Jerry Klinger is the founding president of the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, which has placed monuments and plaques across the United States and in other countries detailing the history of Jewish individuals and communities.
He found ways to obtain U.S. visas for persecuted European Jews By Jerry Klinger BOYNTON BEACH, Florida — On April 26, President Donald Trump declared Holocaust Remembrance Week to culminate with Yom HaShoah, May 1-2. Ebie Wood is the president of the historical society of Pound Ridge, New York. Many months earlier, she and the […]
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By Jerry Klinger ROCKVILLE, Maryland — One can live in a neighborhood and never know the Jewish story that was right in front of them. I lived in Rockville for more than forty years. I never knew the long road ending public school segregation in America began in a Jewish funded public elementary school, the
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I alighted from my pony, and gave him the range of his lariat. I perceived that he preferred a breakfast of fresh grass to the contemplation of the sublime scene around me, to which he seemed totally indifferent. — Solomon Nunes Carvalho, Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West with Col. Fremont’s Last
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By Dave Schechter Atlanta Jewish Times MARIETTA, Georgia — On Roswell Road in Marietta, bordered on one side by a restaurant parking lot and on the other by Interstate 75, is a strip of grass and shrubbery with a sidewalk that leads to two memorials. Leo Frank, a Jew, was lynched on August 17, 1915, in
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By Jerry Klinger BOYNTON BEACH, Florida — Every year, about this time of year, Christmas themed movies are flooding T.V. screens across the country. Ranked #9 out of 100 by the American Film Institute greatest films of all times is the 1947 beloved holiday comedy classic, Miracle on 34th Street. It is a warm feeling
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By Jerry Klinger JERUSALEM — Stephen Norman (Neuman) grew up in a typical Viennese Jewish home. It certainly was not a Zionist household. They were Austrians, not Zionists. His grandfather, famous in some circles, had died years before he was born. To his family, his grandfather was a failure. Yet, his parents honored the grandfather.
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Middle EastBy Jerry Klinger BOYNTON BEACH, Florida — It was a standard email type of solicitation that came, October 23, from the Times of Israel. A free online six-week course on antisemitism was offered by Yad Vashem. The first three covered a 2,000-year overview of antisemitism through the Holocaust. The final three weeks were on understanding
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By Jerry Klinger GLENDALE, Oregon — Historic markers are simple things. Some are a few words. Some are longer. Some are so long few read beyond the first line, if at all. Every marker is a story. They are the stories of people, like you and me, who dreamed dreams, lived hopes, made choices,
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By Jerry Klinger SALINA, KANSAS — The ity of Salina, (Kansas) Historic Commission, the Smoky Hill Museum and the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation dedicated a new historic marker on August 30, 2018 dedicated to abolitionist August Bondi, a proud Jew. The citation on the marker read: AUGUST BONDI 1833-1907 Jewish-American Abolitionist, Salina Resident August
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By Jerry Klinger MARIETTA, Georgia — It was reported by a member of the lynching party; Leo Frank met his death with unexpected composure. A Georgia court had found him guilty of the murder of 13-year old Mary Phagan. She was an employee at the National Pencil Factory Frank managed in Atlanta. Frank was a
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USABy Jerry Klinger KETCHUM, Idah0 — The other day, Emily Sue, a dear friend from Spokane, wrote to me she was headed to visit her kin at their family’s Sheep Ranch in Howe, Idaho. She was planning on a side trip to the annual Trailing of the Sheep festival in Ketchum, Idaho. I had never
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USA-A fictional account of a true situation- By Jerry Klinger BOYNTON BEACH, Florida — Mendel, my Hassidic friend from New York who was transplanted to Boynton Beach at the very strong urging of his Rebbe because of his severe arthritis ,and I were walking my little dog Norman. Norman is a Cock-a-Tzu – a mix
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By Jerry Klinger LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — Max Henry Aronson was born March 21, 1880 at 813 Center Street, in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was known as Max, sometimes, Gilbert, and not so often Henry, for a little more than twenty years of his life. Until he died in 1971, at 91,
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By Jerry Klinger LONDON, England — The Royal Albert Hall in London is a magnificent concert and arts venue. The foundation stone of the great hall, capable of seating over 5,700, was laid by Queen Victoria in 1867. The Royal Albert Hall was built upon the land and home of William Wilberforce. Wilberforce, an
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