The Jewish community: Mishawaka families in a county institution

BY 1945 – PRESENT · STATED AT TRUE SIZE

The community existed, and its institutions stood across the river:What the record does carry is Mishawaka's Jewish families acting at county scale. The Jewish Federation of St. Joseph Valley's own history opens with the fact: the federation was established in 1945, "when Jewish community leaders from South Bend and Mishawaka formed the Jewish Community Council of St. Joseph County" — Mishawaka named in the founding sentence of the valley's Jewish institution, as a community with leaders to send. The council aided Holocaust refugees, answered anti-Semitism and raised funds for the new state of Israel; its successor federation serves more than 1,800 Jewish people across Michiana today from its South Bend headquarters, and Mishawaka's Jewish residents worship, as they have throughout the record, at South Bend's congregations. The entry stands at that size: a community documented by its named place in a county founding, whose Mishawaka names and Mishawaka streets the record reached does not give. The settling source for them is specific: the Michiana Jewish Historical Society, the federation's own historical partner, whose collections hold the valley's Jewish family record.

Sources

1. Jewish Federation of St. Joseph Valley, "Our History" (thejewishfed.org) — the 1945 founding by leaders from South Bend and Mishawaka; the council's works; the federation's present service to more than 1,800 Jewish people in Michiana; the Michiana Jewish Historical Society named as its historical partner.
2. Religion file of this record — the city's congregation gazetteer, in which no Mishawaka synagogue stands; the negative carried from the build's own roll.