Oregon Jewish Pioneers

Passover Matzos Advertisement in Portland, Oregon Newspaper, 1916

Pacific Coast Biscuit Co.   Times do change! This advertisement appeared in a Jewish newspaper on March 31, 1916. The back of the advertisement lists the first 4 months of the Jewish Calendar of 5677. According to the Portland, Oregon-based Pacific Coast Biscuit Co., the swastika “meant brightness and prosperity” to

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Sigmund Aron Heilner & Family: Pioneer Jewish Merchants of Oregon

Sigmund Aron Heilner Value Codes  I – E – L – P   Sigmund Aron Heilner was born in 1834 in Urspringen, Bavaria, Germany. Heilner came to United States in 1853.   Along the way . . .  After two years in New York and Washington, D.C.,

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Some Early Jewish Pioneers of Oregon

Some Early Oregon Jewish Pioneers   1850 to 1860 The California Gold Rush spurred much of the Jewish movement from the East Coast, Midwest, and California to Oregon. Jewish merchants moved west to profit from storekeeping in mining towns. When one gold camp or town dried up,

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Louis Fleischner: Early Jewish Pioneer Merchant and Community Leader of Portland, Oregon

Louis Fleischner Value Codes  I – E – L – P   Louis Fleischner was born in 1827 in Vogelgesang, Bohemia, now Czechoslovakia. Fleischner arrived in New York  at 15 years of age.   Along the way . . . Louis Fleischner first went to Philadelphia, where

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