Englewood Makes History

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  • Albert George Hibbler was a singer. He sang pop music, R&B, and jazz. Hibbler was born blind. He began his career with Dub Jenkins and his Playmates. He later worked with Jay McHann and then Duke Ellington's orchestra. He won the Esquire New Star Award as best male singer in…
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  • Mary Lowe Jones Vismale was a social worker. She attended Booker T. Washington High School and graduated from Spelman College in 1947 and Atlanta University in 1950. She earned a master's in Social Work.
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  • Myron Gross was a spiritual leader and businessman. He was a member of the Congregation Ahavath Torah. He was the vice president of the Pioneer Paper Company of North Bergen
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  • Nathan Goldberg was a spiritual leader. He lived in Englewood for fifty-two years. He was one of the founders of the Congregation Ahavath Torah. He had a wife, Frieda. He had four children, Edna Grusky, Lillian Dorf, Molly Khan, and Louis.
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  • Bessie Lebson was a religious activist. She was one of the founders of the Congregation Ahavath Torah. She lived in Englewood for over fifty years and married Michael Lebson. She had five sons, Jacob M., Samuel, Abram A., Dr. Isadore W., and David.
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  • Wolf Gold born Zev Krawczynski was a spiritual leader. He studied at Mir yeshiva and Lida at Yeshiva Torah Vo'Da'as. He was ordained at seventeen and moved to the United States a year later. He served at multiple synagogues across the United States. He founded the Williamsburg…
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  • Moshe Gold was a spiritual leader. He was the Rabbi at Ahavath Torah for seven years until his passing. His father was Zev "Wold Gold" Krawczynski.
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  • Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and one of the most influential leaders of the modern civil rights movement. His national leadership began in December 1955 during the Montgomery Bus Boycott and continued until his assassination in April 1968. King is best known for…
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  • Foster Rhea Dulles was an educator, historian, and author. He was born in Englewood and graduated from Princeton University in 1921. He wrote for numerous newspapers including the New York Herald, the New York Herald Tribune, and the New York Evening Post. He taught as a…
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  • Calvin Ferdinand Vismale was a business administrator, civil rights advocate, and church leader whose work placed him at the center of Englewood, New Jersey’s civic and cultural life during the 1950s. Through his leadership in finance, education debates, religious institutions,…
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