Miami Museum Unveils Rich Slice of Jewish Life

From: Forward | Date: March 24, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Jeanne Dequine
Forward
03-24-1995
Miami Museum Unveils Rich Slice of Jewish Life.

MIAMI -- The year is 1854. A New York Jewish agency resettles two brothers from Kiev in Fernandina Beach, a small town on the northeast Florida coast. Their jobs: to work in an oyster factory. An unusual place for observant Jews, perhaps, but these are unusual times. A few miles up the coast, eight Jewish men seeking a minyan hear of the brothers. They send for them, and the minyan is now complete. One man becomes the state's largest cattleman and names his ranch "Bar Mitzvah."

The year is 1912. An Orthodox ...

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