Jews in New Haven (Vol. III)

CONTENTS

Messages:

Dr. Barry E. Herman, President of the Society 5

Biagio DiLieto, Mayor of New Haven 7

Mrs. Edity Hurwitz, Society Archivist 8

Society Officers, Board of Directors and Editorial Board 10

Contributors to Volume III - Biographical Sketches 11

List of Illustrations 12

Jewish Faculty at Yale 13

Dan Ahiassaf Oren

Memories of Legion Avenue 30

Arthur M. Horwitz

Ticotsky's Bakery and the Legion Avenue Jews 37

Fred Ticotsky

United Order of True Sisters, New Haven Number 4; 117 Years of Sisterhood and Beneficence 50

Sadie S. Platcow Ratner

Who are New Haven's Jewish Finest? 64

Harold Berg

Emanuel Henriques: A Marrano in New Haven 69

Werner S. Hirsch

The History of the Jewish Center 1916-1941 81

Bessie Labov Levine

Jewish Community Center: Recollections of Charles Henchel 88

Charles Henchel

Mishkan Israel - Since 1940 98

Rollin G. Osterweis

Innovation and Consolidation: Phass in the History of Temple Mishkan Israel 101

Jonathan D. Sarna

The New Haven Y.P.S.L. and the First World War 110

Abraham S. Alderman

Stiles and the Jews: A Study in Ambivalence 118

Arthur A. Chiel

Jewish Organizations & Synagogues in Greater New Haven 1979-1980 135

Barry E. Herman

Members of the Jewish Historical Society of New Haven, Inc. 1979-1981 151

The Jewish Historical Society of New Haven, Inc. - Summary of Meetings and Programs, 1979-1980, 1980-1981 104

Index 164

ILLUSTRATIONS

1. JHS Logo (Hebrew) "K'sov Zos Zikoron"; (English Transl.) "Write this as a Remembrance" Exodus 17:14 Cover

2. I. Newman Corset Co. (Circa 1888) 1

3. J.H.S. Archives and Mrs. Edith Hurwitz, Archivist 2

4. Myer's Shoe Store at 95 Church Street (1870) 4

5. Dr. Sigmund Waterman 15

6. Dr. Lafayette B. Mendel 20

7. Jewish Scribe and Hebrew Inscription, Entrance to Yale Sterling Library 26

8. Eddy's Qualtiy Grocery 31

9. Myer's Meat Market 31

10. Legion Ave. Street Scene 35

11. Old Advertisements 36

12. Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Ticotsky 38

13. Ticotsky Family (1915 49

14. Mrs. Rosa Lyons 53

15. Group Photo of True Sisters 59

16. Mrs. Regina Strouse Freedman 61

17. Patrolman Moses Greenbaum 67

18. Henriques Paper Mark 76

19. Henriques' Paper Mill 73

20. Henriques Ad 76

21. Sarah Henriques Tombstone 78

22. YM-YWHA Building (1921) 83

23. Hebrew Institute (Jewish Center) 83

24. Ribbon Cutting of New Jewish Community Center Building (1954) 89

25. YMHA Boy Scout Troup (1919) 91

26. YMHA Gen. Assembly and Reading Room (1919) 91

27. YM-YWHA Officers (1919) 92

28. Present New Haven Jewish Community Center at 1156 Chapel Street (1981) 95

29. Mishkan Israel Building on Orange & Audubon Streets (1905) 100

30. Mishkan Israel Confirmation Class of 1902, with Rabbi David Levy 106

31. Mishkan Israel High School and Normal School Class of 1922, with Rabbi Louis L. Mann 106

32. Mishkan Israel, Interior; Orange and Audubon Streets, with Rabbi Edgar Siskin 107

33. Kleeberg Monument, Mishkan Israel Cemetery 109

34. YPSL Group Picture (Circa 1918) 116

35. President Ezra Stiles of Yale University 131

36. Rabbi Haim Isaac Carigal 134

37. Beth Israel Synagogue, Orchard Street, (1981) 137

38. Beth Israel, Orchard Street, New Haven, Interior (1981) 137

39. Orange Synagogue Center (1981) 145

40. Beth Sholom Temple, Hamden (1981) 145

41. Jewish Historical Society Bus Trip (1980) 159

42. Letter from Sir Moses Montefiore to Cong. Mishkan Israel (1858) 160

43. Letter in Hebrew from Pres. Stiles to Rabbi Carigal, May 24, 1773 161

44. Reply Letter in Hebrew from Rabbi Carigal to Pres. Stiles, May 29, 1773 162

45. Mishkan Israel Confirmation Class of 1922 163

46. Mishkan Israel Confirmation class of 1926 163

47. Award of Merit for Jews in New Haven, Vol. II, May 1981 Inside Back Cover

48. Old Advertisement - S. H. Yudkin & Son Movers Back Cover

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