American Judaica Constitution By-Laws Cong B’nai Israel Fleischmanns NY 1920

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American Judaica Constitution By-Laws Cong. B’nai Israel of Fleischmanns N.Y. 1920
Text in English and Yiddish. Original printed wrappers, 12mo, New York, 1920.
Jews began settling in the Catskills around the end of the 19th century. Many came to farm but soon found that the hotel business was as lucrative, if not more, with many of their urban co-religionists wanting a mountain vacation at resorts that welcomed them and accommodated their dietary obligations. In 1918, six of these farmers in the Fleischmanns area who had been meeting in each other's homes for informal religious study formally incorporated as Congregation Bnai Israel.
Congregation Bnai Israel Synagogue is located on Wagner Avenue in Fleischmanns, New York, United States. It is a wooden building dating to the 1920s, built two years after local farmers founded the congregation.
It is the only synagogue in the Catskills with an exposed truss roof. In 2002, the synagogue was added to the National Register of Historic Places
Very SCARCE. The OCLC lists the NY Public library as the only holding of this title worldwide.