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Memorandums

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

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
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Chelsea-Revere Hebrew School (Chelsea, Mass.) Records

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
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Concerned Jewish Students of Greater Boston Records

Elm Farm Foods Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-552
Abstract Elm Farm Foods was first established as M. Winer Company in 1895 in the North End of Boston. The expansion of this single small store in the next several decades preluded the rise and development of Elm Farm Supermarkets in the region, followed by the company’s shift from retail to wholesale. Winer family holdings have also included various affiliated trusts and corporations managing many aspects of the company’s business and real estate. The bulk of these documents depict the financial...
Dates: undated, 1894-2011
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Elm Farm Foods Records

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

Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-123 and I-123A
Abstract This collection includes material preceding and relating to the founding of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston (JCRC), including early papers of the local American Jewish Committee and the Central Advisory Committee (a predecessor agency),the constitution and by-laws of the JCRC, material relating to organizational membership in and representation in the organizations, correspondence of the officers and staff, minutes of meetings and proceedings of its Administrative...
Dates: undated, 1933-2008
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston Records

Jewish Memorial Hospital and Rehabilitation Center (Boston, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-336
Abstract The records provide material relating to the accreditation, fundraising, management, planning, policies, programs, and public relations of a hospital that continues to serve the Greater Boston area. The records includes correspondence of various Presidents, Board Members, and Executive Directors; Board and committee minutes; scrapbooks, photographs, videotape, and film created by the Public Relations department; records of various Auxiliary groups; correspondence, reports, surveys, and other...
Dates: undated, 1915-1999
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Jewish Memorial Hospital and Rehabilitation Center (Boston, Mass.) Records

Lewis H. Weinstein Papers

 Collection
Identifier: P-641
Abstract

Consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, press releases, pamphlets, publications and other similar materials pertaining to Weinstein's involvement in Jewish organizations and institutions in the Boston area and nationally.

Dates: undated, 1947-1992
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Lewis H. Weinstein Papers

Lexington (Mass.) Leisure Group Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-334
Abstract

The Lexington Jewish Leisure Group was formed in 1972 by members of Lexington’s Temple Emunah and Temple Isaiah to serve as a social group for older and retired Jewish people. After the Group affiliated with the Golden Age Council, a service of the Associated Jewish Community Centers, in 1972, it would also hold meetings at Belmont’s Temple Beth-El. The Leisure Group organized outings and activities for the Jewish senior citizens of the area.

Dates: undated, 1972-1990
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Lexington (Mass.) Leisure Group Records

Lionel Spiro Papers

 Collection
Identifier: P-1032
Abstract This collection contains business records, correspondence, news clippings, photographs, meeting minutes, memoranda, architectural plans, promotional materials, publications, and reports documenting the personal, professional, and charitable life of Lionel Spiro. It contains materials on the 1964 founding of Charrette, an art and architectural supply company he co-founded, and its subsequent growth into a national enterprise, as well as Spiro’s work with various organizations, including the...
Dates: undated, 1909-2013
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Lionel Spiro Papers

Percy Brand Papers

 Collection
Identifier: P-865
Abstract Percy Brand was a violinist by profession and Holocaust survivor. Born in Liepaja, Latvia on April 2, 1908, he began playing violin at the age of ten. In 1941, when the Germans took control of Latvia and other Baltic countries, Brand was concertmaster of the Riga Latvian Symphony Orchestra. After the SS Einsatzgruppen units occupying Latvia killed his first wife and two children, Brand was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Playing the violin saved his life during the...
Dates: undated, 1949-1995
Found in: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors / Percy Brand Papers

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