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Abraham Alpert Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-544
Abstract
Born in Kovno, Lithuania, Abraham Alpert immigrated to the United States, and in 1886 settled in Boston, Massachusetts. He learned English while attending night school and would later become an internationally known writer. Outside of his writing, he also rose to become a prominent Jewish figure and leader, not just in Boston but nationally, as well. One newspaper wrote that there was not a synagogue on the Atlantic Coast that had not heard Alpert talk. He helped organize the Boston branch...
Dates:
undated, 1900-1947
Abraham and Frieda Wolper Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-531
Abstract
The Wolpers were a Jewish family from Chelsea, Massachusetts. In 1949, they issued a petition to the school board, raising concerns about Christmas carols and pageants in public schools. The resulting negative criticism from Jews and non-Jews, as well as the anti-Semitic letters sent to the Wolpers, eventually caused them to remove the petition. The collection includes the letters sent to the Wolpers, as well as newspaper clippings and correspondence with the school board.
Dates:
1949
Abraham Bornstein Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-937
Abstract
Abraham Bornstein was a well-known publisher and collector of art and art books. In 1923, Bornstein founded the Boston Book and Art Shop, which distributed art books from leading publishers of Europe, as well as published books, portfolios and monographs. Abraham and his wife, Rachel, used their publishing house to help encourage and promote many Jewish artists and writers in the United States, among them, Chaim Grade, a Yiddish poet. This collection contains materials from the Boston Book...
Dates:
undated, 1914-1992
Abraham C. Ratshesky Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-586
Abstract
Abraham Captain Ratshesky (1864-1943) was a banker by profession who founded the U.S. Trust Company with his brother Israel in 1895, and also served in a variety of political positions, including the Massachusetts State Senate from 1892-1895, delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1892, 1904, 1908, 1916, and 1924, Assistant Food Administrator for Massachusetts during World War I, and most importantly, United States Minister to Czechoslovakia from 1930-1932. In 1933, Ratshesky was...
Dates:
undated, 1895-1974
Abraham Kamberg Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-148
Abstract
Abraham Kamberg was a Springfield attorney and art collector. The bulk of this collection contains art catalogs, newsletters and prints of artwork donated by Kamberg to museums as well as for local exhibits. Two scrapbooks of news clippings highlighting events in Kamberg’s personal and professional life are also included, as well as some correspondence, photographs, and organizational material.
Dates:
undated, 1917-1975
Action for Post-Soviet Jewry Records
Collection
Identifier: JHCI-018
Abstract
This collection contains subject files, project files, correspondence, programs, brochures, meeting minutes, financial records, newsletters, case files, and photographs documenting the activities and administration of Action for Post-Soviet Jewry (formerly Action for Soviet Jewry), an organization dedicated to aiding and engaging with Jewish communities and individuals in former Soviet states.
Dates:
undated, 1971-2019
Adolph Hubbard Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-647
Abstract
Adolph Hubbard was a Boston area lawyer and co-founder of the Zionist Organization of America. In 1918, he was appointed as Administrator of the American Zionist Medical Unit by Louis D. Brandeis, and traveled to Palestine to aid in the provision of medical services and establish the American Jewish Hospital. From the 1930s to 1950s, Hubbard was an active and leading member of Zionist organizations. Following his death in 1971, $10,000 was given in his name to establish a Nahala through the...
Dates:
undated, 1918-1972
Adolphus Strassman Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-939
Abstract
Adolphus Strassman was born in 1848 in Hungary, which was at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. As a child, he immigrated with his family to the United States. They settled in Fall River, Massachusetts, where he lived with his mother, Rosa, stepfather Henry Strassman, and two half-siblings, Etta and Henry. From 1863-1865, he served in the Union Army. He served as a Private in the 2nd Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Company I, under Captain John D. Parker,...
Dates:
undated, 1865-2014
Aleph Zadik Aleph of the North Shore (Mass.) Records
Collection
Identifier: I-555
Abstract
Aleph Zadik Aleph, known almost exclusively as AZA, was founded in Omaha, Nebraska in 1924 as a local social and service group for young Jewish men. Eventually the AZA separated itself from its role as the official youth auxiliary of B'nai B'rith and continues to operate today as the BBYO (B'nai B'rith Youth Organization). This collection contains correspondence, pamphlets, governance documents and promotional material from AZA chapters on the North Shore (Chelsea, Everett, Lynn, and...
Dates:
undated, 1941-1998
Alpha Phi Pi, Alpha Delta Chapter (Lynn, Mass.) Records
Collection
Identifier: I-562
Abstract
Organized in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1931, the Alpha Delta Chapter was accepted into the national Alpha Phi Pi Jewish high school fraternity in 1932. After a period of dormancy, the Chapter was briefly reactivated in 1953 and an Alpha Delta Alumni group was formed in 1954. The material in this collection includes event programs and invitations, correspondence, photographs, news clippings and bulletins, Convention yearbooks, and a map and guide to Boston.
Dates:
undated, 1932-1993
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- Beth Israel Hospital (Boston, Mass.) 5
- Harvard University 5
- Stone, Elihu David 5
- Temple Emanuel (Newton, Mass.) 5
- United Jewish Appeal 5
- Weizmann, Chaim, 1874-1952 5
- Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949 5
- Zionist Organization of America 5
- Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941 4
- Congregation Adath Israel (Boston, Mass.) 4
- Jewish Theological Seminary of America 4
- Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009 4
- Massachusetts Board of Rabbis 4
- Temple Beth El (Swampscott, Mass.) 4
- Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 4
- Weinstein, Lewis H., 1905-. 4
- American Jewish Committee 3
- Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973 3
- Boston Commission on Jewish Continuity 3
- Central Conference of American Rabbis 3
- Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds 3
- Dukakis, Michael S. (Michael Stanley), 1933- 3
- Epstein, Louis M., 1887-1949 3
- Federated Jewish Charities (Boston, Mass.) 3
- Federation of Jewish Charities of Boston 3
- Gorfinkle, Bernard 3
- Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America 3
- Harvard Business School 3
- Hebrew Teachers College (Brookline, Mass.) 3
- Jewish War Veterans of the United States, Inc. 3
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 3
- Levine, Harry, 1895-1977 3
- McCormack, John W., 1891-1980 3
- National Community Relations Advisory Council (U.S.) 3
- National Jewish Welfare Board 3
- Rabbinical Association of Greater Boston 3
- Segal, Robert E. 3
- Shrage, Barry 3
- Stone, Dewey David, 1900-1977 3
- Temple B’nai Abraham (Beverly, Mass.) 3
- Temple Ohabei Shalom (Brookline, Mass.) 3
- Winer, Louis 3
- Workmen’s Circle (U.S.) 3
- Action for Soviet Jewry 2
- Alpert, Abraham 2
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 2
- American Zionist Council 2
- Avukah, American Student Zionist Federation 2
- B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League. 2
- Boruchoff, Ber, 1872-1939 2
- Boy Scouts of America 2
- Bureau of Jewish Education (Boston, Mass.) 2
- Combined Jewish Appeal (Boston, Mass.) 2
- Congregation Mishkan Tefila (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) 2
- Congregation Shirat Hayam (Swampscott, Mass.) 2
- Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 2
- Curley, James Michael, 1874-1958 2
- Ehrmann, Herbert B. (Herbert Brutus), 1891-1970 2
- Epstein, Mary Wolfman, 1908-1998 2
- Girls’ Latin School (Boston, Mass.) 2
- Goldstein, Israel 1896- 2
- Gordon, Albert Isaac, 1903-1968 2
- Grossman, Benjamin 2
- Hebrew College (Newton Center, Newton, Mass.) 2
- Herter, Christian Archibald, 1895-1966 2
- Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 2
- Hurwich, Louis, 1886-1967 2
- Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston 2
- Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston 2
- Jewish Heritage Center of the North Shore (Lynn, Mass.) 2
- Jewish Historical Society of the North Shore 2
- Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.) 2
- Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007 2
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 2
- Kallen, Horace Meyer, 1882-1974 2
- Keren Hayesod 2
- Lipsky, Louis, 1876-1963 2
- Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924 2
- Margolis, Daniel J. 2
- Massachusetts. General Court 2
- Meir, Golda, 1898-1978 2
- Meretz Relief Association (Boston, Mass.) 2
- New England Jewish Music Forum 2
- Newman, Louis 2
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 2
- Poale Zion (U.S.) 2
- Ratshesky, Abraham C. 2
- Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (Wyncote, Pa.) 2
- Sachar, Abram Leon, 1899-1993 2
- Shanok, Morton 2
- Sharon Memorial Park 2
- Shubow, Joseph Shalom 2
- Silver, Abba Hillel, 1893-1963 2
- Snider, Eliot 2 + ∧ less
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