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American Technion Society, Boston Chapter, Women’s Division Records

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Identifier: I-434
Abstract The American Technion Society was founded in 1940 as an organization to aid the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, with the goal to aid the technological and scientific advancement of Israel. The Women’s Division, which was founded in 1956, did so by focusing its efforts on three main national programs: faculty recruitment, medical engineering, and student aid. Beginning in the 1970s, special interest was given to the Medical Engineering Project in the Medical School, a cause of...
Dates: undated, 1975-1991

Anshey Dowig Association (Boston, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-219
Abstract The Anshey Dowig Association began in the last quarter of the 19th century, initially as informal meetings for Jews from the region of Dowig, Lithuania, living in the Boston area. The association functioned as a benefit society for its members and in 1898, with the acquisition of burial plots in a cemetery in West Roxbury, it also established itself as a chevra kadisha or burial society. By the 1980s, as membership dropped, it began working towards reviving the...
Dates: 1887-1984

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

Beatrice Feingold Papers

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Identifier: P-621
Abstract Beatrice Miller Feingold was a past President of both the Worcester Section and New England Region of the National Council of Jewish Women. In addition, she was the first female Vice President of the Worcester Jewish Federation, Vice President of the Worcester Chapter of Brandeis University’s National Women’s Committee, and a board member of the Jewish Community Council and Jewish Family Services of Worcester. Feingold was also one of the founders of the Worcester Area Community Service, the...
Dates: undated, 1932-1986

Benjamin Rabalsky Papers

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Identifier: P-153
Abstract

A Boston lawyer, Hebrew scholar and Yiddish orator, Benjamin Rabalsky was involved in the local Zionist movement. A member of the American Jewish Congress, American Zion Commonwealth, Boston West End Jewish Liberty Loan Committee, Zion Association of Greater Boston and New England Zionist Region, he dedicated much of his time to Zionist causes. This collection contains a small amount of business correspondence and family correspondence.

Dates: undated, 1913-1932

Ber Boruchoff Papers

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Identifier: P-157
Abstract

Rabbi Ber Boruchoff was the first and longest serving rabbi for Congregation Beth Israel in Malden, Massachusetts. This collection contains ledgers with records of marriages performed in the Greater Boston area during the years 1906-1938, as well as some photographs and biographical information.

Dates: undated, 1906-1939

Bernard L. Gorfinkle Papers

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Identifier: P-664 and P-664A
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence, photographs, news clippings, ephemera and a scrapbook compiled by Bernard L. Gorfinkle, a Boston area lawyer and civic leader who served in the United States Army during both World Wars and was a participant in the negoriations leading to the Treaty of Versailled and the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

Dates: undated, 1914-1979

Bernard Weinberg Papers

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Identifier: P-668
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence from Bernard Weinronk of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, to his cousin Bernard Weinberg of Boston, Massachusetts. Also included are meeting minutes describing the goals, resolutions, and activities of Zionist groups in which Weinronk was active.

Dates: 1933-1935

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

B'nai B'rith Women Greater Lynn Chapter No. 367 (Lynn, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-588
Abstract

B’nai B’rith Women (now known as Jewish Women International) is an international women’s group that promotes advocacy for women and the Jewish community through education, advocacy, and social services. The Greater Lynn Chapter No. 367 began in 1942 as a women’s auxiliary of B’nai B’rith Greater Lynn Lodge. This collection contains an annual report, journals, awards, correspondence, news articles, photographs, and scrapbook.

Dates: undated, 1939-1989

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Zionist Organization of America 4
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Congregation Adath Israel (Boston, Mass.) 3
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Jewish War Veterans of the United States, Inc. 3
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009 3
Massachusetts Board of Rabbis 3
McCormack, John W., 1891-1980 3
National Jewish Welfare Board 3
Rabbinical Association of Greater Boston 3
Segal, Robert E. 3
Stone, Dewey David, 1900-1977 3
Temple Emanuel (Newton, Mass.) 3
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 3
Alpert, Abraham 2
American Zionist Council 2
B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League. 2
Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973 2
Boruchoff, Ber, 1872-1939 2
Boston Commission on Jewish Continuity 2
Boy Scouts of America 2
Bureau of Jewish Education (Boston, Mass.) 2
Central Conference of American Rabbis 2
Congregation Mishkan Tefila (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) 2
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 2
Curley, James Michael, 1874-1958 2
Dukakis, Michael S. (Michael Stanley), 1933- 2
Ehrmann, Herbert B. (Herbert Brutus), 1891-1970 2
Epstein, Louis M., 1887-1949 2
Epstein, Mary Wolfman, 1908-1998 2
Federated Jewish Charities (Boston, Mass.) 2
Federation of Jewish Charities of Boston 2
Girls’ Latin School (Boston, Mass.) 2
Goldstein, Israel 1896- 2
Gorfinkle, Bernard 2
Grossman, Benjamin 2
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America 2
Hebrew College (Newton Center, Newton, Mass.) 2
Hebrew Teachers College (Brookline, Mass.) 2
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 2
Hurwich, Louis, 1886-1967 2
Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston 2
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston 2
Jewish Heritage Center of the North Shore (Lynn, Mass.) 2
Jewish Historical Society of the North Shore 2
Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.) 2
Jewish Theological Seminary of America 2
Kallen, Horace Meyer, 1882-1974 2
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 2
Keren Hayesod 2
Levine, Harry, 1895-1977 2
Lipsky, Louis, 1876-1963 2
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924 2
Margolis, Daniel J. 2
Massachusetts. General Court 2
Meretz Relief Association (Boston, Mass.) 2
National Community Relations Advisory Council (U.S.) 2
New England Jewish Music Forum 2
Newman, Louis 2
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 2
Poale Zion (U.S.) 2
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (Wyncote, Pa.) 2
Sachar, Abram Leon, 1899-1993 2
Sharon Memorial Park 2
Shrage, Barry 2
Shubow, Joseph Shalom 2
Silver, Abba Hillel, 1893-1963 2
Snider, Eliot 2
Snider, Harry, 1889-1957 2
Temple Ohabei Shalom (Brookline, Mass.) 2
Temple Shalom of the Congregation Sons of Jacob (Salem, Mass.) 2
Touroff, Nissan, 1877-1953 2
Union of American Hebrew Congregations 2
United States. Congress 2
United Way of Massachusetts Bay 2
Weiner, Harry 2
Weinstein, Lewis H., 1905-. 2
Weisgal, Meyer Wolfe, 1894-1977 2
Winer, Louis 2
Workmen’s Circle (U.S.) 2
Young Men’s Hebrew Association (Lynn, Mass.) 2
Young Presidents' Organization (U.S.) 2
Abrams, Ruth I. 1
Abrams, Sam 1
Action for Soviet Jewry 1
Adath Jeshurun Cemetery Association 1
Aleph Zadik Aleph of the North Shore (Mass.) 1
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