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    L'Chaim!: The History of the Jewish Community of Greater Miami
    L'Chaim!: The History of the Jewish Community of Greater Miami
    L'Chaim!: The History of the Jewish Community of Greater Miami
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    L'Chaim!: The History of the Jewish Community of Greater Miami

    By Seth H Bramson

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    The dynamic and never-before-told history of Greater Miami's Jewish community is recounted here for the first time by renowned local historian Seth H. Bramson. Beginning with the arrival of Miami's first Jewish settler, Isidor Cohen, in 1896, Bramson's exciting story takes us through Miami's early days to the present and includes the years of "restricted clientele, "? as well as the Jewish owned buildings, businesses, stores, clubs, hotels, restaurants, schools, temples and philanthropic organizations. Bramson's unique writing style, coupled with a host of never-before-published photographs and a website of special features, invites the reader to take a historic look at the people and places that have made the Jewish impact and influence on the area such an important part of the fabric of the community.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe History Press
    Release dateAug 29, 2008
    ISBN9781614230922
    L'Chaim!: The History of the Jewish Community of Greater Miami
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    Seth H Bramson

    Seth Bramson is Miami's foremost local historian. He is America's single most-published Florida history book author, with sixteen of his twenty-two books dealing directly with the villages, towns, cities, counties, people and businesses of the South Florida Gold Coast. Bob Jensen retired in Homestead as a Navy Commander after serving 28 years. He served in Germany, the Philippines, the US Embassy in Cyprus, Iceland, and twice at the National Security Agency and at Naval Security Group Headquarters in Washington D.C.

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      L'Chaim! - Seth H Bramson

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      INTRODUCTION

      This is a story of such magnitude, such depth, such power and such historic proportions that, were it not real and true, it could be mistaken for a fantasy. Be assured that it is anything but that!

      With the arrival of one Isidor Cohen in a not yet formally named place on the shores of Biscayne Bay in February of 1896, the story and history of the Jewish community of what would someday become Greater Miami would begin. That inauspicious beginning has led, though the past more than 112 years, to one of the most recognized, important, dedicated and influential groups of Jewish individuals and families in America. It is sometimes difficult to understand why Jewish people might have wanted to come to the southeastern tip of Florida in 1896 and for several years thereafter unless one recognizes that the Jewish settlers were just like everyone else who came here: adventuresome pioneers who believed that they could, in a place that was still near-wilderness until the early years of the twentieth century, build their homes, open their businesses and make their fortunes on the banks of the Miami River. In short, they were the pioneers, and it is from them—particularly Ida and Isidor Cohen—that the story and history of the Jewish community emanates.

      The Jewish people who came to southeast Florida settled, initially, in what would become downtown Miami, their homes generally within walking distance of their businesses. But as the area grew, the new arrivals settled farther away, and the history of Greater Miami is replete with Jewish citizens and individuals having an influence in and on Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, southwest and northeast Dade County and the beachfront communities north of Miami Beach. Even Hialeah had a temple and a not inconsequential Jewish presence.

      What began as a few drops turned into a trickle and then a virtual flood as, following World War II, thousands of people, no few Jews among them, came back after the war to where they had done their training, to what they believed to be nothing short of paradise: a sun-drenched, frost, snow and blizzard–free near-nirvana, where the opportunities for one to make a living were unending. Although there were disturbing instances—no few of them on Miami Beach—of restrictions against Jewish people staying in certain hotels, the leadership of the Jewish community, which was by then an integral part of the fabric of society of the entire area, eventually prevailed upon both private interests and government and the restrictions faded into history, although the last of them did survive in Bal Harbour until the

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