In 2016, we donated many of our physical archives to the Jewish Heritage Center of New England, in Boston. If you are interested in preserving your documents and stories with us or the JHCNE, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Below is a list of our donated archives. As the JHCNE digitizes these archives, links will be available below:
- Box 1
Papers of Rabbi Jacob Freedman, 1 - Box 2
Papers of Rabbi Jacob Freedman, 2 - Box 3
Synagogues: Springfield MA - Box 4
Synagogues: Springfield 2, Beth Israel North Adams, CBI, B’nai Jacob - Box 5
Synagogues and Jewish organizations box 3, LGA Schechter board material and yearbooks, Sons of Israel, Sons of Israel Ladies Auxiliary - Box 6
Jewish Organizations, Meetings of Sons of Israel (1930s, Yiddish), SOI Ladies Auxiliary, Jewish Community Center (JCC) meetings 1949, minutes, newsletters 1966, Valley Jewish Seniors, Holyoke Jewish Seniors, B’nai Mitzvah brochures - Box 7
Papers of Rabbi Jacob Freedman, box 3
Synagogues and Jewish Organizations
Knesses Israel
Early Springfield papers: IMPORTANT, DELICATE - Box 8
Newspapers
Jewish Ledger, Berkshire Jewish Voice - Box 9
Newspapers
Jewish Weekly 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993
Aufbau - Box 10
Newspapers
Jewish Weekly 1994, 1996, 1997 - Box 11
Synagogues box 3
CBI, JCA - Box 12
Synagogues box 4
Kesser Israel, JCA, Kodimoh
Synagogue merger papers “Alliance” - Box 13
Synagogues box 5 Rodphe Shalom, Sinai Temple, Sons of Zion Holyoke, Temple Israel Greenfield, Chabad, Havurah, Beth Israel Springfield, Beth El Springfield - Box 14
Synagogues box 6
Beth Israel, Cemetery records and plaques - Box 15
Jewish synagogues and organizations
Congregation B’nai Israel Northampton
Newsletters (see CBI box)
Havurah/JC
Grinspoon Foundation/Hadassah - Box 16
Jewish Schools and orgs Heritage Academy (in 2 boxes), Lander Grinspoon Academy, Other Local Jewish Day Schools, JCC Springfield - Box 17
Jewish organizations and publications
JCC Springfield cont., Jewish Family Service, Jewish Welfare Board, Yiddish Book Center, Jewish Weekly News, Rural Judaism - Box 18
Jewish organizations and publications
Jewish Federation, Camps
Jewish Geriatric Services
Newspaper articles
Other Jewish Historical Societies - Box 19
Jewish Education
Solomon Schechter School building - Box 20
Cemeteries
Local notables
Occupations by groups
Obituaries
Families: August, Broder, Bloom, Feldman, other families - Box 21
Jewish organizations and exhibits
UMass Hillel, Smith College Hillel, United Hebrew School articles, Jewish Arts, American Jewish Historical Society
Jewish museums exhibits
Conferences
Remembrances
Jewish culture
Church closings - Box 22
Darfur synagogue campaign
Heritage Academy yearbook
Amit women
Mizrahi
3 framed glass photos
Records of Jewish film festival - Box 24
Freedman papers (Yiddish)
Chevrat Tiferet Yisrael 1914
Membership list dues, payments
Springfield high school yearbook--Martin Freedman included
Simmons college graduation year
1935 Sarah Freedman journal
Calendar 1931 - Box 25
Books about Western Mass Jewish history, synagogue history - Box 26
Freedman documents
Irving Kessler memorials
Oral histories
Unsorted synagogues - Box 27
Books: Jewish history west mass
Population survey 1947, 1968
Broken cemetery photo images - Box 28
Schoen Books catalogs
Miscellaneous - Box 29
Jewish War Veterans
Directory and minutes - Box 30
Photographs - Box 31
Synagogues
B’nai Jacob
Longmeadow bulletins