Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston
Organization
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Bureau of Jewish Education (Boston, Mass.) Records
Collection
Identifier: I-120
Abstract
The Bureau of Jewish Education (BJE) in Boston, Massachusetts, was founded in 1920 when the Associated Boston Hebrew Schools and Bureau of Jewish Religious Schools merged under the leadership of Louis Hurwich. While not the first centralized Jewish education organization in the country, the BJE was the first to receive support from its local Federation. From 1920 to 2009, the BJE provided consultation, evaluation and teacher training services using a variety of methods and tools. It worked...
Dates:
undated, 1926-1992
Bureau of Jewish Education (Boston, Mass.) Records
Collection
Identifier: I-497
Abstract
The Bureau of Jewish Education (BJE) in Boston, Massachusetts, was founded in 1920 when the Associated Boston Hebrew Schools and Bureau of Jewish Religious Schools merged under the leadership of Louis Hurwich. While not the first centralized Jewish education organization in the country, the BJE was the first to receive support from its local Federation. From 1920 to 2009, the BJE provided consultation, evaluation and teacher training services using a variety of methods and tools. It worked...
Dates:
undated, 1919-2009
Chelsea-Revere Hebrew School (Chelsea, Mass.) Records
Collection
Identifier: I-313
Abstract
The Chelsea-Revere School was established by Monas Berlin in 1896 and served the Chelsea, Massachusetts Jewish community until 1979. The collection contains the records of the institution and its activities including meeting minutes, financial records, correspondence, personnel manifests, memos, publications, photographs, memorial documents, and school function notices, as well as press materials in the form of newspaper clippings.
Dates:
undated, 1939-1981
Farband Labor Zionist Order (Boston, Mass.) Records
Collection
Identifier: I-534
Abstract
The Farband Labor Zionist Order was a Jewish fraternal organization founded in 1910 and chartered in New York in 1913. With branches across the United States and Canada, it functioned as a mutual aid society aligned with the Socialist and Zionist political party Poale Zion. The material in the collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, publications, press releases, photographs, meeting minutes, brochures, and memos.
Dates:
undated, 1941-1984
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston Records
Collection
Identifier: I-123 and I-123A
Abstract
This collection includes material preceding and relating to the founding of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston (JCRC), including early papers of the local American Jewish Committee and the Central Advisory Committee (a predecessor agency),the constitution and by-laws of the JCRC, material relating to organizational membership in and representation in the organizations, correspondence of the officers and staff, minutes of meetings and proceedings of its Administrative...
Dates:
undated, 1933-2008
Rabb Family and Stop & Shop Collection
Collection
Identifier: P-679
Abstract
The Rabinovitz/Rabb family arrived in Boston from Russia in the 1890s. Around 1914 they founded Economy Grocery Stores, which became Stop & Shop in 1946. In addition to building their grocery company into a successful business, the family is known for its philanthropy and active involvement in the Jewish community. The collection contains materials relating to the Rabb family and to the business operations of Stop & Shop until 1989. The materials in this collection include historical...
Dates:
1912-1989
Synagogue Council of Massachusetts Records
Collection
Identifier: I-454
Abstract
The Synagogue Council of Massachusetts was founded in 1941 as the Associated Synagogues of Greater Boston (and later the Associated Synagogues of Massachusetts). The documents in this collection describe the proceedings and activities of the Synagogue Council of Massachusetts, as well as those of its affiliated organizations, including the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis, the Rabbinical Association of Greater Boston, the Kashruth Commission, the Beth Din, and the Jewish Chaplaincy Council....
Dates:
undated, 1908-2014
Wyner Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-803
Abstract
The Wyner Family Papers document the personal, professional, organizational and philanthropic activities of three generations of a prominent Boston Jewish family. The documents describe the operations of the family knitting and textile businesses, the building and management of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel of Boston and the development and operations of the Beth Israel Hospital of Boston (1926-2001.) This collection describes the Wyner family's involvement in a wide variety of organizations, both...
Dates:
undated, 1863-2004
Zionist House (Boston, Mass.) Records
Collection
Identifier: I-286
Abstract
The Zionist House was an organization founded to provide recreational, educational, and physical outreach for individuals and Jewish organizations in Boston. This collection contains correspondence, memoranda, trustee meeting minutes, reports, clippings, newsletters, and programs for anniversary concerts, lectures, films, exhibitions and other programs sponsored by the organization.
Dates:
undated, 1942-1989
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- Photographs 7
- Publications (documents) 7
- Reports 7
- Clippings (information artifacts) 6
- Minutes (administrative records) 6
- Brochures 5
- Memorandums 5
- Pamphlets 5
- Financial records 4
- Hebrew language -- Study and teaching -- History 3
- Legal documents 3
- Audiocassettes 2
- Business records 2
- Corporation reports 2
- Ephemera 2
- Jewish community centers 2
- Jewish day schools -- United States 2
- Jewish education -- History 2
- New York (N.Y.) 2
- Scholarships 2
- Scrapbooks 2
- Zionism 2
- Account books 1
- Adoption 1
- Advertisements 1
- Antisemitism -- United States 1
- Articles 1
- Artifacts (object genre) 1
- Audiotapes 1
- Awards 1
- Blacks -- Relations with Jews 1
- Brookline (Mass.) 1
- CD-ROMs 1
- Chaplains, Hospital -- United States 1
- Charities 1
- Church and education -- United States 1
- Civil rights 1
- Communism 1
- Concerts 1
- Curricula 1
- DVDs 1
- Diaries 1
- Diplomatic and consular service, Israeli 1
- Directories 1
- Discrimination -- United States 1
- Dnipropetrovsʹk (Ukraine) 1
- Education, Elementary 1
- Factories 1
- Family-owned business enterprises 1
- Fraternal insurance 1
- Fraternal organizations 1
- Glass negatives 1
- Holocaust 1
- Hotels 1
- Humanitarianism 1
- Israel 1
- Jewish cemeteries 1
- Jewish outreach 1
- Jews -- Dietary laws 1
- Jews, Soviet 1
- Judaism -- Relations -- Catholic Church 1
- Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity 1
- London (England) 1
- Malmesbury (South Africa) 1
- Marlborough (Mass.) 1
- Military chaplains -- Judaism 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- National socialism and Zionism 1
- Newsletters 1
- Newspapers 1
- Newton (Mass.) 1
- Notes 1
- Obituaries 1
- Parents’ and teachers’ associations 1
- Patents 1
- Phonograph records 1
- Press releases 1
- Programs (documents) 1
- Rabbinical courts 1
- Rabbis -- Massachusetts 1
- Readville (Boston, Mass.) 1
- Sabbath legislation 1
- School records 1
- Seals (artifacts) 1
- Self-service stores 1
- Social service 1
- Speeches (documents) 1
- Stoughton (Mass.) 1
- Supermarkets -- United States 1
- Surveys (documents) 1
- Synagogues 1
- Synagogues -- Massachusetts 1
- Textile factories 1
- Transcripts 1
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Israel 1
- Vilnius (Lithuania) 1
- West Bridgewater (Mass. : Town) 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews. 1 + ∧ less
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