Anshei Glen Wild Synagogue

The Anshei Glen Wild Synagogue is a synagogue on Glen Wild Road ( Route 58 ) in Sullivan County in the non- settlement duties set out in Glen Wild New York, United States. There is a small Orthodox synagogue, which was built in the early 1920s for a community that had formed in the decade before.

It was founded by a local family and never had its own rabbi. The synagogue has been preserved from the time of its construction was almost unchanged and the National Register of Historic Places added in 1999.

Building

The synagogue is a single storey building with three to four bays and stands on a concrete foundation. The sides are plastered, the gable roof is verschindelt with tar paper. A Seitflügel with four bays protrudes from the rear front. There is a veranda with a bell-shaped roof, which is supported by two round wooden pillars that rise from seeking a concrete base at the western front facade. The pediment of the porch is labeled with the name of the synagogue and a Star of David. The windows on the two side walls and the rear wall have large round arches with colored and opaque glass.

About the ornamented wooden doors sit colored door skylight. They open into a small vestibule. The rest of the main wing is occupied by the sanctuary, a square room with barrel vault. A crystal chandelier hangs from the intersection of two iron tie rods at the base of the vault down. The floor plan of the sanctuary follows the Orthodox tradition: the centrally located Bima is surrounded on three sides by banks, which are all aligned with the ark on the back wall. Two or three of these banks stand aside and serve the women.

Turned wooden posts at the carefully crafted arch support a pediment, the two carved and gilded lion of Judah decorate a scroll with the Ten Commandments and a crown. Both Bima and the platform beneath the arch are made of wooden planks.

History

As in other areas of Sullivan County's Jews came first in the late 19th century on holiday stays and later permanently in the region. Among the early Jewish residents in Glen Wild, and the surroundings were Simon Jaffe and his family, who were descended like their co-religionists of Lithuanian Jews. He was a kosher butcher and involved in the formation of the small Jewish community, which consisted of 13 members in 1913.

The believers met more than a decade at his house before the construction of a synagogue was considered. The municipality bought a small plot of land and laid the foundation stone in 1921. The construction was carried out by the local contractors by Jim Couch and his sons. The building was finished in 1923 and refers to some characteristic features of Christian Churches in Sullivan County, about the roof, the design of the windows and the plastering but remember other synagogues that emerged this time in the field, such as the Hebrew Congregation of Mountaindale Synagogue and the South Fallsburg Hebrew Association Synagogue.

Louis Rosenblatt, a member of the community, presented in 1955 money for the construction of the rear wing is available, the only change in the building since 1923.

As the Jewish community in Glen Wild was little, she had no self- Rabbi. Simon Jaffe, who was a school teacher by profession, held the church and taught the children of the community members the Hebrew language. His family maintains the synagogue today, however services take place irregularly. The roughly two dozen members of the community also maintain the nearby Jewish cemetery.