| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | AMIT Women |
| Title: | AMIT Women Records |
| Dates: | 1955-2011 |
| Extent: | 1.41 linear feet (2 containers and 1 oversize folder) |
| Abstract: | AMIT Women is an organization of orthodox Jewish Zionist women, providing support for poor children in Israel. Throughout the history of the organization AMIT built up a network of vocational schools, homes for children, surrogate family residences and other projects for youth in Israel. In the Cleveland area the organization used to consist of three separate chapters, Ra'anana B'noth, University/Beachwood, and Batya, which eventually merged into one united Greater Cleveland Chapter in 1996. In Cleveland, AMIT was and is a very active part of the Jewish community, organizing numerous fundraising dinners, luncheons, and other events along the Jewish holidays to support both the local Jewish community and to raise money for their numerous projects in Israel. The collection consists of bulletins, newsletters, certificates, correspondence, invitations, member and donor lists, minutes, newspaper clippings, programs of luncheons, dinners, and jubilees, and a script. |
| MS Number | MS 5149 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English |
AMIT Women (Mizrachi Women's Organization of America, Hebrew acronym for Association of Volunteers for Israel and Torah) was founded at the Mizrachi Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1925 as Mizrachi Women of America (MWoA). The group was renamed American Mizrachi Women (AMW) in the 1950s and again renamed AMIT Women in 1983. AMIT Women is an organization of orthodox Jewish Zionist women, providing support for poor children in Israel. Throughout the history of the organization AMIT built up a network of vocational schools, homes for children, surrogate family residences and other projects for youth in Israel. For that purpose, MWoA and later AMIT erected a large fundraising network in the United States and maintained close ties to the state of Israel. In the Cleveland area the organization used to consist of three separate chapters, Ra'anana B'noth, University/Beachwood, and Batya, which eventually merged into one united Greater Cleveland Chapter in 1996. In Cleveland, AMIT was and is a very active part of the Jewish community, organizing numerous fundraising dinners, luncheons, and other events along the Jewish holidays to support both the local Jewish community and to raise money for their numerous projects in Israel. The organization was known as AMIT Children in 2012.
The AMIT Women Records, 1955-2011 and undated, consist of bulletins, newsletters, certificates, correspondence, invitations, member and donor lists, minutes, newspaper clippings, programs of luncheons, dinners, and jubilees, and a script.
This collection is of value to researchers interested in the development of Jewish women's organizations in the early twentieth century, particularly in Cleveland, Ohio. Those with an interest in religious Zionism and child welfare will find the collection to be especially useful. AMIT's work demonstrates the ties of Cleveland Jews to the international Jewish community, to Palestine, and, after 1948, to the state of Israel. The focus of the group's work has been on religious, technological, and secondary education.
None.
Related MaterialThe researcher should also consult MS 5358 AMIT Women Records, Series II.
Separated MaterialAll photographs have been removed to the photograph collection.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 5149 AMIT Women Records, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Gift of AMIT Women in 2012.
Processed by Sebastian Wuepper in 2012.
AMIT Women Records 1955-2011 undated |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Bulletins, Chapter Ra'anana B'noth 1969-1986 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Bulletins, Chapter Ra'anana B'noth 1970-1983 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Bulletins, Chapter Ra'anana B'noth 1984-1992 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Bulletins, Cleveland Council 1993-2001 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Bulletins, Cleveland Council 2003-2005 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Bulletins, Greater Cleveland Chapter 2002-2006 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Bulletins, Greater Cleveland Chapter 2006-2007 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Bulletins, Greater Cleveland Chapter 2007-2011 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Certificates, occupancy (original material removed to Oversize Folder 1) 1982-1987 1997-1998 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Correspondence ca. 1960s-2000s | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Invitations, luncheons 1965-2006 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Lists, members and donors 1954-2006 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Minutes, assembled by President 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Minutes, assembled by President 1968-1973 | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Minutes, Cleveland Council 1993-1996 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Minutes, Greater Cleveland Chapter 1991-2003 | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Minutes, Greater Cleveland Chapter 2004-2006 | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | Minutes, Greater Cleveland Chapter 2007-2011 | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 | Minutes, Ra'anana B'noth Board Meetings, and donor council meetings 1961-1975 | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | Minutes, Ra'anana B'noth Board Meetings, and donor council meetings 1983-1985 | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 | Minutes, Ra'anana B'noth Board Meetings, and donor council meetings 1993-1996 | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 | Newspaper clippings ca. 1960s-2000s | |||||||||
| 1 | 23 | Programs, donor luncheons 1969-1985 | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | Programs, donor luncheons 1971-1974 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 25 | Programs, donor luncheons 1986-1996 | |||||||||
| 2 | 26 | Programs, donor luncheons 1997-2000 | |||||||||
| 2 | 27 | Programs, 51 Years of Service Jubilee 1970 | |||||||||
| 2 | 28 | Programs, Seven Sides of Seventy Jubilee 1995 | |||||||||
| 2 | 29 | Script undated | |||||||||