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January 4, 2019

A Brief History of Pittsburgh’s Jews

The Jews of Squirrel Hill didn’t follow their coreligionists elsewhere into the suburbs.

Last fall, the massacre of Jews by an anti-immigration fanatic at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh brought brief national attention to the city’s Jewish community. Barbara Burstin, a historian of Pittsburgh Jewry, provides an overview of its development, with special attention to the synagogue itself and the Squirrel Hill neighborhood where it is located:

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