History of Alabama by Albert James Pickett

The society conducted services, purchased a cemetery, and on June 3, 1849, with 30 members transformed itself into Congregation Kahl Montgomery. 17, 1846, by 12 German Jewish immigrants including Emanuel Lehman, uncle of Herbert H. An auctioneer and tobacco merchant, Jones was active in politics, served as an alderman, was president of the Mobile Musical Association, and introduced streetcars to Mobile.Ī welfare society, the Chevra Mevaker Cholim, was organized in Montgomery on Nov. Jones (1810–1877), a London Jew who arrived early in the 1830s, was president of the congregation for most of his life one of his daughters married the well-known New Orleans rabbi, James Koppel Gutheim (1817–1886). Congregation Shaarai Shomayim u-Maskil el Dol was chartered on Jan. Previous Jewish graves dating back to 1829 are suitably marked in the oldest, non-sectarian Protestant graveyard in town. The largest antebellum Jewish settlement was in Mobile, where enough Jews established themselves to purchase a cemetery in 1841. Abram (Abraham) Mordecai, a Pennsylvania-born Jew who had settled in central Alabama by 1785 and established the state’s first cotton gin near Montgomery, was made a key character in Albert James Pickett’s History of Alabama (1851), and became a legend in Southern folklore. While Jewish traders are known to have been active in Alabama as early as 1757, and a number of Jews lived in Mobile in the 1760s under British rule, it was not until the 1820s that the first permanent Alabama Jewish community was established in Mobile. Virtual Jewish World: Table of Contents| North America| United States Early History

History of Alabama by Albert James Pickett