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Samuel Gurvitz Papers
Samuel H. Gurvitz was the owner of New England Millworks in Dorchester, Massachusetts and a veteran of World War II. In 1936 and 1939, he visited Palestine, and the photographs from this trip are included in the collection. In 1939 Gurvitz visited Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Vienna and Prague and witnessed firsthand how the political situation in Nazi Germany was impacting European Jews. His notes from these trips are also included in this collection.
Samuel Moshcovitz Papers
Sara Wernon Sloan Papers
Born in 1888 in Odessa, Sara (Buminowitz) Wernon Sloan immigrated to the United States at the age of ten with her mother and siblings. She became a garment worker and wrote of her experiences working in New York City. This collection contains typed manuscripts of her memoirs written in the 1970s and also includes related correspondence, in which various readers of the memoirs describe their impressions.
Scheinfeldt Family Papers
The collection contains papers of the Scheinfeldt and Calish families with the bulk of the materials chronicling the achievements and nursing career of Jean Scheinfeldt, the daughter of Joseph Henry and Florence Calish Scheinfeldt. The materials in this collection include birth and death certificates, a marriage certificate, other certificates and awards, ephemera, photographs, and artifacts.
Schwartz Family Papers
Smith-Kupersmith Family Papers
Stanley S. Kupersmith served in the United States Army between 1941 and 1945. This collection contains his photographs from the 1920s, during his military service, and during the post-war period in labeled scrapbooks, as well as other family photos.
Stanley and Mary Ann Snider Papers
Stanley Canner Papers
Sterling and Selesnick Family Papers
This collection contains photographs, scrapbooks, comic strips, publications, memoirs, and reports documenting the family life of the Sterling, Selesnick, Segal, Shapiro, Katz, and Zoll families, as well as the educational and professional work of Hinda Sterling and Herb Selesnick—particularly the work they conducted for Sterling & Selesnick, Inc., their organizational consulting firm, and Stockworth, the comic strip they produced.
Steven Kellerman Synagogue Photographs Collection
At the time these photographs were taken in 1981 and 1985, Steven Kellerman was a machinist with an interest in synagogue history. This particular collection of photographs started with Kellerman’s visits to former synagogues in Dorchester and Roxbury, Massachusetts; the project expanded to include most of Massachusetts and other states.
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- Temple Emanuel (Newton, Mass.) 5
- Winer, Louis 5
- Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949 5
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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 + ∧ less