Benjamin Platt Values Codes I – H – E – L – P Born in Khoderkov, a small shtetl near Kiev, around 1882, Benjamin Platt immigrated to New York in 1902 or 1903, becoming a salesman for the Singer Sewing Machine Company. According to family lore,
Read more →Walter Henry Rothwell Values Codes I – E – L Walter Henry Rothwell (né Rothschild) was born in London in 1872 to Bertha Löwenberg of Hohenems, Austria, and Barnet Robert Rothschild of Dover, England. Along the way . . . A musically gifted child, Rothwell
Read more →Sol Shirpser Values Codes I – E – L – P Sol Shirpser was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1850. During the late 1850’s, Sol’s mother, Rebecca Jetta, married David Shirpser. Sol took his step-father’s name when the latter adopted him. California and Alaska In
Read more →Leopold M. Loeb Values Codes H – E – L Leopold M. Loeb was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1849. He immigrated to New York in 1866, and became a naturalized citizen in 1877. Loeb made his living as a music teacher in Toledo, Ohio, before
Read more →Alfred Arndt Values Codes H – E – L Alfred Arndt was born in Russia in 1856. He was a typical nineteenth-century self-styled traveling Jewish clergyman, whose professional title was as fluid as his employment. There is no record of his education (perhaps he was an
Read more →Cantor Victor Rosenstein Values Codes H – E – L The life story of Victor Rosenstein is not well preserved. The little that remains tells of a struggling nineteenth-century cantor, floating from congregation to congregation, mistreated by temple boards, and never receiving the respect or remuneration
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