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Daniel Block: Helped to Merge the First Three Synagogues into B’nai El Congregation of St. Louis

Daniel Block Values Codes: I-H-E-L   Daniel Block was born in Osek, Bohemia (today’s Czech Republic), in 1802, according to current family information.   St. Louis, Missouri Daniel Block arrived in the United States in 1842, and settled in St. Louis in 1848. In the Census of

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Rosa Fassel Sonneschein: Early Zionist & Newspaper Publisher

Rosa Fassel Sonneschein Values Codes I – H – E – L   Rosa Fassel was born in Hungary in 1847, the youngest of nine children of Rabbi Hirsch-Baer Fassel, a Talmudic scholar. After her marriage in 1864, she and her husband, Rabbi Solomon Sonneschein, and family moved

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Some of the Early Jewish Pioneers of St. Louis, Missouri, 1840’s-1850’s

Some of the Early Jewish Pioneers of St. Louis, Missouri, 1840’s-185’s Values Codes I – E – L Adolph Klauber Adolph Klauber was born in Bohemia in 1816. In 1840, at the age of 24, he established an iron and metal manufacturing company in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Meyer Friede: Early Jewish Pioneer of St. Louis & First Jewish Legislator of Missouri

Meyer Friede Values Codes I – E – L   Meyer Friede was born in 1821, in Kassel, Germany. In 1838, Friede journeyed to America, at the age of 17.   St. Louis In 1844, Meyer Friede settled in St. Louis, Missouri, where his sister, Mariana, lived with her

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Dr. Simon Pollak: Early Jewish Pioneer Doctor of St. Louis, Missouri, 1840’s+

Dr. Simon Pollak Values Codes I – E – L – P   Simon Pollak was born in 1814, in Tauss, Bohemia. Pollak was educated in the classics at the University of Vienna. In 1835, he earned his medical degree, at the age of 21.   Along the

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Louis Bauman: Early Jewish Pioneer Jeweler of St. Louis, Missouri, 1840’s

Louis Bauman Values Codes I – E – L   Louis Bauman was born in 1812, in Hessdorf, Bavaria.   Along the way . . . . As a 26 year old watchmaker, Louis Bauman journeyed to America in 1838. In New York City, he entered the jewelry trade.

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