Adath Yeshurun Congregation, Saint Paul

Located in the Lowertown neighborhood of Saint Paul, Adath Yeshurun congregation was founded in 1915 and apparently purchased a former church located at the corner of 14^th and Canada Streets to reuse as a synagogue. Little is known about the congregation except that Rabbi Joseph Hurvitz, known in the Lowertown Jewish community as “Der Roiter Rav” (The Red Rabbi), led both Adath Yeshurun and Sons of Jacob congregations from the 1910s.

Sources

WPA report written by Paul A. Paulson, July 1936 (Minnesota Historical Society).
Plaut, W. Gunther. Jews of Minnesota, The First Seventy-Five Years. New York: American Jewish Historical Society, 1959. p. 202.

Category: Synagogue Neighborhood: Lowertown