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“Refugee Rabbi to Occupy Tarentum Pulpit”

Collection
Jewish Criterion
Source
Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project
Date
August 16, 1940

Rabbi Dr. Joseph Babad was a fifteenth-generation rabbi working in Vienna when Germany annexed Austria in 1938. He fled to Holland and later New York City before accepting a position with Ohev Sholom Congregation in Tarentum, Pa.

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