Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica

With its more than 60,000 titles, the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica is the largest in the Southeast, concentrating on the political, social, economic and intellectual history of Jewish culture in all historical periods. At the time of ...

Archer Train Depot, Archer Community Museum, Archer Historical Society

Archer celebrates the second Saturday of each June as David Levy Yulee Day in honor of the June 12, 1810, birthdate of Florida's first senator. Yulee named the town in 1855 to honor his friend, James T. Archer, Florida's first ...

Florida Theatre (a performing arts center)

Seven stories tall, the Mediterranean Revival style Florida Theatre was considered the finest theater in Jacksonville when it opened in 1927. Roy A. Benjamin, co-architect, figured prominently in the rebuilding of Jacksonville after the fire of 1901. Benjamin designed both ...

West Palm Beach Temple Israel (Reform)

This was the first Jewish congregation in Palm Beach County. Eight families founded it as Beth Israel in 1923. The next year, the congregation moved into a synagogue at 2020 Broward, where it remained until 1951 when the congregation, now ...

Temple Beth El (Reform)

Temple Beth El, the first Jewish congregation in South Palm Beach County, had ecumenical beginnings. The congregation was founded as the Boca Raton Hebrew Congregation in 1967 through the encouragement of a Roman Catholic nun. Mother de la Croix, president ...

Temple Beth Shalom

Twenty-three Jewish families living in the "Glades"-an area of Belle Glade, Pahokee, and Clewiston-built this one-room synagogue in 1954.

Information provided by Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Resources, Florida Jewish Heritage Trail, 2000.

Moe's Pompano Pharmacy

Pompano Beach is the home of one of the oldest Jewish communities in Broward County. The first congregation, the Pompano Beach Jewish Circle, today Temple Sholom, began in 1945.

Abraham and Lena Hirshman came to Pompano Beach in the late 1920s ...

Sterling's Men and Boys Store (Now the Florida Department of Environmental Protection)

Isadore "Pop" A. Sterling ran Fort Lauderdale's first Sterling Store, founded in 1935, in a converted garage on Andrews Avenue. By the

early 1940s, he operated Sterling's Men's and Boys Store at this site. Pop became a town legend, widely ...

American Legion Post 312

Morris Cooper's rags-to-riches story is a metaphor for the immigrant experience in America. This Legion Post was built on land he donated, and a plaque honoring Morris and Clara Cooper is in front. The Russian-born Cooper arrived in the United ...

Cromer-Cassel Department Store

Daniel Cromer, a Jewish immigrant from Scotland, came to Miami in 1913 and purchased a store from his brother-in-law David Afremow. Cromer and his partner, Irwin M. Cassel, sold merchandise ranging from straight pins to motor boats. In 1926, they ...