Paul Meyer was born in St. Louis, Missouri on April 12, 1925 to Abraham and Adele (Rosenfeld) Meyer. Theirs was a politically active and educated family. Adele, born in Harlem, graduated from Hunter College in 1919 with degrees in German and music. She performed opera in synagogues and churches. Abraham immigrated from Russia in 1906 …
Read MoreRabbi Emanuel Rose was born in Jamaica, New York on October 20, 1931, to Abraham and Mary Rose into a family lineage boasting fifteen generations of rabbis. He received his ordination from the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 1957 and served for three years at Congregation Emanuel in Manhattan before moving to Portland, Oregon …
Read MoreSolomon David Menashe was born on November 17, 1925 to David and Joanna Capeloto Menashe. Sol’s father had immigrated from the Isle Rhodes in 1914 and his mother was from Mecina, Turkey. They married in 1924 and opened a soda fountain on the corner of Broadway and Taylor. The family joined the Sephardic synagogue, Ahavath …
Read MoreGarry Kahn was born in San Francisco, California on April 20, 1936, to Wilfred and Mildred (nee Cooper) Kahn as the oldest of three. His sister Judith is a year younger and his brother Rick is nineteen years his younger. Wilfred and Mildred met c. 1934 when Mildred went on a trip to San Francisco …
Read MoreMiriam Esther Monicar Epstein was born October 4, 1942 in New York City, but grew up in a catholic neighborhood in Philadelphia with her parents and two sisters. She was the middle child. She and her sisters’ few Jewish friends were from the synagogue or the golf club outside of town that was started by …
Read MoreErna was born in Poland in 1912, but moved to Vienna with her family when she was a year old. She was the eldest of three daughters. Her parents were Orthodox Jews, and her father owned a kosher restaurant. Erna graduated from medical school in Vienna, and married Alfred, a literature student, in 1935. When …
Read MoreSanford Heilner was born in Baker, Oregon around 1885 to German immigrant parents Sigmund and Clara. They had four children: Joseph, Jess, Mildred and Sanford (he was the youngest). Sanford’s father Sigmund owned a grocery store in Baker. When two of Clara’s cousins – Gerson and Bert Neuberger – joined the family in Oregon, they …
Read MoreMilt Hasson was born in 1920 at St. Vincent Hospital in Northwest Portland. He grew up in South Portland where he attended Shattuck School and Lincoln High School, which he says had a large Jewish student body with some Italian students. He graduated in 1937. He was pre-med at University of Portland, a Catholic School with …
Read MoreRosalie Horenstein Goodman, a native Portlander, was born to Mike and Sadie Horenstein on February 5, 1929. She had a sister, Lorraine Lippoff, who was four years older. Her parents were born in Russia and emigrated to America in 1912, first to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania then to Portland, Oregon to join other family members. Rosalie grew …
Read MorePauline Goldstein was born in 1939 in Hillsboro, Oregon. After she graduated from college, she moved to San Francisco. She met her future husband, Gersham Goldstein, in 1963 in Salem, Oregon. She was in California for two years before she married Gersham, after which the couple moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. She converted to Judaism while in …
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