For more information about the historical neighborhoods featured in “Jewish Neighborhood Voices,” visit these primary and secondary sources.

Books

Jonathan Sarna and Ellen Smith, The Jews of Boston (published by Combined Jewish Philanthropies, 1995)

Alan S. Pierce, A History of Boston’s Jewish North Shore (Arcadia Publishing, 2009)

Articles

Carol Clingan, “Massachusetts Synagogues and Their Records, Past and Present”

Norman H. Finkelstein, “Jewish Chelsea/Jewish America: Dreams and Realities”

Stephen G. Mostov, “Origins of Lynn’s Jewish Community”

Stephen G. Mostov, “Jews in the Shoe Factories”

Online Resources

Global Boston, a digital project of Boston College chronicling the history of immigration to greater Boston from the early nineteenth century onward

• Chelsea
• Dorchester
• Roxbury
• Lynn

Mass-Pocha, the newsletter of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston

• “Jewish Chelsea/Jewish America: Dreams and Realities,” by Norman Finkelstein
• “Chelsea, Massachusetts (Part 1 and Part 2),” by Deanna Mirsky
• “A Glimpse of Jewish Revere and Chelsea,” by Elaine Abrams
• “Our Place—The Blue Hill Avenue Area,” by Deanna Mirsky
• “Lynn: North Shore Jewish Hub,” by Deanna Mirsky

Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center Collections

The Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors has many archival collections containing primary-source information about Jewish families, organizations, and communities in Chelsea, Dorchester, Roxbury, and Lynn. Click on the links to learn more about these collections.