Join us for the third session in our series when we will visit the Jewish community of Hawaii.
Jews were first mentioned in Hawaii in 1798, with notable early sugar plantations and commercial activity, and King Kalakaua’s German Jewish attorney general. Dating back to the pre-World War I era, many Jewish military have served in Hawaii, but until after World War II no formal organization survived. Temple Emanu-El was organized in 1950 by a vibrant Jewish legal and commercial community. They are affiliated with the Union for Reform Judaism and they dedicated the first synagogue and school building in 1960.
About our guide:
Larry Seth Steinberg, originally from Hartford, Connecticut, now splits his time between Honolulu and Silver City, Nevada. Larry moved to Nevada in the 1970s as an archaeologist at the Nevada State Museum. There he was enthralled by the little-known Jewish activity during the height of Virginia City’s Comstock Silver Rush (1850s-1890s) and later found subsequent ties to Hawaii’s post-1880s sugar rush. At Temple Emanu-El, he oversees its historic records, the personal Sefer Torah of King Kalakaua, and a Prestice (Czech) Holocaust Scroll for the Levinson Hawaii-Jewish Archive.
This series is made possible by a grant from the Congregation Ahabat Shalom Religious Fund and other generous donors.
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