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They later opened Joe's Stone Crab Restaurant. The first congregation in Miami Beach was Beth Jacob, which was formed in 1927. The congregation built the first synagogue in 1929 (now the Jewish Museum of Florida.) In 1943, the first of 16 Jewish mayors of Miami Beach, Mitchell Wolfson, was elected to office.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 January 2025. Semitic-speaking Israelites, especially in the pre-monarchic period This article is about the Hebrew people. For the book of the Bible, see Epistle to the Hebrews. For the Semitic language spoken in Israel, see Hebrew language. Judaean prisoners being deported into exile to other parts ...
A map showing the distribution of the descendants of Noah according to the Table of Nations. The descendants of Japheth are shown in red. The descendants of Japheth are shown in red. Japheth (in Hebrew : Yā́p̄eṯ or Yép̄eṯ ) may be a transliteration of the Greek Iapetos , the ancestor of the Hellenic peoples .
The History of the Jewish People The Jewish Agency; The Avalon Project at Yale Law School The Middle East 1916–2001: A Documentary Record; Historical Maps and Atlases at Dinur Center; Crash Course in Jewish History (Aish) The Year by Year History of the Jewish People – by Eli Birnbaum; Ministry of Foreign Affairs. History page; Jewish ...
The museum's core exhibit, MOSAIC: Jewish Life in Florida, began as a traveling exhibit sponsored by the Judaic Studies program at the University of Miami, the Soref Jewish Community Center (Fort Lauderdale), and the Central Agency for Jewish Education, in association with the Florida Department of State and the Florida Endowment for the Humanities, [4] and included an exhibit guidebook. [5]
Rosengarten, Theodore et al eds, A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life (2002) Turitz, Leo E., and Evelyn Turitz, Jews in Early Mississippi. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1995) online. Southern Jewish Historical Society, Various Articles of Southern Jewish History (1998-2020).
[52] [53] [54] Jewish families began moving to Gainesville in the late 1860s. Although a Jewish cemetery was established in 1872, there was no synagogue in Gainesville until 1924. [55] Gainesville was a rough town after the Civil War and into the early 20th century. Whites and blacks commonly carried firearms, and gunshots were often heard at ...
By 1860, Florida had 140,424 people, of whom 44% were enslaved and fewer than 1,000 were free people of color. [ 54 ] : 157 Florida also had one of the highest per capita murder rates prior to the Civil War, thanks to a weakened central government, the institution of slavery, and a troubled political history.