Beyond the Archives

Researching Temple Israel's History Beyond the Archives

Interested in finding out more information about Temple Israel, its members, or other aspects of the Boston Jewish community? Here are a few resources to get you started:

Repositories and guides

Academic Guide to Jewish History
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/jewishhistory/

American Jewish Archives
Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
3101 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45223
Tel: 513/221-1875, Fax: 513/221-7812
www.americanjewisharchives.org

American Jewish Historical Society
15 W. 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
Tel: 212/294-6160, Fax: 212/294-6161
160 Herrick Road, Newton Centre, MA 02459
Tel: 617/559-8880, Fax: 617/559-8881
www.ajhs.org

Brandeis University Libraries
Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department
415 South Street
Mailstop 045, P.O. Box 549110
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
Tel: 781/736-4686, Fax: 781/736-4719
http://library.brandeis.edu/specialcollections/hours/index.html

Boston Public Library, Main Branch and Research Library
700 Boylston Street
Copley Square
Boston, MA 02116
Tel: 617-536-5400
www.bpl.org

Boston University Special Collections
771 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
Tel: 617/353-3696, Fax: 617/353-2838
Email: Speccol@bu.edu
http://www.bu.edu/speccol/

Combined Jewish Philanthropies
126 High Street
Boston, MA 02110-2700
Tel: 617/457-8500, Fax: 617/ 988-6262
www.cjp.org

Harvard University Archival Repositories
http://lib.harvard.edu/archives/index.html

Massachusetts State Archives
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Massachusetts Archives
220 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125
Tel: 617/727-2816, Fax: 617/ 288-8429
http://www.state.ma.us/sec/arc/arcidx.htm

National Archives in Waltham
Frederick C. Murphy Federal Center
380 Trapelo Road
Waltham, MA 02452-6399
Tel: 866/406-2379
Email: waltham.archives@nara.gov
http://www.archives.gov/facilities/ma/boston.html

Temple Ohabei Shalom
1187 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02446, Tel: 617/277-6610, Fax: 617/277-7881
www.ohabei.org

Newspapers [available on microfilm at BPL, check with other repositories as well]

  • The Boston Hebrew Observer 1883-1886
  • The Jewish Advocate 1905-2002
  • The Jewish Herald 1893-1894
  • Boston Globe
  • Boston Herald
  • Boston Traveler
  • Boston Post

Secondary sources

Abramson, Susan. "History of Temple Adath Israel As Seen Through the Evolution of the Worship Experience." Senior Honors Thesis: Brandeis University, 1976. Temple Israel Archives, Temple Israel, Boston, MA. (available at TI archives)

Baltzell, E. Digby, Allen Glicksman, and Jacquelyn Litt. "The Jewish Communities of Philadelphia and Boston: A Tale of Two Cities," in Friedman, Murray, ed. Jewish Life in Philadelphia 1830-1940. Philadelphia: ISHI Publications, 1983.

Boston Jewry and Its Relationship to Palestine and Israel. Israel 25th Anniversary Committee, Combined Jewish Philanthropies, 1974.

Braverman, William Alan. "The Ascent of Boston's Jews, 1630-1918." Ph.D. diss.: Harvard University, 1990.

Connolly, James J. The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in Boston, 1900-1925. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Gamm, Gerald. Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Handlin, Oscar. Boston’s Immigrants: A Study in Acculturation. Boston: Harvard University Press, 1941.

Kliman, Burton Samuel. "The Jewish Brahmins of Boston: A Study of the German Jewish Immigrant Experience, 1860-1900." Senior Honors Thesis: Brandeis University, 1978. Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.

Levi, Harry.
"Sunday Service, prepared by Rabbi Harry Levi for Temple Israel Boston." Boston: Stetson Press, 1919.
--------. A Rabbi Speaks. Boston: Chapple Publishing Company, 1930. -- 5 copies
--------. The Great Adventure and Other Addresses. Boston, 1929.
--------. Other Published Sermons

Mann, Arthur, ed. "Charles Fleischer's Religion of Democracy: An Experiment in American Faith," Commentary (June 1954): 557-65.
--------. Growth and Achievement: Temple Israel 1854-1954. Boston: Congregation Adath Israel, 1954.

Mostov, Stephen G. "A Sociological Portrait of German Jewish Immigrants in Boston: 1845-1861" in Gurock, Jeffrey S., ed. American Jewish History, Vol. 2. Central European Jews in America, 1840-1880: Migration and Advancement. New York: Routledge, 1998.

Sarna, Jonathan D. and Ellen Smith. The Jews of Boston: Essays on the Occasion of the Centenary (1895-1995) of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston. Boston: The Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, 1995.

Schindler, Solomon. Israelites in Boston: A Tale Describing the Development of Judaism in Boston, Preceded by the Jewish Calendar for the Next Decade. Boston: Berwick & Smith, 1889.
--------. Messianic Expectations and Modern Judaism. Boston: S.E. Cassino and Company, 1886.

Solomon, Barbara Miller. Ancestors and Immigrants: A Changing New England Tradition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1956.
--------. Pioneers in Service: The History of the Associated Jewish Philanthropies of Boston. Boston, 1956.