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Hebrew Free Loan Society (Boston, Mass.) Records
Collection
Identifier: I-115
Abstract
The Hebrew Free Loan Society was organized in 1912 to assist those in need of temporary financial relief. Formed in the wake of increasing immigration from Eastern Europe and the proliferation of urban poverty, the Society also became a constituent of the Federation of Jewish Charities. These records document the Society’s major operations and include administrative articles, in meeting minutes, and financial reports and statements.
Dates:
undated, 1912-1974
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society Boston Port Records
Collection
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
Collection
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
Helen Golden Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: JHCP-031
Abstract
Helen Phyllis Golden was born in Boston, Mass. in 1922. This collection contains the scrapbook of Helen's life; featuring her family and friends in Dorchester and Mattapan, as well as vacations to Nantasket Beach.
Dates:
Majority of material found in undated, 1930-1950
Henry Wise Papers
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Icik Benkovitz Papers
Collection
Identifier: JHCP-005
Abstract
This collection contains marriage and divorce records performed by Rabbi Icik Benkovitz in Chelsea, Massachusetts and surrounding cities and towns. A searchable database of the marriage records is also available.
Dates:
1922-1956
Ilan Fisher Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-1013
Abstract
Author and photographer Ilan Fisher was born and lives in Sharon, Massachusetts, where he owned Great Impression, a company that provided event videography services. He also contributed columns to the Sharon Advocate and other local publications, and in 2002, his stories were collected in the book The Carnie Kid Tells All. Fisher’s papers primarily contain invitations from events Great Impression recorded, along with a small...
Dates:
undated, circa 1964-2009
Immigrants Mutual Aid Society, Inc. Records
Collection
Identifier: I-109
Abstract
Contains the papers of the Society founded in 1938 by recent German speaking Jewish immigrants to Boston to assist their initial adjustment to the economic, cultural, spiritual, and social life of the American community and subsequently, to provide mutual assistance to its membership and aid to other immigrants.The collection consists of the Society's by-laws (1953, 1956, 1964); handwritten notes with the names of Officers and Directors (1949-1961), plans for cultural and social...
Dates:
undated, 1938-1980
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- Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941 6
- Jewish War Veterans of the United States, Inc. 6
- Stone, Elihu David 6
- Temple Ohabei Shalom (Brookline, Mass.) 6
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- Zionist Organization of America 6
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- Federated Jewish Charities (Boston, Mass.) 5
- Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America 5
- Temple Emanuel (Newton, Mass.) 5
- Winer, Louis 5
- Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949 5
- Federation of Jewish Charities of Boston 4
- Hebrew Teachers College (Brookline, Mass.) 4
- Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston 4
- Jewish Heritage Center of the North Shore (Lynn, Mass.) 4
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- Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009 4
- Massachusetts Board of Rabbis 4
- National Jewish Welfare Board 4
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- Weinstein, Lewis H., 1905-. 4
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- Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973 3
- Boston Commission on Jewish Continuity 3
- Boy Scouts of America 3
- Central Conference of American Rabbis 3
- Congregation Mishkan Tefila (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) 3
- Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds 3
- Dukakis, Michael S. (Michael Stanley), 1933- 3
- Epstein, Louis M., 1887-1949 3
- Gorfinkle, Bernard 3
- Harvard Business School 3
- Hebrew College (Newton Center, Newton, Mass.) 3
- Hurwich, Louis, 1886-1967 3
- Independent Order Brith Abraham of the United States of America 3
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 3
- Levine, Harry, 1895-1977 3
- Liebman, Joshua Loth, 1907-1948 3
- McCormack, John W., 1891-1980 3
- National Community Relations Advisory Council (U.S.) 3
- Rabbinical Association of Greater Boston 3
- Sachar, Abram Leon, 1899-1993 3
- Segal, Robert E. 3
- Shanok, Morton 3
- Shrage, Barry 3
- Shubow, Joseph Shalom 3
- Stone, Dewey David, 1900-1977 3
- Szold, Henrietta, 1860-1945 3
- Temple B’nai Abraham (Beverly, Mass.) 3
- Temple Israel (Boston, Mass) 3
- Temple Shalom of the Congregation Sons of Jacob (Salem, Mass.) 3
- Workmen’s Circle (U.S.) 3
- Action for Soviet Jewry 2
- Adath Jeshurun Cemetery Association 2
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- American Zionist Council 2
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- Benkovitz, Icik 2
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- B’nai B’rith Women 2
- Cambridge Hebrew Women's Aid Society 2
- Combined Jewish Appeal (Boston, Mass.) 2
- Congregation Anshai Sfard (Lynn, Mass.) 2
- Congregation Shirat Hayam (Swampscott, Mass.) 2
- Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 2
- Curley, James Michael, 1874-1958 2
- Cushing, Richard, 1895-1970 2
- Ehrmann, Herbert B. (Herbert Brutus), 1891-1970 2
- Epstein, Mary Wolfman, 1908-1998 2
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- Goldstein, Israel 1896- 2
- Gordon, Albert Isaac, 1903-1968 2
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- Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 2
- Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts 2
- Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston 2
- Jewish Federation of the North Shore 2
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