Congregation Beth Israel Anshe Yanova

This building was originally the Morse Theater, 1330 W. Morse Avenue. It later became the Co-Ed Theater, then the Congregation Beth Israel. Afterwards the Cobblers Mall, then Morse Theater, again. It is now the Mayne Stage Theater. The congregation moved to Skokie and is now located at 3601 W. Dempster Street and is known as Congregation Beth Israel Anshe Yanova.

Congregation Beth Israel Anshe Yanova (house of Israel, men of Yanova) was established on the West Side and moved to the Rogers Park community in 1955 during the wave of change in Lawndale. It was a traditional synagogue and its last Rabbi was Bernard Perlow.

Per: Images of America, Chicago's Fogotten Synagogues, Robert A. Packer, Arcadia Publishing, Chicago, 2007, ISBN, 978-0-7385-5152-4, page 18.

Photos

RPWRHS photo G008-0401 shows the exterior of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue circa 1960. The building located at 1328-30 W. Morse Avenue was erected in 1912, opened as the Morse Theater in 1913 and then as the Co-Ed Theater on March 19, 1938. It housed Congregation Beth Israel from the early 1950s to 1977. A shoe store followed. Later on it became the Morse Theater (once again), and is now the Mayne Stage Theater.

RPWRHS photo R044-0109 shows the exterior of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue circa 1960. The building located at 1328-30 W. Morse Avenue was erected in 1912, opened as the Morse Theater in 1913 and then as the Co-Ed Theater on March 19, 1938. It housed Congregation Beth Israel from the early 1950s to 1977. A shoe store followed. Later on it became the Morse Theater (once again), and is now the Mayne Stage Theater. Photo taken September 1992.