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This series contains records documenting the general business within the synagogue. This includes board meeting notes, copies of the by-laws, and membership lists and forms, as well as blank stationary, seating charts, and programs and yearbooks. The series also contains a copy of the Revere Holocaust Proclamation from 1994, an Operation Exodus commemoration print, and one box containing a tefillah and bag, two tallitot, and a tallit bag.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series includes programs, news clippings, newsletters and bulletins, eulogies, financial documents, membership lists and directories, photographs, anniversary booklets, meeting minutes, and correspondence on the numerous synagogues in the Western Massachusetts region, including Beis Medrash Lubavitch, Beit Ahavah, Chabad, Congregation Ahavas Achim, Congregation Beth Israel, Congregation B’nai Israel, Congregation B’nai Jacob, Congregation Rodphey Sholom, Congregation Sons of Israel,...

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The James Levinson Family Papers contains records relating to the activities, education, and achievement of various family members, with the bulk of the materials primarily focusing on James Levinson and his immediate relatives. There are several family artifacts, such as photographs, largely from the first half of the 20th century, a scrapbook, a photo album, awards, and a commemorative plaque. The “Scribe and Scroll” is a publication from the Temple Shalom Religious School, in Newton,...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This consists of correspondence, genealogical research notes and family group records, and copies of vital records for various family members, including marriage certificates and assorted documents related to the Massirman family's immigration to the United States. Included in this series are photographs of the panel on Ellis Island on which Sam and Sarah Rottenberg Massirman’s names are inscribed. One folder in the Massirman series contains newspaper clippings, a photograph, and...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This consists of correspondence, genealogical research notes and family group records, and copies of vital records for various family members, including marriage certificates and assorted documents related to the Massirman family's immigration to the United States. Included in this series are photographs of the panel on Ellis Island on which Sam and Sarah Rottenberg Massirman’s names are inscribed. One folder in the Massirman series contains newspaper clippings, a photograph, and...

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This subseries contains files on appearances and TV and radio interviews Ruttman conducted throughout the country to promote and publicize American Jews and America's Game, as well as articles and reviews, miscellaneous advertising and publicity, press releases, and sales information.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains materials related to Jewish organizations established in Peabody. These organizations include synagogues, community centers, cemetery associations, and charitable organizations, and fraternal clubs. Materials include minutes, membership lists, programs, awards, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and photographs. Of particular interest may be the records of the Chevara Kadisha of the Maple Hill Cemetery, which lists (in Hebrew) the names and dates of bodies ritually...

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This subseries contains family and personal photographs, including photographs of EWM and Melvin Mark’s wedding in 1951, a framed photograph of Sara Goldberg Wyner on her wedding day, and photographs taken by EWM.

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This series contains notes, programs, photographs, travel documents, and correspondence related to the personal lives of Avraham Hirsch and Hannah Schaiman Freedman. Included are family history notes from their daughter Kadima, official programs about the British royal family's visit Durban and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, and brochures, tickets, and menus related to their intercontinental voyages on the RMS Pretoria Castle and the RMS Queen Mary.

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This subseries contains correspondence, vital records, news clippings, and photographs chronicling the life of Joseph Freedman. Of particular interest may be a 1901 Imperial Russian Army draft notice.