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Anchors Away
Jewish Annapolis

RUTH ROVNER

Special to The Jewish News

D

own at the city dock
in Annapolis, boats of
all sizes are anchored.
People sit on benches near the
water, stroll along the water's
edge or wait to board the
popular water taxis that skim
across the bay.
Everyone from sailors to
landlubbers seem to talk and
think about boats in this
navy town. Midshipmen,
tourists, yachtsmen — all are
intrigued by the boats and
the calm waters of the
Chesapeake Bay.
Even the stores are nautical
in emphasis. Bookstores on
Main Street sell stories about
the Chesapeake and poems of
the sea. Art galleries show oil
paintings of boats. Stores are
heavily stocked with boating
supplies.
But for the Jewish traveler,
Annapolis has an extra in-
terest. This naval town is also
a place with an active Jewish
community and an eventful
past. The Jewish tourist can
explore all this in places as
varied as a delicatessen on
Main Street, the Maryland
State House and the U.S.
Naval Academy.
The building at the corner
of Market Space near the
water still has the name
Aaron Lee Goodman clearly
etched on its exterior. Built in
1906, this building which
now houses enterprises like
Banana Republic, was once
headquarters for Goodman, a
prominent businessman in-
Annapolis and also president
of the first Jewish
congregation.
Other downtown reminders
of the early Jewish presence
include the oyster bar,
McGarvey's, which was once
the saloon and liquor store of
Charles Weiss. Nearby, Grif-
fin's Restaurant was once
Kotzin's Sample Shoe Shop.
Max Kotzin and his family
lived above the store, and in
their living room, members of
Knesseth Israel congregation
first held their minyans when
the congregation was
chartered in 1906.
Jews lived in Annapolis
long before this; the first
known Jewish residents came
in colonial times. In 1747,
Henry Hart arrived as an in-
dentured servant but was a
free man by 1752.
He was followed one year
later by Isaac Navarro, a
Sephardic Jew and ancestor
of the Supreme Court Justice
Benjamin Cardozo. Navarro

started a business selling
chocolate and snuff in a store
on Main Street.
By the mid 1800s German
Jews had also settled in An-
napolis and become promi-
nent business leaders. The
early 1900s brought still
more Jewish immigration
and by 1906, Knesseth Israel
was chartered.
After they outgrew Kotzin's
living room, they used rented
quarters in the neighborhood.
The houses on Duke of
Gloucester Street and Prince
Street were their religious
headquarters until they were
ready to buy their own
synagogue.
It was the corner building
on East Street, now head-
quarters for the Chesapeake
Bay Foundation, a colonial
structure with a garden.
When Knesseth Israel

This naval town is
also a place with
an active Jewish
community.

members bought it in 1918, it
was St. Ann's Mission
Chapel.
The Jews worked to convert
it from church to synagogue.
A local carpenter built an ark
and made interior altera-
tions. They set up their suk-
kah right on the front lawn.
And they used the property as
their synagogue until 1963
when they moved to their pre-
sent quarters.
The synagogue at Spa Road
and Hilltop Lane is a change
from Max Kotzin's living
room. , Two other synagogues
also serve the area's Jews,
who now number 3,000 in a
population of 450,000.
Members of Kol Ami worship
in a one-story synagogue in
the woods outside of town.
Temple Beth Sholom is in
suburban Arnold.
But
it's
not
only
synagogues and stores that
trace the history of Annapolis
Jewry. The Maryland State
House is another site of
Jewish interest. Situated
high on a hill, its white
cupola visible from Main
Street, this is the architec-
tural jewel of the city and the
place where Jewish history
was made in 1826.
Inside, the Senate Chamber
is restored to look exactly as
it did in earlier times. The or-
nate chandelier, fireplace and
old-fashioned desks look just
as they did when legislators
sat here to debate what
became known as the Jew
Bill. Its passage came after

