These minutes from Tifereth Israel board meetings in 1935 show the congregation still using Yiddish to conduct business and filling a ledger volume from back to front to accommodate the direction of Hebrew characters. The founders and early members of the congregation were immigrants, many from the Vilna province of Lithuania.

Date 1935
Identifier MSS1061_B009_MeetingofMemberspg300-296_1935-1940
Collection New Castle Jewish Community Records
Source Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center
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