The Maimonides School (Brookline, Mass.) Records
Scope and Content Note
This collection is comprised of informational donor mailers, invitations and event programs, school newsletters, yearbooks, and school publications related to the founding, growth, and community of Maimonides School.
Dates
- undated, 1963 -1991
Creator
- Maimonides School (Brookline, Mass.) (Organization)
Language of Materials
The collection is in English and Hebrew.
Conditions Governing Access
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Historical Note
Maimonides School is the first 20th-century co-educational modern Orthodox Jewish Day School located in Brookline, Massachusetts. Founded in 1937 by Rabbi Dr. Joseph B. Soloveitchik (the Rav), Maimonides School is named after medieval Sephardic Jewish Philosopher Rabbi Moses Maimonides. The Rav founded Maimonides during a time of great assimilation of American Jews. The day school couples modern life with Orthodoxy, providing both girls and boys a religious and general education.
Maimonides began with a single faculty member and six enrolled pupils in an upstairs room of a Dorchester Hebrew school and then relocated to the Young Israel of Roxbury. By 1941, the Maimonides school acquired its first building and by 1962 opened a permanent four-acre campus in Brookline, Massachusetts.
References
- Materials from collection
- ” Our History,” Maimonides School, accessed 6 October 2022, https://www.maimonides.org/our-history>
- Sarna, J. D., & Smith, E. (1995). In The jews of Boston: Essays on the occasion of the centenary (1895-1995) of the combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston (pp. 287–290). essay, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston.
Chronology
- 1937
- Maimonides School founded by Rabbi Dr. Joseph B. Soloveitchik, housed by a Roxbury synagogue.
- 1941
- Maimonides purchases first building, the Dorchester Campus.
- 1946
- Junior High School opens.
- 1950
- High School opens
- 1953
- First High School Graduation.
- 1962
- The permanent campus in Brookline, Mass. is opened.
- 1986
- Brookline campus is dedicated to Mr. And Mrs. Maurice H. Saval. Levy Library, Fox Gymnasium, and additional classrooms are built.
- 1997
- Brener Lower Elementary School Building on Clark Road opens.
- 2002
- Renovation of synagogue to increase capacity.
- 2008
- 6th grade is incorporated into Junior High School.
- 2016
- Early Childhood Center for 2–4-year old pupils opens.
Extent
0.25 linear feet (1 half-manuscript box)
Abstract
Founded in 1937 by Rabbi Dr. Joseph B. Soloveitchik (the Rav), Maimonides School is a co-educational modern Orthodox Jewish Day School located in Brookline, Massachusetts. This collection is comprised of informational donor mailers, invitations and event programs, school newsletters, yearbooks, and school publications related to the founding, growth, and community of Maimonides School.
Abstract
This collection is in English and Hebrew.
Arrangement
Alphabetical
Physical Location
Located in Boston, Mass.
Acquisition Information
Acquisition information unknown.
Processing Information
Processed by Shannon Struble Reprocessed by Gabrielle Roth, 2022
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- United States
- Brochures
- Brookline (Mass.)
- Hebrew language -- Study and teaching -- History
- Jewish day schools -- United States
- Jewish religious schools
- Orthodox Judaism -- Massachusetts
- Orthodox Judaism--Study and teaching
- Parents’ and teachers’ associations
- Publications (documents)
- Soloveitchik, Joseph B., Rabbi Dr. (1903-1993)
- Title
- Guide to the Maimonides School (Brookline, Mass) Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Shannon Struble Reprocessed by Gabrielle Roth, 2022
- Date
- 2022
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors Repository