This item consists of a folder with several items including a bulletin from the Asheville reform synagogue, Beth ha-Tephila, which gives information on all the happenings of the Jewish community. It also contains correspondence from G. Finkelstein in Jacksonville, Florida, and from Sigbert Loeb on Congregation Bikur Cholim letterhead.

Leo Finkelstein displays his incredible talent as a storyteller and historian through the letters and diaries that he wrote throughout his life. This notebook contains stories about World War II, Thomas Wolfe, pawnbroking, the Great Depression, and Asheville, North Carolina in the twentieth century.