Bylaws (administrative records)
Subject
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Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Boston Workers (Workmen's) Circle Records
Collection
Identifier: I-494
Abstract
Created to provide mutual aid and education, The Workmen's Circle was established in New York in 1900 and officially chartered in 1905. Massachusetts established an Independent Workmen's Circle in 1903 to maneuver around prohibitive insurance laws, but was able to unify with the national organization in 1921. Several chapters were operational in Massachusetts by 1911. The Boston District often mirrored National's development, including the establishment of cemeteries, a chorus, a camp, and...
Dates:
undated, 1925-1999
Chevra Kedusha (Boston, Mass.) Records
Collection
Identifier: I-185
Abstract
Chevra Kadusha of Boston is an independent, non-denominational organization of individuals, synagogues, universities and other Jewish institutions committed to making the full range of burial rituals accessible and available to the entire Jewish community. It was organized and instituted in 1856. The collection contains two versions of the constitution of Chevra Kedusha as well as the board minutes (1892-1904, 1911-1974), financial records (1933-1968), a ledger recording payments of...
Dates:
undated, 1856-1986
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 Jeshurun (Boston, Mass.) Records
Collection
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 Ahaveth Achim Anshe Sphard (Chelsea, Mass.) Records
Collection
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 Anshe Sefard (Boston, Mass.) Records
Collection
Identifier: I-269
Abstract
The collection consists of an illustrated Pinkas (1924-1934), which contains the congregation's by-laws, a list of officers, lists of men and women members, a list of contributions, and lists of yahrzeits. Also includes a record book of minutes of meetings and finances (1924-1944). The entries in the record book are in Yiddish (1924-1936) and English (1936-1944).
Dates:
1924-1944
Dewey D. Stone Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-529 and P-529A
Abstract
Contains papers and photos including correspondence and other materials relating to work as Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (and Israel), as National Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, as a leading campaigner for Israel Bonds, and as co-founder of and Chairman of the Board of the Weizmann Institute of Science; 2 texts of radio broadcasts made in 1948 informing America about the Israeli war for independence and the new Israeli republic; a list of military equipment supplied by...
Dates:
undated, 1916-1984
Hebrew Free Loan Association (Pittsfield, Mass.) Records
Collection
Identifier: I-205
Abstract
The Hebrew Free Loan Association was formed circa 1935 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts to offer interest-free loans to dues-paying members of the organization in need of temporary financial relief. The records of the Association consist of two bound ledgers, one containing minutes from meetings of the organization’s officers, and the other holding a list of account holders and their transactions between 1949 and 1970.
Dates:
undated, 1944-1970
Immigrants Mutual Aid Society, Inc. Records
Collection
Identifier: I-109
Abstract
Contains the papers of the Society founded in 1938 by recent German speaking Jewish immigrants to Boston to assist their initial adjustment to the economic, cultural, spiritual, and social life of the American community and subsequently, to provide mutual assistance to its membership and aid to other immigrants.The collection consists of the Society's by-laws (1953, 1956, 1964); handwritten notes with the names of Officers and Directors (1949-1961), plans for cultural and social...
Dates:
undated, 1938-1980
Israel Numismatic Society of Massachusetts Records
Collection
Identifier: I-306
Abstract
The Israel Numismatic Society is an organization dedicated to the study of and collection of Israel's coinage, past and present, and all aspects of Judaic numismatics. This collection contains papers, certificates, and correspondence relating to meetings and events held by the Israel Numismatic Society of Massachusetts (INSM) in various locations throughout the state between 1973 and 1992. This collection also contains publications released by the INSM, as well as newsletters from the Los...
Dates:
undated, 1973-1992