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Opening of the Lambuth-B'Nai Israel Center
for Jewish Studies, Rabbi Margie Myers officiating.
Opening of Lambuth-B'Nai Center
for Jewish Studies, David Crane speaking.
Replica of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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