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The South Side German Historic District is a neighborhood within Quincy, Illinois, United States just south of downtown. The neighborhood includes most of Quincy's rich German architecture. The region is also widely known as "Calftown", named for the number of calves once owned by its inhabitants. [1]
The Mountain Jewish community of Nalchik was the largest Mountain Jewish community occupied by Nazis, [31] and the vast majority of the population has survived. With the help of their Kabardian neighbors, Mountain Jews of Nalchik convinced the local German authorities that they were Tats , the native people similar to other Caucasus Mountain ...
Another early Jewish settler was Cap. Samuel Noah, the first Jewish graduate of West Point, who taught school at Mount Pulaski, Illinois in the late 1840s. As of 2013, Illinois has a Jewish population of 297,935. [1] Approximately three-fourths of them live in Chicago. Peoria and Quincy have the second- and third-largest Jewish communities.
Location of Adams County in Illinois. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Adams County, Illinois.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Adams County, Illinois, United States.
The Quincy East End Historic District is a residential historic district located on the east side of Quincy, Illinois. The district encompasses 493 contributing buildings built from the 1830s to the 1930s, including representative works of nearly every popular American architectural style during the period. The homes in the district were ...
The participants, representatives of the world mountain-Jewish community, international Jewish societies, members of the US Congress and of the American establishment, were presented as a gift the book "Mountain Jews", a fundamental study on the 600 years development of the history and culture of the Mountain Jews. [24] [25]
B’nai Sholom Temple is a former Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Quincy, Illinois, in the United States. Founded as a congregation in 1852, [1] the synagogue building was built in 1870 in the Moorish Revival style. The original 80-foot (24 m) high, twin minaret-style towers were damaged by a tornado in 1947 and not ...
Abraham Jonas. Abraham Jonas (born September 12, 1801, in Exeter, England; died June 8, 1864) was the first permanent Jewish resident in Quincy, Illinois. [1] He was a member of the Illinois and Kentucky state legislatures, a leading lawyer, Freemason, and a valued friend of Abraham Lincoln.