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Arthur H. Jaffe was born and raised in Butler, Pennsylvania and graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a B.A. degree in Classical Studies. Arthur Jaffe has had several distinguished careers. From 1942-1946 he served in World War II as an Army captain in charge of a military intelligence unit. Following WWII, Mr. Jaffe went to Palestine, where he studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. While there he began working as a Haganah officer, gathering information which was helpful in the formation of the new state of Israel. Mr. Jaffe then had a successful 30-year career as a partner in the family owned business, the House of Jaffe, a chain of department stores in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan. After the death of his first wife, Lois, Jaffe moved to Pittsburgh where he began a new career as Director of Planning and Development for the Carnegie Institute. He soon became involved in fund-raising in the Jewish community of Pittsburgh, where his success brought him to the attention of the Jewish Community Foundation of South Palm Beach County. In 1984, he and second wife Mata moved to Boca Raton where Arthur served as Founding Director of the Jewish Community Foundation of South Palm Beach County.

Six accordion files, including correspondence and collected publications related to Junction B, the Nautilus Foundation, Francois Bucher, William S. Burroughs, the Collins Center for Public Policy, and Florida State University.

Contains photographs from the 1930s to 2013 covering the JL Reed and Son Funeral Home in Tampa. Photographs show scenes of the interior and exterior of the JR Reed and Son's Funeral Home along with the Marion Reed Funeral Home. Many of the photographs are reproductions of Burgert Brothers photographs while others are originals. Depending on the source, some of the photographs are in black and white while the others are in color.