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Landau (Herman) Papers, 1920-1987
Author
University Archives and Records Center Staff
Title
Landau (Herman) Papers
Date
1920-1987
Repository
University Archives and Records CenterLouisville, Kentucky 40292
Conditions Governing Access note
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation Note
[Identification of item], Herman Landau Papers, 129,University Archives and Records Center, University of Louisville, Louisville.
Extent
8.25 linear ft.
Biography/History
Herman Landau's family came from Austria-Hungary to New York City in 1897 and from New York City to Louisville around 1900. Landau was born and reared in Louisville, and as a young man entered journalism. During his newspaper career he worked for the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville-Times: and although this collection of Landau's paper reflects his interest in journalism, it concerns primarily his long association with the Jewish community in Louisville.
Scope and Content
Material in Box 1 represents a collections of news clipping and photographs of active members of the Louisville Jewish Community. Arranged alphabetically by individuals, the materials span almost two decades, from 1956 until the early 1970s. In compiling the folders, Mr.Landau restricted collection items to those from local Jewish papers. As an explanation of their contents, most folders in this box have notes pertaining to position and tiles of the individual.
Box 2 continues the collection of Box 1. Box 1 contains folders from A to M, Box 2 holds those folders from N to Z.
The third box originally contained a collection of Louisville Jewish newspapers which have since been incorporated into Louisville Jewish Community Publications Collection, RG 127. Starting from 1946, this box included primarily two important newspapers, the B'nai B'rith Briefs and the Jewish Community Center Bulletins. These papers reflect Jewish concerns of the 1950s and 1960s. Focusing almost entirely on the Louisville area, the articles deal with social events. fund raising campaigns, and religious holiday activities.
Box 3 now contain newsclippings on topics of interest to the Jewish Community and miscellaneous JCC brochures relating the growth of the religious community. For example, the box contains a few editions of the Special Messenger of 1955, which details the plans of the new building for the Adath Jeshurun congregation. Finishing the box are Courier-Journal articles on World War II and manuscripts of articles by Herman Landau. In 1964, he began on his own to edit and publish Jewish Events as a bulletin of local Jewish happeningswhich includes B'nai B'rith Briefs for those years. The complete set, from 1964 to 1967, along with the other local papers, Community (1973-1977), B'nai B'rith Briefs (1969-1977), and scattered copies of the National Jewish Post and the Kentucky Jewish Post and Opinion have all been removed from the Landau Papers to Record Group 127.
Similar in contents to Boxes 1 and 2, Box 4 includes items from Louisville Jewish newspapers pertaining to Jewish Community Center activities and clubs. Covering the same time period of the 1950s to the 1960s, this box is arranged alphabetically by organizations and events.
Collection Inventory
Biographical Files, A through M
[box: 1]Biographical Files, N through Z
[box: 2]Certificates
[box: 3]Manuscripts of Articles
Miscellaneous Brochures
Miscellaneous Material
Article Manuscripts
Jewish Community Center, Miscellaneous Brochures, 1956-1971
JCC Adult Activities
[box: 4]JCC AMITIÉ
JCC Annual Meeting, 1961
JCC Armed Services
JCC Art Class, 1962
JCC Ballet
B'nai B'rith, 1958-1959
B'nai B'rith Women
BBYO (B'nai B'rith Youth Organization), 1962-1963
JCC Book Fair, 1962
JCC Building and Grounds
Bureau of Jewish Education
JCC Camera Club
JCC Camp Ben F. Washer
JCC Camp Ricarree
JCC Ceramics, 1961
JCC Chanukah
JCC Children's Activities
JCC Chorus
JCC Club Council
JCC Club 60
JCC Community Chest
JCC Condors
JCC Ellen Fay Garmon Memorial Award
JCC Father and Son Banquet
JCC Forum
JCC Fulfillment Fund, 1958-1959
JCC Health Club
JCC Jewish Book Month
JCC Jewish Community Center Board
JCC JWB Associates
JCC Long View Brochures
Louisville Hebrew School
JCC Modern Dance
JCC Orchestra
JCC Ottenheimer Award
Jcc Physical Education
Same as above, Baseball
Same as above, Basketball
Same as above, Handball
Same as above, Squash
Same as above, Swimming (Neptune's Daughters)
Same as above, Tennis
Same as above, Volleyball
JCC Pre-School
JCC President's Council
JCC Past Presidents
JCC Purim
Rabbis
JCC Radio Club, 1963
JCC Scouts, Boy
JCC Scouts, Cub
JCC Senior High
JCC Seventy-fifth Anniversary--Jewish Community Center, 1965
JCC Six-Star Art Series, 1962
JCC Social Dance Class
JCC Staff
JCC Survey, 1961
JCC T.A.B. (Teen Age Board)
JCC Teen Age
JCC Theatre
JCC United Appeal
United Jewish Campaign
United Jewish Campaign--Youth Division
JCC V.I.P, 1961
JCC Water Ballet
(FOLDER titled) "Adult Activities"
Scope and Contents note:-25 prints ranging in size from 3'x3' to 8'x10'.
Photographs of such adult activities as drawing, dancing, wood-working classes, chess and card playing, and exercise classes make up this folder.
(FOLDER titled) "Amitie"
Scope and Contents note:-2 prints, 5'x7' and 8'x10'.
These two prints show girls involved in Amitie Club functions.
(FOLDER titled) "Annual Meeting 1961"
Scope and Contents note:-2 prints, each 8'x10', showing people at a meeting.
(FOLDER titled) "Armed Services"
Scope and Contents note:-4 prints, 3 (8'x10') and 1 (4'x5')
These prints show the soldiers eating and celebrating Chanukah together.
(FOLDER titled) "Art Class 1962"
Scope and Contents note:-4 prints ranging in size from 4'x5' to 8'x10'.
Photographs show people in a drawing class.
(FOLDER titled) "Ballet"
Scope and Contents note:-5 prints, all approximately 4'x5', including one color print.
All the prints are of young girls in a ballet class.
(FOLDER titled) "Building and Grounds"
Scope and Contents note:-44 prints ranging in size from 3'x5' to 8'x10'. This group includes three color prints.
All prints show some aspect of the Jewish Community Center's grounds and facilities. Most of the photographs are posed shots showing someone pointing out to a group of people a plaque on the wall, or just people standing in groups.
(FOLDER titled) "Camera Club"
Scope and Contents note:-8 prints, ranging in size from 3'x4' to 8'x10'.
Many of the photographs include individuals with cameras. The "Camera Club"? Some of the photographs are of other JCC activities.
(FOLDER titled) "Camp Ben F. Washer"
Scope and Contents note:-11 prints, ranging in size from 3'x4' to 8'x9'.
All of these prints show various activities at the camp.
(FOLDER titled) "Camp Ricarree", (1958, 1963, 1965)
Scope and Contents note:-24 prints, ranging in size from 3'x3' to 8'x10'.
Again, all of these prints show various activities at the camp.
(FOLDER titled) "Camp Tall Trees"
Scope and Contents note:-43 prints, ranging in size from 3'x3' to 8'x10'.
All of these photographs show activities at the camp.
(FOLDER titled) "Ceramics 1961"
Scope and Contents note:-1 (8'x10') print of the ceramics class.
(FOLDER titled) "Chanukah"
Scope and Contents note:-2 (8'x10') photographs showing Chanukah preparations.
(FOLDER titled) "Children's Activities"
Scope and Contents note:-19 prints, ranging in size from 2'x3' to 8'x10'.
These photographs are of children playing games, taking ballet classes and working on projects.
(FOLDER titled) "Chorus"
Scope and Contents note:-1 (8'x10') print of chorus performing.
(FOLDER titled) "Club Council", 1961
Scope and Contents note:-1 (8'x10') print of young people (the Council).
(FOLDER titled) "Club 60"
Scope and Contents note:-1 (3'x3') Photograph of individuals sixty years and over.
(FOLDER titled) "Community Chest"
Scope and Contents note:-2 (8'x10') Photograph of the women who worked on the Community Chest fund drive.
(FOLDER titled) "Ellen Fay Garmon Memorial Award (established 1969)"
Scope and Contents note:-1 (4'x6') and 1 (8'x10') prints of two women holding a plaque.
(FOLDER titled) "Father and Son Banquet"
Scope and Contents note:-2 (8'x10') prints of the award presentation and dinner.
(FOLDER titled) "Fulfillment Fund 1958-1959"
Scope and Contents note:-9 (8'x10') prints of workers at the Fulfillment Fund.
(FOLDER titled) "Health Club"
Scope and Contents note:-6 (3'x5'), 6 (8'x10') and 1 (4'x5') prints of men "workingout" in the gym.
(FOLDER titled) "Heritage Theater"
Scope and Contents note:-2 (5'x7'), 3 (4'x5') and 10 (8'x10') prints of performers in different productions.
(FOLDER titled) "Jewish Book Month"
Scope and Contents note:-2 (8'x10') Photographs of several children who were participants in the program?
(FOLDER titled) "Jewish Community Center Board 1964-1969"
Scope and Contents note:-1 (8'x10') print of the board of directors.
(FOLDER titled) "JWB Associates"
Scope and Contents note:-7 (8'x10') and 1 (5'x7') prints
These prints all show award presentations and an Associates dinner.
(FOLDER titled) "Junior High Activities"
Scope and Contents note:-1 (3'x4'), 5 (3'x3') and 26 (5'x6') prints.
These photographs show junior high age young people participating in swimming, pie-eating contests and acting in a play. The most interesting of these were the pie-eating photographs, because some of the facial expressions are great.
(FOLDER titled) "Long View Brochure"
Scope and Contents note:This folder includes two small portraits of V.M. Brucchieri and Bill Massof.
(FOLDER titled) "Modern Dance"
Scope and Contents note:-1 (8'x10') and 2 (3'x4') prints.
These photographs show various dancers in performances.
(FOLDER titled) "Orchestra"
Scope and Contents note:-12 (8'x10') prints showing members of the orchestra playing their instruments.
(FOLDER titled) "Ottenheimer Award"
Scope and Contents note:-1 (5'x7') and 3 (8'x10') prints showing the presentation of the award.
(FOLDER titled) "Physical Education"
Scope and Contents note:-22 (8'x10'), 2 (4'x5'), 1 (5'x6') and 1 (5'x8') prints
All of these photographs are sports related. Some of the sports covered are baseball, racquet ball, karate, basketball, swimming, etc.
(FOLDER titled) "Physical Education-Baseball"
Scope and Contents note:-2 (8'x10') and 4 (5'x7') prints of baseball.
(FOLDER titled) "Physical Education-Handball"
Scope and Contents note:-2 (8'x10') prints showing a handball game and trophy.
(FOLDER titled) "Physical Education-Squash"
Scope and Contents note:-1 (8'x10') print of a game.
(FOLDER titled) "Physical Education-Swimming"
Scope and Contents note:-1 (8'x10') print showing a swimming class.
(FOLDER titled) "Physical Education-Swimming (Neptune's Daughters)"
Scope and Contents note:-1 (3'x4') print of a water ballet group.
(FOLDER titled) "Physical Education-Tennis"
Scope and Contents note:-3 (8'x10'), and 1 (3'x4') prints.
All of the prints are of tennis players and a tennis class.
(FOLDER titled) "Physical Education-Volleyball"
Scope and Contents note:-4 (8'x10') prints showing a volleyball game in progress.
(FOLDER titled) "Pre-School", (mid-1960's)
Scope and Contents note:-16 (8'x10'), 1 (5'x7') and 24 (3'x3') prints.
All of these photographs show pre-school age children taking part in school activities. A large number show the children at a pool for a swimming class.
(FOLDER titled) "Purim"
Scope and Contents note:-1 (3'x3') print of children wearing masks for the Purim celebration.
(FOLDER titled) "Rabbis"
Scope and Contents note:-1 (8'x10') print of five Rabbis.
(FOLDER titled) "Radio Club 1963"
Scope and Contents note:-1 (3'x3') print of the radio club members.
(FOLDER titled) "Scouts, Boy"
Scope and Contents note:-1 (3'x5') print of the presentation of the tenderfoot badge.
(FOLDER titled) "Scouts, Club"
Scope and Contents note:-1 (8'x10') print showing the presentation of an award to an "Indian" chief.
(FOLDER titled) "Senior High"
Scope and Contents note:-11 (8'x10') and 4 (5'x7') prints
Most of these photographs show a school play being performed.
(FOLDER titled) "75th Anniversary Jewish Community Center-1965"
Scope and Contents note:-1 (5'x7') and 2 (8'x10') prints
Photographs include planning for the anniversary party and the actual party.
(FOLDER titled) "Social Dance Class"
Scope and Contents note:-1 (8'x10') print showing a dancing class.
(FOLDER titled) "Staff 1959"
Scope and Contents note:-4 (8'x10') prints showing various staff members of J.C.C.
(FOLDER titled) "Survey 1961"
Scope and Contents note:-1 (8'x10') print
This is a photograph of the men resposible for the community survey to find out what progress is being made by the Jewish Community Center...
(FOLDER titled) "T.A.B. (Teen Age Board)", 1962
Scope and Contents note:-1 (8'x10') print showing the T.A.B. meeting.
(FOLDER titled) "Teen Age"
Scope and Contents note:-2 (5'x7') and 3 (8'x10') prints.
All the photographs show teenage club activities.
(FOLDER titled) "United Appeal", 1961
Scope and Contents note:-1 (8'x10') photograph of people on a fire truck with a United Appeal sign.
(FOLDER titled) "V.I.P. Club 1961"
Scope and Contents note:-3 (5'x7') prints of individuals at a V.I.P. meeting.
(FOLDER titled) "Water Ballet"
Scope and Contents note:-3 (8'x10') prints of members of the water ballet team.
(FOLDER titled) "Miscellaneous Photographs"
Scope and Contents note:-3 (4'x6') and 34 (8'x10') prints.
The majority of these prints show presentations by board members of plaques, speeches, etc.
(FOLDER titled) "B'nai B'rith 1958-1959"
Scope and Contents note:-3 (8'x10') prints of the past presidents of B'nai B'rith.
(FOLDER titled) "B'nai B'rith Women"
Scope and Contents note:-1 (8'x10') group of five women.
(FOLDER titled) "B'nai B'rith Youth Organization 1962-1963"
Scope and Contents note:-18 prints, ranging in size from 1'x2' to 8'x10'.
The photographs include individual portraits and group shots of members.
(FOLDER titled) "Bureau of Jewish Education"
Scope and Contents note:-2 (7'x10') and 1 (3'x5', color) prints
These photographs show young people involved with the Bureau of Jewish Education.
(FOLDER titled) "Louisville Hebrew School"
Scope and Contents note:-1 (7'x10') print of 1970 graduates from the L.H.S.
(FOLDER titled) "United Jewish Campaign"
Scope and Contents note:-13 (8'x10') prints of the women who worked on the campaign.
(FOLDER titled) "United Jewish Campaign-Youth Division"
Scope and Contents note:-15 (8'x10') prints of the groups of youth involved.
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