Established in 1878, Shaarai Tov, or "the gates of goodness," was the first Jewish congregation to form in Minneapolis. The congregation initially met in the home of Leopold Ehrlich and then for two years in Center Hall. In 1880, they built a wooden framed, Moorish-style synagogue at the southwest...
A breakaway group from Kenesseth Israel, Jewish immigrants from Tavrig, Lithuania, established their own congregation in 1900 naming it after their “hometown” Anshei Tavrig, Men of Tavrig. The congregation dissolved in 1913 and its synagogue located at 601 North Fourth Street was purchased by a...
According to information provided to the WPA in 1939, the congregation was organized in 1888. However, Plaut (The Jews in Minnesota, p. 116) notes that it was not formed until about a decade later, just prior to 1900. The congregation, along with the other Orthodox congregations in Saint Paul...
A group of ten Jewish men (minyon) living on Saint Paul’s West Side river flats first held services in 1913 in an old church located on Fillmore Avenue. A year later they formed a congregation and joined the Jewish Union of Orthodox Rabbis USA. The congregation erected a stucco and stone synagogue...
Organized in the late 1880s by a group of men living in the Lower Town area of Saint Paul, the congregation numbering around 85 initially met at 50 W. 10th St. before moving into a building located at 165 State Street on the West Side river flats.Rabbi Isaac Lichtenberg served as the congregation’s...
The second Conservative synagogue in Minneapolis (Adath Jeshuran on the South Side is the first), Beth El was organized in 1921 by young, mainly second generation Jews who had attended Talmud Torah, a Zionist after-school Hebrew academy. A lot was purchased in 1906 on the corner of Penn Avenue North...
Beth David was a small Orthodox congregation organized in 1917 by fifteen men living on Saint Paul’s West Side river flats. The congregation was a member of the Jewish Union of Orthodox Rabbis, USA. In about 1919, the congregation purchased the Clinton Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church located at...
Organized in 1916 by another group of Lithuanians who split off of Kenesseth Israel, Bet Ahron (House of Aaron) initially worshipped in a synagogue located at 726 Bryant Avenue North. By the 1920s the congregation was known as Sharei Zedek (Gates of Justice); its building was razed by the federal...
Not all the Jewish people who emigrated to Minneapolis came from the region of Eastern Europe known as the Pale of Settlement that was part of Czarist Russia. Others came from Romania, which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Few in number, their customs and traditions while similar to...
A breakaway group from Kenesseth Israel, Jewish immigrants from Tavrig, Lithuania, established their own congregation in 1900 naming it after their “hometown” Anshei Tavrig, Men of Tavrig. The congregation dissolved in 1913 and its synagogue located at 601 North Fourth Street was purchased by a...