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Chevra Kedusha (Boston, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-185
Abstract Chevra Kadusha of Boston is an independent, non-denominational organization of individuals, synagogues, universities and other Jewish institutions committed to making the full range of burial rituals accessible and available to the entire Jewish community. It was organized and instituted in 1856. The collection contains two versions of the constitution of Chevra Kedusha as well as the board minutes (1892-1904, 1911-1974), financial records (1933-1968), and a ledger recording payments of...
Dates: undated, 1856-1981

Companions of the Forest of America Boston Area Circles Records

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Identifier: JHCI-015
Abstract

The Companions of the Foresters of America was a social and benvolent fraternal organization that was a branch of the Foresters of America. This collection contains charter certificates, materials pertaining to the practices and rituals of the organization, songbooks, and membership and entertainment ledgers for local Boston area circles, including Franklin Park Circle #1571, Brookline Circle #1558, and Dorchester Circle #1542.

Dates: undated, circa 1929-1981

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 Jeshurun (Boston, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: JHCI-002
Abstract This collection contains materials of the Congregation Adath Jeshurun, the founding institution of the Jewish community in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. The main materials cover the last twenty years of the congregation’s existence, a period marked by the decline of the Jewish population of Roxbury which ultimately resulted in the congregation’s demise. The main part of the collection consists of minute books that record the activities of the congregation during this period as well as...
Dates: undated, 1916-1991

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 Ahaveth Achim Anshe Sphard (Chelsea, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-222
Abstract

Congregation Ahaveth Achim Anshe Sphard (also known as the Elm Street Synagogue) was an orthodox synagogue in Chelsea, Massachusetts. This collection contains a ledger with the congregation’s constitution, bylaws, and the minutes of two meetings. It also contains mortgage records and establishment of association forms for the congregation.

Dates: 1900-1910

Congregation Ohave Sholom (Gardner, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-492
Abstract

Congregation Ohave Sholom was formed on January 20, 1910 in Gardner, Massachuesetts. At the time the synagogue was built, Ohave Sholom had 20 families as members, but during World War I the population peaked, and 60 families held membership. However, by the 1970s membership began to decline and in 1998, with only 12 members remaining, the congregation dissolved.

Dates: undated, 1957-1998

Congregation Tifereth Israel and Community Center (Everett, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-592
Abstract Congregation Tifereth Israel was founded in Everett in 1910 and dedicated their first synagogue in 1912. After working in close partnership for nearly 30 years, Congregation Tifereth Israel merged with Everett Hebrew School and Community School to become Congregation Tifereth Israel and Community Center in 1955. In 2016, Congregation Tifereth Israel and Community Center merged with the North Shore Chabad Lubavitch. This collection contains meeting minutes, news clippings, photographs,...
Dates: undated, 1928-2015

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

Dewey D. Stone Papers

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Identifier: P-529 and P-529A
Abstract Contains papers and photos including correspondence and other materials relating to work as Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (and Israel), as National Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, as a leading campaigner for Israel Bonds, and as co-founder of and Chairman of the Board of the Weizmann Institute of Science; 2 texts of radio broadcasts made in 1948 informing America about the Israeli war for independence and the new Israeli republic; a list of military equipment supplied by...
Dates: undated, 1916-1984

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Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston 14
American Jewish Congress 4
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009 4
Brandeis University 3
Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds 3
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Jewish War Veterans of the United States, Inc. 3
Massachusetts Board of Rabbis 3
National Community Relations Advisory Council (U.S.) 3
National Jewish Welfare Board 3
Rabbinical Association of Greater Boston 3
United Jewish Appeal 3
Adath Jeshurun Cemetery Association 2
American Jewish Committee 2
B'nai B'rith 2
B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League. 2
Central Conference of American Rabbis 2
Dukakis, Michael S. (Michael Stanley), 1933- 2
Epstein, Louis M., 1887-1949 2
Grossman, Benjamin 2
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America 2
Harvard University 2
Hebrew Free Loan Association of Pittsfield, Mass. 2
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 2
Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston 2
Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.) 2
Jewish National Fund 2
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 2
Korff, Samuel I. 2
McCormack, John W., 1891-1980 2
Meir, Golda, 1898-1978 2
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 2
Segal, Robert E. 2
Stone, Dewey David, 1900-1977 2
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 2
Union of American Hebrew Congregations 2
Weinstein, Lewis H., 1905-. 2
Weizmann, Chaim, 1874-1952 2
Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949 2
Abrams, Sam 1
Action for Soviet Jewry 1
Alpert, Abraham 1
Alpert, David B. 1
Alpert, Helen 1
American Association of Small Research Companies 1
American Cancer Society 1
American Chemical Society. Northeastern Section 1
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American Israel Numismatic Society 1
American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry 1
American Numismatic Association 1
American Numismatic Society 1
American Physicians and Friends for Medicine in Israel 1
American Physicians’ Fellowship, Inc. for Medicine in Israel 1
American Society for Technion, Israel Institute of Technology 1
American Technion Society, Boston Chapter, Women’s Division 1
American Zionist Council 1
Ampal-American Israel Corporation 1
Associated Jewish Philanthropies (Boston, Mass.) 1
Axelrad, Albert S., 1938- 1
Babson College 1
Bailen, Samuel L. 1
Balkan, Herman 1
Band, Maurice 1
Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973 1
Benkovitz, Icik 1
Berlin, Monas 1
Bernstein, Julius 1
Beth Hamidrash Hagodol (Crawford Street Shul) (Boston, Mass.) 1
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 1
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Biden, Joseph R. 1
Bigelow, Lynne T. 1
Bloomfield, Meyer 1
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Boston YMHA-Hecht House 1
Boxer, Barbara 1
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Brown, Meyer 1
Burke, James A., 1910-1983 1
Bush, George Herbert Walker 1924- 1
B’nai B’rith Women 1
Cambridge Hebrew Women's Aid Society 1
Carter, James E. 1935- 1
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