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Aaron Gorovitz Papers

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Identifier: P-87
Abstract Rabbi Aaron Gorovitz was born in Lithuania in 1870. He immigrated to New York at the age of 22. Before moving to Boston, he was one of the founders of Etz Chaim Yeshiva (later the Rabbi Isaac Elchonon Rabbinical College) and Yeshiva Jacob Joseph, organized the St. John, New Brunswick branch of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, and served as a rabbi in St. John, New Jersey, North Adams, Massachusetts and Woonsocket, Rhode Island before moving to Boston in 1907. Until the end of his life he...
Dates: undated, 1910-1956

Beth Hamidrash Hagodol (Crawford Street Shul) (Roxbury, Boston, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-239
Abstract Beth Hamidrash Hagodol (known colloquially as the Crawford Street Shul), was founded in 1913 in a small house on Harold Street in Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts. In 1915, the cornerstone of the synagogue was placed at 105 Crawford Street in the Elm Hill District of Roxbury. The congregation elected Louis M. Epstein as their first Rabbi in 1918. This collection contains the business, activity and social records of Beth Hamidrash Hagodol, including correspondence, financial records, ledgers,...
Dates: undated, 1922-1924, 1933-1973

Boston Workers (Workmen's) Circle Records

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Identifier: I-494
Abstract Created to provide mutual aid and education, The Workmen's Circle was established in New York in 1900 and officially chartered in 1905. Massachusetts established an Independent Workmen's Circle in 1903 to maneuver around prohibitive insurance laws, but was able to unify with the national organization in 1921. Several chapters were operational in Massachusetts by 1911. The Boston District often mirrored National's development, including the establishment of cemeteries, a chorus, a camp, and...
Dates: undated, 1927-1999

Bureau of Jewish Education (Boston, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-120
Abstract The Bureau of Jewish Education (BJE) in Boston, Massachusetts, was founded in 1920 when the Associated Boston Hebrew Schools and Bureau of Jewish Religious Schools merged under the leadership of Louis Hurwich. While not the first centralized Jewish education organization in the country, the BJE was the first to receive support from its local Federation. From 1920 to 2009, the BJE provided consultation, evaluation and teacher training services using a variety of methods and tools. It worked...
Dates: undated, 1926-1992

Elm Farm Foods Records

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Identifier: I-552
Abstract Elm Farm Foods was first established as M. Winer Company in 1895 in the North End of Boston. The expansion of this single small store in the next several decades preluded the rise and development of Elm Farm Supermarkets in the region, followed by the company’s shift from retail to wholesale. Winer family holdings have also included various affiliated trusts and corporations managing many aspects of the company’s business and real estate. The bulk of these documents depict the financial...
Dates: undated, 1894-2011

Friedman Family Papers

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Identifier: P-948
Abstract

Aaron Friedman was a rabbi, shochet, and author. He was a shochet in Stavisk, Poland, Bernkastel-on-the-Moselle, Germany, and New York City, and author of a defense of the practice of Shechita entitled, “Tuv Ta’am” in 1874. This collection also contains information on his son, Abraham Friedman and his grandson, Nathan Friedman. This collection consists of correspondence, business documents, family photographs, personal effects, genealogical information, and publications.

Dates: 1844-1944

Independent Order of Brith Abraham, Dr. Gaster Lodge, No. 689 (Boston, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-104
Abstract The Independent Order of Brith Abraham was a Jewish fraternity society headquartered in New York City. It was founded in 1887 after breaking away from its parent society, the Order Brith Abraham (founded 1859.) As a fraternal society it offered sick, death and funeral benefits for members, with both male and female members. In 1981 it merged with B’nai Zion, which is no longer in existence. The Dr. Gaster Lodge, No. 689, was most likely named for Dr. Moses Gaster, a Jewish scholar and...
Dates: undated, 1913-1918

Women's Palestine Agricultural Association Records

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Identifier: I-294
Abstract

The Women's Palestine Agricultural Association, called Palagrass, was an organization founded in Boston in the 1920s. Inspired by the work of Rahel Ben-Zvi, Palagrass was established to aid in the agricultural development of Palestine, and later, Israel. This collection contains correspondence, financial records, programs, photographs and membership information.

Dates: undated, 1933-1968

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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America 1
Associated Jewish Philanthropies (Boston, Mass.) 1
Ben-Zvi, Raḥel Yanait, 1886-1979 1
Bernstein, Julius 1
Beth Hamidrash Hagodol (Crawford Street Shul) (Boston, Mass.) 1
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Boston Commission on Jewish Continuity 1
Boston Supermarkets Associates 1
Boston Workers Circle (Brookline, Mass.) 1
Brooke, Edward W. (Edward William), 1919-2015 1
Bureau of Jewish Education (Boston, Mass.) 1
Burke, James A., 1910-1983 1
Chizik, Hanna, 1889-1951 1
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston 1
Crawford Street Shul (Boston, Mass.) 1
Donohue, Harold 1
Dudley Trading Company 1
Elm Farm Foods 1
Epstein, Louis M., 1887-1949 1
Family City Corporation 1
Federated Jewish Charities (Boston, Mass.) 1
Federation of Jewish Charities of Boston 1
Friedman, Aaron Zebi, 1822-1876 1
Friedman, Abraham 1
Friedman, Nathan 1
Friedman, Robert 1
Friedman, Ruth 1
Gaster, Moses, 1856-1939 1
Gorovitz, Aaron 1
Grossman, Benjamin 1
Hebrew Teachers College (Brookline, Mass.) 1
Hochberg, Bertha F. 1
Hurwich, Louis, 1886-1967 1
Independent Order Brith Abraham of the United States of America 1
Independent Order of Brith Abraham, Dr. Gaster Lodge, No. 689 (Boston, Mass.) 1
Isaacs, Rachel 1
Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.) 1
Joress, Bessie 1
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009 1
Leff, Clara 1
Lieberman, Rebecca 1
Marathon Realty Corporation 1
Margolis, Daniel J. 1
Massachusetts Board of Rabbis 1
Metropolitan Markets 1
Mo’etset ha-po’alot 1
Newman, Louis 1
Pine Tree Shopping Center 1
Pioneer Women (Organization : U.S.) 1
Rabbinical Association of Greater Boston 1
Shrage, Barry 1
Stone, Sadie 1
Touroff, Nissan, 1877-1953 1
Wanger, David 1
Weinstock, Rose 1
Winer, Hy 1
Winer, Morris, 1871 or 1873-1955 1
Women’s Palestine Agricultural Association 1
Workmen's Circle (U.S.). Cemetery Department 1
Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring 1
Workmen’s Circle (U.S.) 1
Zuber, Jacob 1
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