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Boston Workers (Workmen's) Circle Records

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Identifier: I-494
Abstract Created to provide mutual aid and education, The Workmen's Circle was established in New York in 1900 and officially chartered in 1905. Massachusetts established an Independent Workmen's Circle in 1903 to maneuver around prohibitive insurance laws, but was able to unify with the national organization in 1921. Several chapters were operational in Massachusetts by 1911. The Boston District often mirrored National's development, including the establishment of cemeteries, a chorus, a camp, and...
Dates: undated, 1927-1999

Elizabeth Wyner Mark Papers

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Identifier: P-991
Abstract Dr. Elizabeth Wyner Mark was a psychologist and author. This collection contains her education records from elementary school to her post-graduate studies; family correspondence, primarily sent to Elizabeth and her husband, Melvin; journals, diaries and various family legal papers; family photographs as well as photographs taken by Elizabeth; and the research and manuscript drafts of her publications, particularly The Covenant of Circumcision, which she...
Dates: undated, 1903-2007

Evelyn B. and Janot S. Roskin Papers

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Identifier: P-685
Abstract This collection contains items relating to the Roskin, Borofsky, and Grosbayne families, with special focus on the musical contributions of Evelyn B. (née Borofsky) and Janot S. Roskin, which make up the bulk of the collection. A smaller portion of the collection comes from the Borofsky and Grosbayne families, including Jacob and Ida Borofsky, Evelyn's sister, Edith Borofsky and her husband, Mitchell Grosbayne and his brother, Benjamin. The collection includes publicity photographs,...
Dates: undated, circa 1903-1989

Lionel Spiro Papers

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Identifier: P-1032
Abstract This collection contains business records, correspondence, news clippings, photographs, meeting minutes, memoranda, architectural plans, promotional materials, publications, and reports documenting the personal, professional, and charitable life of Lionel Spiro. It contains materials on the 1964 founding of Charrette, an art and architectural supply company he co-founded, and its subsequent growth into a national enterprise, as well as Spiro’s work with various organizations, including the...
Dates: undated, 1909-2013

Mary Wolfman Epstein Papers

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Identifier: P-998
Abstract

Mary Wolfman Epstein was a singer, playwright, director, vocal teacher, and talent manager in the Boston area. Epstein worked with many Jewish and secular organizations, and she co-founded the New England Jewish Music Forum. She wrote over 30 original musicals, most of which were based on Jewish themes or individuals. This collection contains news clippings, photographs, recordings, correspondence, sheet music, scripts, and performance programs.

Dates: undated, 1908-1998

New England Jewish Music Forum Records

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Identifier: I-270
Abstract

The New England Jewish Music Forum was a non-profit organization created in 1958 committed to presenting performances of Jewish music in the Boston area. The organization closed its doors in 1990 after thirty-two years due to financial hardship and low membership. The collection includes meeting minutes, by-laws, and finances, as well as photographs of forum events, performance programs and brochures, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and concert files.

Dates: undated, 1953-1990

Percy Brand Papers

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Identifier: P-865
Abstract Percy Brand was a violinist by profession and Holocaust survivor. Born in Liepaja, Latvia on April 2, 1908, he began playing violin at the age of ten. In 1941, when the Germans took control of Latvia and other Baltic countries, Brand was concertmaster of the Riga Latvian Symphony Orchestra. After the SS Einsatzgruppen units occupying Latvia killed his first wife and two children, Brand was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Playing the violin saved his life during the...
Dates: undated, 1949-1995

Robert Irwin Sperber Papers

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Identifier: P-976
Abstract Dr. Robert Irwin Sperber is an educator, former superintendent of Brookline Public Schools, professor and administrator at Boston University School of Education. He was responsible for pioneering and implementing a variety of programs, including Brookline Early Education Program (BEEP), the the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) inter-district busing program, and Facing History and Ourselves. This collection contains curriculum, speeches, meeting minutes, handbooks,...
Dates: undated, 1952-2010

Scheinfeldt Family Papers

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Identifier: P-1006
Abstract

The collection contains papers of the Scheinfeldt and Calish families with the bulk of the materials chronicling the achievements and nursing career of Jean Scheinfeldt, the daughter of Joseph Henry and Florence Calish Scheinfeldt. The materials in this collection include birth and death certificates, a marriage certificate, other certificates and awards, ephemera, photographs, and artifacts.

Dates: undated, circa 1882-2000

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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Congregation Adath Israel (Boston, Mass.) 3
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Epstein, Mary Wolfman, 1908-1998 2
Harvard University 2
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009 2
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New England Jewish Music Forum 2
Action for Soviet Jewry 1
Adath Jeshurun Cemetery Association 1
American Cancer Society 1
Americans for Peace Now (Organization) 1
Bernstein, Julius 1
Berry, Yale J. 1
Borofsky, Ida S., 1883-1982 1
Borofsky, Jacob, 1880-1965 1
Boston Athenæum 1
Boston College 1
Boston College. School of Nursing 1
Boston Higher Education Partnership 1
Boston Leadership Academy 1
Boston Redevelopment Authority 1
Boston Society of Architects 1
Boston University. School of Education 1
Boston University. School of Nursing 1
Boston Workers Circle (Brookline, Mass.) 1
Brand, Gertrude 1
Brand, Percy 1
Brandeis University 1
Brandeis University. Women’s Studies Research Center 1
Brooke, Edward W. (Edward William), 1919-2015 1
Brookline Early Education Project 1
Brookline Public Schools 1
Brookline Town Meeting 1
Burke, James A., 1910-1983 1
Bush, George Herbert Walker 1924- 1
Carter, James E. 1935- 1
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston 1
Congregation Beth-El Zedeck (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1
Donohue, Harold 1
Dukakis, Michael S. (Michael Stanley), 1933- 1
Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation 1
Fromm, Herbert 1
Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983 1
Grosbayne, Benjamin, 1893-1976 1
Grosbayne, Mitchell 1
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America. Boston Chapter 1
Harvard Alumni Association 1
Harvard Club of Boston 1
Harvard University. Graduate School of Design 1
Harvard University. Graduate School of Education 1
Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Foundation 1
Hebrew Free Loan Association of Pittsfield, Mass. 1
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 1
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 1
Jewish Community Relations Council (New York, N.Y.) 1
Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.) 1
Kerry, John F. 1943- 1
Kessler, Minuetta 1
Latvijas nacionālais simfoniskais ork̦estris 1
Levittown (N.Y.). Board of Education 1
Lowell Model for Educational Excellence 1
Mark, Elizabeth Wyner 1
Mark, Melvin 1
Massachusetts College of Art 1
Massachusetts College of Art and Design 1
McCarthy, Eugene J. 1916-2005 1
Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (Boston, Mass.) 1
National Association of Teachers of Singing (U.S.) 1
New England Chassidic Center 1
New Israel Fund 1
O’Neill, Tip 1
Pittsburgh Board of Public Education (Pa.) 1
Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District (Plainview, N.Y.) 1
Radcliffe College 1
Republicans for McCarthy 1
Ritz-Carlton Hotels (Firm) 1
Roskin, Evelyn Borofsky, 1903-1967 1
Roskin, Janot S. 1
Scheinfeldt, Florence Calish, 1895-1968 1
Scheinfeldt, Jean, 1924-2000 1
Scheinfeldt, Joseph Henry, 1894-1965 1
Shawmut Mills 1
Shawmut Woolen Mills 1
Shawmut, Inc. 1
Shir Hadash (Newton, Mass.) 1
Sperber, Robert Irwin 1
Spiro, Lionel 1
Temple Emanuel (Newton, Mass.) 1
Trustees of Public Reservations (Mass.) 1
Tufts University 1
Union of American Hebrew Congregations 1
United Way of Massachusetts Bay 1
Weiner, Lazar, 1897-1982 1
Workmen's Circle (U.S.). Cemetery Department 1
Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring 1
Workmen’s Circle (U.S.) 1
Wyner, George 1
Wyner, Gertrude (Gussie) Edelman 1
Wyner, Gloria Geller 1
Wyner, Justin Lawrence 1
Wyner, Rudolph H. 1
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