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Bernard L. Gorfinkle Papers
Collection
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
Davis and Isaacs Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-936
Abstract
The Isaacs and the Davis families were both active members of the Jewish community in Cincinnati, Ohio dating back to the mid 19th century. The Davis family includes Charles K., who along with Leo Wise helped to found the Beersheba immigrant colony in Kansas in 1882. The Isaacs family included many well-known, religious, legal, and medical scholars. The two families were joined together on March 21, 1912 when Ella Davis, daughter of Charles K. Davis and Ida (Fletcher) Davis, married Nathan...
Dates:
undated, 1882-1987
Addendum 1: undated, 1863 - 1997
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
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- Minutes (administrative records) 1
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- Puerto Rico 1
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- United States -- Armed forces -- Aides 1
- United States -- Armed forces -- Chaplain's assistants 1
- United States -- Armed forces -- Military life 1
- United States -- Armed forces -- Officers 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Belgium 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France -- Belleau Wood, Battle of, 1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France -- Château Thierry, Battle of, 1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France -- Le Haure, Battle of 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France -- Saint Mihiel, Battle of, 1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France -- Verdun, Battle of, 1916 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Peace 1
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- Names
- Alpert, Abraham 1
- Alpert, Helen 1
- Bailen, Samuel L. 1
- Baruch, Bernard Mannes, 1870-1965 1
- Bevis, Howard L. (Howard Landis), 1885-1968 1
- Bloomfield, Meyer 1
- Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston 1
- Davis, Charles K., 1854-1918 1
- Davis, Ida (Fletcher), b. 1855/1856 1
- Davis, Max X., b. 1861 1
- Gorfinkle, Bernard 1
- Gorfinkle, Sarah Millionthaler 1
- Harvard Business School 1
- Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society of Boston 1
- Isaacs, Abraham, 1860-1928 1
- Isaacs, Ella Davis, 1885-1975 1
- Isaacs, Nathan, 1886-1941 1
- Isaacs, Rachel Rose (Friedman), 1861-1929 1
- Jung, Leo, 1892-1987 1
- Pill, Hyman 1
- Poorvu, Harris 1
- Pound, Roscoe, 1870-1964 1
- Shubow, Joseph Shalom 1
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 1
- Wolf, Horace J. (Horace Joseph), 1885-1926 1
- Wotitzky, Carol Isaacs, 1920-2006 1
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