![]() But Israel and his wife Lena remained on the farm at least until 1940. Sadly, it burned down in October of 1932. ![]() For a while he too sought the profits of the summer visitors, building a large boarding house named the Sunnyview Hotel. With the help of his sons who all worked in the garment trade he bought a farm near Fleischmanns. Israel was a blacksmith and came from the countryside so that’s where he went. ![]() He wanted to go back to Russia but his memories of the extreme sea sicknesses he had suffered on the way over deterred him. The 14 member Kaplan family lived in a 1 room flat, and Israel worked as a presser in a sweatshop. He arrived in New York in 1910 from what is now Belarus following his sons who had begun to arrive five years earlier. Soon, he had a bakery and then a grocery store.Īnother farmer was B’nai Israel incorporator Israel Kaplan. Reaching the US at age 13 in 1899 we find Max as a paperhanger in Norwich, Conn in 1910 but he wasn’t going to stay a wage earner for long. He donated the land for the cemetery and in 1953 just a year before he died, he donated all the paint for the repainting of the cemetery fence. Silberman’s support for Congregation B’nai Israel continued throughout his life. Max Silberman, one of the original synagogue trustees was also a major businessperson in Fleischmanns. He lived in Fleischmanns for the rest of his life, serving as president of the school board for 13 years, 1930-43. In 1920 he bought the building with the second-story balcony on Main Street in Fleischmanns, opening his next store. Solomon’s store, Main St., Fleischmanns, courtesy The Historical Society of the Town of MiddletownĪnother retailer was B’nai Israel founding member Harry Solomon who had a grocery store in the building with the second story porch in this old photo.īorn in Kiev, Solomon arrived in New York in 1904 at the age of 19 and six years later he already had his own grocery store in Manhattan and by 1914 he was a Democratic County committeeman. Years later they even helped finance the Panama Canal. By the late 1870s, he was a multi-millionaire, his family having made a fortune clothing the Union army. ![]() He arrived in the US in 1837 at the age of 18. How did Fleischmanns become a Jewish village? It all started with Joseph Seligmann, a Jew from Bavaria. But meanwhile here is some history of this community taken from a presentation at Congregation B’nai Israel I made in July 2021 which you can watch aquí. Beginning in the second decade of the 20th Century Eastern European Jewish farmers, storekeepers, and summer visitors also added to the area’s population.ĭid Baron Hirsch assist these farmers or contribute funds for the synagogue the Fleischmanns’ Jewish community built in 1920, Congregation B’nai Israel? The answer will have to wait until I can visit the Baron Hirsch archives in New York sometime this year. These wealthy summer residents drew lots of Jewish entrepreneurs, many of Hungarian origin, who set up stores, hotels, and camps to service this affluent community. Where did early 20th Century Jewish shopkeepers earn so much that they wintered in Paris’ most elegant hotel? In Fleischmanns, a summer home for wealthy German-American Jews, founded in the Western Catskills, in 1883 by Charles Fleischmann of the yeast company fame.
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