UJA Volunteers Honored - 30 April 1973 - The Tribune-Democrat

Mrs. Meyer Silberstein, Dr. Meyer Bloom, Fred Glosser and Dr. William Korey

 

Johnstown Jewish Welfare - '36 Flood

 

Passover Matzoh - 3 April 1936

Jewish Social Centre - 1934

Jewish Social Centre - Franklin Street - May 1934

I have no idea if these were local folks or not - most of this is in Hebrew.

From the Negative to the Positive

A while back Rose Howarth dropped off a whole bag of rolled up negatives to me - figuring there might be some stuff on them that I could use.  99% of them are of an unknown family - so I picked out the ones that interested me the most - like this proud young man posing with his deer. I included this because of the houses in the background. 

There are a few duck pin bowlers in the bunch. This reminds me of the alley underneath the Knights of Columbus.

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Someone was in the Garfield Marching Band.

On Broad Street just past Delaware Avenue.

That's the Ten Acre Bridge behind them.

Then on to the Point Stadium.

They were Jewish. I don't know which Temple this is.

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It's back to the Point again.

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Someone must of liked honey enough to be a beekeeper.

And we finish up with this shot of Downtown Johnstown looking up towards Frankstown Road. Funny what a camera angle can do - that guy walking across the street looks like he has only one leg. 

Happy Hanukkah - 2011

Rodef Shalom - Johnstown - photograph - courtesy of JAHA.ORG

Hanukkah begins tonight at sundown and lasts until December 28-th. I wish I had more Jewish History photographs and items. But I don't. If you do - please feel free to send them to me so that I can post them. The following is a brief history from http://bethsholomjohnstown.org/HistoryPage.html%20:

A few Jews had arrived in Johnstown sometime before 1850, but the largest immigration began with an influx of Russian Jews fleeing pogroms in the 1880s. According to The Horse Died in Windber: The History of Johnstown's Jews of Pennsylvania (written by Rabbi Leonard Winograd), "In 1856, there were nine [Christian] churches, and almost a synagogue." One newspaper reference in 1854 placed the number of Jews in Johnstown in excess of "thirty." [Whether that meant thirty individuals or thirty families is far from clear.] Like almost all others in Johnstown at that time, Jews lived within the city limits, mostly in Cambria City. There was no synagogue in Johnstown to serve the Jewish community until 1905. Regular religious services were held, and Hebrew was taught,in Jewish homes. Between 1905 and 1951, five synagogues were built to serve the Johnstown Jewish community during various stages of its history. The one synagogue functioning now is Beth Sholom Congregation. Source: Johnstown (PA) Jewish History Page.