Records of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Society, 1943-1994.

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Records of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Society, 1943-1994.

The scrapbook documents the first two years of Harvard/Radcliffe Hillel. It contains programs, announcements, posters, newsletters, personal letters, and newsclippings. The folder of photographs contains pictures of Shapiro, both alone and in groups, including a photograph of Boston Hillel members and participants at a Hillel Directors' Conference in 1957. The envelope also contains a guide to the 1994 exhibition, The Founding of Harvard/Radcliffe Hillel, which was based on the scrapbook and arranged by the Judaica Department of the Harvard College Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8186912

Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Foundation

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Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Society

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Harvard Hillel's history begins with a 1944 visit of Judah Shapiro to the Harvard campus. Shapiro organized Hillel at Harvard and at other colleges in the Boston area. From the description of Records of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Society, 1943-1994. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77066172 ...