Iowa

Arthur Rothstein Iowa Photographs

Arthur Rothstein Iowa Photographs   Arthur Rothstein made some of the most significant documentary photographs ever taken of rural and small-town America. These images were created during his years traveling throughout the nation on assignment for the US Farm Security Administration, one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New

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Early Jewish Iowa Officeholders

Early Jewish Iowa Officeholders   Mayors   John Hornstein (1847-1907), Boone, 1893-1895.   David Heinsheimer (1847-1914), Glenwood, 1894; he was also elected city councilman in 1903-1905.   City council Members   Marx Block (1814-1881), Muscatine, 1853-1855, 1880-1881.   Solomon Herschler (1818-1860), Burlington, 1856-1858.   Samuel Hirschl (1810-98),

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Jacob Epstein: Winning More 19th-Century Elections than Any Other Iowa Jew

Jacob Epstein Values Codes I – E    Jacob Epstein (1831-1907) was born in Germany and came to the U.S. in 1850. He lived in New York for a decade before joining the U.S. Army to fight in the Civil War. After the war, Epstein settled in

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David Magee: a Seventeen Year Political Career in Sioux City, Iowa

David McGee Values Codes I – E    David Magee (1849-1927) was born in Pennsylvania and came to Iowa at the age of six with his family. In 1869, he settled in Sioux City to run the town’s grain mill and elevator. Magee converted to Judaism to

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Moses Bloom: Iowa’s Dominant Jewish Politician in the 19th Century

Moses Bloom Values Codes I – E – L    Moses Bloom was born Moise Blum in Westhoffen, Alsace, France in 1832 and headed to America at seventeen.   Along the Way . . .  Bloom immigrated to New York City in 1849, where he briefly worked as a clerk.

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Alexander Levi: Earliest Pioneer Jewish Merchant and Miner of Dubuque, Iowa

Alexander Levi Values Codes I – H – E – L – P   “Jewish history began in Iowa when Alexander Levi settled in Dubuque in 1833.” — Jodi Braverman of Agudas Achim Congregation in Iowa City, Iowa   Alexander Levi was born in France to a

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