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Toronto, Ontario

Adath Israel Congregation

The Toronto synagogue where Erwin Schild served as rabbi from 1947 to 1989.

Wider Schild Story

This place is connected to a wider Schild surname story, not a confirmed part of our direct family line.

A red brick synagogue building on a Toronto street corner, with an inscribed stone lintel above the entrance and a utility pole in front.

Adath Israel Congregation, Toronto. A later expansion of this building was named the Rabbi Erwin Schild Wing.

Photograph by SimonP, 2010, CC BY SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Adath Israel Congregation is a Conservative synagogue in Toronto. Erwin Schild became its rabbi in September 1947, when it numbered roughly one hundred fifty families, and it was his only pulpit position.

Under his leadership the congregation grew substantially, dedicating a complete synagogue home in 1957 and a further expansion in 1965, later named the Rabbi Erwin Schild Wing. He retired from the pulpit in 1989 after more than forty years and was named Rabbi Emeritus.

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