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The first known Jew to settle in Cincinnati was Joseph Jonas, an English emigrant who arrived in the city via Philadelphia in 1817. [2] Jonas, a young man, decided to leave his home in Exeter, England, with the avowed intention of settling in Cincinnati. Friends in Philadelphia originally endeavored to dissuade him from going to a place so ...
Hebrew National Orphan Home (HNOH) was an orphanage in Manhattan in New York City. [1] It was founded on December 5, 1912, when a group raised $64 toward establishing a Jewish orthodox home for the care of orphaned and destitute Jewish boys. On October 14, 1913, a committee of the Bessarabian Verband, a group of Romanian Jews, paid the first ...
The history of Jews in Ohio dates back to 1817, when Joseph Jonas, a pioneer, came from England and made his home in Cincinnati.He drew after him a number of English Jews, who held Orthodox-style divine service for the first time in Ohio in 1819, and, as the community grew, organized themselves in 1824 into the first Jewish congregation of the Ohio Valley, the B'ne Israel.
The FBI is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information that leads to the arrest of people responsible for damaging gravestones at two Jewish cemeteries on Cincinnati's West Side. The ...
Lillian D. Wald (March 10, 1867 – September 1, 1940 [ 1]) was an American nurse, humanitarian and author. She strove for human rights and started American community nursing. [ 2] She founded the Henry Street Settlement in New York City and was an early advocate for nurses in public schools. After growing up in Ohio and New York, Wald became a ...
Y. Yavneh Day School (Cincinnati, Ohio) Categories: Ethnic groups in Cincinnati. Jews and Judaism in Ohio. Jews and Judaism in the United States by city. Religion in Cincinnati. People from Cincinnati. CatAutoTOC generates no TOC.
Korai was taken to a Jewish boarding school in Poland, then to France and eventually to Israel in 1949. He spent 35 years working on semi-trucks. Korai had three children and eight grandchildren.
In 1839, the first Jewish immigrants came to Cleveland from Bavaria. The first Jewish immigrant was a man named Simson Thorman. [4] Within 25 years, the population of Jews grew to 1,200. From the late 1800s and well into the 1950s, the vast majority of Jews lived in the inner city neighborhoods of Glenville, Kinsman, and Hough. In 1920, the ...