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Kehillath Israel Synagogue (Brookline, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-488
Abstract The Kehillath Israel Synagogue Collection includes numerous photographs, publications and event information pertaining to services, fundraisers and anniversaries at the Synagogue from its first official year in 1924 to more recently, 2001. The primary bulk of the papers consist of photographs, K.I. Brotherhood papers and ephemera, and activities supported by the Synagogue. Kehillath Israel was home to noteworthy Rabbis, including Louis M. Epstein, Judah Nadich, and Manual Saltzman....
Dates: undated, 1924-2001

Levinson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: P-984
Abstract

The Levinson family has its origins in Eastern Europe, though the majority of its members immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s. Members of the family were active in Boston business, science, and law. The material in the collection includes publications, photographs, a scrapbook, a photo album, and awards.

Dates: undated, circa 1900-1969

Mary Wolfman Epstein Papers

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Identifier: P-998
Abstract

Mary Wolfman Epstein was a singer, playwright, director, vocal teacher, and talent manager in the Boston area. Epstein worked with many Jewish and secular organizations, and she co-founded the New England Jewish Music Forum. She wrote over 30 original musicals, most of which were based on Jewish themes or individuals. This collection contains news clippings, photographs, recordings, correspondence, sheet music, scripts, and performance programs.

Dates: undated, 1908-1998

Percy Brand Papers

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Identifier: P-865
Abstract Percy Brand was a violinist by profession and Holocaust survivor. Born in Liepaja, Latvia on April 2, 1908, he began playing violin at the age of ten. In 1941, when the Germans took control of Latvia and other Baltic countries, Brand was concertmaster of the Riga Latvian Symphony Orchestra. After the SS Einsatzgruppen units occupying Latvia killed his first wife and two children, Brand was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Playing the violin saved his life during the...
Dates: undated, 1949-1995

The Maimonides School (Brookline, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: JHCI-020
Abstract

Founded in 1937 by Rabbi Dr. Joseph B. Soloveitchik (the Rav), Maimonides School is a co-educational modern Orthodox Jewish Day School located in Brookline, Massachusetts. This collection is comprised of informational donor mailers, invitations and event programs, school newsletters, yearbooks, and school publications related to the founding, growth, and community of Maimonides School.



Dates: undated, 1963 -1991

Wyner Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: P-803
Abstract The Wyner Family Papers document the personal, professional, organizational and philanthropic activities of three generations of a prominent Boston Jewish family. The documents describe the operations of the family knitting and textile businesses, the building and management of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel of Boston and the development and operations of the Beth Israel Hospital of Boston (1926-2001.) This collection describes the Wyner family's involvement in a wide variety of organizations, both...
Dates: undated, 1863-2004

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Beth Israel Hospital (Boston, Mass.) 1
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Buchenwald (Concentration camp) 1
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Congregation Adath Israel (Boston, Mass.) 2
Action for Soviet Jewry 1
Adath Jeshurun Cemetery Association 1
American Cancer Society 1
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Beth Israel Hospital (Boston, Mass.) 1
Brand, Gertrude 1
Brand, Percy 1
Brandeis University 1
Brookline Town Meeting 1
Bush, George Herbert Walker 1924- 1
Carter, James E. 1935- 1
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston 1
Dukakis, Michael S. (Michael Stanley), 1933- 1
Epstein, Louis M., 1887-1949 1
Epstein, Mary Wolfman, 1908-1998 1
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America 1
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America. Boston Chapter 1
Harvard University 1
Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Foundation 1
Hebrew Free Loan Association of Pittsfield, Mass. 1
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 1
Jewish Community Relations Council (New York, N.Y.) 1
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009 1
Kerry, John F. 1943- 1
Latvijas nacionālais simfoniskais ork̦estris 1
Levinson, James W., 1946- 1
Levinson, Leon, 1919-1955 1
Levinson, Mark L., 1948- 1
Maimonides School (Brookline, Mass.) 1
McCarthy, Eugene J. 1916-2005 1
Nadich, Judah, 1912-2007 1
National Association of Teachers of Singing (U.S.) 1
New England Chassidic Center 1
New England Jewish Music Forum 1
New Israel Fund 1
O’Neill, Tip 1
Republicans for McCarthy 1
Ritz-Carlton Hotels (Firm) 1
Saltzman, Manual 1
Shawmut Mills 1
Shawmut Woolen Mills 1
Shawmut, Inc. 1
Soloveitchik, Joseph B., Rabbi Dr. (1903-1993) 1
Temple Ohabei Shalom (Brookline, Mass.) 1
Temple Shalom (Newton, Mass.) 1
Tufts University 1
Union of American Hebrew Congregations 1
United Way of Massachusetts Bay 1
Wyner, George 1
Wyner, Gertrude (Gussie) Edelman 1
Wyner, Gloria Geller 1
Wyner, Justin Lawrence 1
Wyner, Rudolph H. 1
Wyner, Sara Goldberg 1
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