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Temple B'rith Kodesh

Here is gathered all material relating to Bernstein's official role and duties as Rabbi at TBK, insofar as they are distinct from other material (correspondence, in particular, presents the problem of distinguishing personal from private in an all-consuming vocation). Other material possibly construed as "official" may be found in, for example, the "Personal Miscellanea" section.

The major categories of this section are given below along with the kinds of material typically found therein. While the primary content of the folders is generally correspondence, a variety of other material may be present. Within each category or subsection, the arrangement is usally chronological.

Congregational meetings and committees. Documents from, and relating to, the work of ad hoc and established groups within TBK conducting the temple's affairs. Folders for the annual meetings often include programs, agendas, invitations, correspondence, budget reports, addresses by PSB and others, lists of members, press releases and other announcements, newspaper clippings, and research material.

Correspondence and papers. Primarily correspondence, chiefly from or to PSB, on TBK matters. Since the bulk of PSB's correspondence is found in its own section, the material collected here is more directly related to the doings of TBK or its members. Also included are other papers relating to the temple, such as on conversion and financial matters.

Anniversaries and other special Temple events. These folders include programs and invitations having to do with celebrations of or at TBK.

Holidays and annual services. These folders typically include programs, invitations, Temple bulletins, press releases, correspondence, memos to and lists of participants, and other material from the regular holiday and other services. Many folders include material from previous (or even future!) years' services. The services are given here in the order in which they appear in the annual cycle, starting with the High Holy Days in the fall of the year, although not all the services are part of the cycle or even Jewish (e.g., Jewish Music services, or Thanksgiving). Services associated with religious education are in the next section.

Religious education. Material relating to the education of all ages at TBK, from youngest to oldest. Papers from services relating to education, such B'nai Mitzvah or confirmation, are included here rather than with the preceding section. Folders for services may contain programs for the service, Temple bulletins, sermons and mss. notes by PSB or others, lists of students, schedules of the services (particularly for the Mitzvahs), photographs of the class, exam questions and other class material, correspondence and memoranda, and research material.

Clubs. Programs, calendars, correspondence, and research material pertaining to some of the social groups within TBK. Much of what is gathered under the heading "Temple Club" is correspondence regarding possible speakers at Temple events, along with material from speakers' bureaus.

New Temple in Brighton. Material (correspondence, drawings, research material, and more) from the congregation's decision in the late 1950s to move from Gibbs Street through the move to the new building in Brighton in 1962, with some later material on landscaping. A separate section on the Temple's Ark, designed by Luise Kaish, consists chiefly of correspondence with the artist and the new temple's architect, Pietro Belluschi.

Temple bulletins. News releases, and incomplete runs of bulletins. BOX 1

Congregational meetings and committees

Constitution

1. Constitution: November 1925, 4 copies (1 torn); "Proposed Constitution," 10 March 1961; page 5 excerpted, unknown date, with note of amendment dated 16 February 1964, attached; notices of other amendments, 1951-1960.

Annual Meetings of Congregation

2. 80th Annual Meeting, 5 December 1928.
3. 97th Annual Meeting, 17 February 1946. (On PSB's typs. address: "98th Annual Congregational Meeting.")
4. 99th Annual Meeting, 14 December 1947. Addresses by PSB and Joseph T. McNarney.
5. 100th Annual Meeting, 7 March 1949.
6. 101st Annual Meeting, 29 January 1950.
7. 102nd Annual Meeting, 31 January 1951. Program for PSB's 25th anniversary celebration, 5 June 1951.
8. 103rd Annual Meeting, 3 February 1952. Advertisement for play, "A bus called Gibbs Street."
9. Annual Meeting programs, 104th-109th, 1953-1958. "What I learned from my readers," by PSB, from The Octagonian of Sigma Alpha Mu, 1952.
10. 104th Annual Meeting, 22 January 1953.
11. 105th Annual Meeting, 7 February 1954. Playscript, "Founding of the Mikveh."
12. 106th Annual Meeting, 9 January 1955.
13. 107th Annual Meeting, 24 January 1956.
14. 108th Annual Meeting, 20 January 1957.
15. 109th Annual Meeting, 26 January 1958. Notice of 1959 110th anniversary dinner dance, 21 February 1959.
16. 111th Annual Meeting, 17 January 1960.
17. 112th Annual Meeting, 22 March 1961. "Proposed constitution of Temple B'rith Kodesh."
18. 113th Annual Meeting, 25 March 1962.
19. 114th Annual Meeting, 17 March 1963.
20. 115th Annual Meeting, 16 February 1964.
21. 116th Annual Meeting, 23 May 1965.
22. 117th Annual Meeting, 22 May 1966.
23. 118th Annual Meeting, 21 May 1967: "Presentation of Cantor David Unterman," address by PSB; "Forever CANRA," [recent typs. of 1947? speech].
24. 119th Annual Meeting, 26 May 1968.
25. 120th Annual Meeting, 25 May 1969. "A tribute to Rabbi P. Selven [sic] Goldberg," address by PSB.
26. 122nd Annual Meeting, 23 May 1971.
27. 123rd Annual Meeting, 21 May 1972. "In honor of Rabbi Herbert Bronstein," address by PSB.
28. 124th Annual Meeting, 20 May 1973.
29. 125th Annual Meeting, 19 May 1974.
30. 129th Annual Meeting, 21 May 1978.

Board of Trustees and Its Executive Committee

31. Board of Trustees, [1940s-1960s]. Lists of members.
32. Board of Trustees, 1948-1959. Meetings of minutes and other material.
33. Board of Trustees, 1952­-1959. Form letters to congregants.
34. Board of Trustees, 1956-1960. Form letters to Board members.
35. Board of Trustees, 1960. Notification letters of meetings, minutes of meeting, proposed constitution.
36. Board of Trustees, 1964. Minutes of meetings, lists of members, constitution and other material.
37. Board of Trustees. and other committees, 1964-1965. Minutes of meetings, correspondence, and other material.
38. Board of Trustees and Executive committee, 1966.
39. Board of Trustees and Executive committee, 1967.
40. Board of Trustees, 1968.
41. Board of Trustees and Executive committee, 1969.
42. Board of Trustees, 1970.
43. Board of Trustees, 1970-1971.
44. Board of Trustees, 4 January 1972. Minutes of meeting.
45. Board of Trustees, 4 June 1973 Minutes of meeting.
46. Board of Trustees, May 1974. Minutes of meetings.

Board of Trustees Institutes

47. Board of Trustees Institute, 17-18 November 1959.
48. Board of Trustees Institute, 24-25 September [1960].
49. Board of Trustees Institute, 27-28 October 1962.
50. Board of Trustees Institute?, 25 April 1964.
51. Board of Trustees Institute, 6 November 1965.

Committees

52. Committees and clubs, etc. [1950s?].
53. Art Committee, 1965. Correspondence between PSB and Thomas Horwitz.
54. Committee on observance of Tercentenary Anniversary of American Jewry, 1954-1955.
55. Committee on observing the centennial of the Jewish Center Movement in the United States, 1953.
56. Committee to Promote Attendance, 1960-1963.
57. Library Committee, 1963-1964.
58. Religious Practices Committee, 1956-1960.
59. Religious Practices Committee, 1960-1961.
60. Religious Practices Committee, 1962-1967.

BOX 2

Congregational meetings and committees

Committees

1. Religious Practices Committee, 1968-1972.
2. Religious Practices Committee: Responsa, 1960-1965.
3. Religious Practices Committee: Responsa, 1966-1968.
4. Religious Practices Committee: Responsa, 1969-1977.
5. Religious Practices Committee, 1970. Selihot Services.
6. Social Action Committee, 1968. "Proposal of the Housing Sub-Committee . . . to the Board of Trustees," 19 August 1968.

Correspondence and papers

Rabbis and Cantors

7. Correspondence, PSB and others, on Horace Manacher as "supply rabbi," 1942.
8. Rabbinical pension plan, 1942. Correspondence, informational brochures.
9. Rabbinical pension plan, 1944-1955. Correspondence, informational brochures.
10. Correspondence and memoranda from Rabbi Myron Weingarten, 1948-1949, 1955.
11. Rabbinical pension plan, 1953-1955. Correspondence.
12. Installation of Rabbi Herbert Bronstein, 25 October 1957.
13. On Rabbi Herbert Bronstein's Master's Thesis, 1958. Correspondence and review, by A.B. Yaffa.
14. Correspondence regarding PSB's pension, Jerome Gordon and Rabbinical Pension Board, 8 September 1960.
15. On replacing Assistant Rabbi Herbert Bronstein during his sabbatical, 1966-1971.
16. Search for Cantor, 1967.
17. Temple Cantor, 1967-1973.
18. Cantor David Unterman, 1967. Installation address by PSB (22 December 1967).
19. On replacing Assistant Rabbi Herbert Bronstein during his sabbatical, 1968.
20. On Rabbi P. Selvin Goldberg replacing Assistant Rabbi Herbert Bronstein during his sabbatical, 1968.
21. Search for Cantor, 1969-1971.
22. Herbert Bronstein and his appointment to the North Shore Congregation, Chicago, 1972-1973. Hallel : a service of praise for festivals and times of rejoicing, by Bronstein (1971); A Passover Haggadah, edited by Bronstein (1973).
23. Search for PSB's successor, 1972-1973.
24. Letter from TBK president Henry J. Rubens announcing selection of Rabbi Judea Miller as PSB's successor, 8 March 1973.
25. "Introduction of Rabbi Judea B. Miller," address by PSB, 1 April 1973.
26. Rabbi's pension, extract from a contract from Congregation Beth Israel, no date.

Temple Museum and Library

27. Brandeis Exhibit, February 1957. Pamphlet, "Louis Demblitz Brandeis."
28. Temple Museum, 1957-1965.
29. Temple Museum, 1956-1960.
30. Temple Museum, 1961-1965.
31. Temple Museum, 1966-1968.
32. Temple Museum, 1969-1975.
33. Temple Museum, 1968. Proposed festival of Jewish art.
34. Temple Library, 1971.

General

35. Correspondence, TBK-William Thurston Brown, 1900-1901. Photocopies. Later correspondence from PSB, 1970. 3 carbons.
36. Condolences to TBK on death of Rabbi Horace Wolf, 1927.
37. Correspondence on radio broadcasts of Jewish music, 1930-1931; mss. scripts [by PSB?].
38. Letter from former TBK president Henry M. Stern to 1938 Annual meeting [1976? photocopy of later typs.].
39. Correspondence between PSB and others on the reinstitution of Friday evening services, 1939-1941; catalogues from McCarthy & Simon, 1940-1941.
40. Correspondence between PSB and others on the reinstitution of Friday evening services, 1941.
41. Correspondence between PSB and others on Jahrzeit, 1940-1950.
42. Correspondence between McCarthy & Simon and PSB, including brochure and fabric samples, 1941.
43. Lists of TBK members in the armed forces, 1942-1944.
44. Form letters regarding TBK members in the armed forces and to returning veterans, 1943-1945.

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