Baron Hirsch Synagogue

But going back several decades to when David's parents emigrated to the United States, they both fled Ukraine with their families, arriving in the late 1800s, and eventually they made their way to Memphis, where there was this thriving but very small Jewish community with-- that had established several synagogues.

The one that they belonged to was the Orthodox synagogue, Baron Hirsch.

And David and his family were not super religious.

Like many of the Jews living in Memphis at the time, they were traditional.

So they had to keep their shop open on Saturdays, and David would work at the store on, on Saturdays with his, with his family.

They actually lived in the building that the shop was in.

And only when he was about 15 did he become really im- immersed in Jewish heritage and culture and Jewish study, and it was the result of the rabbi at Baron Hirsch who encouraged many of the young men there, young boys also, to study Torah and to learn more about their Jewish heritage and their Jewish history.

And then David suddenly wanted to keep more kosher, you know, strict-- more strictly kosher, and he wanted his parents to close the shop on Shabbat and not work on Shabbat.

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Baron Hirsch Synagogue.

I love that.

I like Judd Hirsch, Emil Hirsch.

I don't know much about Baron Hirsch, though.

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