Jewish People in Minnesota

by Hyman Berman, Linda Mack Schloff

Overview

The earliest arrivals were German Jews who came when the territory was newly created. By the 1880s they were joined by immigrants from eastern Europe. Many settled in small towns or walked the roads as peddlers. Some found homes in the Iron Range towns of Virginia and Hibbing, but the majority lived in the Twin Cities. Gradually, as they clustered in neighborhoods, founded synagogues and community organizations, and sought to create Jewish homes, the two groups merged. A hundred years later, the process was repeated when immigrants from Russia arrived.

Authors Hyman Berman and Linda Mack Schloff discuss such community leaders as activist Fanny Brin, rabbi and newspaper editor Samuel Deinard, and educator Dr. George J. Gordon in the context of local and international challenges to the Jewish community.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780873517386
Publisher:	Minnesota Historical Society Press
Publication date:	07/24/2009
Series:	People of Minnesota
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	102
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Hyman Berman is professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota and co-author of The American Worker in the Twentieth Century: A History through Autobiographies.
Linda Mack Schloff is director of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest and author of "And Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher": Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest Since 1855.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	v
	Jews in Minnesota	1
	The Pioneer Era	3
	City Life	12
	Institutions and Organizations	19
	Politics: Actions and Reactions	40
	Jewish Communities until 1980	52
	Immigration, Identity, and Continuity	58
	Conclusion	68
	Personal Account: An Immigrant's Story	69
	For Further Reading	73
	Notes	75
	Index	87