Documents

There are mainly speeches, programs, deeds, and newspaper articles here. You can read through these items in chronological order, or you can look at the collections I’ve assembled for the earliest community history; the building of the first synagogue and the fire that destroyed it; the second synagogue that stands to this day; the thirtieth, fortieth, and fiftieth anniversaries of the congregation; and the closing of the synagogue and its aftermath.

December 30, 2014

The Sisterhood raised so much money in War Bonds that a plane was named after the synagogue! But can we locate it now?

January 30, 2015

Pictures of the yahrzeit tablets with transcribed names, as well as a history of the tablets themselves.

September 6, 2015

Explore the contents of my most favorite book from all sixteen boxes of books preserved from the congregation.

September 7, 2015

We all know about yahrzeit plaques, but have you even seen a yahrzeit book? Homestead had four!

May 30, 1956

The war memorial in the Homestead Hebrew Cemetery honors sons of the community who lost their lives in WWI and WWII.

November 25, 1934–December 12, 1943

Secretary Ignatz Grossman delivered annual speeches that waxed philosophical on the Chevra Kadisha’s work and current events.

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