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Aaron Gorovitz Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-87
Abstract
Rabbi Aaron Gorovitz was born in Lithuania in 1870. He immigrated to New York at the age of 22. Before moving to Boston, he was one of the founders of Etz Chaim Yeshiva (later the Rabbi Isaac Elchonon Rabbinical College) and Yeshiva Jacob Joseph, organized the St. John, New Brunswick branch of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, and served as a rabbi in St. John, New Jersey, North Adams, Massachusetts and Woonsocket, Rhode Island before moving to Boston in 1907. Until the end of his life he...
Dates:
undated, 1910-1956
American Physicians and Friends for Medicine in Israel Records
Collection
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
Arthur S. Obermayer Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-1019
Abstract
Arthur S. Obermayer was a scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He established his own research and development company, Moleculon Research Company, in the Boston area and was involved in numerous philanthropic and professional organizations, especially through his foundation, the Obermayer Foundation. Obermayer was also a political activist, and played a key role in establishing the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. This collection...
Dates:
undated, 1897-2016
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
Beth Hamidrash Hagodol (Crawford Street Shul) (Roxbury, Boston, Mass.) Records
Collection
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
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
Chelsea-Revere Hebrew School (Chelsea, Mass.) Records
Collection
Identifier: I-313
Abstract
The Chelsea-Revere School was established by Monas Berlin in 1896 and served the Chelsea, Massachusetts Jewish community until 1979. The collection contains the records of the institution and its activities including meeting minutes, financial records, correspondence, personnel manifests, memos, publications, photographs, memorial documents, and school function notices, as well as press materials in the form of newspaper clippings.
Dates:
undated, 1939-1981
Chevra Kadisha Gamilath Chesed Shel Emeth (Fall River, Mass.) Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: I-132
Abstract
This collection consists of the constitution and by-laws of the Society, written in Hebrew, as well as lists of members, purchase agreements for graves, and a list of yahrzeits, also in Hebrew. The book also contains the accounts of the Society, written in Yiddish.
Dates:
1899 - 1920
Concerned Jewish Students of Greater Boston Records
Collection
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
Collection
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
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- McCormack, John W., 1891-1980 3
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- Zionist Organization of America 3
- American Jewish Congress 2
- Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973 2
- Congregation Adath Israel (Boston, Mass.) 2
- Epstein, Louis M., 1887-1949 2
- Goldstein, Israel 1896- 2
- Grossman, Benjamin 2
- Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America 2
- Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 2
- Jewish Theological Seminary of America 2
- Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009 2
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 2
- Keren Hayesod 2
- Levine, Harry, 1895-1977 2
- Lipsky, Louis, 1876-1963 2
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- Temple Ohabei Shalom (Brookline, Mass.) 2
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- Allen, Frank G. 1
- Alpert, Abraham 1
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- American Association of Small Research Companies 1
- American Cancer Society 1
- American Chemical Society. Northeastern Section 1
- American Jewish Committee 1
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- 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 Council 1
- Ampal-American Israel Corporation 1
- Aronov, Moshe 1
- Aronowski, Eliezer 1
- Associated Jewish Philanthropies (Boston, Mass.) 1
- Avukah, American Student Zionist Federation 1
- B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League. 1
- Bailen, Samuel L. 1
- Band, Maurice 1
- Baruch, Bernard Mannes, 1870-1965 1
- Beerman, Jacob 1
- Bennett, Ephraim 1
- Berlin, Monas 1
- Berry, Yale J. 1
- Beth El Synagogue (New Rochelle, N.Y.) 1
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- Cohen, Myron 1
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- Congregation Kadimah (Brighton, Boston, Mass.) 1
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