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History of the Jews in Omaha, Nebraska

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35:, has made significant cultural, economic and social contributions to the city. The first Jewish settlers came to the city shortly after it was founded in 1856. The most numerous Jewish immigrants were from eastern Europe and the Russian Empire. They arrived in four waves of immigration to the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Immigrants were active in working class and socialist politics, especially during the 1920s and 1930s. Others established themselves as merchants and businessmen in the city. The Jewish community supported philanthropy and created important cultural and charitable institutions. Born to socialist parents in Omaha, renowned Jewish feminist author 210:, many of whom were first-generation immigrants who had fled religious persecution in the Russian Empire (including Ukraine). In 1929 a Conservative congregation began holding services at the Jewish Community Center on 20th and Dodge Streets. Beth El bought land for its cemetery in 1927. In 1935 the group named itself the Beth El Congregation. During Hanukkah in 1941, they dedicated a new synagogue facing 49th Avenue at Farnam Street. After fifty years of almost continuous growth, Beth El dedicated a new synagogue in 1991 at 14506 California Street in 2318: 2206: 1541: 2523: 1818: 1528: 202:
was founded two years after the country club, in 1926. The JCC moved to its present location at 333 South 132nd Street in 1973. The original JCC was the site of important labor organizing in the city, and has continued to serve as an important center for financial support in Omaha's Jewish community
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In 1911 a conversion held in Omaha provoked controversy in the Jewish world. Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Grodzenski, Omaha's Orthodox rabbi, published in the HaMassaf magazine that one butcher who lived in his city converted a girl for marriage to a Jewish guy, assuring her that after the conversion she would
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and packinghouses. She was much influenced by her parents' Jewish socialist community in North Omaha, and was an activist all her life. Later Olsen began to publish her writings (after her move to California). She became an influential feminist author and served as writer-in-residence at several
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was opened by Brandeis, a notable member of Omaha's Jewish community, in 1906. Wise Memorial Hospital, named in honor of Rabbi Joseph M. Wise, was located at 406 South 24th Street on a lot donated by Brandeis's wife. Built in 1912 for $ 125,000, between 1912 and 1917 the hospital treated more than
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was one of the few non-Jewish members at Highland. He joined the club in 1968 to promote anti-discrimination. The Highland Country Club at Pacific and 132nd Streets was renamed Iron Wood in 2000. It no longer specifies Jewish-only membership, just as most other country clubs no longer exclude
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after their businesses were targeted and destroyed in urban riots. Most Jewish residents had already gradually moved to West Omaha and other neighborhoods. In 1968, there were 7,000 Jews living in Omaha. By the second decade of the 21st century the Jewish population was approximately 6,000.
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Jewish businessmen created much of the commercial development in the Near North Side, especially the important North 24th Street corridor. After helping establish the prominence of the area before World War I, many Jewish merchants maintained their businesses even after the neighborhood was
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The Jewish Press began publication in 1920; it is still being published, and Omaha has the distinction of being the smallest community in the United States that is able to produce a weekly Jewish publication. In 1924 Omaha's Jewish community celebrated opening its own exclusive
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not have to keep any commandments at all. Rabbi Grodzensky ruled that the conversion was null and void. Rabbi Yechezkel Benat agreed that such conversions should not be made in the first place, but stated that the conversion is valid in any situation.
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Today there are many Jewish families who have lived in Omaha for four generations. These families have followed the expansion of the city to the west, with the center of their residential areas and synagogues having moved from
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worked to create strong congregations. In January 1871, Temple Israel was founded as the first Jewish congregation in Nebraska. Immediately afterwards, the congregation formed a burial society and established the
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neighborhood, along with B'nai Jacob, a Conservative congregation. As generations of congregants passed on or moved out of the neighborhood, both congregations closed. Their cemeteries are next to that of
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since the 1980s. Historically Omaha served as a point of migration for Jewish Americans who moved on to other cities. Today people from across the country can recall Omaha in their family histories.
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was enforced against the Jews of Kiev, which led many to migrate from the Ukraine to the United States. Omaha became home to hundreds, as they settled in the older neighborhoods of the city.
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in the 1920s. Housing discrimination forced African-American residents to stay in the community, but especially after World War II, many descendants of other ethnicities
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In 1884 the congregation dedicated the first synagogue in Omaha at 23rd and Harney Streets. Later in the century Eastern European Jews immigrated to the city. In 1886, an
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Located at 1502 N. 52nd St. in 1952. B'nai Israel founded Pleasant Hill Cemetery at 6412 North 42nd Street in 1872. In 1889, B’nai Israel became Temple Israel.
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1,000 patients. In 1930 the institution closed. The Louis Epstein family opened the first motion picture house between Chicago and Denver in 1911.
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to the western suburbs of Omaha to live in newer housing. Such suburban development was typical around growing cities in the postwar years.
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In 1856, the first Jewish settlers, mostly merchants and businessmen, arrived in Omaha. From the beginning, leaders of
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Franklin was active in work outside the Omaha congregation. He established a Reform congregation, B'nai Yeshurun, in
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By 1890 the federal census recorded 1,035 Jews in Omaha. In 1892, Temple Israel invited the newly ordained Rabbi
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AKA "The Kapulier Shul", incorporated at 19th and Beast St., then 24th and Nicholas, and then 3028 Cuming St.
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worked when she was young in the meatpacking plants and helped organize unions. The Jewish youth organization
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A Hungarian synagogue originally located at 1111 N. 24th St., 25th and Seward, then 6412 N. 42nd St.
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Services held at the Jewish Community Center at 20th and Dodge, located at 49th and Farnam in 1952
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12th and Capitol| Russian; also known as "The Kippler Shul"; moved to 18th and Chicago in 1910.
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was a worker and labor organizer in the 1930s in the meatpacking industry, helping organize the
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service was held in 1872, and the congregation was incorporated with the city of Omaha in 1873.
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and served as its editor. His strong stands sometimes stirred controversy. Notable Rabbi
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in Nebraska for the training of religious teachers; served as the editor of the Omaha
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was elected mayor of Omaha and served from 1973 to 1976. After that he was elected
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In the early 20th century, Anshe Sholom was a Hungarian congregation located in the
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By the mid-20th century, Jewish people achieved formal elective office in Omaha.
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in order to provide ritual services to the city's Jewish community. The first
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was a prominent Jewish member in the Omaha community who served in the first
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Images of America: Jewish Life in Omaha and Lincoln; A photographic history.
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suburbs. New Jewish immigrants have come to the city from Russia and
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Located at 1821 North 20th Street, then 1552 N. 19th St. in 1939
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B’nai Israel and Beth Hamedrosh Hagadol merged to form the UOC.
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A Bantam Book ISBN 978-0-553-80509-3 - September 2008, p310
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Religious buildings and structures in Omaha, Nebraska
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Index

Jews
Omaha, Nebraska
Jewish
Omaha, Nebraska
Tillie Olsen
Aleph Zadik Aleph
Downtown Omaha
Near North Side
West Omaha
Eastern Europe
Orthodox Judaism
Reform Judaism
Pleasant Hill Cemetery
confirmation
Edict of Expulsion
Leo M. Franklin
Hebrew Union College
Union Prayer Book
Central Conference of American Rabbis
William Jennings Bryan
Lincoln, Nebraska
normal school
Humane Society
Sioux City, Iowa
Detroit
Michigan
Temple Beth El
Near North Side
Temple Israel on Pleasant Hill
J. L. Brandeis and Sons Store Building

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