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Opening of the Lambuth-B'Nai Israel Center
for Jewish Studies, Rabbi Margie Myers officiating.

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Opening of Lambuth-B'Nai Center
for Jewish Studies, David Crane speaking.

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Replica of Auschwitz Concentration Camp

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Louis Nord came to Jackson, Tennessee,

where he married and opened a business

of his own - The Jackson Produce Co. -  

dealer in hides, furs, wool, metals and produce.

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Cows are standing in front of Sol Tuchfeld's store.

He was a leading Jackson merchant whose family

store operated in Jackson for over 100 years. 

Jake Hoffman (who was a nephew of Moses Tuchfeld)

and Sol Tuchfeld were in partnership when they opened

the  general dry goods and clothing store at

108-110 E. Lafayette St. in a small one-story building.

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The Pythian Castle, built in 1889 by the Knights of Pythia,
 also housed the law firm of Otto E. Woerner and offices of
Victor J. Woerner and Aaron Tuchfeld - members of Jewish
congregation.  The fourth floor (including the opera house)
burned on February 18, 1901.  The building is still standing.

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Emil Tamm, merchant and landowner, moved to Haywood

County in 1869. Nathan, Lawrence, and Joel Tamm joined

their father in business as merchant planters and established

the firm of E. Tamm and Sons. Fred Silverstein, Sr. became

owner of E. Tamm and Sons Department Store in 1964 and

continued to run the business until his retirement. 

Gradually working westward, selling his wares from an

oxcart, young Jacob Felsenthal settled in Brownsville in

1847 only twenty-three years after the city’s founding. 

He opened a store which remained in the same location

and was owned and operated by members of the Felsenthal

family until its sale in 1974, one of the oldest stores

under continuous family management in Tennessee.

Members of both families moved to Jackson during the

Yellow Fever epidemic in 1878 and jointly owned a store.

 

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The Odd Fellows building was the location of Jewish

worship services in the late 1880s.  The congregation

moved to the former Cumberland Presbyterian Church

building in 1897, and the Odd Fellows building later

became Hopper-Smith Furniture Company which was

heavily damaged by the tornado of 2003.  The building

was torn down in 2006.

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