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Philadelphians pictured in The history of the Jewish foster home & orphan asylum of Philadelphia

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Mayer Frank (1821 - 1911)
Meyer lived in Phila's 20th ward in 1870. He gave his occupation as retail clothierAll three of Mayer and Eva's sons have moguel records at Rodeph Shalom Congregation of Philadelphia. Mayer was a Presi...
Rabbi Marcus Mordecai Jastrow (1829 - 1903)
Marcus Jastrow, was one of the leading Rabbis, Talmudic scholars, and Jewish educators in America at the turn of the century, and he was also distinguished by an heroic past of fighting for human right...
Evelyn Bomeisler (1829 - 1917)
Isidor Binswanger (1820 - 1890)
Rabbi Isidor Binswanger, was head of the Maimonides School in Philadelphia, the first Jewish institution of higher learning in the United States.
Rabbi Sabato Morais (1823 - 1897)
“In 1851, after some hesitation, Morais left London for the United States to apply for the position of Hazan (Cantor and Reader) at Philadelphia's oldest and one of America's most prestigious congregat...

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by Samuel M. Fleischman, 1905.