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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 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 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 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 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 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

Congregation Beth Israel (Cambridge, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-51
Abstract Includes a copy of the constitution and a short history of the congregation; the minute books (1911-1923; 1939-1945) and financial records (1925-1937) of various activities of the synagogue and its relation with local, national and international Jewish events. Of special interest are the synagogue’s involvement in the providing of kosher meat in the Cambridge area, and its relation with the Cambridge and Somerville Hebrew Literary Association which maintained a Hebrew Free School. Minute...
Dates: 1911-1951

Congregation Tifereth Israel (Revere, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: JHCI-012
Abstract

Congregation Tifereth Israel was an Orthodox synagogue established in Revere, Massachusetts in 1912 and which closed in 2015. The collection consists primarily of financial and business records related to the operation of the synagogue and cemeteries.

Dates: undated, 1961-2010

Hebrew Educational Alliance and Congregation Toras Moshe (Boston, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-231
Abstract The Hebrew Educational Alliance was formed in Roxbury, Massachusetts and built a community hall there in 1921, establishing an orthodox synagogue, Congregation Toras Moshe, soon after. The Congregation sold the land and merged with Congregation Kadimah of Brighton, MA in 1964 to form Congregation Kadimah-Toras Moshe. The collection contains administrative records, such as ledgers, insurance records, correspondence, and membership lists, as well as documents sent to members of the...
Dates: undated, circa 1949-1964

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Beth Hamidrash Hagodol (Crawford Street Shul) (Boston, Mass.) 1
Cambridge Hebrew Women's Aid Society 1
Central Conference of American Rabbis 1
Chayet, B. L. 1
Close, Abraham 1
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston 1
Congregation Adath Israel (Newtown, Conn.) 1
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Congregation Ahabat Sholom (Lynn, Mass.) 1
Congregation Ahabat Sholom (Lynn, Mass.). Sisterhood 1
Congregation Ahaveth Achim Anshe Sphard (Chelsea, Mass.) 1
Congregation Anshai Sfard (Lynn, Mass.) 1
Congregation B'nai Israel (Northampton, Mass.) 1
Congregation B'nai Jacob (Longmeadow, Mass.) 1
Congregation B'nai Torah (Longmeadow, Mass.) 1
Congregation Beth Israel (Cambridge, Mass.) 1
Congregation Kadimah (Brighton, Boston, Mass.) 1
Congregation Kadimah-Toras Moshe (Brighton, Boston, Mass.) 1
Congregation Sons of Zion (Holyoke, Mass.) 1
Congregation Tifereth Israel (Revere, Mass.) 1
Covich, Louis D. 1
Crawford Street Shul (Boston, Mass.) 1
Edelstein, Alan 1
Fine, Arnold 1
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America 1
Halbfinger, Abraham 1
Hatikvah Holocaust Education & Resource Center 1
Hebrew Educational Alliance (Boston, Mass.) 1
Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts 1
Jewish Chaplaincy Council of Massachusetts 1
Jewish Community of Amherst (Amherst, Mass.) 1
Jewish Historical Society of Western Massachusetts 1
Jewish War Veterans of the United States, Inc. 1
Kashruth Commission (Mass.) 1
Korff, Samuel I. 1
Kraft, Harry 1
Law, Bernard A. 1
Mizrachi Women’s Organization of America 1
Nadich, Judah, 1912-2007 1
National Yiddish Book Center (U.S.) 1
Nezvesky, Israel 1
Rabbinical Court of Justice (Mass.) 1
Rabinowitz, Jacob, 1885-1967 1
Roth, Harry A., 1924- 1
Roth, Lillian 1
Rubenowitz, Herman H. 1
Saltzman, Manual 1
Saval, Maurice 1
Schoen, Kenneth 1
Shubow, Joseph Shalom 1
Sinai Temple (Springfield, Mass.) 1
Synagogue Council of Massachusetts 1
Temple B'nai Israel (Revere, Mass.) 1
Temple Beth El (Springfield, Mass.) 1
Temple Emanuel (Andover, Mass.) 1
Temple Israel (Greenfield, Mass.) 1
Teperow, Alan 1
Tichnor, Alan 1
Trigière, Jane 1
Union for Reform Judaism 1
Vaad Harabonim (Mass.) 1
Vilna Shul Congregation (Boston, Mass.) 1
Zaitchik, Samuel, 1920-2013 1
Zuber, Jacob 1
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