temple Israel
5. Temple Israel
6- Essays on Jewish History
7-12. Minneapolis Federation for Jewish Services
13. Menorah Club - Hillel
14. Federation beneficiary agencies: Talmud Torah, Emanuel Cohen Center, Jewish Community Center, Jewish Family Service
15. Mount Sinai Hospital
BOX 78 D02S12CH
1. Material on National Conferences - CJFWF
2. National meetings- JDC, HIAS, Israel Bonds, Jewish Labor Commission
Miscellaneous
3. National Meetings: United Jewish Appeal
4. American Jewish Committee, American Jewish Congress
5. NCRAC - McIver Report
6. American Assn. for Jewish Education
7. National Conference of Christians and Jews
8. Material on international conferences
9. FEPC - School Board - Human relations
10. Minnesota Society for Prevention of Blindness
ll. Material on Jewish persecution in Germany
12. Committee on Aid to Displaced Scholars
13. Materials on Jewish persecution in Poland, 1930's and 1940's
14. Europe - Post 1945
15. Materials on American anti-Semitism, 1930's - 1950's
BOX 79 D02S13CA
1. Materials on American anti-Semitism, 1930's - 1950's
2. American responses to anti-Semitism, 1930's
3. Zionism: Philosophical statements - Palestine
4. Zionism: Early settlements
5. Zionism: Arguments for a Jewish state in Palestine
6. Zionism: Hebrew University
Struggle for Hebrew language
Prospectus for Dormitory Park
7. Zionism: Jewish colonization efforts
8. Zionism: Jewish organizations in Palestine
9. Zionism: Arab refugees, Arab-Israeli conflict
10.Zionism: Economic Development
11.Zionism: Immigration
12.Zionism: Abba Eban - UN speeches, 1953-56
13.Zionism: Miscellaneous material, Israel, 1950-67
14.United Palestine Appeal, correspondence
15.United Palestine Appeal, correspondence
16.Theology
BOX 80 D02S13CB
1. Loose photos of Deinard, wife - Public events
2-6. Newspaper clippings, public service
7. Correspondence regarding sales of charts of ancient monuments
8. Monument charts of father: Rabbi Samuel Deinard, 1930's - 1940's
