National Documents -“Shofar” newspaper, 1960-1961

This collection contains correspondence, pamphlets, governance documents, and promotional material from AZA chapters on the North Shore (Chelsea, Everett, Lynn, and Swampscott-Marblehead) and Mattapan, and Sharon. These contain details of meetings, elections, dues, and other chapter business; newsletters containing comics, jokes, and essays contributed by members. Numerous official publications from the national AZA/BBYO management are included; both guidebooks for starting and governing a new AZA chapter and informational booklets about Jewish holidays and Israel, many belonging to Martin “Marty” Brody of the Swampscott-Marblehead chapter. Particularly detailed is the correspondence from the early 1940s of Lynn AZA #471 advisor Louis Winer, a former Aleph and lawyer.