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Jews were isolated; a mi-
nyan was hard to come by
and kosher butchers and
bakers were hundreds of
miles away.
On display in the Mosaic
exhibit are porcelain plates
kashered in the Gulf of Mex-
ico by the Henry Brash fami-
ly in 1865. A lumberman
and sponge fisherman in
Apalachicola, Henry Brash
was said to have set up his
Passover Seder table on the
sand and read the Haggadah
as the evening sun dipped
into the calm Gulf waters.
Yet another artifact is the
Dzialynski family Bible, in-
scribed with every birth,
death and marriage in the
Jacksonville clan. It was the
only heirloom plucked from
a notorious fire that razed
most of the city in 1901.
Ruth Hope Dzialynski, then
6 years old, recalled clut-
ching the two-foot-high Bible
as she ran from torrents of
smoke and flames.
That wasn't the first time
tragedy struck the Dzialyn-
ski family. In 1857, a yellow
fever epidemic wiped out six
relatives at once. So many
deaths prompted the open-
ing of Jacksonville's first
Jewish cemetery. Before the
epidemic, Florida's Jews
were shipped to Savannah
for burial.
At least 30 years earlier,
Jews had ventured into
Florida to fight in the Sem-
inole Indian Wars. Though a
letter was dropped, Fort
Myers, Fla., was actually
named for Abraham Meyers,
a West Point graduate who
served as a fort quarter-
master. He was honored for
his logistical efforts that
kept hundreds of soldiers
clothed and fed during
battles in 1835.
The prospect of becoming
cattle ranchers, farmers,
lumbermen and retailers
also drew Jews to Florida in
the 1800s. A text panel in
the exhibit states that in
1818 entrepreneur Moses
Levy purchased 150,000
acres of land from Spain,
knowing its value would rise
when Florida became a
United States territory in
1821.
A biblical literalist, Moses
Levy attempted to start a
Jewish colony on his land
which he named New
Pilgrimage. He spent
$18,000 — an enormous sum
at the time to import new
crops and recruit Jews • via
agents in New York and
England. He envisioned
New Pilgrimage as a place
Jews could work the land
and study Bible and Hebrew.
His recruitment failed,
however, because Jews
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