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Albert I. Gordon Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-86
Abstract
Albert I. Gordon was a Rabbi, author, and sociologist. Rabbi of Temple Israel of Washington Heights, New York (1929-1930), Adath Jeshurun in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1930-1946) and Temple Emanuel in Newton, Massachusetts (1949-1968), Rabbi Gordon also served as Executive Director of the United Synagogue of America (1946-1949) and wrote numerous articles and pamphlets, as well as the books Jews in Transition, Jews in Suburbia, ...
Dates:
undated, 1915-1971
Aleph Zadik Aleph of the North Shore (Mass.) Records
Collection
Identifier: I-555
Abstract
Aleph Zadik Aleph, known almost exclusively as AZA, was founded in Omaha, Nebraska in 1924 as a local social and service group for young Jewish men. Eventually the AZA separated itself from its role as the official youth auxiliary of B'nai B'rith and continues to operate today as the BBYO (B'nai B'rith Youth Organization). This collection contains correspondence, pamphlets, governance documents and promotional material from AZA chapters on the North Shore (Chelsea, Everett, Lynn, and...
Dates:
undated, 1941-1998
Alpha Phi Pi, Alpha Delta Chapter (Lynn, Mass.) Records
Collection
Identifier: I-562
Abstract
Organized in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1931, the Alpha Delta Chapter was accepted into the national Alpha Phi Pi Jewish high school fraternity in 1932. After a period of dormancy, the Chapter was briefly reactivated in 1953 and an Alpha Delta Alumni group was formed in 1954. The material in this collection includes event programs and invitations, correspondence, photographs, news clippings and bulletins, Convention yearbooks, and a map and guide to Boston.
Dates:
undated, 1932-1993
Altman and Spiewak Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-831
Abstract
The Altman and Spiewak Family Papers primarily document the Altman family of Boston through the lens of Barbara Altman Spiewak. Frank and Ethel Task Altman raised their children, Barbara and Stanley, in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Barbara was a graduate of Simmons College and was a librarian in the Boston area. This collection includes Frank Altman’s Navy records, baby books, yearbooks, family photographs and a memoir written by Barbara Altman Spiewak. It also includes a memoir written by Robert...
Dates:
undated, 1920-1985
American Physicians and Friends for Medicine in Israel Records
Collection
Identifier: I-586
Abstract
The American Physicians and Friends for Medicine in Israel (APF) is an organization of physicians and health care professionals whose aims are to advance the state of medical education, research and care in Israel and to advance relationships between the health care communities of North America and Israel. This collection contains materials relating to the organization’s activities and internal proceedings, including correspondence, scrapbooks, reports, meeting minutes, financial statements,...
Dates:
undated, 1920-2014
American Technion Society, Boston Chapter, Women’s Division Records
Collection
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
Collection
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 Green Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-963
Abstract
Professor Arthur Green is a Reconstructionist rabbi, author, and teacher. He is the former president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) and currently is dean of the Hebrew College Rabbinical School. The collection contains personal and professional correspondence, articles, and manuscripts. Some student work and correspondence is included but is currently restricted.
Dates:
undated, 1965-2003
Arthur S. Obermayer Papers
Collection
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
Avraham Hirsch and Hannah Schaiman Freedman Papers
Collection
Identifier: JHCP-002
Abstract
This collection contains the professional and personal papers of Rabbi Avraham Hirsch Freedman, who throughout his career served as rabbi at Congregation Adath Jeshurun (Ottawa, Canada), Durban United Hebrew Congregation (Durban, South Africa), and Congregation Beth Israel (Bangor, Maine), as well as those of his wife, Hannah Schaiman Freedman. Included are sermons, lectures, correspondence, life cycle events, eulogies, and news clippings.
Dates:
undated, 1982-2017
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- Harvard University 8
- Beth Israel Hospital (Boston, Mass.) 7
- Jewish National Fund 7
- Weizmann, Chaim, 1874-1952 7
- 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
- United Jewish Appeal 6
- Zionist Organization of America 6
- American Jewish Committee 5
- American Jewish Congress 5
- 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
- Jewish Theological Seminary of America 4
- Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009 4
- Massachusetts Board of Rabbis 4
- National Jewish Welfare Board 4
- Temple Beth El (Swampscott, Mass.) 4
- Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 4
- Weinstein, Lewis H., 1905-. 4
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 3
- 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
- Alpert, Abraham 2
- American Zionist Council 2
- Avukah, American Student Zionist Federation 2
- B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League. 2
- Benkovitz, Icik 2
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 2
- Boruchoff, Ber, 1872-1939 2
- Boston University 2
- Bureau of Jewish Education (Boston, Mass.) 2
- B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundations 2
- 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
- Girls’ Latin School (Boston, Mass.) 2
- Goldstein, Israel 1896- 2
- Gordon, Albert Isaac, 1903-1968 2
- Grossman, Benjamin 2
- Harvard Law School 2
- Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Foundation 2
- Hebrew Free Loan Association of Pittsfield, Mass. 2
- Herter, Christian Archibald, 1895-1966 2
- 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
- Jewish Historical Society of the North Shore 2
- Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.) 2 ∧ less
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