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Magnes collection on Congregation Ohabai Shalome, 1871-1975.
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Magnes collection on Congregation Ohabai Shalome, 1871-1975Creator/Contributor:
Myers, Isidore, 1856-1922Creator/Contributor:
Kaplan, Bernard M., 1874-Creator/Contributor:
Congregation Emanu-El (San Francisco, Calif.)Creator/Contributor:
San Francisco Landmarks Preservation Advisory BoardCreator/Contributor:
Western Jewish History Center, 225.Creator/Contributor:
Judah L. Magnes Museum, WJHC 1969.002.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.Creator/Contributor:
Online Archive of CaliforniaAbstract:
The collection contains materials from and about Congregation Ohabai Shalome collected over the years by the Magnes staff.
Included are a congregational minute book (November 6, 1864 to October 3, 1870); a copy of the Constitution and By Laws of
the congregation (1871); a membership application card (c. 1880); a program for the 1895 dedication of the congregation's
new building on Bush Street; a copy of "Young Israel's Guide" (1905) by Rabbi Bernard M. Kaplan; a Memorial Service for the
Dead (1897), written by the congregation's rabbi, Isidore Myers. The collection also contains photographs of the interior
and exterior of the Bush Street building and newspaper clippings about the congregation. In addition, the collection has a
1975 report of the Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board to San Francisco's Redevelopment Agency, which includes a history
of the congregation and an architectural history of the Bush Street building.
Date:
1864 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caJews -- California -- San Francisco
Jewish mourning customs -- California -- San Francisco
Jewish religious education of children -- California -- San Francisco -- Textbooks
Synagogues -- California -- San Francisco
Juifs -- Californie -- San Francisco
Deuil -- Coutumes juives -- Californie -- San Francisco
Buildings
Jewish mourning customs
Jewish religious education of children
Jews
Synagogues
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Religious life and customs
California -- San Francisco
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Congregation Ohabai Shalome (San Francisco, Calif.)
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (San Francisco, Calif.)
Congregation Ohabai Shalome (San Francisco, Calif.)
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (San Francisco, Calif.)
Note:
Formerly: Western Jewish History Center Collection Number 225.
Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number WJHC 1969.002.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Transfer; Judah L. Magnes Museum; 2010.
Glass fragments from Congregation Ohabai Shalom's building transferred to the museum holdings of The Magnes Collection of
Jewish Art and Life for separate handling and cataloging.
In 1864, some disaffected members of San Francisco's Congregation Emanu-El broke away and established Congregation Ohabai
Shalome, when they objected to the modification of the ritual in the older synagogue. Its founding officers included Joseph
Mayer; Baruch Hamburger; Moses Waterman; Sol Wangenheim; Leopold Kahn; Henry Greenberg; S. Wand; J. Baum; and S. Wolf. Its
first building was at the corner of Post and Geary, but then, in 1895, it moved to a new building, designed by the architect
Moses J. Lyon, at 1881 Bush Street. With time, this building, noted for its Venetian and Moorish motifs, became popularly
known as the Bush Street Synagogue. In Nov. 1934, the congregation sold this building to the Zen Center of San Francisco.
It then met for a time in other locations in the city, but, in 1940, when its rabbi Michael Fried died, the congregation disbanded.
During World War II, the owners and Japanese-American congregants of the Zen Center were interned in concentration camps,
as part of the wartime relocation of Japanese-Americans. During this time, while its Japanese-American owners continued to
make mortgage payments on the building, 1881 Bush St. became the home of the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, a church
whose congregants were primarily African-Americans from the American South. After the war, the Zen Center took back ownership
of the building. After 1969, the Zen Center left 1881 Bush St. and the building languished for a while until it came under
the ownership of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency. In the late 1980s, there were unsuccessful attempts to turn the building
into a Jewish Cultural Center. Finally, in 1996, the ownership of the building was transferred to the Japanese American Religious
Federation and it ultimately was given to the Kokoro Senior Assisted Living Center, a home for senior citizens, most of whom
are from the Japanese-American community.
Preferred citation: Magnes collection on Congregation Ohabai Shalome, BANC MSS 2010/695, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art
and Life, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Materials in English.
Type:
photographs.Programs.
Minutes.
reports.
Photographs
Textbooks
Photographs.
Photographies.
Physical Description:
1 box and 1 oversize box (.6 linear ft.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
2006565962
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CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.