Arthur Rothstein Minnesota Photographs Arthur Rothstein made some of the most significant documentary photographs ever taken of rural and small-town America. These images were created during his years traveling throughout the nation on assignment for the US Farm Security Administration, one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New
Read more →Minnesota Postcards, 1904 – 1910 Source These historic postcards were donated to the museum by Sara Borczuk Applebaum. Jonathan Friedmann is curator for this Minnesota Postcards exhibit.
Read more →Mount Zion Temple: Minnesota’s First Synagogue Mount Zion Hebrew Association was founded in St. Paul in 1856 by eight German-Jewish families who came up the Mississippi from St. Louis. The total population of St. Paul at that time was 1,200. Joseph Ullman and Isidor Rose were
Read more →Temple Israel, Formerly Congregation Shaarai Tov, 1878 – In 1877, the Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Society was established in St. Paul, Minnesota. Shaarai Tov was founded in 1878 as an Orthodox congregation. Twenty three founders rented space at Nicollet and Washington Avenues. Rabbi Henry Friedman was
Read more →Isaac Marks Values Codes I – E – L Isaac Marks was born in 1823, in Prussia. Along the way … In 1840, Isaac Marks came to America, at the age of 17. He traveled to the Mississippi River, and then headed North from St. Louis.
Read more →Jacob Jackson Noah: Pioneer Attorney Values Codes I – E – L Jacob Jackson Noah was born in 1830 in New York. He was a descendant of early Jewish colonists of Georgia. Along the way . . . In 1849, Jacob Jackson Noah moved to
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