Frank J. Adler Collection 1912-1993

Folder 1 contains genealogical tables of the family Schwarzadler (later Adler) from Frankfurt/Main. Folder 2 holds materials pertaining to Frank J. Adler’s mother, Dora Adler, née Jacobsohn. Biographical information about Frank J. Adler is included in folder 1.Container list:1/1 Genealogical tables for the Schwarzadler family // undated; 1972; 19931/2 Documents of Dora Adler // undated; 1912; 1919; 1985Digital ImagePhotographs of the Ashkenazi synagogue in Istanbul, Turkey, have been removed to the LBI Photograph Collection.Ancestors of Anna Clementine Bauer Schwarzadler (1854-1922), grandmother of Frank J. Adler (1469-1922). Halle, Jacob.Removed: Copy of shabbat program November 2004, Congregation B'nai Jehudah (Addenda 3)Frank J. Adler was born Franz Julius Schwarzadler in Frankfurt/Main in 1923. He received his childhood religious education at Frankfurt's Westend synagogue. In 1940, he immigrated to the US and worked in Chicago, while taking college night classes. He served two years in the US army in the Southwest Pacific. In 1946, he became synagogue administrator at Temple Isaiah Israel of Chicago. In 1953 he moved to Kansas and served as the administrator of B'nai Jehudah until his retirement in 1991, when he became administrator emeritus. He also served as the president of the National Association of Temple Administrators and on the Board of Trustees of the Union of American Hebrew Congegrations and on its Executive Board.Addendumdigitize