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…population. A Jewish cemetery was established on a low hill outside of town in 1819. Strauss came from a typical Jewish family. His father, Hirsch, was born in Buttenheim in 1790 and, like many other rural Jews, was a peddler, travel- ing house to house selling clothing and dry goods. Strauss' grandfather, Jacob Strauss, was a cattle merchant — also a typical Jewish trade — and he, too, lived in the village. Strauss — whose original first name...…

















































