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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

Ber Boruchoff Papers

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Identifier: P-157
Abstract

Rabbi Ber Boruchoff was the first and longest serving rabbi for Congregation Beth Israel in Malden, Massachusetts. This collection contains ledgers with records of marriages performed in the Greater Boston area during the years 1906-1938, as well as some photographs and biographical information.

Dates: undated, 1906-1939

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

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

David B. Alpert Papers

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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

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

Leo Shubow Papers

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Identifier: P-395
Abstract

Leo Shubow was a Boston rabbi who founded Temple Emanuel in Newton, Massachusetts. Prior to becoming a Rabbi he served as a Yeoman with the International Ice Patrol and wrote frequently about his experiences as well as what happened on the Titanic. This collection contains articles, speeches, and correspondence with Stephen Wise, as well as news clippings and broadsides.

Dates: undated, 1933-1961

Massachusetts Board of Rabbis Records

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Identifier: I-56 and I-56A
Abstract The Massachusetts Board of Rabbis was founded in 1938 as the Rabbinical Association of Greater Boston by Rabbis Herman Rubenovitz, Louis Epstein, Joshua Loth Lieberman, Beryl D. Cohen, and Sam Abrams. During the 1970s the Board focused on its chaplaincy work in hospitals as well as timely topics, such as social action, chevruta, and health insurance for Rabbis. This collection contains minutes, correspondence and statements regarding the Board's work around hospital chaplaincy, kashruth,...
Dates: undated, 1970-1980

Rabbi Meyer Azriel Rabinovitz Papers

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Identifier: P-367
Abstract Contains photocopies of four Hebrew letters endorsing Rabbi Rabinovitz, three of which were written by Rabbis Jacob Widrewitz, Ph. Klein and Joshua Siegel in New York in 1907. One is specifically addressed to Cong. Tzemach Tzedek and Agudas Achim of Chelsea, Mass. Also includes the photocopy of a Hebrew contract signed by ca. 50 members of the congregation in 1907, photocopies of two requests for funds from Poland, a photograph of Rabinovitz, an announcement of his son's wedding in 1925, and...
Dates: 1906-1929, 1981

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Epstein, Louis M., 1887-1949 2
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Ahabat Shalom (Lynn, Mass.) 1
Alpert, David B. 1
American Jewish Committee 1
Beth Hamidrash Hagodol (Crawford Street Shul) (Boston, Mass.) 1
Boruchoff, Ber, 1872-1939 1
Close, Abraham 1
Cohen, Beryl D. 1
Congregation Ahabat Sholom (Lynn, Mass.) 1
Congregation Ahabat Sholom (Lynn, Mass.). Sisterhood 1
Congregation Anshai Sfard (Lynn, Mass.) 1
Congregation Beth Israel (Malden, Mass.) 1
Congregation Mishkan Tefila (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) 1
Covich, Louis D. 1
Crawford Street Shul (Boston, Mass.) 1
Cushing, Richard, 1895-1970 1
Edelstein, Alan 1
Fine, Arnold 1
Friedman, Aaron Zebi, 1822-1876 1
Friedman, Abraham 1
Friedman, Nathan 1
Friedman, Robert 1
Friedman, Ruth 1
Gordon, Albert Isaac, 1903-1968 1
Gorovitz, Aaron 1
Halbfinger, Abraham 1
Hearst, Henry 1
Hebrew Union College 1
International Ice Patrol 1
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Israel, Richard J. 1
Israel, Sherry 1
Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts 1
Jewish Chaplaincy Council of Massachusetts 1
Jewish Community Center (Dallas, Tex.) 1
Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston 1
Jewish Institute of Religion 1
Jewish National Fund 1
Kashruth Commission (Mass.) 1
Kehillath Israel (Brookline, Mass.) 1
Klein, Philip, 1849-1926 1
Korff, Samuel I. 1
Kraft, Harry 1
Law, Charles 1
Lieberman, Rebecca 1
Liebman, Joshua Loth, 1907-1948 1
McCarthy, Joseph Raymond, 1908-1957 1
Mizrachi-Hapoel Hamizrachi 1
National Jewish Welfare Board 1
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 1
Orthodox Rabbinical Council of Greater Boston 1
Poale Zion (U.S.) 1
Rabbinical Assembly 1
Rabbinical Court of Justice (Mass.) 1
Rabinovitz, Meyer 1
Rabinowitz, Jacob, 1885-1967 1
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (Wyncote, Pa.) 1
Reimer, Jack 1
Religious Zionists of America 1
Rubenovitz, Herman H. 1
Rubenowitz, Herman H. 1
Saval, Maurice 1
Schiffres, Hannah 1
Shubow, Joseph Shalom 1
Shubow, Leo 1
Siegel, Joshua, 1846-1910 1
Soviet Union 1
Stone, Sadie 1
Strassfeld, Meyer 1
Strassfeld, Ruth 1
Synagogue Council of America 1
Synagogue Council of Massachusetts 1
Temple B'nai B'rith (Somerville, Mass.) 1
Temple Israel (Boston, Mass) 1
Temple Israel (Swampscott, Mass.) 1
Temple Ohabei Shalom (Brookline, Mass.) 1
Temple Shalom of the Congregation Sons of Jacob (Salem, Mass.) 1
Temple Sinai (Brookline, Mass) 1
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Teperow, Alan 1
Tichnor, Alan 1
Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada. 1
University of California, Los Angeles 1
University of Chicago 1
Vaad Harabonim (Mass.) 1
Vidrowitz, Hayyim Jacob, 1835- 1
Weinberg, Aaron 1
Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949 1
Yale University 1
Zaitchik, Samuel, 1920-2013 1
Zlotnick, Dov 1
Zuber, Jacob 1
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