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Minutes (administrative records)

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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 61 Collections and/or Records:

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
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Dewey D. Stone Papers

Farband Labor Zionist Order (Boston, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-534
Abstract

The Farband Labor Zionist Order was a Jewish fraternal organization founded in 1910 and chartered in New York in 1913. With branches across the United States and Canada, it functioned as a mutual aid society aligned with the Socialist and Zionist political party Poale Zion. The material in the collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, publications, press releases, photographs, meeting minutes, brochures, and memos.

Dates: undated, 1941-1984
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Farband Labor Zionist Order (Boston, Mass.) Records

Hadassah Chapters of the North Shore (Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-594
Abstract

This collection contains materials related to the Lynn, Salem-Beverly-Danvers, and Swampscott-Marblehead chapters of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, including a history of the Lynn chapter produced in 1993, newsletters from the Salem-Beverly-Danvers chapter, and notes, pamphlets, and other information contained in the personal binder of Swampscott-Marblehead chapter president Irma Levenbach.

Dates: 1959-1993
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Hadassah Chapters of the North Shore (Mass.) Records

Hebrew Free Loan Association (Pittsfield, Mass.) Records

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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
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Hebrew Free Loan Association (Pittsfield, Mass.) Records

Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society Boston Port Records

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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
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society Boston Port Records

Hebrew Teachers Association of Greater Boston Records

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Identifier: I-119
Abstract The Hebrew Teachers Association of Greater Boston was founded in 1909. Its primary purpose was to unite qualified Jewish educators and to provide for their material and spiritual status. The Association first developed a curriculum based on the Bible, the Hebrew language and Jewish history in 1918. It was revised by a committee including the greater Boston Hebrew school principals, the Bureau of Jewish Education and prominent rabbis in 1922. The Association was also involved with Jewish...
Dates: undated, 1934-1956
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Hebrew Teachers Association of Greater Boston Records

Henry Wise Papers

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Identifier: P-944
Abstract Henry Wise was a Boston-area lawyer whose practice focused mainly on housing, fishing, and labor, three areas in which he crafted important local legislation. In 1942 he wrote to the Institute of Jewish Affairs, a research branch created by the American and World Jewish Congresses, inquiring after membership. The Institute of Jewish Affairs was made up primarily of scholars, who took a scientific approach towards researching Jewish life from the previous 25 years. They hoped to better...
Dates: 1941-2010
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Henry Wise Papers

Immigrants Mutual Aid Society, Inc. Records

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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
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Immigrants Mutual Aid Society, Inc. Records

Independent Order of B’rith Abraham, George Peabody Lodge No. 667 (Peabody, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: JHCI-003
Abstract This collection contains meeting minutes, transcripts, and semi-annual reports documenting the activities and administration of the George Peabody Lodge, No. 667 branch of the Independent Order of B'rith Abraham (IOBA). This collection also contains semi-annual reports to the U.S. Grand Lodge of the IOBA for 1927 and 1929. The collection was established by the Jewish Heritage Center of the North Shore, previously known as the North Jewish Historical Society, through many separate donations...
Dates: undated, 1913-1932
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Independent Order of B’rith Abraham, George Peabody Lodge No. 667 (Peabody, Mass.) Records

Interfor Club (Lynn, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-563
Abstract The Interfor Club of the North Shore was originally founded in 1930 by David L Winer, a Boston University Law School graduate, as the Brandeis Associates. Initially having twenty-two members who just graduated high school, the Interfor Club, which stands for Inter Collegiate Forum Club, began meeting at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association in Lynn. The collection is comprised of revisions to constitutions, event programs, financial records, photographs, scholarship information, member lists,...
Dates: undated, 1932-2000
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Interfor Club (Lynn, Mass.) Records

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