Englewood Makes History

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  • Silbermann, Kurt was a spiritual leader, musician, and educator. He trained in Germany before the school he was attending was closed on Kristallnacht or "The Night of Broken Glass." He fled with his parents to New York in 1939. He graduated from the Hebrew Union School of Sacred…
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  • Miriam Weidenfeld was a teacher. She acted as director of Temple Emanu-El religious school in the 1980s and 90s.

  • Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg arrived at Temple Emanu-El of Englewood in the mid-1950s during a moment of institutional expansion and social change. Coming from a previous pulpit in Nashville, Tennessee, he assumed leadership just as the congregation was preparing for the High Holy…
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  • Israel Raphael Margolies was a spiritual leader and civil rights activist. He graduated from the Jewish Institute of Religion. He served at the Temple Emanu-El from 1937 to 1953 and the Beth Am the Peoples Temple from 1953 to 1981. He was also a civil rights activist and marched…
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  • Pearl Levine was the longtime owner of Dave's Luncheonette. Generations of Englewood youth bought candy and comic books at Dave's.
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  • Sol Kaplan was a business owner and founder of Sol & Sol kosher deli on Palisade Avenue. He opened the deli in 1951 with his partner Sol Stein. Celebrities such as Dizzy Gillespie and Alan Alda discussed the deli on an episode of M*A*S*H. He fled his home village of Kopatkewich…
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