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Hebrew Educational Alliance and Congregation Toras Moshe (Boston, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-231
Abstract The Hebrew Educational Alliance was formed in Roxbury, Massachusetts and built a community hall there in 1921, establishing an orthodox synagogue, Congregation Toras Moshe, soon after. The Congregation sold the land and merged with Congregation Kadimah of Brighton, MA in 1964 to form Congregation Kadimah-Toras Moshe. The collection contains administrative records, such as ledgers, insurance records, correspondence, and membership lists, as well as documents sent to members of the...
Dates: undated, circa 1949-1964

Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society Boston Port Records

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Identifier: I-96
Abstract The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) was founded in New York City in the 1880s by the Russian Jewish community of New York in response to the influx of Russian Jewish immigrants fleeing the pograms in the Pale of Settlement in Russia and Eastern Europe. In 1889, a shelter which was used to house many of the immigrants adopted the name “Hebrew Sheltering House Association.” This organization merged with HIAS in 1909 and by 1914, had branches operating in Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and...
Dates: undated, 1886-1977; Majority of material found within 1938-1954

Hebrew Teachers Association of Greater Boston Records

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Identifier: I-119
Abstract The Hebrew Teachers Association of Greater Boston was founded in 1909. Its primary purpose was to unite qualified Jewish educators and to provide for their material and spiritual status. The Association first developed a curriculum based on the Bible, the Hebrew language and Jewish history in 1918. It was revised by a committee including the greater Boston Hebrew school principals, the Bureau of Jewish Education and prominent rabbis in 1922. The Association was also involved with Jewish...
Dates: undated, 1934-1956

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

Herbert B. Ehrmann Papers

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Identifier: P-94
Abstract Contains correspondence, addresses and speeches, newspaper clippings, and published material relating primarily to Ehrmann's activity in the national and Boston chapter of the American Jewish Committee (1935-1970). Of special interest is material on the relation of the Committee to the American Jewish Conference (1943-1948), the relationship of American Jewry to the State of Israel, and the attitude of the Committee to the establishment of Israel. Also contains genealogical material, in...
Dates: undated, 1913-1970

Herbert Gorfinkle Papers

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Identifier: P-904
Abstract Herbert Gorfinkle was the eldest child and only son of Colonel Bernard and Frieda Gorfinkle of Newton, Massachusetts. Born in 1923, Gorfinkle came of age during World War II and entered the U.S. Army while an undergraduate at the University of New Hampshire. As a Tech 5 combat engineer, Gorfinkle was responsible for clearing landmines ahead of his advancing unit. He was also a trained army photographer, and aside from his letters home, he documented his years in the war with photographs. A...
Dates: undated, circa 1850s-2000

Interfor Club (Lynn, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-563
Abstract The Interfor Club of the North Shore was originally founded in 1930 by David L Winer, a Boston University Law School graduate, as the Brandeis Associates. Initially having twenty-two members who just graduated high school, the Interfor Club, which stands for Inter Collegiate Forum Club, began meeting at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association in Lynn. The collection is comprised of revisions to constitutions, event programs, financial records, photographs, scholarship information, member lists,...
Dates: undated, 1932-2000

Jewish Community of Lynn (Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-580
Abstract

This collection contains a range of materials documenting the Jewish community of Lynn, Massachusetts. Included are materials from Jewish-owned businesses, Jewish individuals and families, and Jewish organizations in Lynn.

Dates: undated, 1855-2010

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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Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941 4
Stone, Elihu David 4
United Jewish Appeal 4
Weizmann, Chaim, 1874-1952 4
Zionist Organization of America 4
American Jewish Committee 3
Congregation Adath Israel (Boston, Mass.) 3
Harvard Business School 3
Harvard University 3
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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