Beyond the Archives

Researching Temple Israel's History Beyond the Temple Israel Archives
Interested in finding out more information about Temple Israel, its members, or other aspects of the Boston Jewish community? For a complete list of sources, see the bibliography to Meaghan Dwyer-Ryan, Susan L. Porter, and Lisa Fagin Davis, Becoming American Jews: Temple Israel of Boston (Brandeis University Press, 2009), but here are a few resources to get you started:

Academic Guide to Jewish History

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
101 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02216
Phone: 617-226-1245, Fax: 617-226-1248

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

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

Boston University Special Collections
771 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
Tel: 617/353-3696, Fax: 617/353-2838
Email


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


Harvard University Archival Repositories

Massachusetts State Archives
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Massachusetts Archives
220 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125
Tel: 617/727-2816, Fax: 617/ 288-8429


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


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

Temple Mishkan Tefila
300 Hammond Pond Parkway
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-1723
Tel: 617-332-7770, Fax: 617-332-2871

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

• Boston Hebrew Observer, 1883-1886
• [Boston] Jewish Advocate, 1905-present
• Jewish Chronicle, 1891-1893
• Jewish Herald, 1893-1894
• Boston Globe [digitized from 1874]
• Boston Herald
• Boston Traveler
• Boston Post
• New York Times 
  

Secondary Sources

Abrams, Betsy, ed. "History and Timeline of Temple Israel, 140th Anniversary Booklet." Boston, 1994. (available in TI Archives)

Abramson, Susan. "History of Temple Adath Israel As Seen Through the Evolution of the Worship Experience." Senior honors thesis: Brandeis University, 1976. (available in TI Archives)
________. "The Social History of Temple Adath Israel, 1911-Present" Unpublished paper, 1973. Temple Israel Library.

Antin, Mary. The Promised Land. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912.

Aron, Isa. Becoming a Congregation of Learners. Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights, 2000.

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

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, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Deutsch, Sarah. Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Donovan, Katherine and Paul Murphy. He Brought "Peace of Mind" to Millions: An Intimate Biography of Joshua Loth Liebman, 1907-1948. Boston: Hearst Newspapers, 1948. (available in TI Archives)

Dwyer-Ryan, Meaghan, Susan L. Porter, and Lisa Fagin Davis. Becoming American Jews: Temple Israel of Boston. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 2009.

Ehrenfried, Albert. A Chronicle of Boston Jewry. Boston, 1963. (available in TI Archives)

Fromm, Herbert. Hymns and Songs for the Synagogue. New York: Sacred Music Press, 1961.
________. The Key of See: Travel Journals of a Composer. Boston: Plowshare Press, 1967.
________. On Jewish Music: A Composer's View. New York: Bloch, 1978.

Gal, Allon. Brandeis of Boston. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980.

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

Gittelsohn, Roland B. Sermons in Steel, Stone and Thread. Boston: Temple Israel, n.d. (available in TI Archives)
________. "From Iwo Jima to Zion," Reform Judaism  12: No. 2 (Winter 1983): 18ff. (available in TI Archives)

Goldstein, Jenny. "Transcending Boundaries: Boston's Catholics and Jews, 1929-1965." Senior thesis, Brandeis University, 2001. (available in TI Archives)

Grobman, Alex. Rekindling The Flame: American Jewish Chaplains and the Survivors of European Jewry 1944-1948. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University, 1993.

Haber, Douglas A. "The Burden of the Witness: The Response of Boston’s Jews to the Holocaust, 1941-1945." Senior honors thesis, Middlebury College, 2004. (available in TI Archives)

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

Heinze, Andrew R. Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the Twentieth Century. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004.
________. "Peace of Mind (1946): Judaism and the Therapeutic Polemics of Postwar America," Religion and American Culture 12, no. 1 (Winter 2002): 31-58.

Hentoff, Nat. Boston Boy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.

Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1955.

Jick, Leon. The Americanization of the Synagogue. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 1992.

Kaplan, Dana Evan. American Reform Judaism: An Introduction. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2003.

Kaufman, David. Shul With a Pool: The "Synagogue-Center" in American Jewish History. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 1999.

Klausner, Abraham J. A Letter to My Children From the Edge of the Holocaust. San Francisco, Calif.: Holocaust Center of Northern California, 2002.

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

Levi, Harry. 1919 Sunday Service. Boston: Temple Israel, 1919.
________. A Rabbi Speaks. Boston: Chapple Publishing Co., 1930.

Mann, Arthur. "Charles Fleischer's Religion of Democracy: An Experiment in American Faith," Commentary (June 1954): 557-565.
________. Yankee Reformers in an Urban Age. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1954.
________, ed. Growth and Achievement: Temple Israel 1854-1954. Boston: Congregation Adath Israel, 1954.

Meyer, Michael A. Response to Modernity, A History of the Reform Movement. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

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

Nizel, Jeannette S. and Abraham E. Congregation Ohabei Shalom: Pioneers of the Boston Jewish Community. An Historical Perspective of the First One Hundred and Forty Years, 1842-1982. Boston, 1982.

Norwood, Stephen H. "Marauding Youths and the Christian Front: Antisemitic Violence in Boston and New York During World War II," American Jewish History 91, no. 2 (June 2003): 233-267.

Obst, Stella. The Story of Adath Israel. Boston, 1917. (available in TI Archives)

O’Connor, Thomas H. Bibles, Brahmins and Bosses: A Short History of Boston. Boston: Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston, 1991.

Reimer, Joseph. Succeeding at Jewish Education: How One Synagogue Made it Work. Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society, 1997. (available in TI Archives)

Sarna, Jonathan D. American Judaism: A History. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004.

Sarna, Jonathan D., Ellen Smith, and Scott-Martin Kosofsky, ed. The Jews of Boston, 2nd edition, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005.

Schindler, Solomon. Dissolving Views in the History of Judaism. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1888.
________. Israelites in Boston. A Tale Describing the Development of Judaism in Boston, Preceded by the Jewish Calendar for the Next Decade. Boston: Berwick and Smith, 1889.
________. Messianic Expectations and Modern Judaism. Lectures Delivered by Solomon Schindler, of the Temple Adath Israel, in Boston. With an Introduction by Minot J. Savage. Boston: S.E. Cassino and Co., 1886.

Seltzer, Sanford. Emerging Worship and Music Trends in UAHC Congregations. New York: Union of American Reform Congregations, 1994.

Silverstein, Alan. Alternatives to Assimilation, The Response of Reform Judaism to American Culture. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 1994.

Simmons, S[imon]. The History of Temple Ohabei Shalom, Principal Events from Its Organization in 1843, to the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration on February 26th, 1893. Boston, 1893.

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

Stack, Robert. International Conflict in an American City: Boston's Irish, Italians and Jews, 1935-1944. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979.

Summit, Jeffrey A. The Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Synnott, Marcia Graham. The Half-Opened Door: Discrimination and Admissions at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, 1900-1970. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979.

Touster, Saul, ed. A Survivor's Haggadah. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2000.

Wertheimer, Jack, ed. The American Synagogue: A Sanctuary Transformed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Wieder, Arnold A. The Early Jewish Community of Boston’s North End. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University, 1962.