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Congregation Beth Israel (Cambridge, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-51
Abstract Includes a copy of the constitution and a short history of the congregation; the minute books (1911-1923; 1939-1945) and financial records (1925-1937) of various activities of the synagogue and its relation with local, national and international Jewish events. Of special interest are the synagogue’s involvement in the providing of kosher meat in the Cambridge area, and its relation with the Cambridge and Somerville Hebrew Literary Association which maintained a Hebrew Free School. Minute...
Dates: 1911-1951

Congregation Kenesseth Israel (Boston, Mass.) Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: I-266

Congregation Kesser Israel (Springfield, Mass.) Constitution

 Collection — Box: S7, Folder: 6
Identifier: I-150
Abstract

This collection consists of a photocopy of the printed constitution, in Yiddish, of the congregation, stating its organization, the conditions of membership, duties of the officers, duties and privileges of the members, and the duties of the hevra kadisha.

Dates: 1902

Congregation Linath Hatzedek-Beth Israel (Chelsea, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-101
Abstract Congregation Linath Hatzedek-Beth Israel was located on Chestnut Street in Chelsea, Massachusetts (previously at 200 Second Street). Founded c. 1909 by Ukrainian immigrants from the Kamen Kashirsky region and the local carpenter's union, it was defunct by 1978. The synagogue's cemetery is located in Everett, Massachusetts. This collection contains a ledger with minutes of the Ladies' Auxiliary of Congregation Linas Zedek, a membership ledger, and miscellaneous event flyers and invitations in...
Dates: undated, 1928-1953

Congregation Mishkan Israel (Dorchester, Boston, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-114
Abstract

This collection contains meeting minutes, financial records, mailing lists, stationary, programs, and invitations created by Congregation Mishkan Israel and its Ladies Auxiliary.

Dates: undated, 1925-1969

Congregation Mishkan Israel (Hamden, Conn.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-465
Abstract

Congregation Mishkan Israel in Hamden, Connecticut, was founded in 1840. Their cemetery was established in 1843 in the Westville section of New Haven, Connecticut. This collection consists primarily of newsletters and other synagogue publications, as well as invitations to the 100th anniversary of the synagogue and other events.

Dates: 1930-1989

Congregation Mishkan Tefila (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-462
Abstract Congregation Mishkan Tefila was founded in 1858 as Mishkan Israel, and is considered to be the oldest conservative synagogue in New England. Its founding members were East Prussian Jews who separated from Ohabei Shalom, which was predominately Polish at the time. In 1894, Mishkan Israel and another conservative synagogue, Shaarei Tefila, merged to form Congregation Mishkan Tefila. The synagogue moved its religious school to Walnut Street in Newton in 1955, and began planning for a new...
Dates: 1922-1996

Congregation Ohave Sholom (Gardner, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-492
Abstract

Congregation Ohave Sholom was formed on January 20, 1910 in Gardner, Massachuesetts. At the time the synagogue was built, Ohave Sholom had 20 families as members, but during World War I the population peaked, and 60 families held membership. However, by the 1970s membership began to decline and in 1998, with only 12 members remaining, the congregation dissolved.

Dates: undated, 1957-1998

David B. Alpert Papers

 Collection
Identifier: P-82
Abstract Rabbi of Boston. Diaries containing notes and reflections on religious and personal matters, on a trip to Israel and Europe, and on current political events. Includes general observations of a hospital chaplain and background information on patients at Boston City Hospital where Alpert served as the Jewish chaplain; includes material from the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis and the Eastern New England Conference of Liberal Rabbis. Material also consists of a scrap book containing newspaper...
Dates: 1924-1981

David R. and Muriel K. Pokross Papers

 Collection
Identifier: P-1041
Abstract

This collection contains awards and honors, business records, meeting minutes, financial documents, correspondence, manuscripts, interview transcripts, and speeches documenting the work and personal lives of lawyer and philanthropist David R. Pokross and his wife Muriel K. Pokross.

Dates: undated, 1898-2015

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Brookline (Mass.) 17
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Chelsea (Mass.) 14
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Fall River (Mass.) 8
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Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston 24
B'nai B'rith 9
Brandeis University 9
Associated Jewish Philanthropies (Boston, Mass.) 8
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Harvard University 7
Jewish National Fund 7
Beth Israel Hospital (Boston, Mass.) 6
Temple Ohabei Shalom (Brookline, Mass.) 6
United Jewish Appeal 6
Weizmann, Chaim, 1874-1952 6
American Jewish Committee 5
American Jewish Congress 5
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941 5
Federated Jewish Charities (Boston, Mass.) 5
Temple Emanuel (Newton, Mass.) 5
Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949 5
Zionist Organization of America 5
Federation of Jewish Charities of Boston 4
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America 4
Hebrew Teachers College (Brookline, Mass.) 4
Massachusetts Board of Rabbis 4
National Jewish Welfare Board 4
Stone, Elihu David 4
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 4
Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973 3
Boston Commission on Jewish Continuity 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
Jewish Theological Seminary of America 3
Jewish War Veterans of the United States, Inc. 3
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009 3
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 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
Shrage, Barry 3
Szold, Henrietta, 1860-1945 3
Temple Israel (Boston, Mass) 3
Weinstein, Lewis H., 1905-. 3
Action for Soviet Jewry 2
Alpert, Abraham 2
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 2
American Zionist Council 2
Avukah, American Student Zionist Federation 2
B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League. 2
Boruchoff, Ber, 1872-1939 2
Boston University 2
Boy Scouts of America 2
Bureau of Jewish Education (Boston, Mass.) 2
B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundations 2
Cambridge Hebrew Women's Aid Society 2
Central Conference of American Rabbis 2
Combined Jewish Appeal (Boston, Mass.) 2
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 2
Curley, James Michael, 1874-1958 2
Cushing, Richard, 1895-1970 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
Hebrew College (Newton Center, Newton, Mass.) 2
Hebrew Free Loan Association of Pittsfield, Mass. 2
Herter, Christian Archibald, 1895-1966 2
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 2
Hurwich, Louis, 1886-1967 2
Independent Order Brith Abraham of the United States of America 2
Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007 2
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 2
Kallen, Horace Meyer, 1882-1974 2
Keren Hayesod 2
Korff, Samuel I. 2
Levine, Harry, 1895-1977 2
Lipsky, Louis, 1876-1963 2
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924 2
Lown, Philip W., 1890- 2
Margolis, Daniel J. 2
Massachusetts. General Court 2
Massachusetts. Superior Court 2
Meir, Golda, 1898-1978 2
Meretz Relief Association (Boston, Mass.) 2
Morros, Boris, 1891-1963 2
Morse, Leopold, 1831-1892 2
New England Jewish Music Forum 2
Newman, Louis 2
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 2
Poale Zion (U.S.) 2
Radcliffe College 2
Ratshesky, Abraham C. 2
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (Wyncote, Pa.) 2
Rubenovitz, Herman H. 2
Sachar, Abram Leon, 1899-1993 2
Schindler, Solomon, 1842-1915 2
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