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
Minnesota Jewish Historical Society
Acquisition Number 146
Inventory: St. Paul Talmud Torah
Records 1.5 linear feet
Provenance: Received as a gift from the St. Paul Talmud Torah in 1988 and 1989. No restrictions on use.
History: The St. Paul Talmud Torah had its roots in the Temple of Aaron Hebrew School, established in 1916. this school used a modern Ivrit-b’Ivrit method of instruction, rather than Yiddish. The school became independent about 1930 and moved into quarters in the Jewish Educational Center, Holly and Grotto in that year.
The school combined with the Capitol City Hebrew School in 19 to become the Bureau of Jewish Education. The present name was adopted when the school moved to Mississippi River Boulevard in 1956. By that time it had absorbed the old Capitol City Hebrew School. In 1982 a day school opened at a refurbished school on South Hamline, and the afternoon school meets there as well.
Box 45A D02S16CG
Bureau of Jewish Education articles of incorporation and amendments, ca 1950s.
Board minutes, ca 1948-1956
Board minutes, 1969-78
Education committee minutes, 1969-78
Executive committee minutes, 1969-72
PTA minutes, 1942-26, 1953-ca1957
Box 45B D02S16CH
Correspondence and agreements re new building, 1951-52
Aims and goals, ca 1958
Code of practice, ca 1969
Directors' reports, 1952-53
correspondence, 1971-1977, incomplete
Adult Jewish Studies Committee minutes, 1971-75 2 ff
Materials on Jewish Community Day School, ca 1970s
Annual reports, 1952-54
list of Talmud Torah graduates, 1923-87
newsletters, 1953-75, issues missing 2 ff
enrollment analyses
alphabetical lists, 1952-1977
donors, 1942-52
"Burn the Mortgage" campaign, 1962-63
Graduation programs, public relations materials, 1950s-1960s
teaching materials on Zionism, 1950s
