Commerce and community : a business history of Jacksonville Jewry

Publication

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Commerce and community : a business history of Jacksonville Jewry

Entry/Object ID

Library.2093

Description

pages [115]-226 : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm Commerce and community : a business history of Jacksonville Jewry by Stephen J. Whitfield "Reprinted from Southern Jewish history, volume 12"--Cover Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-226). The scope of this essay is not the community itself but instead some of the businessmen associated with Jacksonville. It doesn't pretend to encompass religious life. This essay profiles individual businessmen who are attached to Jacksonville, the trajectories of their careers, and the impact they exerted. This account, however, makes no claim whatsoever to comprehensiveness. The focus is limited to those who business success made them the easiest to trace ... author. Selected contents: William Schemer selling fish -- Harry Shapiro planted a bomb at Jewish Center to disrupt Shimon Peres speech -- Morris Dzialynski served as mayor, elected municipal judge, helped run Board of Trade, body lay in state at city hall in 1907 -- Cohen Brothers -- Congregation Ahavath Chesed destroyed in Great Fire of 1901 -- Furchgott's -- Harold Meyereheim -- Frank Rosenblum -- Salim Mizrahi, French Novelty Country Shops, Strawberry Fields -- Ben Friedman, Vogue Shops -- Sam Stein, Jake Stein, Stein Mart, Jay Stein -- Adolph Wurm, son Lonnie Wurn (changed name), lawyer; Ben Setzer, Harold Bloom, Pic N'Save -- Alexander Brest -- Isador & Hugo Grunthal wholesale grocery business -- Hugh S. Glickstein -- Duval Engineering under Brest & Hodges -- Paul & Peter Brest -- Philanthropolist Brest help establish MOSH, to create the Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve, & supported Jacksonville University -- Philip N. Coleman & American Cross-Arm Company

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Jewish businesspeople -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- History., Jewish merchants -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- History., Jews -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- History., Jacksonville (Fla.) -- Commerce., Cohen Brothers Department Store (Jacksonville, Fla)., Congregation Ahavath Chesed (Jacksonville, Fla.) -- History., Brest, Alexander, 1894-1996., Dzialynski, Morris A., 1841-1907., Furchgott's Department Store (Jacksonville, Fla.).

Publication Details

Author

Whitfield, Stephen J., 1942- .

Edition

spiral bound

Publisher

Southern Jewish Historical Society

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Maitland, Fla.

Call No.

F 319 .J1 W475 2009