Established more than 100 years ago, Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath Congregation is Seattle’s oldest congregation. It is the largest Ashkenazic Orthodox synagogue in the greater Seattle area.
Congregation Bikur Cholim—Machzikay Hadath began with the founding of Chevra Bikur Cholim in 1891. The congregation moved to Seward Park in the early 1960s, and merged with Congregation Machzikay Hadath in 1971. On January 22, 1972, Congregation Bikur Cholim—Machzikay Hadath celebrated the official opening of its newly constructed Seward Park building with the bar mitzvah of a fourth generation member of the original Bikur Cholim.
Organized into 18 accessions.
Correspondence, minutes, financial records, legal documents, photographs, anniversary materials, programs, newsletters, articles of incorporation, and other materials related to the community
Forms part of the Washington State Jewish Archives
Some records stored offsite; advance notice required for use.
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Some records stored offsite; advance notice required for use.
Creator's copyrights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries. Some restrictions may exist on copying, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.
Includes commemorative anniversary books for 50th, 60th and 65th anniversaries.
Records stored offsite; advance notice required for use.
Accession includes records generated by the Congregation Secretary, Nathan Etkin, and by the rabbis, and material on the construction of the new synagogue. Acc. 2450-9 includes 16" transcription disk of Jewish Tercentenary Broadcast, KOMO, 25 Nov 1954.
Four color snapshots showing members of the congregation in the Bikur Cholim library, and walking there on a snowy day. Meta Buttnick wrote explanatory notes on back of each photograph.
This booklet was used at the first annual Kosher service in Seattle, held at Norway Center in 1963. (One earlier Kosher meal was held in 1941 at the New Washington Hotel, but it was not repeated)
Articles of incorporation for Bikur Cholim congregation, which was listed in the document as "Chevra Bikurcholum". Articles of Merger document the merge in 1971 of Bikur Cholim and Congregation Machzikay Hadath. Speech by Eddie Baronsky was given at the dedication ceremony of the new funeral chapel constructed at the Congregation's cemetery in 1988.
"Synagogue Tribune" issues in this accession are not a complete run. Issues from 1982-1985 came to MSS/UA Division as current mailings, but the library was removed from the mailing list for several years after that. Issues from 1970-1989 are Meta Buttnick's duplicates.