Congregation Beth Israel records, 1909-1979.

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Congregation Beth Israel records, 1909-1979.

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Correspondence; minutes (1909-1930); bulletins; membership lists; financial records; programs; photographs; newspaper clippings, a handwritten minute book (1940-1943); and a history of the early years of the First Hebrew Congregation and the Berkeley Hebrew Center.

1 linear ft.

Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, Rabbi Morris Goldstein Library

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First Hebrew Congregation of Berkeley (Berkeley, Calif.)

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Berkeley Hebrew Center (Berkeley, Calif.)

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Congregation Beth Israel (Berkeley, Calif.)

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Berkeley's Congregation Beth Israel, was an Orthodox congregation. Its original membership was drawn from the First Hebrew Congregation of Berkeley, a congregation that had been meeting in various places since 1909. Under the name of the Berkeley Hebrew Center, in 1924, the congregation erected a building to house "all the Jewish activities." These activities included the California Alliance of Jewish Women and several Jewish student groups, such as the Menorah Society of the University of Calif...