by marlenetrestman | Feb 16, 2023
Jacob & Libbie (Batkowsky) Butler In 1899, following the death of his wife, the former Minnie Sanders, Louis Batkowsky admitted his three youngest children (Jacob, 5, Libbie, 7, and Leo 9) to the Home with the endorsement of Houston’s B’nai...
by marlenetrestman | Feb 7, 2023
Beatrice & Ruth Mayer By 1899, the Home’s annual Chanukah party included an elaborate program, featuring music, oratory, and calisthenic performances by the children.* The opening prayer that year was delivered by 12-year-old Beatrice Mayer. Beatrice had...
by marlenetrestman | Feb 6, 2023
Caplan Siblings: Harry, Rachel, and Mike Following the death of her husband Solomon, Sarah Garber Caplan admitted three of her children to the Home in 1896. Although the children had been born in New York, the family was living in New Orleans at the time of admission....
by marlenetrestman | Feb 3, 2023
Louis (Yarutzky) Yarrut Looking back on his life, Judge Louis H. Yarrut considered his and his sister Pauline’s admission to the Home in 1896 something of “an inherited right” because their father, Abraham Yarutzky, also had lived in the orphanage...
by marlenetrestman | Feb 1, 2023
The Home on St. Charles Avenue Proclaimed “a Magnificent Monument to Hebrew Benevolence,” the Home on St. Charles Avenue captured the interest of many artists and photographers. Here are a few of those depictions. Jewish Orphans’ Home architectural...
