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Congregation Keneseth Israel records, 1950-1973.
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Congregation Keneseth Israel records, 1950-1973Creator/Contributor:
Congregation Keneseth Israel (San Francisco, Calif.), creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Western Jewish History Center, 165.Creator/Contributor:
Judah L. Magnes Museum, WJHC 1972.009.Creator/Contributor:
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and LifeAbstract:
The collection contains by-laws, correspondence, membership lists, a contract with the congregation's Rabbi Morris Schwartz,
memorial materials, photographs, rubbings from a bronze plaque that was in the last synagogue building, and two posters for
visiting Cantor Ben-Menachim's high holiday services at Congregation Keneseth Israel.
Date:
1950 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caJews -- California -- San Francisco
Synagogues -- California -- San Francisco
Juifs -- Californie -- San Francisco
Jews
Synagogues
California -- San Francisco
Congregation Keneseth Israel (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Archives
Congregation Keneseth Israel (San Francisco, Calif.)
Note:
Formerly: Western Jewish History Center Collection Number 165.
Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number WJHC 1972.009.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Transfer; Judah L. Magnes Museum; 2010.
San Francisco's Keneseth Israel was an Orthodox congregation, founded from 1903-1904 in the city's South of Market District.
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
elderly. The congregation moved to the Jack Tar (now Cathedral Hill) Hotel. The congregation still exists in downtown San
Francisco.
Preferred citation: Congregation Keneseth Israel records, BANC MSS 2010/928, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life,
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Materials in English.
Type:
correspondence.Memorials.
photographs.
Photographs
Archives
Photographs.
Photographies.
Physical Description:
0.25 (1 1
Language:
English
Identifier:
2006566158
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CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.