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
THE NORTH DAKOTA PROJECT
JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE UPPER MIDWEST
GELLER COLLECTION - INVENTORY OF MATERIALS
Toba Geller and Ruth Landfield along with a committee of Fargo women initiated the North Dakota Jewish Project in about 1975. It was the second attempt to set down the Jewish history of the state. This collection represents the results of a sustained collecting effort. Included is the background of the project, the organization of the project, correspondence of Toba Geller, her husband Sam Geller, and others connected with the project, and materials they gathered.
Box A:
materials on earlier history project, 1950s
Jewish Historical Project of North Dakota research committee minutes, 1975-78
Articles of incorporation
Finances of JHPND 2 ff
possible grants to support JHPND
correspondence of Toba and Sam Geller 3 ff
Box B
Correspondence and notes, Toba and Sam Geller 6 ff
lists of contributors, archival sources and
Jewish magazines and newspapers 3 ff
Box C
News clippings 1 ff
College research papers re Jewish settlement 1 ff
Jewish settlement arranged by place names
(Ashley - Slope Counties) 40 ff Other resource materials:
Jewish Agricultural Society 2 ff
Misc. resource materials 5 ff
Files of families by contributor, A - B 15 ff
Box D
Files of families by contributor, B - J 149 ff
Box F
Files of families by contributor, K - R 146 ff
Box G
Files of families by contributor, S - Z 97 ff
Box H
scrapbook, John Hay Lodge, Bnai Brith, Fargo,
1948- ca 1955 with some materials from 1938
and loose photos (unidentified)
news clippings on the ethnic groups in ND 1 ff
Box I
Photographs donated to project
Box J
Contains seven small notebooks and four boxes of cards, as well as loose cards, listing names of people the Project contacted and families who lived in North Dakota and their descendants.
Also, one loose-leaf binder showing how materials were arranged by the Project.
Oversize: A history of the Fargo Hebrew Synagogue. This has been copied onto standard paper and filed with other synagogue information. A map of Burleigh County indicating Jewish-owned farms.
TAPES TRANSCRIPTS OF TAPES
Dora Aronson X
Abraham Auerback X
Helen Hess Auerback
Mrs. Abe Bader
Joe Bender (2)
Jules Braufman
Joe Dokovna
Etkin Family
Toba and Sam Geller
Bennie Gillerstein
Max Goldberg X
Mrs. Jack Gottlieb
Mrs. Greenberg (2)
David Grossman
Celia Kamins (2)
Joe Kokovna X
Nathan Margulies
Joe Miller X
Willie Mueller
Jake Marcowitz X
Paper (sic)
Ben Rappe
Max Schwartz X
Margaret Steiner
Mr. & Mrs. Al Straus
Pauline Wallace X
Bertha Wilensky
Mrs. Dennis Wing, et al
Poorly Identified Tapes
"Conclusion and Summary"
Doris & Helen
"grandchildren"
five unlabeled tapes
Transcription only
Conversation between Myer Shark and Howard Nelson re High Holiday services at Devil's Lake Courthouse.
Herman Stern
Al Thal
BOOKS, MONOGRAPHS AND OTHER ANCILLARY MATERIALS IN PROJECT COLLECTION:
filed in bookcases with other books and magazines
Jewish Life in Canada: William Kurelek and Abraham Arnold
The Lee Max Friedman Collection of American Jewish Colonial
Correspondence: ed. by Hershkowitz and Arnold
"The Architecture of Jewish Settlements in the Praries: C. E. Leonoff
"Catalog of exhibit, "Journey into Our Heritage" : C. E. Leonoff
"Wapella Farm Settlement: The First Successful Jewish Farm Settlement in Canada": C. E. Leonoff
"The Ancestry of Our Children and Cousins Too" : M. Abrams
"Our Family": Toba Geller
Shiloh: Discovery of Jewish Identity through Oral/Folk History:
Rosen-Bayewitz and Novek
"Jewish Perceptions of America: From Melting Pot to Mosaic: Abraham Karp
Origins of North Dakota Place Names: M. B. Williams
The Years of Despair: North Dakota in the Depression: Tweton and Rylance
North Dakota History - Journal of the Northern Plains: Vol. 32, October, 1965, Vol. 43, Fall 1976
Jewish Heritage articles on Jews in small towns: Winter 1974
Journal of the American Jewish Historical Society: issues from 1976-78
Western States Jewish Historical Quarterly : issues from 1976-79
Reform Advocates (2 copies) December 13, 1913
Reform Advocates - no date, beginning article: History of the Jews of Duluth and History of the Jews of Mesaba Range
Highway Map of Burleigh County with Jewish farms indicated as of January 1, 1912 (filed with oversize materials)
Scrapebook from the John Hay Lodge, Bnai Brith, Fargo, 1939 - 1956, including AZA material from 1936 and 1938
