Jacob Rosewald Values Codes I – H – E – L – P Jacob Rosewald was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1841, to Bavarian Jewish immigrants, Judah and Bertha Rosewald. From childhood, Jacob displayed a passion for music. Despite his father’s staunch orthodoxy, Jacob was allowed to
Read more →The Gumps Family Values Codes I – H – E – L -P Solomon Gump Solomon Gump was born in 1833 in Heidelberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. His father was a textile manufacturer. Although the family was from Germany, research points to them being of Sephardic origin. In 1850,
Read more →Flora Jacobi Arnstein Values Codes I – E – L Flora Jacobi was born in San Francisco in 1885 to a distinguished pioneer family. Her uncle, Max J. Brandenstein, established the MJB Coffee Company with his brothers Mannie, Charlie, and Eddie. (The company’s acronym was chosen to minimize
Read more →Oscar Weil Values Codes H – E – L – P Oscar Weil was born to German-Jewish immigrant parents in Columbia County, New York, in 1839. At age eighteen, Weil left New York to pursue musical training at the Conservatory of Leipzig. Violin was his primary
Read more →Cantor Alexander Weisler Values Codes H – E – L Little has been preserved about the life of Cantor Alexander Weisler. He was a pupil of Cantor Salomon Sulzer, the “father of the modern cantorate” who taught at the Vienna Conservatory in the late 1840s. This suggests
Read more →Julie Eichberg Rosewald Values Codes I – E – L – P Julie Eichberg was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1847. Her father, Moritz Eichberg, was a cantor in the city and, along with his wife Eleanor, raised a musically talented family. Julie’s vocal abilities were
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