Otto Mears Values Codes I- E – L Otto Mears was born in Kurland, Russia in 1840, the son of a Jewish Englishman and a Jewish Russian woman. His parents died when he was very young, so he was passed between a series of family members
Read more →Flora Jacobi Arnstein Values Codes I – E – L Flora Jacobi was born in San Francisco in 1885 to a distinguished pioneer family. Her uncle, Max J. Brandenstein, established the MJB Coffee Company with his brothers Mannie, Charlie, and Eddie. (The company’s acronym was chosen to minimize
Read more →Oscar Weil Values Codes H – E – L – P Oscar Weil was born to German-Jewish immigrant parents in Columbia County, New York, in 1839. At age eighteen, Weil left New York to pursue musical training at the Conservatory of Leipzig. Violin was his primary
Read more →Cantor Alexander Weisler Values Codes H – E – L Little has been preserved about the life of Cantor Alexander Weisler. He was a pupil of Cantor Salomon Sulzer, the “father of the modern cantorate” who taught at the Vienna Conservatory in the late 1840s. This suggests
Read more →Julie Eichberg Rosewald Values Codes I – E – L – P Julie Eichberg was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1847. Her father, Moritz Eichberg, was a cantor in the city and, along with his wife Eleanor, raised a musically talented family. Julie’s vocal abilities were
Read more →Sir Henry Heyman Values Codes I – H – E – L – P Henry Heyman was born in Oakland, California in 1855. The Heymans were among the first Jewish settlers of Oakland and operated a stove store. Henry Heyman’s talent for the violin was apparent
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