Alpert, David B.

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Rabbi David B. Alpert (1899-1982)

Rabbi David Alpert was born in Boston in 1900. A graduate of Boston University College of Liberal Arts, Harvard Divinity School and the Jewish Institute of Religion, Alpert was the first Boston born Rabbi and the youngest to be appointed to his own congregation. After serving in World War I, at the age of 24, Alpert was appointed Rabbi of Congregation Beth Hasholom in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. By the 1930s he was living in the Boston area, where he was involved in Jewish chaplaincy at local hospitals, mental health institutions, and in 1947, the State Department. Among those institutions served by Alpert were Boston City Hospital, Jewish Memorial Hospital, Wrenthem State School, Walter E. Fernald State School, Worcester State Hospital, Foxborough State Hospital, and Grafton State Hospital. A prolific writer, Alpert had numerous articles published in local Jewish newspapers. He and his wife Jeannette had a son, Frank. Alpert died in 1982.

From the guide to the David B. Alpert papers, 1924-1981, (American Jewish Historical Society)

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referencedIn William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk) Houghton Library
creatorOf David B. Alpert Papers Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at New England Historic Genealogical Society
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associatedWith Central Conference of American Rabbis corporateBody
associatedWith McCarthy, Joseph Raymond, 1908-1957 person
correspondedWith Thayer, William Roscoe, 1859-1923 person
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Boston (Mass.)
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Chaplains, Hospital
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Birth 1899

Death 1982

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