![]() There is an elaborate gilded cash register from Galanty’s Men’s Wear in Lake Providence, La.Ī large mural shows a photograph of the 19th century abolitionist Rabbi Max Lillienthal. ![]() The hat press comes from Flowers Brothers in Lexington, Miss. The clock once hung at Rosenzweig’s in Lake Village, Ark. Next to it is a composite recreation of a small-town retail shop at the turn of the last century. Nearby, is a peddlers’ cart, filled with typical merchandise - bolts of cloth, pots, tools, children’s toys. Front and center is the steamer trunk that Rachmeil Shapiro brought with him in 1905 as he journeyed from Russia to Germany to Galveston, Texas. The museum’s first gallery, “From Immigrants to Southerners,” tells the settlement story. Today, Jews represent less than 1 percent of the South’s population, Mr. Often, they would be the only Jews in the region. Some settled into hospitable communities and established shops or bought land, something that had often been prohibited in the old country. In the loneliness of the rural South, the vendors were welcomed for much needed goods and news. ![]() Instead of working in sweatshops and living in crowded urban ghettos, the newcomers frequently moved to the frontier, supporting themselves as itinerant peddlers. Some came to the South as early as Colonial times and later from Germany, France and Eastern Europe. As newcomers to America, theirs was not the Ellis Island and Lower East Side narrative usually associated with the migration saga. ![]()
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