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Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society Boston Port Records
Collection
Identifier: I-96
Abstract
The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) was founded in New York City in the 1880s by the Russian Jewish community of New York in response to the influx of Russian Jewish immigrants fleeing the pograms in the Pale of Settlement in Russia and Eastern Europe. In 1889, a shelter which was used to house many of the immigrants adopted the name “Hebrew Sheltering House Association.” This organization merged with HIAS in 1909 and by 1914, had branches operating in Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and...
Dates:
undated, 1886-1977; Majority of material found within 1938-1954
Hebrew Teachers Association of Greater Boston Records
Collection
Identifier: I-119
Abstract
The Hebrew Teachers Association of Greater Boston was founded in 1909. Its primary purpose was to unite qualified Jewish educators and to provide for their material and spiritual status. The Association first developed a curriculum based on the Bible, the Hebrew language and Jewish history in 1918. It was revised by a committee including the greater Boston Hebrew school principals, the Bureau of Jewish Education and prominent rabbis in 1922. The Association was also involved with Jewish...
Dates:
undated, 1934-1956
Helen Golden Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: JHCP-031
Abstract
Helen Phyllis Golden was born in Boston, Mass. in 1922. This collection contains the scrapbook of Helen's life; featuring her family and friends in Dorchester and Mattapan, as well as vacations to Nantasket Beach.
Dates:
Majority of material found in undated, 1930-1950
Henry Wise Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-944
Abstract
Henry Wise was a Boston-area lawyer whose practice focused mainly on housing, fishing, and labor, three areas in which he crafted important local legislation. In 1942 he wrote to the Institute of Jewish Affairs, a research branch created by the American and World Jewish Congresses, inquiring after membership. The Institute of Jewish Affairs was made up primarily of scholars, who took a scientific approach towards researching Jewish life from the previous 25 years. They hoped to better...
Dates:
1941-2010
Herbert B. Ehrmann Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-94
Abstract
Contains correspondence, addresses and speeches, newspaper clippings, and published material relating primarily to Ehrmann's activity in the national and Boston chapter of the American Jewish Committee (1935-1970). Of special interest is material on the relation of the Committee to the American Jewish Conference (1943-1948), the relationship of American Jewry to the State of Israel, and the attitude of the Committee to the establishment of Israel. Also contains genealogical material, in...
Dates:
undated, 1913-1970
Herbert Gorfinkle Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-904
Abstract
Herbert Gorfinkle was the eldest child and only son of Colonel Bernard and Frieda Gorfinkle of Newton, Massachusetts. Born in 1923, Gorfinkle came of age during World War II and entered the U.S. Army while an undergraduate at the University of New Hampshire. As a Tech 5 combat engineer, Gorfinkle was responsible for clearing landmines ahead of his advancing unit. He was also a trained army photographer, and aside from his letters home, he documented his years in the war with photographs. A...
Dates:
undated, circa 1850s-2000
Immigrants Mutual Aid Society, Inc. Records
Collection
Identifier: I-109
Abstract
Contains the papers of the Society founded in 1938 by recent German speaking Jewish immigrants to Boston to assist their initial adjustment to the economic, cultural, spiritual, and social life of the American community and subsequently, to provide mutual assistance to its membership and aid to other immigrants.The collection consists of the Society's by-laws (1953, 1956, 1964); handwritten notes with the names of Officers and Directors (1949-1961), plans for cultural and social...
Dates:
undated, 1938-1980
Independent Order of Brith Abraham, Dr. Gaster Lodge, No. 689 (Boston, Mass.) Records
Collection
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
Interfor Club (Lynn, Mass.) Records
Collection
Identifier: I-563
Abstract
The Interfor Club of the North Shore was originally founded in 1930 by David L Winer, a Boston University Law School graduate, as the Brandeis Associates. Initially having twenty-two members who just graduated high school, the Interfor Club, which stands for Inter Collegiate Forum Club, began meeting at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association in Lynn. The collection is comprised of revisions to constitutions, event programs, financial records, photographs, scholarship information, member lists,...
Dates:
undated, 1932-2000
International Yiddish Cultural Movement (IKUF) Records
Collection
Identifier: I-450
Abstract
The International Yiddish Cultural Movement (IKUF) was organized in Boston and held meetings there for a year. This collection contains the minutes of meetings of the International Yiddish Cultural Movement (IKUF), which occurred in Boston from 1964-1965. The minutes are in Yiddish.
Dates:
1964-1965
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- Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941 6
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- Weizmann, Chaim, 1874-1952 6
- American Jewish Committee 5
- Stone, Elihu David 5
- Temple Ohabei Shalom (Brookline, Mass.) 5
- United Jewish Appeal 5
- Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949 5
- Zionist Organization of America 5
- American Jewish Congress 4
- Federated Jewish Charities (Boston, Mass.) 4
- Jewish Heritage Center of the North Shore (Lynn, Mass.) 4
- Jewish War Veterans of the United States, Inc. 4
- National Jewish Welfare Board 4
- Winer, Louis 4
- Boy Scouts of America 3
- Congregation Mishkan Tefila (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) 3
- Federation of Jewish Charities of Boston 3
- Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America 3
- Harvard Business School 3
- Hebrew Teachers College (Brookline, Mass.) 3
- Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston 3
- Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009 3
- Liebman, Joshua Loth, 1907-1948 3
- Massachusetts Board of Rabbis 3
- McCormack, John W., 1891-1980 3
- Rabbinical Association of Greater Boston 3
- Sachar, Abram Leon, 1899-1993 3
- Segal, Robert E. 3
- Shubow, Joseph Shalom 3
- Stone, Dewey David, 1900-1977 3
- Temple Emanuel (Newton, Mass.) 3
- Temple Israel (Boston, Mass) 3
- Temple Shalom of the Congregation Sons of Jacob (Salem, Mass.) 3
- Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 3
- Adath Jeshurun Cemetery Association 2
- Alpert, Abraham 2
- American Zionist Council 2
- B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League. 2
- Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973 2
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 2
- Boruchoff, Ber, 1872-1939 2
- Boston Commission on Jewish Continuity 2
- Boston University 2
- Bureau of Jewish Education (Boston, Mass.) 2
- B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundations 2
- B’nai B’rith Women 2
- Central Conference of American Rabbis 2
- Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 2
- Curley, James Michael, 1874-1958 2
- Cushing, Richard, 1895-1970 2
- Dukakis, Michael S. (Michael Stanley), 1933- 2
- Ehrmann, Herbert B. (Herbert Brutus), 1891-1970 2
- Epstein, Louis M., 1887-1949 2
- Epstein, Mary Wolfman, 1908-1998 2
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- Goldstein, Israel 1896- 2
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- Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 2
- Hurwich, Louis, 1886-1967 2
- Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts 2
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- Jewish Historical Society of the North Shore 2
- Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.) 2
- Jewish Theological Seminary of America 2
- Kallen, Horace Meyer, 1882-1974 2
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 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
- Meretz Relief Association (Boston, Mass.) 2
- Morros, Boris, 1891-1963 2
- National Community Relations Advisory Council (U.S.) 2
- National Council of Jewish Women 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
- Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (Wyncote, Pa.) 2
- Rubenovitz, Herman H. 2
- Sharon Memorial Park 2
- Shrage, Barry 2
- Silver, Abba Hillel, 1893-1963 2
- Simmons College (Boston, Mass.) 2 + ∧ less
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