Rabbis

This collection contains the administrative records of the Adath Jeshurun Congregation in Minneapolis, Minnesota from 1884 to 2014. Adath Jeshurun is the first Conservative congregation west of the Mississippi River. B’nai Emet Synagogue of Minneapolis, Minnesota merged with Adath Jeshurun in 2011, and its records are included in this collection as well.

These papers mainly consist of correspondence between Rose (nee Berman) Goldstein and her family, including her mother (Sarah Berman), father (Alexander Berman), her three brothers, and husband (David Goldstein). Additionally there are published materials and family history writings.

This collection consists of administrative records from Mount Zion Temple in St. Paul, the very first Jewish congregation in the Minnesota.

This collection consists of the professional papers of Rabbi Bernard S. Raskas during his tenure at Temple of Aaron in St. Paul, Minnesota.

This collection consists of documents and photographs from scrapbooks that Rabbi Harold H. Gordon created while working as an Army Air Force chaplain beginning in 1942, documenting his travels around the United States, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Egypt, and more.

This collection consists of the professional and personal papers of Rabbi Kassel Abelson during his rabbinate career, principally from his time as assistant rabbi and Senior Rabbi at Beth El Synagogue in North Minneapolis and later Saint Louis Park.

This collection includes material from the life of Rabbi Lewis Ginsburg, who grew up in Minnesota and spent time as a rabbi in Minneapolis before serving in Alberta, Canada.

This collection contains personal papers and administrative documents from Rabbi Stacy Offner during her rabbinate career: first, as Associate Rabbi at Mount Zion Temple in St. Paul, Minnesota from 1984 to 1988, continuing to her eventual move to the newly-opened Shir Tikvah Congregation in Minneapolis, Minnesota where she was elected head rabbi and presided for two decades until 2008.

This collection contains the records of Shir Tikvah, a reform congregation located in Minneapolis, Minnesota that broke off from St. Paul's Mount Zion Temple in 1988.

This collection consists of the records of Temple Israel, a Reform congregation that is the oldest synagogue in Minneapolis and one of the largest congregations in the United States.