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American Physicians and Friends for Medicine in Israel Records

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Identifier: I-586
Abstract The American Physicians and Friends for Medicine in Israel (APF) is an organization of physicians and health care professionals whose aims are to advance the state of medical education, research and care in Israel and to advance relationships between the health care communities of North America and Israel. This collection contains materials relating to the organization’s activities and internal proceedings, including correspondence, scrapbooks, reports, meeting minutes, financial statements,...
Dates: undated, 1920-2014

Anshey Dowig Association (Boston, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-219
Abstract The Anshey Dowig Association began in the last quarter of the 19th century, initially as informal meetings for Jews from the region of Dowig, Lithuania, living in the Boston area. The association functioned as a benefit society for its members and in 1898, with the acquisition of burial plots in a cemetery in West Roxbury, it also established itself as a chevra kadisha or burial society. By the 1980s, as membership dropped, it began working towards reviving the...
Dates: 1887-1984

Bernard L. Gorfinkle Papers

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Identifier: P-664 and P-664A
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence, photographs, news clippings, ephemera and a scrapbook compiled by Bernard L. Gorfinkle, a Boston area lawyer and civic leader who served in the United States Army during both World Wars and was a participant in the negoriations leading to the Treaty of Versailled and the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

Dates: undated, 1914-1979

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 YMHA-Hecht House Records

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Identifier: I-74
Abstract This collection includes constitution, minutes of the Board of Trustees (1934-1948, 1953-1958), budgets (1942-1948, 1951-1953, 1955-1958), financial reports, material on membership, and numerous activities. Among the latter is extensive material on camping, clubs, and the nursery school. Contains material on the history of Hecht House, surveys, publications, and other material issued, photographs, and memorabilia. Includes similar material of the YMHA for the years 1933-1958, and for the...
Dates: undated, 1896-1971

Concerned Jewish Students of Greater Boston Records

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Identifier: I-157
Abstract Contains material pertaining to the establishment of the organization, including a list of incorporators, and lists of constituent members, minutes of meetings (November 1970-February 1972), a speech giving a review of the group's activities (1972), and financial records (July 1970-March 1972). Also contains general correspondence (March 1970-March 1972), correspondence with Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston (1970-1971), and information on the group's Chavurat Shabbat project...
Dates: 1969-1973

Congregation Adath Israel (Newtown, Conn.) Records

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Identifier: I-323
Abstract

Congregation Adath Israel was established in 1919 by a small group of Jewish farmers in Newtown, Connecticut. The synagogue expanded its building in 1957 and converted from the Orthodox movement to the Conservative movement in the 1970s. In 2007, they relocated to a larger building within Newtown. The collection primarily consists of administrative and financial records, along with newspaper clippings, photographs, and miscellaneous documents.

Dates: undated, 1909-1991

Congregation Agudas Achim Anshei Sfard, Adam St. Shul (Newton, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: JHCI-021
Abstract In 1911, Congregation Agudas Achim Anshei Sfard, more commonly known as the Adams Street Shul, was granted an official charter from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By December of the following year, the building was opened to the public. While there was a lull in membership starting in the ’50s, by the mid to late ’80s, more young Jewish families moved to the area, spurring efforts to revitalize the building. Due to their efforts, the Adams Street Shul is now listed on the National...
Dates: undated, 1912-2018, bulk 1980-2018

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

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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

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Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston 8
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Action for Soviet Jewry 1
Adath Jeshurun Cemetery Association 1
Alintuck, Martin K. 1
American Cancer Society 1
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American Jewish Committee 1
American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry 1
American Jewish Congress 1
American Physicians and Friends for Medicine in Israel 1
American Physicians’ Fellowship, Inc. for Medicine in Israel 1
American Zion Commonwealth, Inc. 1
American Zionist Federation 1
Anshey Dowig Association 1
Aronowski, Eliezer 1
Associated Jewish Philanthropies (Boston, Mass.) 1
Avukah, American Student Zionist Federation 1
B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League. 1
Baram, Phillip J. 1
Baruch, Bernard Mannes, 1870-1965 1
Beth Hamidrash Hagodol (Crawford Street Shul) (Boston, Mass.) 1
Beth Israel Hospital (Boston, Mass.) 1
Bigelow, Lynne T. 1
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association 1
Boston Athenæum 1
Boston Redevelopment Authority 1
Boston Society of Architects 1
Boston Symphony Orchestra 1
Boston YMHA-Hecht House 1
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941 1
Brookline Town Meeting 1
Bush, George Herbert Walker 1924- 1
Carter, James E. 1935- 1
Central Conference of American Rabbis 1
Chayet, B. L. 1
Close, Abraham 1
Combined Jewish Appeal (Boston, Mass.) 1
Concerned Jewish Students of Greater Boston 1
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations 1
Congregation Adath Israel (Boston, Mass.) 1
Congregation Adath Israel (Newtown, Conn.) 1
Congregation Ahabat Sholom (Lynn, Mass.) 1
Congregation Ahabat Sholom (Lynn, Mass.). Sisterhood 1
Congregation Anshai Sfard (Lynn, Mass.) 1
Congregation Kadimah (Brighton, Boston, Mass.) 1
Congregation Kadimah-Toras Moshe (Brighton, Boston, Mass.) 1
Congregation Ohave Sholom (Gardner, Mass.) 1
Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds 1
Covich, Louis D. 1
Crawford Street Shul (Boston, Mass.) 1
Davidson, Margaret, d. 1912. 1
Dukakis, Michael S. (Michael Stanley), 1933- 1
Edelstein, Alan 1
Epstein, Philip D., 1918-2004 1
Fertel, Stanley M. 1
Fine, Arnold 1
Fishman, Maurice 1
Fishman, Mildred Minnie 1
Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983 1
Glazier, Manuel 1
Glick, Anne Cooperstein 1
Glick, James 1
Glick, Joseph 1
Goldfarb, Daniel C. 1
Goldman, Robert 1
Gorfinkle, Bernard 1
Gorfinkle, Sarah Millionthaler 1
Gottlieb, Leonard 1
Greater Boston Council of Jewish Centers 1
Greenberg, Ethel Shirnovich 1
Greenberg, Isaac 1
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America. Boston Chapter 1
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Halbfinger, Abraham 1
Hamarneh, Sami Khalaf, 1925- 1
Harvard Alumni Association 1
Harvard Club of Boston 1
Harvard University. Graduate School of Design 1
Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Foundation 1
Hebrew Educational Alliance (Boston, Mass.) 1
Hebrew Free Loan Association of Pittsfield, Mass. 1
Histadrut ha-refuʼit be-Yiśraʼel. 1
Histadrut ha-refuʾit be-Yiśraʾel. Mifʻal ḥaverut ḥuts 1
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 1
Interfor Club (Lynn, Mass.) 1
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 1
Israel Institute of the History of Medicine 1
Jerusalem Academy of Medicine 1
Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts 1
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