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[POSTCARD OF TEMPLE SINAI IN LAKE CHARLES, LA.]

[Lake Charles?] [Temple Sinai?], [ca. 1905]

1st Edition. 5 ¼ X 3 ¼ inches. An artist’s depiction of Temple Sinai in Lake Charles, Louisiana with the caption “Jewish Temple. ” “Sometime during the year 1879 when the present city of Lake Charles was a small village of five hundred people, two Jews migrated from Washington, LA. To that village and became the first Jewish residents of this city. Those two were Leopold Kaufman and David Block. With the coming of those two men the Jewish community in Lake Charles came into existence. The congregation of Temple Sinai originated in September, 1894… Temple Sinai was erected in 1904. The onion domes on the original structure were blown off during the storm of 1918.” (templesinai. Info) . Jewish Bibliographer Joshua Bloch served there as his first pulpit position, during WW I. This depiction of the temple is from its early days, and depicts the onion domes on the original structure before they were blown off. The Temple celebrated 100 years with its rededication in October, 2004. In very good+ condition. Early Small-town American synagogue postcards are rare, especially in this condition. (AMR-49-14)

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