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Tag: Los Angeles Jewish history

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“Let Us Then Continue to Burn the Merry Hanukkah Lights”: The Celebration of Hanukkah in Los Angeles, 1885-1900, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 14, 2025
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  • Biographies

“The Outstanding Jewish Leader in the City”: Some History of Henry Wartenberg of Los Angeles, 1857-1879, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 4, 2025December 3, 2025
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“There Will Come a Day When Society Will Make Precisely the Same Loving Provision for the Superannuated”: Some History of the Hebrew Sheltering and Home for the Aged, Boyle Heights, 1914-1931, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 30, 2024August 31, 2024
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“I Had Much Evidence to Show That the Jews of That Time and Locality Had Contributed to Suspicions Against and a Run on the Temple and Workman Bank”: Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from J. Perry Worden to Thomas W. Temple II, 12 May 1929

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 31, 2024
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Fits the Bill: A Receipt from H. Newmark & Co. to William Workman, 11 July 1866

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 11, 2022
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Milton Kauffman, Temple Estate Business Manager and Housing Mogul

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 9, 2017December 28, 2020
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