by marlenetrestman | Feb 27, 2024
Glucksmann Siblings: Melanie, Theodore, Sarah, and Jacob In 1880, Alexander Glucksmann, a native of Koblin, Prussia, and his wife, the former Minna Michelson, were living in Alexandria, Louisiana, where he worked as a grocer. During the Civil War, he had served as a...
by marlenetrestman | Feb 26, 2024
Max Itzkowitz The following article appeared in the February 2013 issue of Southern Jewish Life magazine and is reprinted with the permission of publisher Larry Brook. Going Out of Business, Again When “Maxie” Itzkowitz died in November of 1989, the colorful 77-...
by marlenetrestman | Feb 18, 2024
Harry, Helen, and Evelyn Lubow Following the death of her husband William, Bessie Kahan Lubow was left alone to raise her three young children. Although she was the beneficiary of a life insurance policy administered by B’nai B’rith’s Birmingham...
by marlenetrestman | Feb 10, 2024
Ben, Mollie, & Jacob Greenberg Polish-born Samuel (S.I.) Greenberg, the first service leader and shochet at Congregation Ahavath Achim in Tyler, Texas, died of pneumonia in 1905. Two years later, his wife, the former Jennie Bergman, sent to the Home their three...
by marlenetrestman | Feb 9, 2024
Bessie & Etta Berger In 1893, following the deaths of their parents, the causes of which were not recorded, two-year-old Bessie Berger and her one-year-old sister, Etta, were admitted to the Home from Birmingham, Alabama. Within a year, Bessie was discharged to...
