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Arthur S. Obermayer Papers

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Identifier: P-1019
Abstract Arthur S. Obermayer was a scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He established his own research and development company, Moleculon Research Company, in the Boston area and was involved in numerous philanthropic and professional organizations, especially through his foundation, the Obermayer Foundation. Obermayer was also a political activist, and played a key role in establishing the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. This collection...
Dates: undated, 1897-2016

Beth Hamidrash Hagodol (Crawford Street Shul) (Roxbury, Boston, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-239
Abstract Beth Hamidrash Hagodol (known colloquially as the Crawford Street Shul), was founded in 1913 in a small house on Harold Street in Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts. In 1915, the cornerstone of the synagogue was placed at 105 Crawford Street in the Elm Hill District of Roxbury. The congregation elected Louis M. Epstein as their first Rabbi in 1918. This collection contains the business, activity and social records of Beth Hamidrash Hagodol, including correspondence, financial records, ledgers,...
Dates: undated, 1922-1924, 1933-1973

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

Chelsea-Revere Hebrew School (Chelsea, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-313
Abstract

The Chelsea-Revere School was established by Monas Berlin in 1896 and served the Chelsea, Massachusetts Jewish community until 1979. The collection contains the records of the institution and its activities including meeting minutes, financial records, correspondence, personnel manifests, memos, publications, photographs, memorial documents, and school function notices, as well as press materials in the form of newspaper clippings.

Dates: undated, 1939-1981

Chevra Kedusha (Boston, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-185
Abstract Chevra Kadusha of Boston is an independent, non-denominational organization of individuals, synagogues, universities and other Jewish institutions committed to making the full range of burial rituals accessible and available to the entire Jewish community. It was organized and instituted in 1856. The collection contains two versions of the constitution of Chevra Kedusha as well as the board minutes (1892-1904, 1911-1974), financial records (1933-1968), and a ledger recording payments of...
Dates: undated, 1856-1981

Dewey D. Stone Papers

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Identifier: P-529 and P-529A
Abstract Contains papers and photos including correspondence and other materials relating to work as Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (and Israel), as National Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, as a leading campaigner for Israel Bonds, and as co-founder of and Chairman of the Board of the Weizmann Institute of Science; 2 texts of radio broadcasts made in 1948 informing America about the Israeli war for independence and the new Israeli republic; a list of military equipment supplied by...
Dates: undated, 1916-1984

Farband Labor Zionist Order (Boston, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-534
Abstract

The Farband Labor Zionist Order was a Jewish fraternal organization founded in 1910 and chartered in New York in 1913. With branches across the United States and Canada, it functioned as a mutual aid society aligned with the Socialist and Zionist political party Poale Zion. The material in the collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, publications, press releases, photographs, meeting minutes, brochures, and memos.

Dates: undated, 1941-1984

Henry Wise Papers

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Identifier: P-944
Abstract Henry Wise was a Boston-area lawyer whose practice focused mainly on housing, fishing, and labor, three areas in which he crafted important local legislation. In 1942 he wrote to the Institute of Jewish Affairs, a research branch created by the American and World Jewish Congresses, inquiring after membership. The Institute of Jewish Affairs was made up primarily of scholars, who took a scientific approach towards researching Jewish life from the previous 25 years. They hoped to better...
Dates: 1941-2010

Jewish Community Relations Council Boston MacIver Report Records

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Identifier: I-78
Abstract

This collection contains materials collected by Boston’s JCRC, which monitored the situation as well as participated in the review of the report. Materials include news clippings, written reactions from the organizations, notes and correspondence from JCRC director Robert Segal, and the full report with recommendations, reactions and NCRAC action steps.

Dates: 1949-1953

Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston Records

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Identifier: I-123 and I-123A
Abstract This collection includes material preceding and relating to the founding of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston (JCRC), including early papers of the local American Jewish Committee and the Central Advisory Committee (a predecessor agency),the constitution and by-laws of the JCRC, material relating to organizational membership in and representation in the organizations, correspondence of the officers and staff, minutes of meetings and proceedings of its Administrative...
Dates: undated, 1933-2008

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National Community Relations Advisory Council (U.S.) 2
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Stone, Dewey David, 1900-1977 2
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Adath Jeshurun Cemetery Association 1
American Association of Small Research Companies 1
American Cancer Society 1
American Chemical Society. Northeastern Section 1
American Jewish Committee 1
Ampal-American Israel Corporation 1
B'nai B'rith 1
Babson College 1
Band, Maurice 1
Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973 1
Berlin, Monas 1
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Beth Hamidrash Hagodol (Crawford Street Shul) (Boston, Mass.) 1
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 1
Beth Israel Hospital (Boston, Mass.) 1
Boston University 1
Boston Workers Circle (Brookline, Mass.) 1
Boy Scouts of America 1
Brooke, Edward W. (Edward William), 1919-2015 1
Brookline Town Meeting 1
Brown, Meyer 1
Burke, James A., 1910-1983 1
Bush, George Herbert Walker 1924- 1
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Central High School (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Chelsea-Revere Hebrew School 1
Chevra Kedusha (Boston, Mass.) 1
Close, Abraham 1
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Congregation Adath Israel (Boston, Mass.) 1
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Crawford Street Shul (Boston, Mass.) 1
Cushing, Richard, 1895-1970 1
Donohue, Harold 1
Dukakis, Michael S. (Michael Stanley), 1933- 1
Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959 1
Eban, Abba Solomon, 1915-2002 1
Edelstein, Alan 1
Epstein, Louis M., 1887-1949 1
Farband Labor Zionist Order (U.S.) 1
Farband Labor Zionist Order (U.S.). E-S Department 1
Farband Labor Zionist Order. Boston Branch. 1
Filene, A. Lincoln, b. 1865 1
Fine, Arnold 1
Food Marketing Institute 1
Ford, Henry, II, 1917-1987 1
Globe Newspaper Co. 1
Goldberg, Avram J. 1
Goldberg, Carol R. 1
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America. Boston Chapter 1
Halbfinger, Abraham 1
Harvard University 1
Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Foundation 1
Hebrew Free Loan Association of Pittsfield, Mass. 1
Hyams, Ben 1
Institute for Jewish Policy Research 1
Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts 1
Jewish Chaplaincy Council of Massachusetts 1
Jewish Community Relations Council (New York, N.Y.) 1
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston 1
Jewish National Fund 1
Jewish War Veterans of the United States, Inc. 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 1
Jüdisches Museum Creglingen 1
Kallen, Horace Meyer, 1882-1974 1
Kashruth Commission (Mass.) 1
Katzman, Jacob, 1911- 1
Kerry, John F. 1943- 1
Kollek, Teddy, 1911-2007 1
Korff, Samuel I. 1
Kraft, Harry 1
Labor Zionist Alliance (U.S.) 1
Levy, Beryl Harold, 1908-1995 1
MacIver, Robert M. (Robert Morrison), 1882-1970 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1
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Meir, Golda, 1898-1978 1
Mekhon Ṿaitsman le-madaʻ 1
Meretz Relief Association (Boston, Mass.) 1
Moleculon Research Corporation 1
National Jewish Workers Alliance (U.S.) 1
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