Simon Blum Values Codes I – E – L – P Simon Blum was born in 1834 in Oberbronn, Alsace, France. He immigrated to the United States in 1850, at 16 years of age, and arrived in San Francisco early in 1853. Martinez, California In the
Read more →Simon Wolf “Among all the areas in the world, California is possibly the one in which the Jews are most widely dispersed. I do not know of one village, one hamlet, one settlement of any kind, either in the north, the mining area, or the
Read more →Samuel & Albert S. Lavenson Values Codes I – E – L – P Samuel Lavenson was born in 1829 in Europe. He arrived in Sacramento, California in 1851. In 1955, he founded the Sacramento firm of Locke & Lavenson, which manufactured tents and wagon covers and
Read more →Special California Exhibits Early Pioneer French Jews of California Southern California Postcards, 1904-1907
Read more →Early Pioneer French Jews of California “Pioneer French Jews arrived in San Francisco as early as 1850. Later, the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871), with its tragic termination obliged all the people of Alsace-Lorraine to either leave their homes or become German citizens. The two provinces had large Jewish communities at that
Read more →Joseph Rodrigues Brandon Values Codes I – E – L – P Joseph Rodrigues (J.R.) Brandon was born in Barbados in 1828. He was the son of Abraham Rodrigues Brandon (1766-1831), a Portuguese Jewish planter, and Sarah Simpson Wood. J.R. Brandon had one brother and two sisters,
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