http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/search?docsPerPage%3D100;smode%3Dadvanced;subject%3DUnited%20States%20--%20History%20--%20Civil%20War,%201861-1865%20--%20Jews.;subject-join%3Dexact Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;smode=advanced;subject=United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Jews.;subject-join=exact Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4728.xml Morris E. Meyer was a German Jew born in Hanover, Germany, in 1812. He emigrated to the United States, settled in Charleston, South Carolina, and became a citizen in 1844. He married Sarah Gertrude Oppenheim, a fourth generation member of a South Carolina Jewish-American family. About 1863 they moved to Camden, South Carolina, where he established himself as a merchant in the cotton trade, and was himself a slaveholder. During General William T. Sherman's sweep through Camden in 1865, Meyer lost his entire store of cotton and many household goods. After the Civil War, Meyer moved to New York City, where he engaged in the cotton trade and other ventures. Sometime after 1877, he and his family took up residence in Hanover, Germany, where he died in 1886. The collection consists of business and family records and correspondence, including cotton claims, records of cotton purchases, inventories, a presidential pardon for Meyer following the Civil War, and family passports. Of particular interest are slave transa... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4728.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4660.xml Eleanor Rosenfeld Gerson continued her family's tradition of activism in Jewish and other educational, philanthropic, and social service organizations in Cleveland, Ohio. She served as a trustee and chairperson of the School on Magnolia, an alternative school, from 1973-1982. In 1985 the school was renamed the Eleanor Gerson School. Other organizations she was active in included the American Civil Liberties Union of Greater Cleveland, the Women's Community Foundation, the Jewish Family Service Association, the Jewish Community Federation, Mount Sinai Hospital, the Free Clinic of Greater Cleveland, the Heights Area Project, and the Cleveland Scholarship Program. Eleanor Rosenfeld married Benjamin Gerson in 1937, and had four children. She was the great-granddaughter of Edward Lazarus and Henrietta Wilmersdorfer Rosenfeld, who had immigrated to New York City from Uhlfeld, Germany in the mid-nineteenth century. Their son, Louis Rosenfeld, married Frederica Fatman, daughter of Joseph Fatman, in 1874. Joseph Fatma... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4660.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT