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The number of Jewish residents in Philadelphia was suddenly increased at the outbreak of the American Revolution by the influx of Jewish patriots from New York, which had been captured by the British (September 1776). The congregation removed from the house in Sterling Alley and then occupied quarters in Cherry Alley, between Third and Fourth ...
The Jewish Exponent has been published continuously since April 15, 1887. [2] [3] [4] A predecessor newspaper, The Jewish Record, had been published since 1875.[3]The paper was founded by 43 prominent Philadelphians—among them Henry Samuel Morais—who pledged that it would be "devoted to the interests of the Jewish people."
The earliest Jewish resident of Philadelphia of whom there is any record was Jonas Aaron, who was living there in 1703. The most prominent member of the Jewish community in the early history of the colony was Isaac Miranda. The date of his birth is not known; he died in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1733. He arrived in the colony very early in ...
Temple Beth Israel was founded in 1840 to serve German and Polish Jewish immigrants. It was the third synagogue in Philadelphia after Congregation Mikveh Israel and Rodeph Shalom. The congregation first met at Adelphi Court and built a new synagogue in the Egyptian Revival style in 1849 [7] on N 8th Street south of Jefferson. The building was ...
Ironically, Leeser had been the leader of the Philadelphia Jewish Community at the time KI was formed in 1847. Prior to arriving at KI, Sussman was a tenured professor in history at the State University of New York at Binghamton as well as the rabbi at Temple Concord, [37] a Reform congregation in Binghamton, New York. Sussman is a well-known ...
The Centre was founded in 1936 after an organizational dinner on September 28, 1936 at the Benjamin Franklin spurred efforts to form a committee and raise funds to start a Jewish Community Centre in Northwest Philadelphia. [4] Space was rented at 6815 Emlen St., formerly the Pehlam Club, [4] which later became
Uriah P. Levy (1792–1862), who would be the first Jewish Commodore in the United States Navy, grew up in Philadelphia and celebrated his bar mitzvah at Mikveh Israel in 1807. A statue of Levy was commissioned by two Jewish U.S. Navy captains and dedicated at the 44 N Fourth Street site in 2011.
Its records were kept in Yiddish until 1810 and in German until 1830, [4] and it was known mainly as the congregation of recent immigrants until 1840. [5] The congregation differentiated itself from Congregation Mikveh Israel mainly by offering Philadelphia Jews of northern European origin membership at reduced rates and, in cases of hardship ...