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Jewish Federation of the North Shore (Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-572
Abstract The Jewish Federation of the North Shore was founded in 1938 in Lynn, Massachusetts with the objective to support organizations that helped enrich the Jewish community on the North Shore and abroad. After a period of declining donations and to consolidate services, the JFNS Board of Directors voted to merge the organization with the Combined Jewish Philanthropies in 2013. The collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings and publications from JFNS, as well as a large group of...
Dates: undated, circa 1926-2007

Jewish Historical Committee (Boston, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-137
Abstract

The Jewish Historical Committee (originally called the Committee on Archives) was sponsored by the Associated Synagogues of Greater Boston, and was intended to collect and preserve material related to the Jewish communal life of Greater Boston. The idea of the committee was first conceived at a meeting of the Rabbinical Association of Greater Boston. This collection contains minutes from the first three meetings.

Dates: 1947

Jewish Memorial Hospital and Rehabilitation Center (Boston, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-336
Abstract The records provide material relating to the accreditation, fundraising, management, planning, policies, programs, and public relations of a hospital that continues to serve the Greater Boston area. The records includes correspondence of various Presidents, Board Members, and Executive Directors; Board and committee minutes; scrapbooks, photographs, videotape, and film created by the Public Relations department; records of various Auxiliary groups; correspondence, reports, surveys, and other...
Dates: undated, 1915-1999

Jewish Neighborhood Voices

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Identifier: JHCP-022
Abstract Jewish Neighborhood Voices: Using Oral History to Link Massachusetts’s Past and Present Communities is a pilot project of the Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center (JHC), funded by Mass Humanities/Massachusetts Cultural Council and Combined Jewish Philanthropies. This project conducted approximately 20 oral history interviews with narrators (interviewees) who are the first- or second-generation members of families that came to the United States in the early to mid-twentieth century, and...
Dates: 2022 - 2023

Jewish Vocational Aid Society (Boston, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-216
Abstract The Jewish Vocational Aid Society of Boston, founded by Mrs. Margaret Davidson and incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts in 1907 as the Jewish Children's Aid Society; original purpose was in aiding destitute Jewish children. In 1936 became known as the Jewish Vocational Aid Society; members focused efforts on raising funds for needy Jewish students. Later, eligibility for scholarships was expanded to include non-Jewish students as well. In 1973 was forced to transfer most of its funds...
Dates: undated, 1910-1985

Jewish Welfare Centre (South End, Boston, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-435
Abstract

This collection contains a ledger recording the Jewish Welfare Centre of the South End's disbursement of funds to individuals and families in need, as well as individual and organizational donations it recieved.

Dates: 1918-1930

Jews of Tachau (Czech Republic) Papers

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Identifier: JHCP-007
Abstract This collection contains material pertaining mainly to four families from the city of Tachau, Czechoslovakia, the Glaubers, Langschurs, Steiners, and Wolfners. These families are all related either through marriage or through common ancestors, there is also material for extended family. Included in the collections is genealogical research, family histories, family trees, photographs, memoirs, correspondence, cookbooks, personal papers and documents, and family film reels. Items trace the...
Dates: undated, 1910-2019

Kadimah Zionist Club (Boston, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-116
Abstract There is little information on the Kadimah Zionist Club as an organization other than being a regional branch of the Zionist Organization of America. Past presidents included Benjamin Rabalsky, Morris Rabinovitz, and Max Miller. The club occupied two locations, 27 School Street in Boston in 1929 and by 1934 and 1935, Barristers Hall, also in Boston. This collection contains the records of the Kadimah Zionist Club, 1929-1935. It includes a membership list for January 1929, letters sent to...
Dates: undated, 1929-1935

Kallin Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: P-1021
Abstract

This collection contains the papers of the Kallin family, with the bulk of the materials chronicling Ralph (Tkach) Kallin’s involvement with Piaterer Feirhein and the Sons of Israel organizations. The materials in this collection include correspondence, photos, newspaper clippings, ephemera, meeting minutes, and flyers.

Dates: undated, 1922-1946

Kehillath Israel Synagogue (Brookline, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-488
Abstract The Kehillath Israel Synagogue Collection includes numerous photographs, publications and event information pertaining to services, fundraisers and anniversaries at the Synagogue from its first official year in 1924 to more recently, 2001. The primary bulk of the papers consist of photographs, K.I. Brotherhood papers and ephemera, and activities supported by the Synagogue. Kehillath Israel was home to noteworthy Rabbis, including Louis M. Epstein, Judah Nadich, and Manual Saltzman....
Dates: undated, 1924-2001

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Jewish lawyers 9
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Fall River (Mass.) 8
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Jewish community centers 6
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New Haven (Conn.) 5
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Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston 24
B'nai B'rith 9
Brandeis University 9
Associated Jewish Philanthropies (Boston, Mass.) 8
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Harvard University 7
Jewish National Fund 7
Beth Israel Hospital (Boston, Mass.) 6
Temple Ohabei Shalom (Brookline, Mass.) 6
United Jewish Appeal 6
Weizmann, Chaim, 1874-1952 6
American Jewish Committee 5
American Jewish Congress 5
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941 5
Federated Jewish Charities (Boston, Mass.) 5
Temple Emanuel (Newton, Mass.) 5
Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949 5
Zionist Organization of America 5
Federation of Jewish Charities of Boston 4
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America 4
Hebrew Teachers College (Brookline, Mass.) 4
Massachusetts Board of Rabbis 4
National Jewish Welfare Board 4
Stone, Elihu David 4
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 4
Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973 3
Boston Commission on Jewish Continuity 3
Congregation Mishkan Tefila (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) 3
Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds 3
Dukakis, Michael S. (Michael Stanley), 1933- 3
Epstein, Louis M., 1887-1949 3
Gorfinkle, Bernard 3
Harvard Business School 3
Jewish Theological Seminary of America 3
Jewish War Veterans of the United States, Inc. 3
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009 3
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 3
Liebman, Joshua Loth, 1907-1948 3
McCormack, John W., 1891-1980 3
National Community Relations Advisory Council (U.S.) 3
Rabbinical Association of Greater Boston 3
Shrage, Barry 3
Szold, Henrietta, 1860-1945 3
Temple Israel (Boston, Mass) 3
Weinstein, Lewis H., 1905-. 3
Action for Soviet Jewry 2
Alpert, Abraham 2
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 2
American Zionist Council 2
Avukah, American Student Zionist Federation 2
B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League. 2
Boruchoff, Ber, 1872-1939 2
Boston University 2
Boy Scouts of America 2
Bureau of Jewish Education (Boston, Mass.) 2
B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundations 2
Cambridge Hebrew Women's Aid Society 2
Central Conference of American Rabbis 2
Combined Jewish Appeal (Boston, Mass.) 2
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 2
Curley, James Michael, 1874-1958 2
Cushing, Richard, 1895-1970 2
Epstein, Mary Wolfman, 1908-1998 2
Girls’ Latin School (Boston, Mass.) 2
Goldstein, Israel 1896- 2
Gordon, Albert Isaac, 1903-1968 2
Grossman, Benjamin 2
Harvard Law School 2
Hebrew College (Newton Center, Newton, Mass.) 2
Hebrew Free Loan Association of Pittsfield, Mass. 2
Herter, Christian Archibald, 1895-1966 2
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 2
Hurwich, Louis, 1886-1967 2
Independent Order Brith Abraham of the United States of America 2
Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007 2
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 2
Kallen, Horace Meyer, 1882-1974 2
Keren Hayesod 2
Korff, Samuel I. 2
Levine, Harry, 1895-1977 2
Lipsky, Louis, 1876-1963 2
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924 2
Lown, Philip W., 1890- 2
Margolis, Daniel J. 2
Massachusetts. General Court 2
Massachusetts. Superior Court 2
Meir, Golda, 1898-1978 2
Meretz Relief Association (Boston, Mass.) 2
Morros, Boris, 1891-1963 2
Morse, Leopold, 1831-1892 2
New England Jewish Music Forum 2
Newman, Louis 2
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 2
Poale Zion (U.S.) 2
Radcliffe College 2
Ratshesky, Abraham C. 2
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (Wyncote, Pa.) 2
Rubenovitz, Herman H. 2
Sachar, Abram Leon, 1899-1993 2
Schindler, Solomon, 1842-1915 2
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