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Stiefel wrote that by the 1970s the exodus of Jews from the City of Detroit to the suburbs had increased from a "trickle" to a "deluge." [5] There were 80,000 Jews living in Metro Detroit in 1976, of a total population of 4,138,800, and in the metro area there were 34 congregations: 23 Orthodox, 6 Conservative, 4 Reform, and one Humanistic. [10]
Part of the company's 1950s [15] and 1960s [16] [17] growth [3] was due to competitions in Jewish schools among classes, competing for prizes for selling the most Barton's products. [18] " Generations of Jewish children sold Barton's candies as fundraisers," [ 19 ] which was in part fueled by Klein's involvement with "philanthropic activities ...
Many Jews were connected with the sale and exploitation of land in Pennsylvania. In 1763, owing to the depredations of the Shawnee and Delaware Indians in Bedford County, twelve traders suffered a loss of £80,000, among whom were David Franks, Levy Andrew Levy, and Joseph Simon. On July 5, 1773, the sale of southern Illinois took place.
In 2011, The Detroit Jewish News Foundation was created to digitally archive over 100 years of news involving Detroit's Jewish Community. Through its William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History, is the Michigan Jewish community’s indispensable source of primary information that educates, illuminates and makes relevant the community’s past, strengthens its present and shapes ...
Pages in category "Jews and Judaism in Detroit" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Germany will take in descendants of citizens denied their rights by the Nazis during the 1930s and ’40s. Some Jewish Americans are tackling the paperwork for more opportunities.
In the 1970s, while director of the American Jewish Archives, Marcus publicly shared the account of Regina Jonas in response to the ordination of Rabbi Sally Priesand in 1972. Marcus informed The American Israelite in July 1973 that the only other known Jewish woman to receive ordination was Regina Jonas of Berlin but that she perished at the ...
An unlikely figure dominated the adult entertainment theater scene in New York City in the 1970s and 80s: a Jewish grandmother who’d fled the Holocaust