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The house of the Farrell shochet

Collection
Leah Shanks Gordon Collection
Source
Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center
Date
c.1994

For many years, the Jewish community of Farrell employed a shochet (ritual slaughter), who lived in this house. The smaller building in the background housed a mikveh (ritual bath).

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