Downtown Talmud Torah
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Brief Description: The collection relates to the Downtown Talmud Torah elementary and secondary afternoon Hebrew school, located on the Lower East Side of New York City.  The bulk of the collection is comprised of class yearbooks entitled The Graduate, or Hamesayem (in Hebrew) from the years 1951-1964.  Yearbooks include student compositions, poems, illustrations, class photos, and student directories, and are in English and in Hebrew.  Collection also includes a few fragmentary, typed, educational materials in Hebrew.
Held at:
YIVO Online Guide
Record Series Number: RG 1867/RG 1867
Volume: 0.0
Acquired: 09/28/2008.
Subject Index
Children
Education
Hebrew schools
Jewish education
Jewish educational publications
Jewish learning and scholarship
Jewish religious schools
Jewish schools
Jewish Students
Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)
New York (N.Y.)
Religious Life
Scholarship
Talmud Torahs
United States
Genres/Forms of Material
Documents - Poetry
Photographs
Yearbooks
Languages of Materials
English
Hebrew
Acquisition Notes: Mordechai Granit
Finding Aid Revisions: 2012/13/06 ; RCS
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