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Jewish Department Store Owners

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[Barasch], Bloomingdale, Boscov, Cohen and 16 others
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This project attempts to document the department stores owned by Jewish people, by country.

Australia

Myer

  • Sidney Myer (1878-1934) in Melbourne, a Jewish immigrant from Belorus

Austria

Herzmansky

  • August Herzmansky (1834-1896); (Catholic family) Some sources call him Jewish, but have found no evidence.
  • Eduard Herzmansky (1852–1911); (Catholic family)
  • Johann Herzmansky (1857–1924); (Catholic family)
  • Johann Falnbigl (1866-1932); (Catholic family related by mariage to Herzmansky family; spouse of Jewish descent)
  • Wilfried Falnbigl (1897-1964); (Catholic; mother of Jewish descent)
  • Max Delfiner (1887 Siret - 1980 Paris); (Jewish owner of Herzmansky from 1933-1938 when aryanized; returned 1948)

Gerngross

JAWO Das Kaufhaus des Herrn

Kastner & Öhler (1873- ), based in Graz, Austria

Kaufhaus Schwarz, Salzburg

  • Dr. Paul Schwarz

Julius Krupnik

Warenhaus Dichter

  • Leopold Dichter

Warenhaus Rothberger

  • Jacob Rothberger (1825 Albertirsa-1899)

Ignaz Wodicka

Zweiback

Canada

Freedman Company

  • Freedman family

Honest Ed's

  • Ed Mirvish

Czechoslovakia

Brouk a Babka

  • Petschek family

Hamburger?

Egypt

Cicurel

  • Salvatore Cicurel

Gattegno

  • Gattegno family

France

À la Belle Jardinière

  • Hirsch family

Galeries Lafayette

  • Théophile Bader (1864-1942)
  • Alphonse Kahn (1864-1927)

Lévitan (1930-1941)

  • Wolff Lévitan

Germany and German Poland

S. Adam, Berlin

  • Sally Adam

Gebrüder Alsberg

Gebrüder Lehmann

L. Hermann KG, Munich

Jandorf (A. Jandorf & Co.)

Katzenstein & Co in Gelsenkirchen

  • Heinz Katzenstein

Kaufhaus Conitzer, aka Kaufhaus Conitzer & Söhne

  • Rudof Conitzer

Kaufhaus Nathan Israel (1815-1939)

  • Nathan Israel

Kaufhaus R. Karstadt

  • Rudolf Karstadt (1856-1944)

Kaufhaus Schocken, Chemnitz, Stuttgart and other cities

Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe), Berlin

Knopf & Stern, Dresden

Molling und Co., Hannover

  • Fritz Gottschalk

Warenhaus Tietz, headquartered in Cologne

  • Georg Tietz
  • Hermann Tietz
  • Leonard Tietz (1849-1914)
  • Martin Tietz

Warenhaus Ruschkewitz Würzburg

  • Sigmund Ruschkewitz

Warenhaus Ury Gebrüder

  • Julius Ury (1873–1940)
  • Moritz Ury (1872–1939)

Wertheim (founded 1852)

  • Georg Wertheim (1857 Stralsund-1939 Berlin)

A. Wertheimer

Wronker in Frankfurt

Greece

Allatini Brothers, Thessaloniki

Salem, Thessaloniki

Matalon, Thessaloniki

Hungary

Goldschmied & Deutsch, Budapest

  • Gyula Deutsch.
  • Artúr Goldschmied

India

Sassoon & Co.

  • David Sassoon (1792–1864)

E. Moses & Sons

  • Ezekiel Moses

Iraq

Menashi Skoracki & Co.

Israel

FOX Group

Hamashbir Lazarchan

Hanut HaShmal (Electric Store)

Tzomet Sfarim

Lebanon

Maison Levy

Orosdi-Back, founded in 1856; later Omar Effendi

  • Leon Orosdi, a Hungarian Jewish businessman

Netherlands

De Bijenkorf (1870-)

  • Simon Philip Goudsmit (1845-1889)

New Zealand

Farmers Trading Company

  • Robert Laidlaw, whose mother was Jewish

Hallenstein Brothers

  • Bendix Hallenstein

Poland

Chaim Rumkowski, Łódź

Chaim Salomon's Department Store

  • Chaim Salomon

Warenhaus Gebrüder Barasch

South Africa

The Foschini Group, founded 1924 in Cape Town

United Kingdom

Burton

  • Montague Burton, born Meshe David Osinsky, a Jewish Lithuanian immigrant

Debenhams

  • Drapkin family

John Lewis Partnership

  • John Lewis

Kendals, Manchester

  • Sieff family

Marks & Spencer

  • Michael Marks, a Jewish emigrant from Belarus

Selfridges

  • Harry Gordon Selfridge

Tesco

  • Jack Cohen

United States

Abraham & Straus (formerly Wechsler and Abraham), founded in 1865 and became part of Federated Department Stores in 1929

B. Altman and Company

Bamberger's (L. Bamberger & Company)

Barneys New York

Bergdorf Goodman

Bernheimer Brothers, Baltimore

  • Ferdinand Bernheimer
  • Herman Bernheimer

Brager's Baltimore

  • Albert Brager

Eisenberg's Baltimore

Julius Gutman's Baltimore

  • Julius Gutman

Kohn's, Baltimore

  • Benno Kohn
  • Louis B Kohn

Hochschild Kohn's Baltimore

  • Max Hochschild
  • Benno Kohn
  • Louis B Kohn

Hecht's Hub Baltimore

  • Moses S. Hecht

Hutzler's Baltimore

  • Abram Hutzler
  • Moses Hutzler

Posner's Baltimore

  • Elias Posner
  • Samule Posner

Rosenstein Brothers Baltimore

Gus Blass Department Store, Little Rock, Arkansas

Bloomingdale's

Bon Marché

Boscov's

City of Paris (originally S. Lazard & Co.)

Cohen Brothers

Filene's

Furchgott’s (Furchgott & Bro., Furchgott, Benedict & Co., Kohn, Furchgott, & Benedict, M. Furchgott & Co. Dry Goods, M. Furchgott & Sons)

Gimbels (Gimbel Brother's Company)

Godschaux’s

Goldblatt's

  • Maurice Gioldblatt (1892-1984)
  • Nathan Goldblatt

Goldsmith’s

Greengard's

Halle's (Halle Brothers Co.)

  • Salmon Portland Chase Halle (1866-1949)
  • Samuel Horatio Halle (1868-1954)

A. Hamburger & Sons (later May Company California)

Hecht's (Hecht Brothers)

  • Samuel Hecht, Jr.

Henri Bendel, Inc.

  • Henri Willis Bendel (1868-1936)

Hutzler Brothers

Jacobson's (1868-2002)

Kaufmann's Department Store

  • Edgar J. Kaufmann (1885–1955)

Kohl's

Lansburgh's, Washington, DC (1860-1973), owned by the family until acquired by City Stores in 1951.

Lazarus department store (later The F&R Lazarus & Co., merged with Macy's Inc.)

  • Simon Lazarus (1807-1877)

Levy’s

Macy's (sold by the Macy family to German-Jewish immigrants Nathan and Isidor Straus in 1895)

I. Magnin San Francisco (1876-1994)

Joseph Magnin Company (1919-1984), competitor to I. Magnin, his parents' store

May Company Department Stores

Marshall's

Neiman Marcus

Pizitz Department Stores

A.M. Rothschild Company

  • Abram M. Rothschild (1853-1902)

Rich’s

  • Emanuel Rich (Reich) (1849-1897)
  • Morris Rich (Mauritius Reich) (1847 Hungary-1928 Atlanta)

Russeks

  • Frank Russek (1875/1876–1948)

Saks Fifth Avenue (formerly A. Saks and Co.)

Sakowitz

Sanger Brothers

Sears-Roebuck

  • Julius Rosenwald (1862-1032), co-owner who introduced the mail-order concept

Thalhimer’s (1842 Roichmond - 1992 Amerian Southeast) (https://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entries/william-thalhimer/)

  • Charles Thalhimer
  • Isaac Thalhimer (c. 1855 - 1930)
  • Moses Thalhimer
  • William (Wolff) Thalhimer (1809-1883)
  • William B. Thalheimer (1888-1969)
  • William B. Thalheimer, Jr. (1914-1925)

Younkers

  • Lipman Younker (1834-1903)
  • Marcus Younker (1839-1926)
  • Samuel Younker (1837-1879)
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