Har Sinai Hebrew Congregation
Har Sinai Hebrew Congregation As the great industrial complex of Trenton began to grow immediately after the Civil War. By 1850, there were several churches in the City representing Presbyterian (remember) Princeton was a Presbyterian Seminary), Methodist (John Asbury had a mission in New Jersey), Baptist, Roman Catholic, Byzantine Catholic, and other denominations. New York and Philadelphia have Jewish communities already two centuries old. Slowly, after the defeat of liberalism in the German States in 1848-9, German Jews made their way to Trenton. This trickle formed a core Jewish community where none existed before. Accordingly, the Har Sinai Cemetery Association, formed on November 19, 1857, when 11 men met in the home of Morris Singer. They were (besides Singer): Marcus Marx, Julius Schloss, Issac Wymann, lgnatz Frankenstein, Lazarus Gottheim, Isaac Singer, Joseph Rice, Ephraim Kaufman, Marcus Aaron and Gustavus ...