Susan Hoffman
Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
320 Elmer L. Anderson Library
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-625-0192
Email: s-hoff@umn.edu
web: http://www.jhsum.org
Adath Jeshurun Congregation, Minneapolis
Records, 1928-1988.
Approx 5 linear feet
Provenance
On extended loan from Adath Jeshurun synagogue. No restrictions on use.
Adath Jeshurun Congregation was founded in 1884 by immigrants from Russia and Rumania who settled in Minneapolis’s South Side. According to Rabbi Albert I. Gordon, the congregation went through severe times and rented space until a former church, was purchased in 1900 at 1125 Seventh St. S. Dedication took place in 1903, and the rabbi listed, Rabbi S. Silber, also served the North Side congregations of Kenesseth Israel and Anshei Tavrig.
With the election of a group of English-speaking officers in 1911, Rabbi David Matt, who was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary (the Conservative movement’s seminary) was invited to become rabbi. It has been a Conservative synagogue since. The congregation moved from its Dupont Avenue location to one in Minnetonka in 1995.
Box A J - 1: D1S12CE
Board Minutes 1928-38
1938-46 Gap in minutes between 1947 and1951
1954-59 1951-53 at synagogue office
1958-59
1959-65
Executive Committee and Board:
1957-77
1977-83
Box A J - 2: D1S12CF
Board Minutes:
1965-71
1971-77
1977-83
1983-88
Board of Education:
1951,1954-56
1954-74
Ritual & Cultural Committee:
1959-66
Youth Committee:
1961-63
Box A J - 3 D1S12CD
Young Peoples' League scrapbook: ca 1938-ca 1941
Public relations scrapbook: 1954-55
Photos: 2 folders. The photos consist mainly of rabbis and presidents of the synagogue, confirmation classes, and nursery school. Many are unlabeled.
Misc: newsclippings, etc.
Box A J - 4: D1S12CG
Friday evening Services: 1941-45 (2), 1945-46
Clarions: (newsletter)
1930-35
1935-40 (2)
1933-38
1940-45 (2)
1959-60 Years 1946-1958 missing
1960-61 (2)
1961-62
1962-65
1965-66
Box A J - 5 D1S12CH
Clarions:
1962-68
1966-67
1967-68
1968-69
1969-70
1968-72
1972-76
1976-79
1979-87
1979-88
Box A J - 6 D1S12CD
Chevrah Kavod HaMet: (society for burying the dead)
3 looseleaf notebooks, 1976-77, covering minutes, procedures, seminars, and Clarions.
