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B'nai B'rith (Lynn, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-554
Abstract

Although there is little information available about the Lynn, Massachusetts chapter of B'nai B'rith, internationally the organization is known for ensuring the continuity of the State of Israel and the Jewish people through education, advocacy and social services. This collection contains newsletters from the Lynn, Massachusetts chapter.

Dates: undated, 1946-1962

Building #19 Records

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Identifier: JHCI-019
Abstract

This collection contains administrative records, advertising materials, ephemera, photographs, and recordings created by Building #19, a New England-based discount chain store founded by Jerry Ellis (born Gerald Elovitz) and Harry Andler in 1964.

Dates: undated, 1966-2012

Congregation Ahabot Sholom (Lynn, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-568
Abstract

Incorporated in 1901, Congregation Ahabat Sholom constructed a German Romanesque synagogue on Church Street, which was dedicated in 1905 during a ceremony lead by the congregation's first cantor, Benjamin Gordon. The congregation was one of Lynn’s several Jewish Orthodox congregations in the early 1900s. This collection contains administrative records, photographs, scrapbooks, and programmatic materials.

Dates: undated, 1982-2001

Congregation Anshai Sfard (Lynn, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-556
Abstract Congregation Anshai Sfard (Anshei, Anshe, Anshi) was an Orthodox Jewish synagogue established by Jewish immigrants in Lynn, Massachusetts from 1888 to December 1999. This collection contains a letterpress printing block used to print the incorporation papers, a large "Golden Book of Congregation Anshei Sfard," which includes an illuminated manuscript with hand-painted and gold-leafed elements, a donor list, newspaper clippings, and photographs; meeting minutes, several family history...
Dates: undated, 1899-2001

Hadassah Chapters of the North Shore (Mass.) Records

 Collection
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

Jewish Federation of the North Shore (Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-572
Abstract The Jewish Federation of the North Shore was founded in 1938 in Lynn, Massachusetts with the objective to support organizations that helped enrich the Jewish community on the North Shore and abroad. After a period of declining donations and to consolidate services, the JFNS Board of Directors voted to merge the organization with the Combined Jewish Philanthropies in 2013. The collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings and publications from JFNS, as well as a large group of...
Dates: undated, circa 1926-2007

Jewish Neighborhood Voices

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Identifier: JHCP-022
Abstract Jewish Neighborhood Voices: Using Oral History to Link Massachusetts’s Past and Present Communities is a pilot project of the Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center (JHC), funded by Mass Humanities/Massachusetts Cultural Council and Combined Jewish Philanthropies. This project conducted approximately 20 oral history interviews with narrators (interviewees) who are the first- or second-generation members of families that came to the United States in the early to mid-twentieth century, and...
Dates: 2022 - 2023

Lillian Glickman Papers

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Identifier: JHCP-009
Abstract

Lillian Glickman was born in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1915. This collection contains photographs—including those documenting her many travels aboard cruise ships—an autographs book, and a "Checker of the Year Award" from the grocery store chain Stop & Shop.

Dates: undated, 1930-2000

Morton Shanok Papers

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Identifier: P-995
Abstract Morton Shanok was the cantor at Temple Beth El in Lynn (and later Swampscott) for 32 years and, after his retirement, High Holiday Cantor at Temple B’nai Abraham and Religious Cultural Coordinator at the Jewish Rehabilitation Center for Aged. He served in the U.S. Army as assistant army chaplain from 1942-1945. He was a founding member of the Cantors Assembly and helped write the curriculum at the H.L. Miller Cantorial School and College of Jewish Music of the Jewish Theological Seminary....
Dates: undated, circa 1943-2002

Philip Epstein Papers

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Identifier: P-989
Abstract Philip D. Epstein was a trial attorney from 1941 to 1999 and a veteran of World War II. He was active in the Jewish community of Marblehead, Massachusetts and worked with a number of veterans support organizations, such as the National Jewish Welfare Board and Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America. He served two terms as Commander of JWV Post 656 Marblehead-Swampscott. The material in the collection includes correspondence, announcements, meeting minutes, membership rosters,...
Dates: undated, circa 1951-1994

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Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston 1
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Congregation Ahabat Sholom (Lynn, Mass.). Sisterhood 1
Congregation Anshai Sfard (Lynn, Mass.) 1
Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds 1
Cushing, Richard, 1895-1970 1
Ellis, Jerry 1
Epstein, Philip D., 1918-2004 1
Feinberg, Robert 1
Finkelstein, Norman, 1941 - 2024 1
Fox, Ron 1
Glickman, Lillian 1
Goldstein, Arthur 1
Goldstein, Cheryl S. 1
Guinness World Records Limited 1
H.L. Miller Cantorial School and College of Jewish Music 1
Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. Lynn/North Shore Business and Professional Chapter 1
Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. Salem-Beverly-Danvers (Mass.) Chapter 1
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America 1
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America. North Shore Chapters. 1
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America. Swampscott-Marblehead Chapter 1
Hearst, Henry 1
Jewish Federation of the North Shore 1
Jewish National Fund 1
Jewish Rehabilitation Center for Aged of the North Shore 1
Jewish Theological Seminary of America 1
Jewish War Veterans of the United States, Inc. 1
Katz, Hyman, 1899-1975 1
Katz, Rose Shapiro, 1901-1989 1
Kellerman, Steven 1
Law, Charles 1
Levenbach, Irma 1
Meir, Golda, 1898-1978 1
National Jewish Welfare Board 1
Reimer, Jack 1
Segal, Eva Goldberg, 1889-1936 1
Selesnick, Herbert L. 1
Selesnick, Rose Segal, 1915-2006 1
Selesnick, Sydney, 1909-1990 1
Shanok, Morton 1
Shapiro, Sylvia 1
Sherman, Joel 1
Silberberg, Marshall 1
Silverleib, Arleen 1
Sinofsky, Ethel, 1921-2023 1
Stahl, Jack 1
Sterling, Hinda 1
Stop & Shop Companies 1
Strassfeld, Meyer 1
Strassfeld, Ruth 1
Sugarman, Paul 1
Szold, Henrietta, 1860-1945 1
Temple Beth El (Swampscott, Mass.) 1
Temple B’nai Abraham (Beverly, Mass.) 1
Temple Israel (Swampscott, Mass.) 1
Temple Sinai (Swampscott, Mass.) 1
Till, Laura 1
United Jewish Appeal 1
United Order of True Sisters 1
Weinberg, Aaron 1
Wolkon, Kenneth 1
Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at New England Historic Genealogical Society (99 Newbury Street Boston, MA ) 1
Zaitchik, Samuel, 1920-2013 1
Zimman, Michael 1
Zlotnick, Dov 1
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