Fanny Fligelman Brin: Finding Aids : MNHS.ORG


	Creator:	Brin, Fanny Fligelman, 1884-1961, creator.
	Title:	Fanny F. Brin papers.
	Dates:	1896-1958.
	Language:	Materials in English.
	Abstract:	Correspondence, speeches, articles, reports, minutes, news releases, scrapbooks, printed materials, and related papers documenting Brin's involvement in social and political movements of the 1920s and 1930s.
	Quantity:	10.75 cubic feet (11 boxes and 1 oversize item).
	Location:	See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

Fanny Fligelman, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Fligelman, was born in Romania in 1884. In the year of her birth, the family moved to Minneapolis, where her father became a jeweler. She attended the University of Minnesota, distinguishing herself in oratory and debate. After graduation in 1906, she taught English in West High School, Minneapolis, and in Northfield. In 1913 she married Arthur Brin, a resident of Minneapolis since his removal to the city with his parents in 1881 when he was one year old. He became a civic leader, prominent in social and welfare agencies in Minneapolis and a member of both local and national Jewish groups. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Brin were Rachel (Mrs. Ralph Helstein), Howard and Charles

Throughout her long career, Mrs. Brin devoted her abundant talents to organizations that worked for peace, for Jewish welfare, and for the participation of woman in public affairs. As the detailed analysis of her papers following this sketch demonstrates, it would be difficult to separate completely into units the many facets of her career. In the National Council of Jewish Woman, for example, she served the cause of peace, the Jews and women. Through the National Council she participated in many peace organizations, such as the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War and the National Council for Prevention of War. Still other peace groups she joined as an individual, among them Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.

In her work for Jewish welfare, too, she divided her attention among many groups, and among organization operating on local, national and international levels. She was concerned, particularly, with the placement of European Jews uprooted by the persecutions of the 1930s. Her activities included providing scholarships and positions for German - Jewish scholars, bringing from Germany to the United States Jewish children, sending food and clothing to the needy, and promoting the cause of education in Palestine.

She served the cause of women’s rights to participate in public affairs in two ways: the commanding place she took in American - Jewish life through her abilities and dedication to work won recognition for her sex as well as for herself. Too, she participated in many groups formed particularly to consider the role of women, among them the Women’s Centennial Congress, the International Congress of Women, the International Assembly of Women, and the Committee on Women in World Affairs.

In the organizations she served, Mrs. Brin held many positions of responsibility. She was chairman of the National Council’s International Relations and Peace Committee as well as president of the organization. She was also chairman of the women’s section of the Minneapolis War Relief Committee, chairman of the Women’s Action Committee for Victory and Lasting Peace, an alternate consultant on the United States delegation to the United Nations conference in San Francisco, a worker with Carrie Chapman Catt of the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, a member of the board of governors of the Joint Canadian - American Women’s Committee on International Relations and chairman of the Minneapolis Committee for Service to Refugees.

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The papers consist of correspondence, reports, minutes, news releases, circular letters, posters, broadsides, pamphlets, newspaper clip pings, speeches, and articles. They have, in general, been organized within the framework of Mrs. Brin’s original filing system. The collection is divided into units of papers relating to the groups, with a few general files separated by subject matter. The sequence is based upon relativity of subject matter.

Mrs. Brin was especially active in the National Council of Jewish Women, of which she was president (1932-1937); the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War; women's organizations; and Jewish welfare and refugee groups in which her husband Arthur was also a leader. There is considerable material on Jewish refugee programs, Palestine, Zionism, and anti-Semitism, as well as on her work in antiwar groups, her opposition to compulsory military training, and her support of United States membership in the World Court and the United Nations, disarmament, and the participation of women in public affairs.

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These documents are organized into the following sections:



		Barbara Stuhler Interview
		The National Council of Jewish Women
		Organizations Working for Peace
		Women's Organizations
		Jewish Welfare
		Miscellaneous Files

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Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Fanny F. Brin Papers. Minnesota Historical Society.

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Accession Information:

Accession number: 9211; 12,709; 14,762

Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 990017174770104294

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Interview with Ruth and Howard Brin.

Notes by Barbara Stuhler on interview.

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Among the many organizations Mrs. Brin served, the National Council of Jewish Women is most amply represented in her papers. The Council, Mrs. Brin believed, had a vital role to play in the nation’s life. In an undated form letter appearing in her papers, she defined the role in these words: "The Jewish woman has great responsibilities in the Jewish American scene. What American Jewry will be a generation hence will depend greatly on what American Jewish women of this generation do. The National Council of Jewish Women is the organization which unites all of Jewish Womanhood in a program devoted to the problems of Jewry in America as affected by world conditions."

The National Council was founded by Mrs. Hannah G. Soloman of Chicago in 1893. It stemmed from the activities of a group of Jewish woman who worked to sponsor the World’s Parliament of Religions held in conjunction with the World’s Fair. Although many features in its organization changed through the years, it remained basically a confederation, with local sections coordinated by a national governing body. At times the national governing body took the initiative in sponsoring projects; at other times it became a service organization facilitating the sections’ work. But at all times the Council was a vital organization, changing to meet new challenges and problems in American-Jewish life.

Over the years the Council sponsored a broad program, often bewildering in its scope and association of disparate functions. Among them, according to a history dated April 14, 1933 appearing in the papers, were "Sunday Schools, nurseries, family welfare organizations, health and character building agencies and institutions for the mentally and physically handicapped, many of them taken over by public or semi-public community agencies."

One of the early programs of particular importance in American life was the Foreign Born Department, established in 1904 at the request of the United States government. The government’s concern was the activities of white-slave procurers and sweatshop operators, who prayed upon newly arrived immigrant women. The Council established a Port and Dock Department, representatives of which met incoming steamers at ports like New York and San Francisco. It investigated sweat shops, campaign for better working conditions, and conducted Americanization and naturalization classes. (The above is from a history of the Council, dated April 14, 1933, and the Council Woman, dated November, 1942).

In the period after World War I, when the United States enacted restrictive immigration laws affecting the Jews, the Council established an international service to work with Jewish organizations throughout the world in reuniting families and easing the tragedy of dislocations. When Adolf Hitler’s regime in the 1930s inaugurated new persecutions of the Jews, the Council stepped up its international work, participating in projects to bring Jewish children from Germany to the United States and aiding refugees in conjunction with other organizations.

One of the earliest of the Council’s programs, and one which is well represented in the papers, is peace. The interest began in 1898 when Hannah G. Solomon signed petition to President William McKinley asking for a peaceful settlement between the United States and Spain. The council then decided to make international relations one of its fields of study. In 1908 it established a Committee on Peace and Arbitration. Working with other organizations dedicated to peace, it advocated entrance of the United States into the World Court and the League of Nations. A survey of Council activity in 1930 "revealed that more Sections were engaged in peace work than in any other Council activity." (From a history of the National Committee on International Relations and Peace dated August, 1941, in the papers).

Although aspects of the Council’s peace work changed through the years, the organization held firmly to its philosophy expressed in a resolution passed in 1923: "that war shall be abolished as an institution for the settlement of international disputes and it shall be outlawed by international agreement." In an undated resolution, the Committee on International Relations and Peace made the Council’s stand even more explicit. "The need of our time," read the resolution, "is to extend, coordinate, and perfect world instrumentalities which will create those conditions under which democracy and civilization itself can survive. But government on an international level cannot be achieved without the full participation of the United States."

After World War II, the Council held firm in this belief. As it had supported the cause of the Leagues of Nations at an earlier time, it advocated the cause of the United Nations and world-wide cooperation for peace in the 1940s and 1950s.

Mrs. Brin’s papers relating to the National Council are divided into two sections: The first, titled Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers, is arranged chronologically. It includes letters, reports, resolutions, minutes, news releases and publications issued by or received by the Council. The second section is composed of papers relating to the Triennial Conventions, grouped by Convention year, and including convention calls, programs, speeches, correspondence, clippings, and proceedings.

First in the Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers section is an undated file, covering many of the subjects dealt with in the dated papers that follow. There is information on preparations for Triennial Conventions and other conferences; the careers of Mrs. Brin and Hannah G. Solomon; Mrs. Brin’s work as chairman of the Committee on International Relations and Peace and as president of the National Council; organization of the Council into committees and relationships of the central governing body with the sections; Council’s work with other organizations working for peace, such as the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, the National Council for Prevention of War, the Canadian America Women’s Joint Committee on International Relations; support of United States membership in the Permanent Court of International Justice, the League of Nations and the United Nations; the attitudes of Senators Henrik Shipstead and Thomas Schall on international issues; advocacy of universal disarmament; opposition to compulsory military training in civil institutions and land-grant colleges; advocacy of reciprocal trade agreements; support for the Pact of Paris; aid to refugees fleeing from persecution in Germany; cooperation with German-Jewish Children’s Aid, Inc., in bringing German Jewish children to the United States; cooperation with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in aiding the Jews; support of Hebrew University in Palestine; attitudes towards the Palestine question; and a review of the Council’s work with the foreign born.

Undated, 1918-1926

The dated papers in the Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers cover the years from 1918 through 1958. From 1918 to 1932 they deal almost entirely with peace. There is in 1918 a memorial to Nina Morais Cohen (Mrs. Emanuel Cohen, 1855-1918), a Minneapolis civic leader who participated in the organization of the National Council of Jewish Women; and in 1920 there is a Plan of Work issued by the Committee on Peace and Arbitration of the Council.

The file becomes fuller in 1921, and it includes the correspondence of Gertrude Feibleman, Indianapolis, appointed in that year chairman of the Committee on Peace and Arbitration. There is information on her cooperation with other peace groups in preparing the nation for a conference to limit armaments and on the groups' attempts to influence the choice of delegated representing the United States at the conference. Among the groups, in addition to the National Council, interested in the conference were the Women’s Committee for World Disarmament (Washington, D.C.), American Union Against Militarism (Washington, D.C.), National Council of Women, National League of Women Voters, and National Conference for Reduction of Armament. In addition to her work on sponsoring the conference, Miss Feilbleman urged local sections of the National Council to organize committees on Peace and Arbitration and write to the President of the United States, the Secretary of State and Congress about the need for disarmament. Through the peace committee of the Minneapolis section, Mrs. Brin, too, worked for disarmament. In appealing for support, she corresponded with Minnesota’s congressional delegation, including Knute Nelson, Thomas D. Schall, Andrew J. Volstead, Walter D. Newton, and Frank B. Kellogg.

In 1922 there is a continuation of the National Committee on Peace and Arbitration’s work toward a disarmament conference and in sponsoring “"No More War" demonstrations.

In 1923 the correspondence of Miss Feibleman as chairman of the Committee on Peace and Arbitration continues. There is data on the coordination of peace work between the National Council and the sections; a campaign of the National Council undertaken in conjunction with the National Council for the Prevention of War for observance of "Law - - Not War" days on July 28 and 29, anniversary of the outbreak of World War I; cooperation with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in protesting against military intervention by the United States in the Middle East; the Council’s attempt to urge the President of the United States to bring the nation into the World Court. The Council, too, in the year declared "it to be our conviction that war should be abolished as an institution for the settlement of international disputes and should be outlawed by international agreement..."

In 1924 the National Council appointed Mrs. Brin as chairman of the Committee on Peace and Arbitration, succeeding Miss Feibleman. There is a great deal of data on the routine for operating the committee, including instructions issued by the National Council. There is information, too, on plans for world peace submitted to the American Peace Award, the relationship between the National Council and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; Mrs. Brin’s attendance at the League's convention; the Conference on the Cause and Cure of War called by Carrie Chapman Catt; cooperation with the National Council for Prevention of War in promoting "No More War" days; sponsorship of "Study Peace Week"; and protests against "Defense" or "Mobilization" Day. Among Mrs. Brin's correspondents is Rose Brenner, president of the National Council of Jewish Women.

The file in 1925 continues the chronicle of Mrs. Brin's work as chairman of the Committee. Her correspondence with the National Council's president and executive secretary has data on the Committee's operation and finances; a Conference on the Cause and Cure of War; formation of the League of Nations Association of Japan; objections to making Armistice Day a military celebration; promotion of a conference for reduction of armaments and outlawing war; and as always, advocacy of the World Court.

Most of the 1926 file consists of communications between Mrs. Brin and the National Council, through its executive secretary. There is data, again, on the World Court; proposals of a stamp bearing a peace legend; proposals for a peace exhibit; cooperation with the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War in planning a conferences; a poison gas resolution sponsored by the National Council; and the death of Rose Brenner, Council president.

1927-1933

In 1927 there is data on the World Court; the poison gas resolution; compulsory military training; the agenda for the meeting of the National Council's Board of Managers; the Conference on the Cause and Cure of War; plan for international peace; opinions on the Coolidge Administration's China policy; opinions on the dangers of restoring diplomatic relations with Mexico; and Mrs. Brin's "action programs" outlined for her committee.

In 1928 the papers have data on the routine functioning of Mrs. Brin's committee; the World Court; a proposed Anglo-American Arbitration Treaty; the Conference on the Cause and Cure of War; the National Arbitration Crusade; cooperation with the National Council for Prevention of War; the Pact of Paris; Mrs. Brin's appeal to Senators Shipstead and Schall to support measures limiting armaments; and Shipstead's reply, stating his position in regard to armaments, the World Court and the League of Nations. There is, too, "Copy of Brief Submitted by the United States Government to the Supreme Court of the United States in the Case of the United States... vs. Rosika Schwimmer." Madame Schwimmer was denied citizenship because she refused to kill on behalf of the United States.

The files for 1929-1931 are brief. There is data concerning the conferences on the Cause and Cure of War; plans for celebration of "Pact Day"; proposals for reorganizing the National Council; and regrets that Mrs. Brin has given up the chairmanship of the Committee on Peace and Arbitration.

In 1932, with the election of Mrs. Brin as President of the National Council, the scope of the papers enlarges to encompass her new duties. There is data on the routine of running the organization, such as committee appointments, salaries, staff, and meetings; the appointment of Blanche B. Goldman (Mrs. Maurice L. Goldman) as chairman of the executive committee; the reorganization of the National Council; congratulations offered Mrs. Brin by Hannah G. Solomon, Carrie Chapman Catt and others; the honoring of Mrs. Solomon by the Council; relations between the National Council and the sections; preparations for the Triennial Convention; services of the National Council to the foreign born; encouragement by the Council to the Republicans and Democrats to put a peace plank in their platforms; advocacy of the World Court; request to the Council to give aid to workers in the bituminous coal fields; observance of the signing of the Pact of Paris; coordination between the National Council and the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War; the 1932 Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments in Geneva; and proposals for a World Jewish Congress.

In 1933 the character of the papers in much the same is in 1932. There is data on the administration of the National Council under Mrs. Brin's presidency-budgets, dues, membership, staff work, relationship between the National Council and the sections; the problems and effects of reorganization, the increased field service given to sections with the appointment of Cecelia Razovsky as Field Counselor, meetings, and the honoring of Hannah G. Solomon (seemingly and annual event). The persecution of the Jews in Germany stimulated increased attention to the immediate problem of helping the sufferers and in examining the relationship of Jews to the problem. There are in the 1933 file "Confidential Reports" on the condition of the Jews in the Germany prepared by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. There is, too, data on the appointment of a Council committee to wait upon President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull to request them "to make proper representations to the German Government protesting against it's attack on human rights"; work of the World Organization of Jewish Women; National Council's participation in the plan to bring German-Jewish children to the United States; the work of Carrie Chapman Catt as chairman of the Protest Committee of Non-Jewish Women Against the Persecution of Jews in Germany; the work of the American Jewish Committee; the American Jewish Congress and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (the latter "is the only authoritative agency collecting funds for actual relief for the Jews in Germany."); and the work of the Pioneer Women’s Organization for Palestine. In the midst of the concern for the German Jews, however, the National Council continued to work for peace. There is data on the observance of Peace Pact Day; opposition to naval construction and other armaments; opposition to Congressional appropriations to care vagrant boys in Citizens Military Training Camps; and the Council’s participation in the Conference on the Cause and Cure of War.

1934-1938

The emphasis in 1934 is again on assisting the Jews and on programs for promoting peace. There is, in the segments relating to Jewish affairs, data on the combination of the Jewish Agency for Palestine and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee into the United Jewish Appeal (The Council supported the program. "The fund raised...will provide among other things, for the settlement and care of Jewish children in Palestine and the Jewish children in Germany and refugee countries."); formation of German Jewish Children’s Aid, Inc., chartered in New York by eight cooperating agencies, the Council among them, to bring German-Jewish children to the United States; consideration of the United States; immigration policy as it affected German Jews; work of the National Emergency Campaign for Settlement of German Jews in Palestine; circulation of a list of speakers on the situation in Germany "who are very effective in creating a sound public opinion on this subject"; and formation by the National Council of a "Committee of One Thousand" to combat anti-Semitism. In the realm of the Council’s peace work, there is data on an appeal to the Council by the French Section of the International League for Peace of Mothers and Educators; opposition by the Council to the "Vinson Naval Building Program"; investigation advocated by Senator Gerald P. Nye of the munitions and armament industries and the Council's approval of the move; continued advocacy of the World Court; cooperation with the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, the Committee on Militarism in Education, the American League Against War and Fascism, the World Alliance for International Friendship and other organization working for peace. Also included is information on the selection of Mrs. Brin by Mrs. Catt as one of the ten outstanding women in the nation; the honoring of Mrs. Solomon on her birthday; advocacy by the Council of legislation in Congress "which seeks to protect the health of the consumer by removing improper advertising on food and cosmetics."

In 1935 there is a continued emphasis (still under Mrs. Brin's presidency) on relief for the Jews and on peace. There is data on the project of bringing Jewish children from Germany to the United States; the work of the American Friends of the Hebrew University; the resolution at the Triennial Convention that "the Council undertake work for the German refugees, especially as it concerns women and girls...."; and cooperation with the National Coordinating Committee for Aid to Refugees and Emigrants Coming from Germany. (Note that there is more information on this subject in the Refugee files). In the Council's work on peace, there is data on cooperation with the National Council for the Prevention of War and appointment of delegates to the Conference on the Cause and Cure of War. The 1935 file includes too, congratulations to Mrs. Brin on the honor Mrs. Catt accorded her and on her reelection as president of the National Council of Jewish Women.

There is a great deal of repetition in the files for 1936 and 1937 here summarized together. There is data on the National Council's programs for dealing with Jewish education for the pre-school child, social legislation, service to immigrants, contemporary Jewish affairs and peace; a scholarship the Brins established through the National Council at Hebrew University; the project of bringing Jewish children from Germany to the United States; cooperation with other organizations working for peace; conference with the Canadian Division of the Council in Winnipeg; opposition to compulsory military training in civil educational institutions; celebration (1937) of the Council's 44th anniversary; and messaged to Mrs. Brin from Hannah G. Solomon and Carrie Chapman Catt in response to her attentions to them.

In 1938 Mrs. Brin, no longer president of the National Council, again became chairman of the committee working for peace, now named the Committee on International Relations and Peace. In the areas of the committee's work, there is data on cooperation with the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War; differences in policy between the National Council of Jewish Women and the National Council for Prevention of War; relationship of the Council with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the Committee To Keep America Out of War. Combined with the intensive concentration on peace is the growing uneasiness of Jews in the peace movement who fear Hitler's military success will spread the area of persecution. There is additional data on the German-Jewish children project, particularly on the efforts of the National Council's Minneapolis Section to participate in the program. There is information also on the awarding of the Brin scholarship at Hebrew University; and Mr. and Mrs. Brin's trip abroad with the Sherwood Eddy Group.

1939-1943

In 1939 there is data on suggested programs for social welfare in the sections; the activities of committees on contemporary Jewish affairs; ways and means, legislation, children's aid, executive, international relations and peace, and membership; cooperation of the National Council with the National Peace Conference, the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, the Committee on Militarism in Education, the Women's Joint Congressional Committee and the Pan Pacific Women's Organization. There is data, too, on attitudes toward the Neutrality Act, the boycott of Japanese goods, Senate ratification of trade agreements, and civil liberties. When World War II broke out, Mrs. Brin's committee studied its program in light of the failure of its best hope for the world. It then stressed the following points in its programs: that America keep out of war; that everything possible be done to check aggression; that the National Council work toward a world organization; that it strive to make democracy work and maintain civil liberties; and that it "bend every effort toward the development of better relations in the Americas."

In 1940 there is information on topics for speakers recommended by the National Council; trade agreements; the boycott as an instrument in international relations; a proposed World Economic Conference; the case for a war referendum; neutrality in World War II; world organization proposals; the World Court; the International Labor Organization; national defense policies; relations with Japan; aid to the Allies; compulsory military conscription; proposed peace planks for the nation's political parties; the American Committee for Non-Participation in Japanese Aggression, New York; cooperation with the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War and the Committee on Militarism in Education; meeting of the National Peace Conference; and inquiries made to the sections on their programs on international relations and peace. In the midst of projects looking to preserving peace and sponsoring world organization in the face of war, the plight of the Jews in Germany was not forgotten, and included in the 1940 file are additional reports of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

In the 1941 file is information on the reaction of peace organizations to the entry of the United States into the war; study course s titled "Roads to a Durable Peace" and "Plans for a Democratic Victory"; the Commission to Study the Organization of Peace; the National Peace Conference; the World Court; the Lend-Lease Bill; the Neutrality Act; the reorganization of the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War into the Women's Action Committee for Peace and Lasting Victory; the International Relations Digest issued by Mrs. Brin's committee; and legislation of interest to the National Council enacted or considered by the 66th Congress.

The 1942 file contains data on the death of Hannah G. Solomon; the position of a "peace" committee in time of war; a study pamphlet titled "World Trace – The Tie That Binds" issued by Mrs. Brin's committee; "International relations Workbook" and "Plans for a Democratic Victory" issued by Mrs. Brin's committee; the International Relations Digest; the National Peace Conference; protection of the rights of Japanese located in American detention camps; and the First Joint Conference of Women's Council on International Relations of Canada, held in Ottawa.

The 1943 file has further information on the reorganization of the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War into the Women's Action Committee for Victory and Lasting Peace. The National Council of Jewish Women was the first organization to join the new group. There is data on the cooperation of the National Council with this new organization as well as with the Pan-Pacific Women's Association, the National Peace Conference, the Canadian American Committee, the Women's Joint Congressional Committee, and others. There is information, too, on publication of the International Relations Digest; the conference of the Joint American-Canadian Women's Committee on International Relations; and study programs launched by Mrs. Brin's committee. International organization occupied some attention of the group, particularly formation of a Committee for the Membership of Women in Policy-Shaping Agencies in the Present and Post War World and campaigns for "winning the peace" through world organization.

1944-1958

The files for the years from 1944 through 1958 are brief. There is data on the United Nations Conference in San Francisco which Mrs. Brin attended as representative of the Council and other organizations; the appointment of Mrs. Brin to the "core committee" headed by Clark Eichelberger of the American Association for the United Nations; the United Nations charter; the Council's position on the Palestine question; education in Palestine; the control of atomic energy; policies toward Spain; social legislation; the Council's overseas program for aiding women and children in rehabilitation; Jewish education; and the Korean War.

In addition to the documents created or collected in her work with the National Council of Jewish Women, Mrs. Brin kept files on other organizations dedicated to the cause of peace. There is some overlapping among these files and the National Council section.

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Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, undated and 1918-October 1935.

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Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, November 1935-1946, 1948-1951.

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Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, 1955, 1958.

Convention papers, 1926, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1938, 1940, 1943, 1946.

Includes Triennial Convention bylaw revisions, minutes, programs, agendas, news releases, addresses and remarks, speeches, calls to convention, organizational charts, resolutions, committee reports and memoranda, financial reports, national affiliation lists of the Council, program reviews, radio programs and plays, and news clippings.

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National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War and Women's Action Committee:

The organization was formed in 1926 by Carrie Chapman Catt, formerly a leader in the women suffrage movement and in 1923 speaker on peace before the National Council of Jewish Women. To further the peace work of leading women's groups in the nation, she called a conference of eight of them, among them the National Council of Jewish Women. The others who answered the call to form a group consisting of organizations, not individual members, were the American Association of University Women, the Council of Women for Home Missions, the Federation of Woman's Board of Foreign Missions of North America, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the National Board of Young Women's Christian Associations, the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs; the National League of Women Voters, the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the National Women's Trade Union League.

The aim of the National Committee, expressed often in its term of life from 1926 to 1943, was three fold: To maintain faith in and work for world in which responsibility will be accepted by individuals and governments for developing social, economic and political relationships which will make war obsolete; to clarify thinking on current issues in their relations to this ultimate goal; to develop an informed and alert public opinion which will effectively support the constructive and democratic forces of government in the conduct of foreign policy to this end.

"The policy of the National Committee," it stated, "...is to further this three fold aim by providing a method of consultation, of coordination and of mutual aid in the carrying out of joint projects among the national women’s organizations which are concerned with the promotion of international understanding and cooperation."

The National Committee, functioning through meetings and annual conferences, functioned to the satisfaction of the member organizations until the advent of World War II. Distressed by the position of a peace organization in time of war, the members considered various methods of reorganization, and for a time, entertained the thought of dissolution. In 1943, as a compromise with reality, the members formed the Women's Action Committee for Victory and Lasting Peace. The aim, endorsed on the new group's letterhead, was "To unite American women to work for full participation by the United States in international efforts to build a world of peace and justice under law." Although the new group consisted of individual members as well as organizations and espoused causes popular in the country, such as the United Nations, its life was brief. It was dissolved in 1949, the final dissolution of the organization Mrs. Catt began in 1926.

Mrs. Brin served both organizations in various capacities. She was chairman of the Minnesota Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, a delegate to the annual conferences representing the National Council of Jewish Women, a vice chairman of the Women's Action Committee for Victory and Lasting Peace, and a member of its executive committee. Her files consist of correspondence and miscellaneous papers, arranged chronologically and dating from 1928 through 1949, and papers relating to the annual conferences, arranged by conference number and date.

The Correspondence and miscellaneous papers include data on the history of the organizations, from which the above sketch was drawn; the relationship between the National Committee and member organizations; Mrs. Catt's leadership in the National Committee's work; the annual conferences the National Committee sponsored and the conventions and other meetings the Women's Action Committee sponsored; round tables, lectures, and other activities directed toward education for peace; proposed "international" and "peace" planks recommended to the nation's political parties; campaigns for writing Congressman, requesting action; the National Committee and Women's Action Committee recommendations on various issues affecting the World Court, the United Nations, disarmament, arbitration, and peace; publications issued by the groups; finances; fund raising; the Palestine question; support of the European Recovery Program, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the International Bank and Monetary Fund, the International Labor Organization, the Women's Committee on International Relations (Canada); reorganization details on the renovation of the National Committee into the Women's Action Committee; the work of the Minnesota Committee on the Cause and Cure of War; and statements on control of atomic energy.

Of specific interest are the following; a letter, November 26, 1928, from Governor Theodore Christianson to Mrs. Brin regarding her work on peace and regarding their classmates ("Your effective interest in behalf of the abolition of war has come to my attention and I want to assure you that I am entirely in sympathy with this exceedingly worth-while movement."); Report of Interview of Mr. Elihu Root with Representatives of the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War" dealing with the World Court (1929); and a tribute to Emily Hickman (1880-1947), who devoted her life to international peace.

The papers relating to the individual conferences (1928-1940 and the Joint Conference of the Women's Council on International Relations of Canada and the National Council on the Cause and Cure of War in Ottawa, 1942) include calls to conferences, programs, resolutions, proceedings speeches, notes, publications, minutes, messages and correspondence. The files vary a great deal in completeness. Some have only a program, while others include all or most of the types of material listed above.

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, undated and 1928-1949.

Conferences on the Cause and Cure of War, 1928-1932.

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Conferences on the Cause and Cure of War, 1933-1940, 1942.

National Council for Prevention of War: Miscellaneous papers, undated and 1920-1938.

The National Council of Jewish Women worked very closely with this group for a time. The executive secretary throughout most, if not all, of this period was Frederick J. Libby. Mrs. Brin's file on the group consists of publications, broadsides, posters, news releases, sermons, minutes, cards illustrating peace themes, and materials issued by the organization for the use of local peace committees, schools, and churches. The file, arranged chronologically, data from 1920 through 1938. Included is information on the following subjects: arbitration with Mexico; the World Court; the Pact of Paris; compulsory military drill; the National Council’s educational program; peace activities of other organizations; peace planks in American political party platforms; legislation promoting peace; magazines promoting peace; peace hymns; the "Reconciliation Encyclical" of Pope Benedict XV; disarmament; poison gas, lethal rays, germ warfare, pilotless bombing planes and other threats to human existence unleashed by war; conferences; the League of Nations; attacks by army officers against the National Council (officers accused the council of being tool of Soviet Russia); the Council’s opposition to Defense Day.

Committee on Militarism in Education: Miscellaneous papers, undated and 1926-1940.

The papers consist of posters, broadsides, publications and mimeographed literature the group distributed. They range in data from 1926 through 1940, and they are arranged chronologically. There is data on compulsory military training in the University of Minnesota and other schools in the nation; publications relating to the problem; the work of other organizations opposing compulsory military training; biographical data on E. Raymond Wilson, secretary of the Committee; disarmament; romanticizing war and military training; promotion of action to influence Congress against making appropriations for armaments.

American Union Against Militarism, undated and 1917-1921.

The file Mrs. Brin gathered consists of miscellaneous papers and includes broadsides, bulletins and other publications issued by the organization. There is data on dangers to democracy posed by universal military training; opposition to military training in the schools; the role of the conscientious objector; promotion of action to keep the United States out of World War I; promotion of disarmament; and analyses of the monetary cost of war.

National Council Against Conscription: Miscellaneous papers, 1946-1955.

A small file kept by Mrs. Brin on a group that worked against conscription. The publications and mimeographed releases urged influencing Congressman to vote against any form of conscription; dealt with the question of "The Peace Offensive and the Cold War"; gave "the Facts About the Pentagon's New Conscription Plans"; and revealed the testimony of military reserve groups on the "Compulsory Reserve-UMT Bill."

Miscellaneous files on compulsory military training, undated, 1896, 1916, 1921-1946.

The file focuses on several aspects of conscription and compulsory military training in the schools. Mrs. Brin was evidently very much concerned about the problem, and continued her interest through various organizations not mentioned above throughout many years. The first item in the file is a reprint (1896) from the Proceedings of the National Educational Association, titled "Should We Have Military Training in the Schools?", an article authored by Dr. D. A. Sargent. The second early item is a leaflet (1916) by Nathan C. Schaeffer, titled "Military Training in Schools." Then follow correspondence and other papers documenting Mrs. Brin's work with or contact with the War Resisters' League (New York); the Minneapolis Committee of Affiliated Groups For the Elimination of Military Training from the Minneapolis High Schools; the State Committee in Behalf of Elective Drill in the University of Minnesota; the Anti-Compulsory Military Drill League, University of Minnesota; and the Minnesota Committee to Oppose Peacetime Military Conscription. In the course of her work with these groups, Mrs. Brin, too, had correspondence with the Committee on Militarism in Education.

Target for opposition in the 1920s was the program of military drill the Minneapolis high schools inaugurated in 1917 and in 1918 made a part of academic work, though optional. The Minneapolis Committee of Affiliated Groups was organized in 1922, and Mrs. Brin served as secretary of the group.

The other organizations worked to eliminate compulsory military drill at the University of Minnesota. They opposed as well the alternative plan advanced by E. M. Freeman, Dean of the College of Agriculture, University of Minnesota. Instead of compulsory military drill, Dean Freeman advocated that the "various professional and academic fields of the University should offer courses with special emphasis upon their military uses and value, presumably under instructors appointed or approved by the War Department and with the financial aid of that Department;" that "Civilian teachers should be persuaded to point out the military uses of their work....;" that the "college should offer courses in citizenship that would prepare students to understand the problems of their country in peace and war." (The above quoted material is from a circular detailing the plan, not from Freeman himself). Mrs. Brin mobilized groups to oppose the Freeman Plan. "To many of us," she wrote, "this seems to be a much more dangerous penetration of the military department into a civil educational institution than the form of training we now have."

Incidental in the file is data on the steps other schools took to solve the problem, particularly the University of Iowa, Iowa State College, and Cornell University. There is, too, data, on Mrs. Catt's opinion on the Minnesota problem, proposed legislation eliminating compulsory military training, and in the late 1930s and 1940s objections to conscription.

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom:

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to this organization date from 1922 through 1940. Evolving from the Women's Peace Party and the Women's International Committee for Permanent Peace, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was formed in 1919, with Jane Adams as international president. The papers relating to the League have data on the history of conscription in the United States; international and national meetings of the group; free trade; the League of Nations as an instrument for world peace; proposals for international organization; activities of sections of the League in other parts of the world; the deportation of persons accused of being "reds"; compulsory military training; the recognition of Russia; education for peace; relief measures for countries afflicted with famine; renunciation of peace treaties; advocacy of the World Court; disarmament; protection of minorities; the monetary cost of war; imperialism; and accusations against the League of being a communistic organization in purpose or sympathy.

Undated.

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Women's Peace Party, undated, 1915, 1917.

One of the forerunners of the Women's International League was the Women's Peace Party, organized in 1915, and represented in Mrs. Brin's papers by a slender file of miscellaneous publication. The items are as follows: program, The Trojan Woman of Euripides, sponsored by the Party as the "most poignant and the most beautiful illustration of war's utter futility and unmitigated evil"; An Interesting Comparison of resolutions adopted at the International Congress of Women at the Hague in 1915 and President Wilson's address to the Senate in 1917; A Group of Letters from Women of the Warring Nations, reprinted by the Party; Addresses Given at the Organization Conference of the Woman's Peace Party, Washington, D.C. (Carrie Chapman Catt president); Preamble and Platform adopted in 1915: "WE, OF THE UNITED STATES, assembled in behalf of World Peace, grateful for the security of our own country, but sorrowing for the misery of all involved in the present struggle among warring nations, do hereby band ourselves together to demand that war be abolished;" A Statement of Information and Explanation issued in 1915; Call to the Woman of All Nations to an International Congress of Women and the response of the Party (1915); Four Lights And Adventure in Internationalism enunciating principles of the Party (1917). The party, in general, subscribed to many of the same principles later organizations did: education for peace, limitation of armaments; opposition to militarism; and international organization.

Minneapolis Committee for World Disarmament, undated, 1929, 1931.

The file, containing correspondence and miscellaneous papers, was created when Mrs. Brin served as chairman of arrangements for the organization. The group was formed in 1931 in response to a call by The World Tomorrow for cities in the United States to hold disarmament mass meetings. The journal, which aspired to have meetings held in 200 cities, envisioned the movement as a preparation of public opinion for the international conference on disarmament scheduled in Geneva for February, 1932. Mrs. Brin mobilized civic, educational and religious groups in Minneapolis to work under the chairmanship of Guy Stanton Ford. Other Minneapolitans who with Mrs. Brin and Ford were leaders in the movement were David Bryn-Jones, Gratia Countryman, Mrs. Elbert Carpenter, E. G. Hall, and J. M. Reardon. At the meeting held on October 26, 1931, in the Minneapolis Auditorium, the program consisted of speeches by William E. Sweet, former governor of Colorado, and E. J. Garland, M. P., Alberta, Canada. Most of the papers document the Minneapolis meeting described above. A few, however, contain data on meetings in other cities of the United States.

Women's Committee for World Disarmament, 1921.

Mimeographed bulletins issued by the Women's Committee for World Disarmament and the Minnesota Branch, dated, 1921, contain data on preparations for the Washington Conference on Disarmament. There is information on the groups' attitude toward the delegation appointed to represent the United States; the desire to have a woman include in the delegation; the need to consider the conference a meeting to achieve disarmament rather than a limitation of arms; poison gas as a horror of war; and suggestions to groups and local units of the group for programs of action, including measures to combat anti-Japanese propaganda. Mrs. Brin was a member of the first board of directors of the Minnesota Branch.

Peace and Disarmament Committee, 1937-1938.

Press releases of a Committee organized in 1931. There is data on a meeting of the Committee in Copenhagen; world problems such as Danzig, Spain, the German demand for colonies; the pros and cons of the League of Nations; the bombardment of open cities; the plight of refugees from war; and the increase of anti-Semitism that came with German victory in Austria.

American Section of the Canadian-American Committee on International Relations, undated.

"Standing Rules" and minutes (one meeting) of a group formed to develop "mutual appreciation and continuing co-operation between the peoples and governments of our two countries, through increased knowledge." It is not known what position Mrs. Brin held in the organization.

National Peace Conference, 1938, 1945-1946.

In some ways the National Peace Conference is similar to the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War. Composed of member organizations, at times numbering as many as forty, it had as its aim "not to diminish the activity of any of the constituent agencies but to united their voices, when they can be united, into a single expression of the best thought of the peace movement of the nation." The broadsides and miscellaneous publications define the purposes of the group thus; keep the United States out of war; secure the cooperation of the United States with other governments in creating world government; strengthen institutions of American democracy; and promote inter-American solidarity. It apposed conscription in peacetime and universal military training, and advocated "economic and military disarmament."

World Peace Foundation, 1922-1923, 1928.

A small file of publications of a group established in 1910 "for the purpose of educating the people of all nations to a full knowledge of the waste and destructiveness of war, its evil effects on present social conditions and on the well-being of future generations, and to promote international justice and the brotherhood of man...." The publications are A League of Nations, Chart of the League of Nations and the Permanent Court of International Justice, and The Future of Sea Power in the Pacific by Walter Millis.

World Youth Congress, 1938.

A program, and other items relating to a World Youth Congress held at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, to discuss the political organization for peace, the economic organization for peace, the Economic and cultural status of youth and it's relation to peace and the ethical and philosophical bases of peace.

American Youth Congress, 1939.

A small file of publications outlining readings and activities for youth leaders working for peace.

America First Committee, undated, 1941.

Miscellaneous publications of a group that maintained "the welfare of one hundred thirty million Americans and the preservation of democracy on this continent demand that the United States keep out of foreign wars."

Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, undated, 1940, 1945, 1946.

The small file of miscellaneous publications has details on the Commission's proposals for world organization, its support of the United Nations, its stand on questions such as the international trusteeship system, and control of atomic energy.

United Nations Organization: Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, undated, 1943-1955.

Correspondence, posters and miscellaneous papers concerning the United Nations. There is data on the American Association for the United Nations, Inc., and the United Nations Youth, an organization it sponsored; the Minnesota United Nations Committee (Mrs. Brin was the Chairman); the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration; the Citizens Council for the United Nations; the United Nations charter compared with that of the League of Nations; the study of the United Nations in the Minneapolis public schools and Mrs. Brin's role in promoting the project; control of atomic energy, United Nations Rallies; support of the United Nations of Women's Action Committee and other groups; consideration of the Palestine question.

Peace: General, miscellaneous papers:

Miscellaneous materials relating to peace Mrs. Brin collected, but which do not fit into any of the above groups. The files date from 1915 to 1954. Many groups on which Mrs. Brin did not keep a separate file are included, as is a great deal of material not identified by organization. There is a data on the World Court, Pact of Paris, militarism, famine and suffering in war countries, the I.W.W., the rights of political prisoners, disarmament, movements to keep America out of war, struggles of the Irish Republic, conscription, war profits, League of Nations, the United Nations, peace education, National Defense Day, Rosika Schwimmer, and control of atomic energy.

Undated, 1915-1929.

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Women's Centennial Congress, 1939-1940.

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of a Congress called by the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Mrs. Brin was one of the sponsors of the meeting held in New York in 1940, and Carrie Chapman Catt issued the call. The purpose of the Congress was to demonstrate the achievements of women in the past century, and to analyze the problems still existing. The four fields investigated were economic and social welfare, government and politics, ethical and religious values, and world organization.

National Woman Suffrage Association, undated, 1902-1915.

Miscellaneous publications, including broadsides, issued by the Association. Carrie Chapman Catt is the author of some of them

International Congress of Women, 1932-1933.

Miscellaneous papers documenting a congress held in Chicago in 1933 during the Century of Progress Exposition. The discussions, in which Mrs. Brin took part, focused on the common cause that united women throughout the world - - civilization. "Technology has created for us our House of Plenty," read a prospectus. "It is a challenge of the women of the world to find the keys through governmental and economic planning which will admit us to that House of Plenty."

International Assembly of Women, 1946.

A small file of correspondence and publications regarding the Assembly held in New York in 1946 to consider "The World We Live In, The World We Want." Mrs. Brin was one of the sponsors.

Committee on Women in World Affairs, undated, 1944-1946.

Correspondence and publications relating to an organization which had as its objective the appointment of women to key positions in government and public affairs. Preceding the Committee on Women in World Affairs was the Committee on Participation of Women in Post War Planning. Among the papers are lists of women recommended for appointments, among them Mrs. Arthur Brin.

Women's Northwest Conference on Current Problems, 1933-1936.

Newspaper clippings, correspondence and programs relating to three conferences held in Minneapolis and sponsored by the Minneapolis Journal in 1934, 1935, and 1936. Mrs. Brin served on the committee that organized and managed the conferences.

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American Jewish Committee, undated, 1921-1939.

Publications of the Committee including The "Protocols"; Bolshevism and the Jews; Statement by Henry Ford; The Jews in Nazi Germany; and Bulletins. The Committee was organized in 1906 "to prevent the infraction of the civil and religious rights of Jews in all parts of the world; to render all lawful assistance and to take appropriate remedial action in the event of threatened or actual invasion or restriction of such rights, or of unfavorable discrimination with respect thereto; to secure for Jews equality of economic, social and educational opportunity; to alleviate the consequences of persecution and to afford relief from calamities affecting Jews wherever they may occur." (From The "Protocols" cited above.

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, undated, 1918-1937.

Miscellaneous papers including the following publications: Conditions of the Jews in Poland; the Bulletin; The New Exodus: The story of the historic movement of Russian Jewry Back to the Soil by David A. Brown; Reports (including financial on monies collected and distributed); Founding A New Life for Suffering Thousands, by Dr. Joseph A. Rosen (Russian colonization); How the Back-to-the-Soil Movement Began, by James N. Rosenberg (Russian colonization); Keeping Alight the Torch of Israel, by Jacob Billikopf; Oppressed No Longer But Not Yet Free, by David M. Bressler; and Jewish Constructive Work in Germany in 1936. There are papers, too, correspondence for the most part, on Supplies for Overseas Survivors, all dated 1946 or undated.

Coughlin, Charles E. undated, 1938-1940.

Publications collected by Mrs. Brin regarding Father Coughlin's attacks on the Jews and regarding refutations of those attacks. They include reprints from the New York Times, The Nation, The Minnesota Leader and other journals as well as a pamphlet Father Coughlin: His “Facts” and Arguments

German-American League for Culture, 1937-1938.

Miscellaneous publications: true stories in leaflets regarding repression and persecution in Nazi Germany and a pamphlet titled Martin Niemoeller by Martin Hall - - all published by the League.

National Conference of Americans and Jews, undated, 1934-1949.

Publications by and about group organized in 1928 "to promote justice, amity, understanding, and cooperation among Jews, Catholics and Protestants..." Included are plans for an reports on programs and conferences, reading lists, testimonials to the organization's work, study materials (such as discussion outlines) and reports.

Scholarships and aid to scholars, undated, 1933-1940, 1946.

The correspondence and miscellaneous papers relate to the work of a committee appointed in 1933 by Lotus D. Coffman, President of the University of Minnesota, in aiding displaced German scholars (Mrs. Brin worked with the Committee), and a lectureship set up at the University financed by contributions secured in the Twin Cities by Mrs. Brin and Amos Deinerd.

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Refugee letters, undated, 1933-1951.

Correspondence, chiefly of Mrs. Brin, with about refugees. They were written from various parts of the United States, Poland, Romania, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and England. They deal with need for food and clothing; the need for jobs in the United States; adjustments to life away from the homeland; difficulties in getting into the United States; and personal friendships Mrs. Brin formed with her correspondents. There is data, too, on the cooperation of several agencies in aiding the refugees, among them the Joint Distribution Committee, the American Friends Service Committee, the National Council of Jewish Women, the National Refugee Service, Inc., the Minneapolis Refugee Aid Committee, the Minnesota Refugee Service Committee, and the Jewish Welfare Association of Minneapolis.

General files on Anti-Semitism, undated, 1916-1946.

Miscellaneous papers, including letters, pamphlets, leaflets, and posters. The materials document efforts by many groups to combat anti-Semitism by promoting better intercultural relations, as well as inter-faith understanding, and by exposing propaganda attacks against the Jews; appeals for help from Jews suffering from wars and persecution (Mrs. Brin was a member of the Minneapolis Committee for the Relief of Jewish Sufferers from the War); and the effect of Nazi Germany philosophy in intensifying persecution.

General files on Palestine, undated, 1915-1957.

Includes circular letters, leaflets, pamphlets and other papers. There is information about the refugees' arrivals in Palestine; the development of agriculture and industry; Hebrew University; the position of England, the United States and other countries on the Palestine question; Jewish participation in World War II; Zionism; Poale Zionism; and the work of Louis Marshall on behalf of Palestine. There is data, too, on the work of the following groups: United Palestine Appeal; American Zionist Bureau; Christine Friends of Palestine; Zionist Organization of America; Federation of American Zionists; Hadassah; Palestine Economic Corporation; and American Zionist Council.

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Communism and socialism, undated, 1897-1919.

A miscellaneous file of leaflets and other published material Mrs. Brin collected concerning communism and socialism. Included are The Children of the Poor by Eugene V. Debs; Liberator Pamphlets (two of them); Songs, Industrial Worker of the World; A Beautiful Ideal by Emma Goldman; An Appeal published by The Friends of the Soviet Russia for famine relief; Frances E. Willard on Socialism Class Struggle in America, by A. M. Simons; The Basis of Trade Unionism, by Emile Pouget; Max Eastman’s Address to the Jury in the Second Masses Trial; and an issue of the American Bolshevik (vol. 1, no. 4), published in Minneapolis.

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Personal papers of Fanny Fligelman Brin, undated, 1902-1955.

The personal papers are correspondence for the most part. There is in the undated section a mimeographed history of "The Stockwells of Minneapolis" by Dorothy Walton Binder, and Genealogical charts of Brin and related families. Included in the rest of the file is information on the Minerva Literary Society, University of Minnesota, to which Fanny Fligelman belonged (1902); programs, commencement and social, University of Minnesota (1906); constitution and bylaws of the Alpha Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa (1906); Fanny Fligelman's marriage to Arthur Brin (1913); the campaign, in which Mrs. Brin participated, for a new billboard ordinance for Minneapolis (1914); an appeal by Louis Fligelman, Wahpeton, North Dakota, for support for the election of W. E. Purcell a s United States Senator (1914); observations by [Mrs. Brin] on the harm done by a Jew to the Jewish cause in making statements on the issue of prohibition (1915); data on Vienna, written in communications by Moses and Leah Barron, while Dr. Barron was studying medicine (1926); Rachel's marriage in 1939 to Ralph Helstein; Fred Fligman, Great Falls, Montana (biographical information, 1941); honors bestowed upon Arthur Brin by the Jewish War Veterans of Minneapolis (1942) and the Minneapolis Council of Social Agencies (1943); and the death of Arthur Brin (1947).

News clippings regarding Arthur Brin.

Speeches and articles on Peace and on National Council of Jewish Women:

If not Versailles -- What.

A Four Point Program for Peace.

Kellogg-Pact Fifth Birthday.

Dedicated to the Unfinished Task.

Co-operation in Anti-War Movement Gains Steadily.

War Referendum.

Women and World Peace.

Peace and Organized Women.

The Cause and Cure of War Conference.

Building a Background.

Major Problems and Their Remedies.

A Woman Looks at Disarmament.

What of the Peace.

The Great Betrayal.

The Kellogg Pact -- A Gesture or a Program.

Brotherhood Week a Factor in National Defense.

The New International Morality.

A Layman Looks at Disarmament.

An American Peace Worker Looks at Europe.

Facing a Changing World.

Public Opinion Has Triumphed.

South America and the War.

That Freedom May Endure.

Toward a Durable Peace.

Patriotism in the Twentieth Century.

Anarchy or Cooperation.

Address Delivered at the Western Interstate Conference [Prayer].

Council at the Wheel [Prayer].

The Problem of the German Refugees [Message].

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Speeches and articles on Jews, Anti-Semitism, miscellaneous and tributes to individuals:

A Layman Looks at Fascism.

Fireside Discussion Groups: Jews As Nobel Prize Winners.

Fireside Discussion Groups: Two Pillars of Humanity -- The Bible -- Judaism.

Fireside Discussion Groups: How Far Zionism.

Jewish Education.

View Your World -- Peace, Poverty, Progress.

Democracy in Jewish History and the Teaching of Jesus.

The Progress of the Haskalah.

Meeting the German Situation.

Kindlers of Light.

Dreamers of the Ghetto.

The Answer [Book review].

What of our Youth -- A Challenge to the Jewish Community.

A Layman Looks at the Social Concepts Underlying Fascism.

Be Thou Among the Persecuted.

Interpreters of Democracy.

The World Conscience and Anti-Semitism.

The Crucification of the Jews and Anti-Semitism.

Case for the Jews.

Russian Bureaucracy and the Jews.

The Voice of Jerusalem [Israel Zangwill].

Leo Schwartz.

Sylvanus A. Stockwell.

Maria Sanford.

Carrie Chapman Catt.

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Frances Potter.

Willis Mason West.

For the Rose Reese Memorial Meeting.

Rebecca Kohut’s Birthday.

Hope McDonald.

Arthur Brin.

Vilffedo Pareto.

Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Hannah G. Solomon.

Miscellaneous speeches and articles:

Erasmus.

Capital Punishment.

The Value of the Suffrage Movement.

Old Ideals and New.

Strategy for Democracy [Book review].

The World in Ferment.

A Few Remarks on the International Congress of Women.

Women and the Promise of a New Day.

American Women in Public Life.

The Educational Task Before Us.

Interpreters of Democracy.

Mobilization for Human Needs.

Prologue to Civilization.

Volumes:

Volume 1. Report of the Sixty-Seventh Annual Convention, District Grand Lodge Number Six, B'nai B'rith, Curtis Hotel, Minneapolis, July 1, 2, 3, 1935.

Volume 5. Scrapbook, March 10-15, 1935.

Contains newspaper clippings relating to the triennial convention of the National Council of Jewish Women held at New Orleans.

Volume 6. Scrapbook, 1934.

Contains newspaper clippings regarding Mrs. Brin’s visit to Nashville, Tennessee, as president of the National Council of Jewish Women.

Volume 8. Scrapbook of newspaper clippings.

There is no arrangement of clippings within the volume by date or subject matter.

Volume 9. Scrapbook of newspaper clippings.

There is no arrangement of clippings within the volume by date or subject matter.

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Volume 2. Scrapbook, 1920-1926.

Contains circular letters issued by the National Council of Jewish Women, its programs, statements, and miscellaneous papers; publications of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, National Council for Prevention of War.

Volume 10. Scrapbook, undated and 1920.

Contains of newspaper clippings and a few miscellaneous printed items. Some are dated (1920s) and others are not. Content: peace, particularly League of Nations, World Court, and organizations working for peace.

Volume 11. Scrapbook, circa 1945.

Contains newspaper clippings regarding the United Nations Conference at San Francisco and the World Court.

Volume 12. Scrapbook.