Author: BOXMAN, RABBI BRADD H.
Title: A Short History of the Hebrew Congregation of St. Thomas Congregation of Blessing and Peace and Loving Deeds
Description: St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands: The Hebrew Congregation of St. Thomas, N.D.. First Edition (?). Soft Cover. Photographs; 8 x 10; 32 pages; Soft cover is stapled self wraps. Pages are clean and tight, appears as if unused. Illustrated with 16, mostly color, photographs. St. Thomas Synagogue is an historic synagogue at Crystal Gade #16AB, Queens Quarters, in Charlotte Amalie on the island of Saint Thomas in the U. S. Virgin Islands. The formal name of the synagogue is Beracha Veshalom Vegmiluth Hasidim. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1997. Built in 1833, and is the second-oldest synagogue on United States soil (after the 1763 Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island). It also has the longest history of continuous use by a Jewish congregation in the nation. It was built for a congregation founded in 1796 by Sephardic Jews who had come to the Caribbean Basin to finance trade between Europe and the New World. Preface by Herman Wouk, edited by Rabbi Stanley T. Relkin & Monty R. Abrams. No date listed, but possibly 1983, per WorldCat.. Fine .

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