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Congregation Adath Israel (Newtown, Conn.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-323
Abstract

Congregation Adath Israel was established in 1919 by a small group of Jewish farmers in Newtown, Connecticut. The synagogue expanded its building in 1957 and converted from the Orthodox movement to the Conservative movement in the 1970s. In 2007, they relocated to a larger building within Newtown. The collection primarily consists of administrative and financial records, along with newspaper clippings, photographs, and miscellaneous documents.

Dates: undated, 1909-1991

Congregation Adath Jeshurun (Boston, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: JHCI-002
Abstract This collection contains materials of the Congregation Adath Jeshurun, the founding institution of the Jewish community in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. The main materials cover the last twenty years of the congregation’s existence, a period marked by the decline of the Jewish population of Roxbury which ultimately resulted in the congregation’s demise. The main part of the collection consists of minute books that record the activities of the congregation during this period as well as...
Dates: undated, 1916-1991

Congregation Ahabot Sholom (Lynn, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-568
Abstract

Incorporated in 1901, Congregation Ahabat Sholom constructed a German Romanesque synagogue on Church Street, which was dedicated in 1905 during a ceremony lead by the congregation's first cantor, Benjamin Gordon. The congregation was one of Lynn’s several Jewish Orthodox congregations in the early 1900s. This collection contains administrative records, photographs, scrapbooks, and programmatic materials.

Dates: undated, 1982-2001

Congregation Anshai Sfard (Lynn, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-556
Abstract Congregation Anshai Sfard (Anshei, Anshe, Anshi) was an Orthodox Jewish synagogue established by Jewish immigrants in Lynn, Massachusetts from 1888 to December 1999. This collection contains a letterpress printing block used to print the incorporation papers, a large "Golden Book of Congregation Anshei Sfard," which includes an illuminated manuscript with hand-painted and gold-leafed elements, a donor list, newspaper clippings, and photographs; meeting minutes, several family history...
Dates: undated, 1899-2001

Jewish Historical Society of Western Massachusetts Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-600
Abstract

The Jewish Historical Society of Western Massachusetts Records contain materials collected by the society that document the Jewish community of Western Massachusetts. Included are materials on Jewish organizations, families, individuals, schools, arts and cultural institutions, and synagogues; publications written about or by the Jewish community; and information on the Jewish Historical Society of Western Massachusetts itself.

Dates: undated, 1902-2018

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

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

Temple Emanuel (Andover, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-442 and I-442A
Abstract

Temple Emanuel was founded in 1920 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. It began by serving a small immigrant Jewish community that has since grown to an affluent and lively congregation of about 600 families. This growth occurred largely under the tenure of Rabbi Harry A. Roth, who lead the congregation from 1962 until 1990 and oversaw the temple’s move to Andover, Massachusetts. This collection includes correspondence, photographs, and sermons.

Dates: 1939-2004

Vilna Shul (Boston, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-598
Abstract

The Vilna Shul is the last immigrant-era synagogue building in Boston and currently operates as a cultural center. This collection contains correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, proposals, photographs, notes, publications, financial records, legal documents, architectural plans, and audiovisual materials relating to the activities, internal proceedings, finances, early history, building renovations, and legal disputes of the Vilna Shul.

Dates: undated, 1904-2014

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Abrams, Ruth I. 1
Adath Jeshurun Cemetery Association 1
B'nai B'rith 1
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Central Conference of American Rabbis 1
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Close, Abraham 1
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston 1
Congregation Adath Israel (Newtown, Conn.) 1
Congregation Adath Jeshurun (Boston, Mass.) 1
Congregation Ahabat Sholom (Lynn, Mass.) 1
Congregation Ahabat Sholom (Lynn, Mass.). Sisterhood 1
Congregation Anshai Sfard (Lynn, Mass.) 1
Congregation B'nai Israel (Northampton, Mass.) 1
Congregation B'nai Jacob (Longmeadow, Mass.) 1
Congregation B'nai Torah (Longmeadow, Mass.) 1
Congregation Sons of Zion (Holyoke, Mass.) 1
Covich, Louis D. 1
Edelstein, Alan 1
Epstein, Louis M., 1887-1949 1
Fine, Arnold 1
Grossman, Benjamin 1
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America 1
Halbfinger, Abraham 1
Hatikvah Holocaust Education & Resource Center 1
Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts 1
Jewish Chaplaincy Council of Massachusetts 1
Jewish Community of Amherst (Amherst, Mass.) 1
Jewish Historical Society of Western Massachusetts 1
Jewish War Veterans of the United States, Inc. 1
Kashruth Commission (Mass.) 1
Korff, Samuel I. 1
Kraft, Harry 1
Law, Bernard A. 1
Massachusetts Board of Rabbis 1
Mizrachi Women’s Organization of America 1
Nadich, Judah, 1912-2007 1
National Yiddish Book Center (U.S.) 1
Nezvesky, Israel 1
Rabbinical Association of Greater Boston 1
Rabbinical Court of Justice (Mass.) 1
Rabinowitz, Jacob, 1885-1967 1
Roth, Harry A., 1924- 1
Roth, Lillian 1
Rubenowitz, Herman H. 1
Saltzman, Manual 1
Saval, Maurice 1
Schoen, Kenneth 1
Shubow, Joseph Shalom 1
Sinai Temple (Springfield, Mass.) 1
Synagogue Council of Massachusetts 1
Temple Beth El (Springfield, Mass.) 1
Temple Emanuel (Andover, Mass.) 1
Temple Israel (Greenfield, Mass.) 1
Teperow, Alan 1
Tichnor, Alan 1
Trigière, Jane 1
Union for Reform Judaism 1
Vaad Harabonim (Mass.) 1
Vilna Shul Congregation (Boston, Mass.) 1
Zaitchik, Samuel, 1920-2013 1
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