1media/OJM03243w.jpg2016-08-18T13:57:26-07:00Jane Nichols0fc6878c16f733adeaf1e1a782f4809337808754105448Composition of a Communityimage_header3164052017-05-24T12:52:33-07:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29In popular memory, the Portland Jewish community of the early to mid twentieth century was divided by ethnicity. On the one hand, Reform Temple Beth Israel was where “all Jews established at that time” affiliated, according to Adelaide Lowenson Selling. In her account, that “established” group was defined as much by national origin as by class: “As far as I can recall there were no Russian, Lithuanians, they were all German Jews.” Likewise, Fannie Kenin Friedman, daughter of East European immigrants, remembered that, although she attended the temple’s Sunday school, she was definitely regarded as coming “from the wrong side of the tracks,” due to her ethnic and class background.” Miriam Aiken, Who came of age in the Beth Israel community in the 1910s, noted that potential suitors “were not supposed to be any other than a German background,” and that when East Europeans did begin to join Beth Israel, they were welcomed “maybe with one arm, but not with both.” - Ellen Eisenberg
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12017-02-02T13:50:54-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Billy Hasson at the Mayo & Hasson Fruit Stand in SW Portland3Billy Hasson holding up a bunch of grapes at the family fruit stand in Yamhill Market.media/OJM03243w.jpgplain2017-04-26T12:32:56-07:00n.d.Jewish Businesses Collection, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T13:54:27-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Nessim Menashe in front of his shoe store5Born on the Isle of Rhodes in 1887, Nessim Menashe came to Portland in 1909. By 1914, he had established a shoe repair shop in Northwest Portland, which he operated until 1921media/OJM03274w.jpgplain2017-05-03T12:14:19-07:001914-1921Jewish Businesses Collection, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T13:56:40-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Policar family celebrating Sukkot3Extended Policar family around a table.media/OJM06603w.jpgplain2017-04-26T12:36:24-07:001910Congregation Ahavath Achim Collection, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
