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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 155 Collections and/or Records:

Altman and Spiewak Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: P-831
Abstract The Altman and Spiewak Family Papers primarily document the Altman family of Boston through the lens of Barbara Altman Spiewak. Frank and Ethel Task Altman raised their children, Barbara and Stanley, in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Barbara was a graduate of Simmons College and was a librarian in the Boston area. This collection includes Frank Altman’s Navy records, baby books, yearbooks, family photographs and a memoir written by Barbara Altman Spiewak. It also includes a memoir written by Robert...
Dates: undated, 1920-1985
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Altman and Spiewak Family Papers

American Physicians and Friends for Medicine in Israel Records

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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
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / American Physicians and Friends for Medicine in Israel Records

American Technion Society, Boston Chapter, Women’s Division Records

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Identifier: I-434
Abstract The American Technion Society was founded in 1940 as an organization to aid the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, with the goal to aid the technological and scientific advancement of Israel. The Women’s Division, which was founded in 1956, did so by focusing its efforts on three main national programs: faculty recruitment, medical engineering, and student aid. Beginning in the 1970s, special interest was given to the Medical Engineering Project in the Medical School, a cause of...
Dates: undated, 1975-1991
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / American Technion Society, Boston Chapter, Women’s Division Records

Anshey Dowig Association (Boston, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-219
Abstract The Anshey Dowig Association began in the last quarter of the 19th century, initially as informal meetings for Jews from the region of Dowig, Lithuania, living in the Boston area. The association functioned as a benefit society for its members and in 1898, with the acquisition of burial plots in a cemetery in West Roxbury, it also established itself as a chevra kadisha or burial society. By the 1980s, as membership dropped, it began working towards reviving the...
Dates: 1887-1984
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Anshey Dowig Association (Boston, Mass.) Records

Arthur S. Obermayer Papers

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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
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Arthur S. Obermayer Papers

Avraham Hirsch and Hannah Schaiman Freedman Papers

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Identifier: JHCP-002
Abstract

This collection contains the professional and personal papers of Rabbi Avraham Hirsch Freedman, who throughout his career served as rabbi at Congregation Adath Jeshurun (Ottawa, Canada), Durban United Hebrew Congregation (Durban, South Africa), and Congregation Beth Israel (Bangor, Maine), as well as those of his wife, Hannah Schaiman Freedman. Included are sermons, lectures, correspondence, life cycle events, eulogies, and news clippings.

Dates: undated, 1982-2017
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Avraham Hirsch and Hannah Schaiman Freedman Papers

Beatrice Feingold Papers

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Identifier: P-621
Abstract Beatrice Miller Feingold was a past President of both the Worcester Section and New England Region of the National Council of Jewish Women. In addition, she was the first female Vice President of the Worcester Jewish Federation, Vice President of the Worcester Chapter of Brandeis University’s National Women’s Committee, and a board member of the Jewish Community Council and Jewish Family Services of Worcester. Feingold was also one of the founders of the Worcester Area Community Service, the...
Dates: undated, 1932-1986
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Beatrice Feingold Papers

Benjamin Rabalsky Papers

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Identifier: P-153
Abstract

A Boston lawyer, Hebrew scholar and Yiddish orator, Benjamin Rabalsky was involved in the local Zionist movement. A member of the American Jewish Congress, American Zion Commonwealth, Boston West End Jewish Liberty Loan Committee, Zion Association of Greater Boston and New England Zionist Region, he dedicated much of his time to Zionist causes. This collection contains a small amount of business correspondence and family correspondence.

Dates: undated, 1913-1932
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Benjamin Rabalsky Papers

Ber Boruchoff Papers

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Identifier: P-157
Abstract

Rabbi Ber Boruchoff was the first and longest serving rabbi for Congregation Beth Israel in Malden, Massachusetts. This collection contains ledgers with records of marriages performed in the Greater Boston area during the years 1906-1938, as well as some photographs and biographical information.

Dates: undated, 1906-1939
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Ber Boruchoff Papers

Bernard A. Margolis Papers

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Identifier: JHCP-004
Abstract This collection contains correspondence, photographs, awards, art, artifacts, educational records, newspaper clippings, audiovisual materials, brochures, and articles documenting Bernard A. Margolis’s personal and professional lives. Included are materials related to the Margolis and Birkenfeld families, art and artifacts collected by Margolis throughout his lifetime, educational records from elementary to graduate school, and material on his political involvement, including his protests...
Dates: undated, 1860-2018
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Bernard A. Margolis Papers

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