Schnitzer , general campaign chairman of the United Jewish Welfare Fund drive. At the Alexandria Hotel at noon Tuesday , Dr. Brickner will speak to a luncheon gathering of business and professional men active in the Welfare Fund drive. Because of limited capacity. Temple House , went out from I Oakland over the week-end under. Women s Division The Tuesday afternoon meeting , scheduled to start at 2 o clock , is being jointly sponsored by the j women s division of the Welfare j Fund and the Sisterhood of the Temple.
Mervyn LeRoy , chairman of the fund s womens division , and Mrs. Sydney M. Brickner was a Jewish communal leader second in importance, especially in the s, only to Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver.
His East European roots and his Zionist fervor allowed him to make great inroads in obtaining support from the East European Jews of Cleveland. Between him and Silver, who in established his own and ultimately larger local Zionist organization, the non-Zionist and anti-Zionist forces in the Jewish community lost all influence. Brickner's work as a Zionist took on a national scope as he served on the Executive Committee of the Zionist Organization of America.
He served eight difficult years that witnessed financial problems and intense criticism that the Bureau was not supporting traditional Jewish education but was an agent for Jewish nationalism. However, through the personal influence of Brickner, Silver, and Bureau director Abraham Friedland, the Bureau managed to survive and even receive solid support from the Jewish Welfare Fund, the community's fundraising agency. In the mids, Brickner suggested that the Jewish Welfare Fund be divorced from the Jewish Welfare Federation as a way to streamline and improve fundraising.
He believed it should be operated by an independent agency, perhaps the newly formed Jewish Community Council. Although his suggestion was not adopted, he and Silver were chosen to act as co-chairs of the Welfare Fund drive in He was responsible for overseeing the ecclesiastical certification of Reform Rabbis who applied to serve as chaplains in the military.
In , Brickner undertook an extended overseas tour to study the needs and problems of American servicemen and to report on the situation faced by Jews in Europe and the middle east. In the same year, President Truman awarded the Medal of Merit to Brickner for his service to the military both during and following the war. In , in honor of his long service to Reform Judaism, as well as his work in the general Jewish community, Brickner was elected president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the professional organization for the Reform Rabbinate.
In , while on a tour of Israel and Europe, Brickner died in an automobile accident in Lorca, Spain. Brickner Papers, and undated, consist of biographical material, sermons, addresses, writings, miscellany, files from the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the National Jewish Welfare Board's Committee on Army and Navy Religious Activities, and Congregation Anshe Chesed, and correspondence from his family and from various Jewish community leaders and organizations.
This collection will be useful to researchers studying the history of the Jewish community of Cleveland, Ohio, and Reform Judiasm and Zionism there in the twentieth century. The Brickner papers provide a detailed view of the activities, and religious, political, and social philosophy of one of America's leading Reform rabbis and Jewish communal activists. The breadth of the collection in terms of years covered also allows the researcher to trace the evolution of Brickner's thought from early in his rabbinate until his death.
In addition, the wealth of organization information found in the General Correspondence during the crucial years of illustrates the activities of Jewish agencies relating to education, the war, philanthropy, Zionism and the creation of the state of Israel, and anti-Semitism, among other subjects.
Statement of ArrangementThe collection is arranged in seven series. Series I: Biographical Material is arranged alphabetically by document type and then chronologically. Series II: General Correspondence is arranged in five sub-series. Each sub-series is arranged alphabetically by subject and then chronologically. Sub-series B: Non-Pulpit Addresses is arranged chronologically. Sub-series C: General Radio Addresses is arranged chronologically.
Sub-series E: Miscellaneous Addresses is arranged alphabetically by subject and then chronologically.
Sub-series F: Writings is arranged by document type and then chronologically. Sub-series G: Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by subject and then chronologically. Sub-series H: Abstracts and Indexes is arranged by subject and then chronologically. He created the first Young People''s Congregation; reinstituted Hebrew in the Sunday school curriculum; and also established an annual institute on Judaism for Christian religious educators.
Between , he was a labor arbitrator. Brickner was also the president of the Cleveland Zionist District, the local branch of the Zionist Organization of America. Jewish Board, for which, along with his visits to camps, Brickner received the Medal of Merit in from Pres. Harry Truman.
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