The Jewish Community Of Savannah

Author : Valerie Frey
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738514499
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Community of Savannah written by Valerie Frey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only five months after Gen. James Edward Oglethorpe established the new colony of Georgia in 1733, pioneering Jewish settlers arrived at her shores. They landed in Savannah, where over the next several centuries they built a thriving community within one of the South's most revered cities. Savannah's Jewish citizenry, while a well-defined entity on its own, is also steeped in the rich, overall heritage of the area, contributing to every facet of civic, business, and cultural life. The Jewish Community of Savannah celebrates, in word and image, the colorful history of one of the nation's oldest established Jewish communities. Vintage photographs culled from the Savannah Jewish Archives, housed in the Georgia Historical Society, reveal what life was like in days gone by. Early twentieth-century scenes depict Savannah Jews not only in times of steadfast worship and engaged in earnest business efforts, but also in lighter moments of celebration and recreation. The three local congregations are all represented in this collection, including those practicing Reform Judaism (Congregation Mickve Israel), Orthodox Judaism (Congregation B'nai B'rith Jacob), and Conservative Judaism (Congregation Agudath Achim.) Many readers will be surprised and delighted to view images of their ancestors within this treasured volume.

Author : Valerie Frey
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781531609818
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Community of Savannah written by Valerie Frey and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only five months after Gen. James Edward Oglethorpe established the new colony of Georgia in 1733, pioneering Jewish settlers arrived at her shores. They landed in Savannah, where over the next several centuries they built a thriving community within one of the South's most revered cities. Savannah's Jewish citizenry, while a well-defined entity on its own, is also steeped in the rich, overall heritage of the area, contributing to every facet of civic, business, and cultural life. The Jewish Community of Savannah celebrates, in word and image, the colorful history of one of the nation's oldest established Jewish communities. Vintage photographs culled from the Savannah Jewish Archives, housed in the Georgia Historical Society, reveal what life was like in days gone by. Early twentieth-century scenes depict Savannah Jews not only in times of steadfast worship and engaged in earnest business efforts, but also in lighter moments of celebration and recreation. The three local congregations are all represented in this collection, including those practicing Reform Judaism (Congregation Mickve Israel), Orthodox Judaism (Congregation B'nai B'rith Jacob), and Conservative Judaism (Congregation Agudath Achim.) Many readers will be surprised and delighted to view images of their ancestors within this treasured volume.

Author : Savannah Jewish Archives
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615126333
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of Savannah written by Savannah Jewish Archives and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Savannah Jewish Archives (SJA), housed in the Georgia Historical Society and funded by the Savannah Jewish Federation, was established in 1994 to preserve and make available the history of the Jewish community of Savannah, Georgia. As part of an ongoing effort to make their holdings accessible to the public, the SJA, on its tenth anniversary, proudly presents Voices of Savannah: Selections from the Oral History Collection of the Savannah Jewish Archives. This new offering from the SJA is a supplement to The Jewish Community of Savannah (Arcadia Press, 2002), which utilized the Archives' extensive photograph collection to trace the history of Savannah's Jewish community. Voices of Savannah offers previously unseen photographs from the collections of the SJA while also drawing narrative text from more than one hundred oral history interviews collected from and by local Jewish residents, pulling together their own stories in their own words to create a unique picture of Savannah in days gone by. - Back cover.

Author : B. H. Levy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Savannah's Old Jewish Community Cemeteries written by B. H. Levy and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 9780615244228
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picturing Savannah's Jewish Community written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book סדר תפלות ישראל written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Saul Jacob Rubin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Third to None written by Saul Jacob Rubin and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aviva Ben-Ur
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
ISBN 13 : 0878203729
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remnant Stones written by Aviva Ben-Ur and published by Hebrew Union College Press. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1660s, Jews of Iberian ancestry, many of them fleeing Inquisitorial persecution, established an agrarian settlement in the midst of the Surinamese tropics. The heart of this community-Jodensavanne, or Jews' Savannah-became an autonomous village with its own Jewish institutions, including a majestic synagogue consecrated in 1685. Situated along the Suriname River, some fifty kilometers south of the capital city of Paramaribo, Jodensavanne was by the mid-eighteenth century surrounded by dozens of Jewish plantations sprawling north- and southward and dominating the stretch of the river. These Sephardi-owned plots, mostly devoted to the cultivation and processing of sugar, carried out primarily by enslaved Africans, collectively formed the largest Jewish agricultural community in the world at the time and the only Jewish settlement in the Americas granted virtual self-rule. Sephardi settlement paved the way for the influx of hundreds of Ashkenazi Jews, who began to emigrate in the late seventeenth century from western and central Europe. Generally banned from Jodensavanne, these newcomers settled in Paramaribo, where they established their own cemeteries and historic synagogue. Meanwhile, slave rebellions, Maroon attacks, the general collapse of Suriname's economy, soil depletion, absentee land ownership, and a ravaging fire all contributed to the demise of the old Savannah settlement beginning in the second half of the eighteenth century..

Author : Rachel Raskin-Zrihen, Rachel Rae Moncharsh-Lessem and Shoshana Deutscher-Nurik
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146713208X
Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book Jewish Community of Solano County written by Rachel Raskin-Zrihen, Rachel Rae Moncharsh-Lessem and Shoshana Deutscher-Nurik and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains images and stories of some of the Jews who have impacted Solano County. It is not a record of every Jew to pass this way, some of whom may have come intending to shed their Jewish identity by changing their names or converting. Wonderful stories emerged about extraordinary people who made their marks here with few suspecting their Jewish roots, yet they were traceable often because in death they chose to reclaim their heritage. Others came to live as Jews and built an enduring community. The story within these pages travels from the Old World to the edge of Gold Country, where there lives a tenacious, though often invisible, Jewish community.

Author : Marcie Cohen Ferris
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584655893
Total Pages : 388 pages
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Download or read book Jewish Roots in Southern Soil written by Marcie Cohen Ferris and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively look at southern Jewish history and culture.