San Francisco Jewish Pioneers

Abraham Hass: Pioneer Entrepreneur, Part 2, His San Francisco Years

Abraham Haas  Value Codes  I – E – L – P   Abraham Haas was born in Reckendorf, Bavaria, in 1847. Haas traveled to the Western U.S. via the Isthmus of Panama route, and started work in his cousins wholesale food business, Hass Bros., in Portland, Oregon.

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Daniel Levy: Pioneer French Jewish Teacher & Intellectual of Early San Francisco

Daniel Levy Values Codes I – H – E – L – P   Daniel Levy was born in Lixheim, France, in the Prov­ince of Lorraine, in 1826.   Along the way Educated at Paris University, Daniel Levy became a schoolteacher and taught for a time in Alsace.

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Joseph Brandenstein: Jewish Pioneer Philanthopist of Early San Francisco Area

Joseph Brandenstein Values Codes  I – H – E – L – P   Joseph Brandenstein was born in Hume, Germany, in 1826. Brandenstein arrived in California in 1850, and worked with Joseph P. Newmark in dry goods in Placerville (then called Hangtown) in the Gold Country.

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Benjamin Daniel Hyam: Jewish Pioneer Master Mason of California

Benjamin Daniel Hyam Values Codes I – H – E – P   Benjamin D. Hyam was born in London in 1813.   Along the way Benjamin Hyam served in the United States Army in both the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and in the Civil War.   San

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Rabbi Elkan Cohn: Eminent & Accomplished Pioneer Rabbi of San Francisco for 29 Years – 1860-1889

Rabbi Elkan Cohn Values Codes I – H – E – L – P   Elkan Cohn was born in Kostin, a province of Posen, Poland, then controlled by Prussia. He  arrived in Albany, New York, in 1854 to serve as a rabbi. In 1855, he took

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Isaias W. Hellman: Pioneer Investment Banker, Part 2, San Francisco Years

Isaias W. Hellman Values Codes I – H – E – L – P   The life of Isaias Hellman was of the romantic, not because of its weakly sentimentalizing, but because of the mastery which he displayed in working out a great career from humble beginnings,

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