Box 15

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains various photographs, audiovisual materials, and artifacts collected by the Jewish Historical Society of Western Massachusetts. Included is a pin from 1931 from the Forest Park Hebrew School in Springfield, miscellaneous photographs, wooden Torah rollers, and various 16mm film recordings of events at Beth Israel Synagogue and the Jewish Community Center, as well as other unlabeled films.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains various photographs, audiovisual materials, and artifacts collected by the Jewish Historical Society of Western Massachusetts. Included is a pin from 1931 from the Forest Park Hebrew School in Springfield, miscellaneous photographs, wooden Torah rollers, and various 16mm film recordings of events at Beth Israel Synagogue and the Jewish Community Center, as well as other unlabeled films.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains various photographs, audiovisual materials, and artifacts collected by the Jewish Historical Society of Western Massachusetts. Included is a pin from 1931 from the Forest Park Hebrew School in Springfield, miscellaneous photographs, wooden Torah rollers, and various 16mm film recordings of events at Beth Israel Synagogue and the Jewish Community Center, as well as other unlabeled films.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains various photographs, audiovisual materials, and artifacts collected by the Jewish Historical Society of Western Massachusetts. Included is a pin from 1931 from the Forest Park Hebrew School in Springfield, miscellaneous photographs, wooden Torah rollers, and various 16mm film recordings of events at Beth Israel Synagogue and the Jewish Community Center, as well as other unlabeled films.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains materials on numerous Jewish day and Hebrew schools in Western Massachusetts, including Heritage Academy, Gan Keshet Jewish Community School, Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy, and United Hebrew School, as well as Jewish programs at local colleges and universities. Prominently featured are materials on the Lander-Grinspoon Academy, including its opening in 1996 and efforts to build a permanent school building.

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This series contains programs, brochures, news clippings, catalogues, advertisements, and photographs documenting various Jewish arts and cultural events and institutions in Western Massachusetts. Included are materials on the Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center; the Jewish Film and Special Event Series at the Northampton Film Festival; Mak’hela, the Jewish Chorus of Western Massachusetts; the Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival; Schoen Books; and the Yiddish Book Center.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains miscellaneous items collected by the Jewish Historical Society of Western Massachusetts, including antisemitic and racist flyers, news clippings on the region, miscellaneous life cycle events of Western Massachusetts residents, and a proclamation made by the city of Springfield proclaiming May 23, 1990 Yom Yerushaliyim Day. Of particular interest may be the news clippings on Springfield's urban renewal efforts in the 1960s, which greatly affected the North End, where...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series includes meeting minutes, programs, brochures, correspondence, reports, newsletters, financial documents, anniversary booklets, scrapbooks, certificates, directories, and ephemera documenting various Jewish organizations of Western Massachusetts. Included are materials on the Springfield Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Federation of Western Massachusetts (formerly the Jewish Federation of Greater Springfield), as well as the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, Hadassah chapters...