Jewish population of Detroit to about 1,000. Many become peddlers bringing goods to
Michigan's mining and lumber camps. (10)
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Camp Tamarack (now Camp Maas) opens.
1883:
1951:
1953:
Sinai Hospital opens its doors. In 1999, the hospital was sold
and the Jewish Fund established with the proceeds.
Traverse City builds a synagogue, Congregation Beth El, now the oldest
synagogue building still in continuous use in Michigan.
1957:
1958:
Hillel Day School opens to grades one through eight.
Julius Houseman, an 1850s immigrant to Grand Rapids, is elected to the
U.S. Congress - the only Michigan Jewish congressman until the 1970s. (11)
1885:
1888: Polish immigrant William Saulson, mayor of St. lgnace in the U.P. and owner
of the People's Store, advertises the idea of building a suspension bridge across the
Straits of Mackinac - the bridge that was built in 1958! (12)
1891: With the assistance of the Jewish Agricultural Society, a dozen immigrants
form a cooperative farm at Bad Axe, calling it the "Palestine Colony." It lasts about 10
years. (13)
1964: Under President Lyndon Johnson, the Civil Rights Act is
passed, forbidding discrimination in housing and jobs and opening up
new opportunities.
1894:
1967: After the Detroit riots, Max Fisher, Stanley Winkelman,
Alan E. Schwartz, Jack Robinson, Rabbi Morris Adler and other leaders
form "New Detroit" to re-build the city and ease racial tensions. (34)
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The Hebrew Free Loan Association is started by Selig Koploy. Ten men
contribute a nickel a week to loan a new immigrant $5 so he can begin to peddle
through Michigan. (14)
1976:
1978:
In Traverse City, Julius Steinberg builds Steinberg's Grand Opera House,
"the finest opera house north of Chicago."
1895:
1899: The United Jewish Charities is formed in Detroit by Rabbi Leo M. Franklin.
David W. Simons, later a Detroit city councilman, is the first president.
Sunday, September 27, 1903
The Mackinac Bridge opens, linking Michigan's two
peninsulas. David Steinman is the chief engineer and Lawrence Rubin
becomes the 40-year director of the Bridge Authority.
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Ernestine Krolik, daughter of a Jewish peddler in Romeo and later wife to
architect Albert Kahn, graduates from the University of Michigan, one of the earliest
women graduates.
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1903: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free."
Emma Lazarus' poem on the Statue of Liberty welcomes the increasing number of
immigrants following the tragic Kishenev pogrom. (15)
Sen. Carl Levin is elected to the United States Senate and
re-elected four times. Sander Levin and Howard Wolpe are elected as
congressmen. (35)
1984: The Holocaust Memorial Center opens on the JCC Campus in
West Bloomfield. In 2004, it moves to a new location in Farmington Hills.
1989: Operation Exodus brings hundreds of Soviet Jews to
Michigan, aided by the Resettlement Service. (36)
1903: The Jewish Institute, originally the Hannah Schloss Center, opens to serve
the growing immigrant community of about 10,000 Detroit Jews. (16)
1993: First Michigan Miracle Mission brings 1,300 participants
to Israel - a record.
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1903: Rabbi Judah L. Levin patents an adding-subtracting machine, now in the
Smithsonian Institute. (17)
1997: President Bill Clinton appoints David Hermelin ambassador
to Norway. (37)
While Henry Ford is developing oars, Max Grabowsky invents the truck. With
his partner Bernard Ginsburg, they sell Grabowsky Power Wagons worldwide. In 1910,
the company is bought by General Motors.(18)
The first 100 years of the organized Jewish community -
United Jewish Charities - is celebrated.
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1908:
1910s: The lumber boom and the mining boom in Michigan are over.
To earn a living, many move from outstate to the industrial city of Detroit. (19)
1910s: Jewish farmers around South Haven open their homes to vacationers,
starting a thriving resort community that continues until World War II. (20)
Henry Ford hires Albert Kahn to design a Ford Motor Co. factory for
the world's first auto assembly line. Some Jews obtain jobs at Ford for $5 a day.
Kahn continues to design plants for Ford and General Motors. In 1927, he designs
the Fisher Building, "the jewel of Detroit." (21)
1912:
Michigan Jews die in the World Trade Center attack on
the United States by Al Qaida terrorists on Sept. 11.
2001:
World mourns as members of Space Shuttle Columbia crew,
including Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, are killed in an explosion.
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the JCC in West Bloomfield.
2004: The Detroit Symphony Orchestra dedicates
the Max M. Fisher Music Center. (38)
1916: Sarah Wetsman (Davidson) and her sister Fannie (Saulson) host Henrietta
2004: Michigan Jewish fans cheer as Israeli Gal Friedman wins
an Olympic Gold Medal in windsurfing, the first gold medal for Israel.
1916: The Fresh Air Society takes boys and girls to camp on Lake St. Clair.
1917-1919: Jewish boys from all over Michigan serve in World War I.
2004: Owner Bill Davidson celebrates with his team as the Detroit
Pistons win the NBA Championship. (39)
1917: Detroit is the recruiting center for the Jewish Legion - volunteers who help
the British liberate Palestine from Turkey during World War I. (25)
2004: Michigan supporters applaud the first Nobel Prize awarded
to any Israeli scientists, Aaron Ciechanover and Avraham Hershko, both
of Technion, and their American colleague, Irwin Rose.
2004: On Simchat Torah, young rabbis lead hundreds to dance
in the streets near West Bloomfield congregations.
Jewish soldiers are hosted at a Passover seder held on a train in Detroit. (24)
2004-2005: The American Jewish Committee leads the
Michigan Coalition for the Celebration of the 350th Anniversary
of Jews in America.
who is married to Mark Twain's daughter Clara Clemons, oversees the building of
acoustically perfect Orchestra Hall. (26)
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Regine Freund Cohane and other Jewish suffragettes celebrate the 19th
Amendment, which grants women the equal right to vote.
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1919: Meyer Prentis is appointed treasurer of the General Motors Corporation.
1919: The new director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Ossip Gabrilowitsch,
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Levin lead a march to "Give a brick to save the sick" and collects $7,000. In 1953, the
proceeds go towards building Sinai. (22)
Szold in their home and start Detroit's first Hadassah chapter. (23)
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