Beyond the Wyner Archives

Other Resources

ACADEMIC GUIDE TO JEWISH HISTORY

Jewish archival materials from around the world

AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES

Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn papers, Conversion certificates and much more

BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, MAIN BRANCH AND RESEARCH LIBRARY

Genealogical material, city directories, newspapers, maps and much more

BOSTON UNIVERSITY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman Papers and much more

JEWISHGEN

the Global Home for Jewish Genealogy

JEWISH WOMEN’S ARCHIVE

Much material, including oral histories, about present and past Jewish women, including some Temple Israel members, and much more

MASSACHUSETTS STATE ARCHIVES

Older marriage, and death records, census records, town histories and much more

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORD ADMINISTRATION, BOSTON FEDERAL RECORDS CENTER

Birth, marriage, and records, census records, immigration and naturalization records

TEMPLE OHABEI SHALOM

Predecessor of Temple Israel of Boston

THE WYNER FAMILY JEWISH HERITAGE CENTER AT NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

Boston Jewish community and institutional records, genealogical materials, census records, birth, marriage, and death records, immigration and naturalization indexes and much more

Newspapers:

Articles and obituaries; available online and on microfilm at the Boston Public Library and other libraries

• Jewish Newspapers: [Boston] Jewish Advocate, 1905-present
• Other Newspapers: The Boston Globe [digitized from 1874]; Boston Herald; Boston Traveler; Boston Post; New York Times

For more resources, 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).