Harriet Rochlin and Western Jewish History

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Rochlin Collections

Harriet Rochlin Collection of Photographs of Western Jewish Life, ca 1845-1991

The Harriet Rochlin Collection of Photographs of Western Jewish Life, ca 1845-1991, Collection #441 was donated to the UCLA University Research Library, Special Collections in December, 2005. Comprised of 2248 photographs, 36 mounted exhibition photographs, and 1623 photocopies, the images track the Jewish Westward Migration from the late sixteenth century to 1991. Rochlin began collecting the photographs in the late 1960s when she started to research and write about Western Jewish pioneering. The collection grew significantly when she and her late husband, Fred Rochlin, contracted with Houghton Mifflin to create an illustrated social history, Pioneer Jews: A New Life in the Far West. She has continued to gather images, and will donate an addendum when she completes a work-in-progress, A Mixed Chorus: Jewish Women in the American West. A finding aid to the collection will be available online by the end of 2006.

Finding Aid
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt1q2nc9vr

Harriet Rochlin Collection of Western Jewish History, ca 1800-1991

In December, 1991, Harriet and Fred Rochlin donated the research they gathered to write Pioneer Jews: A New Life in the Far West to UCLA University Research Library, Special Collections. Housed as the Harriet Rochlin Collection of Western Jewish History, Collection #1689, it contains 2544 biographical and historical files on Jews in the West from the late 16th to the early 20th century. A 318-page inventory serves as a guide.

Finding Aid
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt9p3022wh

Rochlin Collection of Arizona Jewish History

In November, 1990, Harriet and Fred Rochlin donated copies of the Arizona section of the Rochlin Collection of Western Jewish History to the University of Arizona Library, Special Collections, Tucson. This collection consists of five boxes of archival materials and a 130-page inventory.

Finding Aid
http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/bloom/findingaids/sja002.htm

The Fred Rochlin Papers

In June 2003, Harriet Rochlin delivered to the University of Arizona, Special Collections the first installment of the Fred Rochlin Papers. This initial gift included forty inventoried boxes and binders containing her late husband's voluminous collection of Southwestern and Borderlands Jewish and general historical data and photographs. The files in this collection consist primarily of autobiographical reminiscences, copies of historical records, correspondence, interview transcriptions and notes, and scholarly and popular articles and excerpts. Also, included are three binders of extraordinary compilations of information: two are on the early Jews of Santa Cruz County, Arizona, the third lists Jewish place names, postmasters, and officerholders throughout the Far West.

An addendum to the Fred Rochlin Papers, contributed in April, 2006, consists of 150 additional photographs, 235 original issues of the Oasis published in Nogales, Arizona Territory, from 1897 to 1900, and a typescript of the entrepreneur Leopold Ephraim ledger.
Finding aid not yet available online.