Excerpt from an oral history interview with Tiffany Israel conducted on March 25, 2011 by Andrea Blackman as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. The topics discussed include the volunteerism of Vanderbilt college students in flooded...
The Congregation Sherith Israel, an Orthodox Jewish synagogue, acquired property in 1948 on West End Avenue. The congregation moved from its Fifth Avenue building to the new location in April of 1948. Zalman Posner, longtime rabbi to the...
A photograph of Sherith Israel, an Orthodox synagogue in Nashville, Tennessee. The first home for this congregation was in a member's home at 118 Fifth Avenue North, next to the Ryman. In 1920, the building was razed, and a new Fifth Avenue...
A photograph of West End Synagogue located at 3810 West End Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Constructed in 1950, this synagogue is home to Nashville's second oldest Jewish congregation which was established in 1874 by 20 Jewish families. The...
An original will of Max Baker, “of Nashville, Tennessee, dated December 13th, 1900. Illustrates the first page of the document. Baker’s will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on January 21st, 1901. The notation on the...
A photograph of the West End Synagogue, 3810 West End Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee, circa 23 September 1972. Founded as Khal Kodesh Adath Israel in 1874 in downtown Nashville, the congregation changed its location and its name in 1950. This modern...
An original political cartoon created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to the early 1970s. This caricature depicts a worried President Gamal Nasser of Egypt straddling two sides of the Suez Canal while...