Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston
Organization
Found in 27 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
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
Jewish Federation of the North Shore (Mass.) Records
Collection
Identifier: I-572
Abstract
The Jewish Federation of the North Shore was founded in 1938 in Lynn, Massachusetts with the objective to support organizations that helped enrich the Jewish community on the North Shore and abroad. After a period of declining donations and to consolidate services, the JFNS Board of Directors voted to merge the organization with the Combined Jewish Philanthropies in 2013. The collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings and publications from JFNS, as well as a large group of...
Dates:
undated, circa 1926-2007
Jewish Memorial Hospital and Rehabilitation Center (Boston, Mass.) Records
Collection
Identifier: I-336
Abstract
The records provide material relating to the accreditation, fundraising, management, planning, policies, programs, and public relations of a hospital that continues to serve the Greater Boston area. The records includes correspondence of various Presidents, Board Members, and Executive Directors; Board and committee minutes; scrapbooks, photographs, videotape, and film created by the Public Relations department; records of various Auxiliary groups; correspondence, reports, surveys, and other...
Dates:
undated, 1915-1999
Jewish Vocational Aid Society (Boston, Mass.) Records
Collection
Identifier: I-216
Abstract
The Jewish Vocational Aid Society of Boston, founded by Mrs. Margaret Davidson and incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts in 1907 as the Jewish Children's Aid Society; original purpose was in aiding destitute Jewish children. In 1936 became known as the Jewish Vocational Aid Society; members focused efforts on raising funds for needy Jewish students. Later, eligibility for scholarships was expanded to include non-Jewish students as well. In 1973 was forced to transfer most of its funds...
Dates:
undated, 1910-1985
Jewish Welfare Centre (South End, Boston, Mass.) Records
Collection
Identifier: I-435
Abstract
This collection contains a ledger recording the Jewish Welfare Centre of the South End's disbursement of funds to individuals and families in need, as well as individual and organizational donations it recieved.
Dates:
1918-1930
Jewish Women's College Club (Boston, Mass.) Records
Collection
Identifier: JHCI-005
Abstract
The Jewish Women’s College Club was an organization in Boston’s Jewish community, active from 1921 to 2005, that was founded to provide scholarships to Jewish women pursuing a college or university education. This collection contains concert programs and invitations to the events put on by the organization.
Dates:
1947-1956
Leopold Morse Papers
Collection
Identifier: JHCP-013
Abstract
Leopold Morse was a philanthropist, businessman, and politician born in Germany and based in Boston, Massachusetts. This collection contains a number of items related to his personal life and political work, including his naturalization certificate, German vaccination paperwork from 1832, a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and photographs, documents from 1882 and 1886 signed by Massachusetts Governors John Davis Long and George D. Robinson, respectively, officially naming him as a...
Dates:
undated, 1832-1886
Lewis H. Weinstein Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-641
Abstract
Consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, press releases, pamphlets, publications and other similar materials pertaining to Weinstein's involvement in Jewish organizations and institutions in the Boston area and nationally.
Dates:
undated, 1947-1992
Massachusetts Board of Rabbis Records
Collection
Identifier: I-56 and I-56A
Abstract
The Massachusetts Board of Rabbis was founded in 1938 as the Rabbinical Association of Greater Boston by Rabbis Herman Rubenovitz, Louis Epstein, Joshua Loth Lieberman, Beryl D. Cohen, and Sam Abrams. During the 1970s the Board focused on its chaplaincy work in hospitals as well as timely topics, such as social action, chevruta, and health insurance for Rabbis. This collection contains minutes, correspondence and statements regarding the Board's work around hospital chaplaincy, kashruth,...
Dates:
undated, 1970-1980
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- Subject
- Correspondence 21
- Boston (Mass.) 19
- Minutes (administrative records) 14
- Photographs 14
- Clippings (information artifacts) 13
- Financial records 10
- Pamphlets 10
- Publications (documents) 10
- Reports 10
- Memorandums 8
- Brochures 7
- Business records 6
- Scrapbooks 6
- Legal documents 5
- Federations, Financial (Social service) 4
- Jewish community centers 4
- Notes 4
- Programs (documents) 4
- Articles 3
- Audiocassettes 3
- Bylaws (administrative records) 3
- Certificates 3
- Corporation reports 3
- Ephemera 3
- Hebrew language -- Study and teaching -- History 3
- Invitations 3
- Jews -- Charities 3
- Newsletters 3
- Newspapers 3
- Press releases 3
- Rabbis -- Massachusetts 3
- Speeches (documents) 3
- Zionism 3
- Account books 2
- Announcements 2
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- United States 2
- Blacks -- Relations with Jews 2
- Chaplains, Hospital -- United States 2
- Charities 2
- Directories 2
- Holocaust 2
- Israel 2
- Jewish day schools -- United States 2
- Jewish education -- History 2
- Jewish lawyers 2
- Jews -- Dietary laws 2
- Jews, Soviet 2
- New York (N.Y.) 2
- Philanthropy -- United States 2
- Philanthropy and society 2
- Scholarships 2
- Social service 2
- Students -- United States 2
- Surveys (documents) 2
- Administrative records 1
- Adoption 1
- Advertisements 1
- Agendas (administrative records) 1
- Annual reports 1
- Antisemitism -- United States 1
- Arab-Israeli conflict 1
- Architectural drawings 1
- Articles of incorporation 1
- Artifacts (object genre) 1
- Associations, institutions, etc. 1
- Audiotapes 1
- Awards 1
- Belmont (Mass.) 1
- Black Panther Party -- Newspapers 1
- Brookline (Mass.) 1
- CD-ROMs 1
- Card indexes 1
- Charities -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
- Child welfare 1
- Church and education -- United States 1
- Civil rights 1
- Communism 1
- Concert programs 1
- Concerts 1
- Contracts 1
- Curricula 1
- DVDs 1
- Dating (Social customs) -- Religious Aspects -- Judaism 1
- Diaries 1
- Diplomatic and consular service, Israeli 1
- Discrimination -- United States 1
- Dnipropetrovsʹk (Ukraine) 1
- Economic Assistance, Israeli 1
- Education, Elementary 1
- Emigration and immigration 1
- Emigration and immigration -- Europe -- History 1
- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy 1
- Emigration and immigration -- History 1
- Emigration and immigration law 1
- Emigration and immigration law -- United States 1
- Ex-convicts -- Services for 1
- Factories 1
- Fall River (Mass.) 1
- Family-owned business enterprises 1
- Family-owned business enterprises -- Massachusetts 1 + ∧ less
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