Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society Boston Port Records
Collection
Identifier: I-96
Abstract
The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) was founded in New York City in the 1880s by the Russian Jewish community of New York in response to the influx of Russian Jewish immigrants fleeing the pograms in the Pale of Settlement in Russia and Eastern Europe. In 1889, a shelter which was used to house many of the immigrants adopted the name “Hebrew Sheltering House Association.” This organization merged with HIAS in 1909 and by 1914, had branches operating in Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and...
Dates:
undated, 1886-1977; Majority of material found within 1938-1954
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
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- Business records 1
- Chaplains, Hospital -- United States 1
- Clippings (information artifacts) 1
- Directories 1
- Emigration and immigration 1
- Emigration and immigration -- Europe -- History 1
- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy 1
- Emigration and immigration law -- United States 1
- Financial records 1
- Holocaust 1
- Jewish cemeteries 1
- Memorandums 1
- Military chaplains -- Judaism 1
- Newton (Mass.) 1
- Pamphlets 1
- Publications (documents) 1
- Rabbinical courts 1
- Rabbis -- Massachusetts 1
- Reports 1
- Surveys (documents) 1
- Synagogues -- Massachusetts 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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