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Alpha Phi Pi, Alpha Delta Chapter (Lynn, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-562
Abstract

Organized in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1931, the Alpha Delta Chapter was accepted into the national Alpha Phi Pi Jewish high school fraternity in 1932. After a period of dormancy, the Chapter was briefly reactivated in 1953 and an Alpha Delta Alumni group was formed in 1954. The material in this collection includes event programs and invitations, correspondence, photographs, news clippings and bulletins, Convention yearbooks, and a map and guide to Boston.

Dates: undated, 1932-1993

Beth Israel Hospital (Boston, Mass) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-455
Abstract In 1916, the Jewish community of Boston established Beth Israel Hospital on Townsend Street in Roxbury to provide health care to immigrants in the area. Although accessible to everyone, the hospital provided Yiddish-speaking services for Eastern European Jewish immigrants and served kosher food, as well as conducted Jewish religious services. In 1928 the hospital entered into a teaching agreement with Harvard Medical School, Tufts University, and Simmons College. Shortly thereafter, the...
Dates: undated, 1923, 1930-1964, 1988, 1991-1992

Boy Scout Troop 4 (Sachems) (Lynn, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-559
Abstract Organized in April, 1924, the records of Boy Scout Troop 4 (Sachems) of Lynn, Massachusetts span from 1924 to 1945. During World War II, the scouts participated in an Emergency Service Corps, and were invited to participate in the Boy Scout - General Eisenhower Waste Paper Campaign. The material in this collection includes weekly meeting programs and reports, newspaper clippings, scout assignments and certificates, correspondence, financial records, a photograph, and the American flag used...
Dates: undated, 1924-1945

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

Bureau of Jewish Education (Boston, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-497
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, 1919-2009

Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Records

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Identifier: I-220 and I-220A
Abstract The Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP) of Boston, Massachusetts is the oldest federated Jewish philanthropy in the United States. The current incarnation of CJP was formed in 1960, when two separate federated philanthropies – the Combined Jewish Appeal and Associated Jewish Philanthropies – merged to create a single organization dedicated to serving the needs of Boston’s Jewish community. CJP’s records contain the history of several other organizations, from the forerunners of the current...
Dates: undated, 1865-2006

Congregation Mishkan Tefila (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-462
Abstract Congregation Mishkan Tefila was founded in 1858 as Mishkan Israel, and is considered to be the oldest conservative synagogue in New England. Its founding members were East Prussian Jews who separated from Ohabei Shalom, which was predominately Polish at the time. In 1894, Mishkan Israel and another conservative synagogue, Shaarei Tefila, merged to form Congregation Mishkan Tefila. The synagogue moved its religious school to Walnut Street in Newton in 1955, and began planning for a new...
Dates: 1922-1996

Farband Labor Zionist Order (Boston, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-534
Abstract

The Farband Labor Zionist Order was a Jewish fraternal organization founded in 1910 and chartered in New York in 1913. With branches across the United States and Canada, it functioned as a mutual aid society aligned with the Socialist and Zionist political party Poale Zion. The material in the collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, publications, press releases, photographs, meeting minutes, brochures, and memos.

Dates: undated, 1941-1984

Hebrew College Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-451
Abstract Louis Hurwich, then superintendent of the Bureau of Jewish Education of Boston, founded Hebrew Teacher’s College in 1921. Hurwich was concerned about Jewish teachers leaving the field of Jewish education for other professions and sought an educational system that promoted Hebrew literacy at all levels. Hebrew Teacher’s College was also responsible for maintaining Hebrew High School (Prozdor), located at 14 Crawford Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Those students who graduated from the high...
Dates: undated, 1928-1996

Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-123 and I-123A
Abstract This collection includes material preceding and relating to the founding of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston (JCRC), including early papers of the local American Jewish Committee and the Central Advisory Committee (a predecessor agency),the constitution and by-laws of the JCRC, material relating to organizational membership in and representation in the organizations, correspondence of the officers and staff, minutes of meetings and proceedings of its Administrative...
Dates: undated, 1933-2008

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Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston 7
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Hebrew Teachers College (Brookline, Mass.) 3
Hurwich, Louis, 1886-1967 3
Shrage, Barry 3
Bureau of Jewish Education (Boston, Mass.) 2
Congregation Adath Israel (Boston, Mass.) 2
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009 2
Margolis, Daniel J. 2
Newman, Louis 2
Temple Ohabei Shalom (Brookline, Mass.) 2
Touroff, Nissan, 1877-1953 2
Weiner, Harry 2
Action for Soviet Jewry 1
Adath Jeshurun Cemetery Association 1
Alpha Phi Pi. Alpha Delta Chapter (Lynn, Mass.) 1
American Cancer Society 1
American Hospital Association 1
American Jewish Committee 1
American Jewish Congress 1
Ampal-American Israel Corporation 1
B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League. 1
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 1
Bigelow, Lynne T. 1
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association 1
Boy Scout Troop 4 (Sachems) (Lynn, Mass.) 1
Boy Scouts of America 1
Boy Scouts of America. Bay Shore Council (Mass.) 1
Brandeis University 1
Braslavsky, Solomon G., 1887-1975 1
Brookline Town Meeting 1
Brown, Meyer 1
Bush, George Herbert Walker 1924- 1
Carter, James E. 1935- 1
Combined Jewish Appeal (Boston, Mass.) 1
Congregation Mishkan Tefila (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) 1
Congregation Mishkan Tefila (Chestnut Hill, Mass.). Board of Trustees 1
Dukakis, Michael S. (Michael Stanley), 1933- 1
Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959 1
Farband Labor Zionist Order (U.S.) 1
Farband Labor Zionist Order (U.S.). E-S Department 1
Farband Labor Zionist Order. Boston Branch. 1
Fertel, Stanley M. 1
Gold, Abraham 1
Goldstein, Maurice 1
HIAS (Agency) 1
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America. Boston Chapter 1
Harvard University 1
Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Foundation 1
Hebrew College (Brookline, Mass.) 1
Hebrew College (Newton Center, Newton, Mass.) 1
Hebrew Free Loan Association of Pittsfield, Mass. 1
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 1
Hyams, Ben 1
JCC Association 1
Jewish Community Relations Council (New York, N.Y.) 1
Jewish Memorial Hospital and Rehabilitation Center (Roxbury, Mass.) 1
Jewish National Fund 1
Kaplan, Joseph 1
Katzman, Jacob, 1911- 1
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 1
Kerry, John F. 1943- 1
Kirstein, Louis Edward, 1867-1942 1
Labor Zionist Alliance (U.S.) 1
Lipsky, Bernard 1
Lynn Classical High School (Lynn, Mass.) 1
Lynn English High School (Lynn, Mass.) 1
Lynn Hebrew School Association (Lynn, Mass.) 1
Massachusetts Hospital Association 1
Massachusetts. Department of Public Health 1
McCarthy, Eugene J. 1916-2005 1
McCormack, John W., 1891-1980 1
Morris High School 1
Morse, Leopold, 1831-1892 1
Mount Sinai Hospital (Boston, Mass.) 1
National Community Relations Advisory Council (U.S.) 1
National Jewish Workers Alliance (U.S.) 1
National Scout Jamboree 1
New England Chassidic Center 1
New England Health Care Employees Union 1
New Israel Fund 1
O’Neill, Tip 1
Parker House (Boston, Mass.) 1
Poale Zion (U.S.) 1
Pruss, William 1
Ratshesky, Abraham C. 1
Republicans for McCarthy 1
Ritz-Carlton Hotels (Firm) 1
Ross, Sidney 1
Rubenovitz, Herman H. 1
Rubenovitz, Mignon L. (Mignon Levine) 1
Schindler, Solomon, 1842-1915 1
Schwarz, Donald E. 1
Segal, Louis, 1895-1964 1
Segal, Robert E. 1
Shawmut Mills 1
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