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Image of Chevra Bikur Cholim Congregation synagogue at 14th Ave and Washington St., Seattle, circa 1900
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Chevra Bikur Cholim Congregation synagogue at 14th Ave and Washington St., Seattle, circa 1900
The oldest synagogue in Washington state, Chevra Bikur Cholim (Hebrew for Society for visiting the sick), now Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath, incorporated in Seattle in 1891 with the purpose of caring for the sick and providing proper burial. Within a decade it evolved into a religious congregation and services were held in Red Man's Hall on Second Avenue and Seneca…
ID Number:SHS10991
Date:Circa 1900
Image of Choir at Bikur Cholim Synagogue, Seattle, 1916
Photograph

Choir at Bikur Cholim Synagogue, Seattle, 1916
Typed on sleeve: Male choir in Seattle synagogue, 1916. Cantor: Sol Tovbin. Director: Boris Dolgoff. Top row, left: Abraham Steinberg. 2nd row, left: Aleck Hoffman, Sidney Resnick. 2nd row, far right: Louis Woron. 3rd row, right: William Warshall. Bottom row, 3rd from left: Abe Resnick. 4th from left: David Hoffman. Far right: Adolph Warshall.Additional names given in Cone/Droker/Williams "Family of…
ID Number:SHS15795
Date:1916
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