At the Genealogical Conference in Jerusalem several years ago, there was a lecture about an office in NY that had the old records from the Landsmanschaft societies in NY. The data was not digitalized and you would need to go in person to look for information. Could anyone provide the details of this office, where it is, tel. number, etc.? I will be in New York and would like to look for records for the Chimerovitzer Society. I remember accompanying my parents one year to a dinner, maybe the last gathering, in the 1960s. 
Trudy Greener
Litvak, Litt, Naiman families from Chimerovitz to Baltimore to Jerusalem

I have been there and it is the Center for Jewish History on 16 th Street in Manhattan .

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Diane Jacobs, Somerset, New Jersey

Another possible location could be YIVO.  Some of the landsmanchaften records were donated to them.  Check their site or send an email.  To see their holdings, you will most likely have to set up an appointment with an archivist.  For my family’s records, they had membership lists, photos, and some correspondence to members plus the minutes of meetings and information on operations.  
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Fred Kolbrener
Woodbridge, VA

Researching: KOLBRENER (Lezajsk); SCHWARTZ (Glogow Malapolski); ZINDEBAND (Minsk); LIFSHITZ (St Petersburg/Minsk); JABELOW (Minsk); BOHRER (Lezajsk); POLLACK (Minsk); BLUMSTEIN/BLUMSZTEJN (Goworowo); FRETER/FRATER (Czyzewo)

If your purpose is to find a particular grave, it would be much easier to search on sites such as deadfred, findagrave, legacy, etc.  If you are looking for the social aspects of the society, you might find some information through newspapers.com and similar sites.  I once found a list of dinner guests for a landsmanschaften to which my uncle belonged in the 1960s. I did a quick search for you but did not find results. However, the official name of the society might differ slightly from the way you presented it here. 
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Barbara Sloan
Conway, SC

Another book of possible interest for background: "Jewish Hometown Associations and Family Circles in New York" by Hannah Kliger (Indiana University Press, 1992). 

- Marian Burk Wood, researching Schwartz and Farkas families who helped found the Kossuth Ferenc Literary, Sick & Benevolent Association in New York City in 1904.

Trudy…. The office you mention is YIvo Institute for Jewish Research and it’s at the same location as the Center for  Jewish History on 16th Street. An appointment is necessary. Follow this link for visitor information:  

https://www.yivo.org/Visit

Ilene Wagner
Fultonville, NY
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At 13:13 27/08/2022, marianbww@... wrote:

Another book of possible interest for background: "Jewish Hometown
Associations and Family Circles in New York" by Hannah Kliger
(Indiana University Press, 1992).

- Marian Burk Wood, researching Schwartz and Farkas families who
helped found the Kossuth Ferenc Literary, Sick & Benevolent
Association in New York City in 1904.
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Is this part of the Mokkom Sholom cemeteries in Bayside?

David Lewin
London

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Please keep in mind that people sometimes did not join the society related to their town of origin. My paternal grandparents joined the society of a cousin's husband and are buried in that society's area in Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, NY. 

Linda Cohen Morzillo

Saratoga Springs, NY

 

Researching:

 

PRESS and SCHNEIDER in Vidukle and other Raseiniai towns

AMCHISLAVSKY and ERLICHMAN in Rostov-on-Don and previously Kozelets and Oster, Chernigov Gubernia

COHEN/KAGAN and BORNSTEIN in Oshmiany and France

KOSOFSKY in Shchuchyn, near Lida, Belarus

SWOTINSKY in Grodno Gubernia Poland/Russia/Belarus

Trudy, I recall the same lecture. I will also be in NY. Perhaps we can also search for one another.
I am seeking records of Novograd Volynski society

Dan Friedman
Kuperschmidt, Firdman, Ferdman, Yarun , Ukraine

Records of landsmanshaftn are kept at YIVO and AJHS which are located at Center for Jewish History. To find if your society has records check JGS of NY website https://jgsny.org/searchable-databases/indexes-to-jewish-organizations/yivo-landsmanshaftn-collection
The lecture about which you refer, I believe, was mine. I have been presenting on the topic of landsmanshaftn at IAJGS conferences for many years, have given webinars (one recently for JewishGen) and have written a number of articles on the subject in Avotaynu. Feel free to contact me for more assistance.
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Avrohom Krauss
Kiryat Yearim (Telz-Stone) ISRAEL
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Researching: KRAUS, GOTTFRIED, MONAT from PRZEMYSL (Galicia) Poland/ KINSTLICH, GREENBERG, SCHMIDT from Tarnobrzeg, Rozwadow, Ulanow (Galicia) Poland
KLOTZ from Telsiai, Lithuania/ ROGOZIN, KAPLOWITZ, from Vyazyn, Ilya, Vilyayka, Belarus /LAPIDUS, SOKOLSKY, ROGOZIN, Maladzyechna, Belarus

Regardless of which organization might possess the records, there is a good chance the records are in Yiddish. Unless you can easily read Yiddish or can take someone with you who can, I suggest that you call before going. The records for my Boston based group are held in Ohio. When told that all but a few pieces of correspondence were in Yiddish, I didn't proceed further. The task would be too time consuming. I gathered much information about their activities from searching a local Jewish newspaper that was in English. The archivist told me that there did not appear to be a list of members among their holding which consisted mostly of minutes and correspondence.

Roberta Jaffer