Rabbi Baruch Korff papers (Ms. 84.3)

The Rabbi Baruch Korff Papers are divided into 14 series, as well as two supplements containing material received too late to be included in these series. Additional supplements will include, not only recent material, but also documents from earlier periods after they are declassified or when their present confidentiality or other sensitivity ceases to be an issue.

Series I covers Rabbi Korff's career from 1937 to 1954 and focuses upon his efforts to save Jews from the Holocaust and to establish the State of Israel

In Series II are to be found the records of his rabbinical career from 1951 to 1975, as well as miscellaneous personal matters.

His diplomatic activities from 1951 to 1973 as they relate to Middle Eastern affairs are represented in Series III, which includes material covering various trips on behalf of an educational foundation and his mediation with the government of the State of Israel on behalf of the Greek and Armenian Orthodox Patriarchates of Jerusalem.

Series IV contains papers of the National Citizens Committee for Fairness to the Presidency, 1972-78.

Series V contains records of the President Nixon Justice Fund, 1974-79.

Series VI contains records of the United States Citizens Congress, 1974-79.

Series VII contains miscellaneous material relating to President Nixon.

Rabbi Korff's recent activites are covered in Series VIII.

Series IX has been reserved for the records of Rabbi Korff's relations with Brown University, particularly with respect to the donation of his papers

Series X consists of items exhibited at the John Hay and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Libraries in 1984 and 1985. Two catalogues were published of these exhibits, and for convenience the exhibited items have been kept as a separate series because they are described in detail in the catalogues and researches tend to request them by catalogue number.

Series XI contains the personal papers, 1941-73, of Rabbi Korff's elder brolther Samuel I. Korff (d. 1973), the rabbi of a congregation in Boston Massachusetts.

Series XII through XVI consist of material associated with the preceding series but stored separately because of format or size: recordings and films in Series XII, smaller material stored in "shoeboxes" in Series XIII, single oversize in Series XIV, double oversize in Series XV, and triple oversize in Series XVI.

The listing of the contents of these series are followed by two supplements and an index to the inventory, including the supplements.