Choye Adam charter
The Jewish Encyclopedia
of Western Pennsylvania
A project of the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center
Choye Adam Congregation (Life of Man) was an Orthodox congregation founded in 1889 by a Litvishe immigrants who broke away from Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Congregation (then called B’nai Israel) over financial disparities within the congregation. They located on Fifth Avenue near Van Braam Street.
Names included on the charter include Jacob Alter, Jacob Epner/Hepner, Isaac Fineberg, Julius Fineberg, Jacob Fineberg, Joseph Fineberg, A. Fridman, J. L. Fridman, Max Gelberg, J. Glik, Max Goldberg, Solomon Goldberg, L. Grusking, Samuel Lewis, L. Lewison, David Markowitz, D. Miller, Jacob Nashavitsky, Marks Nashavitsky, Isaac Schwartz, J. Schwartz, Simon Subosky, and G. Weinstein. Some of these men appear to have later been buried in the Beth Hamedrash Hagadol Cemetery, suggesting some reconciliation.
