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Rehabilitation Services (Boston, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-256
Abstract Rehabilitation Services of Boston, Massachusetts was sponsored by the Jewish community to assist prisoners in Massachusetts correctional facilities, and focused on developing services for Jewish inmates. The organization was concerned with problems in correctional programs, available rehabilitation services, and general care for Jewish inmates. This collection contains a list of Jewish inmates in three correctional facilities, correspondence pertaining to inmates, their care, parole and...
Dates: undated, 1954-1984

Robert Silverman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: P-1014
Abstract Robert Silverman was an early leader in American Zionism, taking part in and establishing multiple Zionist organizations in his more than forty years in the movement. This collection consists primarily of documents and photographs related to Silverman’s Zionist work. Documents include correspondence and printed materials from various organizations with which Silverman was involved and pamphlets, maps, and newspaper clippings related to Israel and Palestine. The photographs mainly depict...
Dates: undated, circa 1899-1965

Synagogue Council of Massachusetts Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-454
Abstract The Synagogue Council of Massachusetts was founded in 1941 as the Associated Synagogues of Greater Boston (and later the Associated Synagogues of Massachusetts). The documents in this collection describe the proceedings and activities of the Synagogue Council of Massachusetts, as well as those of its affiliated organizations, including the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis, the Rabbinical Association of Greater Boston, the Kashruth Commission, the Beth Din, and the Jewish Chaplaincy Council....
Dates: undated, 1908-2014

The Barbara Gaffin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: JHCP-017
Abstract This collection contains materials related to the life and work of Barbara Gaffin, with a particular focus on her efforts to raise awareness about and assist Ethiopian Jews and to build ties between Bostonian Jews and their sister community of Jews in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. The collection also contains some materials about Gaffin’s activities relating to Yemeni and Soviet Jews. Included are newspaper clippings, correspondence, records of speaking engagements, writings, travel records,...
Dates: Majority of material found in undated, 1956-2019

The Sam (Simche) Katz Collection

 Item — Box: 1
Identifier: JHCP-019
Abstract

This collection contains photographs and architectural drawings depicting 14 of the aron kodesh, or holy arks, created by early 20th century Russian woodworker Sam Katz. Also included are dedication programs, 3 snapshot portraits of Katz, and newspaper clippings relating to several congregations which feature Katz's holy arks.

Dates: 1910-1933, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1991, undated

United Kosher Butchers Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-118
Abstract

Consists of an audited report of the finances of the association, from the time of its establishment until February 18, 1929. One of the schedules notes the members of the association with their addresses; material pertaining to a kosher meat controversy including a circular from Rabbi M. Klachko and correspondence regarding the controversy, a summary of the event and identity of the various participants and a humorous invitation to a meeting of the Association and one photograph.

Dates: undated, 1928-1929

Wyner Family Papers

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Identifier: P-803
Abstract The Wyner Family Papers document the personal, professional, organizational and philanthropic activities of three generations of a prominent Boston Jewish family. The documents describe the operations of the family knitting and textile businesses, the building and management of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel of Boston and the development and operations of the Beth Israel Hospital of Boston (1926-2001.) This collection describes the Wyner family's involvement in a wide variety of organizations, both...
Dates: undated, 1863-2004

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Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston 8
Weizmann, Chaim, 1874-1952 4
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Stone, Elihu David 3
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American Jewish Congress 2
B'nai B'rith 2
Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973 2
Congregation Adath Israel (Boston, Mass.) 2
Epstein, Louis M., 1887-1949 2
Goldstein, Israel 1896- 2
Grossman, Benjamin 2
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 2
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009 2
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 2
Keren Hayesod 2
Levine, Harry, 1895-1977 2
Lipsky, Louis, 1876-1963 2
Massachusetts Board of Rabbis 2
Rabbinical Association of Greater Boston 2
Shubow, Joseph Shalom 2
Temple Ohabei Shalom (Brookline, Mass.) 2
Weisgal, Meyer Wolfe, 1894-1977 2
Zionist Organization of America 2
Action for Soviet Jewry 1
Adath Jeshurun Cemetery Association 1
Aizenstat, Harry 1
Aizenstat, Sarah Freedman 1
Allen, Frank G. 1
Alpert, Abraham 1
Alpert, Helen 1
American Association of Small Research Companies 1
American Cancer Society 1
American Chemical Society. Northeastern Section 1
American Jewish Committee 1
American Zion Commonwealth, Inc. 1
American Zionist Council 1
Ampal-American Israel Corporation 1
Aronov, Moshe 1
Aronowski, Eliezer 1
Associated Jewish Philanthropies (Boston, Mass.) 1
Avukah, American Student Zionist Federation 1
B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League. 1
Bailen, Samuel L. 1
Baruch, Bernard Mannes, 1870-1965 1
Beerman, Jacob 1
Berry, Yale J. 1
Beth El Synagogue (New Rochelle, N.Y.) 1
Beth Hamidrash Hagodol (Crawford Street Shul) (Boston, Mass.) 1
Beth Israel Hospital (Boston, Mass.) 1
Bevis, Howard L. (Howard Landis), 1885-1968 1
Bloomfield, Meyer 1
Bnai Zion (Organization) 1
Boston Commission on Jewish Continuity 1
Boston University 1
Boy Scouts of America 1
Brand, Gertrude 1
Brand, Percy 1
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941 1
Braslavsky, Solomon G., 1887-1975 1
Brookline Town Meeting 1
Brown, Meyer 1
Bureau of Jewish Education (Boston, Mass.) 1
Bush, George Herbert Walker 1924- 1
Butler, William M. (William Morgan), 1861-1937 1
B’nai Zion Educational Society 1
Carter, James E. 1935- 1
Central High School (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Chayet, B. L. 1
Close, Abraham 1
Concerned Jewish Students of Greater Boston 1
Congregation Adath Israel (Newtown, Conn.) 1
Congregation Anshe Sfard (Peabody, Mass.) 1
Congregation Beth Israel (Baldwin Place Shul) (Boston, Mass.) 1
Congregation Kadimah (Brighton, Boston, Mass.) 1
Congregation Kadimah-Toras Moshe (Brighton, Boston, Mass.) 1
Congregation Linath Hatzedek-Beth Israel(Chelsea, Mass.) 1
Congregation Mishkan Tefila (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) 1
Congregation Mishkan Tefila (Chestnut Hill, Mass.). Board of Trustees 1
Congregation Sons of Israel (Peabody, Mass.) 1
Congregation Tifereth Israel (Peabody, Mass.) 1
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 1
Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds 1
Covich, Louis D. 1
Cox, Channing H. (Channing Harris), 1879-1968 1
Crawford Street Shul (Boston, Mass.) 1
Curley, James Michael, 1874-1958 1
Cushing, Richard, 1895-1970 1
Davis, Charles K., 1854-1918 1
Davis, Ida (Fletcher), b. 1855/1856 1
Davis, Max X., b. 1861 1
Dukakis, Michael S. (Michael Stanley), 1933- 1
Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959 1
Eban, Abba Solomon, 1915-2002 1
Edelstein, Alan 1
Editions Balland (Paris, France) 1
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