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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

 Collection
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

Frederick P. and Lucille Muhlhauser Family Papers

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Identifier: JHCP-015
Abstract

This collection documents the Muhlhauser, Einstein, Goodman, and to a lesser extent, the Warshing families. The collection primarily contains genealogical records, vital records, books, and photographs.

Dates: undated, 1863-1976

Kehillath Israel Synagogue (Brookline, Mass.) Records

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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

Larry Ruttman Papers

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Identifier: P-1033
Abstract

Lawerence A. (Larry) Ruttman is an attorney and author. This collection contains drafts, manuscripts, notes, research, correspondence, interviews, photographs, news clippings, book reviews, and VHS tapes documenting the research, writing, publication, and promotion of Ruttman’s two books, Voices of Brookline and American Jews and America's Game, as well as other work in the field of biographical cultural history.

Dates: undated, 1997-2015

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

Oscar and Celia Sterman Papers

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Identifier: P-875
Abstract Oscar and Celia (Kredenzer)Sterman both immigrated to the United States in 1906 from present day Ukraine and settled in Chelsea, Massachusetts after their marriage in 1910. They later moved to Brookline, Massachusetts where they raised their family and became increasingly involved in the establishment of the State of Israel. The Stermans donated funds for the construction of several buildings in Beersheba and Eilat, Israel, including a library, sports center, youth center, and also provided...
Dates: undated, 1939-2009

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

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Congregation Adath Israel (Boston, Mass.) 3
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Action for Soviet Jewry 1
Adath Jeshurun Cemetery Association 1
American Cancer Society 1
American Field Service 1
American Wrecking Company 1
Americans for Peace Now (Organization) 1
Baratz, Yosef 1
Ben-Zvi, Itzhak, 1884-1963 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
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Brand, Gertrude 1
Brand, Percy 1
Brandeis University 1
Brandeis University. Women’s Studies Research Center 1
Brookline Early Education Project 1
Brookline Public Schools 1
Brookline Town Meeting 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
Dukakis, Michael S. (Michael Stanley), 1933- 1
Einstein, Alfred 1
Einstein, Miriam Goodman 1
Epstein, Louis M., 1887-1949 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
Hamlin, Isaac 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
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009 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
Max Pine Trade Center 1
McCarthy, Eugene J. 1916-2005 1
Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (Boston, Mass.) 1
Muhlhauser, Frederick 1
Muhlhauser, Frederick P. 1
Muhlhauser, Lucille 1
Muhlhauser, Sigmund 1
Nadich, Judah, 1912-2007 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
Ruttman, Larry 1
Saltzman, Manual 1
Scheinfeldt, Florence Calish, 1895-1968 1
Scheinfeldt, Jean, 1924-2000 1
Scheinfeldt, Joseph Henry, 1894-1965 1
Shawmut Mills 1
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Shawmut, Inc. 1
Shir Hadash (Newton, Mass.) 1
Sperber, Robert Irwin 1
Spiro, Lionel 1
Sterman Health Center 1
Sterman, Celia Kredenser, 1886-1974 1
Sterman, Oscar, 1885-1969 1
Temple Emanuel (Newton, Mass.) 1
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