Скачать или смотреть Postcard: This Temple On Linwood Boulevard Helped Bring Down The Pendergast Machine

Discover how Kansas City's B’nai Jehudah Temple and Rabbi Samuel Mayerberg’s bold activism helped bring down the Pendergast political machine.

This house of worship made quite a statement when it opened in 1908 on Linwood Boulevard one block east of the Paseo.

The Greek Revival design, marked by massive columns, signaled just how much the congregation B’nai Jehudah had grown since its earliest days in a small wooden synagogue downtown.

Large stained glass windows and elegant furnishings added to the new building’s grandeur.
But a movement born inside it changed Kansas City history.

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