Adler and Epelberg ad [09-11-1925]
The Jewish Encyclopedia
of Western Pennsylvania
A project of the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center
Adler’s Delicatessen was a delicatessen and grocery store in Squirrel Hill. George Adler and Bennett Epelberg opened the Adler & Epelberg grocery store at Logan and Colwell streets in the Hill District in the late 1910s. They opened a second branch at 729 Mellon Street in the East End in 1925 and a third branch at 2126 Murray Ave. in 1928.
Following a split around 1929, Epelberg remained in East Liberty and Adler remained in Squirrel Hill. Adler’s Delicatessen relocated to 2108 Murray Ave. in 1960. The Adler family sold the business in 1974 to U-Se Chu, who had immigrated to Pittsburgh from Korea six years earlier with this family. The Chu family retained the name and the Jewish character of the delicatessen for 24 years before retiring in 1997 and selling the business.
