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Joseph Newmark
Joseph Newmark (1799–1881) was a Prussian-American businessman in New York City and Los Angeles and a member of the Newmark family of Southern California. He helped found Jewish congregations in both cities and later became an ordained rabbi. After immigrating from Prussia to New York City, he was a co-founder there of B'nai Jeshurun (Manhattan), B'nai Jeshurun. He moved to the West Coast, briefly living and working in San Francisco. Newmark moved again to Los Angeles in 1854, where two nephews were already in business. He founded Congregation B'nai B'rith in 1862, which was originally an Orthodox synagogue. It later became Reform and is known as the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, the oldest synagogue in Los Angeles. Early life Joseph Newmark was born into a Jewish family in 1799 in Nowe Miasto Lubawskie, Neumark, West Prussia.
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Nowe Miasto Lubawskie
Nowe Miasto Lubawskie (; german: Neumark in Westpreußen) is a town in northern Poland, situated on the River Drwęca. The total population in June 2018 was 11,062. Nowe Miasto Lubawskie is the capital of Nowe Miasto County ( pl, powiat nowomiejski) and was assigned to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in 1999. Geographical location Nowe Miasto Lubawskie lies on the right (west) bank of the upper course of the River Drwęca in Chełmno Land in the historic region of Pomerania, some 15 km south-west of the town of Lubawa, 70 km south-west of the town of Olsztyn, and 120 km south-east of the region's capital, Gdańsk. History Early history involved settlement by early Slavic peoples; later settlement was by Old Prussians who were conquered by Polish ruler Bolesław Krzywousty. In 1310 the Teutonic Order acquired the region of Gdańsk Pomerania and Otto von Luttenberg, Komtur of Culm, founded the settlement in 1325. It was known under the names ''Nuwenmarkt'', ''Novum Forum'' ...
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Newmark Family Of Southern California
The Newmark family of Southern California engaged in commerce, land ownership and land development in Los Angeles County, California, during the 19th Century. Family members included: *Joseph Newmark (1799–1881), who was born in Neumark, West Prussia. He moved to New York in 1823 and there helped found B'nai Jeshurun. He lived in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1840 to 1845 and was president of a temple there. He, his wife, Rosa, and six children moved to Los Angeles, California in 1854, where, as a certified '' shochet'', he conducted religious services, weddings and funerals for the Jewish community until they could obtain a professional rabbi. In 1855 he founded the Hebrew Benefit Society, and in 1862 was the founding president of Congregation B'nai B'rith (today's Wilshire Boulevard Temple). He was an officer of Los Angeles' first Masonic lodge. * Harris Newmark (1834–1916), Joseph's nephew, who arrived in Los Angeles in 1853 and opened several enterprises, including a wholesal ...
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Abram Wolf Edelman
Abram Wolf Edelman (a.k.a. Abraham Edelman) (1832-1907) was a Polish-born American rabbi. He was the first rabbi in Los Angeles, California,Samuel D. GruberRestoring a Landmark Synagogue: If You Rebuild It, Will They Come? ''The Jewish Daily Forward'', June 10, 2005 serving as the first rabbi of Congregation B'nai B'rith, from 1862 to 1885. It is now known as the Wilshire Boulevard Temple. Early life Abram Wolf Edelman was born on August 17, 1832, in Kutno, Poland. He had a classic Jewish education.Norton B. Stern and Wiliam M. Kramer, 'Rabbi Abraham Wolf Edelman: Jewish padre to the Pueblo (serving 1862-1885)', ''Western States Jewish History'', v. 38, no. 3/4, p. 235-249 (spring/summer 2006) He was also the cantor. According to Harris Newmark, another pioneer of the Newmark family, Edelman later resigned because he was an Orthodox rabbi and the congregation was slowly becoming Reform. But his services were not ''stricto sensu'' Orthodox. They included "mixed seating, a mixed choi ...
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Joseph Brandenstein
Joseph Brandenstein (1826–1910) was a German-born American businessman and philanthropist. Biography Brandenstein was born to a Jewish family in 1826 in Hümme, Germany. In 1850, he immigrated to California and settled in Placerville, California. He first tried his luck at mining for gold but failed. In 1852, he moved to San Francisco where he partnered with Joseph P. Newmark and founded a dry goods store. In 1854, Newmark moved to Los Angeles and Brandenstein then partnered with brothers Albert and Moses Rosenbaum and founded a wholesale leaf tobacco and cigar business. Their company stocked large amounts of tobacco and during the American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states th ... benefited greatly when shortages developed. He retired in 1880. Brandenstein ...
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San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of California cities by population, fourth most populous in California and List of United States cities by population, 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of , at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the County statistics of the United States, fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $160,749) and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include ''SF'', ''San Fran'', ''The '', ''Frisco'', and '' ...
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Missouri
Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas to the south and Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska to the west. In the south are the Ozarks, a forested highland, providing timber, minerals, and recreation. The Missouri River, after which the state is named, flows through the center into the Mississippi River, which makes up the eastern border. With more than six million residents, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 19th-most populous state of the country. The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City, Springfield, Missouri, Springfield and Columbia, Missouri, Columbia; the Capital city, capital is Jefferson City, Missouri, Jefferson City. Humans have inhabited w ...
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Manhattan
Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York. Located near the southern tip of New York State, Manhattan is based in the Eastern Time Zone and constitutes both the geographical and demographic center of the Northeast megalopolis and the urban core of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass. Over 58 million people live within 250 miles of Manhattan, which serves as New York City’s economic and administrative center, cultural identifier, and the city’s historical birthplace. Manhattan has been described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world, is considered a safe haven for global real estate investors, and hosts the United Nations headquarters. New York City is the headquarters of ...
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New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ...
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The Los Angeles Herald-Express
The ''Los Angeles Herald-Express'' was one of Los Angeles' oldest newspapers, formed after a combination of the ''Los Angeles Herald'' and the '' Los Angeles Express''. After a 1962 combination with Hearst Corporation's ''Los Angeles Examiner'', the paper became the ''Los Angeles Herald-Examiner'' folding on November 2, 1989. History ''Los Angeles Express'' The ''Los Angeles Express'' was Los Angeles's oldest newspaper published under its original name until it combined with the ''Herald''. It was established on March 27, 1871 ''Los Angeles Herald'' Established in 1873, the ''Los Angeles Herald'' or the ''Evening Herald'' represented the largely Democratic views of the city and focused primarily on issues local to Los Angeles and Southern California. The ''Los Angeles Daily Herald'' was first published on October 2, 1873, by Charles A. Storke. It was the first newspaper in Southern California to use the innovative steam press; the newspaper's offices at 125 South Broadway we ...
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Jewish Museum Of The American West
The Jewish Museum of the American West is an online museum sponsored by the Western States Jewish History Association dedicated to telling the stories of the participation of Jews in the development of the American West The Western United States (also called the American West, the Far West, and the West) is the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States. As American settlement in the U.S. expanded westward, the meaning of the term ''the Wes ... and why they were so successful. It was established in 2013 by Gladys Sturman and David W. Epstein of the Western States Jewish History Association as a continuation of its journal published from 1968 to 2018. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Jewish Museum of the American West Jewish-American history Jewish history organizations Jewish museums in the United States Museums established in 2013 2013 establishments in the United States Virtual museums ...
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Jewish Virtual Library
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah. Jewish ethnicity, nationhood, and religion are strongly interrelated, "Historically, the religious and ethnic dimensions of Jewish identity have been closely interwoven. In fact, so closely bound are they, that the traditional Jewish lexicon hardly distinguishes between the two concepts. Jewish religious practice, by definition, was observed exclusively by the Jewish people, and notions of Jewish peoplehood, nation, and community were suffused with faith in the Jewish God, the practice of Jewish (religious) l ...
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Synagogue
A synagogue, ', 'house of assembly', or ', "house of prayer"; Yiddish: ''shul'', Ladino: or ' (from synagogue); or ', "community". sometimes referred to as shul, and interchangeably used with the word temple, is a Jewish house of worship. Synagogues have a place for prayer (the main sanctuary and sometimes smaller chapels), where Jews attend religious Services or special ceremonies (including Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs or Bat Mitzvahs, Confirmations, choir performances, or even children's plays), have rooms for study, social hall(s), administrative and charitable offices, classrooms for religious school and Hebrew school, sometimes Jewish preschools, and often have many places to sit and congregate; display commemorative, historic, or modern artwork throughout; and sometimes have items of some Jewish historical significance or history about the Synagogue itself, on display. Synagogues are consecrated spaces used for the purpose of Jewish prayer, study, assembly, and r ...
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