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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

Companions of the Forest of America Boston Area Circles Records

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Identifier: JHCI-015
Abstract

The Companions of the Foresters of America was a social and benvolent fraternal organization that was a branch of the Foresters of America. This collection contains charter certificates, materials pertaining to the practices and rituals of the organization, songbooks, and membership and entertainment ledgers for local Boston area circles, including Franklin Park Circle #1571, Brookline Circle #1558, and Dorchester Circle #1542.

Dates: undated, circa 1929-1981

Elizabeth Wyner Mark Papers

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Identifier: P-991
Abstract Dr. Elizabeth Wyner Mark was a psychologist and author. This collection contains her education records from elementary school to her post-graduate studies; family correspondence, primarily sent to Elizabeth and her husband, Melvin; journals, diaries and various family legal papers; family photographs as well as photographs taken by Elizabeth; and the research and manuscript drafts of her publications, particularly The Covenant of Circumcision, which she...
Dates: undated, 1903-2007

Hadassah Chapters of the North Shore (Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-594
Abstract

This collection contains materials related to the Lynn, Salem-Beverly-Danvers, and Swampscott-Marblehead chapters of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, including a history of the Lynn chapter produced in 1993, newsletters from the Salem-Beverly-Danvers chapter, and notes, pamphlets, and other information contained in the personal binder of Swampscott-Marblehead chapter president Irma Levenbach.

Dates: 1959-1993

Helen Golden Family Papers

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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

Ladies Bikur Cholim Society (Roxbury, Boston, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-515
Abstract The Ladies Bikur Cholim Society of Roxbury, Massachusetts, was the founding organization of Jewish Memorial Hospital. In the 1920s, Beth Israel Hospital moved to a larger medical facility in Boston and sold their existing building to the Society. The president at the time of the building's purchase was Ida Cooper. This collection contains the minutes book of the Board of Directors meetings, with meeting minutes and membership lists from 1928-1932. The meeting minutes specifically discuss the...
Dates: 1928-1932

Sara Wernon Sloan Papers

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Identifier: P-640
Abstract

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.

Dates: circa 1974-1987

Sterling and Selesnick Family Papers

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Identifier: P-1040
Abstract

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.

Dates: undated, 1905-2014

The Barbara Gaffin Papers

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Identifier: JHCP-017
Abstract This collection contains materials related to the life and work of Barbara Gaffin, with a particular focus on her efforts to raise awareness about and assist Ethiopian Jews and to build ties between Bostonian Jews and their sister community of Jews in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. The collection also contains some materials about Gaffin’s activities relating to Yemeni and Soviet Jews. Included are newspaper clippings, correspondence, records of speaking engagements, writings, travel records,...
Dates: Majority of material found in undated, 1956-2019

Young Women’s Hebrew Association (Everett, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-514
Abstract Little history is known about the Young Women's Hebrew Association in Everett, Massachusetts. The first YWHA was organized in New York City in 1902 and soon grew nationally, with branches in several states. The YWHA of New England, which the Everett chapter was most likely a part of, was organized in 1913. It is unknown when the Everett chapter was started or dissolved. This collection contains a fragile ledger with membership names and dues paid; receipts from Filenes, Jordan Marsh, and...
Dates: undated, 1919-1926

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