Congregation Keneseth Israel records, 1962-1973.

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Congregation Keneseth Israel records, 1962-1973.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71129477

By-laws; correspondence; membership lists; a contract with the congregation's Rabbi Morris Schwartz; memorial materials; photographs; and rubbings from a bronze plaque that was in the last synagogue building.

33 items.

Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, Rabbi Morris Goldstein Library

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Congregation Keneseth Israel (San Francisco, Calif.)

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San Francisco's Keneseth Israel was an Orthodox congregation, founded in the city's South of Market District, in 1903/1904. After the 1906 earthquake and fire, the congregation's synagogue moved to the Fillmore-McAllister District. Its membership dwindled as the city's Jewish neighborhoods shifted to other parts of the city. In the 1970s, the building was sold to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency. Eventually, the synagogue was razed and the land that it sat on was used for housing the elder...

Schwartz, Morris, rabbi

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