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Ilan Fisher Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-1013
Abstract
Author and photographer Ilan Fisher was born and lives in Sharon, Massachusetts, where he owned Great Impression, a company that provided event videography services. He also contributed columns to the Sharon Advocate and other local publications, and in 2002, his stories were collected in the book The Carnie Kid Tells All. Fisher’s papers primarily contain invitations from events Great Impression recorded, along with a small...
Dates:
undated, circa 1964-2009
Jewish Neighborhood Voices
Collection
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
The Barbara Gaffin Papers
Collection
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
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- Finkelstein, Norman, 1941 - 2024 1
- Fisher, Ilan 1
- Fox, Ron 1
- Gaffin, Barbara 1
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- Sinofsky, Ethel, 1921-2023 1
- Stahl, Jack 1
- Sugarman, Paul 1
- Till, Laura 1
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