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Jews in New Haven (Vol. VI)
CONTENTS
List of Officers and Board of Directors ii
List of Illustrations v
Dedication vii
Herbert D. Setlow
THE FIRST MINUTE BOOK OF THE CONGREGATION
MISHKAN ISRAEL, 1849-1860 1
Werner S. Hirsch
THE RABBI AND THE MINISTER, The Ecumenical Spirit
at Work in Nineteenth Century New Haven 35
Neil Hogan
JOINING THE CONGREGATION: The Path to
Women’s Equality at Congregation Mishkan Israel 53
Beth S. Wenger
B’NAI JACOB IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD:An Immigrant Synagogue’s
Move Toward Conservative Judaism 69
Adam Shear
SIX GENERATIONS OF STROUSES
IN NEW HAVEN RETAILING 87
Charles Grannick, Jr.
JOSEPH DRABKIN: A Citizen of New Haven 97
Lester Yale Drabkin
MY LIFE IN NEW HAVEN, 1917-1926 115
Joseph Levine
THE WORLD OF MY FATHER:
HARRIS GINSBERG OF STATE STREET 123
Ruth Ginsberg Caplan
GROWING UP—MIDDLE CLASS 137
Herbert D. Setlow
SO, YOU ATE AT THE ALGONQUIN CLUB! 145
Joseph D. Horowitz
PAPA, MAMA, AND ME 169
Sara (Sally) Moore Lipwich
COMING TO AMERICA—1949 189
Sally Horwitz
HERE HISTORY IS GOING 197
Susan L. Neitlich
WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP:
The Role of Women Leaders of the New Haven Jewish Home for
the Aged, 1908-1938 223
Miriam Parker
JEWISH IMMIGRANT RADICALISM IN EARLY
TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW HAVEN 235
Paul Wessel
The Jewish Historical Society of New Haven, Inc.,
Summary of Meetings and Programs, 1988-1993 255
(Comp. by Barry E. Herman)
Members of the Society (1992-1993) 260
Index 265
ILLUSTRATIONS
1.
Tablets of the Ten Commandments which once adorned the Ark in
the Court Street building of Mishkan Israel frontispiece
2.
Invitation to the dedication of the Court St. Temple iv
3.
Facsimile of the first page of the earliest minute book of
Congregation Mishkan Israel facing page 1
4.
Portrait of Michael Milander 4
5.
Gravestone of Samuel Zunder 14
6.
Gravestone of Lewis Meininger 14
7.
Memorial plaque for Judah Touro 14
8.
Leopold Waterman’s ship, the Arctic, sinking 18
9.
Mishkan Israel synagogue on Court Street 20
10.
Letter from Sir Moses Montefiore to Congregation Mishkan
Israel in thanks for their support in the Mortara Affair 29
11.
Judah Wechsler, Rabbi at Mishkan Israel, 1873-1878 34
12.
Rose Osterweis, the first woman elected to the Board of
Congregation Mishkan Israel 61
13.
Alberta Roseman, the first woman elected president of
Congregation Mishkan Israel 61
14.
B’nai Jacob synagogue on George Street, Bima 68
15.
B’nai Jacob synagogue on George Street, women’s gallery 74
16.
Rabbi Leon Spitz 74
17.
B’nai Jacob synagogue on George Street, exterior 86
18.
Benjamin and Deborah Weil Strouse 89
19.
Levi Lyons Fancy Goods Store 89
20.
Lewis H. and Rachel Strouse Freedman 90
21.
Solomon and Bertha Lyons Gompertz 90
22.
Harold H. Hahn and his son on cover of Toys 93
23.
Samuel Dryfus and Charles M. Grannick Sr. 95
24.
The Columbia Printing Co. and Joseph Drabkin 96
25.
Interior of Columbia Printing Co. with Joseph Drabkin 101
26.
Yiddish playbills 104-105
27.
Drabkin family at the Columbia Printing Co. 109
28.
Harris Ginsberg and his store on State Street 128
29.
Herbert Setlow and guests at 1922 birthday party 136
30.
Herrmann and Julius Kraft 153
31.
Joseph D. Horowitz and friends 153
32.
Joseph D. Horowitz with A. W. Van Sinderen 164
33.
Jonathan and Naomi Rumanoff 168
34.
Oscar and Bella Moore and children 173
35.
Boaz Mauraufchick (Moore) 173
36.
Officers of Congregation Mogen David on Bradley St. 186
37.
Sally Finkelstein Horwitz with family and friends 188
38.
Chuck’s Lunchette on Whalley Avenue 201
39.
Ward at the Jewish Home for the Aged, 1946 222
40.
Dining room at the Jewish Home for the Aged, 1940 222
41.
Solarium at the Jewish Home for the Aged 229
42.
Beauty parlor at the Jewish Home for the Aged 229
43.
Arbeiter Ring (Workmen’s Circle) band 241
44.
Arbeiter Ring (Workmen’s Circle) Kindershule, 1922 245
45.
Rabbis Abraham Burstein and Louis Greenberg 254
46.
JHS group leaving for Eastern European study tour 259
47.
JHS group field trip to Ellis Island 264
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