by marlenetrestman | Jan 17, 2023
Brown Siblings: Louis, Mathilda, Sadie, and Raphael In April 1891, widower Gus Brown admitted his four children to the Home from Bayou Sara, Louisiana. According to the records of Beth Israel Cemetery in Woodville, Mississippi, Gus’s wife, Mina Frank, died in...
by marlenetrestman | Jan 16, 2023
Leslie Greenwald In 1891, following the death of her husband, Emily Laser Greenwald admitted her three sons to the Home from Little Rock, Arkansas, where the local B’nai B’rith Lodge endorsed her petition. Like his older brothers before him, when Leslie...
by marlenetrestman | Jan 16, 2023
Korn Siblings Rabbi Jacob Korn, a scholar, linguist, and conservatory-trained cantor, married Anna Bernstein, the daughter of the chief rabbi of Breslau, Germany. By 1891, several years after coming to America, the family settled in Woodville, Mississippi, where Jacob...
by marlenetrestman | Jan 16, 2023
Adolph & Edouard Henriques Although the Home’s original constitution limited eligibility to orphans and half orphans (meaning at least one parent deceased), the board frequently side-stepped this requirement when compassion dictated in cases of parental...
by marlenetrestman | Jan 12, 2023
Szafir Siblings In 1882, Emil Szafir and his wife, Johanna Blumenthal Szafir, traveled from their native Hungary to America with their three children — Charlotte, Edmund, and Alex — stopping in New York before reaching Galveston, where Jacob was born. In...
