Talmud Torah Sisterhood (South Side) membership (1921)
The Jewish Encyclopedia
of Western Pennsylvania
A project of the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center
Congregation Talmud Torah was located in the South Side of Pittsburgh. It was founded in October 1913 with help from Rabbi Aaron Mordechai Ashinsky and chartered on November 19, 1913 with the following charter members: Abram Goldvarg, Alex Gordon, Simon Solof, Morris Mauerberger, M. Finn, Meyer Morris, I. Goldstein, Harry Engelman, Harry Hadas, Harry Baker, S. Kann, Jos. Bremer, Herman A. Lewis, Henry Weisberg, and Isaac Schwartz.
After using space in private buildings for several years, Congregation Talmud Torah acquired a storefront at 1908 Sarah Street and converted it into a synagogue in 1917. On the day of the dedication, the synagogue also served as a polling place for the American Jewish Congress election. The congregation broke ground on a new synagogue at the same location in 1930. The congregation burned the mortgage on the building in 1947, by which time the Jewish population of the South Side had already begun to decline. Congregation Talmud Torah dissolved sometime after 1970.
