I was going to attempt to share the history of some Bay Area Israelite families, but this article is better by leaps and bounds, way better and if you know anything about ***ish traditions it is also hillarious.
This article mentions llevi strauss, bank of america, and many other names we all now know.
article starts here.. funny stuff, at least for me. it is almost christmas, so you christains can cut me some slack, peace on earth, good will towards men. etc.
------------
Keeping the Faith
[whitespace] postcard
From a turn of the century postcard.
Early Santa Clara Valley residents welcomed a devoted community of ***s--even publicly lynched two murderers of a ***ish youth on its behalf.
My input, the Hart family
More than a century later, their descendents lost all traces of their ***ish heritage. Is it possible that life here--with assimilation and intermarriage--has been too good?
By Dan Pulcrano
Z's notes. The Guadalupe river kept over flowing and the capital was moved to Sacramento.
The '49 Gold Rush quadrupled San Jose's population, and the city of 4,000 rode high through its short-lived glory as California's capital. As legislators toasted the state's impending admission to the union with a thousand drinks, Leopold Hart, a Frenchman from Alsace-Lorraine, boarded a transatlantic steamship to join his half-brother, Lazard Lion, on the new frontier.
The two businessmen were among the early members of the city's tiny ***ish community, which by 1860 numbered 50 and had secured a 10-acre cemetery plot. The following year, 10 men organized a Hebrew society to bury the dead, comfort the ailing and pass ***ish traditions on to the young. They declared 50-cent-a-month dues and named it Bickur Cholim, after the ***ish mitzvah of visiting the sick.
Z's notes
A mtizvah a commandment, not a suggestion. commandment.
a good deed done from religious duty.
------
By all accounts, the Israelites, as they were called, were well accepted and quickly became anchors of the city's early civic and commercial life. Lion headed San Jose's Bank of Italy, which grew into the Bank of America; Hart founded what became the largest department store between San Francisco and Los Angeles. For close to a century, Hart's was the retail giant of downtown San Jose, which at the time was the region's unrivaled commerce hub.
While their names may carry less cachet than the Levis and the Strausses, the Steinharts, the Haases and the Sterns in the city to the north, whose legacies are enshrined in the Issac Stern Grove in Golden Gate Park, the SF Museum of Modern Art, the SF Public Library and the Steinhart Aquarium, the South Bay community, equally public-spirited but less highbrow, contributed such enduring enterprises as Kragen Auto Parts, Midas Mufflers, A. Hirsch & Son ***elers and the Markovits and Fox metal recycling concern. Today, such Silicon Valley superstars as Intel, Hewlett-Packard, 3Com, Oracle and Applied Materials are run, respectively, by Andrew Grove, Lewis Platt, Eric Benhamou, Larry Ellison and Dan Maydan, members of the same small, ancient tribe.
Z speaks, the above companies have hired me to do crap work, and I maybe could have been better off svcking azz.. it is not me.. I can't.. In the Temple, we are all supposed to be equal in the presence of God, but these rich guys, have very subtle ways of showing off. Tefillin (sometimes called phylacteries) are cubic black leather boxes with leather straps that Orthodox ***ish men wear on their head and their arm during weekday morning prayer. Observant ***s consider wearing tefillin to be a very great mitzvah (command).Jun 23, 2009
I buy normal regular sized box, they buy shoe box sized to show they got money. Azz holes.
Some helped revitalize downtown San Jose after its decline, building the Fairmont Hotel and Park Center Plaza as well as cultural institutions such as the San Jose Symphony (conductors George Cleve and Leonid Grin). Others have been active in law and government. San Jose Mayor Susan Hammer, while not born ***ish, attends religious services from time to time with husband Phil, a past president of Temple Emanuel, formerly Bickur Cholim.
Rabbi Iser Freund
Rabbi Freund celebrated ***ish traditions with San Jose's future first husband, Phil Hammer, on the right.
When the community erected its first synagogue in 1870, gentiles ponied up as well, an irony not lost on the French, who wrote in Paris' Archives Israelites: "Showing the peculiarity of Christians and ***s in America, a society composed essentially of non-Israelites wanted to contribute 2,000 francs ($400) for the construction of a new temple."
Z says, I did not know the above, but I do not doubt the gullibility of decent honky people. good people who Christians.
The community dedicated a temple that August at S. Third and San Antonio streets. Families as far away as San Francisco and San Juan Bautista traveled by wagon to attend services in the $5,000 building that the local press had promised would be "highly ornamented and really beautiful."
i would encourage anyone to visit the Missions in California, Mission San Jose, and San Juan Bautista are beautiful but not as beautiful as san juan capistrano, where the spanish made native americans build a spot which the king of spain
With doors open, Bickur Cholim hired its first rabbi for $100 a month. 1. Little is known about Rabbi Henry Lowenthal, except that he didn't work out and was discharged a year later for "misconduct in office and violation of contracts." After an interim replacement, the congregation hired its first ordained rabbi in 1873. The board was more cautious this time. They hired Myer Sol Levy on a month-to-month basis after motions for year-long and half-year contracts failed to clear the board.
In May 1874, 10 teenage girls dressed in white with flower sprigs in their hair marched into Bickur Cholim's pulpit to be confirmed. Six months later, 13-year-old Jesse Levy became the congregation's first Bar Mitzvah.
1. I heard he was ****ing all the young chicks and maybe touched a few boys. Sources.. *** word of mouth. could be a lie, so I can't say for sure.
I know it might be tough to keep up, because I do not know how to tell an epic tale of many families, the founding of a state Alta California, or Baja California, too many stories going on at the same time, each very significant to the families who did wrong to so many native peoples, started a war with Mexico, to take Atzlan.
If you are curious about learning read the article. it has it all. Also, if you want more info, you can look up guys like Zorro, maybe Joaquin Murrieta, maybe not.
If I were Chinese, I could probably tell you how the Chinese built the rail roads, and got little to know credit. If I was Irish, I could tell you how Irish people kept Catholic and gangster no matter who was in power. if I was italian, I could tell you where to get the best pizza in the city. If I was portuges, I could tell you who the best bakers are in my hood in san jose. if I was vietnames, the best noodles in down town san jose..
San Jose is a city in flux, changing too fast for me to keep up. I put down my seed, and it is sprouted.
Put down yours. I just got lucky I was born where the action is. that is all.
This article mentions llevi strauss, bank of america, and many other names we all now know.
article starts here.. funny stuff, at least for me. it is almost christmas, so you christains can cut me some slack, peace on earth, good will towards men. etc.
------------
Keeping the Faith
[whitespace] postcard
From a turn of the century postcard.
Early Santa Clara Valley residents welcomed a devoted community of ***s--even publicly lynched two murderers of a ***ish youth on its behalf.
My input, the Hart family
More than a century later, their descendents lost all traces of their ***ish heritage. Is it possible that life here--with assimilation and intermarriage--has been too good?
By Dan Pulcrano
Z's notes. The Guadalupe river kept over flowing and the capital was moved to Sacramento.
The '49 Gold Rush quadrupled San Jose's population, and the city of 4,000 rode high through its short-lived glory as California's capital. As legislators toasted the state's impending admission to the union with a thousand drinks, Leopold Hart, a Frenchman from Alsace-Lorraine, boarded a transatlantic steamship to join his half-brother, Lazard Lion, on the new frontier.
The two businessmen were among the early members of the city's tiny ***ish community, which by 1860 numbered 50 and had secured a 10-acre cemetery plot. The following year, 10 men organized a Hebrew society to bury the dead, comfort the ailing and pass ***ish traditions on to the young. They declared 50-cent-a-month dues and named it Bickur Cholim, after the ***ish mitzvah of visiting the sick.
Z's notes
A mtizvah a commandment, not a suggestion. commandment.
a good deed done from religious duty.
------
By all accounts, the Israelites, as they were called, were well accepted and quickly became anchors of the city's early civic and commercial life. Lion headed San Jose's Bank of Italy, which grew into the Bank of America; Hart founded what became the largest department store between San Francisco and Los Angeles. For close to a century, Hart's was the retail giant of downtown San Jose, which at the time was the region's unrivaled commerce hub.
While their names may carry less cachet than the Levis and the Strausses, the Steinharts, the Haases and the Sterns in the city to the north, whose legacies are enshrined in the Issac Stern Grove in Golden Gate Park, the SF Museum of Modern Art, the SF Public Library and the Steinhart Aquarium, the South Bay community, equally public-spirited but less highbrow, contributed such enduring enterprises as Kragen Auto Parts, Midas Mufflers, A. Hirsch & Son ***elers and the Markovits and Fox metal recycling concern. Today, such Silicon Valley superstars as Intel, Hewlett-Packard, 3Com, Oracle and Applied Materials are run, respectively, by Andrew Grove, Lewis Platt, Eric Benhamou, Larry Ellison and Dan Maydan, members of the same small, ancient tribe.
Z speaks, the above companies have hired me to do crap work, and I maybe could have been better off svcking azz.. it is not me.. I can't.. In the Temple, we are all supposed to be equal in the presence of God, but these rich guys, have very subtle ways of showing off. Tefillin (sometimes called phylacteries) are cubic black leather boxes with leather straps that Orthodox ***ish men wear on their head and their arm during weekday morning prayer. Observant ***s consider wearing tefillin to be a very great mitzvah (command).Jun 23, 2009
I buy normal regular sized box, they buy shoe box sized to show they got money. Azz holes.
Some helped revitalize downtown San Jose after its decline, building the Fairmont Hotel and Park Center Plaza as well as cultural institutions such as the San Jose Symphony (conductors George Cleve and Leonid Grin). Others have been active in law and government. San Jose Mayor Susan Hammer, while not born ***ish, attends religious services from time to time with husband Phil, a past president of Temple Emanuel, formerly Bickur Cholim.
Rabbi Iser Freund
Rabbi Freund celebrated ***ish traditions with San Jose's future first husband, Phil Hammer, on the right.
When the community erected its first synagogue in 1870, gentiles ponied up as well, an irony not lost on the French, who wrote in Paris' Archives Israelites: "Showing the peculiarity of Christians and ***s in America, a society composed essentially of non-Israelites wanted to contribute 2,000 francs ($400) for the construction of a new temple."
Z says, I did not know the above, but I do not doubt the gullibility of decent honky people. good people who Christians.
The community dedicated a temple that August at S. Third and San Antonio streets. Families as far away as San Francisco and San Juan Bautista traveled by wagon to attend services in the $5,000 building that the local press had promised would be "highly ornamented and really beautiful."
i would encourage anyone to visit the Missions in California, Mission San Jose, and San Juan Bautista are beautiful but not as beautiful as san juan capistrano, where the spanish made native americans build a spot which the king of spain
With doors open, Bickur Cholim hired its first rabbi for $100 a month. 1. Little is known about Rabbi Henry Lowenthal, except that he didn't work out and was discharged a year later for "misconduct in office and violation of contracts." After an interim replacement, the congregation hired its first ordained rabbi in 1873. The board was more cautious this time. They hired Myer Sol Levy on a month-to-month basis after motions for year-long and half-year contracts failed to clear the board.
In May 1874, 10 teenage girls dressed in white with flower sprigs in their hair marched into Bickur Cholim's pulpit to be confirmed. Six months later, 13-year-old Jesse Levy became the congregation's first Bar Mitzvah.
1. I heard he was ****ing all the young chicks and maybe touched a few boys. Sources.. *** word of mouth. could be a lie, so I can't say for sure.
I know it might be tough to keep up, because I do not know how to tell an epic tale of many families, the founding of a state Alta California, or Baja California, too many stories going on at the same time, each very significant to the families who did wrong to so many native peoples, started a war with Mexico, to take Atzlan.
If you are curious about learning read the article. it has it all. Also, if you want more info, you can look up guys like Zorro, maybe Joaquin Murrieta, maybe not.
If I were Chinese, I could probably tell you how the Chinese built the rail roads, and got little to know credit. If I was Irish, I could tell you how Irish people kept Catholic and gangster no matter who was in power. if I was italian, I could tell you where to get the best pizza in the city. If I was portuges, I could tell you who the best bakers are in my hood in san jose. if I was vietnames, the best noodles in down town san jose..
San Jose is a city in flux, changing too fast for me to keep up. I put down my seed, and it is sprouted.
Put down yours. I just got lucky I was born where the action is. that is all.
Comment