Mt. Zion Hospital & School of Nursing The Mount Zion Hospital Association was organized in 1887. It was not until the beginning of 1897 that Mount Zion Hospital came into existence. During the interim nine-year period, funds were raised, including a donation of $5,000 from Clara de
Read more →Congregation Sherith Israel Stockton Street Following the formation of the first two congregations of San Francisco in early April 1851, Congregation Sherith Israel (Polish) and Congregation Emanu-El (Bavarian & Alsatian), both congregations used rented quarters. Three years later, both congregations erected their own synagogue buildings. Congregation Sherith Israel
Read more →Congregation Emanu-El Congregation Emanu-El and Congregation Sherith Israel of San Francisco were founded as one synagogue in 1851. However, they soon split, and both used rented quarters. In the summer of 1854, both completed their first synagogue buildings. But it was not until 1866, when Congregation
Read more →David Belasco Values Codes H – E – L David Belasco was born in San Francisco in 1853. His parents, Abraham Humphry and Reyna Martin Belasco, were natives of London with roots in Portugal. They had sailed for California, via Panama, and settled in San Francisco
Read more →Samuel W. Levy Values Codes I – E – L – P Samuel W. Levy was born in the town of Haegen, Alsace, France in 1830. He was educated in college at Phalsbourg. In 1848, Samuel Levy came to America, at the age of 18, and peddled sponges in
Read more →Rabbi Julius Eckman Values Codes I-H-E-L Julius Eckman was born in Rawicz in the Polish province of Posen in 1805. Eckman received his education in Germany, then came to America in 1849. He had been a merchant in London for three years prior to coming to the
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