Clematis Street Merchants

Now the city's lively main business street, this street was where early Jewish settlers opened retail stores. By the early 1920s, retail stores included Joseph Schulpler's hat store, Cy Argintar's Men's Shop and Toby and Selma Myers' luggage business (at ...

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 ...

Molly S. Fraiberg Judaica Collections, S. E. Wimberly Library, Florida Atlantic University

This Judaica library is one of the largest in the southeastern United

States. A permanent exhibit features Isaac Bashevis Singer's writing desk, chairs, and lamp. In addition, the library has the 1978 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature's walking cane, Panama ...

Boca Raton Resort and Club

Boca Raton's Jewish population is nearly 50 percent-the highest percentage of any city in Florida. This growth occurred slowly after World War II and represents a phenomenal increase that started with the two Jewish families known to have lived in ...

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.

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 ...

B'nai Israel Section, Evergreen Cemetery

Established in 1926, the Jewish cemetery section is marked by a white archway bearing the words B'nai Israel (Children of Israel). Members of the Fort Lauderdale Hebrew Congregation dedicated it in 1935 and later renamed it Temple Emanu-El. Many of ...

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 ...