Jews in Minnesota

The earliest arrivals were German Jews who came when the territory was newly created. By the 1880s they were joined by immigrants from eastern Europe. Many settled in small towns or walked the roads as peddlers. Some found homes in the Iron Range towns of Virginia and Hibbing, but the majority lived in the Twin Cities. Gradually, as they clustered in neighborhoods, founded synagogues and community organizations, and sought to create Jewish homes, the two groups merged. A hundred years later, the process was repeated when immigrants from Russia arrived.

Authors Hyman Berman and Linda Mack Schloff discuss such community leaders as activist Fanny Brin, rabbi and newspaper editor Samuel Deinard, and educator Dr. George J. Gordon in the context of local and international challenges to the Jewish community.

Author: Hyman Berman, Linda Mack Schloff
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 05/01/2002
Pages: 102
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.00w x 0.34d
ISBN: 9780873514187

About the Author
Mack Schloff, Linda: - ​ Linda Mack Schloff is director of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest and author of And Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest Since 1855.