Arthur Rothstein Missouri Photograph 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 →Early Missouri Jewish Officeholders U.S. Representative Nathan Frank (1852-1931), 1889-1891. Mayors William Taussig, Carondelet, 1852-1854. Moses Alexander, Chillicothe, two terms, 1887-1891 (later elected twice as Idaho governor, 1915-1919). Mannheim Goldman (1834-1907), Liberty, Missouri, 1895-1896 (first Jew to settle in the Kansas city
Read more →Samuel Lazarus and Louis P. Aloe Values Codes: I – E – L St. Louis has never elected a Jewish mayor, but between 1914 and 1919, the city was governed for more than a full year by two Jewish acting mayors. Samuel Lazarus (1855-1926), a
Read more →Samuel Westheimer Values Codes: I – E – L Samuel Westheimer (1833-1914) was born in Prussia and left in 1848, amid that year’s revolutionary uprisings, to travel to New York City to live with two brothers. He then managed a manufacturing plant in upstate New York.
Read more →William Taussig Values Codes: I – H – E – L William Taussig (1826-1913) was born in Prague (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) and studied medicine and chemistry at the prestigious University of Prague. The Taussig family began emigrating from Prague to St. Louis
Read more →Daniel Block Values Codes: I-H-E-L Daniel Block was born in Osek, Bohemia (today’s Czech Republic), in 1802, according to current family information. St. Louis, Missouri Daniel Block arrived in the United States in 1842, and settled in St. Louis in 1848. In the Census of
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