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Graffiti on Riverfront Trail

This is the signature of Mordechai Doctor (1868-1926), a Russian rabbi and author.

He was the son of Rabbi Tsvi Hirsch Doctor. According to the Ellis Island passenger records, he arrived in America from Hamburg on December 5th, 1903 at the age of…

This is the signature of Menasseh Grossberg (c. 1860-1927), a rabbinical scholar originally from Trestina, Russia.

Grossberg copied and published Hebrew manuscripts from libraries around the world in the cities of Berlin, Paris, London,…

This is the bookstamp of Salomon (also Solomon) Cohn (1822-1902), a German rabbi and author. He was born in Zülz, Prussian Silesia on March 24th, 1822. His grandfather was the famous rabbi at Fürth, Meshullam Solomon Cohn.

Salomon Cohn was…

This is the bookstamp of Hermann Adler (1839-1911), chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire. He was born in Hannover, Germany in May 1839 to Dr. Nathan Marcus Adler of the prominent Adler rabbinical family. As a small…

This is the signature of Eliyahu Simha (also Symcha Elia) Etkind (1890-194[2]), a Russian accountant.

He was born in Mogilev, Russia in 1890. In WWI he served in the Russian Tsar’s army and was captured by the Germans. He was in German…

Daniel Bomberg was a Christian printer active in Venice from approximately 1517 to 1549. It is believed he was born sometime in the 1480s in Antwerp to Cornelius van Bomberghen , who taught him how to print and make types. There is debate as to when…

Giovanni di Gara (active 1564-1610) was known in Venice as the “heir of Bomberg” not only because Bomberg instructed him in Hebrew printing, but also because Di Gara acquired most of Bomberg’s Hebrew types. He was born in Riva del Garda to…

Alvise Bragadin (also Bragadini) was born in the early 1500s and settled in his hometown of Venice, where he became a renowned Christian printer of Hebrew books. He founded the firm Stamparia Bragadina which enjoyed wild success during his lifetime…

On August 18th, concerned local and national advocates for justice gathered to demand accountability and answers from Gov. Jay Nixon at the downtown state building.