The first Jewish congregation in Scranton, Pa., was organized in 1858. Reconstituted two years later under the name Anshe Hesed, the congregation did not build a synagogue until 1866. This synagogue, however, was the first building reared exclusively as a Jewish place of worship in Lackawanna County.
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