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...
by marlenetrestman | Jan 31, 2023
Isidore Mendelsohn Although the Home’s records do not reveal what caused the deaths of Julius Mendelsohn and his wife, the former Amalia Meyer, in New Orleans in 1878, yellow fever is a likely culprit. The epidemic that summer had claimed the lives of more than...
by marlenetrestman | Jan 22, 2023
Alphonse Julius Schlesinger In 1895, following the death of Isaac Schlesinger, a lawyer in Woodville, Mississippi, his widow Sarah Schwartz, admitted their three children – Alphonse, Judith, and Ida (“Ikie”) — into the Home. After nine years,...
by marlenetrestman | Jan 21, 2023
Hurwitz Sisters: Rachel, Ella & Annie In 1893, following the death of his wife Fannie Schoenbaum, Albert Hurwitz admitted his three Russian-born daughters — Rachel (5), Ella (7), and Annie (9) — to the Home from Montgomery, Alabama with the...
